Go ahead. Just wait until you get back and see me not at home, and then you'll be stomping your feet in frustration!
...With that mindset, I boldly packed my bags and ran away to a place!
“Vania?”
The Duke's residence is 10 minutes from the Imperial Palace.
Right, even if I left home, where else would I go?
I feel so sad. So sad!
"I was actually planning to stop by the palace to see you before I left!"
For some reason, Christa, who had come out of the house and was loading something onto a carriage, ran over and hugged me.
"Go? Where?"
"My nature! The Duke called me."
“Hmph.”
Ryan?
He is in Belzer now.
And currently, there are three members of our family at the Duke's mansion in the capital: Christa, Richard, and Prince Merchen.
"I figured you wouldn't have answered, so I was planning to leave without Brother Merchen."
Saying that, Christa took a letter out of her pocket and showed it.
<Convocation order>
Ahead of an emergency meeting regarding a critical matter on which the family's survival depends, Belzer orders the summoning of all members.
The Lord, Ryan Belzer.
"What! Why aren't you sending it to me?"
"Hmm. Since you're from Valencier?"
Wow...
Disappointing!
Shocking!
"What! How can that be! My roots are Belzer! Why are you leaving me out completely! It's a serious matter..."
“Haha, you have to move to the Grand Duchy soon, so you’re busy with this and that and have so many things to worry about. How can I tell Her Highness the Princess to come and go?”
"Huh."
I was getting angry, but Christa tilted her head when she saw the palace guards standing next to me.
They were carrying my heavy luggage.
"Did you run away from home by any chance?"
My quick-witted sister immediately glares at me and asks.
"Yes."
"Why?!"
“Why do you think that is?”
"I don't know what it is, but your husband must have done everything wrong. Should I tear him up?"
Sigh. This is it.
That is why I came to see my family's faces and pour out my heart.
Definitely on my side!
"You can't tear him! So, here's what happened..."
“Vania?”
Just then, Richard also spotted me and was surprised, perhaps having come out to load the luggage.
Even Merchen came out to see me off.
"Sigh. Wait, wait. I mean..."
At all times, the family has to leave for Belzer now.
The reason only Merchen remains is probably that he has to be on standby at all times near me and Nike, who can regress.
"What should I do? They say it's a serious matter, so I really have to go."
Christa said, looking embarrassed.
I started to ponder while holding my stomach slightly.
'I'm a bit worried about the long-distance journey.'
...Are you anxious?
"It's okay!"
Fountain of Purification, Restoration of Light, Poem of Reversal!
"I am an all-rounder capable of handling any unexpected situation."
"Prince! Get ready to go together!"
"Huh? Bunny, are you going too?"
After finishing my brief contemplation, I spoke to Merchen, who looked disheveled as if he had just woken up from a long sleep.
"Load all my luggage onto that carriage!"
Pointing at the Belzer family's carriage, I gave orders to the guards.
It seems like the scale of running away is getting bigger, but what can be done about it?
Since things have turned out this way, I should see the face of our beloved lion and share this happy news.
'Let's go see Uncle, little bunny!'
***
At that time, Belzer.
Genius Magical Engineer, Revan's Room.
The supernatural ability blocker, for which he poured his passion into invention even during his academy sabbatical, has been completed.
A transparent magic stone refined into a cube shape.
At the top of the magic stone, which shimmered with a mysterious white light, there was a switch, which was a device that connected and disconnected the flow of supernatural powers.
“Brother, did you succeed?”
Alexander, who was standing nearby, asked in high spirits.
"I don't know. I'll have to check now."
Revan, who was reaching for the switch, paused.
"Everyone will be flustered if I suddenly act like a fool, so finish checking quickly in one second and go back to the goal."
"Yeah."
"So, if you turn this on now, quickly check if you can use this ability."
"...?"
Alexander tilted his head.
“Try to die?
“Oh, that’s right.”
Revan licked his lips at home.
Alexander's special ability, <Immortal Blood>.
A power that manifests as resurrection only upon death.
Since it is not an ability he uses often, Revan was momentarily mistaken.
"I guess I can't confirm that for you."
Just then, the door burst open, and Ryan came in.
"Oh! Welcome, big brother!"
Revan, who touched the switch again.
"Use this ability quickly to check if my invention is working properly... No, wait."
Stop.
Ryan also tilted his head.
"Try killing people? Who, you?"
"Damn it, you're right."
To think there are only guys you can only verify by dying, and guys you have to kill to verify.
Revan sighed, looking dejected.
"Is it urgent?"
Ryan, who had come closer, spoke while picking at his ear.
"A summons just came down, so everyone will be coming here. Wait for the kids to arrive and then check."
"I guess I should."
Revan nodded and glanced at Ryan.
"Aren't you going to tell Bunny?"
"What? The contents of the emergency meeting?"
"Yeah."
"Would it change anything even if I told her? She wouldn't be able to go with us anyway."
"Still, you should let her know you're leaving."
"Hmm."
As Alexander spoke, Ryan scratched his cheek.
"You won't be able to see her for half a year once you leave, so you should have just called her this time."
"Hmm."
Actually, Ryan is the one who wants to see Vania the most. Nevertheless, he is holding back because he can't call his younger sister, who has married and become independent, whenever he feels like it.
Since her husband happens to be from the Imperial Family...
"It can't be helped. Well."
Ryan just swallowed his disappointment.
***
Flower farm on the outskirts of the system.
Reiner Cruiser, the Third Prince, Nike Valensier's adjutant, and the deputy commander of the Imperial Knights, who was waiting, suddenly stood up.
The door of the carriage stopped in front of Rainer opened, and Nike stepped out all by himself.
"Hey, Your Highness! Come on!"
Reiner sighed at Nike, who had no intention of escorting the lady who had come with him.
Whether he has a wife or not, isn't this a matter of chivalry!
"Please take my hand and get off, Miss Lena."
Even Miss Lena, a grateful person who is helping with this crazy stunt of such an absurd scale, purely out of goodwill, despite being busy with her own flower shop...
"Thank you, Sir Raener."
Plus, she's beautiful!
Reiner cleared his throat awkwardly as he saw Lena, who was blushing slightly, taking his hand.
“Reiner, wait a minute.”
Then, Nike stretched out his arm.
"Why... huh?"
Nike showed his back.
Someone is standing in his way. Two people, and familiar faces at that.
'He's the Prince's knight, isn't he?'
The white-haired knight, Kali.
Her colleague Max was also with her.
"Why are they suddenly here?'
Suddenly, Reiner felt a sense of foreboding.
He whispered to Lena, who had not yet gotten out of the carriage.
"Please do not get off and stay inside."
And followed behind Nike as he approached Kali and Max.
As soon as Nike arrived at his destination, he was confused to see the faces of the two people who appeared as if they had been waiting for him.
Why is Kali, who stuck by Vania 24/7 and guarded her like her life depended on it, suddenly here?
"What?"
And those were cold, lifeless eyes, an arrogant expression to make toward royalty.
Even a battle stance as if ready to draw the sword at her waist at any moment.
All sorts of ominous thoughts flooded Nike's mind.
"I'm asking you. Aren't you going to answer? What happened to the Princess's guards, and why are you here?"
"Are you worried about the Princess?"
Kali asked back in a sharp voice.
Nike's heart began to pound.
Kali and Max.
Before the regression, these are the people who infiltrated Wassenberg to eliminate the superpowered individuals and endured for several years.
Having lived with indomitable will, thoroughly concealing his true feelings...
"Your Highness must be aware that I harbored treasonous intentions and even infiltrated Wasenberg."
...As expected
Nike's vision turned completely white.
"What is your ulterior motive?"
"It means that I am the kind of person who does not hesitate to sacrifice my life for what I want to protect."
Kali added, pulling the scabbard upward with a click of her thumb.
"Please bear in mind that even if you are a member of the royal family of this empire, I can draw my sword without hesitation, so I ask that you answer my question with only the truth."
"What do you think of me! How dare you show such disrespectful behavior toward the Royal Family...!"
“Quiet!”
Nike stopped the angry Reiner.
Nike has no idea what might have happened to Vania right now.
The fatal mistake of not suspecting Vania's bodyguard, Kali, in the slightest.
Therefore, now that Vania could be a hostage, Nike had no choice but to comply with Kali's demands.
“Tell me what you want.”
"Who is the woman riding in that carriage right now?"
"...?"
Crooked.
What are you talking about?
"What..."
"I know that the entire training schedule you left behind until now was a lie. Please confess in detail where you were and what you were doing with another woman over the past two months, even going so far as to lie to Her Highness."
"What are you talking about? That?!"
Reiner, who was listening, was shocked.
Nike, having roughly grasped the situation, let out a hollow laugh.
Therefore...
"Did you follow me because you suspected me?"
When asked, Kali nodded.
Yeah, what wife in the world would tolerate sloppy lies and repeated overnight stays out?
‘She did it, she doubts me.’
Nike's lips twitched.
Vania, worried that he might have a hidden mistress, would have sent her own escorts to try to get close to her husband.
The moment he realized that his wife, whom he had been worried seemed to have lost interest in him, was caring more than anyone else.
"Whoa."
Nike breathed a sigh of relief.
His mind felt at ease, as if ten years of accumulated congestion had subsided.
Do you suspect? Do you follow? Do you obsess?
...It feels great.
I'll never get bored with it for the rest of my life, so please keep doing this...
"Ha. Seriously... Ha. Good grief."
"..."
"..."
Nike, covering the corners of his mouth with one hand, looked helpless. Max, who had been watching him intently, quietly whispered into Kali's ear.
"But he likes it?"
"I know."
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