Chapter 79: – Request (2/2)

“Okay, leave it to me.”

Chrisse put her mini blackboard forward and asked.

I picked the pair up and sat down on the sofa, setting them on my knees.

My wives are waiting on me on either side.

The weight on both my knees.

The weight didn’t feel heavy at all. In fact, I wanted them to sit on my knees forever. This is probably what a blissful weight is.

“………”

I nonchalantly groped Snow’s breast with my right hand, while my left rolled up Chrisse’s skirt and felt up her ass.

“Geez, Lute-kun is a pervert.”

[It’s still light out so no mischief.]

They chided me but they didn’t show any signs of disliking it. Of course, if they really disliked it I’d stop my hands but they’ll excuse this much as husband and wife’s skinship.

Having finished flirting, I stopped at a good point and went back to the workroom where Meiya was waiting.

――While I was immersed in work the door to the room was knocked.

In reply I opened the door and Snow’s face appeared.

I thought it was snack time already but she’s being unusual this time.

Her face looked uneasy.

“What’s wrong, did something happen?”

“Yes, a little. Lyss-chan and Shia-san came just now, but … can I borrow you two for a moment?”

Meiya and I looked at each other, this doesn’t look like a trivial matter so we stopped our work mid-way.

As we followed Snow to the living room, there was Lyss sitting on the sofa with a sickly pale complexion. Shia was sitting next to her to take care of her and was rubbing her back.

“Did something happen?”

“Lute-kun, please read this.”

I was handed a letter by Snow.

It was in a plain envelope with no address written on it.

The contents of the letter was this: [We have Chrisse in custody. If you want her back safely get out of Enol immediately]

Along with the letter there was a strand of golden hair.

I reflexively turned to look at Chrisse who was consoling Lyss together with Shia.

“… what’s the meaning of this? This is too mean for a prank.”

Chrisse was right in front of my eyes.

There’s no chance that the Chrisse before me was a fake. The reason being that she never even once left the house all day today. There was no chance to swap the real her with a fake.

Did Lyss get sick from seeing this letter and hair?

But she’s not so sensitive to go that pale from just that.

As I was confused with what’s happening, Lyss herself told me.

“This hair belongs to Luna …”

“Luna?”

“Probably, Luna was mistaken for Chrisse and was kidnapped …”

“Eh, wha!?”

It was so out of left field I let out a weird sound.

Snow explained things from start to end.

“Since Luna-chan snuck out of the castle as usual, Lyss-chan and Shia-san came to the mansion to pick her up but we told her that she hasn’t come today.”

“When I went to investigate, there was mail in the mailbox, Madam Chrisse opened it and there was that letter and hair …”

“When Lute-kun came back from shopping you said so, right? You met Luna-chan outside. I remembered that and it clicked. It might have been possible that Luna-chan was mistaken for Chrisse-chan and got kidnapped”

Now that she’s told me I understood.

It’s true that Chrisse and Luna had the same stature and long golden hair. She was getting all friendly with me, linking arms while going shopping. When we parted ways, she called me [Onii-chan] like Chrisse did.

She said she’ll come to the mansion to play after we parted but she hasn’t showed up.

With all the facts put together, it made sense.

It seems that Lyss turned pale and fell to the floor when she heard that from Snow and they put her to sit on the sofa.

“But why did they target Chrisse? Didn’t look like they wanted ransom, either, and even though they knew the name and appearance they still mistook their target.”

It’s too out of balance, was it thoroughly prepared or suddenly decided.

“…… Most likely, the bunch of high elves that don’t think highly of us asked someone to do the actual kidnapping. The reason Chrisse-san was targeted was because she seemed like the easiest one to take away.”

I agreed with Lyss’ point.

To summarize, the faction of high elves that don’t feel comfortable with us planned to kidnap the weakest-looking Chrisse in order to get us to not meddle with the barrier stone affair. However, with only the target Chrisse’s features (golden long hair, slender, my wife, short stature, calls me [onii-chan]), they mistakenly kidnapped Luna who coincidentally had a similar appearance. The reason they didn’t recognize her despite being the princess was probably because they wrapped her in something right after putting her to sleep.

And of all things, they kidnapped the High Elf Kingdom Enol’s third princess Luna Enol Meméa!

“What do we do? Should we report this to the soldiers and have them search?”

“…. No, let’s tell Father first.”

Said Lyss, still pale in the face.

But if that King knew that [Luna was mistaken for Chrisse and kidnapped] —

“He will almost certainly order Lute-san out of the country, I think.”

“He would, wouldn’t he …”

His eldest daughter the first princess Lala Enol Meméa disappeared, his beloved wife was bedridden, and as he was becoming oversensitive with family problems, Luna was kidnapped.

The fact that we’re innocent had nothing to do with it, he’ll surely order the reason for the disaster out of the country.

“But the day written in the record book is soon, right?”

“Yes, probably any day now.”

This time, the date for the barrier stone destruction wasn’t exactly written in the record book. Only that it’ll happen sometime about now. It could be today, or it could be tomorrow.

The range was at most several days, no more than a month.

“……. Lute-san, everyone, I have a request.”

Lyss who was sitting down pale-faced suddenly stood up.

There was no fear in her eyes, only a light of resolution.

“Please, would you somehow — save both my motherland and my sister.”

Lyss straightforwardly made an unreasonable request to us.