Chapter 150 – Episode 149. I’ll Go Now, Just Tell Me (2)
Erania and Veracien remained.
They decided to stay until the contract was completely over and Astain and Berashien could not find any trace of each other.
And Leopold and Astrid decided to head north first.
On the way, I decided to follow the traces of Astain.
The result was this.
“… Rice, nothing special, right?”
“What is going to happen? That we don’t even have to stay.”
Leopold is the crown prince of this Einhafen Empire, so he is also the second most powerful person next to the emperor.
There was no need for him to go to each village and inquire about the traces of Astain.
There is no need to do such troublesome things in the first place.
He summoned an attendant and sent messengers to every small village and castle at every corner of the road heading north, and sent a message to arrest Astain if his behavior was suspicious or unnatural in the slightest.
Moreover, if there was a man whose eyes were so narrowed that he could not tell if his eyes were open or closed, he ordered his recruit to be arrested immediately.
If you rebel—
May as well kill
It was such a name.
Therefore, for about a week, that is, during the time heading north, the two of them ran peacefully, as if they were traveling by carriage, and only received brief reports from time to time.
So there is nothing wrong with it.
At the end of this judgment, Leopold smiled at Astrid.
“Yes, nothing will happen. Asti, don’t worry and just enjoy your trip.”
He looks a bit lacking in confidence.
Leopold can now tell Astrid just by looking at her sitting.
Astrid has a great spirit, looking straight ahead with her shoulders straight.
Asti has a slightly shrunken appearance, but always has a smile on his lips, and a seductive look even when he’s still.
Since it was the latter now, Leopold thought that she must be Asti.
“Astein… What are you thinking? Come to think of it, I couldn’t even ask why my name was on the note.”
“Wouldn’t it be obvious? I don’t know much about the war, but if Astain is something like the royalty of a country destroyed by Einhafen, me and Asti… It must have been to harm you and shake the posterity of the empire.”
“To come up with such a foolish plan.”
“I mean.”
Raise her thumb, snugly.
Asti was biting her nails before I knew it.
Dare I say it, she had such an outrageous idea.
Dare to harm Her Highness Leopold, the main pillar of this empire.
He dared to harm Astrid, the daughter of the Grand Duchess of Mitterien.
Can’t forgive
In the meantime, I had a good feeling about Astain, but
If betraying people’s trust and slapping them in the back like this is the reward—
This is a sin worthy of death.
【It’s not like you’re looking particularly well, is it?】
‘… Poetry, it’s noisy.’
Crick, Crick, Crick… Up
The sound of biting her fingernails was barely audible.
Then, her hand was gently wrapped around her other hand.
Astrid’s hand was white and long, with unusually thin and long fingers, so it’s hard to explain it even with the word “Pretty”.
And the hand that gently held her hand.
It was Leopold.
“Majesty… ?”
“It’s troublesome to bite your pretty nails that way. Passing on such a habit to future generations… No, is it a little hard when you say it like this?”
Leopold looked at Asti with a small smile.
Reflected in his blue eyes, Asti’s face is gradually reddening.
A warmth emanated from the touch of his hand.
Leopold looked at her asti, and her faint smile gently embraced her—
“Imagine how pretty you and my child will be. If it were a daughter, he would resemble his mother and be the scepter of all fathers and mothers, and if it were a son, he would resemble his father.”
Naturally.
Leopold and Astrid’s child, of course,
Resembling her mother, it is natural that she is the scepter of injustice,
She resembles her father and cuts colors…
… Huh?
“I see… No, Your Highness. Didn’t something change… “
Asti pondered, but she thought that this might be the right analogy.
Astrid is obviously beautiful as well, but she was more famous as a brutal butcher of barbarians in the north.
“I changed it cleverly, but it looks like you noticed it, Asti. It was just a joke.”
Leopold’s eyes curved like crescent moons.
Leopold couldn’t take his eyes off Astrid, as if he thought that Astrid, who was flustered and still saying what she had to say, was so pretty.
“But, haven’t we been together for a long time?”
Leopold, who was sitting across from him, got up from his seat and sat next to Asti.
Leopold rather sat close to her as Asti, startled involuntarily, sat slightly out of her seat.
“It’s been a really long time, isn’t it? Since then… As… “
At that time, Leopold’s words slowly slowed down little by little.
At that time, we know each other.
It means the very moment, the very day when they finally came to know each other.
“Yeah, that’s right. It’s been a long time since we’ve been alone together.”
Asti tries to pretend that nothing happened.
However, as if trying to prove that it was nothing, Asti’s face was red too.
“Hmm.”
Leopold’s hand quietly played on Asti’s hand.
As her fingers lightly scratched Asti’s palm,
Pressing between her thumb and forefinger,
Trying to connect her fingertips to each other, he also fiddles with them without thread.
“Hey, stop it. If you tease me in broad daylight… “
It was still broad daylight outside the carriage window.
It’s not that the sun is setting and scattering the setting sun, it’s just broad daylight.
It’s a long time before the sun rises in the middle of the sky and the sun sets.
“… Are you saying it’s okay if it’s not in broad daylight?”
“Well, that doesn’t mean it, doesn’t it?”
“Yes, yes. I guess so. Don’t let that happen.”
Leopold laughed again.
Then, he moved his body and sat across from Asti again.
“It is truly amazing.”
“What are you talking about?”
Today, Leopold was a bit out of the blue.
He often says things like Seon dialogues, and does a lot of things he wouldn’t do.
In a way, Leopold was surprised that he was actively appealing something to Asti.
“I mean, not too long ago, we didn’t growl whenever we saw each other.”
“Yeah… It certainly was.”
Leopold didn’t like Astrid very much.
Astrid had picked up some strange knowledge from somewhere, and instead of increasing her affinity for Leopold, she was only cutting it down.
Leopold’s words were half right and half wrong.
Astrid was rather a problem because she liked Leopold too much.
That strange love knowledge was the problem.
‘I’m glad I was there. Otherwise, it would have been ruined long ago.’
【… I have no choice but to admit that.]
‘Yes?’
【I hope you like it very much, because you are more like a girl than a girl.】
‘… You don’t hate it, do you?’
Astrid’s voice was thorny.
It’s not something she can’t understand.
【No matter how much it is, I didn’t expect you to take away her first experience like that.】
‘Because I didn’t really do it. My first experience was you.’
【Anyway! Either in a dream or in reality! And aren’t you the one who received His Highness’ affection for the first time!]
‘So who’s going to faint?!’
Isn’t it Asti who was accidentally dragged out because Ji fainted?
I hope you also understand Asti’s position, who only had her first experience twice because of that.
“So… “
Astrid and Asti’s intense intracerebral battle was interrupted by Leopold’s voice.
As soon as Astrid heard Leopold’s voice, she immediately shut her mouth and went to sleep, listening to him.
‘How the hell does he like Leopold?’
Even Asti’s remarks, which were clearly sarcastic, Astrid did not respond.
Indeed, loyalty is so great.
“Today, where should I stay?”
“Yes?”
“I want to say no to sleeping in the wagon. My back seems to hurt too.”
And then, Leopold pretended to stretch by leaning on my waist.
“Huh, what’s wrong with your back?!”
“… Hmm? What are you so embarrassed about? If you sleep on a seat as hard as a wagon, your back will inevitably hurt. Furthermore… “
Leopold’s eyes curved like crescents again.
Leopold looked at her and smiled at her, as if he had something to tease her Asti.
“Because it looks like something will happen that will require you to use your back.”
“Huh, wakek the waist!?”
Chewed his tongue
Astrid coughed at the fishy taste of blood in her mouth, and Leopold hurriedly came to her side and thrust her finger into her mouth.
“Let’s see where. Why are you so careless? You have to be careful.”
“Dog, Gancha, this, this soo… Sogara… Joe… “
Leopold strokes Asti’s tongue here and there with his fingers.
The touch of her fingers was so foreign that Astrid felt lost.
“Is it really that surprising that you have to find a place to stay?”
“Well, it’s not… “
Still, that kind of word is a bit petty.
Leopold’s smiling face,
Behave shamefully.
