108 – High Linx – (4)

Early in the morning, the towering clock tower rang six bells, and the atmosphere in the imperial palace became lively.

It was time for everyone to get out of a sweet night’s sleep and get ready for work.

However, even at a time like this, there were people who were so-called worker bugs who returned to their fortunes faster than anyone else and concentrated on their work.

Another one.

The sound of shoes echoed.

Correld Higgins, a worker rumored even in the Empire, stopped at the end of the hallway.

Standing in front of his eyes was an ornately decorated door. It was a place Korald had visited many times to see his work as an administrator.

“Hmmm.”

He cleared his throat and tidied up his clothes. Coreld looked into the mirror meticulously to see if there was a thread missing. Compared to half a year ago, he looked like a completely different person.

It was thanks to the weight he had gained from overwork.

His height, slim face, and handsomely grown beard.

I lost so much weight that I had to get a new suit. His favorite single-eyed glasses didn’t fit well anymore, so he got a new one.

“How come you seem to have lost more weight.”

The cheekbones are clearly protruding. Dark circles ran down those protruding cheekbones, but there was no impression that they were ugly. Rather, the masculine depravity of concentrating on work flowed across his face.

As such, the current Coreld was a middle-aged man whom the maids of the imperial palace envied.

The problem was that he himself didn’t like it.

“Good.”

After checking the condition, Coreld took a deep breath and knocked on the door of the office where the emperor was working.

To be precise, I was going to knock.

“Uh, uh uh! Administrator!”

“Huh?”

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A woman was scrambling toward her in the hallway next door.

A woman in her maid’s uniform hurriedly approached her holding a bundle of what appeared to be books on her chest.

Coreld recognized her and let out a deep sigh.

“Lucy, are you late again?”

“I’m sorry.”

“What the hell, Lucy, you don’t have a sense of being the maid of honor. Melina’s name will cry.”

“Ah, ha ha ha… …. That’s a little bit of work…….”

Coreld sighed as she watched Lucy blurring her tongue.

If there is no talented person in the imperial palace, how can she hire such a foolish woman as the emperor’s exclusive handmaid? It was the moment when Melina felt empty again.

“Okay, it’s getting late, so let’s go in quickly. I have a document to report to His Majesty.”

“Yes, eh? Administrator, will you go in too?”

“Then why don’t you go in?”

Coreld narrowed her eyes and looked at her Lucy.

Facing her gaze, Lucy rolled her eyes back and forth, sweating profusely.

Correld grabbed her doorknob at that apparently dubious reaction.

“Ah! That is! Because His Majesty said not to let anyone in.”

Lucy exclaimed hastily.

“Nobody?”

“Yes! That’s right! He said he wouldn’t let anyone in except me…….”

Coreld removed his hand from the doorknob and touched his chin, lost in thought.

After a while, he opened his mouth.

“What is the reason?”

“Huh? This is the reason…… ?”

“Yes. Shouldn’t there be a reason for that? If there is something wrong with the body, ignore the procedure and immediately summon the councilor and the priest…….”

“Oh, no no. It’s not like that.”

Lucy shook her head hastily.

And I thought deeply.

What should I say to this picky man so he can understand and move on? She thought of a number of cases, but Koreld, who was reputed to be knowledgeable, could not understand.

However, Lucy also worked in the imperial palace for quite a long time. And her age, which comes from her experience, was clearly present in her as well.

Perhaps.

“Ah!”

And Lucy came up with a good idea on her own.

“That’s the day.”

“…… That day?”

“That, that. It’s something every woman goes through.”

“That?”

Coreld asked again, not understanding her, and Lucy gestured. It meant to come closer.

Lucy whispered quietly into Korald’s ear.

“Ah… …. Right.”

Coreld nodded her head.

She

“I understand. Since you are in your prime, you must be sensitive about these issues. Somehow, they said they couldn’t even see the border guards, so maybe that was the reason.”

“Yes, yes. That’s why.”

“Hmm. Then there is nothing you can do I want you to deliver the document to Lucy.”

Koreld put the pile of papers on top of Lucy’s bundle.

Whimpering at the enormous weight, Lucy laughed bashfully.

“Ah, ahahahaha. Thank you for your understanding.”

“Everyone knows. Aren’t I also the body raising a daughter?”

Correld said with a grin.

“Then make it hard.”

And she turned her body around with a breezy step.

Before leaving the hallway, he muttered with a pleased expression.

“His Majesty has already reached the age of majority.”

*

Not long after that, an old man approached and greeted Koreld as he was walking down the hallway.

Correld hastily arranged courtesy. He was not rude enough to disregard seniority, even though he was higher in rank.

“Sir Uriard.”

I put the old man’s name in my mouth.

Guardian Knight Yuriard Elbaek. The leader of the Royal Guard and a wise man. In the current situation, it would not be an exaggeration to call him the guardian deity of the empire.

Yuri Erd also responded by lowering his head.

Then he looked up.

“Administrative Higgins, what’s up with the introspection?”

“No big deal. I have a document to report to His Majesty, so I just visited to say hello.”

At his words, Yuriard’s forehead narrowed.

“…… However, His Majesty.”

“Right. His Majesty won’t let anyone in, so he’s just coming back. According to Lucy……. Oh, have you heard of Lord Uriard?”

Yuri Erd frowned at him.

“Lucy…… What did you say?”

“hahahaha. I guess I can’t say that. However, it is very auspicious, I assure you.”

At least, Coreld was a heavy-mouthed man.

Of course, seeing such a reaction, Yuriad trembled with a distant feeling of anxiety, but Korald didn’t notice at all.

The two naturally switched places and moved to the terrace, which was made up of two floors.

Correld captured the beautiful garden scenery of the imperial palace with the refreshing smell of summer.

And.

Chaechaeng!

Close up!

“Aaghh!”

I heard someone’s scream along with the sound of metal.

The source of the sound is the Royal Guard Parade.

In the middle of it, knights lined up, moaning in pain.

“Sir Milia.”

“Yes.”

Standing among the knights was the golden-haired female knight, Milia Liantur. She was knocking down the knights with a series of battles.

Although it was a wooden sword that contained no mana, its destructive power was amazing. It was a sword shot that fired faster than sound. And the knights couldn’t even cut it off, they were hit and flew and rolled over and over again.

If you look good, it’s training. If you look bad, it’s anger.

She’s been like this before. Because of that, Coreld was able to guess that there must have been some problem with the protectorate.

But this time, besides Millia, there was another knight beating the knights.

Chang!

“Keah!”

The red-haired spirit knight was beating the knights with hand-to-hand combat without using spirit magic or even pulling out his sword.

A scene in which the imperial guards and no-nonsense guardian knights beat the knights of the guards like rats.

It was absolutely not a sight you would see often anywhere.

“Why is Lord Lautrec over there?”

“…… It seems that planting is a little uncomfortable.”

Uriad, knowing the circumstances, could only say this with a shy smile on his face.

*

My eyes opened spontaneously.

If there was anything good about possessing Fried’s body, it was that his resilience was no joke. No matter how much fatigue accumulated in his body, he was able to shake it off with just one sleep.

It was the same this time too. As soon as the sun rose in the morning, my eyes opened naturally, and my body was surprisingly active.

I pulled off the blanket that way and got up. Then, the small arm that was placed on my chest suddenly fell.

“…… New.”

I heard small breathing.

Right next to her, Lyncia was sleeping.

She was sleeping as if she was one with the bed, with a clear face and a clear face, completely different from the attitude she showed before going to sleep the night before.

“Huh.”

The memory of yesterday came to mind and I laughed out loud.

Last night was truly a battlefield.

After dinner, Lynxia was lying on her bed, and she sometimes spilled this side, and every time her eyes met, she would turn her head away with a jerk. I was afraid of the atmosphere like a thin ice board.

She screams as soon as she lays down on the bed to sleep. As a result, Seira, who was in the room next to her, bursts in with her mischievous expression, and she scares Lynxia even more. She thinks there is a thief on the first floor and the owner comes up with a stick. It really wasn’t even a fuss.

In the end, Lin Xia turned over with a nervous look on her face and tossed and turned until after midnight, but it was like this in the morning.

I laughed a lot because I slept so well.

A clear liquid flowed from the corner of her mouth.

Isn’t the guard too lax, this kid?

I don’t know who will take it, hey.

“I guess.”

There must still be a lot of travel left. It’s just hard.

There is still a little time before departure, so it would be better to let them sleep for now.

I opened the window of the room.

The morning sunlight seeping through the dusty room becomes a hazy ray of light and lands on Lynchia as if it were a revelation from God.

When the sunlight hit her platinum-colored hair, it shone like diamonds.

He smiled and brushed his hair lightly.

It is strangely warm when you put your fingers between the silky hair.

As she stirred her fingers, it felt as if she had touched a stream of warm water.

“Ooh, ooh.”

Lin Xia whined and turned her body.

She did so, and one of her daggers, which she was holding tight, popped out. It was the dagger I gave you. He threatened to stab me with that thing last night if I did anything.

It was strangely admirable to see him being cherished like a treasure.

I brushed her hair one last time and stood up.

It was time to go get a late breakfast.

Jumping.

When I carefully opened the door and went out, the hallway on the second floor was quiet.

Well, except for the current owner, we’ll be the only ones in this inn. Merchants must have already departed at dawn.

With that thought in mind, I headed towards the stairs, but there was a girl leaning against the window in the hallway, yawning profusely.

“Did you sleep well?”

As soon as I approached and said it naturally, I was startled and looked this way. And as soon as she realizes that it is me, she sighs as if she has completely cooled down.

“It’s okay.”

The girl, Yuria, seemed unable to hide her tiredness.

“Has Seira done anything strange?”

“It’s not like that… ….”

Yuria paused her words for a moment, then trembled.

“A strong heart like that might not matter. A petit bourgeois like me can’t sleep with a bomb that doesn’t know when it will explode.”

“Huh.”

In short, it meant that I couldn’t sleep properly because I was afraid of Seira.

For Yuria, who was a priest of the church, the Archmage was a deterrent that could kill her at any time.

“You must have suffered a lot.”

“Who is responsible for all of this, huh?”

Yuria yawned and looked at me with a drowsy look.

Then she asked.

“So, is this your choice?”

“What?”

“I decided to stick with the empress.”

It seems to have been an extension of the conversation we had during the last interrogation.

“The imperial palace has come to this point, and you’ve been in and out of the line of fire several times. Even Cleta became an apostle of arrogance.”

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“Yes.”

“Doesn’t this change your mind?”

“Why ask something obvious?”

If Lyncia dies after changing, the world will end.

It’s like that in a systemic sense, and it’s like that in terms of settings.

However, after hearing my answer, Yuria put on a strange expression. And she asked cautiously.

“If…… If she identifies with Cleta because of the empress’ looks…….”

“… ….”

“She thinks it is doomed.”

She said something, but was that it?

I was thinking about what to answer, then let out a sigh and slammed YuRia’s head.

“Best, worst!”

“I’m not sure what you’re thinking, but I’ll tell you clearly no. Cleta sleeps, and I just serve you.”

“…… How are you?”

“Well?”

I pondered for a while.

Well, the biggest thing was to clear this damn world.

What follows next is… ….

“Because I like Lyncia Eyren.”

Yes. That’s all.

At my words, Yuria put on a dazed expression for a moment, then smiled.

“No matter how hard it is, getting married is going to be difficult.”

“I didn’t say that.”

“What are you going to do with the oath?”

“I’ll have to think about that from now on.”

“It will be difficult.”

“It was difficult until now.”

After meaningless questions and answers continued, Yuria gave up and removed her hand from her window frame.

“Let’s go. To eat breakfast.”

“Isn’t there anything sweet?”

“I know. It’s the worst, here.”

Trudges ahead and walks.

Then Yuria stopped her steps and looked back at her.

“You’ve changed a lot, you.”

With those words, Yuria went down her stairs.

When I lost sight of her, I shrugged her shoulders.

“Yes. There was a big incident.”

An event so big that it even changed her personality.