070 There are no bad things in the world (4)
‘Look. Now it seems that the gods are trying to strangle the princess.’
I was so shocked by the author’s way of solving problems, I said that to the prince.
He didn’t even know I was stupid and took it seriously.
‘no.’
‘Why are you so adamant? Is it sweet pumpkin?’
‘What nonsense?’
I was surprised by Kristel’s song and seemed to pick up any comments.
‘Unfortunately, the princess will not be able to join us.’
‘Good.’
The cool North Sea breeze ruffled his hair as if teasing him and then moved away.
“no······. Does this make sense?”
I sat on the mat on the grass and looked up at the top of the bell tower.
I was so exhausted that I kept running out of breath.
The white cliff was peaceful, as if there had been some commotion, as if something was going on and when something was wrong.
Christel, who calmed the ‘Ark of Biryeom’, did not pay much attention to the outcome.
She was just sitting across from me, slicing the crème caramel with a fresh expression on her face.
mentally strong It’s also the main character, isn’t it?
“You must be very surprised.”
Cardinal Bootier, who was sitting next to me, took a glass bottle from the picnic basket and handed it to me.
It was spearmint tea.
“thank you. Are you all right, Your Majesty?”
I asked. In fact, in any way, I was the most perplexed here.
The cardinal showed the calmness of packing a picnic basket while leaving the bell tower.
When we came down to the ground after calming down our sickness, we had mats spread out on the grass waiting for our party.
I was nervous that Kristel would be seriously injured or had a great awakening, but it seemed that I was the only one who was serious.
“Because I trusted them. But I didn’t know that the Prince and the Pirates would come with them.”
The cardinal replied softly. A bitter laugh came out of nowhere.
It was a great coincidence that the protagonist came all the way here while having an adventure in the sea while I was trekking on the cliff with two adults.
But I knew this was the writer’s arrangement.
Even though I wanted to spend a vacation away from the main characters, even though I moved without the two of them, I got entangled in their narrative.
Even the appearance of the two people was effective in helping the party safely escape the bell tower.
I was destined to die one day entangled with the two of them, but this time, thanks to them, I was safe.
My mind became complicated like a maze.
“Is it ok for the sick things to be like that?”
So I deliberately brought up another question. The cardinal raised his beige eyes and looked at the bell tower.
Huge wings that glistened in light purple were swaying softly in the wind.
The gods are not living things, but somehow they seemed to be in a good mood.
The ark, which hugged Kristel tightly and released it, only trembled like that ever since.
He was also quite interested in the prince, and when I reached out my hand again, he quietly gave out his feathers.
It was an amazing change.
“Perhaps it will. I’ll have to wait a few more days though. That kid didn’t choose a master and had been on the cliff for such a long time.”
“Didn’t you have an owner?”
The cardinal read the words behind my eyes. She continued to explain while drinking coffee.
“Alexander, what do you mean? He was like a friend of the ark. Neither me nor Frederick fully understood their relationship. What in the world could do that?”
“·················ogue.”
“The ark is different from other gods. The criteria for choosing the owner of ‘Hwaseong’s Spirit’ and ‘The Shrine of Trees’ are also difficult, but there is something special about me.”
I savored the tea and quietly thought about ＜Eve’s Great Adventure>.
It was understandable if the expression ‘like a free bird’ meant literally the wild nature of the gods.
It seemed to mean that although a human could win the heart of the ark, he would never become a permanent lord.
As evidence of that, the ark didn’t follow Christel to the ground, and it didn’t get any worse at her.
“Still, I didn’t know how to respond to the princess’s voice.”
“Yeah, that was surprising. I could hear the lullaby all the way down, but Alexandre sang better than that.”
“Are you talking to me now?”
The ballad princess who ate Baba au rum looked at us with her blue-gray eyes wide open.
Yes, the main character can be tone-deaf.
Rather, it must have been a great attraction for many readers of ‘Toegye Gong’.
It was me, the back of my head was tingling, but there was no Jeong Eun-seo here to listen to my complaints.
“A little while ago, it was said that the princess’s singing was excellent.”
“Heh heh. I used to hear that often. thank you.”
Kristel was a little shy and looked for an iced Americano.
It seemed that he didn’t even know he was a tone-deaf.
I silently shook my head and looked at the bell tower again.
According to the book of the Archduke, the ark has been there since the beginning of time.
The bell tower had been a long time since then, and it was a building that was built late to enshrine the gods in the empire.
The temple next door was also built at that time.
There is also a legend that the ark, eager to respond to human prayers, drove away pirates and enemies approaching the empire by storm.
So, if he wasn’t as capricious as Ju-Jin, he would have been able to fulfill his former role in a respectful place.
“Anyway, it worked out.”
I murmured.
After a close friend passed away and closed the door of his heart for a long time,
After awakening into my ether, I struggled with amazement at the approach of a stranger,
It is only after listening to a lullaby with a similar tone to that of a friend.
While bearing the title of God’s Power, the amount she did was just like a puppy or a child.
It was also a little salty.
I grabbed one propiterol and popped it into my mouth.
When something crispy and sweet was added, the mind became clearer.
“Where did Demi go?”
It was then that I realized that a red panda was nowhere to be seen.
I looked around carefully.
Emperor Frederick and Sir Elizabeth were the first to leave to take over the pirate ship.
In particular, Count Soh had to report how a pirate ship drifted and crashed into Evelyn, and how the Duke of Evelynn got on board.
There was a separate protagonist who caused the accident, but an aide was supposed to explain it.
The few knights who were on the ship also came along like sausages one after another.
“It’s not there….”
The two main characters’ teacher, Sir Johann Haines, was lying on the grass far away and sleeping.
I turned my head to the other side. Leah and Perry were near the forest with the prince.
I had been annoyed by him before, and I felt like I was ripping out the entertainment.
What is that, just public figures?
“You can make toys out of fireworks.”
Christel said admiringly.
He said he didn’t know he had such a skill because he was always attacking himself.
The prince, who was checking for traces of demonic beasts around his father’s grave, sprayed two sparkly bouncing balls on the red pandas and concentrated on what he was doing again.
The gods often showed their closeness to the prince like that.
It seemed like they had good memories of going to the Duchy of Sarnez together.
“Then why is the prince wearing fur while hiding?”
I asked abruptly.
Strictly speaking, he’s not even an Archduke of the Northern Territory, so why are you faithful to the concept?
“It’s Alexandre’s memento. I was very cold in my lifetime.”
“It’s close. It makes me want to own one.”
I added quickly. The cardinal laughed out loud.
“When you stay here, call me Duke Evelyn. That is the promise.”
“okay. All right.”
I took a small breath.
The connection between the prince and the duke of Evelyn was not too awkward, since I once thought that Alexandre Gukser might be Archduke Evelyn.
It’s a bit sloppy.
“Then the Duke will rise to the throne in the future?”
“That’s not right.”
The cardinal smiled as he accepted the propiterol I had given him.
“No?”
“There is only one Grand Duke of the Empire, Alexandre. Frederick decided that.”
“·················ogue.”
Me and Kristel stared intently at the cardinal.
Roughly, there was something I could barely guess.
This is because in ＜Biweekly Lister>, the Archduke was described as ‘a man who gave up the title of duke and chose love’.
He may not have known that he had abandoned his family and became Gukseo.
“The Duke of Blanquere is a venerable wizarding family in the eastern part of the Empire.”
In the end, the cardinal, who could not win our gaze, opened his mouth with a smile on his face.
A customized class followed for a dark hostage due to the imperial circumstances and a princess with an incomplete memory.
“As you know, the inheritance of property and titles on the continent takes precedence over the eldest. Alexandre was the first of the Blanquere family and was a promising wizard. The saying that he was a genius who would exalt the duke was widely spread in the social circles. When it became known that he was secretly engaged to Frederick, he even stood up with the duke’s collateral to oppose it.”
“They were in a position that they couldn’t lose valuable talent to the imperial family.”
“Yes, but Alexandre was a very stubborn man. The day before becoming a minor duke, he packed up and ran away.”
“Wow, you’re romantic.”
Christel said. The cardinal laughed bitterly.
“I was young too. After that, Frederic urged His Majesty the Emperor to marry him. What if we like each other?”
“Then how was your relationship with the duke?”
I asked. It was interesting.
The main character in the ＜Eve’s Great Adventure> series had the last name ‘Blanquere’ for a number of reasons.
“The Blanquer family has maintained a good relationship with the imperial family for many years. As the territory was bordered by the new kingdom, the support and support of the imperial family was essential. At the time, the dukes weren’t foolish enough to forget that. So, after the marriage date was set, I didn’t put any serious fisheries around. but······.”
The cardinal took a sip of his coffee.
Me and Kristel waited for her to speak with the feeling of being caught in the middle of a YouTube ad.
“I kicked Alexandre out of the house. I completely cut off the relationship. I removed my name from the pedigree and made it impossible for me to communicate with my family.”
“why······.”
“Well. Was it a matter of family prestige and pride? I don’t know. I would not have done that.”
she muttered a little. My heart was filled with sorrow like a tide.
No matter how important family authority was, leaving a loved one alone was a punishment I would never understand for the rest of my life.
“So Frederic presented his land to Alexandre. He gave away the most scenic and beautiful part of the royal estate, and gave it the name ‘Evelynn’. Even though it was a place where the gods were enshrined, I did not hesitate at all. When he ascended to the throne, he called him Grand Duke, and declared that no one else would become a Grand Duke as long as he lived.”
“Wow······.”
Me and Kristel opened their mouths at the same time.
Kristel had a face that looked like she was half in love.
“So Cedric won’t be an Archduke. For the time being.”
The cardinal concluded. I looked back at the prince with a strange feeling.
That was the reason why he was called a duke rather than an archduke even though he had inherited his father’s estate.
– Shut it off
Just then, Demi’s voice was heard from behind. I quickly turned my head.
“Demi. Where have you been?”
The guy spit something out of his mouth. It was even moving.
My body stiffened for a moment.
– Beep, beep, beep!
I stared at the tiny creature with my eyes wide open.
A round, brown ball of cotton ran up and down her chest and cried.
“Ugh, did Demi catch a bird?”
– Hey!
Christel said like a grown-up. Demi looked at me and roared proudly.
“Demi, did you catch a bird for hyung?”
– Quiet
“I see.”
“Prince, you must praise me first. You may be hurt if you panic or refuse here.”
Kristel whispered quickly.
Isn’t that a cat? Those words rose to the tip of his chin and then subsided.
Demi had never hunted anything before.
The divine beast was a being that could survive only with ether, and Leana Perry did not consume human food either.
Although Demi was unusually fond of fruits and flowers, she never ate meat.
What is this all of a sudden?
“Oh, good job. Our Demi is the best cool.”
“I need a hug, please hug me.”
“Come on.”
Following Kristel’s advice, she quickly opened her arms.
Demi wrinkled the tip of her nose and hugged me tightly.
I patted his white ear and observed the ‘prey’.
It looked a bit like a sparrow, but it didn’t look like a sparrow. Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any injuries.
It was strange to keep looking at Kristel and me without flying away, tilting my body.
Are you a newcomer?
“It’s a wren.”
The cardinal, who had been observing the situation silently, said softly.
Unlike the red pandas, it looked like it was a creature that originally existed here.
Then Kristel spoke confidently.
“Your name is Ttukbaegi.”
no way······. Is it a chimney?