Chapter 236 – Peekaboo
At the edge of the territory of the Frosttooth tribe, where the sheer cliff was located.
The protruding rocky promontory, which would have been a pretty good place to contemplate the endless horizon beyond the great snowfield, has become a blunt precipice.
It is because of the scars left by Wolfgang and Astrid’s intense search battle.
There, a tall woman holding her spear is hesitant to open her mouth, holding her body up for no reason.
She sighed, twisting her gray hair, and finally spoke with her reluctance.
“…Well, it goes well or not.”
“I’ll come back someday. If you ever want to seek refuge in the Empire, just give me my name and come back.”
“Heh. Talking nonsense until the end. Anyway, he’s unlucky.”
Contrary to her angry tone, Astrid carefully adjusted the golden rank insignia in her bosom.
His warmth, as if it hadn’t gone away yet.
Suddenly, all too naturally, she had lingering feelings.
If Wolfgang leaves a long way like this, when will he be able to meet him again?
It was a while to be startled at the sight of oneself having such soft thoughts.
As if she had made up her mind about something, she strode towards the group preparing to leave.
“Go, why suddenly a deal coming up?”
“Hee-ik…! Are you really trying to follow me?”
Then he passed the frightened women and whispered very softly into Wolfgang’s ear.
“…Come back in ten months. You don’t have to come to see the face of the child to be born.”
“What…!”
It was Wolfgang who was momentarily making an expression that was difficult to describe.
In a crisis, his brain spun quickly and recalled his memories quickly.
The day he enjoyed wild mating with Astrid was a safe day.
Didn’t you go through the verification again because you didn’t know?
Reflecting on that fact, Wolfgang, who had barely regained his composure, cleared his throat and carefully corrected himself.
“Well, just in case you don’t know. Just because you did it once doesn’t mean you’ll have a baby right away. You have to have intercourse on a set day to have a baby.”
“What? That, where is that! A lie!”
“Why would I lie like that? If I just ask your tribesmen right now, they’ll be exposed.”
“…”
After hearing Wolfgang’s explanation, Astrid’s face turned red.
Then, turn around and run straight ahead.
—Whoops!
“My, my day!”
Incredible speed. It was full-speed forward.
When he realized that he had made a huge mistake, he couldn’t stand the rising shame.
“Oh! He’s running away!”
“Whew… I’m glad. I wonder if even I would be like that to a scary older sister like that…”
“Haha.”
As Astrid disappears, Wolfgang smiles awkwardly as she looks at the women, who are visibly relieved.
He took out a silver clock-shaped communication artifact from his chest.
It was to try to communicate with the empire to inform them of their return and to report the progress of their mission.
“Scarlett. Is it possible to communicate with the Empire from here?”
“Well, I think it might work, but I’m not sure. I’ll have to try it.”
“Is it.”
In the land of frost, the distortion of spatial coordinates due to the unique strong magnetic field is very serious.
This would seriously impede teleportation and long-distance communication magic.
At the end of the mainland, with a great snowfield in front of you, this is something you would never know.
—Chijik… Chijik…
[Communication Security. Damian here. Is reception good?]
[&%#$… Main… &%*$@#]
However, only incomprehensible noise comes from the communicator.
I was wondering if I could do some work in advance in a safe place before crossing the great snowfield.
It seems that things are not going to be so easy.
“It’s not going well. I should go out a little more.”
Feeling a little bit regretful, I’m about to leave.
—Chijik… Chick… !
[Master! Don’t hang up! It’s me!]
Couldn’t it be that the communicator resonated with a clear, pure voice that I had never dreamed of being able to hear here?
Wolfgang’s mouth fell open at that.
“Alicia?!”
[Ha… Master… I’m the owner… ! I really missed you so much… What? Has her face changed a bit? Still cool!]
The surprises didn’t end there.
—Parts, parts… !
A strange mana wave began to flow near the mana stone of the communicator, and soon the light of the three primary colors leaked out, drawing a dazzlingly beautiful woman’s face.
Shining silver hair that seemed like it was made by melting moonlight, and cold blue eyes.
It was the imperial princess, Alicia.
“No, wait. What the hell is this?”
“Huh? That person must be…”
“Oh ho?”
Wolfgang was not the only one surprised by the sudden anomaly.
The companions were also visibly bewildered.
Even Lazarus, who doesn’t blink an eye at most things, openly showed interest.
[Whoops… !]
Alicia’s welcome showed a bright smile.
Seeing her face for the first time in a while is so beautiful that it’s too much to be mesmerized for a moment.
Wolfgang, who suddenly came to his senses, cleared her voice and asked Alicia what she was doing.
“What happened?”
[You know? I am the owner… No, he did not want to take his eyes off Sir Wolfgang even for a moment. I was so sad that I couldn’t see you on this mission, but I made it in the end. Black… !]
However, Alicia’s tears welled up in her heart, unable to even answer properly because of her emotion.
It was none other than Scarlett who calmly analyzed her current situation instead of Alicia, who was having a hard time continuing her words while staring at Wolfgang.
“This is… No, nonsense!”
Her eyes were stained with astonishment.
The archmage’s intuition and analytical ability regarding magical powers that have reached the fragment of truth are unmatched.
Scarlett easily realized what the princess, blinded by that love, had done.
It is a miracle created by an obsession close to madness.
Scarlett, who never lost her arrogance in front of any great aristocrat or powerful person, except for the general of the empire, who was an irresistible being, became more polite than ever before.
“Excuse me, Princess? Or, by tracing back the origin of the signal, we can reversely secure communication initiative there, and then apply hallucination magic to change the voice packets transmitted through the magic field into video packets to create real-time Are you attempting video communication?”
[Oh! Yes that’s right! The problem of fixing the coordinates was solved by building several waypoints in the middle. If you create several virtual base stations according to the flow of the celestial body, the strength of communication will naturally amplify. Packet switching was a bit difficult as expected, but it worked because I worked hard thinking that I wanted to see Sir Wolfgang!]
“No, it’s not just about working hard…”
Their own conversation that is impossible to understand unless you are a wizard.
Despite seeing each other for the first time in their lives, the story between the two is very natural.
“…?”
“Muh…”
“What do you mean by that?”
Of course, it is a story between two women.
For Wolfgang and the rest of the party, their conversation is more like an alien language, not an imperial language.
[How… Sir Wolfgang didn’t want to see me?]
“I also missed it a lot. It’s more beautiful after a long time.”
[Come back soon. I wouldn’t last a day in the Empire without you. I want to see you soon, my love]
“We’ll get back to you as soon as possible.”
Without paying attention to the eyes of the people around them, Scarlett swallowed her silence inwardly, leaving behind the two people who started shouting salt.
Normally, she would have thought that the actions of the two were very eye-catching.
The more he thought about what Princess Alicia had done, the more he felt a sense of awe as a wizard.
“This… Is theoretically impossible at the moment. How many years has it surpassed the development of alternative communication technologies…? Even voice communication magic is just now in the commercialization stage…”
No matter how much the lineage of the royal family shows extraordinary talent in certain fields.
The achievement Alicia made because she wanted to see Wolfgang’s face was something that could not be described simply as being very talented.
Scarlett, who reached the level of a great wizard in her 20s, has also lived her life listening to the voices of the greatest geniuses of all time.
Even to her, it remains unknown how Alicia did this.
At best, we are only barely able to understand the results.
What should I call that being with an incomprehensible talent even for the genius Scarlett?
‘Red tower lord. Did you know that the princess is interested in magic?’
‘I’m not interested. It’s just a joke for the elders. To think that the Master of the White Tower was only interested in trivial things like that. It’s a big deal.’
‘No. It’s never a trivial thing. His talent, maybe… ‘
Scarlett shuddered as she suddenly recalled the conversation that passed by at the regular magic meeting.
[Oh! Excuse me. I’m late to say hello. Are you Sir Wolfgang’s companions? Nice to meet you all~]
On the other hand, Alicia, embarrassed by belatedly flirting with her party.
At that sight, Scarlett felt extreme fear as well as her vigilance.
‘Monster, that woman is a monster. A person with such talent cannot be normal. I can’t even guess what a terrifying nature he’s hiding under his idiotic smile.’
I am so worried about Wolfgang, who is having a conversation with that terrifying princess without knowing anything.
Scarlett’s eyes started to spin.
The great wizard’s brilliant brain, intimidated by the overwhelming talent gap, spins in a very bad direction.
In the end, the delusion circuit created by the archmage’s imagination had to be activated.
[Sir Wolfgang… Do you want to talk just the two of us for a while?]
“Yes, just a moment. I’m on a mission right now, and I have to leave soon.”
It’s just a conversation between lovers, but it looks suspicious.
‘Oh, no!’
Scarlett thought.
Could it be that her strong fool is being used by her?
If you think about it, it makes no sense.
What was it that the imperial princess felt sorry for, that she could not live with Wolfgang?
Of course, this does not mean that Wolfgang is an insignificant man.
However, judging objectively, there were far and wide marriages that were better than that for the imperial princess.
There is no reason why the noblest woman in the empire, who can turn even the grand duke’s eldest son into an exclusive foot wipe, falls in love with a mediocre soldier.
Wolfgang’s most miserable life scenario is drawn in her head after being used and abandoned by a wicked woman with a terrifying mind hidden behind her soft face.
‘I can never let it go like that!’
Scarlett boasts a broken relationship thanks to her temperament that fits perfectly with the expression “Shit.”
However, she was just very bad-tempered, but she was never a villain.
To her, Wolfgang was her only friend.
Scarlett made up her mind.
She decided to protect that strong idiot at all costs.
Let’s see how her friend is in trouble.
* * *
On the other hand, Scarlett clenching her fists is delusional or not.
Wolfgang holding a communicator behind her back casually passed by.
Then, let’s judge that the distance is far enough away from the party.
“Can this be enough?”
Stopping at the edge of the cliff, Wolfgang turned his head to see if anyone could see him.
The sixth sense, trained in the process of dating Alicia, was whispering to Wolfgang.
It would never be good if someone else found out about the conversation the two of you were having.
The video output from the communicator was also covered with his hand just in case.
[Yes… Master. Haha… ]
And Alicia’s voice, which instantly became very strange and sticky.
It was as if he was proving that his sixth sense was not wrong.
“Mmm.”
The moment when the nervous Wolfgang swallowed and let go of his hand so that the video could be played again.
“Omg…!”
The secret valley, clearly revealed on the wet black lingerie, unfolded before my eyes.
Before long, a wet voice tickled his ear.
[Ha… Master, how are you? It’s the owner’s exclusive bitch pussy… !]
