Chapter 285 – Warmth
“So you’re saying it can cure me?”
Alicia looked at Wolfgang with her doubting eyes.
“That’s right.”
“Hmm…”
A brown scroll held in a large hand and a lot of odds and ends popping out of pockets enchanted with space expansion. Disbelief could not be hidden in Alicia’s expression as she watched Wolfgang as far away as possible.
An expression as if looking at someone who was tricked by a merchant and bought something strange.
Leona, who was unexpectedly dragged along and stood beside Alicia as if to escort her, whispered cautiously while watching Wolfgang’s eyes.
“Your Highness the Princess, Sir Wolfgang is a hero of the Empire who has always perfectly solved the assigned missions.”
“But even monkeys sometimes fall from trees.”
Shrugging shoulders and a sullen tone.
—Pajik
A twin wick lit up on Leona’s forehead as she behaved like a rebellious adolescent girl in everything.
Jean Leona von Heidegger, the lady-in-waiting of the palace of light, is the closest aide to the imperial princess, her older sister, and a tutor.
Even though Alicia had never been nagging her since she grew up. Her disrespectful attitude now made Leona no choice but to nag the storm for the first time in a long time.
“Your Highness, it is not right to disparage the efforts of others for your sake. Did I teach you that?”
“Ah, okay…”
When Leona’s expression hardened, Alicia immediately took a step back.
Looking at the scene that was like a skit, Wolfgang smiled bitterly. That would be the case, because the current appearance was a look that could not be said to be very trustworthy even to himself.
If you knew this would happen, at least one expert would accompany you.
If a tall man who seemed to have no ties to magic for the rest of his life brought some suspicious leather scrolls and miscellaneous things and pushed them away, she would surely not be very reliable.
Wolfgang explained in a calm tone.
“Princess. This scroll was personally produced and guaranteed by the great mage, the Red Mage Tower. It contains the power of Runic, the mysterious magic of the north. I believe that this scroll can improve the symptoms of the princess.”
Then, Leona, who was even more surprised than Alicia, asked back with the momentum to jump almost from the spot.
“A person who can be the owner of a mage tower? How could it be… Aren’t the wizards of the mage tower locked away in their workshops or research centers, turning their backs on the world?”
“Um, strangely, you know it in detail, don’t you?”
“Oh! I’m sorry…”
Leona’s family, the Marquis Heidegger, is a prestigious family with a long history and a reputation for both magic and learning.
It was not unreasonable for her to react like that. It was all the more surprising because being the head of the Magic Tower was a dream that her father had not yet achieved despite all his lifelong efforts.
Leaving Leona wide-eyed behind her, Wolfgang cleared his throat and continued her explanation.
“The magic engraved on this scroll is Runic of Restoration. These items you brought now are a kind of medium for activating magic. They say that you can activate magic with the feeling of offering a sacrifice.”
“Hmm, from my short insight, it looks much closer to witchcraft than magic.”
“How did you know that? The Red Horse Tower lord also said exactly the same thing as the maid. The explanation was too convoluted, so I couldn’t understand it properly…”
‘Look at these?’
Alicia suddenly put herself behind her and looked at the two people who were talking amicably with subtle eyes.
Jealous? No, I’m sure it wasn’t.
It was true, however, that it made me feel a little uncomfortable. The reason she now treats Wolfgang with such reluctance is that her memories of her inner world have lingered so strongly.
At the time, there were people watching from her side, so it didn’t show so much, but the sight of another Alicia literally howling like a bitch while being held tightly in Wolfgang’s arms gave her delicate mind a profound shock.
According to Hasine’s story, she was told that the inner world was a space close to a kind of mental singularity created by reflecting to some extent the thoughts she was doing.
Alicia told me that she was such a masochist, an unanswerable pervert sobbing in her pleasure with a big cock the size of her forearm inserted into her secret area and several beads the size of a child’s fist up her anus. I really didn’t want to admit it.
It was just a nightmare. There could be no way that such an absurd taste lay dormant in the lofty imperial princess. Moreover, her taste was for a prince on a white horse who looked far-sighted rather than her man who was like that beast.
In any case, it was only natural that he would not be able to face the face of Wolfgang, who had done such a terrible thing to his other self.
Alicia looked at Wolfgang and narrowed her eyes.
Although she is pretending to be a gentleman away now. In Alicia’s eyes, that man named Wolfgang was nothing more than a dangerous predator who could turn into a ruthless rapist at any moment.
Enemy of women.
It was a word that summarized Alicia’s current perception of Wolfgang.
“That, stop! So, how should we proceed with that ceremony?”
Alicia took a step ahead and shouted, covering Leona’s body.
Does that one brute-like man even reach out to the head maid?
That’s not right. I must protect the lady-in-waiting from that man’s demon.
Although she has lost her memory, her maid Jean Leona is still Alicia’s most precious aide and an older sister.
She absolutely did not want to see her ending, even if it meant getting dirt in her eyes.
Wolfgang broke the seal on the scroll and said.
—Cheap!
Just like a scroll made by the Archmage himself, the high-density mana that immediately fills the bedroom as soon as it is opened.
“It’s not difficult. Let’s see… It’s written here. Move the magic circle drawn on this scroll to a larger space, draw it separately, and then stand in the center of the magic circle with the princess holding something similar to a sacrifice that can specify the restoration point. It’s over. “
“Okay, then let’s proceed right away.”
Alicia seemed to be in a hurry.
Staring at her Alicia with a slightly puzzled look, Leona rolled her arms first and stepped forward.
“Confirmed. I also have some knowledge in magic, so let me help with the preparations for the ceremony. Sir Wolfgang and the Princess should be looking for the appropriate sacrifice together while I prepare the ceremony.”
“Thank you. If the lady-in-waiting helps, it will surely be of great help.”
As Leona immediately started working right in the middle of her bedroom, Alicia was startled and made a fuss about her.
“Now, wait! Are you asking me to do something with that person?”
Then her Leona expression hardened again.
She lifted her monocle and, with her hands resting on her waist, gently poured her nagging at her Alicia.
“Your Highness, such an attitude is not right. Sir Wolfgang risked all sorts of hardships to obtain this scroll for the sake of the princess and no one else. Then, of course, you should cooperate. Consideration and tolerance are one of the greatest virtues of a ruler. No see.”
“Boo…”
The atmosphere is like scolding a child who doesn’t listen.
Wolfgang looked at it with a curious expression.
I’ve heard that Alicia, who has lost her memory, is maintaining her mental state in her early to mid-teens, but I never thought I’d be able to confirm it in such a blatant form.
To be honest, Alicia now is being mean to the point that she wants to feed her a chestnut.
The reason why Wolfgang was able to put up with Alicia’s cocky attitude was because of his tolerant personality towards the weak, but it was more because Leona intervened at the right time like now.
Also, Alicia, who had always been obedient, always found fault with his words and made her look a little cute rather than annoyed.
At least not yet.
Wolfgang approached the crying Alicia and spoke in a serious tone.
“Princess.”
“Uh, huh?”
Alicia was taken aback, but she didn’t pull herself out this time.
Since there is nowhere to run, Leona’s advice must have worked.
“I don’t know what the princess thinks of me now, but I want to help you. As I said before, you are a very precious person to me.”
“Even if you said that, to me now…”
“I know. It doesn’t make much sense that you’ve lost your memory. But, here it is.”
Wolfgang grabbed Alicia’s hand.
With great care, as if handling her porcelain doll, so as not to frighten her little girl.
And before Alicia had time to respond, she immediately placed her white hand on her own left breast.
—Thump, pound…
A slow but very regular heartbeat.
Alicia, before losing her memory, liked to caress Wolfgang’s chest or hold her tightly in his arms and hold her ear close to hear his heartbeat.
I sincerely hope that the memory of her trapped in the distant darkness will come back a little bit.
Wolfgang whispered in Alicia’s ear as softly as possible.
“I’m serious. Can you feel it?”
“Ah…”
Then, Alicia’s expression, which had been sharp like her meowing cat, relaxed.
It wasn’t the first time she felt it. This was apparently exactly the same pattern of her echoes that she had subconsciously drowned in just before waking up in her inner world.
I don’t remember, but it felt really, really comfortable and warm.
It’s like…
“Then, let’s try to find the item you were using before you lost your memory. Come with me.”
Eventually, Wolfgang, who let go of Alicia’s hand, said with a light smile.
— Nod
Instead of rambling about her path, talking about her princess’s fate, Alicia quietly nodded her head.
Then she gently put her hands together and wiggled her extensions and her fingers.
As if she was recalling the waves and warmth she felt a moment ago.
