Chapter 66 (1/2)

Trap

“……This place is”

An unfamiliar ceiling was there when I opened my slightly heavy eyelids. It's a ceiling lined up with beautiful wood grain and the calming fragrance of wood is wafting. Moreover, my right half is soft.

I cautiously look at my right side. I wasn't bothered by it because Mylene's usually there but, I've currently left her in the Kingdom. ‘In that case, who's at my right?' is how it is. I'll reluctantly give in and say that it's fine if it's Lisicia but……

“……Uun……ara, you woke up huh, Sonny”

The one who was sleeping beside me was……the Queen. I jump out from the bed at once and take some distance from the Queen. I look at my body and I'm wearing clothes. Albeit being tremendously thin clothes, the Queen was also wearing clothes.

“……Why, are you sleeping with me?”

“‘Why', it's because I sang you a lullaby?”

……Why the h.e.l.l is her response interrogative. I sit in a chair that's slightly away from the Queen. Why the h.e.l.l does this person care so much about me. I don't get it.

“Ara, you're making the face of, ‘I don't get it', aren't you?”

“Obviously, isn't it. Towards me, whom you've met for the first time, you said things like ‘think of me as your mother', and you slept with me like this time. What are you thinking?”

“I'm not really thinking about anything that difficult. I'm just creating a place where you, a benefactor of this country, can let loose”

“……It's becoming a bother instead”

I was about to go outside as it is, but the fragrance of a flower gently approaches me. And then, I feel a warm sensation on my back.

“Geez, you sure are stubborn”

The Queen who pats my head while she's saying that. Kuu, what the h.e.l.l is her deal, really! Brus.h.i.+ng away the hand that pats my head, I leave the room as it is. s.h.i.+t, when that person is nearby, I ended up unwittingly remembering about Okasan whether I want to or not. That's what she might be going for though……s.h.i.+t!

“……This is a type of curse”

“Curse?”

I couldn't quite get the doctor's words. This wound is a wound that's inflicted by that boy who carried a scythe. I can understand if it's poison or something, but I wonder what's this ‘curse' about?

“Dark magic power is going inside from this wound and it is becoming a really small curse inside. If it is just this small magic power then it is not that much of a threat, but the problem is the fact that it absorbs the magic power of the person it entered and spreads out. In reality, you should know that the black bruise has spread out even more in comparison to yesterday”

It's true that the wound that's there has spread out more and it seems the entirety of that black portion is painful. Although Cel is saying that he's fine and enduring it, it's clear as day to me, who's been with him since a long time ago, that he's putting up a front and enduring it.

“The method to cure this is?”