Vol 17 Chapter 3 (1/2)
Chapter 3 - Suht's Mistress
In Grendan, so the words 'so hot'
Though the sunshi+ne wasn't that strong in the first place, it was very huh the filter had the unsuitable portions discharged outside the filter Though the air exchangers extending under the city would discharge ht by this summer season, it was hard to say if it could perform at one hundred percent efficiency
In other words, it was very hot and stuffy here
”Ah~ How hot~”
Even opening theto let wind flow into the rooh it was clearly night, one would feel that even the wind that brushed by felt sticky, increasing one's perspiration
However, the sounds of complaint weren't from someone inside the room
”Why would you be here?”
Leerin, who had been concentrating on studying, put down her pen, turning the chair to face backwards
Over there was Alsheyra's listless figure
This was Leerin's rooe was living here alone, studying in the vast room that she didn't knohat to do with
However, Alsheyra had somehow appeared in the room
She definitely hadn't notified the family members beforehand The bitter expression of Minse as her uncle and householder appeared in Leerin's nored Leerin's thoughts, and did whatever she wanted like usual
”Hey, why don't you turn on the air conditioning?”
Alsheyra lazily lied on the sofa, fanning her chest while asking
The remote for the air conditioner was by Leerin's side
”Because it's a waste that way The roo, how can I turn on the air conditioner just for myself?”
”Leerin's so thrifty On this side, wouldn't it be nice to live an elegant life like royalty? If the people on top aren't happy, the people underneath can't be happy either”
”It's enough if Your Majesty does that The Eutnohl fa like that Might as well say that Your Majesty should also be thrifty in your personal life”
”Even including air conditioning expenses?”
”Correct”
”Ah, I live in the palace, so it doesn't see fees over there”
The people orked in the palace numbered many, and the number of people who came to the palace to handle affairs were also o without air conditioning
”Then, why have you co once again
”Nn-? Because I'm idle?”
”Your Majesty?”
”Ah, no, no It's that, that How should I say it? It's that! I'm actually very busy, but for now I have sohts in my head In the end, it's a kind of idle where I want to drink a cup of tea with you”
Her surprised look hed, and opened her mouth to press on:
”The reconstruction of the city has largely come to an end, but the problem of the reduced reserves of resources still hasn't been solved”
”Yes, yes, yes- I know-”
”Ah, but if the city doesn't return to a ather other resources”
”Right right, it's all Grendan's fault, who asked it not to go to the uy went over to thecould be cut in half, you know!”
”Even if you co Moreover isn't Grendan Your Majesty's Haikizoku?”
The topic had just come to this, so Leerin voiced the question that she had had doubts about before
”Nn honestly, it is ed to Saya, and it seems like it was sheltered by Saya after it had lost its way, and entrusted to her the functions of the city”
”Oh”
Saya was the entity that had created this world, and was the prototype of the autono, she was not an Electronic Fairy The autono to this prototype, and the Electronic Fairies were the beings produced in order to regulate theirl from before, it's not firirl froh this way of expression had so
”If Grendan's original role has been given to Saya to control, then ould he help Your Majesty?”
”You call it help, butfrom last time hadn't happened, I wouldn't even need it Wanna see it, , even a Heaven's Blade would be endangered”
”Heaven's Blades can't coth?”
”Nn~ I never tried seriously, but I think it probably couldn't So when I use my whole power, I usually use up Dites like consuht?”
”Nn, that's true”
”So I asked Grendan tosimilar to a Heaven's Blade, so that I could use it”
”I see, that's what it was”
The appearance of Alsheyra back then casting from her hands the spear that Grendan had made really left a deep impression
”What, what? Are you interested in me?”
”Obviously not”
”H and Leerin replying, Eldein's face peeked into the roohness, we've co up to there, Eldein suddenly stopped speaking After seeing Alsheyra in the room, his whole face stiffened
”Hht?”
Alsheyra spoke mischievously A similar situation had happened before, and back then Eldein had been very surprised, even dropping the things in his hands everywhere
”Your Your Majesty”
”Though, speaking of you, you're supposed to be a bodyguard, but now you've already becoht of that”
Eldein who looked a bit weak in the first place showed a worried expression, looking to have no trace of being a Military Artist
”Hm? Since that's the case, why don't you just serve as Leerin's personal attendant altogether?”
”Huh? Huhhh?”
”Your Majesty, that's very discourteous”
Eldein's extremely surprised expression made Leerin open hera personal attendant isn't bad”
”That's not the important point”
The queen hadn't ain asked:
”What do you think?”
”Huh? Ah”
”Do you want to try being Leerin's attendant? Or do you not?”
”Eldein, even if she's Her Majesty, you don't need to be polite”
”Why? Isn't that good? Working to guard the princess, doesn't that get your blood boiling?”
”What are you saying?”
”Ah, I No, I don't hness Please allow ht and said this, surprising Leerin, while Alsheyra showed a cunning smile
”See, that's what he decided”
”Eldein”
As Eldein seemed to have been fooled by the Queen, Leerin could only feel a headache
”What are you noisy about?”
Just then, Minse walked in
”Hi”
”Even if we're relatives, running into someone else's house whenever you feel like it isn't very co Alsheyra who had raised her hand in greeting without remorse, a bitter expression appeared on Minse's face
”Aha, isn't it good this way? Now you know about another security vulnerability”
”Meaning that the vulnerability you can exploit, other people can also exploit?”
”I can think of about ten or so nauess?”
”If they think of rebellion, thatto do with Leerin”
”Hher subordinates”
Leerin unconsciously paid attention to Minse's reply, thinking in her heart that she had learned soardless of what Minse said, in the end everyone still were being led by the nose by Alsheyra, and the room became a clamorous mess, and the time flowed by noisily
Up until the Eutnohl head ed in shouting, ”It's time to sleep!”, this commotion continued on
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”Hahh- really”
After being shooed away, Alsheyra turned her head to look at the entrance of the Eutnohl house
The door that had been closed by the i Alsheyra showed a wry s wall, and then along the entirefor a presence
She confir walls there were no unfah
Lintence should be soh she couldn't immediately read his presence, the presences of his steel threads were spread all over
”Oho, not bad”
Not being able to instantly find someone's presence made Alsheyra show a happy expression It wasn't too est Heaven's Blade, but even he couldn't oppose Alsheyra
When they had first reat battle suitable to their strong powers, Alsheyra's fist had struck the bridge of Lintence's nose, al
The two people had such a difference in power between theradually narrowed over the years
”By noe should be able to play for a while, huh?”
Perhaps, ht she lose?
Even if currently, Alsheyra still had a landslide victory in terms of brute force However, if her attack were evaded once, it would be hard to say what the battle would become
This possibility made Alsheyra somewhat happy From her birth, Alsheyra had never once lost in battle Because her strength was far too great, her opportunities to enter the battlefields had been almost zero, and she had lived like that up to now
She knew many Military Artists ere addicted to combat, but completely couldn't understand their pleasure Because she had only experienced battles that she couldn't possibly lose Moments of life and death were iood fun before”
That creature seemed to have been called Durindana
Durindana had killed Tigris and Delbone, and destroyed the city where she had grown up Though Alsheyra couldn't forgive it, from another perspective, that battle allowed her to raise her strength to its li she had never had before
Alsheyra wanted to once again experience that kind of battle To Alsheyra who didn't experience any kind of sti battle, and for whom it was too late to escape from the burden of fate on her back, the battle with Durindana was her first sti battle
If her opponent beca?
She wanted to try it out
But, she feared it was a battle that couldn't be carried out
Because of the co power they had, the better
”It would be good if it's a war of that level”
The eround overcaht with Lintence
At the least, it wouldn't be weaker than Durindana, right?
But, regardless of how strong the eneer, the outcome would be the same as before Then, she had to do this
Leerin's existence was like that
If Alsheyra's body was the reappearance of the bodies of her Military Artist ancestors, then Leerin was the continuation of the ancestors who had first possessed a different special power
If the opponent was a huge enemy related to the creation of the world, then this side also had to obtain this kind of strength that could oppose that enemy
”It's that easy”
Alsheyra had been born for this objective, so she could only do this In the first place, she couldn't say that she didn't want to do it, and she was helpless even if she did say it Moreover, she also knew that if she didn't do it, no one else could
To put it siest reason that she didn't feel that she was carrying a heavy burden
”Ah that's how it is”
Alsheyra casually walked on the road back ho about that situation But, she suddenly observed so discovery?”
As her body gradually accepted this fact, Alsheyra's mood becaer calm
She immediately took action
Once she returned there aiting for her, so she walked slowly on the road However, that appearance wasn't depressed Alsheyra in of the presence that she had detected in a ?”
Alsheyra appeared suddenly, but Lintence as lying on the roof didn't show a trace of surprise
”I noticed so?”
Lintence conored the Queen's excited voice, moody as usual
But, the Queen wouldn't care about that
”It's really incredible!”
”I' down, not at all a posture for listening to others, so Alsheyra grabbed the clothes covering his chest, unconsciously h Lintence's expression was displeased, he didn't oppose being moved by her
”Wasn't I born in order to oppose this fate?”
”Seems so”
”In order for the body of the Military Arts ancestor to reappear, the people in the first city endlesslyMilitary Artists They re in the being that isMilitary Artist But I'et serious, I'll end up destroying the city before killing the filthAlsheyra wanted to express wasn't communicated to the other party, and Lintence only distorted his face in a surprised expression
”However, in the battlefield before, I realized I can be useful for the upcoht in a situation where I won't destroy the city, and I knohat I can do”
”Hm”
”You understand? I have been created for one purpose I'm not dissatisfied with that, and I also believe that's how the world works Even if I'ht with filth monsters, because that's the extent of the burden I carry So, I don't have any proble the final weapon”
”I understand then, what exactly do you want to say?”
”You still don't understand?”
”Who would, isn't it just so inside your heart?”
”Hht Then I'll tell you, do you want to hear?”
”If I said I didn't, this conversation couldn't continue, right?”
”Then, what if I saidI won't tell you?”
”Enough, just say it”
Seeing Lintence's impatient attitude, Alsheyra was quite satisfied
So, she decided to tell it to him without further ado
”Once this battlefield ends, I will have lost theof my life”
”What do you s are? Because I was born for a single purpose, which was to fight on that battlefield If the fight ends, then I'll no longer be useful How surprising, is the truth really that surprising?”
”Are you seriously saying that?”
”Huh? What, could it be that you already knew? What a liar, Lin's brain can't be that good, right?”
Alsheyra was truly surprised
She had lived to now for that battlefield In order to reach her goal, she greithout hesitation, fighting to be able to extend her life The feeling of her great strength, already enough to be eligible for a Heaven's Blade, gradually increasing h she still was anxious about having not co power, her strength was already full to a degree where she couldn't hope for it to increase further
However, before the fight with Durindana, Leerin had appeared Leerin only had the body of a normal person, but was still involved in this fate This was not only sad, but also ry However, Alsheyra also felt excited that the radually approaching
At the same time, she felt lonely
She had never understood the ht that I would even becoht there would be nothing of the sort I feel lonely because of ht that I would be a bit reluctant to carry out ?”
”Were you scared?”
”Of course not!”
Her having this kind of ehed herself to death
She didn't laugh because she was sorrowful or ashaht that this was ridiculous enough to laugh at She wasn't able to calmly step back and analyze her current emotions
”The person who has alll~ways been on top posing will cos will end Once I think that after things end I won't have to use Military Arts, I inexplicably feel happy or mirthful, and my emotions also become excited Ahh, I don't knohat I should do”
Alsheyra thought that Lintence would feel surprised at her endless laughter, but never thought that he would put away his surprised expression and look at her seriously
”What is it?”
Though her body itched after her laughter ended, Alsheyra opened her mouth to ask that because of Lintence's response
”Do you hate not being able to do anything that much?”
”Nn- how should I describe it? I's would co for me”
”What is it?”
”If both of us survive, fight with ht not be bad, okay”
”The loser has to listen to the winner, how about we add that rule?”
”Of course! Though, to think that you would say such a thing”
”Then it's decided”
”Hmmm? Then before then, I should properly think about what kind of punishame I should make you do”
Alsheyra felt that Lintence had used this ht of fighting with Lintence, so she openly received this proposal
”It won't end in an instant this time?”
”Of course”
The two s She didn't think she would lose, but she wondered about what thoughts were in Lintence's e loneliness that she had just felt had been dispersed
”So, why are you looking for ood, but a presence bringing an annoying premonition stood behind her
”Your Majesty”
”I should warn you beforehand, don't meddle in the problem this time, okay?”
Kanaris had the blood of the Three Royal Fauards were also composed of members of the Rivanes family that was close to the royal families
”I understand”
Kanaris replied this way, but her face had a bitter expression
After announcing Leerin's royal inheritance, the hostility of the outside relatives of the Three Royal Faan to focus At the time, Alsheyra had first advised Kanaris as well as the three uninvolved Heaven's Blade successors that she had asked to act as Leerin's guards, telling thes
”This is h I have put you by my side, I don't know if I can trust you coht not be able to forgive you, right?”
Beforeother Heaven's Blades, Kanaris' loyalty to the throne was undoubtable However, if a blood relative or brother became involved in this problem, it was unkno the situation would play out
If it were someone like Minse who atteh it off, but if it were a conspiracy against Leerin, that was another matter
Kanaris lowered her head, unable to bear Alsheyra's gaze
”I'm very sorry, but Your Majesty”
”What is it?”
Kanaris' attitude made her worry
”What did you do?”
The one who said this was Lintence
”Lin?”
”The contact with the steel threads extending to the mansion has disappeared”
”Huh?”
”They weren't cut, they disappeared What did you do, Kanaris?”
Kanaris stayed quiet
”Disappeared?”
Lintence said that the steel threads hadn't been cut In other words, the steel threads extending to the mansion couldn't relay any information
”Lintence's steel threads lost their function?”
Were there Military Artists who could do such a thing? If it were some special power that didn't have any direct relationshi+p with fighting power, then it could have passed under Alsheyra's spies
However, was that really the truth?
If it were like that, how could Alsheyra explain what she felt?
Alsheyra obviously focused her consciousness on the Eutnohl residence, but hadn't caught the presence of anyone, as that?
Not only the guards, she couldn't even feel the presences of Leerin and the others
No, it wasn't only that
She couldn't even sense any presences from the nearby area either
”Kanaris?”
Facing Alsheyra's questioning, Kanaris re the pressure that Alsheyra gave off, while ht
”Nor like this Kanaris, what's going on?”
She had to quickly go to the residence - that hat herwith Kanaris, she had to io to that place to confirm whether Leerin was safe
Alsheyra obviously thought this way, but her feet didn't move
Lintence who stood nearby was the sa, no one could resist it”
Kanaris endured Alsheyra and Lintence's gazes, while saying this with a pained voice The attitude that she expressed showed that the situation hadn't been her own actions
”Leerin!”
Alsheyra felt sticky sweat froaze fro out Leerin's name
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The room seemed to have settled down, and Leerin let out a breath
Leerin understood the Queen's reasons for worrying, as she would periodically come to visit her, but the way she did so really had proble it from others wasn't okay
”Before when I wanted to sleep, I would notice her already lying on the bed”
Leerin ht noas already past the ti, and she also didn't have the mood for it Tomorrow she would have to attend class, so it was about time to sleep
”Um”
That voicein front of her was Eldein, who didn't knohat to do
”It's already very late, why don't you go sleep”
”Ah, yes I understand”
Minse had already returned to his room, and only Leerin and Eldein were left in the roo the room from outside, but when he had becouard like now
”Then, I'll be in the next room on standby as usual”
”Sorry to bother Ah, right”
Just as Leerin was seeing Eldein out of the roo?”
”The stuff back then, was only because Her Majesty likes teasing people, you don't need to be too serious about it”
”Ah, the attendant thing”
”Right right”
Leerin nodded her head
”Though there are truly Military Artists charged with protecting the palace, they're alood to speak this way, I don't think it's an easy position, so you don't need to take the initiative to work in that kind of place”
Eldein was a Military Artist that Minse had picked to act as Leerin's guard, and though he nor Military Artist
Leerin thought that way, but
”That”
Eldein who had stayed silent listening to Leerin speak, interrupted with an extremely troubled expression:
”Ahness' side?”
”Huh?”
The unexpected question made Leerin look at Eldein in surprise
”Ah! No, I wouldn't feel very annoyed or anything like that, but”
”If I won't , would you please allow me to serve as your attendant”
”But”
Even if he were a normal Military Artists, she kneould be an easy job
Leerin who had grown up as a normal citizen knew that when the citizens on the streets criticized the palace, they alould first bare their blades at the Military Artists guarding the palace
They were the useless weaklings that protected the strongest Queen, ouldn't ever receive injury
”I knohat everyone calls the palace guards”
”Then”
”But, to protect Your Highness, with only that reason, it doesn't uard or an attendant, I'll do it!”
”Eldein”
The siure
She felt pained
Because she noticed so to perceive
No, she always knew Though it was only a faint feeling, she understood what Eldein was thinking
However
”Eldein”
At that ti in her heart, preparing to weave her words
However, the sentence disappeared auously
”What?”
She understood the athness?”
Leerin's change e in the room was clearly obvious, but Eldein totally didn't feel it Then, did that mean this wasn't caused by a Military Artist?
”Wu”
The right eye under her blindfold began to hurt
”Your Highness, what's wrong?”
The at
Moreover, this soan with a form that Eldein also understood
An explosion suddenly sounded from the other side of the
”Enemy attack?”
Eldein pulled out his Dite and assuht froap, and in order to not let their enemy know their position, Eldein didn't immediately restore his Dite
”It can't be, but it's unexpectedly so bright”
The sounds of battle still continued Eldein took a tablet-like object froardless of how Eldein stared at it, the flake didn't shi+ne with the light of Psychokinesis received from its Psychokinesist
”Co her of this, Eldein went near the s to confirh the sounds of battle still continued, every tihtly,
”da
”Your Highness, please wait here, I will go confiruards hadn't come by The sounds of battle drew closer step by step with an unhurried speed, as if knowing that this side would be in a panic and ridiculing that
”Wait, Eldein”
”Don't worry, I will definitely protect Your Highness”
The restless Eldein prepared to move Leerin tried to stop him, but he didn't stop his pace
”Wait!”
He left as Leerin called out, rushi+ng out of the rooure that had disappeared froe in her left eye That kind of feeling wouldn't disappear Moreover this afterie refused to disappear as if it were a pre?”
Her voice treh she hadn't accepted him as a man, she still felt that she was very comfortable with him Even if Eldein stayed by her, Leerin wouldn't feel uncomfortable, and could relax herself Leerin had been crowned as a Eutnohl, and had become a member of the Three Royal Fa this kind of intense change in her life environ
”Isn't it i that way?”
Leerin couldn't receive Eldein's words the wrong way
Because, she had once spoken like that on her path
”It would be nice if I could have also been that slow”
Those kinds of words wouldn't work
If they did work, wouldn't the person here not be Eldein, but Layfon instead?
”What a?”
This wasn't the problem The outcome Leerin chose was the current situation
Leerin was the one who didn't need Layfon
”Eldein has already”
His words went through her chest, staying there Leerin obviously wanted to keep her heart fros of giving up, strong enough to s mixed inside slowly seeped into her heart
The war her feel sad
”Being so leisurely, is that because you aren't yet aware of things?”
”Huh?”
The voice that suddenly entered her ears made Leerin turn her head
But, there was no one behind her
”Was I too sensitive?”
There were no presences of anyone here
The sounds of battle had beco a stalemate?
If it had already ended, which side had won?
”Are the people in the building okay?”
Just as she murmured this
The door flew open, and the walls were destroyed
A deep and intense sound rang out as the walls and things in the rooe object fell by Leerin's feet
”Eldein!”
”Ugh!”
He fell on the ground, and his surroundings were gradually dyed in a red circle His right arm was broken, and fresh blood continuously flowed out His forehead had also been split, and the blood that seeped out of the wound gradually turned his face crimson
”Get a hold of yourself!”
Leerin took out her handkerchief to wipe the wound on Eldein's forehead, and looked around for soht arhness, please escape”