episode_0115
by fnovelpia
“Hwaaam~”
Leticia overslept.
It didn’t matter anyway since it was the weekend.
Then, I rubbed my eyes and went out to the living room at the sound of a knock on the dormitory door.
“Who are you?”
He opens the door without even listening to the answer.
It wasn’t that she was careless, but rather that she was expecting someone who might come by now, so she opened up easily.
Outside the open door, a jacket with first class epaulettes was visible.
“Carl Mayner, what brings you here…?”
Leticia knew he was coming, but she didn’t show it.
“Is Beatrice inside?”
Karl came to see Beatrice, concerned that he had not been able to speak to her privately at the mansion.
He stared blankly at the living room beyond Leticia’s shoulder. Her serious face seemed calm, but her insides were already burning.
“None.”
“Yes?”
“No. Beatrice. In this room.”
When Carl was startled, Leticia opened the front door wider to give him room to enter.
“If you don’t believe me, look it up yourself.”
“……”
Carl walked straight through the front door and into Beatrice’s room.
Now we know which of the two symmetrical doors is Beatrice’s room.
Creak- The sound of the door opening was heard. Golden eyes scanned the room. It was neatly organized. Even the bed sheets.
The silence and neatness in the room seemed to suggest that the person who had been staying there might not return.
“Where did you go?”
“Hometown. The Kingdom of Primira.”
Leticia scratched her head and answered.
“…Suddenly? Did something big happen in your family?”
“That’s not it.”
“Then?”
The Kingdom of Primira is too far to visit for a weekend.
So, unless something major happens, like the death of an elder in the family, it’s safe to say that there’s no need to visit the estate during the Academy semester.
Carl suddenly became anxious.
He felt an unbearable discomfort whenever he thought of the place called ‘Kingdom of Primira’.
For Karl, the Kingdom of Primira is Beatrice’s hometown, and it is Beatrice’s past that he does not know.
Men from my hometown, like Charles II and Henri… and a man with an unfamiliar name, a kid named Theo.
When he thought of the Kingdom of Primira, he clenched his fist as he recalled Beatrice’s past… or perhaps even her present.
“Are you really asking because you don’t know?”
“?”
Leticia said to Carl, who looked uncomfortable.
She snapped, crossing her arms.
“You came back from the Manor mansion last night and hurriedly packed your bags. Are you pretending not to know about it now?”
If so, the sword is even more ignorant.
I had no idea what had happened between the Duke, my father, and Beatrice, as I was looking after Alana.
Did you really suspect Beatrice of being unknown and press her against her?
He may have put the knife away so as not to show that he was questioning her. The knife stared at the ground, lost in thought.
At that moment, a tsk tsk- tongue-clicking sound was heard.
“Yeah, you should have been careful.”
Leticia sighed deeply.
“They are both full-fledged adults, but they are still attending the academy…”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Carl raised his head and studied Leticia’s expression.
She looked sad, yet happy.
“Oh, right. How long are you going to keep pretending not to know?”
“Please… Don’t tell me something that only you know, but tell me something that I also know.”
Carl decided that Beatrice’s roommate was a nice person, but one with a bad habit of making assumptions.
Now, I feel like I’m going to explode because of that habit.
“You’re so shameless, you’re making a woman pregnant.”
“Huh?!”
“I’ve already seen you in the dorm room together twice. Do you think I didn’t notice? You must have been coming and going a lot while I wasn’t looking!”
Leticia spoke, uncrossing her arms and placing them on her hips.
“Please be careful… Since neither of you are magicians, you should have carried some kind of contraceptive!”
“……”
“And then you couldn’t control your lust and got her pregnant, so didn’t you come to the Manor Mansion with me to tell the Duke now?!”
Come to think of it, I only showed inappropriate behavior to Beatrice’s roommate.
Even just the other day, Beatrice caught me leaving my room in the morning.
I thought maybe it was natural for her to misunderstand like that now.
“And I don’t know what the Duke said, but Beatrice. She looked so sad! Do you know that she came back last night with a face that looked like she was dying?”
“?!”
Carl looked surprised.
“I’ve never seen her so helplessly sad. Of course, she must have heard bad things about her as a foreign noble. Otherwise, Carl, you would have gone to the Dahlia estate with Beatrice to pay your respects. Instead of coming here in such a panic.”
Leticia’s absurd delusions aside, Karl was anxious about what Beatrice had said to the Duke yesterday when she had a private meeting with him. She had already seemed unstable, having been involved in such a big matter as Alex.
“Is it true that you returned to the Kingdom of Primera?”
“That’s right. I said that while I was packing. I was going to Yeongji.”
Carl strode briskly towards the front door.
“Maybe she went back to talk to her parents? I can’t even imagine how heartbroken she must have been when she suddenly got pregnant and the man’s family pretended not to know about her—”
Leticia watched as Karl left the room, just as she was spinning a plausible story of her own making.
“Hey, where are you going?”
“Kingdom of Primera.”
“Yes?”
“Going to find Beatrice.”
With those words, the front door slammed shut.
Leticia stared blankly at the tightly shut door and smiled.
“What, I thought you were a playboy, but you have a serious side?”
Then he went back to his room humming a tune.
She wondered to herself what dress she should wear when Karl and Beatrice got married sometime soon.
And so her plausible delusions continued.
*
“Where are you going?”
Louis lay down on the sofa and closed the book he was reading.
“The Kingdom of Primera.”
“What are you going to do all that way? There are enough local agents. If it’s for intelligence support, you don’t have to go out of your way. Aesong-ah.”
“……”
“If not, is there something wrong?”
What’s wrong with this guy?
Louis lay there, watching the knife.
The Duke was away and Rachel was writing a report from a distance.
Although Carl has a habit of making puns, much like his teacher, Louis, he doesn’t make outrageous jokes, especially when it comes to missions.
So, the ‘Primira Kingdom’ that came out of the disciple’s mouth could not be dismissed as mere nonsense.
“Beatrice suddenly returned to the estate during the semester.”
“Ah, Carl. Even if you’re crazy about women, don’t you think it’s too much to go across the continent to the Kingdom of Primira? Don’t you have to go back to the Academy after the weekend?”
“She is also a target of the mission. It is my job to monitor her movements. She returned to the territory even though it is not a vacation, so I need to investigate.”
“As I said, we have agents there too. If you need them, just ask them. By the way, why did Lady Beatrice abandon the Academy and go back? It looks like she won’t be back until the weekend.”
Louis said, slowly getting up.
Then Rachel intervened.
She picked up one of the papers spread out on the desk.
“By the way, Lady Beatrice was on the list of users of the teleportation station this morning. Even the maid who is attending the academy teleported with her.”
“What? You’re paying for the teleportation station for two people to return to the estate during the semester? If Count Dahlia didn’t get hurt, it would be like that……”
“That’s why I want to investigate it myself. Especially since a lot has happened in the past few days.”
When Karl said that, Louis scratched his head and fell into thought.
At the same time, he was desperately looking for the Duke. Such a headache-inducing decision was the job of the Duke, who was the deputy director—in effect, the director.
“…But dear, even if we leave now, we won’t arrive until tomorrow night.”
“So, Director, I request permission to use the teleportation station.”
“No.”
Louis was adamant.
“The teleportation station is on the record. Whether you fly as a Maynor Prince or as an intelligence agent. If it’s the former, it’s a huge scandal, and if it’s the latter… You get the idea, right?”
“…I know.”
Carl had a hard expression on his face. It was the expected answer and a reasonable result, but it was still difficult to accept. However, he had no choice but to accept it.
“You’re known to the public as Chloe Deminus’s fiancée, for now. But if you fly to the Kingdom of Primira and meet Lady Beatrice… Wow, it won’t end as a simple social scandal.”
“……”
“So Carl, I know what you’re thinking, but realistically—”
“There is a way.”
“?”
Louis was about to end the conversation by placating Carl, when Rachel suddenly said,
Rachel got up from her seat and stood between Carl and Louis.
“How to use the teleportation station without leaving a record. You know?”
“…Rachel, no matter what, that’s a bit……”
“If only the will of the knife army is there, then it is possible.”
Louis shook his head, then lay back down on the sofa, picked up the book and opened it.
I meant that I don’t know, so figure it out yourself.
“Rachel, what the hell is that method? I can do anything.”
Carl looked at Rachel with shining eyes.
Rachel crossed her arms and smiled strangely.
“It’s easy. You just have to decide how serious you are and how much of a price you’re willing to pay.”
“?”
The sword’s golden eyes blinked. Rachel spoke again.
“You can use the church’s teleportation station. It’s a secret station that only high-ranking officials can use for missions. There’s also a church branch in the Kingdom of Primira.”
Rachel said, observing Carl’s expression.
Looking forward to seeing what kind of answer will come out.
“…I’m not a member of the church.”
Even though she answered like that, Carl realized what Rachel meant.
Because of that, his voice was smaller and less confident than usual.
“But you are the owner of the holy sword that the sect worships?”
“……”
Rachel smiles broadly.
“And I am also close to high-ranking church officials who can help me with requests.”
Louis shook his head in disgust.
Because I was anxious about the consequences of the disastrous choice Rachel was proposing.
“Ask Alana. She won’t be able to refuse you.”
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