Episode 13
After he found Linbell’s mother, he planned to deal with the Chimera Magician immediately.
‘It’s strange to find out where he is after less than a day’s arrival in the city.’
Julius, he may have deceived Baron Bellon in the past by saying that he is a family vision or sense, but Allen did not think that such a number would work for the current Baron.
If he were, as Allen thought.
What if I was just pretending to fall for Julius’ excuses by using my incompetence?
‘I’d rather have the excuse that I was lucky enough to find it not long after the search started.’
Allen reversed the idea of leaking elsewhere, thinking of the value she would get if she followed.
‘Is she useful?’
have.
Clearly, her usefulness is greater than accompanying soldiers.
A wizard’s sensing power increases by five times as the hierarchy increases.
Although Allen has a heterogeneously large ring of circles, the range that can activate sensing power around him is only 3 m, while Francisca is a wizard of the 4th order and has a sensing range of 375 m.
Her existence alone creates room for her to be used as a tracker.
‘If, yes.’
While Allen was contemplating, Francisca suddenly approached Linbell and had a conversation.
“Your skin is so clean. Is there a separate way to manage it?”
“Uh, uh… . I do not know.”
“It’s called heredity. I had good parents. How is your mother?”
“yes. Go, thank you… . He, unlike me, is very pretty. But what is heredity? ?”
“Well… . The heredity is… .”
perhaps.
‘It could be the same.’
Allen cleared his mind and answered her.
“Then follow me. Instead, I have a lot of work to do, so I’ll hurry up a bit.”
The fortress wall located at the west gate was quiet because many soldiers had gone out to the village in the morning, and there were not many soldiers.
A situation in which all personnel were moved except for the minimum expenses.
In such a place, Allen was worried that she could be found, but… .
“Prince Allen, is this the woman you were looking for?”
Allen’s worries ended in rain.
There was no need to take Franciska. When we arrived at the west gate, the soldiers were already looking for the woman and taking her.
“Oh, Mom! heh… .”
As soon as Linbell saw the woman the soldiers were carrying, she immediately jumped in.
“Linbell… ?”
She patted Rinbell, who jumped into her arms as she was so confused by the current situation.
The soldiers immediately withdrew as Allen approached.
Then her gaze turned to Allen.
It was a woman who looked only in her early 30s on the outside. She had her purple eyes like Linbell, with black hair running down to her waist, and she had a solid body like Linbell’s horse, a hunter.
She checked the actions of the nearby soldiers and asked carefully.
“Your… ?”
“This is the eldest son of the Reinhardt family, Allen Reinhardt.”
Allen slowly approached. One step, two steps.
As it reached the 3m detection range, the ring of his heart vibrated slightly, and everything within the range was felt.
‘My heart is beating fast, why? Do your thighs gain strength, and your eyes look for an escape route?’
Allen’s presence was quite interesting.
The fact that he raised his daughter by being a hunter alone, or that he is alive unlike before.
However, unlike Allen, who looks interesting, she has been nervous for some reason since he appeared.
The feeling that Young Ji-min is hiding when looking at the nobles.
‘I’m curious, but… .’
But that’s it.
I had no intention of going any deeper to dig it out.
He wasn’t trying to dig up her secret, but to keep it.
“Mom, Confucius helped find you.”
Linbell, who had been in her arms for a while, said softly.
“okay… ?”
“Also, it prevents the soldiers from trying to touch them… . Oh right. I also ate at the mansion… .”
However, no matter how much Linbell spoke, her mother’s expression was still stiff, so she looked closely and closed her mouth.
Allen slowly approached her nervously.
“The tension is… . Even if I tell you not to solve it, it will be of no use.”
Allen laughed, but she didn’t.
“What do you want?”
“Mom!”
“You stay still.”
In the middle, Linbell shouted, but she couldn’t beat her parents. At her words, Linbell bit her mouth again.
“I don’t think Confucius just helped us out of compassion.”
In fact, her thoughts were natural.
Is the count’s eldest son helping the soldiers, even going to the palace himself? Against a girl from a village who has nothing to do with it?
The daughter may have passed because of her naivety, but she wasn’t.
“We don’t know what Confucius wants from us, but we don’t have anything.”
“If you want a body, I will… .”
Linbell shouted again, perhaps not able to bear it this time.
“The Master is not like that. just helped… .”
“Be quiet, Linbell. There is no unpaid favor in the world. Even if they pretend they aren’t, they’re all just getting something invisible.”
Linbell looked dissatisfied with her answer, but she did not look at Linbell.
“impolite!”
The soldier shouted loudly.
“Be careful with your words and actions, Confucius! Who are you talking to… .”
“However… .”
Allen waved his hand once, and the soldier looked up and then closed his mouth.
“Ha, yes. You are right. There is no unpaid favor in the world.”
Allen nodded at her words.
It’s like going back to the past.
There is no unpaid favor. Allen knew that one day he would pay the price of returning to the past.
I just don’t know when that will be.
‘It would be nice if I could delay it until I kill him… .’
I don’t think the world is going to turn out that way.
“But this time it was wrong. No, yes. It has a purpose.”
She nodded as if she had thought so too, and Linbell’s eyes widened in shock.
Surprisingly, Francisco watched the situation quietly.
Is it because it’s not his job?
“I have a maid… .”
“After all, he wanted our mother and daughter’s body… . yes?”
Allen’s expression turned blank for a moment.
Francisca covered her mouth to hold back her laughter, but the corners of her lips twitched like crazy and eventually burst into laughter.
‘Is it the same bloodline? .’
Linbell’s skin turned red as if she remembered what happened yesterday. Then he slipped two steps away.
Her face turned red as if she had understood the situation at that moment.
“Ah, me, that’s, uh… .”
Her eyes fluttered rapidly and she couldn’t speak.
Allen kept his expression from collapsing with superhuman patience and continued.
“Ugh, my purpose is to make you maids.”
Allen gave an answer to the worries he had been having since coming to Hibel.
“yes?”
“You said that you would make all of your mother and daughter your maids.”
Even without Allen’s intervention, history is twisted.
Even though there was no conflict with Julius, Linbell was about to face a difficult situation.
If he hadn’t been around at that time, it was clear that the result would have been disastrous, although the result would be different from before the return.
then.
‘Attract.’
Of course, it will give you options when it comes to intervening in battle or the battlefield.
But I am not sure that the same thing will happen before the return in the future, so I bring it in.
That was his conclusion.
Many disasters in the future.
What if those women who had been left alone die because of the disaster? Then, whose fault is it?
who did not intervene? disaster that happened? A god that may or may not exist?
‘In the end, worries are useless.’
If I had known this was going to happen, I would have just acted like Julius.
However, thanks to these concerns, a standard for how to act in the future has been established.
Whether you act or not, time passes, and the consequences of your choices are unknown.
Are you confident that better results will come just because you do not intervene?
‘No.’
After all, he was not a god, but a human who only knew a little bit about the future.
After all, the Black Book is just a fragment of a different future, isn’t it?
His eyes gleamed brightly.
this moment. There was no change in the hierarchy. But he was convinced that with a little bit of understanding he could achieve new achievements.
‘Understanding the future… .’
He shook his head. For now, let’s talk first.
“We… ?”
Allen felt the need to meditate quickly and spoke strongly to her.
“Then, if I ask you to take Linbell with you, will you allow it?”
Her expression darkened.
“So that’s what I mean. I’m sure they’d be worried, so I just said that I wanted to make both of them my maids. I have no other thoughts.”
“… I, I,”
“I will!”
Linbell immediately agreed to the idea of making her a maid. But she was against it.
“… no!”
“Mom again, why? Confucius, are you a really good person? Even yesterday… .”
Linbell whispered in her ear. As Allen messed up her ceremonial sense and waited, she looked at him with a surprised expression and slapped her daughter once.
“Ouch! what’s the matter!”
“… see you later.”
She glared at her daughter, then walked over to Allen.
She knew from the moment he offered to make her a handmaiden that it was a proclamation, not an invitation.
There was no way he could refuse the invitation of the nobleman, and even his words, who would become the future ruler of this land.
Judging from the fact that he spoke nominally in the nature of a request, we can only guess that he has a pretty good personality.
but… He wished that every act he had heard from her daughter was his nature.
She thought deeply about something, and then raised her head as if she had made a decision.
“I, Enelia and my daughter Linbell… . I will become Confucius’s handmaiden. instead… .”
She came over and whispered a little.
“Even if you touch me, please don’t touch my daughter.”
Because I don’t think so.
Allen replied as it was, not even thinking of correcting it because of his troubled heart.
“Yes, I do.”
He hadn’t yet found a way to get his brother back, but he had no intention of falling into a foolish mourning.
If it was all over, I might have thought about it for a moment.
‘I wonder if that day will come.’
“… Yes, thank you for listening.”
After watching the series of situations to the end, Francisco looked at Allen with an ambiguous expression. It was clear that he had heard whispers.
Allen ignored her gaze and spoke to them.
“Enelia, Linbell. First of all, I’ll give you a room, so let’s unpack there. Maid education… . I will start when I return to the estate, so you know.”
Taking a commoner as a handmaiden would have been an unimaginable choice before, but he didn’t mind.
In the future, he will not only put under his control all the power that might reach the quarterfinals of the continent, but his mother also wanted him to hire a maid, so he will support him.
Allen immediately approached Francisca, her, and thanked her.
“Miss Franciska, thank you for coming along.”
“… No, it didn’t help much.”
“Thank you for playing the role of insurance for the just in case.”
Allen bowed slightly and turned around.
I needed to sort out the inspiration and thoughts that just came to me.
“… But, Confucius over there.”
“sorry. I am busy.”
After saying hello, I attached a soldier and sent Linbell and Enelia to the room of the mansion, and then immediately moved to the room of the nearby inn.
“Come on, hey… !”
“Any single room, right now.”
“Yes, yep! Here it is.”
In the middle, the innkeeper trembled and dropped the key once, but Allen didn’t care and immediately took the key and went into the room and sat down.
Until he entered the inn, Francisca stared at his back with an unknown smile.
until he disappears.