episode_0279

Lien Central Station.

There were so many people in the square that the winter weather was indifferent.

This is not just because it is a nice day, but to see off the knights who are leaving for the Arwen Plateau for the subjugation festival.

There was a woman sending her lover away, a wife sending her husband off, an old couple cheering their granddaughter to do well… and there were friends gathered to see off their friend.

This is a friend who sighs heavily even when he goes to participate in a festival and prepares himself for death.

Maeve Butterfield.

She is Lucia’s classmate at the academy and a commoner who came to the graduation ceremony early in her life.

“Why do you have to die like this? uh? It’s not like we’re going to war.”

Lucia patted her particularly depressed friend on the shoulder.

“It’s a festival, Maeve. I told you to go and enjoy it?”

“…Festival? Is the subjugation festival a festival?”

Maeve glared at Lucia with narrowed eyes.

Although it has the appearance of a festival, the reality of the subjugation festival is a campaign to prevent the overflow of demonic beasts.

A young person who wants to show off his/her abilities might not know this, but a person whose goal is to live a long and thin life had no choice but to cry.

This is especially true for those who graduated from the Academy and skipped the Knight’s Ceremony.

Gracie, standing next to her, also tapped Maeve on the shoulder.

“What are you worried about when you joined at once with a special skill in enchantment?”

“…You weren’t specially selected because you were friends with Versailles’ beautiful great-granddaughter?”

“There are ten more beautiful great-granddaughters besides me?”

Lucia smiled brightly at her friends’ bickering. It felt good to go out and meet friends after a long time.

“Lucia. Isn’t Siriel coming?”

“Huh? Ah~”

Lucia scratched the back of her head sheepishly.

“He got vacation. Since it’s been a long time since I’ve had any free time, I’m looking at an empty house.”

“Empty house? To live separately? Didn’t you say you were engaged to your brother?”

“……No, just. My father said he was going to open a bakery. It’s no big deal.”

A lie to make light of things.

Hugo might not know it, but Glenn’s baking skills were terrible, and even to Lucia, she was like a fly flying around when she thought about when he opened the store.

The reason I lied was because I felt uncomfortable saying that Siriel was avoiding Lucia these days.

“Bakery? Your father opens a bakery?”

“Wow~ Congratulations! When I return, I will definitely stop by and give you some sales.”

“Thank you, guys. See you later.”

Lucia said to the two getting on the train. Soon, the sound of the whistle echoed through the air, and the train departed to the cheers of the people.

‘I can never say that I have become awkward with Siriel.’

Lucia smiled and thought to the train moving away.

Although her face was smiling, her mind was full of worries about what to do next.

These days, Siriel’s attitude toward him has become strange.

If I were to think about when it started, it was after I returned from the prairie… or more precisely, since Glenn Frien came to stay at the mansion.

‘…The way you look at me has become unusual.’

There were too many reasons to think about why.

‘Did you even notice that I did something like that with Shiron?’

Lucia looked back on the past, wondering when she would have been caught.

I knew very well that it was an dishonest relationship.

Even when she thought about it, the idea of seducing and embracing a man who already had a fiancé, a man whom she had grown up with like a brother and sister, was, as they say these days, unreasonable.

…Of course, I was careful right after we had a relationship, but these days, I think his behavior is a bit more blatant.

After Siriel goes to work for the Knights, she secretly hugs and kisses her, and follows her to the main building instead of the separate building to eat a meal that she used to avoid.

That too at the table with Siriel.

‘Because Siriel has good senses. Now that I think about it, I can’t help but feel awkward with myself…’

Lucia lamented her ambiguous situation.

A relationship that can never be made public, isn’t she truly an adulterous woman, as the public calls it? However, I was afraid that if I told Siriel about what happened with Siron, it would ruin their previously cordial relationship.

“Ha…”

Lucia slumped her shoulders and walked in front of the station.

Is it for people who have sent loved ones away?

There were many street vendors selling miscellaneous items such as food and amulets.

Lucia approached one of them to relieve her frustration.

“…tornado potato?”

5 shillings each.

The taste was far inferior to the delicacies she had eaten at the mansion, but perhaps due to her past life, Lucia liked the spicy taste.

“What is it? Was there anything this delicious?”

Lucia, who quickly devoured the tornado potatoes, turned her eyes to another street vendor.

“What is this? Drug corn?”

What is this? Goblin bat? What is this again? Cheese hot dog? When I came to my senses, I had already visited dozens of street stalls.

“What is this…”

It was when I stopped by the last stall, a herring sandwich shop.

[It’s a pity, the elder and the princess should have been together at this glorious occasion.]

“…”

Familiar words suddenly passed through my ears.

Lucia focused her consciousness toward the direction from which the voice came.

It might have been impossible for Lucia to hear it due to the murmur of thousands of people, but Lucia couldn’t.

‘It’s not the imperial language, is it?’

The reason why you can know the meaning of words even though it is not an imperial language is,

This is because the conversation between the two took place in a language that Lucia knew.

The common language of the continent is the imperial language, and the surrounding countries use languages with the same roots as they were influenced by the empire.

But their conversation is not of that type.

It is clear that it is heterogeneous and has different roots…

Sileia’s words.

Lucia hastily stuffed her sandwich and turned to look in the direction the voice came from.

[But what can you do? Even though it has the title of being the nation’s best… for some reason, it doesn’t come out.]

[According to rumors…they say they can’t come out because they got caught.]

[This person. There is a great cause ahead, so don’t say anything negative.]

It was a quiet back alley, and since there were no people in sight, it must be in a building somewhere inside.

“Sleep, just a moment!”

Lucia made her way through the crowd in the direction from which the voice was heard.

“I’ll pass by in a bit! Please get out of the way!”

Sileia’s words were not acted upon simply because they were heard in the center of the empire.

Of course, wasn’t Lucia’s previous life as Kylie, Sileia’s orphan?

There was deep-rooted contempt for barbarians in the empire, and the previous terrorist incident made it natural to hate barbarians, but Lucia could not bring herself to hate them all.

Even though I hated terrorists, I didn’t want to hate everyone.

“Who are you! The bastard who stepped on my foot!”

“Sorry, sorry!”

The reason I made such an effort to approach them was simply because I was worried about them.

How can we be so careless? If the crowd had found out their true identity, there would have been a huge uproar.

‘At least we should be careful to use the imperial language. ‘There is no need to be careful in such dangerous times!’

Simple nonsense.

A spirit of chivalry to prevent any possible disturbance.

Lucia, feeling various emotions, snorted.

She was a person who felt proud while doing good deeds, and she was also a person who enjoyed the satisfaction that would come from future good deeds.

Until the next words continued.

[Warrior, your ancestral spirits will protect you on your final journey.]

[Glory to Sileia.]

[Glory!]

“……What are you saying?”

glory? Ancestral spirits? Do you come to a foreign country and perform ancestral rites?

…What is the final path…

It took 3 seconds to make that stupid expression. Lucia realized what they were talking about.

‘terror!!’

Lucia, who was astonished, quickened her steps. The movements that were considerate of people became more urgent, and the stretching of the feet became more unstoppable.

I had to get to where they were no matter what. After I go, I will pluck off their heads!

No matter how compatriots they are, a wicked person is a wicked person.

Lucia heated up her Danjeon by openly sprinkling her dark flesh. People began to make way for Lucia.

Finally, Lucia arrived at the alley where she heard the voice.

I could no longer hear Sileia’s words, but I could feel the presence of those with a life-changing mindset, just like Lucia.

Kang!

Suddenly!

The sound of something being cut is heard, as if a battle had taken place.

‘This is the building!’

Lucia jumped up at once, hoping she wasn’t late. Just like that! I kicked the wooden board blocking the window with all my might.

Whiiing! Lucia, who swept away the fluttering sawdust with a gust of wind and rolled over, raised her head.

“…Who are you?”

The woman in the black suit spoke to Lucia. In her hand was a bloody dagger, and the corpses of large men were rolling at her feet.

I didn’t think it was too late. The corpse at the woman’s feet was similar to the traditional Silea attire that Lucia knew.

That woman was probably the one who dealt with them first, so Lucia quickly assessed the situation and relaxed her fighting stance.

“Did you kill those people?”

“Then what should we do?”

“I wanted to express my gratitude. They were going to cause a big accident, so thank you for killing them first.”

Lucia bowed and said.

It was my first time seeing her, but she was taller than Lucia and her voice was more mature, so I naturally treated her with respect.

“…You don’t need to be greeted. If I had left these guys alone, I would have been the one in trouble.”

After saying that, Yoru brushed off the blood on the knife. Although the sword was lead in the blink of an eye, Lucia captured its trajectory completely with her eyes.

and,

I smelled the smell spreading throughout the room. The scent of a woman hidden in the thick scent of blood.

“Are you in trouble? Why?”

“…These guys are followers of their father who has turned a blind eye. If left alone, only meaningless genocide will occur… Ugh, what am I talking about.”

Yoru touched his forehead and sighed. Is it because my mind and body are tired? They are constantly complaining about a child.

“Just go. It’s not something a child should see.”

Yoru turned his back and took off the corpses’ clothes.

Although corpses are difficult to dispose of, it is easy to hide where they came from.

No matter how safe the empire is, stabbings are not even a major incident.

“Hey.”

“Do you have phlegm?”

Yoru became irritated at Lucia who was slowly approaching him. Because of her short stature and high voice, Yoru only saw Lucia as a chivalrous child. so,

“Have we met somewhere before?”

“What is that,”

Quack!

Kwasik!

Patter-

I couldn’t remember the process until I was thrown against the wall.

“This is blocked.”

what? What happened?

This huge shock. Instinctively, I threw the knife at an angle, but it didn’t completely offset the shock. A tremendous pain passes through my arms and shoulders and makes my heart tremble.

“Then, do you want to block this too?”

Golden lightning flashed in the darkness.