Late at night on the same day. Meridy Castle.
Alseid, with only a group of scouts, was secretly investigating the ashes of Meridy's nature.
Two of the crows of the scouting team that went on an independent investigation the day before did not return.
Someone must be interfering, so he couldn't lose the crow anymore.
Only one crow had picked up a small piece of stone from somewhere, and Alseid was worried about it.
A stone that shines strangely amber.
He knew one such stone, but he didn't want to judge it quickly.
Therefore, despite Caliph's discouragement, he directly entered the Meridy castle lord's room.
Alseid put the raven on the back of his arm and passed the stone back to his sharp beak.
"Stay in place."
He whispered, and the black bird flew away quietly without a sound of its wings.
Then he buried the stone in the ashes of the brazier.
Alseid took the pieces back, hid them in his pocket, and filled a small transparent glass jar with a handful of ashes from the brazier.
Hueeee.
Another scout, who had been attracting the attention of the Royal Guard from the outside, signaled with the sound of the wind.
Alseid led the scouts out of Meridy's chambers, and a few dark shadows scanned the ash-reduced upper floors.
"There is nothing we can do about investigations or anything. Even the royal investigators are reluctant to go in for fear that if they take a wrong step, they will collapse."
The words of the deputy lord of the castle were also false, and it is necessary to find out what the royal family is hiding.
Alseid, the piece of amber stone hidden in his arms, was firmly torn apart.
"I need to go back to the territory early in the morning."
At that moment, he never imagined that his second son, whom he trusted like a stone, had already vacated the castle.
***
"Gardilla."
As I could see the stars well last night, the blue sky was overhead.
I lay down on the bed Garcia had given me and watched her move up.
"Yes. Did you sleep well, baby?"
The doll Garcia made for me was lying quietly beside me, so I patted my stomach.
"I decided to call her Ce, name."
Garcia's lips made a soft arc.
"That's a really good name. Thank you for accepting Mr. Ce as a friend, Baby."
Ingram appeared out of nowhere and put in a postscript.
"Tetti! Tetti!"
Garcia asked in a strange voice.
"Do you believe in this Garcia?"
I nodded.
Because of my belief, I came to Garcia and told her about Edipa.
'Since you suffered in your previous life, you should have some eyes for people by now.'
Garcia happily held my hand.
"Then may I ask you a favor?"
"What?"
With a puzzled face, Garcia picked up Ce.
"You said you don't like witchcraft."
"Hmm?"
"If you allow me, I'd like to cast a protective spell on the doll. It can protect you even when I'm not watching."
I tilted my head, not knowing that she was going to cast a protective spell on the doll.
"Really?"
"If you allow me, I can do it."
Garcia's green eyes shone brighter in the morning sky.
She could have cast a spell on it as long as I slept. Even without my permission.
"Yes, yes."
I nodded, and Garcia put me down.
She put her palms on the doll's stomach and chanted a spell like the sound of the wind for a long time.
By the time I let go of it, I thought the doll would glow, but nothing happened.
Garcia grinned.
"Is Mr. Ce still a friend of Baby?"
I smile at the great shaman of Halias.
"Ah, this is my guardian."
A small hand gently fluttered the red hair on my forehead.
"Then please join me anytime, baby."
Just then, the escort shouted from under the tower.
"Nanny is here!"
***
After visiting Garcia, I felt at ease for a while.
However, as the sun went down, anxiety rose again.
I hugged her tightly, as Garcia had advised, and with my other hand, I fiddled with Theodore's now-wrinkled letter.
Shion suddenly appeared without knocking.
"Are you going to read it again? Aren't you actually reading properly? Shall I read to you?"
I just shook my head in annoyance, and Shion said in disappointment.
"Hah, I've been waiting for Theo to go on vacation, but he's already leaving. Garcia won't let me go out, and I'm locked up in the castle, and I'm bored."
Dorian interjected, laughing.
"Enjoy the moment, master. From next month, you won't be bored. The teacher is coming."
"Oh, it was from next month, right?"
"Yes. You wanted to learn a foreign language."
Shion replied bluntly
"I said I was going to learn the official language of the Tudmur Desert first. Jonan, as would be more useful."
"You're all going to have to learn anyway. Your eldest brother speaks everything."
"But Theo said Tudmour is hard to learn."
Well, Theodore, the youngest sword master on the continent, is fluent in foreign languages, and then there will be no place for Shion at all.
I shook my head involuntarily.
"Theo and Thion are different."
"What's going on?"
Shion glared at me, scaredly, as if he had misunderstood something.
I tried to make up for him before he became noisy.
"With brother Theo... Brother Thion is different."
However, Shion could not contain his excitement.
"You know what! Theo is a special person! The youngest sword master on the continent!"
Who doesn't?
I looked up at Shion in disgust and blurted out.
"Brother Thion is also special, the pride of the kingdom."
Of course, that was meant in the future.
Shion suddenly blushed in embarrassment.
"Huh? Yes... Oh, huh?"
Behind him, Dorian smiled brightly and frowned.
It seemed like they were praising me for doing a good job, but I was just telling the truth.
Tudmur and Jonanas are commonly spoken by highly educated nobles. I learned Jonanas in a previous life, but Shion later unearthed and reinterpreted Vint, the dead language of the province of Halias.
Even if he seems a little lacking now, he must have been born as a scholar to the core...
It turned out that he had survived being compared to his older and better brothers all the time.
'...You look like a poor guy.'
Dorian quickly calmed the mood.
"Yes, the pride of the kingdom."
***
Late the next night Alseid and Caliph entered the Stone Age.
"Have you been there, sir?"
Philip Halias, the lord of Stone Age Castle, was a man with great loyalty to his family.
When Alseid entrusted his entire castle to his younger brother, he was overwhelmed and never married, but he has been doing his best to protect the territory.
The fact that he did not marry often angered Alseid.
Alseid replied with a slightly tired face.
"Yes, I'm leaving again early in the morning."
"You should."
However, Philip held out a small dried note.
"Kai came in the daytime."
Alseid tilted his head at the name of his beloved falcon.
"Kai? Did Theodore send it?"
Then he unfolded the note and held it through a small lens.
He carefully read the grainy writing and wrinkled his face.
Caliph, who was beside him, called carefully.
"...father?"
Alseid crumpled the note into his arms and chewed it on his teeth.
"Rest tonight. We might not be able to rest tomorrow."
"What?"
There was still a long way to go. Caliph asked.
Alseid replied a little annoyedly
"Theodore has left for Jantar."
"Yes, father?"
He took out a note on his arms and gave it to Caliph along with a magnifying glass.
Behind him, who strode away into the guest room, Caliph held up the lens.
"The chief of the royal chamberlain came without a message and said he would wait for my father's return, so I had no way to hide Liana, so I went with him.
I received Garcia's advice earlier, but I am sorry that I could not fulfill the duties entrusted to me.
Theodore."
In a saying.
Unable to hide one of the children, he couldn't believe that sending Theodore away was Garcia's decision.
'I should have moved Meridy's child.'
Of course, just before leaving, his father forbade the children from going outside the castle.
'So he vacated the castle?'
In Caliph's mind, Theodore was still useless without a sword.
He can't even see a reason to protect the red-haired Princess Meridy, who can't be recognized as the youngest sister.
Everyone is working on things, so there is nothing to fix.
Caliph went to bed thinking so.
It will be a hard time for two days starting from tomorrow.
***
In the middle of the night, after two days of calm and defenselessness, I felt a thud.
'...Earthquake?'
I opened my eyes and quickly rolled down to the bed.
As soon as I put the soles of my feet on the floor, the door opened widely.
"Baby!"
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