episode_0125
by fnovelpia
The blood flowed silently.
Carl felt the feeling of his shirt collar getting wet before the pain coming from the back of his neck.
Chloe’s sword was as sharp and keen as the star energy she wore.
As if she would not tolerate any nonsense, she cut lightly as a warning. She slashed the blade’s neck with the tip of her sword so precisely that even the word ‘cut’ would be an exaggeration.
“……”
Carl gently lowered his hand—carefully enough that Chloe wouldn’t take it as a threat—so that the tip of the holy sword was pointed toward the floor.
“Put that away. Completely.”
Chloe’s sea-blue eyes turn to the holy sword.
Although he spoke in a soft voice, it was not a request, but a command and a warning.
He orders the removal of any threatening or harmful objects that could harm Beatrice.
Carl rolled his head, recalling Lewis’ teachings.
I tried to buy time to overcome the dangerous situation.
“Chloe, wait a minute—”
But Chloe didn’t listen.
Instead, he ran the tip of his sword across the blade’s neck again.
This time there was no bleeding.
I clearly skimmed through it, but I didn’t even cut the end of it.
That’s why the knife was even more creepy.
Because this is the first time I’ve seen such an amazing and sophisticated sword.
Chloe had grown more now than when she was called a sword prodigy and when she was considered the pinnacle of the first class of the knighthood.
“Put it away.”
“……”
It is clear that this is the final warning.
If you don’t listen, it won’t end with just a quick glance or a quick cut.
Slurp-
Carl had no choice but to release the Holy Sword from its summons.
“I didn’t know she was such a vicious woman…”
I made a pointless joke.
It was a calmness unbecoming of a life-threatening situation.
Is he becoming more like his teacher, Louis?
Or is it that he is searching for his true personality that even he himself was unaware of?
Either way, we can’t know for sure right now.
He slowly raised his now empty arms in a gesture of surrender, stepping back, showing that he had lost the means to threaten the two women.
But in my head, I was still looking for a way.
As the excitement Beatrice had given him subsided, a moment of concentration came over Karl.
The sword slowly moved away from Chloe’s sword, and Chloe stood between him and Beatrice without moving too far away from the sword.
The tip of Chloe’s sword was still pointed at the nape of the sword’s neck.
“Be, Beatrice……”
Chloe tried not to take her eyes off the sword, but instead looked at Beatrice with a hazy gaze. The sharp eyes of the knight and the eyes of the girl in love intersected in real time.
“Ha.”
Chloe’s ‘heroine’ appearance was so absurd that I laughed.
Why would you make such a pure and beautiful expression on a villain like that and not on yourself, the main character?
Fuck.
The spark of anger flared up again in Karl’s head and chest, which had been growing cold.
“I’m okay, Chloe.”
Beatrice said, walking over again.
She was smiling, but she also looked somewhat gloomy.
Swish-
The next moment, Beatrice was beside Chloe and wrapped her arms around her waist.
“!”
And Karl was watching the scene right in front of his nose.
“Oh, was I too late? Did I bring back bad memories?”
“……”
“You forgot everything, didn’t you?”
I saw Chloe’s face turning red with embarrassment and Beatrice’s face smiling coldly.
Carl frowned slightly. It was more painful now than when Chloe’s sword swept across his neck.
“Don’t look at me with such strange eyes, I’m just patting my friend, right?”
“I think I enjoy looking at it like this……”
“Friend……”
Chloe muttered quietly.
I recalled Beatrice’s voice lingering in my ears.
But Karl and Beatrice just stared at each other, not paying attention to Chloe muttering.
The corners of Beatrice’s mouth went up even higher as Karl raised his eyebrows and made a fierce expression.
“Well, that’s true. It’s fun.”
As he said that, he slowly lifted the wicked hand that had been caressing Chloe’s waist from behind.
Slender, pretty fingers run up Chloe’s abdomen.
“Ugh!”
“!”
At that moment, Chloe moaned softly.
The knight’s face that had threatened with his sword was nowhere to be seen.
There was only the face of a woman melting away defenselessly.
Chloe hesitated in embarrassment, but then focused on Beatrice’s hand on her clothes.
“…Stop it.”
Carl spoke briefly.
But inside, I was burning.
All he could do was stare.
Carl glared into Beatrice’s turquoise eyes, not even glancing at Chloe.
The exact same scene from the palace was recreated.
The only difference is that this time the damn black armor is unmasked.
So, all you can see is the face that was tightly hidden.
The shameless face, the white, chiseled beauty, smiled at the sword.
It wasn’t a mockery, but it felt like a mockery to Carl.
It seemed as if a dirty woman with the emperor’s blood was mocking him.
Bam.
Beatrice took her hand off Chloe’s shoulder, lightly patting her on the shoulder, as the notice came right in front of her.
“If you want.”
Chloe turned to Beatrice with a bright red face.
I wanted to say something, but I was too embarrassed to open my mouth.
Beatrice smiled faintly at Chloe, but calmly asked Karl.
“Are you bothered?”
“What is it?”
“Chloe, the descendant of the warrior, chose me over you?”
“I don’t suffer from betrayal.”
“…Betrayal, you think you can do whatever you want.”
“Then what do you think? That I stole it from you?”
It was a captivating voice, as always.
There was no sign of any emotional intensity.
Beatrice followed Chloe’s arm, which was holding the sword, and took a step forward. She went towards the man who was subdued by the tip of the sword.
“Now that I think about it, you’re more cynical than I remember… I thought you’d be a bit more passionate.”
“?”
“Is it because they’re different people? Anyway, I like it better now, so it doesn’t matter.”
Beatrice compared the appearance of the protagonist, Karl, that she had read about before being possessed with the man she was possessed by now.
Then he muttered softly, not caring whether the other person understood or not.
I approached the man in question and lifted my hooves, holding his strong shoulders with both hands.
“Be, Beatrice!”
Chloe was horrified.
Beatrice looked back at him with a reassuring smile, then grabbed Karl’s shoulder again and whispered in his ear.
“It wasn’t stolen, it was cleaned up.”
“?!”
Whispering-
Chloe whispered so quietly that no one could hear.
Beatrice’s voice could be heard clearly, whispering so close that their breaths could be felt.
Karl was startled by the fragrant scent and perfume of Beatrice that rushed in at a moment’s notice. And he was even more surprised by the ‘words’ she was saying.
“I didn’t like the way you kept wagging your tail… So I got rid of you. Ta-da. Chloe isn’t interested in you anymore.”
“……”
“And you probably aren’t interested in that girl either. Right?”
That’s true.
I didn’t want to care about anything related to Archduchess Chloe anymore.
“…Why would you do something like that……”
“I told you, Carl.”
Beatrice looked up at him from slightly away from Karl’s ear.
Even though I’m holding the magpie’s leg, I’m still looking up.
Carl looked down at Beatrice as he always did, but her turquoise eyes felt new and unfamiliar.
“Because I like it.”
Beatrice laughed. She put down her crow’s feet and stepped back. She had no idea how to take that crazy confession. She was confused.
Beatrice stood next to Chloe again and asked calmly.
“The Imperial Intelligence Service is in trouble, Carl. You can take them hostage like this?”
“I’d rather kill you.”
“Is that so?”
Shudder.
For a moment, the tip of Chloe’s sword shook.
He immediately prepared to cut off the sword’s neck.
“Just kidding. Not yet.”
Beatrice grabbed Chloe’s arm and pulled it down. Chloe was taken aback when the sword was removed from Cal’s neck.
“That’s all for today.”
I looked the knife up and down.
“I won’t take you hostage, nor will I kill you. Today, I just wanted to let you know. Who I am. What I want.”
“……”
“And now the ball is in your court, Carl. I’ll wait patiently.”
“Waiting for you?”
“Yeah, your choice. I hope you understand me and choose me.”
Right now, Carl has no intention of doing that.
I’m just dizzy because of the villain in front of me.
“It may seem absurd at first. But I believe that this small change will change many things. The choices I make will change you. And you will make choices, and those choices will change me.”
Beatrice spoke surprisingly calmly and elegantly.
It was different from the previous crazy obsession.
“You’re going to keep going like this? Like nothing happened? Now that I know who you are, and Chloe knows what you’re doing?”
“That’s right.”
“I can’t stand to watch any longer. I’m going to report you. And I’m going to come back to arrest you.”
“That’s what I hope for.”
“…Are you going to walk around the academy with such a shameless face?”
Carl sighed deeply.
Because of Beatrice, because of her identity, my life at the academy was going to change drastically and I was at a loss.
It was hard to ignore the traitor Chloe, but I managed to do it somehow. However, I couldn’t leave the princess, the mastermind behind the betrayal and my nemesis, alone.
“No, I’m leaving. So don’t worry about meeting us at the Academy.”
The sword’s eyes wavered.
An unknown emotion came over me.
What the heck is this, why is this……
It was confusing.
Even more so when I found out that the unknown’s true identity, the woman hidden inside the helmet that had been tightly hidden, was Beatrice.
And if I had to be specific, it was disappointing.
Rather than feeling relieved, I felt regretful.
Although Karl himself would never admit it.
“I’ll let you out alive here, and I’ll disappear from the academy so you won’t get in trouble. Instead!”
Beatrice hesitated as if embarrassed.
“…instead?”
“Well, then……”
In the end, it seemed like the knife was urging an answer.
Beatrice tapped her lips with the tip of her finger and finally spoke as if her decision had been made.
“Dance with me.”
“Dance—”
It’s a condition so absurd that it makes you laugh out loud.
“The Christmas Eve isn’t over yet. Besides, you chose me for the ceremony, right? If you hurry, you’ll be able to attend the closing ceremony without being late.”
The closing ceremony of the Christmas Eve always ended with dancing.
A man and a woman, united in a veiled love, dance together as a pair.
A night with a huge bonfire and pouring stars.
It was too much of a night for a princess who had grown numb to blood and slaughter to dream about.
“That’s the end of it. As if you don’t know my identity, as if we met for the first time in a social circle and started dancing… I want you to lead me, to dance.”
“Damn it. Tricky Green! Stop saying such naive and absurd things—”
And yet the princess dreamed of such a night.
I not only dreamed of it, I also desperately, very earnestly hoped and prayed for it.
“Please… This is my last wish. As your friend Beatrice.”
“……”
“Please.”
Carl tried to raise his voice.
But when he saw Beatrice smiling bitterly and asking him to do something, his heart softened.
Because I saw tears welling up at the ends of those turquoise eyes that I had thought were hateful.
And for the first time.
For the first time, I began to think that turquoise eyes could be pretty.
It seems that I cannot ignore the pitiful and beautiful Beatrice’s sad wish.
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