It was an exceptionally nice day. In the sunlit garden, a rather large maze was made of shrubs that grew taller than people.
Along with a round dome-shaped glass greenhouse on one side, the water stream spouting from a fountain decorated with a statue of a praying angel on the other side reflected the light brilliantly.
The statues and handicrafts placed here and there were decorated in a way that did not overdo the splendor of the greenhouse and fountain, drawing admiration from all who saw it.
The owner of this garden, 12th Prince Shahahahad, had thick dark circles under his eyes and rolled his eyeballs while rubbing his thumb nails.
“How about security?”
“I am sure.”
His whole life was distorted without knowing when or for whom.
Just as the whole was destroyed, as Shahahahad was deprived of himself.
I remembered the past when I struggled to gather even a handful of light while acting out a stupid and low life.
Did someone compare life to an egg? I thought that if I broke the shell that surrounded me, the narrow world would be broken and I would be able to open my eyes in a new place.
What he was imprisoning was not a shell that would allow him to be reborn, but a prison that someone had covered. He must have been laughing at himself for breaking his beak and claws and trying to come out without knowing it.
So it doesn’t matter if the opponent is a demon.
As Shahahahad gasped for breath, his aide handed him water and medicine as he was accustomed to.
Shahahahad, who forcibly poured it into his mouth and drank with trembling hands, wiped his lips with his sleeve and his sunken reddish-gold eyes glowed gloomily.
If you deserve it, no matter what you do. at any cost.
“The center of the maze is… How did you make it?”
“You would never get anywhere near it by chance.”
A space with no roads. A space confined by a magical barrier.
The preparations are over, and it is time to weigh the cost of your life to live from now on.
“Send out invitations.”
“Without limits?”
As the pain in his heart subsided, this time Shahahahad, who was frowning as if he had a headache, opened his mouth slowly.
“The list we secured at the last tasting. Sprinkle on them.”
It seems to be twisting the head with an awl made of ice. Shahahahad laughed as he felt the pain of each ray of light being broken by the water droplets pouring from the fountain.
* * *
“what the. under. really. her.”
I laughed softly.
“They say tomorrow night is a night garden party, boy.”
“I know.”
I’m really dumbfounded.
Apparently, from the information I heard, invitations were sent to all those who attended the wine tasting at the time.
why me
why me
If you’re going to use the elimination method, delete a few people, or among those many people, wouldn’t it be me, with the mindset that I’m absolutely not as stupid as Adelian?
I shook my legs and grinded my teeth, not hiding my discomfort.
Does Adelian passing make sense, this.
Also, the fact that Kane still hasn’t returned scratches my mind.
Just in case, I secretly dispatched Zero to the outskirts of the ecliptic, where he was almost certain to be able to live even if he died, but he couldn’t even find Kane’s mana, to see if he had gone farther or for some other reason.
‘I’m sure he’s the main character… … .’
It’s not like I’ve done anything embarrassing to recall.
Before my thoughts go to extremes, my anxiety fades as if the feeling of floating erodes me first.
In the first place, this was a world that Kane had saved by sacrificing many things, so if this world had the guts, it wouldn’t suddenly turn Kane into a sunfish.
Even if this place is a perfect, perfect reality, no matter how much he looks like the main character, in reality he is not the main character, so there is no correction like I think, so there is a possibility that it will become really futile.
‘It’s Kane.’
Because it’s Kane.
I no longer rummaged through the dwindling anxiety, and opened my mouth with a face that quickly turned sour.
“Can I enter the private residence of the prince without an invitation and go all the way to the center of the labyrinth without anyone noticing?”
Invitations are key. What if someone terrorizes the place where the lineage of the royal family and various nobles gather?
The key to confidently enter through numerous boundaries and shield magic.
There is a world of difference between entering a maze after you have already entered it and twisting it from the beginning outside.
“To be honest, it is difficult for me to go in with Adelian-sama, even if I can do it alone. I don’t know if Kane-senpai exists, but… sorry.”
At my question, Zero lowered his eyebrows a little and said. Seeing how the big dog shriveled up, Luna and Leaf petted Zero sitting on the chair from both sides as if they were cute.
In fact, no matter how much Zero wears the magic delay, the level is not very high, and the function of the magic delay itself is such that it can partially adapt to, reverse, or ignore all magical phenomena.
It would be difficult to bring me in without a trace.
Well Kane has magic, dispel, and even a trait called perfection, so it wouldn’t have been a big deal to bring me along.
“Then I should get an invitation too.”
From noble mtl dot com.
“yes. Maybe I can help Adelian-nim in the mansion.”
“Me and Riff will continue to learn about Kane.”
I nodded once, then turned to Rachel, who was sitting there with her mouth shut tight as to what she didn’t like so much.
“Why are you sitting so fat?”
“Again, I have to keep the house without any fun.”
My fists were bored, so my expression was so bad. we don’t have brains.
I opened my mouth thinking that sooner or later I would have to dispatch Rachel to Payyan’s organization.
“Aren’t you worried about Kane?”
“Why are you worried about him? are you worried He worries about everything.”
Rachel’s eyes widened at the question’s insidious question and asked back. Well, not everyone is openly worried about Kane.
“Anyway, if he was really in danger, he would have contacted you somehow.”
When Rachel stretched out, saying, “I went with the siren,” Luna opened her mouth too.
“Because I believe in you, Master Caindu, I’m sure it will. What if you didn’t contact me… … .”
“You still deserve to be proud of yourself.”
―I agree to some extent with Rachel’s analysis. manager.
My image is also my image, but shouldn’t Kane’s image also have to be rebuilt?
After thinking about it seriously, my thoughts eventually returned to the starting point.
“I need to get an invitation.”
Right now, tomorrow night is Shahahahad’s garden party, so my heart was in a hurry.
If I had known a little earlier, I would have gotten it through Payyan.
Payyan is also dispatched inside the academy, not outside, so it’s a bit unreasonable until tomorrow night.
‘Then, what can I do? Wouldn’t there be connections to use at times like this?’
I leisurely put my head back and took out a mass-produced siren to be used externally in the subspace.
“Hello, Verbut.”
are you in hurry?
* * *
No matter how wealthy a family is on the continent, can they develop something like this?
I belatedly found out if there was a large-scale alliance with the Magic Tower or the Alchemy Tower, but that’s not the case.
Verbütte licked her lower lip.
Why is the timing not right for Adelian’s plan to help Verbut by threatening him with the people he hired himself?
Thanks to Adelian, who was strangely able to get out of it, several plans were all in vain, and he was slowly running out of patience.
In the Church, just knowing the existence of the Siren that Adelian had given to Verbut was acting like a big achievement inside, so I was even more angry.
‘If that idiot hadn’t interrupted in the middle, I might have gotten this along with Guardia.’
No, it might be much more likely. If only Guardia had been coaxed well, he would have been able to get rid of Adelian who brought Siren to the ecliptic.
It is something that is hard to find even if you try to find it right now, perhaps because the royal family and the interests have not been properly arranged in the imperial capital.
Verbut pouted his lips as he kept squatting at the soft siren, but at the moment the siren shuddered and cried.
Surprised by this, Berbut threw the slime into the air as if juggling, and as he caught it, several symbols floated on the slime’s forehead.
I’ve used it a few times so far, but I feel nervous every time I use this communication artifact.
Verbut was loud and clearing his voice before holding the slime.
＜Hello, Verbut.＞
“Oh, hello.”
finely finely Like a lamb who knows nothing.
Contrary to Verbute’s eyes slightly furrowed, her voice flowed softly.
A conversation that has continued since that day. Verbutt clicked his tongue inwardly.
If you only look at the conversation through Siren, Adelian is perfectly normal.
no Rather, he was a pretty good person.
He was often humorous, and although he didn’t know the depth, he knew quite a bit, and he even had a sense of asking back by remembering what Verbüth himself said casually.
If Verbüth herself had been an ordinary girl, without knowing in advance that she was really an idiot, she might have passed away.
All the more because he was as good as his appearance.
“oh… So you’re saying Prince Adelian won’t be able to come to the party tomorrow?”
＜That’s it. It’s a bit unfortunate. If that’s the case, I’ll tell you… Great, no.＞
Verbüt lay down on the bed and listened in silence, then raised his head at the strangely connected words and stood up.
‘I to you, me to you?’
Could it be that the situation has finally arrived to put this in my hands?
Well, where can an idiot like Adelian go to meet someone who is as perfect as she is and considers Adelian not a idiot?
So why don’t you use your energy and pretend to be a good person in front of me?
Verbute smiled wryly. That idiot must have fallen for me.
So now you have to dedicate yourself to the church and yourself to the bone.
Even Adelian’s money and her beautiful collections.
In the meantime, the corner of Verbütt’s mouth went up at the thought that he would finally be able to extort the military price by pretending to be an innocent and pitiful girl from Adelian while enduring disgust.
“… I can’t look forward to tomorrow’s garden party because Prince Adelian isn’t attending.”
＜Still, it’s a party hosted by the 12th prince, so just attending would be helpful.＞
Originally, it was Prince Shahahahad’s party that was very popular, but tomorrow is a party where the garden will be unveiled for the first time after extensive construction, so each invitation must be worth a lot.
‘If I put them in my hands that Adelian has.’
Berbutt’s head was spinning tight, and he opened his mouth a little hesitantly as if the calculations had been completed.
“… If it wasn’t for that excuse… May I send an invitation to Confucius?”
＜Are you Berbut? Isn’t that overdoing it?＞
“If you find it, there will probably be people who will hand over one or two, so there’s nothing to be overdoing as you’re just looking for that much.”
Of course, the inevitable has to happen. Suddenly, a leg is broken and the movement is inconvenient, so you have to transfer it.
It’s a simple thing as long as it doesn’t break so finely that it can be completely cured in just one day with the power of a potion or priest.
＜If it happens, then what should I do?＞
Adelian, who spoke slightly awkwardly, seemed to have moved the sirens away for a moment, followed by a small voice.
＜Find out the flower shop right now! Even a jewelry store! Fools, move fast! useless stuff.＞
Ordinary people might not have heard of it. Verbüth twisted the corners of his mouth in scorn at the sharp, irritated voice he heard very faintly.
‘It’s trash after all.’
＜Then see you tomorrow, Verbut… I have something I must say tomorrow. okay?＞
“I’m so looking forward to it.”
In many ways.
Verbütte whispered with her mouth drawn in an arc with her eyes coldly sunken.