Small Distortion – 6
The way back to the castle was much quieter than the way out.
I didn’t have time to talk because my head was complicated in many ways, thinking about what the last feeling of discomfort might have been, and Inerma was walking while humming a song that was so exciting.
Apart from that, the empty eye sockets and the dark background overlapped, giving it a creepy appearance in many ways.
I didn’t say anything, but Inerma didn’t really want to continue the conversation, so naturally, her steps got faster and faster. When we came to our senses, we had arrived at the castle before we knew it.
Inerma bowed her head in the exact direction I was facing.
“Thank you for sticking with me today, new driver.”
“Thank you. It was nice to get some fresh air at night for the first time in a while.”
To be honest, my head was a bit cluttered thinking about what had happened in the forest, but I decided not to say it. I wanted to avoid suspecting a living person without solid evidence.
“I’ll just go in. I’m getting sleepy now.”
“okay. I’ll go to sleep as soon as I get in.”
As I was about to part ways after a formal conversation, Inerma called me to stop me.
“And the knight. The driver is probably going to sleep a little later today.”
“It seems like I’m going to sleep late, all of a sudden, what’s that—”
“newcomer!”
What.
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My body stiffened at the sound of a voice echoing through the hallway from behind me. It was Rize with nothing to look at. Rize came to my side in an instant, scattering ice shards everywhere.
Then it clung to my right arm and growled cutely at Inerma. It doesn’t look threatening at all. It was close to the feeling of just watching a cat or dog struggling.
“Hello, Knight Rize. What a night.”
But whether or not it was like that, Inerma greeted me with a smile as usual. He must have recognized all the emotions from the tone of his voice, so it’s not like he didn’t know what kind of expression Rize would have.
“… … Where did the two of you go at this late hour?”
It was a voice full of caution.
“I went out for a night walk with a new driver.”
“walk? Was that really all there was?”
“Sure. The driver watched everything from afar, so you know, right?”
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My head jerked at Inerma’s words. Rize had her eyes wide open and looked very surprised.
“… … You watched everything? Rize?”
“yes. From the time we first left the castle until now.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“You hid from us and secretly followed us. I was wondering if there was any reason for that.”
“… … .”
Rize ‘How did you get caught?’ He had his mouth wide open with a smile on his face. After throwing a bombshell between us, Inerma said, “Goodnight then.” He left the words and left.
In the hallway of the castle, only a pair of men and women who had frozen in a daze were left.
“… … I thought you hid well.”
“Is that your first time?”
These were the first words Rize uttered after standing there blankly for a while.
I wasn’t mad at Rize for following us either. I just felt an absurd feeling. She didn’t really want to accept an apology, and Rize seemed to know that well.
Besides, I was in an ambiguous position to get angry. I know that all these actions are because of love for me, but how can I do that? If you don’t cross the line, you should just look at it as aegyo and move on.
“So, why did I tail you?”
Of course that is that and this is this. I deliberately asked as if questioning.
“No, I couldn’t help it either. I see you and that kid going out of the castle together, how can you leave them alone?”
Rize answered confidently. Embarrassed, I relaxed my expression slightly.
“I thought it was just going for a walk, so I could just pass it on. What are you following?”
“You know what they’re going to do when you leave a man and a woman out late at night alone? Are you sane now, newbie?”
“Are you insane, that sounds like something I should say. What do you usually think about? Is that the only thing in your head?”
No matter how much it is said that all the women’s clothes boast extreme exposure due to the influence of the mode, this is not a world where the concept of chastity is destroyed like the world of 19-karat gold yagem.
One of the women’s fashions that can be easily found on the street right now is a dress with only a pair of shirts and panties, but even when people see a woman wearing such a dress on the street, they ignore it.
Before the mod was applied, it would have been just plain cloth or leather clothes, not naked shirts. It means that a woman is overflowing with sexual desire and cannot control exposure.
It’s just that Rize is weird by herself.
“Then isn’t it?”
“Of course not.”
“Prove it.”
“yes?”
Before I had time to use my hands, I was grabbed by Rize’s wrist and dragged outside, and under the name of a night walk, Rize and I walked around the city until the morning sun rose.
Seeing Rize’s expression as she returned to the castle, I thought that this was what she was aiming for from the beginning.
The day after that noisy night walk, the girl quietly bid farewell to the Knights of the Silver Dawn.
Iris and Erica said they could stay any longer, but they quietly refused as they had no reason to stay here any longer.
Since the emperor had already said that he had achieved his goal, it was only right that he return immediately.
The girl wrapped herself in a piece of cloth and left the knights just like when she first came here. Instead, she had washed the cloth clean while in the castle, so she looked a little better than before.
After walking and walking deep into a mountain, the girl threw off the cloth covering her body. She was naked, not wearing a single thread.
He breathed magic into the cloth he threw away. Then, the cloth floated up on its own and began to wrap itself around the body, and soon it changed into the leather clothes it was originally wearing.
A top that sticks to your body and reveals your weak figure as it is, a hoodie that covers your head completely, and extremely short leather pants that are only the size of a finger.
The artifact used to turn the clothes into cloth was hung again on the neck.
The girl listened to the sounds around her for a while, as she did last time, and after confirming that no one was there, she activated the artifact hanging from her neck.
A magic circle was drawn under the girl’s feet. Along with the pillar of light that appeared immediately, the girl’s body disappeared somewhere, and the magic circle disappeared as soon as the girl’s body disappeared.
“Did you come?”
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Moving to the imperial palace in a blink of an eye, the girl knelt down in the direction of the voice, put her palms on the floor, and bowed her head deeply.
Emperor Cacilia. He was someone he had to absolutely obey.
“Did you find the person you were looking for?”
But this time there was another voice. As soon as the girl heard the voice, she stiffened and stopped moving. Golden eyes stared down at the unmoving girl.
“It is indeed so. I finally found what I was looking for.”
“Hmm, okay? If you react like that, you must be a really nice person. I wonder who it might be.”
“Would you like to check? I can guarantee you that you will never regret it.”
“I will not specify. Then, once.”
A voice filled with a lofty and mysterious feeling, different from that of Caicilia, snapped her fingers slightly. The girl, who had been lying on the floor, jerked her head up.
In the two pupils that should have been empty, the mysterious ultramarine-colored eyes shone brightly.
The eyes were the same color as the voice next to Caicilia.
“Oh?”
How much time had passed, the tail of the horse raised a little as if slightly surprised. Seeing that, the emperor opened his mouth in triumph.
“Didn’t Jim tell you? I can guarantee you that you won’t regret it either.”
“Hmm, that’s for sure. Ira, who amplified the amount of mana so much in that moment… … Quite interesting. The absolute numbers themselves aren’t much, but that’s not what’s important.”
The ultramarine blue light that overflowed from his eyes went out. The girl returned to her black pupils with wide eyes and lowered her head. The owner of ultramarine blue eyes snapped his fingers again.
Then the girl’s body turned blue, scattered with mana and gathered at the voice.
The girl was not human from the beginning, but something made of magic. Even so, it is so sophisticated and human-like that no one in the Knights of the Silver Dawn notices it.
The fact that the girl, despite being blind, was accepted without any discomfort at all was because of the special magic applied to her body.
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Magic that slightly distorts the cognitive abilities of those around you.
“To the extent of recovering the mana you used, did you like it that much?”
“I was interested. In order to further improve this magic, he is also trying to study it together. It’s been a while since I’ve had to go to the Magic Tower, not the Great Library.”
The woman with ultramarine blue eyes said that, and with a small wave of her fingers, she drew a magic circle on the floor. Soon, the magic circle was completed, and a pillar of light wrapped around the woman’s body.
“However, there is something I must tell you.”
The transmission stopped at the words of Caicilia. Mysteriously colored eyes returned to Caicilia.
“I wouldn’t mind paying attention to that guy. I was like that, and I thought you were too.”
Golden eyes flared up.
“However, if you care more about it than I do, Jim will never sit idly by. Be mindful, Minerva.”
The woman called Minerva did not seem at all frightened by the emperor’s stern warning. With a bewitching smile, she disappeared into the pillar of light with the last word.
“Don’t worry, stop being jealous. I have no intention of doing that.”
Soon the pillar of light faded, and the magic circle also disappeared.
Caicilia stared at the spot where Minerva had disappeared for a while, her golden eyes still glowing, then turned around.