139 – Diary – 1
As if sunk in the depths of the deep sea, the dim consciousness slowly rises to the surface. Time comes first. A ray of light shines in the darkness where you can’t even see an inch ahead. Next, hearing. Slowly, you hear someone talking next to you. I’m not completely awake yet, so I can’t hear what he’s saying…. Finally, breathe slowly. It really feels like being sunk in the deep sea. How happy I am to be able to breathe the way I want.
However, returning to consciousness and being able to move freely were completely different. It feels like the head and body are playing separately, as if being pressed by scissors. Cordelia did her best to narrow her eyes. She was so dazzling anyway that she couldn’t have floated any bigger.
“Are you awake?”
“Who… please?”
He’s the first guy I’ve ever seen. The face is somehow familiar, but…. Cordelia barely managed to squeeze her voice. She asked in a cracking voice. The man made a strange expression for a moment, then with a belated ah, he started pulling his hair wildly. His eccentricity did not stop there. He immediately threw off his clothes.
In front of the bewildered Cordelia, a familiar man or woman appeared before long.
“What… Doing….”
“Do you understand now?”
“Lira?”
“Whew. I thought something was wrong with my head.”
When Cordelia recognized herself, Lyra let out a sigh of relief. Then, she said she would have to check it out soon, and she began to ask Cordelia to do this and that. She tugged at Cordelia’s eyelids and then she let go. Then she spread her fingers and held them in front of Cordelia’s eyes.
“My pupils are fine. Cordelia, how many do you see?”
“Two.”
“Well, there is no problem with cognitive ability. Is it okay to breathe?”
“Yes….”
“Thank God. I said I was fine, but what if something goes wrong? Fortunately, the drug didn’t seem to work. I guess it was just a blur of consciousness.”
Lira was sincerely relieved. Because of her information that she had misunderstood, she was also feeling nervous because of her guilt about what she would do if Cordelia was wrong.
While listening to Lyra’s story, Cordelia regained some control over her body. She grunted and barely lifted her upper body. Lyra frightened her and tried to put her back, but she could not overcome Cordelia’s insistence.
“Lie still. Even if you don’t have any symptoms, you still need to rest.”
“No, it’s okay.”
“Isn’t it you who judges that?”
“It’s really okay. Look, you’re fine.”
Cordelia spread her arms and laughed. Lyra tried to point something out of her, but she just shook her head as if to stop her words. Even if Cordelia looked like that, Lyra was well aware that her stubbornness was not an ordinary stubborn girl.
“Ehh, I don’t know either.”
And only then did Cordelia see the surroundings. It wasn’t her smoky basement closet where she first lost her consciousness. Familiar landscape. This is Lira’s safe house. She wondered what had happened while she was unconscious.
Lira said with a faint look.
“So much happened.”
“Really?”
Cordelia’s eyes shook wildly. Perhaps, while she was lying peacefully, several years had passed…. A plausible story ran through her head. What if it had really just been a few years? What about school? What about your friends? What about your parents?
She looked at Cordelia, who didn’t know what to do, and Lyra smiled.
“I just did it. Actually, there wasn’t that much going on. It must have been a week at most.”
“A week?!”
Cordelia jumped up at the oddly realistic figure. A week is a long enough time, if not years. If you think that Hestia will disappear for a week without saying anything right now…. Cordelia trembled, not knowing what to do with her body.
“This is a joke too. Isn’t it too bad for someone who was bedridden for a week in the first place?”
“Come to think of it, that’s how it is.”
If she had been lying unconscious for a week, she would have been thirsty, hungry, or had no strength in her body, but now she was perfectly fine.
I’m not saying it for nothing, Cordelia really felt refreshed right after waking up from a deep sleep. Of course, she still felt a bit drowsy, but she felt that even that would blow away with just one stretch. She felt like she had woken up from a sound sleep rather than lost consciousness, even though Mikhail or Lira would hear it.
Lyra pulled back her curtains and pointed out her window. After this, there must have been a street light hanging in the dark place. She hadn’t done anything, so it was pitch black outside her window.
“It’s been a few hours since you lost consciousness like that. It hasn’t come up yet.”
“Thank God….”
Cordelia let out a sigh of relief. In that moment, her body felt much better than before. Even her drowsiness had completely escaped, and she was literally in full condition. She stood up from her seat and stretched her.
“Looking at it, it seems that my body has really improved. It’s like waking up as soon as you get some fresh air. Is there really a difference between people who take medicine well and people who don’t?”
“Oh right. Speaking of that story….”
Lyra said that she cared as much as possible, but when she heard that, she was not Cordelia. Wasn’t she thinking right before she lost consciousness in the first place? I don’t know if she’ll be able to open her eyes again, but if she does, I’ll apologize first.
“Sorry. I must have taken some medicine too.”
“What are you talking about, you must have eaten? If you eat, you eat, if you don’t, you don’t eat.”
Lyra expressed her doubts at Cordelia’s ambiguous expression.
“That’s it. I once hid the pills in her mouth for a while.”
“Do you hide the medicine in your mouth?”
Lira widened her eyes as if she didn’t understand. It didn’t take Cordelia long to explain all of her circumstances to Lyra.
Feeling curious and questioning and following her friend, the friend who took out her medicine suddenly became strange, to the fact that she put it in her mouth unnoticed and then quickly escaped and spit it out again.
After all the talk, Cordelia apologized once again.
“She said she didn’t eat it, thinking it would be okay. Sorry….”
“No, why is this something you should apologize for? I need to call those bastards and apologize. Did you put the medicine in her mouth for a moment and then spit it out again, but you’re still distracted by the smoke? What kind of poison did you make?”
Lyra recalled a case when Cordelia had really taken drugs, and she had smoked cigarettes herself, not just smoke inhalation. Of course, it could have been cured, but how long would it have taken…. There was no other luck. In fact, Cordelia did not have a constitution that did not work well with medicines, but rather that medicines worked too well.
“So, now tell me what really happened.”
She turned around and barely got back to the original subject. With so much to say, the first thing she wanted to ask in the first place was pushed aside.
Lyra briefly explained to Cordelia what had happened to her. From asking Mikhail for help, to having bar thugs rescue other students, to infiltrating the middle of enemy lines pretending to be Wilhelm’s aides through disguises.
Cordelia was indeed a good listener. She completely immersed herself in the story, and the part where she ordered thugs to save the other students broke her heart. In other words, Lira used her wit to solve the problem that kept bothering her.
It varies depending on the person and the degree of addiction, but it is said that if you breathe clean air, you will gradually recover. Cordelia was thinking of calling in a high-ranking healing wizard at her own expense if things didn’t go well.
Lia’s story has finally reached its climax. It was the part where the boss of her thug brought a big box. Cordelia couldn’t contain her curiosity.
“I was in that box?”
“You can’t remember a single thing. Well, of course it is.”
“So how did you steal me?”
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John was sure that this surprise gift would be liked by the prince’s entourage. It was certainly a surprise gift that Lira and Mikhail liked. The problem was, though, that they were the prince’s enemies, let alone his aides.
“This is…. Awesome. The daughter of the Duke of Deneb.”
“hehehe. It’s worth trying to seduce her friends.”
“You had reason to be so confident, John. Your Highness will greatly appreciate it.”
John laughed meanly. In fact, he didn’t like his common name, which didn’t even have a surname, because it reminded him of his poor childhood, so he didn’t like it very much that the author of that aide kept calling him by his name carelessly, but what does that matter? If this story goes to His Highness, the crown prince, he will be able to receive a new name as well as a new surname.
“Hmm. Great, great.”
So, even when her entourage took the body of her hostage out of her box, he didn’t make any comments until she lifted her up and put her on her shoulder. No, how could he know the thoughts of the high officials?
The only time John felt strange in earnest was after the prince’s aides, who had uncovered the daughter of Duke Deneb, turned their backs and went outside. It was more like running away.
“Hey… , Why did he leave?”
“Oh. In the end, it is true that this was not necessary.”
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Mikhail grumbled. While following Lira, he had been searching for the meaning of her dress as a woman, but in the end, he couldn’t find anything like that until the last moment. There was no way there was such a thing.
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Mikhail took off the frustrating wig and threw off the artifact that was on him. As his body slowly regained its original physique, the seams of the clothes he was wearing burst open. It was a pretty ugly sight, but Mikhail decided it was better than crossdressing.
And John’s astonishment watching the whole process was indescribable.
“What the hell is this… !”
“Ah, ah. Oh, and the voice is back to normal.”
“You, you!”
When Mikhail finally returned to his true form, John couldn’t help but be horrified. It’s not because the makeup you forgot and didn’t remove remains on Mikhail’s face. Of course, he was also surprisingly bizarre, but….
“You did well. Do you like the prince’s back?”
“Mikhail… !”
For some reason, the sword he wore around his waist was too big for his physique! Of course, John also knew the relationship between Michael and the Crown Prince after hearing about it. It was because of that that he was aiming for Mikhail’s friend Cordelia. As such, it was quite shocking for Mikhail to appear in front of him in person. And in a way you can’t even imagine.
“You are done. Anyway, by now, all the men under you would have been cleaned up by the thugs at the bar, right?”
“What a crazy bastard!”
“You are the crazy bastard. Wilhelm, if you trust that bastard psychopath and get so upset, the bar guys gnash their teeth just talking about you. That’s why people you see for the first time just fight for pushing your back a little.”
As if a puzzle was being put together in John’s head, the questions that had been biting one after the other were put together one by one. When I wondered what the other organization believed and attacked them who were behind the crown prince, the culprit was right here.
“If you just give up and surrender gracefully….”
“What if I surrender?”
“I won’t hit you. You won’t know until after you hand it over to the bar guys.”
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Mikhail grinned. It was obvious without even thinking about the next day. Will they leave that human alone? He was sure of victory. Certainly, it was no exaggeration to say that this situation was checkmate.
John is a bit dumb, but he’s not completely stupid. He actively sold out the prince’s name, but even so he knew that if he collapsed like this, he would be far from receiving the prince’s help. In fact, if he had been smart, he would have realized that the prince would never look back at him no matter how much he did, but unfortunately he wasn’t that smart.
So there’s no doubt that I’m more attached to the ball. It was also because of this that Lyra stayed still until she ran away after trying to boss Cordelia. In the end, though, it turned out to be a fatal defeat.
However, John knew only one way out of this situation. Although he is called a checkmate, it is all the same that Mikhail in front of him is also a king. So, isn’t he saying that it’s enough to fight king vs king and win?
And now, in his hand, he had a secret plan to make that trump card a success. This, too, was received from the crown prince. If he had come this far, he would have noticed that he had discarded his own hand, and that what he had in his hand was not a normal item either. It was a bad thing for John, who was already blinded by greed and regret.
“Uh…. I think it would be better not to eat it.”
Of course, Mikhail’s dissuade also became an empty echo.
“Quaaagh!”
“I told you not to eat it.”