67 – Side story) Seris’ daily routine
Marquis Ern Bachard was a man with many nicknames.
It was once called the hope of humanity.
Later it was called the window of humanity.
And later, as a knight among knights.
And later, as the person standing at the front.
He was such a well-known person.
but.
Among the many nicknames, this was the one that caught Seris’s ‘favorite’.
The one who cuts down first.
The one who bleeds first.
It was a nickname that penetrated everything about the ‘human’ called Marquis Ern Bachard.
I was only 13 years old when I went to battle for the first time.
Ern Bachard, who was closer to a ‘child’ than a boy, was known to have gone to ‘battle’ for the first time at that age.
However, that was something the ‘public’ also knew.
And what Seris knew was deeper ‘information’.
It’s been a year since the gate opened.
Ever since the time when the world beyond the gate leading to another dimension was considered nothing more than a ‘blessing’, Ern Bachart took a different path from others, perhaps because he sensed a crisis through his transcendental intuition.
own father.
Carlon Bahart, who was the head of the Count Bachart family at the time, was forced to resign from his position by force.
Ern Bachart, who took over as head of the family, wiped out almost all of the family’s wealth accumulated over generations and began researching ‘magic armor’.
and.
First of all, no one committed the strange and unreasonable act of inserting a ‘magic core’ into ‘their own heart’.
It was a time when people who were a ‘threat’ to ‘humanity’ had not yet crossed over the gate.
No one understood what Ern Bachard did.
Only a very small number of wizards were ‘interested’ in his research and whether he could survive even after planting a ‘magical core’, which was the same as the core of a monster and was only used on golems, in his heart.
However, as a result, he became the ‘first’ hope for humanity.
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The ‘real’ people have finally arrived from beyond the gate.
He created a ‘spear’ that could reach them, and was willing to be the first to grab the spear and run to the front to pierce the enemy.
Is that it?
In ‘Empire’, he is known to have received revelation from God and was born to save humanity.
The savior of royalties.
The shield saint.
The Empress of Radiance, Raysonia, was actually taken by Ern Bachart.
Even after that.
Even when, contrary to what was known to the public, the Empress ‘suddenly’ awakened and came to lead humanity.
Ern Bachard was the first to head towards the battlefield.
‘…Brother, you are truly an amazing person.’
The Empress, sometimes.
What you said is an achievement that is truly understandable.
Although they were ‘knights’ and ‘wizards’ who were called ‘superhumans’.
They were called so because their abilities were superior to those of ‘ordinary’ humans, including the majority of commoners, who had not yet awakened ‘fighting spirit’ and ‘magic power’… now excluding the manifestation of another miracle called ‘Gift’.
They weren’t really ‘superhumans’.
It was the same pain, the same sadness, the same… ‘humanity’.
nevertheless.
Seris couldn’t even guess why he was able to continue to ‘move on’ so much despite having death around him so many times.
As far as she knew, Ern Bachard was seriously injured and on the brink of death more than twenty times.
Each and every one of them was a slander that would make any knight think of ‘retirement’.
but. Nevertheless, he was willing to move on even before his wounds had fully healed.
No one knew what was the ‘motivating force’ that made him do that.
Even the Empress, who watched him from the side, could not guess.
but.
At least, that was what Seris knew.
Probably, those who know his nickname can be counted on one hand.
as soon as.
“…and the one whom the Empress longs for.”
He was not a favorite subject.
It was said that he was someone who was admired, as a person of the opposite s*x… as a man, and loved by the Empress.
In fact, he himself… didn’t seem to even know that fact.
Surprisingly, Seris, who was one of his most ‘trusted’ close associates and knew his secrets, saw Marquis Ern Bachart completely disappear from sight and quietly closed the door.
and…
“ha.”
He let out a sound that sounded like a sigh or a sigh.
Slurp.
Cerise’s body began to change.
Although he is old, his unwrinkled, well-muscled body becomes thin and delicate.
The waist got smaller, and the chest swelled significantly.
The fingers, which seemed to have been callused by time and hard work, had turned thin.
Is that all?
Even his height decreased.
Just like that, Seris, whose entire appearance, including her ‘body type’, had changed in an instant, quietly took a breath.
It was throbbing and my whole body was aching.
Transformation over a long period of time was bound to be a burden on his body, which was only ‘half’.
So, when no one was watching, it returned to its original form in this way.
“Ugh, it’s frustrating.”
of course.
Even if the ‘body’ changed, the clothes one was wearing did not change either.
That area was probably impossible for him as he was only a ‘mixed race’ person.
Thanks to this, I felt uncomfortable, so I unbuttoned a few buttons on my chest and opened the clothes.
Floating, saying.
Thanks to the underwear I wasn’t wearing for a perfect ‘disguise’, my breasts were shaking.
As the height decreased, the length of the remaining clothes was also rolled up.
that much.
Instead of ‘Sebastian’s’ skin, which had become wrinkled and dark due to labor and aging, Cerise’s own… ‘original’ light gray skin was revealed.
“Phew.”
And, thanks to that, some of my frustration was relieved.
Of course, I knew that it wasn’t right to do something like this with a woman’s body.
Her breasts were clearly exposed and the skin of her arms and legs was revealed.
Moreover, he was even wearing pants.
But what can I do?
It didn’t matter since there were no eyes to see anyway.
“…Okay, then. “Let’s start my real ‘work’.”
There were two main orders that Seris received from Raysonia.
One is to assist Marquis Ern Bachard with all his might.
Originally, it wasn’t this kind of ‘assistance’.
It was Cerise’s role to secretly help the Marquis from behind the scenes in ‘various guises’.
Sometimes I cleaned the floors of the dormitory, sometimes I was a stevedore, and sometimes I was a merchant I met ‘by chance’.
That’s why… I ended up openly ‘helping’ you like this…
“I guess it’s because of those women.”
When I thought about what happened back then… I started sweating.
Before I knew it, or to be honest, I couldn’t bear to report it… When I found out about the ‘cloak’ of Nemesis, the daughter of the ‘Dragon Emperor’, to the Empress… honestly, I felt like my vision was becoming distant.
…Luckily, it was resolved safely.
anyway.
As a result, Seris’s original role of secretly ‘assisting’ and helping Marquis Ern Bachart ‘from behind the scenes’ changed into this direct and indirect ‘support’.
…Ceris had a somewhat solemn thought, wondering if it was some kind of territorial marking.
After all, having someone who is ‘your’ person by your side… No matter how you look at it, that’s what it meant.
“…The Empress probably didn’t think of it that way.”
You probably did it instinctively.
Women were like that.
However, the reason was completely understandable.
…The women who came by his side were all attractive, even to himself.
anyway.
That was one of the orders Seris was given.
Another one…
“…I found it.”
Sigh, he bent down and carefully picked up the silver hair that had fallen on the floor with tongs.
And this was also carefully placed in an ‘envelope’.
One of the Empress’s biggest secrets.
The biggest secret about the ‘doll’ the Empress always wears in the bedroom and other things… was this.
The point was that there was a little bit of ‘Ern Bachard’ in all of it.
A secret among secrets that only those in the empire know with three fingers, let alone one hand.
“…Probably, even if such a story were circulated, no one would believe it.”
There was no way I could believe it.
Who would believe that the Empress lives with a blanket and a doll containing body parts of someone she secretly adores?
Of course, even if it was a part, it was only a hair level at best.
Even if they are more than that, they are loyal followers of the Empress.
To be honest, it’s closer to going beyond the realm of understanding.
Therefore, Seris was the only one in the Holy Assembly who knew this.
But to be honest, Seris’s feelings were a bit difficult to ‘understand’.
It was an area of ‘emotion’ that couldn’t be fully covered with sincerity.
but.
“…Well, it’s a girl’s love.”
Still, it was ‘loyalty’ that made it possible to close one’s eyes or avert one’s eyes from ‘facts’.
what.
There is no way in this world that there is a ‘human being’ who is completely flawless.
The Empress was like that too.
…It’s just a little bit, but it’s not like I don’t understand it at all.
I want to always be by your side, but I’m not in a position to do that.
It would be better if she was really just a ‘girl’ in love. If it had been that way, it might have been even more ‘happy’ for the Empress.
Between dimensions… if it weren’t for the great war that lasted for 10 years.
If only she hadn’t awakened.
If only she hadn’t become the empress, the only unique being in the empire.
Maybe, because there was a future.
I didn’t know that there might have been a future for Raysonia, living the life of a ‘woman’ by the side of the person she loved, giving birth to and raising his child.
But, that wasn’t the case.
so that…
I knew that he was trying to ‘bear it’ at least in this way.
Even though it wasn’t that long… it was still the subject’s duty to follow the ‘lord’ who had sworn allegiance.
Moreover, this was a noble person.
There were even rumors that among the daughters of ‘blue blood’ people, they would secretly obtain the underwear of someone they admired and wear it for themselves… or use it for some other purpose.
In fact, Seris, who was from a secret agency in charge of the empire’s ‘information’, knew better than ever that it was not a rumor.
…On the outside, the beautiful young ladies with blue blood looked like they were just humans doing whatever they wanted.
On the other hand, what about the Empress?
Isn’t it just the hair of someone you adore?
Compared to people who were looking for all kinds of things, starting with underwear, this was nothing more than cuteness.
furthermore…
“…This is better than when I recorded myself imitating the Marquis’ voice for three days.”
Beings like himself secretly sought the materials of Marquis Ern Bachard, but it was not enough.
As if it comes from his countless nicknames.
He was an outstanding ‘knight’.
It was really difficult to avoid his feelings and get something like that without being caught.
This was especially true of ‘voice’.
Marquis Ern Bachard did not talk much.
The only thing he talked about was with his family and his own relatives.
Therefore, in order to perfect the ‘Marquis Ern Bachart doll’ that the Empress always ‘talks to’ in the bedroom, I had to step forward to imitate the voice of Marquis Ern Bachart.
That’s right.
It was because only she could imitate Ern Bachard’s voice to a level that satisfied the Empress.
A mixed race of ‘doppelganger’, a being that can completely change the structure of the body to that of ‘another person’ at will.
That was Seris’ true identity.
“…Ah, I found it again.”
anyway.
Therefore, Seris was delighted with the relatively ‘simple’ task she was given this time and diligently picked up Marquis Ern Bachart’s hair.
“…Anyway, I see it too often. “If you are still young and your hair is already falling out like this, what are you going to do later?”
I don’t know how long it will last, but Seris was relaxed, even worrying about the hair of the Marquis, whom she was ‘helping’ with all her might.