His skinny body and slightly stooped back, smiling eyes and sunken wrinkles around his mouth indicated that he was much older than his apparent age.
“You should know why.”
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“Yeah, it must be entertainment… There’s no way that child will be seriously hurt, but isn’t it oversensitive, ahahahaha… … .”
“It’s not a rebellion at all, so there’s no way the princess will get seriously hurt, but aren’t you oversensitive, too?”
When Kane took his words back, the elderly man opened his wrinkled eyes a little wide and laughed out loud.
“Ha ha ha ha ha!”
He straightened his bent back and couldn’t stop laughing. Kane narrowed his brow slightly at the power of mana carried in that laugh.
Then, as if it had never happened, the laughter stopped suddenly, and a calm voice rang out.
“Yeah, no matter how strong you are, isn’t it for your age? Ahahahaha, you still don’t know how dreadful life is.”
“If you thought so, why did you lure me here?”
When the old man said he didn’t know how scary life was, Kane gasped.
Because I didn’t live properly even when I was only 20 years old. Is everything she went through belittled just because she is young?
“Well, wouldn’t the vicinity of the imperial castle be small to teach a child like you?”
When the man raised his hand, which had begun to develop dark spots, into the air, the space shook as if a haze was rising, and before he knew it, a jade-colored longsword was clutched in his hand.
“Then tell me how intense your life has been.”
And Kane, who was looking at it, whispered lowly while holding his scarf at an angle.
* * *
“What is the purpose of selling sirens?”
“money… more money… … !”
“Do you know what value sirens have?”
“… communication … Artifact.”
Seria sighed, as if she didn’t like my answer.
“This guy is really an idiot, as rumored. Isn’t that the snarky grand duke using it as a throwaway card? I have never seen such an incompetent person.”
To Seria’s words, the lady-in-waiting next to her answered in a monotonous tone.
“Maybe.”
I felt a blunted sensation of slender fingers poking my cheek.
“I don’t know anything other than money, alcohol, and fun. If you apply the artifact called Siren a little, you can dig up the secrets of other countries. I mean, I want to monopolize it.”
The sound of something being gulped and passed down one’s throat. It seemed that Seria drank tea as if anxious.
“Private sales like that. Imagine. If only I owned it, I could have the most information on this continent.”
There was a sound of something smooth rubbing as if I was touching the teacup I had put down after drinking it with my fingertips in a circular motion.
“No matter how crazy Krueger is for gold. Whose brain came up with the idea of selling something like this to the common people?”
“It must be Grand Duke Caiman.”
When the white-haired lady-in-waiting answered, I heard the sound of Seria getting up from her chair and sitting on the bed as if she was moving closer to me.
“Is that so? Because that snake must have had thousands of venomous snakes in its stomach. That’s why he must have sent such a worthless, scumbag to the capital while he was in hiding.”
That’s great. Even using his own son as a scapegoat. If I did something wrong and hated the imperial family and myself, I might not be able to return alive.
Seria, who whispered so in a small voice, wrapped her thin and small hands around my neck.
“it’s annoying. I want to vent my anger.”
“Seria. You cannot always have what you want.”
Even with the blunt pain, I desperately felt Seria’s hand gradually wrapping around my neck.
“I know that. Temperance and tolerance, mercy and devotion. The duties of the royal family are so boring. Besides, this guy is so lousy that he has no talent to break it.”
Hold on!
“… … !”
Thanks to the effect of the medicine, the breath that was already difficult came in a mess as if a piece of paper had been swallowed.
A simple complaint with no life. Is that why the Aegis doesn’t activate?
It would activate right before he really died, but he didn’t seem to consider the vague choking thing as an attack.
“Why not break? It can’t be. Why do you feel that you are lower than me?”
As my drug-soaked body could not stand it and trembled, the strength of the hand that had been strangling my throat loosened.
“Strange. yes? Strange… Fun.”
A slow approaching breath passed my ears. It was fun to tell you a lot of jumbled information, but I’m not allowed to play like this.
‘When are you coming?’
Even though I couldn’t contact the siren and lost control of my body thanks to the drugs, I believed in my party.
No matter how late, if I don’t get back by tonight, come find me.
bang!
I’ll come… … ?
A faint sound of something being smashed was heard in the distance.
hey.
you guys can’t… … .
“… What are you talking about?”
“Since the guards have been defeated and there are only ordinary soldiers, I will go out.”
Did the white-haired lady-in-waiting double as an escort? Well, when I was force-fed, it seemed like there was definitely a body-related trait.
“What? It doesn’t suit that serpent, but does he care about his own child? or not… … .”
Is it a pity to use the bait only once and throw it away?
With a soft and friendly voice that seemed appropriate for a hymn, Seria laughed softly.
* * *
“Stop! Stop it!”
“Hold on a little longer and the Royal Guard will come!”
In order not to leave evidence on purpose, Zero snatched the arrows from the soldiers in the air instead of his own and shot them again.
“evil!”
Someone was hit in the knee by an arrow shot by Zero and rolled over. Then, on top of that body, Leaf jumped and slashed the piercing spear instead of Luna entering the hallway.
“Me and Zero will go inside, Zero! Give me directions!”
Luna shouted, and Zero and Leaf nodded at the same time.
Luna realized by feeling rather than hearing Leaf’s words to stop her and Zero from entering inside.
A certainty more certain than what you hear with your ears.
The sun began to set, and Luna started running with Zero through the corridors burning red with the setting sun.
“We are almost there. It is the innermost of the largest rooms, another narrow room.”
Zero spoke as if he had memorized the information he had known when he briefly transformed into Bahadi, and the two of them ran at full speed.
The moment the two black robes fluttered backwards like wings, a woman with all-back hair and a long maid outfit appeared at the end of the hallway with swords in both hands.
“Until there. You better not come in anymore.”
Even though it was not a very small hallway, it seemed that the front was completely blocked thanks to the sharp swords in both hands.
Luna bit her lower lip.
‘I can’t stay in a place like this for a long time.’
As long as Kane isn’t there, under the speciality of the imperial castle, you never know where the power equivalent to the entire party will come out.
And importantly.
‘Because this is still within Kane’s reading count.’
Luna judged her opponent’s skill. Are you strong enough to be delayed for more than 10 minutes without Kane?
‘at all.’
“Zero, please.”
“yes. Seniors.”
Zero inserted his bow and drew out his sword. Mana sinking more heavily.
In an instant, Zero passed Luna and rushed forward.
visor! There was a loud sound of metal clashing, and the sound of a broken vase as the halves of a vase fell to the floor.
Two swords occupying the entire hallway if you spread your hands wide to the sides.
Both hands shoved and entangled Zero’s sword as if someone else was holding it and moving it.
The moment when Zero whistled lowly, seeing Zero’s one-sided attack, the maid was wasting time with defense mixed with anomalies.
Chaeng Kang!
“what!”
A bird swooped down from the sky, broke through the window, and attacked the maid.
The moment Zero briefly broke the area he was defending with his two swords, Luna jumped in and escaped.
“Where!”
The moment when the maid, who belatedly cut down a bird that was rushing at her, turned her head to catch Luna who ran behind her!
As Zero’s longsword pierced her shoulder, she hurriedly lifted the sword and pushed it away.
“Don’t you have time to take a glance?”
“… It won’t be too late to deal with you first.”
As the aura grew thicker on the two three swords, Zero also drew out the abilities of his doppelganger, Druid Adonil, and pushed a thicker aura into the sword.
* * *
‘Brother, son.’
Just the direction Zero told me. Luna ran out. Even if Adelian said no, someone should have followed him.
Aegis sometimes makes judgments that are loose enough to not interfere with life, unless it is a murderous attack or an attack that will definitely damage the user’s body.
I heard that the level of alert mode should be increased by the user himself if it is dangerous, so that the Aegis would not attack if someone bumped into someone on the street.
‘But you didn’t have time to do that.’
poison or drug.
Aegis would have somehow defended the strong magic that could be used indoors, so Adelian would have been able to contact Siren somehow at that moment.
Luna entered, destroying the innermost door with her foot.
“Oh my goodness… It’s a smaller raider than I thought.”
In Luna’s eyes, she saw Adelian sitting in a chair with her head down as if she had lost consciousness.
In addition, someone who loosely hugged Adelian from the back of a chair and used it as a shield.
Beautifully flowing blonde hair and deep amethyst eyes.
Truly a princess that could only come out of a fairy tale I heard as a child.
If the usual Luna had seen it, she would have admired that the princess really looked like a princess.
Now, her deep pink eyes have deepened, and the red color that looks like blood is starting to rise.
“Let go.”
“Whoa, what a cute voice. Did you come to rescue Prince Adelian?”
But why are you sleeping like this right now? Princess Seria put her hands on Adelian’s head and raised her cheek on top of him.
“… You better clean up your dirty hands.”
In the small room with no wind blowing, the lower hem of Luna’s robe swayed slowly.
‘Your loyalty is amazing?’
Seria was amazed. How do you educate the Kruger family, so strong people like this are loyal just because they are the rightful eldest of the family?
Considering the noise you hear, the number of attackers is a small number within 5.
Even though Seria herself had intentionally bitten off the Royal Guard and turned off the alarm out of necessity, everyone was more than an Aura user to the extent that they invaded this far in a short period of time.
But just for the sake of such a madman?
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Seria, who confirmed the traces of the aura that was out of control, slowly lowered her hands on Adelian’s head in order to completely break Luna’s composure.
As she stroked his cheek, touched his shoulder, and slightly pulled the neck collar, the hem of the robe, which had been gently shaking only at Luna’s feet, suddenly fluttered and swayed.
“… die.”
“uh?”
bang!
Seria didn’t understand what had happened for a moment.
The moment I blinked once, the small body standing in front of me became blurry, and it turned to the side rather than the front.
Seria flew to the other side and looked at Luna, who stepped on the wall next to her once, changed direction, and hit her body with her foot.
As a member of the royal family, he was wearing a defense artifact, so he simply flew away with only the anti-elastic force, so there was no pain or injury.
‘This strong?’
The voice and body are definitely my age. By the way, Auror user Intermediate or higher?
The Shield Artifact’s shield, which blocks light attacks without counterattack, shattered silently, and the Countertank Shield Artifact was activated for instant escape from a dangerous battlefield.
It was good that he intentionally showed traces of strangulation and provoked him, but the price was Adelian’s deprivation!
When Seria, who had lightly landed on the floor with the power of the artifact, looked around, Adelian, who was already sitting in the chair, had already disappeared.
“… what’s ok Because I was attacked.”
Now all we have to do is gather the evidence and press it.
Seria smiled lightly as she stroked her hair, which was as dark as honey.