179 – [Side Story] Student from the Eastern Continent – 38
Noble officials return, the emperor’s office.
Inside the office, the emperor and one noble were seated.
He is none other than Viscount Leifert.
He was the father of Alyssa Leipert, the girl who triggered this incident.
He was standing in the middle of the emperor’s office with a pale face, facing the emperor who was sitting in his seat.
“I think you know why I called you separately, Viscount Leifert.”
“……”
There was no way I didn’t know.
Her daughter, who had caused her so much worry, ended up in an accident.
Viscount Leifert immediately knelt down on the spot.
“…No shame, Your Majesty.”
“……”
“Would you please punish her daughter instead of me, who failed to educate her properly?”
Viscount Rayffert is willing to bear even the guilt of her daughter out of love for her until the end.
Looking at him, the emperor sighed.
He seems like a sincere and pitiful man.
Seeing him on his knees, with his head bowed, sobbing silently, the Emperor opened his mouth.
“Raise your head, Viscount Leifert.”
“Please…Please…!!”
“She didn’t call you because of that girl.”
“…Yes?”
The Viscount, whose eyes were bloodshot from tears, raised his face.
The emperor looked at his viscount with a complex expression and then opened his mouth.
“Please come in.”
As the emperor said that, two people entered the office.
One is a beautiful girl with light green hair.
And one of them was wearing a hood, but it looked like she was probably that girl’s servant wearing a maid uniform.
“Ah…”
The Viscount also knew about the girl with light green hair.
Sir Wentoth.
There was no way the Viscount did not know about the famous person who was the subject of attention in the imperial social circle.
“Nice to meet you, Viscount Leipert.”
“Lady Wentoth, I… Will meet you for the first time… What… Your daughter did…”
Viscount Leifert wants to apologize for what his daughter Alyssa did.
But I had no idea where to apologize first.
Sirga, who was looking at the viscount who was muttering and unable to speak properly, smiled brightly.
“It’s okay. Rather than that, there’s someone I’d like to have you meet right now, Viscount.”
“You mean… With me?”
Syr smiled and pushed the person standing behind him forward.
The girl in the maid uniform hesitated and took off the hood she was wearing, revealing her face.
A pretty girl with brown hair and purple eyes.
It was clearly a girl I had never seen before.
But even after revealing her face, she is unable to make proper eye contact, as if she is watching herself.
Strangely enough, it felt very familiar.
“I…That…That…”
Even though the girl tried to say something, she couldn’t open her mouth right away.
Her hands were writhing helplessly, and she was clenching and moving them around.
That movement, that attitude.
The Viscount was clearly aware of that extremely awkward attitude.
This is a ridiculous story.
It’s a ridiculous story, but the Viscount was moving without realizing it.
The girl’s hands are shaking.
Her hand was held by her viscount.
“Ah…”
The girl looked at her viscount with a surprised expression.
The girl’s quivering purple eyes.
It was clear that the eyes were of an unfamiliar color, but the light in those eyes was a light I knew very well.
“……”
The Viscount hugged the girl without saying a word.
The girl’s body, which had flinched slightly, gradually began to tremble.
“Alyssa.”
A name that has not been called for a long time.
As soon as the name came out of her father’s mouth, Alyssa felt a part of her heart warm.
“Since when did this start?”
“Father…”
“Since when did it become like this…?”
The Viscount hugged her girl, her real daughter, and cried, forgetting that it was the emperor’s office.
“A curse that changes the body…There is such a terrifying curse…”
“…After investigating, it is clear that it is a curse that actually existed.”
After the real Alyssa and Viscount Leipert calmed down, Sir explained the details of the situation to Viscount Leifert.
The emperor, who had already explained the situation in advance some time ago, also revealed what he had researched.
“I found a record that in the past, someone stole the body of a central nobleman with a curse and was discovered by his family. I guess it’s the same curse.”
“What happened to the nobleman whose body was taken at that time?”
“…They say he couldn’t find a way to get his body back in the end, and died while living in a changed body.”
Viscount Ray Furt’s face showed joy at seeing her daughter safely again, sadness at what her daughter had gone through, and anger at the person who had put her daughter through this.
As if to intervene, Sir opened his mouth.
“Mother Liliana… Liliana, as a result of your investigation, it turns out that the curse itself has a very simple structure.”
Liliana thoroughly investigated both the real Alyssa, the body-switched victim, and the fake Alyssa in prison.
And, what I roughly learned about the curse is as follows.
The curse itself is so crude that it returns to its original body just by destroying the medium used for the curse.
In addition, since it is a technique that forcibly changes the soul, the soul is severely damaged at the time the body is changed.
In this state, it is possible to return to the original body that fits well, but if you try to curse again and enter another body, you may be in great danger.
In other words, it was necessary to ultimately find the agent of the curse.
The problem was that it was impossible to know where the fake Alyssa hid the curse medium.
The fake was very careful.
As if there was always surveillance, the medium was never revealed, not even a single speck of information.
Even though the summoner Berd Pol Nir was under her, always watching her every move, she still could not find the location of the medium.
But this time, there is a way.
Fake Alyssa went crazy, and she was reduced to a criminal worthy of the death penalty.
How she allows herself to reveal her medium.
Sir said that method out of her mouth.
After hearing Sir’s words, the emperor slightly widened his eyes and smiled as if it would be fun.
But at the same time, Viscount Leipert spoke with concern.
“But…I need his cooperation for this…Will he cooperate?”
To Viscount Ray Furt’s concern, Sir nodded his head.
‘That person’ is also the person who saw fake Alyssa’s atrocities right in front of his eyes.
And, he was a person I could trust who would be willing to act for the sake of the real people here.
It seemed like Alyssa finding her original body would somehow work.
However, one big problem remained.
“Viscount Leifert, even if your daughter regains her body…There is one thing you have to worry about.”
“W…What is that?”
“…It’s a matter of your daughter’s future.”
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Hearing Sir’s words, Viscount Leifert nodded with a complicated expression.
Her daughter did not commit any crime.
However, the fake who took over her daughter’s body committed a mortal sin in her daughter’s name.
The girl named Alyssa Leipert had already become a criminal.
A crime committed not by the daughter, but by the fake who stole her body?
Even if you claim that, who would believe it?
Even if there were people who believed, there would be many more who did not believe.
“……”
“I think this is an issue that Viscount Leifert should consider together with his daughter.”
“Thank you. Lady Wentoth, I will have a conversation with that child.”
Alyssa Leifert’s future is still ahead. And it seemed like things would never be smooth sailing for her.
“Ugh…”
All three men who came to save her were taken away, and the girl was once again left alone in a dark prison.
It was the fake Alyssa Leifert, Sherry.
She sat in the corner of her cell with her face in her knees in a depressed mood.
“Why do I have to go through this?!”
No, I know the reason well.
Sir Wentoth.
It was all because of that woman.
A woman with glaring eyes who did not even appear in the original novel.
She is a woman who steals all the attention she deserves.
After a long time, the main character, her saintly body, was taken away, and a more remarkable woman suddenly jumped out and took everything she had.
Moreover, people who were her family showed up, and she turned herself into this situation.
Sherry gritted her teeth and became angry at that fact.
“I will never forgive you!!”
Of course, even if she could get out of here and go find Sirwenthos, she wouldn’t even be a match.
But regardless, Sherry burned her hatred and screamed evil.
It was that time.
A small rattling sound was heard from the entrance of the quiet prison hallway.
It was the sound of someone opening the door and coming in.
Is he an executive of the leadership department? At this late hour?
But for all that, he quietly closed the door and approached with as little footsteps as possible.
Who is it?
Sherry was curious, but she held her breath, wondering what would happen if she were a cruel person like that maid.
I could hear very small footsteps softly approaching.
Soon, the sound of footsteps got closer and someone appeared.
Muscular body, mature and manly face.
And it was a handsome man with short, bright blue hair.
“Re…Prince Rex?”
“Miss Alyssa, are you okay?”
At the appearance of an unexpected person, Sherry opened her mouth with a blank expression for a moment.
But immediately joy filled her heart.
“I’m here to save you. Let’s get out of here quickly.”
Prince Rex was worried that she might not fall for him, but he was wrong.
That fact made Sherry happy.
He easily opened the prison door and held out her hand to Sherry.
Holding her hand, Sherry trembled with happiness.
A very brief feeling of happiness.