episode_0143

My heart is already feeling soft.

“Come to your senses.”

I took the marble out of my pocket.

It was a recording device discovered by Nazar and other members of the organization.

‘I hope you don’t listen if possible.’

Nazar said so, but he barely repaired what was broken. But you can’t not listen.

It was a tape recorder that could have been Elaine’s will.

ㅡCrackling.

When you press the button, the sound is played.

[Like this, you damn bitch, insolent whore, I’m going to die because of you! like this. Now, tell me quickly?]

Sasha’s poisonous voice. Her voice was so lively that even a K-drama villain would cry.

[…that?]

[this? Memorial artifact. Is it easy to understand if I say it’s a recorder?]

“Shasha…”

I clenched my fists without realizing it. It connects with the memory of the land I saw at first glance. I was able to know the events of that day in a little more detail.

‘I can’t forgive you.’

Is it the end? ?

There was no sound for a while.

Then at some point.

[ㅡYou can’t be sad, young lady. It’s not your fault. No, even if you feel sad, I believe you’ll get up soon. ah. My lady… she’s still sleeping with the blanket off, but I need to be there. I’m sorry, lady.]

Elaine’s voice seemed like it would break at any moment.

I covered my mouth with both hands. My throat was tight, and I felt like tears would spill out at any moment.

[…under. Not funny.]

An eerie sound as if flesh were being torn apart.

[Wow, ah, ah…]

It felt like my eyes were turning bright red.

“Shasha. Shasha. Shasha…”

I buried my face in Elaine’s arms. I couldn’t bear it without hearing her heartbeat.

“You, I won’t kill you easily.”

* * *

The Duke of Arjane carefully brushed his sleeping daughter’s hair. She was hugging her maid who was lying like a corpse. Like a child held in its mother’s arms.

“How can I leave you alone like this?”

When I saw my daughter asleep, exhausted from crying, my heart felt like it was breaking into a thousand pieces.

“What are you doing if you don’t wake up quickly, you idiot?”

I thought she was one of those arrogant maids who stole my daughter’s affection without even paying attention to me, the duke.

He did what he could.

“Duke of Arjane!! What is this! A barrier that covers the entire capital! Are you out of your mind! Even if it’s a rebellion.”

The emperor was furious.

“Rebellion, do you really want to see what a rebellion is, Your Majesty?”

“What…?”

The aging emperor was faltered by the duke’s momentum alone.

“How dare you…!”

The emperor broke down and grabbed the armrest. But he didn’t even have the strength to break it.

“Your Majesty. My daughter was attacked, and now the suspect has not been found.”

“……”

The emperor swallowed his sleep. Those were the eyes of a truly madman.

‘Damn it… If only there were magic stones, right now…’

The duke leisurely left the throne room before the emperor spoke.

“Don’t worry too much, if you catch the culprit, you will be punished.”

* * *

“Ugh, black, ah, no, please don’t do that! No!”

I suddenly got up from my seat.

The sound of birds chirping.

Sunlight shining through the canopy.

Elaine is still sleeping soundly next to me.

“Haaㅡ.”

It was a dream.

I rubbed my eyes and said, ‘Ouch!’ He moaned. I cried so much that it was painful just to touch it.

“If you get caught, you’ll be in big trouble.”

It was when I secretly cast a healing spell and lifted the canopy.

[miss. The maker of the recorder has been identified.]

Nazar’s voice.

“It’s fast.”

[Actually, I didn’t find it.]

After hearing his explanation, I moved right away.

The top floor of the Magic Tower.

“…Princess I will tell you in advance that she is a really good girl, really. And.”

“I won’t kill you.”

I grinned as I looked at Grandpa Mabju who was fidgeting.

“Go, princess…”

Why does my expression become more stern? Ah. I guess I lost a lot of magical energy inadvertently. I can’t do this even though I’m not a child.

Emotion control, emotional regulation.

“It’s true.”

I left the room only after making a promise several times.

But will I be able to keep my promise? I’m not sure.

I knew that the broadcaster was not a villain.

I certainly didn’t expect him to be an elder of the Magic Tower.

As you enter the room, you see a girl with light blue hair tied into two pigtails.

He looks similar in age to me. In reality, he must be older than me.

She abandoned the soft sofa and the spacious chair and sat on a small round chair.

Like a sinner.

I walked right in front of her.

“You are that relay?”

I looked down at her with light magic.

“……Yes, I am Chloe Minerva, the 5th elder of the Magic Tower who created that recorder.”

Chloe looked up. I can’t breathe. A huge magical force weighs down the body.

‘I didn’t want to meet you like this.’

But it was anger that he had to deal with.

“Okay, let’s go in first.”

I sat down on the soft sofa and nodded.

“It started out as just a daycare center.”

I listened to Chloe’s explanation. The Marquis of Weir sponsored children in orphanages. Among them, Chloe and Sasha Sain were brought into the mansion and raised as if they were children.

But one day, the Marquis suddenly changed.

“Probably after my grandson dies.”

2nd prince. And the subsequent disappearance of Seria.

The marquis’ goal was to eliminate the imperial family.

But to achieve that, he became a monster who would stop at nothing.

“About a year ago, the Marquis said. I met your granddaughter.”

This is a story I didn’t know about.

Ceria is not a child. She also knew that the Marquis of Weir was her grandfather.

That’s why I didn’t do anything.

I was suspicious of her being behind the scenes, and she didn’t make such a fuss about asking her if she should meet her grandfather, as if she were the main character, so I guess she met the Marquis without her knowledge, and in less than 30 minutes, Maria and the Marquis met. Considering that I’ve been there, isn’t it more strange that I didn’t go?

From then on. The Marquis’s motivation had weakened.

The Marquis, who was driven by the power of revenge, was unable to maintain his magic power due to lack of supply of sacrifices. The granddaughter, who thought he was dead, immediately recognized his condition. What should have been a touching meeting, what I received from my granddaughter was contempt.

“……Ha.”

I sighed. Should I have told the Marquis? If you were the main character of a cartoon, it would have been like that. But I was too young back then. By the time I found out, quite a bit of time had already passed…

Let’s not think about it.

It has already passed.

“Do you know that the Marquis is dead?”

“…In the end, you passed away.”

Chloe’s eyes opened wide. However, after being taken aback for a moment, he spoke softly and began to lay out his predictions.

“It is not uncommon for Sasha to deliver his orders.”

In the end, from then on, all plans were Sasha’s own. He hid the marquis’s death and manipulated his funds and organization as he pleased. The organization itself was a secret organization that would do anything for money, so it would have been easy to deal with.

I sigh when I see Chloe with a gloomy expression.

At first, I thought I would beat him up as soon as I saw him.

However, if I had met him without knowing that he looked much younger than expected and had a haggard face that seemed to be suffering greatly, I would have felt sympathy for him.

Chloe wanted to leave the organization, but because of her old feelings, she maintained the organization by providing support from magic tools and making a few requests through the communicator. This is what I’ve already heard.

‘This guy somehow has the scent of a fanboy…’ .’

As for Chloe’s crime, would it be a crime of accessory to murder? In this world, it is difficult to even call it a sin.

It wouldn’t have been so easy to reveal the crimes of the adoptive father and childhood friend who took him in.

‘No, no. That kind of problem. If you want to ask for a sin, you can do it. So this is.’

Furthermore. As I listened to the story, there was something strange.

“This recorder. Did you give it to Sasha knowing what it would be used for?”

I took the marble out of my pocket. If you think about the recorded content calmly, if you want me to hear it, you have to deliver it to me by some means. And when that happens, it is inevitably discovered that the producer is Chloe.

“I really… didn’t know.”

She looked truly aggrieved after revealing all the facts and even turning herself in.

Yes, from what I heard from Nazar, Chloe surrendered through the magic tower.

I heard so many stories. That’s why I was able to know even Chloe and Sasha’s childhood. Chloe was a genius and Sasha was jealous.

Could it be that Sasha wanted me to kill Chloe because she was upset?

As I thought about it, I became even more certain that it was like that.

‘So absurd.’

If Sasha’s plan was successful, there was no doubt about it.

right.

I would have killed Chloe.

Even if it’s just a little bit, just a few minutes, or even just 1 minute late.

And the situation at that time.

Whether it was a classmate from the orphanage or a member of the organization who joined late, that was none of my business.

They were trying to humiliate Elaine.

If yes. Even if I arrived just 10 minutes late, I probably would.

‘Let’s not think about it.’

They died and nothing happened.

I got up and looked around.

As a 5th elder, the room was quite spacious and nice, and it felt like my own office. There was a pitch black curtain drawn over the desk where documents would be looked at and where the bookshelf would have been.

“ㅡAh. Well, there.”

Chloe looked confused as I approached her.

I pulled back the curtain without hesitation.