episode_0351

Someone’s familiar voice coming from a bit far away.

The princess with red twin tails, who made it possible to identify herself not only by her voice but also by her tone of voice and expressions contained in her words, hurriedly ran between me and Harold and blocked the space between us with her body.

-Tadadaaa!

“Hehe, hehe, hehe… .”

“… Princess Mezlen?”

“Ha, ha, ha… . I thought it would be like this… . Ha, ha, ha… .”

“Princess Mezlen, are you okay? Why do you take such hurried steps when you rarely run? .”

“Hee, Lee, Hueu, Do, Thief, Haa, Cat, Heo Eok, Ga, Same, Haa, Hee, Hee… .”

The Princess of Mezlen stood between me and Harold, constantly letting out painful moans as if bragging about her extreme lack of exercise.

While I was wondering why she suddenly appeared, Harold looked in my direction and asked me to introduce her.

“Hmm, who is this lady over here? Lilith, do you know?”

“This is Princess Emilia Valtoria of Mezlen, who entered the Academy this year, Professor Harold. He is a first-year student at the Magic Department, and also enrolled with Prince Antonio Robert Valtoria of the Swordsmanship Department.”

“Ah, the clear-eyed sister of the prince. After hearing that, I think I heard that the prince had a younger sister who was born in the same year.”

Since it was extremely rare for Harold to remember information about other people, it would be correct to say that in this case, he remembered Prince Antonio rather than Princess Mezlen.

Still, when it came to kids who had some level of expertise in swordsmanship, they tended to remember Harold well, no matter how uninterested they were in other people.

“Me, me, haa, ki, remember, haa, ha… .”

“… First of all, how about taking a breath? No matter how I look at it, it seems a little difficult to continue the story in this state.”

“Ha, hmm… . Yes, yes… .”

Princess Mezlen appeared with a strange blushing face.

As soon as he appeared between me and Harold, he cast a strangely hostile gaze in my direction. For some reason, I remember seeing those eyes somewhere before.

‘I think Seraphine looked like that when she looked at Celista and Silena in the game.’

A strangely venomous look in his eyes that appears to be keeping the opponent who touches his property in check.

Since he was a Mezzlen born from the same emperor’s blood, his eyes clearly resembled those of Seraphine.

So, the conclusion is, why on earth did the princess appear and give me this look? .

“Please understand that as a professor at the Academy, I cannot use honorifics with you. So what brought you here all of a sudden?”

“Yes, yes… ?! Oh no… . I am that… .”

‘Wait a minute, this can’t be… .’

Now that I think about it, I think you said last time that Mezlen seemed to be in love with someone in the academy.

A character who is good at using a sword, has deep eyes, and is most likely a noble.

At the time, I thought it was definitely someone from the swordsmanship club, so I just skimmed over it, but when I think back, I realized there wasn’t a single word that the person I was crushing on was a student.

If a person who is not a student belongs to the swordsmanship club, is a noble, and is a named character of 『Luminor Academy』… .

‘… ‘No way, really?’

It seems like something doesn’t make sense even if I assume it, but that’s the only plausible possibility that comes to mind.

Fortunately, thanks to Princess Mezlen’s subsequent reaction, my prediction did not end up being such an irreverent guess.

“If I don’t have any special business, I’ll go in. The night is already starting to get late, and it is also late evening.”

“Ah, yes, yes… . Sorry for suddenly catching you… .”

“… … .”

Mezlen, apple?

That princess, who always looks down on others and thinks of herself as the most precious being in the world, is the first to apologize when she sees Harold like that?

‘This is actually 100% true.’

It’s a reality I can’t believe even when I see it with my own eyes, but what can I do when it’s already happened?

First of all, even in modern times, there are many people who get married with an age difference of over 20 to 30 years, so wouldn’t it be terrible in medieval fantasy? Right now, the age difference between the current emperor and the last empress seems to be about 30 years.

If you roughly think about the age difference between Mezlen and Harold, it’s probably… .

‘Mezlen is 19 years old because he entered the academy this year, and Ethan is physically 21 years old, but he hasn’t aged in 5 years, so he’s probably around 26 now. Thanasia gave birth to Ethan about three years after graduating from the Academy, and Harold is the same age as Thanasia… .’

… Is this true?

The age difference is two and a half, almost three times the age difference?

No, of course, because Harold is such an expert, he ages a little slowly thanks to the flow of energy, but isn’t this too unconscionable? Moreover, he is taking as his second wife a woman who is not an ordinary woman but a woman of the caliber of Princess Mezlen?

It was a situation where I couldn’t help but think that this was too shameless, even for the three swords of the Empire.

“It’s late at night, Mezlen, and I’m worried whether you’ll be able to get in. Come to think of it, you are the princess, but where did you leave your bodyguard?”

“Ah, that… . Well, even though Kate is my escort, she often disappears… ! This is really difficult… .”

“… Is it okay for the princess’s escort to often disappear during the escort? It seems a little different from the royal family rules I know.”

That’s probably because it was an excuse Mezlen made up on the spot, regardless of the royal family’s rules.

Rather, it was highly likely that by now Kate had disappeared to run some troublesome errand under Mezlen’s orders. According to the princess’s personality, as soon as she saw Harold, she would have thought that Kate would be disturbed and ordered him to be removed somewhere far away.

In other words, what Harold said was an extremely unfair slander for Kate to hear, but if something like this was unfair, she should have chosen carefully the lord she would serve in the first place.

“Ki, this has already come to an end, you will escort me for a moment… .”

“Lilith, Princess Mezlen, can you take care of Lilith?”

“Yes?”

“It’s late at night, and it seems a little uneasy to send this young lady alone. Still, since you are strong enough to protect this young lady, I will leave it to you.”

“… … .”

As anyone can see, Harold is clearly putting an iron wall in a situation where Mezlen is trying to create a good atmosphere with him.

Well, in the first place, there was no way Harold would end up with Mezlen. It wasn’t really an issue of age difference; it was a ridiculous story from the beginning.

Because the position of Harold’s wife was an eternal vacancy reserved for Thanasia. No matter how much Mezlen was, there was no way he could break into the heart of Harold, who had loved only one woman his entire life.

Above all, if Harold himself had wanted to remarry, he would have been in a position to do so a long time ago.

More than 15 years have already passed since the anniversary of Thanasia’s death, and the reason she has not remarried in the meantime is not because there is no suitable remarriage, but because Harold simply does not want to.

‘… Well, that’s true though.’

Still, I guess I can help at least create an opportunity for Mezlen to give up on Harold.

In the first place, this princess-sick girl needed the ultimate medicine called heartbreak.

Thinking that her unruly personality would calm down once she experienced that nothing in this world goes her way, she gently pushed Princess Mezlen’s back toward Harold just this once.

“How about Professor Harold escorting the princess rather than me?”

“Hmm?”

“Actually, I’m feeling a little tired because I used up a lot of magical power during the sparring earlier. Of course, I can take out one or two of the most dangerous monsters with just my sword skills, but if there is someone who threatens Princess Mezlen, I am not sure if I will be able to perfectly respond to that threat.”

“… Hmm, I see. If that’s the case then I guess there’s nothing we can do about it. If you become a princess, you can’t say that there are no strangers who come with irreverent purposes.”

Harold nodded as if there was nothing he could do about this trivial excuse, as he was the one who had consumed a lot of my magic power.

Of course, in reality, I still had more than half of my magic power left, so it was just an excuse to leave Harold alone with Mezlen.

Even if I told Mezlen something like, ‘It’s an impossible love, so break up,’ he wouldn’t even hear me. In that case, it would have been the best medicine for her to get out of the way quickly on Mezlen’s side, confess quickly, and leave early.

“Hey, where is your department?”

“Ma, it’s the Ministry of Magic… .”

“I’ll just walk you to the entrance of the Ministry of Magic’s women’s dormitory. Or is there somewhere I should stop along the way?”

“Oh, no… . Boo, please… .”

“… … .”

For some reason, looking at the back, it looks more like a father and daughter than a romantic relationship.

I was walking towards the sword club dormitory in the opposite direction from the two people, hoping that Mezlen’s love would not come back as a huge wound in the end.

‘… Now I won’t have anything to do with Mezlen for a while.’

I just hated getting involved in such seemingly complicated human relationships.