episode_0069

“I should first say thank you to everyone for attending despite their busy schedules.”

Although the king’s seat was quite far away, I could hear a voice in my ear. It was a clear voice that made me wonder if some kind of magic had been used, or if there was some kind of device in that chair. Just looking at it from afar, I could naturally feel its intimidation. Does it mean that the king of a country is a king? As Celestria carefully followed Celestria and held the glass in her right hand, the king held his own glass in his hand, and an older-looking attendant quickly filled the king’s glass with alcohol.

It was a luxurious glass that made you think you could probably buy a mansion with just that glass. The king slowly got up from his chair, looked at us, and smiled slightly.

“The main character of today’s banquet is Astan, a wizard who was active in Ignolia, so let’s raise a toast for him, for Astan, and for Araelia.”

The same words were heard around the king’s dock. Seeing my name on the lips of so many people was more embarrassing than I thought. After drinking the drink in her glass, Ceresria naturally sat down, and I followed her.

I wondered what I was going to do from now on, but nothing much happened. They just talked and ate the same thing, and of course, perhaps because the king had arrived, the main dish, such as meat, was placed on the table instead of the same food as the snacks before. As I was eating them lightly, the door to the banquet hall opened and a band came in and started playing calm music.

“Now that you think about it, Astan doesn’t know how to dance, right?”

“I have never learned it.”

“It’s a pity, if you said you knew how to dance, I was going to offer you dancing a little later.”

“I’ll just eat here, because I have no one to talk to and I have no intention of dancing.”

“Would you like me to teach you how to dance?”

“If I get a chance someday.”

“I know very well that the day Astan talks about will never come. While avoiding duels like that.”

“Fighting with the princess of a country is not easy.”

“It’s not a problem at the academy, and are we going to threaten each other’s lives or make it impossible to use?”

“If I made a mistake when fighting behind the bar, my arm might have been roasted.”

“If you tell me about that time one more time, I will really give you a ride.”

As I smiled slightly at her words and cut up the roasted turkey in front of me and put it into my mouth, she looked at me, turned her head slightly to look somewhere, and whispered softly to me.

“If you’re bored, you can go back first, because no one will care about that.”

“How long will Ceresria be here?”

“Well, at least until my father passes away. Because it is not polite for a princess to go out before the king.”

“Then I will stay until then.”

“You’re so kind, Astan.”

“Aren’t you friends?”

“Oh?”

She looked at me with interest. As I looked at that face full of laughter, I wondered if I had said it for no reason.

“You said you were friends now?”

“Isn’t it true, the only people around me that I can call friends are Ceresria and Sharon.”

“That person said last time that he didn’t want to be friends, right?”

“Aren’t there differences between then and now, and don’t you, Ceresria, need friends too?”

“That’s right, there are not many people my age in the palace, and even if there are, they are people who want to take advantage of the fact that I am a princess.”

She smiled at me and I looked at her and then turned my head.

To be honest, I thought I was in the latter category she said. Is there really anyone who can be friends with royalty? Wouldn’t that be impossible even if they were royals from another country? As long as I was a commoner and she was a royal, that fact did not change. Because I was subconsciously thinking about the prize she was talking about.

It was embarrassing, but there was nothing I could do about it. Friend, I didn’t know that I could be a friend at the Academy. Because the Academy could ignore such things. Status and age were not that important. Because only skill became the standard by which everything was divided.

That’s why I thought I wanted to return to the academy. Even if I go back to my hometown, I still have a family. Family, younger siblings.

I felt like my head was hurting just thinking about it. Is it because the music in my ears is too loud, or is it the conversation that is loud, or is it because I don’t like the banquet hall? Everything could be the reason, but it was difficult to escape. I just ate my food as the time passed noisily and looked around.

And at that moment, I looked at Ceresria and she was smiling, but it didn’t feel like a real smile.

As the banquet seemed to be coming to a close, the music stopped and the king disappeared from his seat. And as I watched people leaving one by one, I carefully got up from my seat.

“Are you going?”

“I have to go, because I have to go to my hometown tomorrow.”

“Can I follow you?”

“Even if I tell you not to come, you will come.”

“Correct answer.”

Celestria stood up with a laugh at my words and left the banquet hall, saying she would go first. I also carefully left the banquet hall. I wondered if there would be any problem if I went back to the dorm alone, but even when I looked for Shurn, I couldn’t see him anywhere, as if he had already gone back.

As I left the banquet hall, exited the palace, and was moving towards the main gate of the castle, I heard someone’s footsteps. If I took a single step, it would follow me. It didn’t seem like he was being followed. If I was following you, I wouldn’t make it so obvious.

So, I walked slowly to the front door and told the guards that I was going out. The guards opened the door, and as I went out the front door, I turned and looked back.

A woman was looking at me. She must be younger than me, she was shorter than I thought, and looking at the formal clothes she was wearing, I thought she was probably a woman from a noble family. At that moment, when our eyes met, the woman turned her head, and I looked at her and took a step forward. moved.

It seemed like he had something to say, but there was no reason to talk.

I didn’t know if there was any problem with walking around the capital alone at this time, or if people understood it because they thought I was a noble because of my formal attire, but even if I walked around the capital, there was no one controlling me or anything like that.

So, while I was walking to my dorm, a feeling of something came up through my body. I quickly turned my head to look at that awkward, strange feeling that I felt in Ignolia.

There was nothing to see there. As I was walking back to my dorm, thinking that it was just my mood, someone was walking along the street.

“Are you coming back now?”

Xernia looked at me and bowed slightly, and I also bowed slightly in response.

“I thought you would come with Sir Shurn, but he didn’t come so I was on my way to meet you.”

“Has Lord Shurn already gone to his lodgings?”

“It’s been a while since I’ve been to the inn. It’s not a good idea for the Knight Commander to stay at the banquet for a long time, but Sir Shurn is someone who likes such places, so it seems like he was paying attention and came out.”

“It would have been nice if Xernia had attended the banquet as well.”

“It is strange for the acting commander of the guard to go to such a place, and our guards have a duty to protect the capital.”

I nodded at those words and carefully spoke the words as I walked to the dorm with Xernia.

“The capital city is noisier than I thought.”

“Isn’t it the capital? It must be different from the countryside where you are from. Come to think of it, where is your hometown? I heard that it is the eastern part of Araelia.”

“Do you know the Penata River?”

“There is no one in Araelia who does not know the Penata River.”

“There is a small city called El Taor on the downstream side of the Penata River. The village nearby is my hometown. It doesn’t have a proper name, but… … Well, we call it Galan Village.”

“It’s not as far from the capital as I thought. It doesn’t take long to get to El Taor by horse-drawn carriage from here.”

I nodded and answered what Xernia said.

“If you are a skilled wizard, this is probably a distance you can travel by teleportation.”

“Are you able?”

“It will be difficult because I haven’t learned teleportation yet.”

“It will be possible someday. Wizards are truly amazing beings.”

After that conversation, I arrived at the hotel, said hello to Xernia, entered the hotel, and carefully laid down on the bed.

If I wake up in the morning and want to go to my hometown, I’ll have to use a portal… … I didn’t know if I could use the portal at will. I guess I’ll have to use Ceresria’s power in that regard… …

I didn’t know if that would be possible or impossible. Of course, it was possible because she was a princess, but I doubted whether she would actually appear.

Of course, the Celesria I knew was definitely the one who would come out. Because she was a curious person. He was the person who always rushed to me if I had any questions.

As I was thinking about it, I slowly became drowsy and my eyes began to close.