81 – The truth of the attempt to assassinate the Emperor (1)
Tears trembled, and my heart poured out. What the hell is the prince talking about right now? Why are you scolding me, who is innocent?
Whether or not I was trembling in fear, the prince was just watching me with cold, sunken eyes.
“They say you have a very good ability to create artifacts.”
“Ah, I am still immature…”
After the prince paused for a while, he spoke again.
“I only heard about it recently. You said you could create artifacts with almost the same performance just by touching it once.”
As you said, I can make full use of my temperament, which is sensitive to mana, to create a replica that duplicates the performance of an artifact I have touched once.
It was something I could do because I was the one who could even find out a person’s temperament and personality just by shaking hands.
Unlike a person’s ever-changing mana, artifacts always show the same mana arrangement, so it wasn’t difficult to duplicate them as long as you remembered exactly the path in which mana flowed.
Because only I can do it, the academy accepted me as the youngest teacher. Of course, being able to make replicas of artifacts was a top secret.
That’s why I kept quiet about the request from the duchy.
“When I went to the academy for the first time, there is a treasure trove from the imperial family that I took with me to avoid the eyes of dissident groups.”
‘Ah.’
After hearing those words, I realized why the prince left me and the principal.
‘Invisibility Cloak…’
The principal once asked the prince who had brought the treasured treasure of the imperial family to touch it for a very short time.
The prince readily agreed, and thanks to that, I remembered the mana arrangement of the rare artifact called the Invisibility Cloak.
“At that time, I thought it was simply because I wanted to see the royal family treasure up close, which is hard to see in my life.”
But I didn’t end there. Actively used my knowledge.
At the request of the duke.
“But after that incident this morning, I ordered the shadow of the imperial family to investigate. Some pretty interesting information came in.”
The headmaster, who finished his own analogy with the words of the prince, looked at me with eyes full of astonishment.
Having nothing to say, I had no choice but to bow my head and accept the prince’s reprimand.
The day before the picnic of the culinary study group. I stayed up all night making a ‘thing’ with a request from the Duke’s family.
I never thought the request from that time would be connected in this way.
‘As expected, no luck.’
I never thought my unlucky nature would make every effort to drag me down to the edge of hell. As expected, I should have lived on my salary quietly, but I got a request because I was in a hurry.
No, but how could you refuse a duke’s request? If I refused, I would be assassinated without even knowing mice or birds.
“Raise your head, Professor Luctae.”
“…Yes, lower.”
What’s the use of making excuses for yourself? I raised my head and met the prince’s gaze with a mixed heart like a prisoner who admitted his guilt.
Contrary to his deep, low voice, the prince was wearing a subtle smile. It’s a smile like that of a grim reaper.
Your Highness has driven a wedge with the last question.
“You made it, right? Invisibility Cloak Replica.”
“…Yes.”
Now I understand why the headmaster carries the will in his arms.
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After her finger was healed, Hilde assigned one room to Louisa and Lit Maman, and one room to Laminassis and me.
Something is wrong with the assignment. If you really want to share, isn’t it right that you should leave Rami and Sis apart and share a room with her family?
I thought so and asked.
“This is Your Majesty’s order.”
I was immediately convinced. The emperor said so, what more can I say? I just have to do it.
According to Racard, the Emperor will call me separately, so he probably assigned me this way to make it easier for me to call.
As soon as he entered her room, Raminasis began to look all over the place, lifting her furniture. She looked like she was in an old spy movie, checking the room for bugs.
After checking her room for a while, Raminasis brushed off her skirt and bowed her head.
“This room is safe. Master.”
“Yes, thank you. Then, while you’re doing it, will you check the room where your mother is?”
“Okay.”
Aisha opened the door at the same time Raminasis left her room. The two women were exchanged as if passing by each other naturally.
As soon as Aisha came in, she fell into my arms and started making a fuss about her.
“Tyr! I’m in trouble! I have something to tell you right now!”
“What to say?”
“Nanikaga! Nanika told me something!”
It’s still awkward to casually call her by her empress’ name. What a surprise she was when she heard that Aisha was best friends with the immortal Empress of the Empire.
She is a high elf, so she is a woman who enjoys a life of thousands of years. Maybe the current emperor was her grandson?
In the original work, she never appeared, so I wanted to meet her too.
I patted her Aisha on her back like soothing her newborn baby and calmed her down a lot.
“Calm down for a moment. What are you trying to say?”
Be anxious.
Aisha, who had been breathing in my arms for a moment, spoke her words in a tone that was noticeably better than before, as if she had finally calmed down.
“Ah! That’s right. After Nanika blocked the space, she said.”
After saying that, I immediately spread my hands to the left and right to isolate the room we were in from the rest of the space. With this, the sound and even the flow of mana would have been completely cut off.
“It’s over. You know, Tyr. What Nanika said…”
Just when Aisha was about to get her words out.
“Fortunately, you blocked the space right away. I didn’t know how long the magic stone would last.”
I heard the heavy voice of a strange man right next to me. We looked around, startled, but couldn’t find anyone.
I didn’t know, but I couldn’t even find Aisha using mana.
But the embarrassment didn’t last long. It was because an elderly man appeared immediately.
He was an impressive man with well-groomed white hair and a white beard.
He was wearing clothes that were old-fashioned but not excessively decorated, and the brooch with the winged eye pattern, the symbol of the empire, made us guess his identity.
And above all, I knew the identity of the mantle he was wearing. The royal family’s secret that completely escapes our awareness.
A man exuding a solemn aura wearing the royal treasure and a brooch, the symbol of the empire.
‘Emperor!’
As soon as I realized my identity, I immediately got down on one knee and saluted.
“The heir of the Peerosis family, who claim to be loyalists of the empire, is the glory of the empire…”
“Okay. There is no time to waste time greeting each other right now. I will raise my head.”
“Yes!”
The emperor sat lazily on the bed, and Aisha, who had been standing absentmindedly, furrowed her brow slightly at him.
“You… How did you get into my barrier?”
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My heart sank at the rudeness of her talking to the emperor. However, the thought that she was a friend of the empress quickly subsided.
From Aisha’s point of view, even if he were the emperor, he would be nothing more than the grandson of her friend.
“No big deal. I just followed you out of the empress’s room and entered the room together.”
“Ah! So Nanika told me to block the room and talk.”
The emperor gave her a slight nod, confirming her words.
In other words, the empress called Aisha and gave her some information while chatting with her. And that meant that the emperor, hiding himself in an invisibility cloak, followed Aisha into my room and naturally set up a place to have a conversation with me.
‘I’m not an emperor for nothing.’
Even the act of preparing a place to have a secret conversation is meticulously calculated. He frankly admired that at this level, the emperor could shake the political world.
“The story will be long, so take a seat.”
As soon as the emperor gave permission, I sat down in a chair across from him.
Naturally, Aisha sat on my thigh.
I gently lifted it up and put it down.
Then Aisha tugged at me, pulling her hair.
“Oh, why!”
Let’s cover the time and place. I don’t know if it’s in front of the students at the academy, but the person in front of me right now is the emperor? He’s not someone we can show off our flirtatiousness with.
We might show our usual selves for no reason, then go back and make Lacard younger siblings.
‘It’s difficult.’
The emperor looked at me and Aisha silently, not knowing what he was thinking at the moment.
And Aisha didn’t care about such an emperor and swung her arms around and strongly insisted on handing over her thighs to me.
I wonder if I didn’t want to waste my time on pointless things anymore.
As I was unable to do this or that, the emperor gave me permission with a slight nod.
I put on the most apologetic expression I could put on and then bowed his head deeply.
“Ehehehe~”
Like it or not, Ayesha put her butt on my thigh and put her arms around my waist, her arms around me. Is this… The dignity of a great witch?
But, except when she was with me, there were many times when she showed the side of a great witch, and she was good at classifying construction work, but lately, it feels like the break has been broken.
Why are you acting like a child all of a sudden? Did something happen that I don’t know about?
“Kuhmm…”
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My thoughts quickly took a back seat at the emperor’s clearing of his throat. I fixed my eyes on him again and focused my attention.
“I heard you have something to tell me.”
“You must have been wondering… What happened to your father.”
I gave him a small nod. As expected, it starts with that topic.
The emperor went straight to the point.
“I’ll start by explaining what happened this morning.”
Then, slowly, he began to unravel the whole story of the ‘attempt to assassinate the emperor’.