I couldn't figure out why Yvonne was so reluctant to tell her family about their work.
So he looked at Yvonne with resentment, but she was especially pretty today and was very resolute.
- You'd better go back quickly. Climb down through the window.
She said that they would soon begin tracking down the person related to the familiar at the Palace of Peace, so he would return to the Iels Mansion for now and contact them later.
Rudnine nodded at her request and went back down to the window.
Seeing off the dazzling Yvonne, who was waving her pure white hands.
And then he got anxious again.
It was so sweet and good that he wanted to lock her away and just kiss her forever...
They broke up so quickly.
Her lips, her kiss...
It was so much better than he had ever heard or imagined; he thought he was going crazy.
No, it must be because it's her.
After swallowing her lips and asking for the prize, she barely managed to get away...
He wanted to ask for more.
He had to tie his crazy reins tighter so Yvonne wouldn't hate him.
“Ha... It’s difficult.”
Rudnine groaned in pain, hitting his forehead on the windowsill.
First of all, the only fish.
She said he became a special person, but he wasn't a lover yet.
There was a long way to go.
He thought this level of relationship would be enough, but he ended up asking for a kiss as a reward, which only made him more greedy.
“This crazy guy.”
He muttered to himself, then raised his head and rubbed his forehead.
First, he had to maintain his composure as much as possible and solve the problem at hand.
He climbed lightly onto the windowsill, sat down, and looked back and forth between the direction of the Argenthor mansion and the direction of the imperial palace.
Empress Giselle is definitely a warlock, but Yvonne is not yet.
But as he witnessed firsthand in the lab, she was raising a familiar, and that familiar even healed Yvonne.
So is Yvonne a warlock?
Something seemed strange about that.
Because Empress Giselle and Yvonne are in conflict.
As proof, she almost died.
'Shit...'
Rudnine closed his eyes tightly, trying to forget the memory of Yvonne lying in front of the glass greenhouse and her body temperature cooling down from the poison.
It was a horrible nightmare he never wants to repeat.
How on earth did she end up in such a near-death situation?
He heard that Yvonne is a great magician.
“Come to think of it...”
He blinked and muttered without realizing it.
“I’ve never seen Yvonne use magic properly.”
It was definitely weird.
...He was actually close to her.
When he tried to touch the familiar before, Yvonne accidentally released magic power at him, but it was not enough to be called magic.
Rudnine looked back on the past to check if his common sense was wrong.
'Are the wizards in the capital city not very good at using magic?'
First of all, the few wizards in the Iels territory use magic frequently.
But most of the wizards he witnessed when he came to the capital were the same.
When he went to the Argenthoz Mansion, the drunken Duke of Barden showed off his magical skills and performed some strange illusion magic.
When Duke Argenthoz met him at the Magic Tower, he demonstrated a high-level magic called teleportation, which allowed him to move directly to his office.
Besides this, wizards often used minor magic.
The more the wizards lived in the capital, the more common it was for them to use life magic that was convenient for their daily lives.
But Yvonne was not like the average wizard.
She always walked or rode in a carriage and did not use magic.
There were also dangerous things that required the use of magic...
'I caught the familiar Kalan in the Nasiel district.'
But she could only beat the familiar with her bare hands.
If you're a wizard, wouldn't it be your instinct to use magic first?
The more he thought about it, the stranger it became.
Rudnine, who had been thinking hard, rested his chin on his hand and narrowed his eyes.
"What..."
At that very moment, Ant entered Rudnine's office carrying a stack of documents.
Rudnine, who was pondering whether his aide came in or not, continued to mutter.
“Then, Yvonne isn’t a wizard... but a fairy? I guess she is.”
“...Huh? What did you just say?”
Ant, who was putting down the documents, heard Rudnine's words to himself and was startled into a stiff freeze.
“Hey, she's a fairy?!”
“Yes. That’s right. Isn’t she a fairy who existed in ancient times and then disappeared?”
Ant frowned, not knowing how to react to his superior, who nodded with a serious expression and asked for agreement.
“I heard fairies have wings?”
“Yvonne lost her wings, unfortunately.”
“Oh, is that so?”
Seeing Rudnine decisively reach a conclusion, Ant was at a loss for words and answered soullessly.
What is this? The answer is already set to be a fairy, so you just have to answer.
'I'm going crazy.'
In fact, Ant has never actually met Princess Argenthoz.
A fairy?! According to the rumors he's heard, it's not a fairy, it's closer to a mad dog?
Agent Horse, or Silver Rose, was born with a beautiful appearance similar to that of her bloodline, but her personality and conduct were so different...
“It means that it is pretty and beautiful.”
“Oh, yes.”
“Good and cute.”
"Yes..."
'Why on earth would you do that?!'
Ant, now sizing up the state of Rudnine, who was openly praising Princess Argenthoz as a fairy, finally caught on.
It's been strange since morning.
Ant's mouth fell open.
“S-Seriously?! Did you succeed in confessing?”
“Well, half of it?”
Rudnine smiles, resting his chin on his hand and looking towards the Argenthoz Townhouse.
If others had seen him smiling brightly in the morning sunlight, they would have exclaimed in admiration, saying that he was a picture in itself.
But in Ant's eyes, he was terminally ill with lovesickness - in other words, in a serious condition.
"What's a half-success?! Did Princess Argenthoz openly declare that she's going to toy with our Duke?"
He was amazed.
No, how did our Duke end up so crazy about Princess Argenthoz?
He was sure.
That Princess is clearly not a fairy, but a witch!
But Ant, who had come to the capital and had become somewhat more discerning, barely managed to swallow his words.
It was because he thought that if he made a mistake, his neck could be blown off.
It wasn't a joke.
The current Rudnine Iels is not the generous, affectionate, and gentle Duke Iels that people commonly know and praise.
Is that what happens when a man falls in love?
Or maybe it was Princess Yvonne Argenthoz, or rather, that witch, who used a strange magic on the Duke, that caused him to change like that.
As an Ant who had never been in love before, he couldn't understand it at all.
The current Rudnine was extremely extreme and sensitive when it came to Princess Argenthoz.
That was what his aide, Ant Rudican, knew best.
'For example, we can see this in the case of the Gratti family, who urgently sent a message during the banquet last night and ordered that it be dealt with.'
The Count Gratti's family.
It was a family that Rudnine had been keeping an eye on for a long time.
It was because of the third daughter, Melovy Grati, who had been openly gossiping about Princess Argenthoz, that she ended up causing a big accident at the banquet yesterday.
The level of gossip had gone too far, and Rudnine ordered Ant to inflict the retaliation he had prepared.
Ant carried out the order given by his superior and master without hesitation.
It was safe to say that Young Lady Melovy's family was completely finished as of today.
The biggest client of the weapons trade, the lifeline of the Count Gratti family, has just cut off business.
That business partner is none other than the Iels estate.
There were many mines producing iron and weapons, so it was a matter of trading with other merchants, and there was no problem in the Iels' territory.
However, the Count Gratti family, having lost a major business partner, was struck by a bolt from the blue in the morning.
To those who cried and complained, he simply sent a short reply saying that he was ending the deal because he was not satisfied with the weapon forging method and the quality of the iron.
But, of course, that wasn't the reason.
Ant scratched the back of his head.
"The reason I broke off the deal is that the Duke was upset because of that house's daughter. What would happen if he found out? Well, it doesn't matter if he finds out."
Anyway, since that severely lovesick patient will start openly protecting and protecting Yvonne Argenthoz from now on, rumors will start spreading like wildfire.
Still, Ant was a little relieved to hear that he was designated as an official fish, even though he thought he was just one of the many fish managed by the fish farm.
He stood before Rudnine with a more solemn expression than when he went to subdue the monsters.
“Since it has come to this anyway, you must definitely capture the Princess’s heart.”
Interest returned to Rudnine's eyes, which had previously shown no interest in Ant.
And asked seriously.
“...Do you know any good methods?”
"What?! How would I know?! I don't even have a woman to take care of me! I'm so busy with work, working overtime every day, every day!"
After coming down to the capital, more work became available, and Ant was confined to the Iels' mansion, unable to go out, and he cried and vented his frustration.
The work around Crown Prince Adrian, Empress Giselle, the Duke of Cardin's family, and even the investigation of the black magician increased exponentially.
Of course, Ant wasn't the only one working.
The Duke of Iels's family has had a secret intelligence organization under his direct control since ancient times.
After becoming a Duke, Rudnine first moved the secret intelligence organization of the Iels family, 'Last Moon'.
They achieved the result of catching the tails of the dark magicians who had been hiding tightly.
However, Ant, the assistant who ultimately had to write reports to the Duke, had to work the most overtime.
He was so envious of Sword Master Rudnine, who came to the capital with him and did things like dating, working, and organizing the surroundings, but never got tired, even though he was busy running around.
“Why, why! Why did you choose such a weak person as your aide?”
But Rudnine didn't care whether Ant was lying on the desk and crying or not.
'It's a joke.'
From a young age, Ant Rudican stood out as a talented individual with both extraordinary intelligence and outstanding physical strength, and was trained to be the next aide to the Duke of Iels.
Of course, it was much better for one Baron Ant Rudican to handle it than for a hundred people to do it.
However, the grumbling mouth was a bit of a problem.
Rudnine could have sworn that Ant would be fine even if he stayed up all month without sleeping and worked overtime.
'Hmm. First of all...'
Rudnine, who had a firm belief in Ant, felt relieved and fell back into Yvonne's thoughts.
'Because Yvonne is a warlock, she hasn't used magic in front of me all this time?'
He's never seen her use magic before, so something is definitely off.
But it didn't make sense.
If she were a warlock, why was she attacked by a familiar in front of the Empress's glasshouse? The same thing happened with the familiar 'Kalan', who was on the shoulders of the Duke of Barden.
And most importantly, she was in conflict with Empress Giselle, a black magician.
Rudnine shook his head at the unconvincing hypothesis.
It was clear that Yvonne was keeping something important hidden.
So he looked at Yvonne with resentment, but she was especially pretty today and was very resolute.
- You'd better go back quickly. Climb down through the window.
She said that they would soon begin tracking down the person related to the familiar at the Palace of Peace, so he would return to the Iels Mansion for now and contact them later.
Rudnine nodded at her request and went back down to the window.
Seeing off the dazzling Yvonne, who was waving her pure white hands.
And then he got anxious again.
It was so sweet and good that he wanted to lock her away and just kiss her forever...
They broke up so quickly.
Her lips, her kiss...
It was so much better than he had ever heard or imagined; he thought he was going crazy.
No, it must be because it's her.
After swallowing her lips and asking for the prize, she barely managed to get away...
He wanted to ask for more.
He had to tie his crazy reins tighter so Yvonne wouldn't hate him.
“Ha... It’s difficult.”
Rudnine groaned in pain, hitting his forehead on the windowsill.
First of all, the only fish.
She said he became a special person, but he wasn't a lover yet.
There was a long way to go.
He thought this level of relationship would be enough, but he ended up asking for a kiss as a reward, which only made him more greedy.
“This crazy guy.”
He muttered to himself, then raised his head and rubbed his forehead.
First, he had to maintain his composure as much as possible and solve the problem at hand.
He climbed lightly onto the windowsill, sat down, and looked back and forth between the direction of the Argenthor mansion and the direction of the imperial palace.
Empress Giselle is definitely a warlock, but Yvonne is not yet.
But as he witnessed firsthand in the lab, she was raising a familiar, and that familiar even healed Yvonne.
So is Yvonne a warlock?
Something seemed strange about that.
Because Empress Giselle and Yvonne are in conflict.
As proof, she almost died.
'Shit...'
Rudnine closed his eyes tightly, trying to forget the memory of Yvonne lying in front of the glass greenhouse and her body temperature cooling down from the poison.
It was a horrible nightmare he never wants to repeat.
How on earth did she end up in such a near-death situation?
He heard that Yvonne is a great magician.
“Come to think of it...”
He blinked and muttered without realizing it.
“I’ve never seen Yvonne use magic properly.”
It was definitely weird.
...He was actually close to her.
When he tried to touch the familiar before, Yvonne accidentally released magic power at him, but it was not enough to be called magic.
Rudnine looked back on the past to check if his common sense was wrong.
'Are the wizards in the capital city not very good at using magic?'
First of all, the few wizards in the Iels territory use magic frequently.
But most of the wizards he witnessed when he came to the capital were the same.
When he went to the Argenthoz Mansion, the drunken Duke of Barden showed off his magical skills and performed some strange illusion magic.
When Duke Argenthoz met him at the Magic Tower, he demonstrated a high-level magic called teleportation, which allowed him to move directly to his office.
Besides this, wizards often used minor magic.
The more the wizards lived in the capital, the more common it was for them to use life magic that was convenient for their daily lives.
But Yvonne was not like the average wizard.
She always walked or rode in a carriage and did not use magic.
There were also dangerous things that required the use of magic...
'I caught the familiar Kalan in the Nasiel district.'
But she could only beat the familiar with her bare hands.
If you're a wizard, wouldn't it be your instinct to use magic first?
The more he thought about it, the stranger it became.
Rudnine, who had been thinking hard, rested his chin on his hand and narrowed his eyes.
"What..."
At that very moment, Ant entered Rudnine's office carrying a stack of documents.
Rudnine, who was pondering whether his aide came in or not, continued to mutter.
“Then, Yvonne isn’t a wizard... but a fairy? I guess she is.”
“...Huh? What did you just say?”
Ant, who was putting down the documents, heard Rudnine's words to himself and was startled into a stiff freeze.
“Hey, she's a fairy?!”
“Yes. That’s right. Isn’t she a fairy who existed in ancient times and then disappeared?”
Ant frowned, not knowing how to react to his superior, who nodded with a serious expression and asked for agreement.
“I heard fairies have wings?”
“Yvonne lost her wings, unfortunately.”
“Oh, is that so?”
Seeing Rudnine decisively reach a conclusion, Ant was at a loss for words and answered soullessly.
What is this? The answer is already set to be a fairy, so you just have to answer.
'I'm going crazy.'
In fact, Ant has never actually met Princess Argenthoz.
A fairy?! According to the rumors he's heard, it's not a fairy, it's closer to a mad dog?
Agent Horse, or Silver Rose, was born with a beautiful appearance similar to that of her bloodline, but her personality and conduct were so different...
“It means that it is pretty and beautiful.”
“Oh, yes.”
“Good and cute.”
"Yes..."
'Why on earth would you do that?!'
Ant, now sizing up the state of Rudnine, who was openly praising Princess Argenthoz as a fairy, finally caught on.
It's been strange since morning.
Ant's mouth fell open.
“S-Seriously?! Did you succeed in confessing?”
“Well, half of it?”
Rudnine smiles, resting his chin on his hand and looking towards the Argenthoz Townhouse.
If others had seen him smiling brightly in the morning sunlight, they would have exclaimed in admiration, saying that he was a picture in itself.
But in Ant's eyes, he was terminally ill with lovesickness - in other words, in a serious condition.
"What's a half-success?! Did Princess Argenthoz openly declare that she's going to toy with our Duke?"
He was amazed.
No, how did our Duke end up so crazy about Princess Argenthoz?
He was sure.
That Princess is clearly not a fairy, but a witch!
But Ant, who had come to the capital and had become somewhat more discerning, barely managed to swallow his words.
It was because he thought that if he made a mistake, his neck could be blown off.
It wasn't a joke.
The current Rudnine Iels is not the generous, affectionate, and gentle Duke Iels that people commonly know and praise.
Is that what happens when a man falls in love?
Or maybe it was Princess Yvonne Argenthoz, or rather, that witch, who used a strange magic on the Duke, that caused him to change like that.
As an Ant who had never been in love before, he couldn't understand it at all.
The current Rudnine was extremely extreme and sensitive when it came to Princess Argenthoz.
That was what his aide, Ant Rudican, knew best.
'For example, we can see this in the case of the Gratti family, who urgently sent a message during the banquet last night and ordered that it be dealt with.'
The Count Gratti's family.
It was a family that Rudnine had been keeping an eye on for a long time.
It was because of the third daughter, Melovy Grati, who had been openly gossiping about Princess Argenthoz, that she ended up causing a big accident at the banquet yesterday.
The level of gossip had gone too far, and Rudnine ordered Ant to inflict the retaliation he had prepared.
Ant carried out the order given by his superior and master without hesitation.
It was safe to say that Young Lady Melovy's family was completely finished as of today.
The biggest client of the weapons trade, the lifeline of the Count Gratti family, has just cut off business.
That business partner is none other than the Iels estate.
There were many mines producing iron and weapons, so it was a matter of trading with other merchants, and there was no problem in the Iels' territory.
However, the Count Gratti family, having lost a major business partner, was struck by a bolt from the blue in the morning.
To those who cried and complained, he simply sent a short reply saying that he was ending the deal because he was not satisfied with the weapon forging method and the quality of the iron.
But, of course, that wasn't the reason.
Ant scratched the back of his head.
"The reason I broke off the deal is that the Duke was upset because of that house's daughter. What would happen if he found out? Well, it doesn't matter if he finds out."
Anyway, since that severely lovesick patient will start openly protecting and protecting Yvonne Argenthoz from now on, rumors will start spreading like wildfire.
Still, Ant was a little relieved to hear that he was designated as an official fish, even though he thought he was just one of the many fish managed by the fish farm.
He stood before Rudnine with a more solemn expression than when he went to subdue the monsters.
“Since it has come to this anyway, you must definitely capture the Princess’s heart.”
Interest returned to Rudnine's eyes, which had previously shown no interest in Ant.
And asked seriously.
“...Do you know any good methods?”
"What?! How would I know?! I don't even have a woman to take care of me! I'm so busy with work, working overtime every day, every day!"
After coming down to the capital, more work became available, and Ant was confined to the Iels' mansion, unable to go out, and he cried and vented his frustration.
The work around Crown Prince Adrian, Empress Giselle, the Duke of Cardin's family, and even the investigation of the black magician increased exponentially.
Of course, Ant wasn't the only one working.
The Duke of Iels's family has had a secret intelligence organization under his direct control since ancient times.
After becoming a Duke, Rudnine first moved the secret intelligence organization of the Iels family, 'Last Moon'.
They achieved the result of catching the tails of the dark magicians who had been hiding tightly.
However, Ant, the assistant who ultimately had to write reports to the Duke, had to work the most overtime.
He was so envious of Sword Master Rudnine, who came to the capital with him and did things like dating, working, and organizing the surroundings, but never got tired, even though he was busy running around.
“Why, why! Why did you choose such a weak person as your aide?”
But Rudnine didn't care whether Ant was lying on the desk and crying or not.
'It's a joke.'
From a young age, Ant Rudican stood out as a talented individual with both extraordinary intelligence and outstanding physical strength, and was trained to be the next aide to the Duke of Iels.
Of course, it was much better for one Baron Ant Rudican to handle it than for a hundred people to do it.
However, the grumbling mouth was a bit of a problem.
Rudnine could have sworn that Ant would be fine even if he stayed up all month without sleeping and worked overtime.
'Hmm. First of all...'
Rudnine, who had a firm belief in Ant, felt relieved and fell back into Yvonne's thoughts.
'Because Yvonne is a warlock, she hasn't used magic in front of me all this time?'
He's never seen her use magic before, so something is definitely off.
But it didn't make sense.
If she were a warlock, why was she attacked by a familiar in front of the Empress's glasshouse? The same thing happened with the familiar 'Kalan', who was on the shoulders of the Duke of Barden.
And most importantly, she was in conflict with Empress Giselle, a black magician.
Rudnine shook his head at the unconvincing hypothesis.
It was clear that Yvonne was keeping something important hidden.
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