014 Little Guest (4)
“you······.”
As soon as I opened my mouth, I developed a circle. The golden circle lit up the bright interior even more brightly.
The boy was silently looking down at the sanctuary that wrapped around his feet.
“How did you get here?”
“·················ogue.”
I asked a question and checked his condition. It certainly looked better than that day.
A cold sweat was forming on his forehead, and although he was a little short of breath, he didn’t feel like he was going to fall to the floor as it was then.
“Are you here to steal ether again?”
At that, the boy raised his eyes and came out to meet his eyes. It was an ominous look.
“I never stole it.”
“My doctor stole it without asking, but it was stolen, then.”
The child snorted.
I don’t lose my vigilance, I already have this kind of personality, but I thought that if I grew up, it would be very attractive.
“Have you committed any crime? Are you running away?”
“·················ogue.”
The boy stared at me silently, sighed lightly, and sat down in front of the table I had been watching for a while.
The movement was smooth and elegant without any frills, and for a moment it felt as if this was his room, not mine.
“Release the ether in a circle.”
······ Are you ordering now?
“why me.”
“Do you want to faint again?”
“her······.”
I was at a loss for words because of the little boy’s impatience.
Even though I stared at him, the child sat upright as if it was his seat and did not avert his eyes.
There was too much momentum on the subject of intimidation. It felt like I had to go strong.
“I like to answer questions. Before you bind your feet with an oracle and call your servants.”
“·················ogue.”
“You are still in bad shape. If you’re here to get ether, you should be polite.”
I said firmly. The boy’s brow furrowed slightly.
Eun-seo was usually a docile kid, but by the time she was five or six years old, she used to spend all her life trying to get what she wanted, just like children of that age do.
At that time, if you gently listen to the wind, the child’s habit would only deteriorate.
I ignored him and tried to comfort him, but the best way was to ask my brother for order.
If there is something you want, please be polite and ask. Then I will listen carefully.
That’s our rule.
“There is no place in the Imperial Palace that I cannot go.”
The child opened his tightly closed mouth.
It seemed to be the answer to the question, ‘How did you get in here?’
It wasn’t a satisfactory answer, but I slowly let the ether flow through the circle as a reward.
While thinking about how to capture the image, I tried to adjust it while imagining loosening the knitting thread little by little.
Perhaps it worked, the boy’s complexion slightly loosened.
“I am neither a criminal nor a fugitive.”
I shed even more ether.
Roughly speaking, it feels like four more turns of the knitting thread.
“Then there will be no harm to me by helping you.”
“I’m not sure.”
uh huh The guy reacted seriously to the half-joking remark.
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Of course I didn’t believe it.
Because there’s no way that a proud guy would sneak into the confessional of the Imperial Palace and break into the prince’s room through the balcony.
However, knowing the inside of the palace, he was not like an ordinary thief or troublemaker.
“Well, it seems like a noble or an imperial family?”
“·················ogue.”
The child’s mouth was closed like a seashell. Orange eyes shone stubbornly.
Yes, when a child reacts like that, even if my older brother comes, I can’t hear the answer.
I shook my head and asked another question.
Prince Sedric was the only child, and the emperor and the prince are the only two members of the Imperial Family currently living in the Imperial Palace, so it is probably not from that family.
Kristel, the protagonist of ‘Toegye Gong’, has no younger brother like him.
First of all, the two big mountains had been avoided.
“Are you a priest too?”
“no.”
The child immediately answered my next question. This was surprising.
The exchange of ether was only possible between the priest and the paladin.
He said that it was rare for a person who had the power to handle the ether, that is, not a priest or a paladin.
“Then you are a paladin…”
“Why are you reading books about magical beasts and divine beasts?”
The child cut me off sharply.
All of a sudden, his eyes were sore as he looked at the books on the table. The small crab’s pose was great.
“I haven’t read it yet. A magical beast appeared on the mountain behind me, and I was curious because they said that it might be a divine beast.”
I slowly walked towards him and stood across from the table.
He did not tell the story of the keeper Agnes.
Even though I was a fake priest, I did not take this role lightly enough to talk about the contents of the sacrament of confession.
“······ Conversation should be quick.”
The child whispered lowly. A surprising remark soon followed.
“I am leading the divine beasts that have appeared in the Imperial Palace to the gods. That’s why I needed your ether.”
‘Since time immemorial, when a divine beast appeared, a person with divine power led it to the divine creature.’
A verse I saw in a book I can’t even remember the title of quickly flashed through my mind.
It was an unexpected connection. No, before that.
“Is there a real god?”
“okay.”
“Did you come down to the Imperial Palace to appear on the mountain behind?”
“You wouldn’t have walked in through the front door.”
Dry saliva gulped down. The reasoning of the keeper Agnes and the carpenter’s friend Maxim was correct.
It was a divine beast, not a magical beast.
“I thought it was a legendary animal. There is hardly any data.”
“Is the prince of the new kingdom doubting the existence of the divine beast?”
said the child scornfully.
“You are prejudiced. Not all people from a new country are devout.”
“The closest god to the ecliptic is in the Duchy of Sarnez, so I’ll ask for your cooperation until the god beast is completely driven there.”
The child cut the horse’s waist like a knife.
Wait, wait. Too much data rushed in at once and it was crazy.
I closed my eyes once, took a deep breath and then opened them again.
Let’s sort it out one by one, slowly.
I raised one hand and put my thumb first.
“…are you leading that divine beast?”
“Only those with divine power can tame a divine beast. You would know.”
Yes, this guy has power. I nodded slightly and bent my index finger.
“There is also a Cardinal in the Imperial Palace. Why are you doing it?”
“Your Majesty cannot leave your side.”
The boy responded with a smirk.
The emperor and the cardinal were said to have signed a contract to become a ‘religious companion’.
Benjamin’s explanation that the cardinal resided in the Imperial Palace as the emperor’s partner came to mind.
The two souls became best friends, and it seemed that they could not be separated more than a certain distance.
“third. If you are the Duchy of Sarnez, are you referring to the hometown of Princess Christel de Sarnez?”
His chin twitched slightly, as if it was bothersome for the child to answer.
I felt a sense of crisis even with that small movement.
I looked up at the sky for nothing because a name that I should never be associated with popped up.
Is this the author’s joke?
Is it a hint that no matter what I do, I can’t escape from her and the development of the original story?
No, there was no need to panic. The exit hole was still full.
“Why don’t you drive the divine beast there, and just raise it in the Imperial Palace?”
I’m good at following people. There are a lot of web novels with animals these days.
Seriously, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to take a route in that direction.
If only I could avoid running into Kristel.
“I can see why the new country abandoned you.”
Then, this bastard cursed with his eyes and mouth at the same time.
“No, I just don’t want to have anything to do with the Duke of Sarnez. I’m going to be quiet.”
“under.”
The boy let out a short breath, as if he had heard something very silly.
I briefly looked back on my actions in the past.
I admit that I made the board a little bigger in hopes of accepting the confession, but if I didn’t make an emergency exit, I was in a position to be erected at the ball.
The main couple couldn’t take the risk of shining their faces on the event they were going to attend with a high probability.
If you were faithful to the priest’s work, there would be fewer cases of unreasonable love calls from the Lister social circle.
“I do the driving, so I don’t have to worry about the duchy.”
the boy snorted. I woke up from my thoughts and looked down at the child.
“You only need to give me the ether.”
“It’s fine with me. are you really okay Are you doing it alone?”
“I don’t need any help since I and the divine beast are compatible.”
Compatibility, is there such a thing as ether?
Falling into an unfamiliar world, there was no end to what I had to study.
You shouldn’t even joke about leaving Korea and moving to Korea, damn it.
“But if you need anything else, just tell me. You seem to get really bad when you run out of ether. Is the consumption of the gods so high?”
“·················ogue.”
I slowly put my hand on the child’s forehead, which had stopped sweating. There was no fever.
Although his complexion was a little pale, he had received my ether and was certainly calmed.
It was not at all comfortable for such a young child to travel alone through the Imperial Palace and the Imperial Palace to the Duchy of Sarnez.
“You really shouldn’t tell anyone, are you?”
“I would have told you to shut up.”
“I thought I might let the Cardinal know. I wonder if it would be of some help to you if you knew what you were doing.”
Without a word, the child reached out and opened the lid of the wooden box on the other side of the table.
Seeing him doing other things, he didn’t want to reply again.
The box was full of sage tea leaves, which Prince Sedric sent as a gift a few days ago.
“You didn’t even touch it.”
“It was precious. So I’m going to give it to the people in the palace little by little.”
When I said that I couldn’t drink it all by myself anyway, the boy made a slight impression.
“Can I take care of you too?”
The boy’s orange eyes looked dissatisfied.
Then I realized that I was thirsty, so I brought a water bottle and poured water into an empty glass.
“Are you carrying food? If you eat well, you will grow taller later, like hyung.”
“·················ogue.”
I didn’t know if he was ignoring me or not responding.
I picked up a handful of legalls filled with glass balls next to the box and wrapped them in a clean handkerchief.
“Eat this when you run out of sugar.”
So that I could eat deliciously at any time, Ganael had wrapped them individually in paper.
The child received the package from me and made a strange face.
“uh?”
At that time, golden particles like fireflies began to float from the child’s body.
I was taken aback and unlocked the sanctuary. My heart sank a little, wondering if it was my fault.
“It’s time to go.”
In fact, the parties did not seem to mind.
The boy moved silently, opened the balcony door, and jumped over the railing in an instant.
It was a movement that I would not have even recognized if I hadn’t seen it in person.
I quickly moved to the balcony entrance.
“If I see you again in the future, I will tell you your name.”
Then the boy turned his head and looked down at me.
Looking up, it was a different face.
The black hair lit by the moonlight blended with the stars to become infinitely lofty, while the orange eyes were red like the sun rising at night.
Their gazes crossed long.
“······· Sadie.”
After saying that, the boy threw himself into the darkness.
*
“What is all this?”
The next morning, I had to be brought to the main gate of the Juliet Palace to be greeted by the fuss of the attendants.
The large wagon was full of unknown luggage.
“This is a bounty given by His Majesty Prince Cedric. It is said that a box of precious tea leaves is presented to everyone as a token of appreciation for the hard work of Juliet’s court servants.”
Benjamin smiled softly and explained.
When I saw what was in Canael’s hand, it was about a tenth the size of the box I received.
When I opened the lid, a cool, tangy, mint-like scent permeated at first glance.
It looked like a sage car again.
“Looks like you’re stuck these days.”
Canael laughed out loud at my murmuring.
It is said that if you do something that no one else does, you will die, but I headed back to bed, thinking that I would never die because the prince was a male.
It was nice to see everyone clamoring together.