In the tense atmosphere, Hegrion bowed his head.
“nice to see you. This is the commander of the Knights of Oben, Hagrion Oben.”
It was obviously a formal greeting, but his expression was just cool.
It seems to be sinking indefinitely, reminiscent of the northern cold.
The moment Renee swallowed dry saliva, Vera opened his mouth.
“… It’s embarrassing.”
It was uttered in a voice that was not at all confused.
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Of course, he didn’t seem to recall because he wasn’t really embarrassed.
There are things that need to be checked first in the current situation, so he continues to talk while hiding his emotions.
“I know it’s an rude question, but I’m going to ask this anyway.”
Vera’s eyes darkened.
His voice raised a slightly sharp line.
“How did you know?”
For Vera, it was a question that had to be confirmed.
Erne arrived while hiding her identity the whole time.
While planning the route, he avoided cities where rumors could be concentrated as much as possible, and he continued to use his disguised identity after coming here.
However, since Hagrion came to know their true identity in such a car, there is nothing more important to Vera than the source of this information.
Vera’s sharp words added to the tension.
Hegrion’s gaze turned to Vera.
Hegryon, who glanced up and down Vera with a piercing gaze, immediately raised his eyebrows and let out the sound.
“Five.”
It was an admiration.
Vera’s brow narrowed.
‘What… .’
How do you answer that question?
The moment he was filled with such thoughts, Hegrion continued.
“Oh, excuse me.”
He bowed his head briefly to show respect, and then added an explanation with a cool look until just before.
“I fully understand that you may be frustrated. sorry. However, I want you to know that there were no bad intentions whatsoever.”
“I didn’t want to hear such an answer.”
“Yeah, you need an explanation. If you don’t mind, can I go in and continue the conversation? I think we need a long story.”
Hegrion’s gaze was still directed towards Vera.
Vera frowned at the gaze, feeling uncomfortable for some reason, then turned to look at Renee and asked.
“What would you like to do?”
“yes? Ah, once that… Shall we do as Hegrion-sama said?”
Rene, startled by the sudden question, continued the answer, and at that, Hagrion bowed his head once more.
“Thanks for the favor.”
It was also a greeting full of formality.
*
After a while, the hotel’s reception room.
Vera crinkled his expression at Hegrion’s explanation after everyone had gathered.
The reason he was able to find them was so unexpected.
‘… Was the hotel a national project of Oben?’
A lodging hotel to deal with the wealthy coming to the North was Oben’s national project.
As such, the list of guests entering and leaving the hotel is passed on to the Prince of Oben, and Hagrion discovered a strange thing in the list and learned about them while investigating.
“The professor’s long-term dispatch coincided with the visit of Saint Mary to the academy. And after that, his whereabouts were unknown, and he suddenly took up a lodging here… The disguised identity of the apostles seems to have been poisoned. After a little research, I immediately noticed something strange.”
Perhaps it was because of his unique temperament, the tone of Hegrion, who continued to speak with a long manner, was full of a cool look.
“I know it’s rude to come here, but I couldn’t pass it up, so I came here. Just in case there is something you would like to ask for help.”
Immediately after he finished speaking, in the quiet atmosphere, Miller was sweating profusely.
“that… .”
If you look at it, you can say that he is a Satan who arose because he was greedy for a dormitory.
Miller felt his heart stop beating at the sparks that might have shot him.
Vera looked at Miller like that, and then sighed deeply and shook his head.
“I have no intention of blaming the professor.”
Vera knew that blaming Miller wasn’t going to happen because he didn’t expect it.
Besides, Hagrion wasn’t the person he should have met anyway.
As I had planned to ask him for guidance on the journey to Lokrion, meeting him in itself was not a problem.
‘but… .’
If there is a problem, what Hagrion said now, ‘I want to ask for help’.
It is a matter of requesting external help from the one who is the master of the master piece.
And that opponent is, after all, themselves.
It means that what he asks will most likely be related to Renee’s power.
‘… It cannot be taken lightly.’
Renee’s power is the power to use his life as a mortgage.
It is the power to burn René’s life with even a slight twist.
Even the fact that it has been well used up until now was no excuse.
No matter how well he used it, it was Renee’s power to stop breathing with just one mistake.
Vera’s gaze turned to Hegreon.
‘If it was the wish of the Grand Prince, he could somehow turn it into a different deal.’
If this is Oben’s problem, not the Archduke’s individual problem, things get bigger.
It is a natural fact that even a child knows that it is wrong to refuse someone’s request in a situation where he has to make a request.
Vera thought for a while, and then spoke out.
“… If the request is related to the power of St. Mary, we are sorry, but we cannot accept it.”
First, draw a line.
Even as Vera, these words were uttered with the determination to give up Hegreon’s help.
‘… It’s better this way.’
Hagrion’s help was close to insurance, but not an essential requirement.
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On the other hand, consider Renee.
She is at the center of this journey and of events to come.
Everything that would happen without Renee would be unstoppable.
Aside from that, Vera was the kind of person who didn’t want to even think of raising Renee’s powers in exchange for a trade.
So this time, he gave up the answer before he even heard Renee’s opinion.
Should I say I’m really happy?
Vera’s determination and worries all became useless in the words of Hegrion that followed.
“Ah, there is a misunderstanding. It is not Saint who I want to ask for help.”
Hegryon continued, looking straight at Vera with a cool, sober look, whether he knew Vera’s troubles or not.
“Apostle of the oath. I have a favor to ask of you.”
Hegrion’s green eyes stared straight at Vera.
At that, Vera’s head tilted.
*
In response to Hagrion’s request that the conversation to be continued with only the two of them closely, the party came out except for Vera.
After Renee came out to the terrace and sat down, he made a shy face and uttered those words.
“Um, that’s surprising. When I heard the request, of course, I thought I had something to say.”
Words spoken during a conversation in the reception room because he had the same thoughts as Vera.
Miller responded with a smile.
“Oh my gosh, so did I. How many of you here would have thought that the Archduke would have a business for Sir Vera?”
The only thing that appeared on Miller’s face as he continued to speak was a bright sunny day.
He was overjoyed that the incident that could have sparked a spark had been safely undone.
Seeing that, the twins spoke one word at a time.
“Professor, it makes me feel bad when I smile softly.”
“right. It’s like a jiggling d*ck.”
“f*ck guys?”
A fight broke out.
The composition is somewhat familiar to the companions now.
Except for the Norn, who had to dry the three of them, everyone turned their attention away from them and continued the conversation.
Hela, who had already had a cup of tea, handed Renee a cup of tea and said,
“Well, I roughly expected it.”
“yes?”
“It’s the Grand Duchess. I was only watching Sir Vera to bring it out in the reception room.”
“Vera?”
Renee’s head tilted.
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Of course, it was because René, who was blind, could not understand the information.
Meanwhile, Jenny responded to Hela’s words.
“right. I looked over the white man, the scary man.”
The words he said while combing Anilles’ hair without even knowing what he was talking about.
Renee’s expression hardened at that.
While continuing the silence, Anilis suddenly spoke at the sight of Renee, who had hardened.
[Let’s see… Come to think of it, the Principality was a country where same-s*x marriage was allowed, right?]
It was a blatant lie.
There is no such country on this continent.
For Anilis, these words were just made up in the hope that René would be offended even a little, and the effect was clear.
Clang-!
Renee lost the teacup she was holding in her hand, and a noise arose.
“Wow, what do you mean… .”
The voices coming out were in the form of tremors, just like the voices of those who deny reality.
Renee asked Aisha, who had kept her mouth shut until now, shaking her invisible pupil as if it were an earthquake.
“Oh, Aisha? isn’t it? Did these people not see well?”
Aisha, who was poking her fingers in the snow on the table, suddenly began to fall into deep thought at Renee’s question.
“Well… .”
Aisha, who had kept her eyes closed and wagged her tail while continuing to ponder, immediately pricked her ears and asked such a question.
“But there is. What will happen to Renee if Vera marries him?”
drop-.
The expression on Renee’s face disappeared.
The twins and Miller’s eyes, who had been arguing until then, turned to Renee in the strange silence that began to rise.
The same goes for the other companions.
In the midst of swallowing tension, feeling strange at Renee’s very quiet reaction.
“… How is it?”
Rene remembered an empty smile and continued.
“There is one more thing to tear.”
It was a big accident.
*
Same time meeting room.
Vera, who was left alone with Hagrion, asked Hagrion with a questioning expression on his face.
“Then can you tell me now? What should I ask of you by biting these people?”
What were you trying to say, so that people were bitten?
And why did you leave yourself behind?
While all sorts of questions sprung up in Vera’s mind, Hegrion sat up straight, facing Vera.
Then he opened his mouth.
“Before we begin, I want to ask you one thing.”
The words continued with a very serious look.
At that, Vera’s expression grew serious.
“Tell me.”
What the heck are you trying to say by slurping two or three times?
As Vera’s concentration intensified at that question, Hegrion asked.
“How is your diet?”
“… .”
Vera’s body stiffened.
It wasn’t just the body.
Vera had to feel the whole incident frozen at the meaningless words Hegrion had now uttered.
In the meantime, Hegrion asked again, making his cool look more intense.
“The body. I want to know what kind of diet you eat.”
A word that clearly conveys the intention.
At that Vera thought.
‘Are you crazy?’
It seems that the last hero is also not sane.