(EP.212)# 2
212 – Prophet #2
Aira’s room was generally bright.
The scorching heat of summer was pouring in through the wide open windows, including the chandelier shining from the ceiling.
But the air was cooler and quieter than necessary.
“You guys, who told you to come in as you please? This is the queen’s palace. Can’t you come back?”
Lily, the servant with a black cloth covering her face, made a loud noise that made her skin tingle.
I felt suspicious at the volume of her voice that I couldn’t even believe that Aira was lying in the bed next to it.
Shh.
Then Elgar stepped forward and pushed the servant to the bed.
“What are you saying, little one? stay out of the way Do you know who I am?”
Soon, he grabs the shoulder of Aira, who is sleeping in bed with a drowsy expression, and shakes him, but it was clear that the only person in the world who could deal with Aira so ignorantly was probably Elgar.
“Hey, wake up. What are you sleeping all day? I didn’t attend all the events that took place today.”
“… … .”
Ira didn’t respond. If you talk while shaking like that, it would be normal for people who are in a deep sleep to twitch their eyebrows or toss and turn.
Like a princess who has bitten a poisonous apple, the queen is just quietly, unmoving, and breathing evenly.
“Why doesn’t he wake up like this?”
Elgar tilted her head slightly as if she felt suspicious, and Mirna, who had been watching it quietly, stepped forward.
She puts her hand on the forehead of the sleeping queen Aira and gives her a rather serious expression.
“Somehow, it doesn’t seem like a normal sleep. It’s completely magical.”
“You mean this sleep can be a curse or some kind of magic?”
“I do not know. There are some things I don’t know about Queen Tarantera’s magic and shamanism. But what I can be sure of is that mere physical contact won’t wake you up.”
“really?”
Elgar frowned as if in disbelief.
Then, as if he had made up his mind to do something, he slapped Aira’s face with the palm of his hand. No matter how much I looked at it, I couldn’t help but hold my breath.
“Hey, are you really kidding me? Wake up?”
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No matter how close Elgar is, isn’t that an act of crossing the line? I was nervous for a while because I thought that Aira might be angry. The tension soon began to turn into a strange worry.
Because Aira didn’t wake up.
“Hey, when did this happen?”
The look on Elgar’s face when she asked the servant was so serious that she had never seen it before. That cool feeling made my spine shiver for nothing.
It was as if I was reminded of Elgar at the time of killing people and getting blood in the court. It was only in this arc that he was acting like a gentle cat, but in fact, Elgar is a lion that kills people.
With that power, it seems that even the most arrogant servant Lily couldn’t help it. The boy immediately trembled under the black cloth and spoke softly.
“Oh, I tried to wake you up this morning, but I didn’t wake up… .”
“What do you mean? from this morning? Why didn’t you tell me about such an urgent matter?”
“… … .”
The servant shut his mouth. Perhaps she couldn’t stand it, but Elgar put her hand up and slapped the servant’s cheek.
Pak-.
It makes a dull sound that doesn’t sound like someone slapped on the cheek. However, Lily, the servant, flew to the floor and collapsed, but did not even scream.
“… … .”
just trembling Elgar grabbed Lily’s collar and lifted it up.
“Ira is the queen of Angmar. Don’t you know that if something happens to him, the very existence of the kingdom will be in danger? Is one of the servants trying to keep this big thing a secret?”
Elgar’s anger was justified.
Simply leaving her cousin, Ira is the queen of a country. The Queen has fallen into a deep sleep that she doesn’t know the cause and can’t wake up. Are you trying to control it from the beginning to the end?
Even if it was me who hid that fact, Elgar must have put her cheeks up like that and used violence. Because it’s such a serious matter.
Is there anyone who can disagree with Elgar in such a state of anger?
“Lady Lioness, the important thing right now is to understand Queen Tarantera’s condition more than that. It’s best to calm down first. And, you might be more fortunate to have kept things a secret.”
there was.
“Mirna, do you really need to oppose for the sake of opposition in this situation?”
“If you understand what I have just said, then, Lioness, I think I will be very disappointed with you this time.”
Excited Elgar, and calm Mirna. Their attitude was clear.
Elgar licked her lips as if she had something to say, then immediately threw the servant who was holding the collar away with all her might. Lily, the servant, fell into the corner as it was, maintaining a deadly stillness.
Mirna said to the servant Lily.
“How many people know about this?”
“I only know the people here. You don’t have to tell everyone that Tarantera isn’t waking up. Because the Queen must always be in perfect shape… .”
“Whatever the cause, it would be a panic out of control if this happened. First of all, I think it would be better to bury it within our control.”
Mirna’s opinion was quite reasonable. I don’t know what effect Aira’s condition will have if it spreads around the world. In other words, it is like an embargo.
“First of all, let’s try to solve it on our own line. Then everything will go back to normal as if nothing had happened.”
However, Elgar objected to Mirna’s opinion.
“That’s the opinion of Draco people who like to bury. What if you keep it a secret and then something big happens? What if it was a problem that went beyond the line we were going to solve?”
In a way, Elgar’s opinion was correct. Something that might be buried and missed the golden hour. There are many things where it is not a good idea to cover it up.
“Mirna, you are wrong.”
“no-.”
Soon there was a sharp disagreement.
Both of them are correct, so it seems that neither of them has any intention of bending over. I just looked at Ira lying peacefully. I slept well as if I had forgotten the noisy world.
Shrimp, Shrimp.
Are you having such a good dream that you don’t want to wake up? Now that I look at it, it’s very slightly, but raising the corners of my mouth seems to make me smile.
“… … .”
After all, there are a lot of people in the world who raise their voices and frown like this. It might be happiness for Aira that it doesn’t happen like this.
Is it because of me? When I said that I was quitting… , no, I guess that’s too self-conscious.
“Both of you stop.”
I made up my mind to calm down the noisy young girls.
“Stop it now.”
When I opened my mouth, who had been keeping my mouth shut for a long time, Mirna and Elgar both closed their eyes and turned their heads away from each other reluctantly.
I told Mirna first.
“Mirna, could you please tell me what happened to this sleep and if there is any way to wake me up?”
Mirna is a dark priest.
Is there anyone I know better suited to work on the mind than her?
“If Aira-sama doesn’t wake up like this, no one knows what kind of impact it will have on the Draco family. It’s good to take this opportunity to create debt.”
At my words, Mirna nodded reluctantly, saying, “Really, Queen Tarantera is so good at making people uncomfortable.”
“I tell you in advance, Sir Tae-oh, but the price for this work will be very high.”
“And Elgar-sama.”
“Why me. I can’t do that. You know it too.”
“Elgar-sama, there must be a place you need to go with me. There may come a time when you have to do what Elgar is good at. It’s better not to come.”
Elgar, who was leaning her back against the wall at my words, raised one eyebrow.
“What?”
“First, we need to find someone.”
* * *
After coming to this arc, Aira had been sleeping a lot. I felt puzzled and doubtful at the sight, but on the other hand, there were times when I thought like this.
Originally, Aira had a tendency to sleep a lot, and it was only after she got out of the court and arrived at the Ark, I wondered if she had to push her back to sleep.
Because I can’t sleep because of various activities at the court.
However, that thought was corrected when Aira lost consciousness due to acute sleep. Whatever it was, Ira had a problem.
“Isn’t it possible that I can’t wake up like this forever?”
Elgar, who was walking along the road, crawled the word into her mouth. Next to us, something blooms in the darkened night sky.
it’s a firecracker
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Now it’s really like a festival.
Elgar said without a moment’s time to fall into emotion.
“The curse that killed my older brothers and sisters has now come to Ira. Even a child must not be able to wake up like this.”
“It could be. But, it may not be too late.”
The place I went to was a guesthouse built for guests, on the outskirts of Ark. According to the schematic that Balaan gave me, this is correct… .
maybe that one?
An old building with an impressive blue tin roof and rusty concrete walls. There seems to be a sign, but it fell off and I can’t recognize it.
Still, it seems that the “House of Happiness” I was looking for is right.
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Contrary to the optimistic name, it is a cheap building that does not have a lot of air conditioning, so poor workers do not stay here.
There were a lot of empty bowls around. I thought maybe it was something that contained animal food. Are the eye lights shining everywhere a cat?
“Why are you here? It’s kind of creepy.”
I simply answered Elgar’s question as he rubbed his arms against each other.
“I have someone to meet. I never thought we would meet so soon.”
In a house with a total of 8 households, there is only one room in the far left corner of the second floor that contains people. Climbing up the rusty creaking stairs, I reached the corner and knocked on the door.
“Guide, I know you are here. We have a story to tell, so let’s talk for a moment.”
“Guide?”
Elgar doesn’t know who this guy is. After all, the only person this guy approached was Aira. This man once approached Aira and said:
I know why Aira’s family lost their lives one by one.
If the strange sleep that Aira is suffering from right now is related to it—
This man must have known about it, and he must have known a solution to it.
The only problem is that this guy has too many variables. I wanted to approach it after I was more fully prepared. I can’t help it because of the situation.
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Can I control him?
Of course, I had what could be called his ‘weakness’. Still, there are so many variables that I can’t say for sure. So said.
“Elgar-sama, if something happens that you can’t handle, run away.”
Once I brought Elgar, my child was in Elgar’s womb. If something dangerous happens, I will not hesitate to choose to run away with Elgar.
Elgar knocked on the door as if she couldn’t understand my passive and defensive attitude.
“Are you telling me to run away? What the hell is in this place?”
“I don’t know that either. Now we have to check it out.”
It was when I was waiting for a response from the inside for such a long time.
“Who is this? We have very valuable guests. On a day when the whole world is busy with summer night festivals, you come to visit all these little men.”
A voice came from below from behind. I hurriedly turned my head to see a man holding a bunch of balloons in the flower bed.
His face was covered with a robe, but his head was decorated with an inappropriate horn-shaped ornament. It looks like a tourist who came to enjoy the festival to the fullest.
“You seem to have a lot to say. It looks like we can talk outside, so please come inside.”