616 – 7.5 Season is Autumn (5)
The 5th Princess of the Empire, Shien.
A descendant of noble dragon blood, she was an ambitious schemer. Gifted with her mind-reading eyes, she is a resourceful strategist who manipulates the desires of others and plots behind the scenes.
She was born as a member of the royal family and grew up without a deficiency.
She never experienced failure, and she never let go of what she wanted. As she grew up, she naturally developed an arrogant disposition.
Of course, Shien didn’t care in the slightest about this.
Arrogance?
It was nothing but the vices of her nerd. Unlike her others, Shien was a special being, and she deserved to look down on the world.
A dragon does not doubt itself.
She always carefully plans the board and only achieves what she wants based on it. Wasn’t it the virtue of a king she had been educated with since childhood?
Shien, who awakened her dragon blood, was unstoppable.
She had long since disappeared without a trace of her guilt. All that was left was to win the man she loved at all costs.
Shien was taking the first step towards her goal.
Smart.
“Yu, senior Yurdina?”
Gulp, he swallowed, but his trembling voice did not calm down.
As the girl shuddered with her body, she quietly listened to her. Just in case an answer comes back from behind the door.
However, she did not hear anything that brushed her eardrums for a long time.
Let alone the sound of words, even the presence of people was faint. Shien was even more frightened by that fact.
‘Uh, what should I do?’
Her last battle left many lessons to Shien.
The odds of winning are not zero even if your strength is inferior, that you can’t gain anything by holding your breath for the rest of your life, that sometimes you have to give up your flesh to get your bones, and so on.
However, the events of that day did not leave only good legacy. Along with her fortune, Shien inherited debts, and the time to pay those debts was approaching.
Seria’s mother.
In her excitement, Shien killed her mother, her dearest colleague. Even if she had no choice but to do so, she was ethically reprehensible.
Even her opponent is one of the juniors that the man she loves especially cherishes.
It was a situation where the conflict had to be resolved morally and for the sake of the future. So, Shien was waiting for an answer that would not come back with a crying expression on her face as if she were servile.
While endlessly repeating her apology.
“I’m here to apologize… Well, of course, you won’t be angry with me like this! Although it was an inevitable choice to save my life! To fulfill the moral responsibility of killing the senior’s mother…….”
Boom!
However, no matter how much I beg, the only thing that comes back is that kind of noise.
What the hell does that mean?
Does that mean you don’t want to hear any excuses? Or, does it mean that you should turn off your voice because you don’t want to hear it?
Even the ‘dragon eyes’ that Shien boasted about were useless. Because Seria was behind an invisible door.
Eventually Shien had to retrace her vain steps with her dew in the corners of her eyes.
Actually, she knew. The fact that if she doesn’t have ‘dragon eyes’, she has no sense of her own.
There was only one number left.
Being ashamed to ask for advice.
Did she say that she was incurable Xiamen (不恥下問)? Shien went to find his henchman that way.
“Sir Irene!”
With a bang, the female knight’s body trembled before the boss who suddenly opened the door and entered.
But Irene wasn’t the only one who was surprised. Shien also had no choice but to open her eyes wide after seeing Irene’s outfit.
Apron.
For a woman who has lived with only a sword all her life, it was a very homely outfit.
Shien had no choice but to ask with a puzzled look on his face.
“Sir Irene, what are you doing?”
“Ah, that, that… ….”
The gaze of the female knight, who has lost confidence recently, wandered in the air. Looking closely, she was holding a cleaver instead of a sword in her hand.
How deep did Shien’s question go?
Irene immediately closed her eyes and confessed.
“I was thinking of taking a poetry or bridal class… ….”
“…… ?”
Shien’s head tilted involuntarily.
It’s a bridal class.
Didn’t she openly say not too long ago that she married a sword?
However, Shien’s question did not last long. It was because she had more important issues ahead of Irene’s future plans.
“I, Sir Irene… I have a question for you… Mmm, of course I heard it!”
So, Shien began to tell her troubles under the guise of her friend’s story.
She did an irreparable wrong to her precious friend, and since then her friend refuses to see her face. No matter how much she apologizes. She still wants to be forgiven somehow.
What should I do in a situation like this?
Upon hearing her story, Irene swallowed her saliva and pursed her lips.
“At that time, empathy must be important.”
“…… Sympathy?”
It was a more plausible solution than expected. As Shien’s eyes began to glow with anticipation, Irene carefully followed up her advice.
“Yes, empathy. Most of the problems stem from not thinking from her partner’s point of view. So if she could find out what she and her partner have in common, and tell her that she cared enough about her friend, it would soften her heart a lot.”
“Really!”
Convinced by Irene’s logic, Shien moved her steps once again.
Emphasize the fact that, based on what she has in common, she knows her partner well.
Without hesitation, Shien decided to put her advice into practice.
Eh-hum, eh-hum.
Her words of consolation flowed from the mouth of the girl who cleared her throat and collected her emotions.
“Yurdina-senpai, in fact, she understands the feelings of her senior very well. I also lost her mother when I was young… In other words, are we both motherless? How are you, old man? Talking to each other without any fault between people without mothers…… !”
Quang!
Then came back an even more annoying voice than before, and Shien couldn’t help but cry again.
Sir Irene, you are incompetent!
While lamenting my subordinate’s incompetence.
*
Shien had to resort to her last resort.
It was decided to mobilize a ‘special limited edition doll made of Ian’s real clothes’.
The clothes Ian wore were precious. No matter how hard she was, she didn’t want to hand over the work she made with all her heart and soul to someone else, but isn’t this an exceptional emergency?
She had no choice but to accept her sacrifice with tears in her eyes.
Finally, after stroking her doll carefully with her pitiful eyes, Shien carefully left her doll in front of Seria’s door.
“Ah, ah! Here is a special limited edition doll made of Sir Ian’s real clothes! This is strange…….”
Then go undercover.
Shien hid behind a bend in her hallway, watching Seria’s reaction while holding her breath. Praying for her prey to bite her bait.
Did that earnest desire work?
Seria’s door, which had been tightly closed, began to open without a sound. Shien covered her mouth and hid herself, trying to hide the sound of her pounding heart.
Are you thinking of breaking the confinement now?
The gaze of Seria, who slowly appeared, suddenly stopped. She pointed at her doll, who deftly deflected the angle of the door opening.
Hesitating, hesitating, stammering.
I wished she had reached out for her doll like that.
Suddenly, Seria shook her head and kicked her on the floor. The window opened, and the mysterious footwork flew through the air without even passing through the hallway.
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“Uh, uh…… ?”
Shien was taken aback, and hurriedly ran after him. Fortunately, she has ‘dragon eyes’, so there was no difficulty in tracking her.
It was impossible for her to keep up with the woman who was running as if she were flying through the sky.
She ran with all her might, before she knew it, in front of a clearing in the forest.
Shien quickly held her breath and hid her behind a tree. Was seen from afar.
She is a little woman with her back to the moon in the night sky.
A witch holding a smoking pipe with a sad face, scattering her eyes from her light green pupils.
At least as far as Shien knew, there was only one person capable of doing such a thing.
‘The Great Witch’.
Now Shien’s teacher, she welcomed her new guest with her hands behind her back.
A girl with gray hair.
“…… Did you come?”
At that question, Seria avoided her gaze without saying anything. She seemed unsure of her own decision.
The reason the girl came to visit the Archwitch was simple.
“It’s my nephew.”
Because the girl is the last remaining blood of a woman.
A chilly wind blew through her girlish gray hair. The blue eyes that had been hidden within it emerged with a pitiful light.
The season ahead of winter.
One autumn day, the girl decided to decide her own destiny.
*
A few days later.
The girl’s eyes, which had been locked in her closet, radiated for the first time in a long time. The face of the woman who had stayed up all night with her cone hat tightly pressed down was haggard.
Looks like a corpse.
However, those eyes were shining with joy that could not be hidden.
“Okay…… !”
‘Elsie Rainella’, who came from the future, cried out like that and then gnashed her teeth.
“…… Wait, Ian Percus.”
To meet your first love.
It was worth spending a few days and nights, and now the reunion is right around the corner.
The day before the two brothers from the future met.
A means to save those infected from vampires has been discovered.
It was around the time when the leaves were falling.