episode_0142

Beatrice took out her magic tool and showed it to me.

In the time since I last saw him, his hair had grown to his waist, and his aura had changed.

Daniela stared blankly at the approaching Beatrice. Something had changed, but it was hard to put her finger on it.

hmm.

Should I say I’ve matured?

“Are you listening to me?”

“Yes?”

“What should I do with this?”

Beatrice pointed to the letters created by the magic tool with her finger.

Daniela looked at the letters, her brows furrowed.

“!”

It was a notice of overdue books from the Academy Library.

I had not returned it for several months, so I had a ton of notifications piling up.

what?

I thought I had returned everything…

Daniela was more confused than when she was being harassed by assassins.

“Turn it off-!”

As Beatrice approached, the man who had been frozen in front of Daniela began to squirm.

It was a writhing that was too embarrassing to even call a struggle.

Mint eyes glanced coldly at the man.

“Be quiet.”

The man’s neck snapped with a crack. The chilling sound of the joints breaking rang in Daniela’s ears.

Daniela barely managed to keep her mouth shut from screaming.

He looked at Beatrice with surprised eyes, covering his mouth with his hand.

Although she was smiling brightly, a woman in military uniform was the most dangerous person in the world. It finally felt real that I was welcoming the royal family.

As the man’s body lost strength and fell to the ground, Daniela asked in a trembling voice.

“Father, how can you kill your subordinate like this…!”

“Load?”

Beatrice asked back, as if she couldn’t believe it.

And then he stood in front of Daniela, over the man’s body.

“Ah. You fell for this cheap trick?”

“Are you cheating?”

He spoke, tapping the man’s cloak with the tip of his foot.

The cloak was engraved with the imperial emblem.

It was also the rebels’ clothing that I heard about here and there.

“These guys are not my subordinates.”

Beatrice looked around at the group of assassins. They looked like imperial spies to anyone. When her eyes met, the man holding the magic book looked at her in fear.

Now that I look at it, it’s a young face.

About the same age as Beatrice and Daniela.

“You.”

Beatrice pointed to the man holding the magic book. The man was surprised. He suddenly found himself able to move his arms and legs.

“Come here.”

“… … ”

The man looked at Beatrice with a hesitant face. Then, reluctantly, he took heavy steps while trembling.

The moment I lost control of my mana, I realized that I wouldn’t be able to escape from that woman even if I died and came back to life. The feeling of having my mana and even my divine power taken away brought me despair and helplessness.

“Tell me who you are. And why you were after Daniela.”

“I, I… ”

The man spoke in a trembling voice.

“For the glory of the Emperor, the Imperial Family—”

I closed my eyes tightly and gathered my courage.

But courage soon waned.

Choaaaak-

Fountains of blood spurted from all sides.

“Lies.”

All of his colleagues, the assassins, except the man, had their throats cut off.

One gesture from Beatrice sent them all to their deaths.

Daniela and the man felt out of breath.

The shock of this unrealistically cruel sight was truly enormous.

Beatrice’s turquoise eyes looked at the man.

“I really hate lies.”

“… … ”

He spoke in a soft voice.

The two terrified men could not take their eyes off the princess.

“I’ll give you another chance. Who are you?”

“… … ”

“I won’t ask you three times.”

The princess wiggled her fingers slightly.

It was also a warning.

“Ahhh…! Lord, save me… In the name of light, let me defeat this demon… Ahhh!”

The man collapsed, shedding tears.

With a thud, he slumped down and the rosary he was holding in his hand was revealed.

“Party, you are… ”

Daniela was horrified.

Her gaze turned to the man’s rosary.

He was a priest of the church.

*

Beatrice said slyly, adjusting her hat.

“Daniela, I wasn’t the one targeting you.”

“… … ”

Daniela’s gaze turned to the priest who was sitting down and sobbing.

“Why on earth… the church… me… ”

Why the church?

I couldn’t understand it at all.

“The line between faith and fanaticism is blurred.”

“?”

“You can do anything in the name of justice. Sacrificing innocent people is nothing.”

“That, that kind of… ”

Beatrice said as if she knew very well.

It seemed as if the church was at a loss for words.

“Whether it’s killing innocent people indiscriminately to find the royal family or creating scapegoats to spread the war, these guys are thoroughly ‘good’.”

“A scapegoat? No way?”

“Yeah, you’re right.”

Daniela was astonished.

The map of war, what the Empire and the Church want most. That is the participation of the Lugo Alliance.

“Unlike your father, who is becoming a puppet or an old man, you are the pride of the Allied Forces, right?”

“… … ”

“The daughter of a consul who stands out in the academy. A first-class magician. She has the support and love of the citizens. The harsher the environment, the more hope is needed. Daniela, you are the hope of the Allied Nations.”

“I, I am like that—”

“Don’t turn away.”

Daniela blushed.

I vaguely knew about it, but I didn’t try to look at it because it all felt burdensome and heavy.

He was reluctant to figure out what he was and what he meant to the Allies. But everyone knew.

“What would the Allies do if such hopes were trampled, if they fell victim to the unscrupulous imperial family?”

Daniela squeezed her eyes shut, as if in pain.

The cries of angry citizens and the appearance of elders who seemed to be trying to respond to them were visible.

Surely the sardines will be united by Daniela’s death.

“You want revenge… right?”

Beatrice placed a hand on Daniela’s trembling shoulder.

“I’m going to be in trouble.”

Daniela was so touched that she slapped Beatrice’s hand away and shouted.

“Party, you are the first to rebel…!”

If you think about it, it all happened because this woman showed up.

The world is divided, the atmosphere of confusion spreads among people, and the terrible thing called war broke out – it’s all because of this woman.

But I’m confused because it was this woman who saved my life just a little while ago.

“… … ”

“Oh. I just—”

I looked at Beatrice, thinking that it was an overreaction.

If it were the arrogant woman Daniela remembers, she would fight back immediately.

When I saved him, he sneered at me, saying that I didn’t know gratitude.

But Beatrice had a complicated expression.

Daniela flinched.

Beatrice, with her hat pulled down low, didn’t offer any rebuttal or excuse.

He just looked at Daniela with shining turquoise eyes.

“How rude, Princess.”

Instead, Daniela turned around at the sound of a strange man’s voice.

And then he opened his eyes wide and shouted.

“Matthias?!”

It was the giant Matias Lozano.

Now that I think about it, the woman in military uniform who was talking to Matthias at Green Arms was Beatrice, so that man must be…

“My lord risked his life to save you. I can’t thank you enough… ”

“My lord, you are not even a royal​—”

“Stop.”

Beatrice intervened.

“That’s not what I was hoping for when I asked for it.”

“?”

“Daniela, it’s my fault, as you said. It’s my fault that you’re in a politically dangerous situation, and that you’re actually at risk of being assassinated.”

Beatrice smiled bitterly, as if she was sorry.

No, let’s say that the world is in chaos because it exists, but the actual risk of assassination is…

Beatrice’s words confused Daniela even more.

Then Beatrice pointed to the priest who was sitting on the ground.

“This priest’s crude magic could not harm you, a first-class wizard.”

“… … ”

“And yet you’ve come this far from the system, under the spell of perception obstruction. If you had gone just a little further, you would have crossed the border.”

“Country, the border? When did it get so far away…?!”

Daniela was amazed.

“Before you knew it, you had walked and walked until you got here. You even used teleportation magic here and there. It was well past midnight, and this was the edge of the empire… Levant Village.”

It is a village that was left in ruins because of the war.

It was the first place to become a battlefield because it was adjacent to the border.

“You don’t believe it? There’s no way that a perception-depriving spell would work on you.”

Beatrice spoke softly, looking at Daniela with her eyes wide open.

Academy First Class is by no means a common seat.

So, it is nearly impossible to be swayed by magic to this extent without even realizing it.

Even more so with the priest’s skills seen at first glance.

“But that is… possible if there is a gap.”

“Huh? A gap?”

“Hmm. If someone has already scattered your mana, then you can be affected by crude magic.”

“?!”

Beatrice scratched her head.

She is truly a strikingly beautiful woman. It’s nothing new.

I thought, “How can someone walk around with such a straight face?” and then I felt a strange sense of discomfort.

No, that woman’s face is hung all over the empire, and it makes no sense not to recognize her when you see such a pretty face.

Even though she is wearing a hat over her Imperial Army uniform, her beauty is not hidden.

So it’s strange.

How did no one know?

Even though I can freely roam around the center of the city and the commercial district?

Daniela’s expression hardened.

“No way… ”

“Yeah. I cast the perception blocking spell first. To be exact, I always walk around with the spell on. You happened to run into me and got hit by the spell.”

Daniela looked into Beatrice’s eyes.

These are the same eyes as the Green Emperor recorded in history books.

“That’s why these guys were able to do something to you when your mana was already in disarray.”

He smiles sheepishly, clasps his hands together, and says, “I’m sorry.”

Is this something to be sorry about?

It was annoying and absurd.

It was surprising at the same time.

As expected, this woman is royalty.

A descendant of Green who saved the world with his shining turquoise eyes.

Before her eyes and talent, all wizards would have no choice but to bow down.

You can tell because it’s first class.

How great is the power of the royal family that can break down the barriers of other magicians as naturally as breathing.

Thump-

So my heart started pounding.

Maybe this woman could really change the world.

With the expectation that the promise of establishing a new order might not be an empty promise.