115 – Drawing tomorrow once again
It was around the age of 8 that I felt something strange.
Today is my 15th birthday, so it means that I neglected Priscilla again for 7 years.
So, I thought that I deserved to be criticized as a liar or an idiot.
I sat on the sofa with Priscilla in her arms.
And then he touched the corners of her eyes as tears appeared.
“Will you forgive me?”
“….”
Nod.
Priscilla seemed to be choking from the tears that kept flowing, and gave her answer by slightly nodding her head.
Unlike before, I felt very glad to see that the specifications had disappeared.
“Oh, what happened…?” “Is it right?”
Priscilla asked in a slightly quiet voice.
I looked back on my memories with a slightly calmer mood and began to see the changes that had happened to us.
“The old woman showed us a continent that lives well even without magic. “Once we got our own answer from him, he probably sent it to Dratus.”
“This world is because of that Dratus…” .”
“I guess that’s what it is.”
The Guardian has regained his strength.
So, the threat to this planet has been resolved.
I think it would be okay to judge it that way.
“Then, the reason I’ve been losing my memories until now is probably because I had a problem with my mana.”
“That will happen.”
Even though I possessed the fleeting fragment until the end, confusion came to my memory.
It may be a temporary side effect caused by the mana in our bodies draining away.
The mana of the sun and the dark mana of Oesin.
As that power leaves our bodies, our memories become as confused as before.
Mana is a power that comes from the soul.
“Now that I think about it, I heard that no children with divine powers have been born since seven years ago.”
“I guess that’s all due to Dratus’ influence.”
After saying that, I looked at Priscilla blankly.
“That’s fascinating.”
I reached out to Priscilla’s face, which was a mess with tears.
“I obviously have no memory, but I feel like I was looking for you unconsciously.”
When I heard the word Arbest County, my heart sank.
When I looked at the blue sky, I felt somewhat faint.
When I saw amethyst, my eyes were taken as if I was fascinated, and when summer came, my eyes were strangely caught by sunflowers.
When I told that story, Priscilla smiled softly and looked at me.
“That was the reason I came here.”
Is that why he acted awkwardly for a moment?
“The sight of Maximilian getting hurt from falling from a horse kept flashing through her mind, and she felt like her heart was being squeezed. I must go, I must go… In that impulse….”
Priscilla also had a similar experience as me, she says.
As she sat in the flower bed tending her flowers, her eyes kept falling on the yellow freesia.
For some reason, the red thread kept getting caught in her eyes, and when she climbed the hill where the sunflowers were blooming in the summer, she said that tears kept flowing.
“I wonder if the red thread of fate really exists.”
As I said that, I grabbed Priscilla’s hand and clasped it.
They pledged to be engaged twice and woven red threads into each other’s hands.
Once we were cut off in that strange dungeon of Soleil, perhaps we still had one chance left.
“There are many things… “It’s changed.”
“A lot has changed.”
My mother and my younger sister Leah are alive.
He became a brother who competed in good faith with Dior, and he also developed a good relationship with his mother, Empress Lynette.
Floods in the southern region were prevented, and since no one with divine powers has been born in the past seven years, the Ministry of Sanitation is working across the empire on a larger scale than before.
The number of people who lose their lives due to infectious diseases will be much lower than what we experienced.
“The Marchioness of Wellston….”
“You live so far away in the countryside that news is slow, Priscilla.”
When Priscilla heard the words ‘my little corner’, she smiled brightly, as if she had heard something nostalgic.
I don’t think it’s the kind of smile I would show to a troubled person who insults my territory.
“Due to the exchange meeting, Kyle and Ludwig came to live in the island. It’s not possible to go back and forth between territories and islands every time, right? As a result, the wives of both families also ended up staying in the system.”
“Ah….”
You can’t let a child who isn’t even 10 years old live alone in the system, right?
So, naturally, the two wives ended up staying in the system.
Nowadays, the Ministry of Health conducts health check-ups every half year, so there is no need for the Marquess of Wellston to contract an illness of unknown cause.
If you think that the people who went on a rampage in the Garden of Thorns as if possessed by something were all influenced by that foreign media—
‘We can conclude that there are no longer any risk factors.’
The story is that we have finally regained peace.
“Is everything over?”
“I guess I’ll have to check that one by one from now on. “Will you join us?”
“Yes, of course…” .”
Just as this miracle happened to us, there may be something lacking somewhere.
That may be a problem that only we who have memories of the previous world can find out.
There are still problems left in this world that need to be solved.
But now, I purely wanted to enjoy this happiness together.
With that in mind, it was the moment she stretched out her hand to Priscilla.
“What are you doing now, brother!”
A sound of screaming was heard from somewhere.
It was a moment when I had a feeling that, unlike the previous world, it would become difficult to truly enjoy this happiness.
***
After seeing Priscilla off, I was immediately subjected to an interrogation that was not an interrogation due to Lia’s taunt.
I, Maximilian, have been treating women like stones until now.
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But how could he spend nearly an hour alone with a young lady he had never seen before?
Did she like her?
Such questions kept coming back and forth.
Then, naturally, I told her mother that I liked her.
Then her mother clapped her hands, her eyes lit up, and she smiled and asked me to please meet her child named Priscilla.
Thanks to this, Priscilla was brought to the Biryonggwan again.
“Hmm, Miss Priscilla of Count Arvest?”
“Yes, Your Majesty….”
My mother is a gentle woman who looks as if she will fly away somewhere when the wind blows.
But she is also the empress of the empire.
Perhaps that was why Priscilla felt even stiffer than usual.
Tingling.
And I thought that it had a lot to do with Leah sitting next to me, eating cookies and glaring at Priscilla.
You are actually fighting 2-1, so you must be tired in many ways.
“This is the first time Max has reacted this way to someone of the opposite s*x, so I wanted to find out what kind of person he is. “Could it have been rude?”
Her mother always had a gentle smile on her face.
But she felt a strangely strong power in that question.
Isn’t it because he is wary of his son, who doesn’t know women, being obsessed with women?
It was a strange resoluteness that made me think that way.
“No, Your Majesty.”
Priscilla glanced at me and changed her expression.
It was an expression that reminded me of the first time I met him.
“hehehehe, that’s a good thing.”
After saying this to her mother, she leisurely drank her teacup.
It was a truly fleeting moment, lasting less than a second.
The moment her face was covered by the teacup, Mother looked Priscilla up and down.
If she hadn’t been constantly watching her mother, it was a gaze she would never have noticed.
Even though she always smiles, she is the empress of the empire.
It was the moment when I realized that.
“Your Highness asked me about the County of Arvest. So, as we talked, the topic of gardening naturally came up.”
“Oh my, is that so?”
She was the first to show interest in a different sense to her mother.
She said, “She said that she would support me as I stay here in the archipelago in her outskirts, and that Her Highness would give me Phrygia as a gift. Her consideration was so dazzling….”
Priscilla trailed off for the first time there.
Then he glanced at me as if he was looking at me.
Priscilla’s cheeks gently heated up.
Is it acting or sincerity? .
Even I was confused.
“Oh my, my….”
How did your mother feel about that?
He is truly a great guy.
She truly looks like my fiancee, who was once in the dark.
However, there were some who felt that Priscilla was not the right choice.
Kwajakkwajak.
Raised by her father, Lia was a bit of a cocky girl.
I am a guest invited by my mother, the empress.
So, it is rude to open your mouth carelessly.
It seemed like he had at least some common sense, but he couldn’t seem to hide his displeasure.
Oh, my little brother.
My younger brother, I am more worried than Dior.
I’m not that new to your age group, you guy.
My mother looked at Leah who was making a fuss for a moment.
“Lia~?”
Gulp.
“Uppup!”
My mother is scary when she’s angry.
She was Lia, who knew that better than anyone else.
“Tsk. “Eat a little more slowly.”
I patted Lia on the back and put some cool, easy-to-drink tea into her mouth.
“Huh. Yes….”
Lia wriggled as if she was truly sorry.
That only applies to your father or that Dior guy, you guy.
What do you think this brother is?
“hehehehe.”
Priscilla looked at me and Leah, then she covered her mouth and she giggled and she started laughing.
She then bowed her head slightly, as if she had violated rudeness.
“I’m sorry, Your Highness.”
“It is done. “This guy was wrong from the beginning.”
I said that and pressed Lia’s head.
“Re, it’s against etiquette to treat a lady’s hair carelessly like this, brother… !”
Leah waved her hand and she tried to hit my hand away.
But when I tried to remove her hand, she gently pulled my hand to prevent me from removing it.
He was truly a troublesome guy.
But with a guy like this around, the atmosphere in the room becomes calmer.
Before I knew it, my mother had let down her guard towards Priscilla, and she began a conversation about gardening, which she loved.
It felt like Priscilla was being handed a necklace of her acceptance by her mother.
‘It’s a necklace…’ .’
Now that I think about it, the necklace that Priscilla always wears is missing.
It was the first gift I received, and it was something I always cherished.
We must try to retrieve what was lost to the extent that the evil being does not threaten this world.
Thinking like that, I lifted my teacup.