Bam.
I, who had closed the door like that, asked the maid standing behind me again.
“You really wanted to go for a walk with me? Are you asking for permission to do this?”
The maid's eyes, which had been staring blankly into space, blinked slowly at my dubious question.
Then she raised her head, shaking her body as if she had just woken up from sleep.
"... Yes?"
"Huh?"
“...”
“...”
There was a brief silence between us for a while.
The maid covered her mouth with both hands when she realized she had been talking to me.
“Oh, me. That’s... I...”
The maid, whose eyes were shaking wildly as if she had seen something that should not have been seen, quickly left the room, abandoning what she was doing.
Click!
Don't forget to close the door.
"What...?"
This absurd situation.
I was left alone in the room, and could only scratch my head in bewilderment.
The Palace of Solaire, the Emperor's office.
Carsis asked as he slowly swept away the things in his office.
“So what about the Emperor’s body?”
“...I haven’t found it yet.”
“I haven’t found it yet.”
Carsis, who had been mumbling in a low voice, leaned back on the chair that would have been the Emperor's seat.
“It looks like the corpse has legs. I can’t find even a single hair no matter how hard I search.”
“It seems like someone took it during the chaos caused by the rebellion... Why the Emperor’s body...”
Jason, who was standing in front of him and reporting, trailed off.
Jason was a fighting dog belonging to the L'Arpege family and one of his henchmen who had been preparing for rebellion with Carsis for a long time.
Dogfight.
The reason this ridiculous game was made popular in the first place was to plant rebels in the major noble families.
The day the rebellion broke out. It was a plan devised by the nobles to tie up the people and prevent them from moving by sending private soldiers.
Although many people died during this process thanks to the cruel nobles, it was only a small sacrifice for the greater good.
Before the rebellion broke out in the palace, the fighting dogs that had infiltrated each family succeeded in neutralizing the knights of each family by poisoning their drinking water.
“Up until now, we have focused on families with deep ties to the Emperor, but we will expand the scope a bit. But what can we do with the Emperor’s body now?”
On the wedding day, most of the capital's leading nobles lost their lives.
The only ones who are still alive are the minor nobles with little power or the young successors.
Of course, there were still some nobles in some regions who supported the Emperor, but since the Emperor was already dead, there would be no major problems.
Rather, what they needed to find right now was not the Emperor's body, but the whereabouts of the Crown Prince.
However, Carsis was more obsessed with finding the Emperor's body than with finding the Crown Prince's whereabouts.
As if something big would happen if they didn't find the body.
Carsis, who was tapping the desk with his fingers in response to Jason's answer, asked.
“That maid?”
“She died. She never revealed the reason she came to the palace until the very end.”
"Yes?'"
The original purpose of the maid who intruded into the palace under someone's orders could not have been Elizabeth.
Not only was her corpse displayed in the square, but even in the palace, only a few people knew that Ellie was alive.
“Yes, then I’ll go out now.”
"Yes."
After Jason leaves, silence falls over the room.
It was while Carsis was fiddling with his fingers as if he was deep in thought.
A man appeared in a room where no one was expected.
“Your appearance has improved in the few days I haven’t seen you.”
“...”
Carsis looked at the owner of the voice with indifferent eyes.
Silver hair that seems to reflect moonlight and eyes as blue as a clear lake.
“Isaac.”
He is the leader of the Linneas, and the man Ellie had once desperately sought after.
Isaac approached Carsis with natural gestures.
“I heard that our Queen never leaves her room.”
Then, before he knew it, he sat down at the desk where Carsis was and smiled.
“No, should I tell you that she can’t come out?”
As Isaac spoke, glancing at the pen on the desk with his finger, Carsis frowned as if he found him annoying.
But regardless, Isaac shrugged and handed him a small piece of paper.
“What is this?”
“It was a secret letter your master sent me. You know, you and I were closer than you think.”
At the same time, Isaac winked one eye.
Carsis, who had become displeased in an instant, frowned and opened the note Isaac had handed him.
I would like to order a brooch made from emeralds from the eastern Hallstatt region, so please stop by the palace.
In the past, the location of the emerald mine that Ellie had handed over to Isaac had not yet been made public to the world.
Because of this, only Isaac and Ellie know that emeralds are produced in Eastern Hallstatt.
Delarera's staff took advantage of this in case the letter was read to others.
Just to make it look like they're just ordering a normal jewelry item.
Carsis, who was scanning the note with his eyes, soon crumpled the paper.
The paper, badly damaged by his cruel hands, soon fell to the floor.
“The young lady trusts and relies on me more than I thought. More than you.”
Isaac seemed determined to do so. He began to gently scratch Carsis's insides.
“That’s why I came here to rescue her.”
"Bulshit."
He cut Isaac off with a short word.
Carsis glared at Isaac, who was pretending to be close to Ellie.
“Why don’t you just do your job properly? You still haven’t even figured out the Crown Prince’s whereabouts.”
“Oh my, that doesn’t sound like something you should be saying, having lost the Emperor’s body.”
“Isaac.”
When Carsis called out to him with a chilling air, Isaac finally waved his hand and said that he was joking.
“The Crown Prince hasn’t contacted me yet. It seems he’s hiding because he lost contact with the maid he sent here. Just wait for now. The Crown Prince will definitely contact me.”
Because everything was designed to be that way.
He spoke with confidence.
In the first place, Linneas itself was a place established to secretly prepare for rebellion.
While Linneas supported the rebellion from behind, he created the image of an ordinary information broker who would do anything for money.
Even if the Emperor or Crown Prince survives the rebellion and escapes, they wait for them to come back on their own two feet.
The first thing that surprised Isaac, who had been through all kinds of hardships as the money-obsessed information master, was when Ellie came to see him.
She came all of a sudden and said she would stop the rebellion.
If Carsis hadn't warned him in advance, he would have said seriously that such a joke wasn't funny.
Isaac, who was reminiscing about the past, looked at Carsis.
“But was it really necessary to kill Duke Cretian like that? She wanted to save him. And she wanted it so desperately.”
Carsis stared into space for a moment at Isaac's question before answering.
“You are just mistaken.”
Then he got up from his seat and looked out the window.
The fresh scent of grass wafted in from outside the window as if to tell them that summer was gradually approaching.
“I was just doing something that she had to finish herself someday.”
Of course, he didn't intend to go that far.
It was her mistake not to tell Jenna anything.
By the time he arrived at the palace, everything had already happened.
But it's already spilled milk.
Regret itself was an unnecessary waste of emotion.
Isaac shook his head as he looked at Carsis, who was looking outside with an indifferent gaze.
“I’ve felt this way for a while now, but you don’t seem to think about the consequences. If he holds you responsible later, how are you going to handle the consequences?”
“Consequences?”
One corner of Carsis's mouth twitched as if he had heard something funny.
“I will gladly give her my cheek.”
Anything more than that is fine.
A night when darkness has fallen deeply.
A woman was moaning softly through the white canopy.
The person who was sweating so much that her thin chemise was soaked was me.
Am I having another nightmare?
I looked quite distressed as I tossed and turned in bed.
"No."
My mind was completely confused.
My whole body was boiling with heat as if it was on fire, and I felt heavy as if a heavy rock was sitting on me.
It hurts. It hurts so much.
At that time, I just hoped that someone would quickly save me from this nightmare, from this pain.
A cool warmth touched my body.
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I, who had closed the door like that, asked the maid standing behind me again.
“You really wanted to go for a walk with me? Are you asking for permission to do this?”
The maid's eyes, which had been staring blankly into space, blinked slowly at my dubious question.
Then she raised her head, shaking her body as if she had just woken up from sleep.
"... Yes?"
"Huh?"
“...”
“...”
There was a brief silence between us for a while.
The maid covered her mouth with both hands when she realized she had been talking to me.
“Oh, me. That’s... I...”
The maid, whose eyes were shaking wildly as if she had seen something that should not have been seen, quickly left the room, abandoning what she was doing.
Click!
Don't forget to close the door.
"What...?"
This absurd situation.
I was left alone in the room, and could only scratch my head in bewilderment.
***
The Palace of Solaire, the Emperor's office.
Carsis asked as he slowly swept away the things in his office.
“So what about the Emperor’s body?”
“...I haven’t found it yet.”
“I haven’t found it yet.”
Carsis, who had been mumbling in a low voice, leaned back on the chair that would have been the Emperor's seat.
“It looks like the corpse has legs. I can’t find even a single hair no matter how hard I search.”
“It seems like someone took it during the chaos caused by the rebellion... Why the Emperor’s body...”
Jason, who was standing in front of him and reporting, trailed off.
Jason was a fighting dog belonging to the L'Arpege family and one of his henchmen who had been preparing for rebellion with Carsis for a long time.
Dogfight.
The reason this ridiculous game was made popular in the first place was to plant rebels in the major noble families.
The day the rebellion broke out. It was a plan devised by the nobles to tie up the people and prevent them from moving by sending private soldiers.
Although many people died during this process thanks to the cruel nobles, it was only a small sacrifice for the greater good.
Before the rebellion broke out in the palace, the fighting dogs that had infiltrated each family succeeded in neutralizing the knights of each family by poisoning their drinking water.
“Up until now, we have focused on families with deep ties to the Emperor, but we will expand the scope a bit. But what can we do with the Emperor’s body now?”
On the wedding day, most of the capital's leading nobles lost their lives.
The only ones who are still alive are the minor nobles with little power or the young successors.
Of course, there were still some nobles in some regions who supported the Emperor, but since the Emperor was already dead, there would be no major problems.
Rather, what they needed to find right now was not the Emperor's body, but the whereabouts of the Crown Prince.
However, Carsis was more obsessed with finding the Emperor's body than with finding the Crown Prince's whereabouts.
As if something big would happen if they didn't find the body.
Carsis, who was tapping the desk with his fingers in response to Jason's answer, asked.
“That maid?”
“She died. She never revealed the reason she came to the palace until the very end.”
"Yes?'"
The original purpose of the maid who intruded into the palace under someone's orders could not have been Elizabeth.
Not only was her corpse displayed in the square, but even in the palace, only a few people knew that Ellie was alive.
“Yes, then I’ll go out now.”
"Yes."
After Jason leaves, silence falls over the room.
It was while Carsis was fiddling with his fingers as if he was deep in thought.
A man appeared in a room where no one was expected.
“Your appearance has improved in the few days I haven’t seen you.”
“...”
Carsis looked at the owner of the voice with indifferent eyes.
Silver hair that seems to reflect moonlight and eyes as blue as a clear lake.
“Isaac.”
He is the leader of the Linneas, and the man Ellie had once desperately sought after.
Isaac approached Carsis with natural gestures.
“I heard that our Queen never leaves her room.”
Then, before he knew it, he sat down at the desk where Carsis was and smiled.
“No, should I tell you that she can’t come out?”
As Isaac spoke, glancing at the pen on the desk with his finger, Carsis frowned as if he found him annoying.
But regardless, Isaac shrugged and handed him a small piece of paper.
“What is this?”
“It was a secret letter your master sent me. You know, you and I were closer than you think.”
At the same time, Isaac winked one eye.
Carsis, who had become displeased in an instant, frowned and opened the note Isaac had handed him.
I would like to order a brooch made from emeralds from the eastern Hallstatt region, so please stop by the palace.
In the past, the location of the emerald mine that Ellie had handed over to Isaac had not yet been made public to the world.
Because of this, only Isaac and Ellie know that emeralds are produced in Eastern Hallstatt.
Delarera's staff took advantage of this in case the letter was read to others.
Just to make it look like they're just ordering a normal jewelry item.
Carsis, who was scanning the note with his eyes, soon crumpled the paper.
The paper, badly damaged by his cruel hands, soon fell to the floor.
“The young lady trusts and relies on me more than I thought. More than you.”
Isaac seemed determined to do so. He began to gently scratch Carsis's insides.
“That’s why I came here to rescue her.”
"Bulshit."
He cut Isaac off with a short word.
Carsis glared at Isaac, who was pretending to be close to Ellie.
“Why don’t you just do your job properly? You still haven’t even figured out the Crown Prince’s whereabouts.”
“Oh my, that doesn’t sound like something you should be saying, having lost the Emperor’s body.”
“Isaac.”
When Carsis called out to him with a chilling air, Isaac finally waved his hand and said that he was joking.
“The Crown Prince hasn’t contacted me yet. It seems he’s hiding because he lost contact with the maid he sent here. Just wait for now. The Crown Prince will definitely contact me.”
Because everything was designed to be that way.
He spoke with confidence.
In the first place, Linneas itself was a place established to secretly prepare for rebellion.
While Linneas supported the rebellion from behind, he created the image of an ordinary information broker who would do anything for money.
Even if the Emperor or Crown Prince survives the rebellion and escapes, they wait for them to come back on their own two feet.
The first thing that surprised Isaac, who had been through all kinds of hardships as the money-obsessed information master, was when Ellie came to see him.
She came all of a sudden and said she would stop the rebellion.
If Carsis hadn't warned him in advance, he would have said seriously that such a joke wasn't funny.
Isaac, who was reminiscing about the past, looked at Carsis.
“But was it really necessary to kill Duke Cretian like that? She wanted to save him. And she wanted it so desperately.”
Carsis stared into space for a moment at Isaac's question before answering.
“You are just mistaken.”
Then he got up from his seat and looked out the window.
The fresh scent of grass wafted in from outside the window as if to tell them that summer was gradually approaching.
“I was just doing something that she had to finish herself someday.”
Of course, he didn't intend to go that far.
It was her mistake not to tell Jenna anything.
By the time he arrived at the palace, everything had already happened.
But it's already spilled milk.
Regret itself was an unnecessary waste of emotion.
Isaac shook his head as he looked at Carsis, who was looking outside with an indifferent gaze.
“I’ve felt this way for a while now, but you don’t seem to think about the consequences. If he holds you responsible later, how are you going to handle the consequences?”
“Consequences?”
One corner of Carsis's mouth twitched as if he had heard something funny.
“I will gladly give her my cheek.”
Anything more than that is fine.
***
A night when darkness has fallen deeply.
A woman was moaning softly through the white canopy.
The person who was sweating so much that her thin chemise was soaked was me.
Am I having another nightmare?
I looked quite distressed as I tossed and turned in bed.
"No."
My mind was completely confused.
My whole body was boiling with heat as if it was on fire, and I felt heavy as if a heavy rock was sitting on me.
It hurts. It hurts so much.
At that time, I just hoped that someone would quickly save me from this nightmare, from this pain.
A cool warmth touched my body.
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