Episode 13.11 (2/2)

Judging from their lack of alertness, perhaps she's really not here.

Lecan hit a dead end in the passage.

Should he go right or left.

There's a stairway to the right. While the left passage would bring him deeper into the second floor.

Wonder if <Graph Making> would help him not get lost in situations like this.

Lecan proceeds to the right. A stairway immediately came into view.

He went up the stairs toward third floor.

With his right hand still gripping a sword.

The Sacred Solid Silver sword gleamed ominously in candlelights.

He's getting closer to the red dot. It's on this floor for sure.

Soon.

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Soon he will arrive at the room where that red dot is.

He's here.

Lecan invokes <Mana Detection> in front of the door.

This mana.

It's Eda!

No doubt about it.

She's really been carried off to this mansion.

”Eda!”

There's no response. He understands she's sleeping in a bed through <3D Perception>, they must have forced her to.

As he gripped the knob with his left hand and turned it, the knob broke. He did put his strength but it was also because there was a resistance. It's locked.

With a sword still in his right hand, Lecan lightly punched the door's keyhole with his left hand.

Lecan was only going to hit it very lightly, however his destructive force has been doubled thanks to <Guardian Jewel of Zana>. The boost far exceeded Lecan's estimation, part of the door and the wall ended up getting blown off with a loud sound.

He tried to open the partly broken door, but it would only give off a weird cranking noise and not budge. The hinges must have been bent from the impact. Lecan tore off the entire door and discarded it in the hallway.

There's a woman sleeping in a canopied bed.

A woman with a truly small, small body in contrast to the huge bed.

Another woman who seems to be a maid is curling up in the corner of the room, trembling.

”Eda.”

Was Lecan aware how a smile came up on his face when he said her name then.

A noisy sound echoed, a door to the opposite room was pushed open, then a knight-like man donning a full armor rushed out with a heavy looking sword raised overhead.

Lecan thought of dodging and slashing back at him, but then the knight could end up crashing into Eda's bed.

Lecan drove his left fist on the knight's belly as he turned around.

The knight's body twisted into a < shape as he got blown backward, breaking the already crumbling wall before crashing into the hallway's wall and falling down.

Since he heard only the king is allowed to appoint a knight, this man is probably not a formal knight.

Lecan didn't even glance at the sham knight's sword lying on the floor as he looked at the face under the bed's canopy.

It's Eda.

A peaceful sleeping face.

However, there's something wrong with her still not waking up after all this commotion.

Lecan switched his sword to his left hand, put his right hand into <Storage>, took a yellow potion out and crushed it above Eda's face. It's a potion that removes abnormal status.

When the half-transparent liquid got splashed over Eda's face, her eyes immediately opened. And they caught Lecan.

”Lecan!”

Eda sprung up straight from her position and clung to Lecan's neck.

Then she quickly let go.

”Where, is this place?”

”Goncourt House.”

”Goncoort?”

”The house we visited yesterday.”

”Ah, that old man's mansion?”

Lecan continues to monitor this room and the surrounding area with <3D Perception> even while conversing with Eda. The maid trembling in the corner of the room doesn't look like she's gonna attack.

”Yeah. What happened?”

”Uh, well, some people came up to me and said they got some business with Lecan, one of them was doing something behind my back while I was talking to another. Then something went bzzt, and I passed out. It was way late by the time I thought 'they got me'.”

”I see. Can you walk?”

”Un.”

Eda nimbly moved like a small animal and got off the bed.

Her bare feet could be seen. They've been wiped clean.

Not sure about Eda's opinion on the matter but having his body groped by other people while he's not awake is the most repulsive upsetting thing in the world to Lecan.

Eda put on her shoes that were left next to the bed and stood up.

”Thanks for waiting! Let's outta here.”

”Right. But first, let's take a little detour.”