Episode 23
The news that Baron Farne had escaped turned the mansion upside down.
The guards then received additional training in addition to discipline, and the number and frequency of patrolling the mansion increased.
However, as in all cases, after a few days, the mansion regained its usual atmosphere as if something serious had happened.
Rather, the ball of Allen and Julius, who could be said to have been buried because of the incident, spread to the estate later, and their evaluation increased even more.
Julius’s notoriety of being a fool has changed a little more, and Allen’s name has risen little by little.
Allen was called by his father and went to his office.
Behind him were neither Linbell nor Enelia.
They followed him to a minimum, and all the rest of the time was busy getting her education as a maid.
“ah! older brother!”
As he was heading from his room to his office, someone called him from the other side of the hallway and approached him. There was only one person in the mansion who called Allen his brother.
Allen greeted him with a broad smile.
“older brother.”
Julius approached him with a smile as if he had been looking for him.
A few days ago, he heard that Allen had complained to his father, hoping that Julius’s tribute would be reduced by his father’s escape from the mansion.
After hearing the news, he began to look at Allen more favorably.
“Brother, I heard from Reina late. I told my father that he came to see if my balls would decrease… .”
At first, I thought he was only a third-class extra or a competitor. It still hasn’t changed.
But now, to the extent that it influences his thoughts a little, Allen was kind to him.
“No, of course it had to be done. Are you not my only brother?”
Allen smiled and looked at Julius.
has anything changed?
‘You’ve become more proficient in manipulating magic.’
Now, the magic that was leaking out of it was clearly pale.
‘The momentum has changed.’
Before heading to Hibel, I was a little certain that I would win, but I wasn’t sure I would surpass him now.
Then what about art? How advanced is swordsmanship?
‘… A little would be fine.’
Allen pretended to walk forward and stepped into his realm.
Julius did not respond. Is this not enough? then?
stretched out his hand to him.
Pretending to tap on his shoulder, he doesn’t use magic power. Does that make the intention clear?
So, he still has a microscopic life that he can’t clearly discern.
“By the way, Julius. Are you feeling a little better?”
As his hand was about to touch his shoulder, his body trembled. Unconsciously, he lowered his hand to his waist, and then hurriedly shrugged his shoulders.
with a bang!
“ah… .”
As Allen withdrew his hand pretending to be indifferent to his reaction, Julius looked at Allen for a moment with eyes full of vigilance.
Allen watched his actions carefully.
‘My feet have already moved. Does your left hand look for a sword?’
He had changed to a low posture just before he drew his sword.
“… Julius?”
But when Allen looked at him with a puzzled face, Julius quickly changed his expression and smiled awkwardly.
“no. older brother. Not long after my first battle… I think he was sensitive.”
“Well, it could be.”
When Allen willingly passed, Julius looked around Allen in a hurry, with a questionable expression on his face.
But Allen is completely unarmed.
He didn’t use any magic power, and he didn’t take a special pose.
As Allen started walking forward normally, Julius thought it was an illusion, relaxed slightly and followed him.
“These days, Julius, you seem to be busy preparing something.”
“Yeah, I plan on moving right after I get some rest.”
“Dungeon? or relics? Or is it subjugation?”
“It is a relic.”
Allen asked him with casual, flowing words.
“Ancient ruins are not easy to find, and even if they do, it would be difficult to explore… Is there any way?”
“Of course there is… It doesn’t go away.”
Julius forcibly stopped answering his question.
“Well, then, isn’t that a story that could be in vain?”
“Haha, no. We have found a possible location for the ruins in the family tome.”
“… From the family tome?”
Allen held back a laugh.
Where did you find such information in the family’s tome? He had read all the old books of the family for the purpose of researching magic before he returned.
However, although there were books that metaphorically point to the ruins in their contents, there were no clues to trace the location of the ruins within the counties.
“Yeah, so I’m going to give it a try. Well… .”
Julius thought for a moment, then asked him a question.
“… Would you like to follow me too? If we succeed in exploring the ruins, we will reward you enough.”
Julius seemed to be confident that he would succeed in the exploration of the ruins, and he spoke out in a tone of great confidence.
Gavia signed Byron.
So, I was planning to take this opportunity to visit the ruins, take care of the company, and spread the reputation in earnest.
So I thought that adding one more person would not harm Julius.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can.”
Allen had no intention of following Julius.
“… Are you?”
Julius asked him why with a bewildered face.
I wish I could follow him now.
You can get a few ancient artifacts, and hopefully you can get some magic books about souls, spaces, and contracts that are no longer progressing.
so?
“I am going to go to a quiet place in a few days, as I am facing an important turning point in magic right now. So, unfortunately, we have to put it off until next time.”
That’s it.
How can I jump over him while picking up and eating the crumbs spilling next to him?
I felt a lot in this battle of Hibel.
The future is variable and not definitive. A lot will depend on how you act.
Obviously, it’s important to make friends with him.
It was more important to lay the foundation on which to stand up on your own.
He didn’t seem to think he would be rejected.
Why, did you know that you would follow everything he told you to do? Like the servants of the mansion, like the soldiers, praising by your side?
Allen swallowed a laugh, and his expression clouded with a sad expression on his face.
“If it wasn’t for now, I would have followed… .”
“Yeah, what… . Then there is nothing you can do.”
He really seemed to think that his relationship with Allen wasn’t that bad.
because you’re a brother? Or was it because he was treated favorably?
Allen responded as if he was sincere in his answer.
“sorry. I will make sure to go together next time.”
Allen has his attitude like that.
“Yeah, what. If it’s a hardship in training, there’s nothing you can do about it. Still, it would be nice if we went together, but it’s a pity.”
Of course, the attitude of thinking of his body as his own in regards to the subject that took over his younger brother’s body.
“So do I.”
“then… Please come to me when your training is over this time. I’ll give you a relic. Is there anything late?”
It was really disgusting.
“Haha, that would be great.”
to the point of being nauseous.
Allen still looked at him with an impeccably bright smile.
As usual.
“Julius, your fiancée is here.”
In the office where Allen and Julius were standing next to each other, my father spit it out like that.
Julius asked with a puzzled face, but his father’s characteristic hard face didn’t change in the slightest. Seeing that, Julius asked.
“My fiance… Are you saying you have come?”
Father nodded.
“okay. The message came this morning that it will arrive… I’ll be there in a little while. and… .”
My father wiped his eyes as if thinking about something, and stopped at the sound of a knock on the door.
“… to come in.”
When he allowed him in, one of the housekeepers came in and opened his mouth quickly.
“The carriage of the noble family has arrived.”
Upon hearing the news, the father got up from his seat and told Julius and him.
“Julius, you follow, Allen, you… . No, we’ll find out in a little bit. If you want to follow me, follow me.”
“I am okay. It’s been a long time since I’ve been here, but I can’t be bothered.”
I don’t know how it will end.
He remembered his fiancee, who would soon break up. He was on good terms with his younger brother until he became an asshole.
‘I’m sorry, but I can’t help it.’
“Then do what you want.”
After the father had said those words, he and Julius went out to meet his fiancee. Allen looked back at them and turned around.
“I’m a fiancee… .”
Maybe it’s because I just heard about my fiancee?
He pulled out an old photo album he had buried in his memory before returning home.
Rachel Granaf.
She was too much of a woman for herself.
Yeah, when was it? It had been about half a year since I started researching whether I had just been locked up in search of a magic to save her brother.
That day too, he was stuck in the library.
He clenched his teeth and opened the magic book.
Feeling desperate for research that is not progressing.
Showing his inferiority complex to his younger brother and other lowly talents.
The research yielded no results, and someone knocked on the door when he was trying to win a low mental victory.
As usual, it must have been the servant who brought the meal, and when I shouted “Come in”, it was she who saw it.
she came
“You, what are you doing here?”
Distorted ARMY and frowned at what made him so angry. With all her ivory hair, which she had always boasted about was a pretty color, she asked him.
At that time he was insane.
All kinds of emotions were entangled like filth, and I couldn’t figure it out myself.
Normally, I would have accepted her concerns. What was the problem that day?
“Why are you here? How long will you cling to such useless research? other people worry… .”
“I!”
He couldn’t handle the rage that filled his body, and he poured out his emotions on her.
I couldn’t quite remember what he said.
I just vomited out. I just want to say I’m sorry.
She listened to him to the end and turned around and went away.
From that day on, my relationship with her became weaker. To be precise, she was right to say that she was locked up in herself.
I think I was just expressing my anger towards her, so I guess I’m obsessed with useless research as she said. She didn’t have the courage to face her.
So, time passed.
Not much time has passed since she left. But he slowly rotted away.
“Don’t stay like this, let’s talk!”
She came over and over again.
“You are listening there! Come out now!”
Once a week.
“please… . Talk to me… .”
Once a month.
“If you can’t see me now, you’ll never see me again… . I mean I didn’t see it. Are you really not coming?”
“… … .”
When those visits were reduced to once every few months, she sobbed for the first time.
“I mean, you want me… .”
The words he had been sobbing had turned into begging.
He couldn’t say anything. He tried to leave whenever she came. But, suddenly, his world is a small room in the mansion.
Trapped in that one cell and transformed into an ugly figure, she couldn’t be confident to face her.
I just had to spit out this one word.