248. Banquet (3)
-The key went back to Ataturk.
“Good job.”
I let out a shallow sigh after I finished communicating with Jin.
Although it was regrettable that the unexpected situation happened, it turned out well in the end.
Because Atatürk didn’t attend the banquet, he met an important person.
Thump! Thud! Thud!
“Schluss Heinkel······ I will visit you at Your Excellency’s order······.”
The one who just knocked on the door.
It was Celica, the princess of the now-destroyed kingdom of Aias.
Serika’s face is known to Atatürk, so if he had attended the banquet, she wouldn’t even have appeared.
Anyway, since it was an important banquet where all the imperial marshals, dukes, ministers, and even the elven tribal chiefs gathered, it seemed like they came to check the atmosphere.
I didn’t even have to use ‘lookup’.
I noticed right away thanks to Celica’s unique dance.
Her beautiful tan skin and her body also helped her to recognize Celica.
Now that she knew it, she had no time to hesitate.
I immediately asked Celica to come to my room for the night.
It was a clear order, not a request or request.
Then she wouldn’t be able to escape unless she wanted to die.
“Come in.”
Kikik······
The door opened and a dancer dressed in the same outfit as the one we saw earlier walked in.
It was a stimulating outfit that showed off her stomach, back, and thighs.
A necklace with a small key hung around the neck added a mysterious atmosphere.
Celica didn’t let her guard down, she closed the door and walked in front of me.
“Dancer, my name is Serina.
“·······.”
Celica greeted her by slightly lifting her skirt in an imperial style.
She seemed to be a little nervous, while her body trembled, she still had a slightly expectant look in her eyes.
Are you expecting me to ask you to dance and not do anything stupid?
I’m sorry, but that didn’t happen.
Because what I’m ordering from Celica is something she couldn’t even imagine.
“Serica.”
“Yes. Oh, sir. It’s not Celica, it’s Serena-“
“I didn’t call her wrong. She was definitely called Celica.”
“·······.”
Sitting on her bed and talking softly, Celica’s body stiffened.
I could see her body convulsing violently as she eagerly rolled her eyes, as if to check my reaction.
You should have understood this enough.
There were only a handful of options for Celica to take next.
“Where are you going to run away?”
“Huh?!”
First of all, we hit the line.
Of course, as soon as Celica tried to jump out after her, I grabbed her silver hair and fell over.
A solid barrier surrounds us, so you won’t have to worry about noisy sounds leaking out.
And her second choice is …
“Knife. You’d better put it down.”
“Huhhhhh.”
Resist by force.
Celica pulled out a small knife the size of her finger from her waistband and she jumped to her feet.
Then he jumped at me, but-
“Aagh!”
“Stupid. If it were me, she would have taken her own throat.”
The sword was taken away by me in an instant, and I was subdued.
What if the other person gets angry and behaves rough after this?
She really was a timid and headless woman.
I grabbed Celica by the back of her head and threw her to the floor.
“uuu…”
“Are you willing to talk now? Then nod her head.”
Celica nodded her head, not minding the rubbing of her cheeks on the floor.
I thought it would be like this in the end…
It was like taming a ferocious beast.
“I’ll end it quickly and briefly. I’m rooting for you elves very much. The barbarians took over the nest I’ve made my home for hundreds of years in an instant, so I’m going to divide it. I’m in a position to work for the Empire, but Aegis-sama. I’m also in a position to enforce justice according to the words of. So, I want to help you recover your homeland. Are you willing to accept the deal?”
“·······!”
Selica’s eyes widened.
Then she raised her head and kept trying to face me so she slammed her face into the floor even harder.
She said she was a deal, but she wasn’t real.
This was both a demand and an order.
“It’s so sudden… I can’t accept it… May I hear the terms of the deal?”
“I don’t ask for much. As long as you guys promise to keep the imperial church without tearing down after you take over this land, that’s enough. Promise not to persecute the believers.”
“Oh, really?”
“Yes.”
“Then… I think I need to talk to my aides first, so can you please let me go?”
“No. Make your decision right here. After all, isn’t it the country you are the owner of? Who can dispute your decision?”
“That’s by the way…”
“Choose. Will you give this land to the humans forever, or take it back with my help. If it’s not now, you’ll never have another chance.”
“Bah, I’ll get it! I’ll get help from Schluss Heinkel! I’ll never oppress and maintain the Western-style cathedral!”
It was only then that I heard a satisfactory answer.
With this, Celica could no longer escape.
It means that I have become a body that cannot help but trust me.
You are in a position where your life and the kingdom’s reconstruction depend on my gestures and words.
“Okay. Go out now.”
“Now, wait a minute. Specifically, how do you give this land back-“
“You don’t believe me?”
“Oh, no. I believe. I have to believe…”
“Then wait with that faith. I’ll give you instructions soon. Don’t go wrong with my instructions.”
“Oh, I see!”
“Then get out of here.”
“Yes······.”
I jumped over Celica and waved her hand, and soon she opened the door with her body trembling.
There was something pitiful about the way she looked at me until the end and then left.
Because of that, it seemed like I had done something bad.
.
.
.
“Hmm?”
The door opened and a bronze-skinned elf trudged out.
Her maids who were cleaning her hallways were busy turning her heads the moment they saw her.
As soon as the elves left, they flocked to each other and started whispering.
“What, what? What happened?”
“What happened… It’s obvious.”
“But you came out too early?”
“Your Excellency… Are you a little fast?”
“Shh, you bastard. Be careful with your words.”
A limp leg.
Fantastic expression as if shocked.
And even one cheek that turned red as if it had been beaten several times.
Whoever could see it was after being treated harshly.
Forgetting to clean up, they were busy running their imaginations.
Of course, the conversation that was whispered quietly, saying that it was only between them, became a rumor the next day and spread throughout the desert frontier.
***
The desert frontier was not usually a big city.
Since it is the only imperial territory in the desert, in fact, it is the place where all the human races in the desert live together, so the residence was enormous.
The size itself is much smaller than the island, but the population is about the same.
The big city, of course, also had institutions of higher education.
On the morning after the banquet, when the excitement of welcoming me had subsided somewhat, Erica and I decided to visit the university.
“But what role am I really in?”
A carriage headed for the campus.
Inside, Erica rested her chin on her chin and looked out at her, and she spoke in a brusque tone.
“What is your role?”
“No. Somehow, everyone’s role fits perfectly. A man called Hurtlocker was dispatched to the site in advance and was in charge of the preliminary investigation. Trier is your escort. A crow named Jin changes faces and moves like a spy. …”
I felt like I was about to burst out laughing because it was such a cute expression, but I managed to hold it in.
If you laughed, Erica would surely be angry.
“But what am I? My magic skills are as low as yours, and I’m not a combatant who can fight swiftly even in a crisis situation…”
“There will come a moment when you desperately need your barrier. At that time, use my magic to spread the barrier. With my skills, even if I have a lot of magic, I can’t create an efficient barrier.”
“Well, how big is the difference in skill…”
It seemed that he was still not convinced.
The difference between Erica and me is like heaven and earth.
If Erica’s ability is 100, I’d be around 70.
If a small amount of mana was consumed, the difference would be small as Erica said, but if her mana amount increased to hundreds of thousands, the difference would be enormous.
This means that there is a difference between blocking or not blocking an attack.
In this place, where no siege weapon could fly, such an excellent barrier magician was essential.
“We have arrived.”
“But what should I do? I should pretend to be doing something by pretending that I came here to study.”
“Do as you please. If you see a valuable book, no one will say anything if you steal it. I am by your side.”
“It’s an abuse of power, that’s…”
At first, he didn’t seem interested.
But when Erica set her foot on the campus, she was excited and ran from place to place.
She stopped by the library, met with her professors, and even sneaked across some of her lectures.
After hours of non-stop shooting, Erica-
“Is this a university? The standard is too low?”
“·······.”
Anyway, it seemed like he was greatly disappointed.
Well, when an Imperial University student comes to a regular university, they will inevitably feel the difference in level, but Erika is a genius even at the Imperial University.
Here, even her professors were able to match her skills.
Eventually, Erica lost all her enthusiasm as well as her immediate interest.
It seems that the show-off visit should be over at this point, so she was about to leave.
“Shullusuuu can’t we go?”
“Why? What is it?”
“No, I found a paper that interests me a little bit. Let’s go after reading this.”
“Anyway.”
What Erica picked up was a short two-page thesis.
The title was ‘About the connection between the core of the internal circuit and magic power supply’.
Since the core of the internal circuit and the magical power supply are all located in the heart, it must be a treatise on the heart.
I was also quite interested, so I sat down next to Erica and started perusing her thesis.
“Wow. Who wrote this? Why is this kind of person stuck on the edge of a desert frontier…”
While I was wandering on the first page of her book because of the rather complicated content, Erica exclaimed as if she had already understood her.
The thesis suggested a way to artificially implement the core of the internal circuit with magic techniques and artifacts.
The author revealed at the end that he came up with this method to prevent death from shock due to the absence of core parts of the internal circuit while temporarily removing the heart for heart transplant surgery.
Even when I thought about the author’s name, it was the name of a person I didn’t know at all.
‘Heart transplant······. The medicine here has developed to that point…’
I haven’t succeeded yet, but if the theory exists, isn’t it possible enough?
I was thrilled to discover a development in a direction I had never imagined.
I realized anew that it is not my own world where only the things I describe exist, but a world that lives and breathes on its own.
“Huh! Now I’ve seen it all! Shall we go back?”
“Is that so. Uh… Wait a minute. It’s a communication from Iris.”
“Whoops!”
As soon as she heard the sound of Iris, Erica jumped up and in an instant, she put a barrier around her that hindered her perception.
I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when I saw the two or three layers of mana being applied.
You don’t have to make a fuss like this.
-Schlus. I’m Iris. Can you hear.
“I can hear you. You can tell me.”
– I had a dream.
Dream.
The dream that Iris spoke of meant the future seen through future poetry.
But Iris’s voice trembled a little.
I thought I was going to cry right away, but it was a voice that seemed to be suppressed.
“What kind of dream was it?”
-Schlus is dying.
“Tell me specifically. How, where, and by whom do I die?”
-I’m not sure about that. But it’s not just Schluss who dies. Everyone on the desert frontier dies. I saw entire cities destroyed and burned…
“·······.”
I was dumbfounded for a while.
Update please