186. Tailing (2)
“Fuyu—! It’s pretty brutal here. Lady Gong.”
A little away from Iriel’s mansion.
Karen, carrying Lily up a tree, whistles while looking around the mansion.
In double or triple, the patrols were roaming and watching in all directions with ferocious force.
“… … Hmm, each one seems to have a lot of skill, but it’s packed in so many layers. We almost got caught if we were too hard on ourselves.”
“… … .”
“Duke Justia seems to be very fond of his daughter-in-law. Write, but can’t we really fight? If they match, I think we’ll be able to compete for a pretty good match… … .”
“… … Shut up, stop talking nonsense and be quiet.”
Lily gave Karen a glare and said in a low voice.
“But you won’t hear it until here… … ? Unless the thing in there is a monster like that Zeke Kleiman… … .”
“No, I’m just telling you to shut up because you’re noisy, Karen.”
“yep.”
Karen skillfully pretended to button up her lips.
‘Ha, really… … . No matter how much I think about it, he seems to have gotten weirder after getting involved with Zeke… … . No, that’s not important right now.’
With all her wandering thoughts, she stopped thinking about leaving and stared at Iriel’s mansion.
I don’t know when Iriel will come out, but there will still be some time.
It’s because I said that I would come out with makeup on.
“Hmm, princess.”
“… … .”
“Princess, Princess.”
“… … .”
Karen opened her mouth again in a natural voice from the side.
Less than 10 seconds had passed since I said shut up, but disobedience to orders was a daily routine.
“Can I ask you something?”
Lily glared at her and sighed.
“… … What.”
“Now, our Iriel Justia. You’re waiting for that red hair, right?”
“Oh, because you said you were going somewhere at night. We have to wait here until it comes out.”
“Huh… … , okay.”
“therefore. Be quiet and look at the mansion. I don’t know how it will turn out.”
Lily turned her head and looked at Iriel’s mansion again.
“… … Hmm, but that redhead doesn’t live here?”
“… … don’t bullshit This is Iriel’s mansion, so if Iriel doesn’t live here, where does he live?”
“It’s true. Is he living in Serena’s mansion right now?”
“… … What!?”
Lily was startled and made a loud noise.
“Princess, if you make that much noise, it will get caught.”
“No, that, that’s not the point! Why are you saying that now!!!!”
“You didn’t ask, did you? And tell me to shut up… … .”
Karen pursed her lips and said in a low voice.
Lily doubted whether bringing this human was a good choice.
‘Iriel lives at Serena’s house… … ? Is that possible?’
They are two people who have been unable to mix like water and oil since their previous lives.
Serena couldn’t understand Iriel’s desire, and Iriel couldn’t understand Serena’s responsibility.
‘… … How the hell did this happen? Shit, there was no such thing in the master’s notebook!’
Of course, we know that Zeke saved her from Serena’s house when Iriel was about to die.
However, after preserving his life, he assumed that he would have headed straight to his mansion.
That would also be the case, because for her to stay there was no different from the proud Iriel bowing down to Serena.
‘Is this all because of Zeke Clayman… … ?’
Then, should we head to Serena’s mansion where Zeke Kleiman is staying?
After thinking for a moment, Lily shook her head.
I didn’t have the confidence not to be caught by the monster’s detection.
If I get caught messing around in front of him for no reason, I run out of things to say.
“… … Okay, then soyi.”
“Oh, that bakery lady lives in the bakery over there. While I was at Princess Academy, I gathered all the information of the people who were paying close attention. Didn’t I do well?”
“… … I didn’t even ask there. after… … . First of all, let’s go to Soi. If we go quickly, we won’t be late.”
Lily and Karen climbed out of the tree and headed for Hilllace Bakery.
* * *
Rosnante went out for a walk in the middle of the night feeling lighthearted.
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My body was tired from training during the day, but my mind felt clearer as the night went on.
It felt cramped, as if a heavy stone had been put into one side of her chest.
In fact, Rosnante already knew what was causing this uncomfortable feeling.
Needless to say, Princess Lily.
She was a fragile girl whom she fell in love with at first sight.
“… … No matter how unavoidable it was, it wasn’t right after all to push Princess Lily like that during the day… … .”
Rosnante forced Princess Lily to train using magic tools used only for heinous criminals.
Heard that it was dangerous if she didn’t train properly, but it ate her heart.
Perhaps if she had cried in the middle, Rosnante might have felt weak and stopped right away.
However, Lily did not shed a single tear during the grueling training.
rather… … .
At first, she spat out curse words and threatened, but at some point she became quiet.
To the point where I lost my immersion in training for a moment and looked back at her.
“… … Lily?”
“… … .”
I called her name, but Lily didn’t answer.
Thin arms trembling softly, lips dry and cracked white.
Her eyes were blurred and she was already passed out standing up.
“Lily!”
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More than this was dangerous.
Rosnante, who made a momentary decision, was about to quit training.
Even Zeke Kleiman didn’t continue training when a student passed out.
“Damn it! I’m already out of my mind! First, release the restraints… … !”
The moment when Rosnante urgently tried to loosen the restraints wrapped around his neck.
Lily immediately closed her blurred eyes and looked at herself.
“You now… … . what are you doing… … . continue… … sun. fuck.”
A bright light penetrated Rosnante.
For a moment, Rosnante had the illusion that her eyes were stained with gold.
Rosnante rubbed his eyes and looked at her again.
As expected, as if it was a momentary illusion, it had black eyes like Zeke Kleiman’s.
“… … Didn’t you hate doing it?”
“Oh, I don’t want to fall behind. But looking at it with those eyes is even more fucked up.”
“Eyes like that?”
“Yes, those eyes.”
Rosnante put on a devastated expression, not knowing what expression he was making.
It was difficult to understand her words, but for Lily, training beyond this is poison.
Rosnante decided to convince her.
“Lily, this is dangerous. Instructor Zeke Kleiman is good enough… … .”
“it’s okay.”
“No, are you already at the limit? Rather, the body is broken! You’ve done enough!”
“Fuck. You said it was okay!!!”
A situation that has already exceeded the limit of physical strength several times.
Lily screamed in a fit of emotion.
Then, as if trying to clear his mind for a moment, he let out a long sigh.
“Yeah, I don’t want to fall behind on this drill. However, the reason I quit this training must be because of my will, and only because I don’t want to.”
“Well, what… … .”
“Are you really going to stop training objectively? Did Zeke Kleiman really, really say that? Such feelings as sympathy or pity. Are you sure you don’t?”
“… … .”
“… … If you were trying to look after me for that kind of reason. i will never forgive you I’m not the kind of person to be sympathized with by anyone. No one can invade my pride.”
Rosnante forgot what to say and stared blankly at Lily.
“So keep going. I have been resting for a long time now.”
In the end, Rosnante finished the training as usual without being able to do anything to her bluff.
In Rosnante’s mind wandering the streets at night, the image of Lily, who had been shouting to him to continue, continued to flicker.
“under,… … I’m going crazy.”
Rosnante pressed his eyelids tightly.
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My head was pounding and it hurt.
“… … But where is this… … ?”
Rosnante suddenly looked around.
It was as if I had come to an alley I had never been to before, just following my steps.
Judging from the rows of shops on both sides, it appears to be a shopping street.
However, it was already late at night, so the lights in the store were all off and no one was there, and only a dreary wind was blowing.
“Hmm, then I’ll have to go back the way I came. Sleep now, tomorrow too… … . Yes?”
Then, the back of a girl with her long black hair flying somewhere was caught in her eyes.
“Black hair… … ?”
Black hair is not very common because it is a symbol of the North.
Of course, three of the people he knew had black hair: Zeke Kleiman, Yuri Gilbert, and Lily Ira.
Within the system, those three were so rare that they could be said to be almost all of them.
Then, that long black hair must be Lily.
It was Rosnante who was already thinking about her, so this moment felt like some sort of trick of fate.
“… … Princess Lily… … ? what’s going on in the middle of the night… … ?”
For some reason, her steps seemed hasty, as if she was being chased by something.
And behind her, a man with a large body was chasing after her.
“A raid… … !!! No!”
Rosnante quickly kicked after her.