041. Stone of Truth (3)
“Oh! You seem to wake up early in the morning?”
“What are you doing at this hour?”
“I am about to leave the academy now. The Minister of Home Affairs has to use the torch quite a bit.”
Veris nodded at the explanation of the crown prince, Friedrich, who had come to visit.
It was hard to know exactly why the second person in the empire had come to the academy and challenged Veris to a duel. However, he seemed to be subtly trying to tie Veris and Maria together.
To think that the events of the past few days have come back to shame. It was also the appearance of an heir who was entrusted with internal affairs of the empire by the emperor.
“And I have something to tell you.”
“What is it?”
“The Mage Tower and Academy have been making dissonance lately. Of course, the cause is the imperial family, but things are already out of our hands.”
“… ….”
Veris could roughly understand what the prince was trying to say. It was because she had already heard the story about the Stone of Truth from the dean.
“It just means take care of yourself. There are quite a few people who will be sad when your body is damaged.”
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Friedrich’s soft tone. For some reason, Maria, standing next to him, flinched, but Veris didn’t mind and answered.
“May the crown prince be well.”
Frederick nodded his head with a big smile at Berris’s response, which looked very similar to that of an aristocratic son-in-law at first glance. And soon after exchanging a few more words, the prince left.
Oh, he was like the wind when he left as much as when he appeared.
* * *
“Saury is a thousand coopers! It’s cheap!”
“A beautiful lady. How about a sweet cake?”
Getting off at the bus stop, Beatrice entered the southern part of the city, the commercial district. She didn’t see her brother, whom she had promised to meet her with, so she thought of taking a look around the city.
Indeed, the opinion of the wizards belonging to the academy that the Mage Tower is boring and rural is not a lie, but a bustling appearance.
Beatrice was feeling curious about the various people who were sending publicity messages here and there.
“… ….”
Then there was a stall that made Beatrice stop her steps.
In fact, the place where I threw a few wooden chairs that were too crude to even call it a stall was a place where a middle-aged man had spread out paintings, drawing paper, paints, and brushes in a mess.
“Huh? Are you a guest?”
“…… No.”
“It’s bland. I’ll give it to you at a low price, so feel free to take a look.”
Beatrice nodded her head. It was a portrait hanging on a newsstand that stopped her insensitive steps.
A cowardly beautiful sight was contained in that white paper.
The warm sunlight from the sky, birds chirping and flying, children with happy smiles on their faces, and even a girl with green hair smiling benevolently among them.
[ Faith of Saint Cecilia ]
The name and description of the painting that makes you feel arrogant at first glance.
The main character of the beautiful painting is a girl whom her brother, Gunther, warns in the letter every day. Saint Cecilia. According to Gunther, the existence of Beatrice’s love interest.
However, looking at this picture, I couldn’t help but have the will to fight. No, if she had to point out, it would be correct to say that Beatrice had no competitive spirit towards the saintess from the beginning.
It is a very beautiful picture. Feeling that the paintings were not at the level of selling at street stalls, Beatrice slowly turned her head to look at the paintings on the stalls.
In the place where her gaze soon reached, another person was seated.
[ The Path of the Sword Pursued by Gunther ]
Unfortunately, the subject of the painting with that name was her only younger brother. Gunther, who had been training with the single-minded determination to become a real man and form a bloody brotherhood with Veris, was already being called the Empire’s swordsmanship genius.
Beatrice took a step to the side, and soon she found another girl’s picture.
[ Peace ]
“… ….”
Beatrice admired the paintings of Saint Cecilia and her brother Gunther. But at the next picture she saw, she couldn’t help but burst out with a slight admiration.
The name of peace and an awkward scene were included in the picture.
The first thing I saw was a man with blue hair and red eyes. Those who flank him on both sides are all famous among students.
The elf swordsman Arwen, the saintess Cecilia, the brown-haired freckled girl I’ve never seen before, and finally Gunther.
The emotions of the people in the paintings were expressed in detail. It’s really great workmanship.
“How are you? That’s a masterpiece I recently completed.”
“Amazing.”
“hehehe. It’s a plain but satisfying evaluation.”
It is Beatrice who is evaluated by those around her that her emotions have already died. However, thanks to this painting boasting a mysterious atmosphere, she couldn’t help but feel strange.
“…… What is this situation?”
Beatris is casually spitting flat words at a painter who is a lot older than she seems to be. Of course, the painter has a sense of humor, so he didn’t point it out and was told.
“An interesting landscape. It is said that a group of students did the clearing of the annual dungeon this time.”
“… ….”
“These are the people in the party. Arwen, Cecilia, Gunther, Marie, Veris. What an unusual combination.”
Because of the unexpected name, Beatrice was taken aback. Could it be that the person in the picture that she felt was quite similar to the one she had seen in the past was Berris!
“Isn’t it amazing? Although the picture was drawn after seeing them come out of the dungeon entrance, it was definitely Berris von Wittelsbach, a student in Class B, who stood at the center of the atmosphere. I heard that this person also solved the dormitory occupation case.”
After saying that, the painter raised his finger and pointed at one person. Beatrice, who had been quietly examining him, nodded his head.
It is very strange. Even though I remember meeting him as a child, he was an incredibly precocious person of the same age, but that characteristic seems to have continued to this day.
“You look like a tourist, but if you ever want to buy a painting, let me know. I’m a person who doesn’t have expensive hobbies.”
The painter burst out laughing loudly. Either way, Beatrice was quietly gazing at the painting named Peace.
True art is a unique existence. Even if you just hold it in your eyes like this, it makes you feel something that can’t be said.
“Sister!”
“…… Ok?”
Soon, the painter’s head turned at the loud voice coming from far away.
Following him to find the source of the familiar voice, Beatrice answered the painter as she stepped forward.
“Travelers are right. But, I don’t want to buy a painting.”
“Gunther…… One day?”
The painter’s blank gaze reached Gunther, then returned to Beatrice.
How many people in the world could Gunther, who is called the swordsman genius of the empire, call his sister?
That means that the identity of the woman with a cold expression in front of him right now is his sister.
“You can’t believe it?”
The painter, who alternately looked at Beatrice, who was quietly leaving, and Gunther, who was striding away from afar, finally realized the identity of the person he was talking to.
Beatrice Von Haruen.
She was a woman who was said to be a great wizard in the near future.
* * *
“I didn’t tell you. She told me not to go around alone.”
“Why?”
“Yeah, sister…… Because I don’t know how to deal with the young world!”
Beatrice turned his head away at the sight of Gunther screaming.
When I was young, my older sister and older sister followed me on the street, but now that I’ve grown in size, not a single drop of cuteness has remained.
“There is something I want to do.”
“…… What?”
To the subject of using honorifics when he was young, Gunteo is now spitting out flat words saying that he has grown in size. However, Beatrice, who knew that it was an effect of puberty, which she had seen in the dictionary, did not dare to scold him.
“Berris. I want to meet him.”
“Stop, no way! Has your sister finally made up her mind too?”
Seeing the back of Gunther who was exclaiming with delight, for what reason did he like it so much, Beatrice tilted his head.
“…… Why do you like it?”
“Well, if my sister connects with my brother, then my brother and I are related by blood! You know how much I respect you, right?”
Well, Gunther has regarded Veris as her faith since her snoring days. However… ….
“Anyway, that person has no feelings for me.”
Gunther fell silent at Beatrice’s sudden reply.
He is the older sister who has shown excessive talent for magic since childhood. It was said that the sensitivity of his high mana became poison and changed his personality, but it felt like the condition was getting worse.
“Emotions are what happen when you touch your skin.”
But the sad truth is that a guy named Gunther is more like someone who literally has no sensibility at all, literally even his brain filled with muscles.
“Once you get married and sleep together, you live together whether you like it or not.”
And he was also a man who wore the mask of a real man who did not put even the slightest amount of affection in the relationship between men and women.
* * *
“So. What is this?”
Catching the two women as she left the room with her tiptoe like a stray cat, Veris held out her stone.
“Ah, that is the Stone of Truth.”
“…… Indeed it is.”
At times like this, Veris let out a light sigh, thinking that porridge would suit her well.
I couldn’t have imagined that these cheeky two would conceive of such a plan. Of course, the plan went awry and it was Berris who had fun with her, but she must have her own punishment.
“What kind of punishment should I give… ….”
As Berris blurted out the end of her words, the two quickly became surprised. They couldn’t have imagined that they would ruin the plan so vainly.
“Ugh, that’s stupid.”
Cecilia felt very ashamed of the current situation.
She is a woman who is revered as a saint throughout the continent. But now, after sneaking into the room of an outsider with whom she was not married, she failed in her attempt to commit the crime and was arrested.
What’s even more sad is that aside from the failure of her plan, she overslept next to her goal for the first time in a long time.
It was the same as Arwen. Although on the surface she is a student at the same academy, she is Berrys and Arwen, who maintain a relationship between master and servant.
But she sneaks into the owner’s room and spreads it. Isn’t this disqualification from beginning to end?
“By the way.”
Waiting for the verdict to be handed down soon, the two of them looked at Veris with her tense faces. He paused for a long time, then spoke calmly.
“Didn’t you sleep well for the first time in a while?”
“…… Yes.”
“Yes. I usually lose sleep at night, but last night I got a good night’s sleep.”
Veris nodded her head.
Insomnia exists among non-human diseases. She spreads mana that had the nature of sleep and fell asleep deeply, which was also a fact that Veris had forgotten about.
“Hmm.”
When her thoughts reached that point, Berrys soon began to feel apologetic.
Cecilia suffers in the church and Arwen suffers in her mansion. Of course, in front of that, there was also studying thanks to the status of being a student at the academy.
That’s why the two of them were living a life close to chronic fatigue. If so, what would be the most effective way for Veris to solve it?
“Ah!”
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Verys immediately exclaimed in admiration. Sleep together There was such an easy solution, why didn’t I know about it!
Wow, what a player