episode_0153

I quietly looked at her, who seemed quite embarrassed and was even sweating profusely.

The sight of her constantly rolling her eyes with a puzzled face looked like a meerkat wary of its surroundings.

“What are you looking for so much?”

“ugh.”

Seeing her startled appearance, I narrowed my eyes and glared at her.

“Are you looking around to see if someone else who found it strange that you didn’t come might come to save you? cute. You know best how meaningless a struggle it is, right?”

“Well, I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

“The title changed from ‘Charlotte’ to ‘Miss’? Hmm… … . He gets very agitated because he was caught in a gap, pretends not to notice because he feels like he’s being pushed back a little, and even openly reveals that there are colleagues around him who can help him.”

I crossed my arms and tapped my forearms with my fingers.

“Everything he does is suspicious, and he can’t even act… … .”

He lowered his voice and continued to pressure her with his atmosphere.

“No matter how clumsy the organization is, there is no way it would be this sloppy… … .”

Maybe that’s why she flinched every time I said a word.

After playing around with the game in my head, I smiled brightly to lighten the mood and lightly patted her shaking shoulder.

“Sorry, I guess I misunderstood.”

She was struggling with the change in atmosphere as quickly as she flipped her palm, but after half a beat, she understood what I was saying and spoke with anger.

“Ne, yes! that’s right! As for me, I don’t know anything! I just did as I was told――”

When you press and release the spring with your hand, the pressed spring pops out due to the elasticity and restoring force of the spring. As the pressure that was holding me down disappeared, I naturally returned to my normal self.

No, because she wasn’t a spring fixed somewhere. At the same time as I was trying to find myself, I started to break out of my own accord.

“――Ah.”

“You got caught?”

I smiled faintly and created a sword made of ice.

“From now on, I will make moves for my own self-defense.”

“Sa, please save me!!”

Even if the change in attitude is fast, it is too fast. I couldn’t shake the feeling that he was adjusting to my every word and action, as if he was instilling confidence in my reasoning.

“It’s like you just admitted your sin with your own mouth. And the three charges were attempted kidnapping of a noble, impersonating a noble, and attempting to deceive a noble. Just one offense would be a serious crime, but committing three of them at a time? You have a lot of guts. You wouldn’t say you didn’t know that the moment that crime is recognized, not only you but all of your relatives will be sentenced to death, right?”

“I don’t know anything! I just do it because I’m told to and because I’m told! They said they would cover everything… … !”

In the first place, there is no way that a person who has acquired the habit of erasing the sound of his footsteps and even adjusting his gait could be a commoner, right?

Now, that woman keeps raising new questions, and when I answer in the wrong way, she reacts as if that is the correct answer, and her intention is to make me move away from the correct answer.

“Ha, they said they would cover it all… … . At this point, I’m starting to wonder just how great of a supporter you have?”

Ha, who do you think is a fool?

I chuckled, wiped all the emotions from my face, and held the blade made of ice to the trembling girl’s neck.

“Tell me. Who instigated it?”

The girl was so frightened that despite my questions, she just pursed her lips and trembled and couldn’t say anything.

No, I didn’t.

“… … okay. Does that mean it comes out like that?”

I narrowed my eyes and stretched my arms back――

“Hot!”

Pretending to swing a sword, he threw the sword made of ice towards the tree in front of him. and… … .

Kaan–!!

The sword made of ice did not get stuck in the tree, but was thrown off by someone.

As soon as that sharp sound rang out, the expression on the face of the girl who had been shaking and sweating just a moment ago changed as if it were a lie.

“… … Since when did you notice it?”

“From the beginning.”

After answering that, I stepped back a little and grabbed the halberd made of ice.

“So, I’m curious as to what purpose so many people came to visit. money? Or is my body the goal? Either way, I have no intention of handing it over. so… … .”

Whirling, I said with a small smile as I twirled my halberd and warmed up my body so that I could fight right away.

“If you are not willing to let me go obediently, I will push ahead with a violent protest.”

At the same time as I finished speaking, a man’s voice that sounded somewhat harsh came from behind the tree where the ice sword bounced off a moment ago.

“This is harsh language that cannot be considered noble.”

At the same time as I heard that voice, she quietly looked at me, closed her eyes, lowered her head, and took a step back.

It was not an apology toward me or a sign of surrender.

Yes, that was a greeting towards his superior.

“I am truly sorry to have to greet you this way. Princess Charlotte La Rochelle.”

The person who came out from behind her with her head down was the man who had been observing the situation outside the classroom on that day when the crown prince and I broke off our engagement.

Hair color, overall mood, face shape, etc. Although it wasn’t exact, it seemed to almost match the image of the man I remembered from that day.

“You… … .”

However, since this was my first time meeting face to face and talking to him like this, I asked with a face that I really didn’t know.

“Excuse me. I haven’t introduced myself yet.”

As he said that, he took out the eyes of the sun from his bosom and showed them.

The mark belonged to an investigator directly under the royal family, and the conclusion reached was based on all the circumstances so far, including the reason why he was unyielding even when dealing with nobles and the reason he was with the crown prince.

It turned out that he was indeed a royal investigator, and that the previously established hypothesis was correct.

“My name is Terra Earningstone, and I am a royal investigator. I came here because of an incident that occurred at the Spring Festival.”

“Hmm… … . Rather than saying that I was taken in, I think it would be more appropriate to say that I was dragged out.”

“I sincerely regret that. However, I decided that this would be better than serving the princess in a crowded restaurant, citing the incident that happened in the spring, so I inevitably chose this method.”

“I see… … . I understood the reason for the method. Certainly, that terrible incident is not a story worth talking about in a crowded place.”

“Thank you for your understanding.”

He said that and bowed his head.

I can’t believe he calmly bows his head without even thinking about being thankful. It’s abominable… … .

I silently swallowed the words that were welling up to my chin, then glared at him with his head down and said,

“But there is still one part that I don’t understand or understand.”

“May I ask what it is?”

“Why, I, and no one else, was brought here because of the incident of that day?”

He quietly raised his head to my question and answered by pressing his temple with his thumb.

“I was planning to explain that part now.”

“I see. Please, I hope I can understand that explanation.”

Otherwise, you’ll be in quite a bit of trouble.

I uttered a warning and raised my chin as if to give it a try.

“I understand that the Crown Prince spoke about the outline of the events that occurred that day… … . Is that correct?”

“… … .”

“I see. I will interpret that silence as positive meaning and tell you.”

He looked at me with a drowsy face and continued talking.

“The Crown Prince identified you as the biggest suspect in the Spring Festival incident. At first, I couldn’t figure out why. You had a solid alibi, and you had nothing to do with the Spring Festival.”

“Sure enough, you proved your innocence yourself. As a result, it ended not so well. But no matter how many times I thought about it, there was one part that I just couldn’t understand.”

Tap, tap, tap, he tapped his forehead with his index finger and looked somewhere into the distance.

“Why did that intelligent person suddenly accuse a princess who had no relationship with her as a criminal? I couldn’t quite understand that part, so I compared and contrasted the princess’s actions so far with the crown prince’s actions. Everything from minor incidents to spring festivals.”

“It took some time to organize the vast amount of data that was over 5 years old, but I was able to remove the suspicious parts.”

He was muttering while looking into the distance, then rolled his eyes and looked at me.

“I will tell you about it slowly from now on.”

He said that and looked straight at me.