Chapter 286 – Memory Restoration Ritual
Alicia was confused.
She was born and raised as an imperial princess. Of course, there are no men who can touch her jade body carelessly. If there is an exception, it might be her father, the emperor.
But what the heck is this man?
Alicia quietly touched her own left hand.
It was the first time. Her man who had lived so far and had come so close to her. And that too without any hesitation.
‘Pa, unscrupulous… !’
It was an outrageous act. It wasn’t enough to hold her hand, even to touch her own body.
Even if the author said that he had a special relationship with himself before he lost his memory, that doesn’t mean that he can act arbitrarily with his current self.
According to the tenets of the Empire’s state religion, the Celestial Church, memory is never irrelevant to the soul.
No matter how Cardinal Renatus’ theory of epistemology revealed that the soul and memory are separate, even the epistemology that is the basis of modern psychology does not deny the fact that the soul and memory are complementary to each other, influencing each other’s existence. Did not
In other words, Alicia who lost her memory is a completely different person from the Alicia he knew.
That’s why you should never treat it carelessly. Especially if they were close enough to call themselves lovers. If you love her enough to dare to say that you love her, then she who has lost her memory should also respect her.
So, what you just did is wrong and wrong.
It deserves to be shouted at. So that that savage man like a bandit will never think of such nonsense again.
But Alicia couldn’t say anything.
“Eww…!”
Her body didn’t listen, even though her head knew she had to.
Heat rises to her face and her chest feels tight. As if I had been sprinting, even my breath came out fast.
What is this feeling?
She was Alicia who grew up healthy without any minor illnesses, to the extent that there were even malicious rumors that she was her daughter who took away her mother’s life when she was young.
She, of course, had never suffered from the cold or fever common to men and women of all ages in the Empire.
For the first time in her life, she is experiencing ‘feeling like a fever’.
Also.
—Thumping… !
The source of the noise resonating in my ears at this moment, resembling a sledgehammer hitting something soft and heavy, was by no means outside.
The deepest part of her. It was a sound from the heart.
Alicia also realized for the first time in her life that her heart could beat so fast.
Maybe there are so many things I’m going through for the first time in my life today.
— Jerrit!
‘All, all because of that impudent man!’
Alicia glared at her Wolfgang, who was wandering around her own bedroom.
The princess’s bedroom is an absolutely forbidden area that no man can invade. Why does that man seem to know the structure of this place unnecessarily well?
I really hate it.
He was a man I didn’t like.
When I first met her, she scared her all the way, and really, he was a man who didn’t like her every single action. Why did my past self fall in love with such an impudent man?
It is incomprehensible.
It was her cavernous, low voice that awakened her after she had been lost in her thoughts for a long time.
“Princess.”
“Hot!”
At the sound of her wolfgang calling her, Alicia flinched at her and threw herself away.
Only belatedly, realizing that I had done something rude, she hurriedly corrected her behavior and responded with an awkward expression.
“What, what is it…?”
“Could you please take a look at this?”
In Wolfgang’s hand was a jewelry box containing things she treasured.
Despite the size of the object, it looked like a toy in Wolfgang’s hand. Even though he is over 2 meters tall, even his shoulders are unbelievably wide, which creates an optical illusion that he looks bigger than he already is.
— Flinch!
While trying to ignore the phenomenon of being intimidated as a creature and automatically shrinking the body.
Alicia said, narrowing her eyes.
“This is my treasure chest. Why are you interested in this?”
Acting like a child, Wolfgang smiled as if she was cute.
“As I said before, you need a sacrifice to activate Runic of Restoration.”
“Yeah, that’s right. Indeed”
Even though she basically had her brilliant brain, she couldn’t have forgotten what she had just told me.
It’s like you can’t really concentrate.
The person who shook her concentration continued to explain again casually.
“They say that the more precious an object is, the more frequently used it is, the more suitable it is for a sacrifice. A scythe for a farmer or a sword for a swordsman. “
It was a surprisingly detailed and thoughtful explanation.
It’s completely different from her formidable appearance, she thought inadvertently.
“Ah, I see.”
Alicia, nodding her head willingly, put her hand close to her jewelry box.
As an object used by the imperial princess, the splendid jewelry box decorated with gold leaf and mother-of-pearl was already an artifact close to a treasure in itself.
Not only can it never be destroyed by a moderate amount of physical impact, but it is also designed to never be opened in the hands of non-owners. Inside, there was space expansion magic as well as a function to ensure that the objects inside never deteriorated.
Alicia said that since she was a child, she used to keep this and that attachment items in it.
There were commonplace items such as favorite trinkets, dolls, or blankets, and even cakes that were so delicious that they ate only one piece and kept the whole because they wanted to eat it later.
It should be said that it is a small warehouse containing all sorts of odds and ends except living things.
—Click!
“There’s a lot of stuff in there.”
“Bo-don’t look…! There’s even my underwear inside!”
Alicia hurriedly interrupts Wolfgang, who is curiously looking inside the jewelry box.
Of course, Wolfgang had seen Alicia’s undergarments dozens of times, torn them off, and even worn them on her head, but she didn’t bother to say that.
‘Looking at it, little Alicia is pretty cute too.’
Also, Alicia’s appearance, like her celestial girl, had a different taste from the Alicia Wolfgang had known so far, and he enjoyed dealing with her, who had almost lost her memory.
After Alicia regains her memory, I wonder if this will remain as a memory in its own way.
That’s what Wolfgang thought as he stared at Alicia, who was whimpering with her upper body almost tucked into her box.
In the meantime.
“Yes?”
Alicia frowned as if she felt something unfamiliar in her hand.
Then she groaned and pulled something large from inside her jewelry box. It was a strangely savory movement, like a woman picking radishes in a field.
“What is this? I don’t remember keeping anything like this…”
What Alicia found was a book.
The bright red salamander leather cover with a very strong impression caught the attention of the two at once. It was a gorgeous design that would be mistaken for a magic book by someone unfamiliar.
[Like fireworks]
[Madame Noir]
Madame Noir, is it you again?
Upon seeing the author’s name emblazoned on the cover, Wolfgang barely suppressed the urge to slap her on the forehead.
A mysterious sensual novel writer who appears whenever you forget.
I don’t know what kind of person he is, but it was clear that he was an unusual person, considering that he even knew the personal history of his teacher, Arien, and used it as a material.
“I like the title. A short and strong title with a strong cover. Is it literature about human passion? I don’t remember putting it in myself, but it must be a masterpiece that I can put in my jewelry box in the past.”
Alicia twitched her hair while spouting an exclamation of “Ho-oh” As if praising herself for her own eyes on her past.
Seeing this, Wolfgang vowed never to reveal the truth about her unless she opened the book herself.
Sometimes it’s better not to wake up from the illusion.
Alicia turned around and looked at her Wolfgang with a satisfied expression.
“My dear, you said that the ritual required a proper sacrifice, right?”
“Yes, it is.”
“I’ll do it with this. The link between the past me and the present me is one book. Isn’t it very romantic?
Is this correct?
Although Wolfgang seriously pondered over whether or not to stop this for a moment.
“Your Highness, Sir Wolfgang! As of the present time, preparations for the ceremony are complete.”
Leona, who was in charge of all the cumbersome ritual preparations by herself, cried out while sweating.
“Hey, let’s get started. I’m really looking forward to it!”
Above all, let Alicia herself shout that out loud while holding her red book in her arms.
“…Okay, then.”
Wolfgang finally had to agree.
Thus, an unprecedented memory restoration ceremony began with an adult-only high-level sensual novel as a sacrifice.
