“...But Your Majesty, does the Magic Tower Lord have such an ability?”
Raphael asked with a troubled expression.
“Maybe not? What do you think, Empress?”
Linel tilted her head at me.
“It seems like he can keep you awake for about three days, but that’s not right.”
“Isn’t that right? Isn’t that too immoral?”
“Many eyes are watching.”
“But Prince Tesla tried to do something even more immoral and ended up like that?”
Linel said, straightening the collar of my uniform.
“But we can’t be the same people.”
In fact, I welcomed his opinion with open arms, but if that happened, the Magic Tower Lord could have been in trouble for no reason.
In fact, Linel didn’t really seem to be ordering me to convey that.
He must have expressed his antipathy toward Prince Tesla by saying so.
“What’s happening with Macrom?”
Linel asked Raphael.
“It’s the same as usual. When I asked him about yesterday, he kept his mouth shut and said that he was the one who stabbed him, so I couldn’t ask him any more.”
“I see.”
Linel nodded.
“Oh, I was worried about how Bonis was doing.”
“Anyway, honestly, you crazy bastard, you rascal.”
He chuckled and then went out the door with a serious expression.
“Let’s go to Prince Tesla’s room now.”
When we arrived, some of the guests had already heard the news and gathered in Prince Tesla’s room.
Beside the bed, the magician Big was dressing Prince Tesla’s wound, and Bellos was watching from the side.
“Are you here, Your Majesty? Your Majesty, the Empress?”
“Really? So you tried to rape the Empress’s maid while sober?”
“!”
The eyes of the guests in the room widened at his words.
“T-T-rape, Your Majesty! It’s unfair. Did Bonis say that? That absolutely did not happen!”
Prince Tesla was about to jump out of bed.
“Look at that. Bonis framed my brother!”
Princess Resilia also raised her voice.
“Raphael, go and bring Lady Bonis and Commander Macrom.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Prince Tesla’s head tilted at Linel’s order.
Commander Macrom looked at him as if asking why he had called them.
After a while, Bonis arrived first, and a few minutes later, Commander Macrom came in with his arms held by the knights.
Prince Tesla’s gaze upon Bonis was not kind, but upon seeing Commander Macrom, he looked as if he was asking why he had been called here.
Linel glanced at Bonis once in a while, and then recalled last night’s events while Prince Tesla and the others watched.
“The Prince was drunk yesterday and forcibly dragged Lady Bonis, whom he had met by chance in the hallway, into the reception room. Is that right?”
“...Not by force!”
“Quiet. You can argue after hearing what I have to say. This goes for Lady Bonis and Macrom as well.”
Linel raised his index finger to point at Prince Tesla, silencing him from speaking, and continued.
“His Highness dragged Young Lady into the reception room and attempted to rape her, but Young Lady screamed and Commander Macrom, who was nearby, came into the reception room. Does everyone agree to this point?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“?”
Commander Macrom and Bonis answered at the same time, but Prince Tesla stared at the Commander.
“Macrom, you said that you stabbed the Prince in the side with a dagger while you were separating the two. Is that true?”
He asked the captain sternly.
“Commander Macrom?”
Prince Tesla looked at Commander Macrom with his eyebrows raised, wondering what on earth he was talking about.
He is such a quick-witted and cunning person.
The Prince seemed to have figured out how this was resolved after he passed out last night.
However, Prince Tesla seemed to be wondering about Commander Macrom’s sacrifice.
He seemed to be wondering why the Commander was trying to take the blame for the murder instead of Bonis.
“According to Macrom, he didn’t know it was the Prince because he was blind. Even if he was blind, he stabbed a person, and even a royal family member of another country, so Macrom was stripped of all his authority and position because of what happened last night. He even had to give up his position as the Empress’s personal escort. Prince, is there anything wrong with Macrom’s statement?”
Prince Tesla looked at me for a moment and made a strange expression.
It was obvious that he was thinking about how to say it for his own benefit.
If Commander Macrom had nothing to do with last night’s incident, Bonis would be punished, but that wouldn’t benefit Prince Tesla at all.
However, if it were Commander Macrom, it would be a different story.
First of all, the knight guarding me would be gone.
Furthermore, it would be more honorable for the Prince himself to say that the blind Commander misunderstood him and made a mistake, rather than that he was attacked by a woman.
“...That’s right. I was just trying to chat with Lady Bonis and had a small fight, but I think Commander Macrom misunderstood something.”
Shameless bastard.
Prince Tesla’s acting was quite convincing.
Everyone in the room nodded to the Prince’s words and whispered that Commander Macrom, who had lost his sight, could have easily misunderstood the woman’s screams.
The truth was being covered up.
“Even if he made a mistake because he was blind, his crime cannot be considered light.”
Linel began to conclude.
“Macrom will be stripped of his position as I ordered yesterday, and he will be guarded by the knights at the back of the procession. He will be under surveillance throughout the Continental Hunting Competition, and he will be given an appropriate punishment when he returns to his home country.”
Bonis, standing next to me, opened her mouth.
Her expression seemed to indicate that Linel’s decision was a bit excessive, but Commander Macrom was silently bowing her head.
“What if he runs away?”
Princess Resilia suddenly interjected.
“There is no need to worry about running away. If Macrom were to leave the procession, I, the Emperor of the Lapion Empire, will take responsibility. Prince, do you have any objections?”
Linel looked at Princess Resilia as he spoke, then turned his gaze to Prince Tesla to ask for his opinion.
“No, Your Majesty.”
Prince Tesla also nodded in agreement with his decision and lowered his gaze.
“Yes, then let’s leave now.”
The sky was covered in dark clouds even before we set off today.
In the end, Prince Tesla got on the carriage, and Commander Macrom was taken out to the end of the procession, where he was detained behind the carriage, where the luggage was loaded under the guard of the knights.
“Commander Macrom, will he be okay?”
“This is the best way. It would have been easier if Prince Tesla had just died.”
Linel said with a regretful tone.
I looked back at the carriage that Bonis was riding in, swallowing my laughter.
“I think Bonis is suffering from guilt.”
“Then tell her to be nice to Macrom. Thanks to the dagger that Macrom gave her, she was able to avoid trouble, and the owner of the dagger was punished instead.”
“I didn’t know that the Commander would think of Bonis that much. What are you planning to do when you return to your home country?”
“I can only treat him as a criminal until the hunting competition is over. When we return to the empire, what does Prince Tesla have to know? It’s my country.”
Linel shrugged and replied.
“However, there are other countries’ dignitaries watching during the hunting competition, so there’s nothing I can do. This was the best I could do as the Emperor of the Lapion Empire.”
I completely agreed with him.
If Linel hadn’t made this decision, Prince Tesla would have somehow covered up his shameless actions.
Then Bonis would have been the only one who would have been wronged.
If it weren’t for Commander Macrom’s sacrifice and Linel’s determination, the situation would have become more complicated.
“It didn’t stab you deeply, but how is the wound?”
Roxana asked, glancing down at Logan’s thigh as he limped to meet her.
“Yes, I think it will heal quickly thanks to your consideration.”
Logan’s tone was prickly, but she ignored it.
“This is the reply the Magic Tower Master sent me. He probably sent you a separate letter, too, right?”
She handed Logan the reply from Bellos.
Logan looked down at the letter containing Bellos’s permission to make the ‘red potion’.
Of course, just as Roxana had said, Bellos had sent the letter to him first, via the crow.
“I went to the continent yesterday using teleportation at the witch’s house.”
Roxana sat down on the chair and brought up the story of her visit to the villa yesterday.
Logan also knew that fact from Bellos’s letter.
However.
“I met your daughter there.”
He couldn’t help but open his mouth when he heard that he had met Bonis.
“Her...you saw Bonis?”
Roxana’s expression clearly showed that he was worried that Roxana had harmed Bonis.
“She looks a lot like you. I told Miss Bonis about you. She cried when I told her that she had seen blood that she didn’t have to because you didn’t cooperate with me.”
“Your Highness!”
“Miss Bonis has also realized that her life depends on her father. So you shouldn’t disappoint your daughter anymore, right?”
“...how did she look?”
Logan asked, lowering his head.
He wondered if she resented him, if she missed her worthless father even a little, but he didn’t feel like asking in detail.
“She misses you. I don’t understand.”
She told him honestly, just as she saw it.
Hot tears welled up in Logan’s blunt eyes.
Is this what family love is?
Roxana looked at Logan, recalling Bonis’ face yesterday.
She was a little surprised that the two of them had similar expressions when they thought of each other.
She had enjoyed everything without being envious of others, but she had never experienced what others took for granted.
Family love. It was an emotion she had never felt or experienced.
“Why are you all making such a fuss?”
That was why she was a little irritated.
Her stomach swelled as she thought that maybe she was born with a destiny of not being able to have all the kinds of love in the world.
So she decided to try them one by one.
“When can I drink the red potion?”
Roxana asked Logan.
“I’ve already made it.”
Logan got up from his chair, limped over to the lab table, opened the wooden box on it, and took out the red potion.
Roxana’s eyes, which were proud and unruffled, wavered when she saw the red potion.
“Take it.”
With slightly trembling hands, she received the red potion from Logan.
“When... can I drink it?”
“Drink it now.”
Everyone except for Commander Macrom, Bonis, and Prince Tesla, who had a long lifeline, was enjoying the afternoon of the Continental Hunting Competition.
Before going out to hunt big game in earnest, the guests chatted among themselves.
They shot arrows at small animals such as rabbits and pigeons, threw daggers, and laughed when they hit, and sighed and laughed when they missed.
I was worried about Bonis, but I believed that Rosie and Sharon would take good care of her instead of me, since they were riding in the carriage with her.
The sky, which had been cloudy when we left the villa, was now covered with dark clouds.
I looked up at the sky and saw a fairly large falcon flying over the procession.
“I’ll try to hit it!”
Emperor Katria eagerly pulled the bowstring toward the falcon.
Everyone’s eyes turned to the sky, where the falcon was.
The arrow that flew towards the falcon missed, grazed its wing.
“Oh my!”
“What a shame!”
Laughter erupted here and there, but everyone felt sorry because it almost hit the falcon.
The falcon, surprised by the arrow that flew at it, took a leisurely flight, then quickly flapped its wings and flew to the front of the procession.
But...
Kkeue-ek!
A monster suddenly appeared from somewhere in the forest on the other side and bit the falcon out of the air.
To be exact, the falcon’s neck and wings.
The monster had two heads. And judging by the snake-like shape of its head, that was...
“Galaco!”
One of the knights shouted.
Raphael asked with a troubled expression.
“Maybe not? What do you think, Empress?”
Linel tilted her head at me.
“It seems like he can keep you awake for about three days, but that’s not right.”
“Isn’t that right? Isn’t that too immoral?”
“Many eyes are watching.”
“But Prince Tesla tried to do something even more immoral and ended up like that?”
Linel said, straightening the collar of my uniform.
“But we can’t be the same people.”
In fact, I welcomed his opinion with open arms, but if that happened, the Magic Tower Lord could have been in trouble for no reason.
In fact, Linel didn’t really seem to be ordering me to convey that.
He must have expressed his antipathy toward Prince Tesla by saying so.
“What’s happening with Macrom?”
Linel asked Raphael.
“It’s the same as usual. When I asked him about yesterday, he kept his mouth shut and said that he was the one who stabbed him, so I couldn’t ask him any more.”
“I see.”
Linel nodded.
“Oh, I was worried about how Bonis was doing.”
“Anyway, honestly, you crazy bastard, you rascal.”
He chuckled and then went out the door with a serious expression.
“Let’s go to Prince Tesla’s room now.”
***
When we arrived, some of the guests had already heard the news and gathered in Prince Tesla’s room.
Beside the bed, the magician Big was dressing Prince Tesla’s wound, and Bellos was watching from the side.
“Are you here, Your Majesty? Your Majesty, the Empress?”
When Grand Duke Martins bowed to him and me, everyone in the room looked at us and greeted us.
“I heard that His Highness regained consciousness.”
Linel went straight to Bellos and asked.
“Yes, the Prince regained consciousness a little while ago. It seems that he will have to use a carriage for the time being, as it is difficult to travel on horseback in this condition.”
When Bellos calmly finished reporting to him, Prince Tesla looked up at Linel with a frown.
“Your Majesty, I am sorry to show you this.”
“No. Do you remember what happened last night?”
“Yes! I remember it clearly.”
Prince Tesla put strength into his voice and made an indignant expression.
“Thank goodness. You were so drunk that I was worried you wouldn’t remember.”
Linel deliberately mentioned alcohol when asking.
“...I didn’t drink that much.”
“I heard that His Highness regained consciousness.”
Linel went straight to Bellos and asked.
“Yes, the Prince regained consciousness a little while ago. It seems that he will have to use a carriage for the time being, as it is difficult to travel on horseback in this condition.”
When Bellos calmly finished reporting to him, Prince Tesla looked up at Linel with a frown.
“Your Majesty, I am sorry to show you this.”
“No. Do you remember what happened last night?”
“Yes! I remember it clearly.”
Prince Tesla put strength into his voice and made an indignant expression.
“Thank goodness. You were so drunk that I was worried you wouldn’t remember.”
Linel deliberately mentioned alcohol when asking.
“...I didn’t drink that much.”
“Really? So you tried to rape the Empress’s maid while sober?”
“!”
The eyes of the guests in the room widened at his words.
“T-T-rape, Your Majesty! It’s unfair. Did Bonis say that? That absolutely did not happen!”
Prince Tesla was about to jump out of bed.
“Look at that. Bonis framed my brother!”
Princess Resilia also raised her voice.
“Raphael, go and bring Lady Bonis and Commander Macrom.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Prince Tesla’s head tilted at Linel’s order.
Commander Macrom looked at him as if asking why he had called them.
After a while, Bonis arrived first, and a few minutes later, Commander Macrom came in with his arms held by the knights.
Prince Tesla’s gaze upon Bonis was not kind, but upon seeing Commander Macrom, he looked as if he was asking why he had been called here.
Linel glanced at Bonis once in a while, and then recalled last night’s events while Prince Tesla and the others watched.
“The Prince was drunk yesterday and forcibly dragged Lady Bonis, whom he had met by chance in the hallway, into the reception room. Is that right?”
“...Not by force!”
“Quiet. You can argue after hearing what I have to say. This goes for Lady Bonis and Macrom as well.”
Linel raised his index finger to point at Prince Tesla, silencing him from speaking, and continued.
“His Highness dragged Young Lady into the reception room and attempted to rape her, but Young Lady screamed and Commander Macrom, who was nearby, came into the reception room. Does everyone agree to this point?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“?”
Commander Macrom and Bonis answered at the same time, but Prince Tesla stared at the Commander.
“Macrom, you said that you stabbed the Prince in the side with a dagger while you were separating the two. Is that true?”
He asked the captain sternly.
“Commander Macrom?”
Prince Tesla looked at Commander Macrom with his eyebrows raised, wondering what on earth he was talking about.
He is such a quick-witted and cunning person.
The Prince seemed to have figured out how this was resolved after he passed out last night.
However, Prince Tesla seemed to be wondering about Commander Macrom’s sacrifice.
He seemed to be wondering why the Commander was trying to take the blame for the murder instead of Bonis.
“According to Macrom, he didn’t know it was the Prince because he was blind. Even if he was blind, he stabbed a person, and even a royal family member of another country, so Macrom was stripped of all his authority and position because of what happened last night. He even had to give up his position as the Empress’s personal escort. Prince, is there anything wrong with Macrom’s statement?”
Prince Tesla looked at me for a moment and made a strange expression.
It was obvious that he was thinking about how to say it for his own benefit.
If Commander Macrom had nothing to do with last night’s incident, Bonis would be punished, but that wouldn’t benefit Prince Tesla at all.
However, if it were Commander Macrom, it would be a different story.
First of all, the knight guarding me would be gone.
Furthermore, it would be more honorable for the Prince himself to say that the blind Commander misunderstood him and made a mistake, rather than that he was attacked by a woman.
“...That’s right. I was just trying to chat with Lady Bonis and had a small fight, but I think Commander Macrom misunderstood something.”
Shameless bastard.
Prince Tesla’s acting was quite convincing.
Everyone in the room nodded to the Prince’s words and whispered that Commander Macrom, who had lost his sight, could have easily misunderstood the woman’s screams.
The truth was being covered up.
“Even if he made a mistake because he was blind, his crime cannot be considered light.”
Linel began to conclude.
“Macrom will be stripped of his position as I ordered yesterday, and he will be guarded by the knights at the back of the procession. He will be under surveillance throughout the Continental Hunting Competition, and he will be given an appropriate punishment when he returns to his home country.”
Bonis, standing next to me, opened her mouth.
Her expression seemed to indicate that Linel’s decision was a bit excessive, but Commander Macrom was silently bowing her head.
“What if he runs away?”
Princess Resilia suddenly interjected.
“There is no need to worry about running away. If Macrom were to leave the procession, I, the Emperor of the Lapion Empire, will take responsibility. Prince, do you have any objections?”
Linel looked at Princess Resilia as he spoke, then turned his gaze to Prince Tesla to ask for his opinion.
“No, Your Majesty.”
Prince Tesla also nodded in agreement with his decision and lowered his gaze.
“Yes, then let’s leave now.”
***
The sky was covered in dark clouds even before we set off today.
In the end, Prince Tesla got on the carriage, and Commander Macrom was taken out to the end of the procession, where he was detained behind the carriage, where the luggage was loaded under the guard of the knights.
“Commander Macrom, will he be okay?”
“This is the best way. It would have been easier if Prince Tesla had just died.”
Linel said with a regretful tone.
I looked back at the carriage that Bonis was riding in, swallowing my laughter.
“I think Bonis is suffering from guilt.”
“Then tell her to be nice to Macrom. Thanks to the dagger that Macrom gave her, she was able to avoid trouble, and the owner of the dagger was punished instead.”
“I didn’t know that the Commander would think of Bonis that much. What are you planning to do when you return to your home country?”
“I can only treat him as a criminal until the hunting competition is over. When we return to the empire, what does Prince Tesla have to know? It’s my country.”
Linel shrugged and replied.
“However, there are other countries’ dignitaries watching during the hunting competition, so there’s nothing I can do. This was the best I could do as the Emperor of the Lapion Empire.”
I completely agreed with him.
If Linel hadn’t made this decision, Prince Tesla would have somehow covered up his shameless actions.
Then Bonis would have been the only one who would have been wronged.
If it weren’t for Commander Macrom’s sacrifice and Linel’s determination, the situation would have become more complicated.
***
“It didn’t stab you deeply, but how is the wound?”
Roxana asked, glancing down at Logan’s thigh as he limped to meet her.
“Yes, I think it will heal quickly thanks to your consideration.”
Logan’s tone was prickly, but she ignored it.
“This is the reply the Magic Tower Master sent me. He probably sent you a separate letter, too, right?”
She handed Logan the reply from Bellos.
Logan looked down at the letter containing Bellos’s permission to make the ‘red potion’.
Of course, just as Roxana had said, Bellos had sent the letter to him first, via the crow.
“I went to the continent yesterday using teleportation at the witch’s house.”
Roxana sat down on the chair and brought up the story of her visit to the villa yesterday.
Logan also knew that fact from Bellos’s letter.
However.
“I met your daughter there.”
He couldn’t help but open his mouth when he heard that he had met Bonis.
“Her...you saw Bonis?”
Roxana’s expression clearly showed that he was worried that Roxana had harmed Bonis.
“She looks a lot like you. I told Miss Bonis about you. She cried when I told her that she had seen blood that she didn’t have to because you didn’t cooperate with me.”
“Your Highness!”
“Miss Bonis has also realized that her life depends on her father. So you shouldn’t disappoint your daughter anymore, right?”
“...how did she look?”
Logan asked, lowering his head.
He wondered if she resented him, if she missed her worthless father even a little, but he didn’t feel like asking in detail.
“She misses you. I don’t understand.”
She told him honestly, just as she saw it.
Hot tears welled up in Logan’s blunt eyes.
Is this what family love is?
Roxana looked at Logan, recalling Bonis’ face yesterday.
She was a little surprised that the two of them had similar expressions when they thought of each other.
She had enjoyed everything without being envious of others, but she had never experienced what others took for granted.
Family love. It was an emotion she had never felt or experienced.
“Why are you all making such a fuss?”
That was why she was a little irritated.
Her stomach swelled as she thought that maybe she was born with a destiny of not being able to have all the kinds of love in the world.
So she decided to try them one by one.
“When can I drink the red potion?”
Roxana asked Logan.
“I’ve already made it.”
Logan got up from his chair, limped over to the lab table, opened the wooden box on it, and took out the red potion.
Roxana’s eyes, which were proud and unruffled, wavered when she saw the red potion.
“Take it.”
With slightly trembling hands, she received the red potion from Logan.
“When... can I drink it?”
“Drink it now.”
***
Everyone except for Commander Macrom, Bonis, and Prince Tesla, who had a long lifeline, was enjoying the afternoon of the Continental Hunting Competition.
Before going out to hunt big game in earnest, the guests chatted among themselves.
They shot arrows at small animals such as rabbits and pigeons, threw daggers, and laughed when they hit, and sighed and laughed when they missed.
I was worried about Bonis, but I believed that Rosie and Sharon would take good care of her instead of me, since they were riding in the carriage with her.
The sky, which had been cloudy when we left the villa, was now covered with dark clouds.
I looked up at the sky and saw a fairly large falcon flying over the procession.
“I’ll try to hit it!”
Emperor Katria eagerly pulled the bowstring toward the falcon.
Everyone’s eyes turned to the sky, where the falcon was.
The arrow that flew towards the falcon missed, grazed its wing.
“Oh my!”
“What a shame!”
Laughter erupted here and there, but everyone felt sorry because it almost hit the falcon.
The falcon, surprised by the arrow that flew at it, took a leisurely flight, then quickly flapped its wings and flew to the front of the procession.
But...
Kkeue-ek!
A monster suddenly appeared from somewhere in the forest on the other side and bit the falcon out of the air.
To be exact, the falcon’s neck and wings.
The monster had two heads. And judging by the snake-like shape of its head, that was...
“Galaco!”
One of the knights shouted.
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