Chapter 76 – #17 the Fragment of Calamity Comes With the Storm (4)
There was a brief happening, but it was no longer a problem now that the problematic lock was cut cleanly.
Of course, what to do with the lock that has already been cut is not a question for now.
Mona will take care of it.
It’s like a phantom trick or something.
Saying that everything has become a nuisance now and brushing aside her affairs, Emilia opened the locked drawer and inspected the contents.
‘Paper… ?’
No. No.
What was inside was not paper, but old-fashioned parchment.
The parchment was sealed with thin string and wax studded with the royal coat of arms.
It might have been about a hundred years ago, but now that the production of paper has increased overwhelmingly using various magic tools, it is difficult to find such antique parchment.
Even so, it did not look like an old document.
Parchment, no matter how well you store it, will fade and wear out in a few years, but it felt like new.
“That’s a magic tool too, Lia.”
As Emilia held the parchment in her hand and inspected it, Mona whispered advice next to her.
“… What kind of magic tool is it?”
“You have to see the contents. And if it’s a magic tool in the form of papers like this, isn’t it somewhere there?”
This parchment is sealed with the seal of the royal family.
Once you break it, it’s over. Traces remain
Can I really open this seal and take a look…
‘Why have you come now, all over again.’
Emilia had already crossed the irreversible river.
And now, rather than other sequels, learning about Earl Meln comes first.
Emilia quickly made a decision, tore off the wax seal and unfolded the rolled parchment.
On the parchment, a contract was written in fancy handwriting.
The content itself is simple. Simple but…
[I solemnly swear by acknowledging the engagement between the hero Emilia Edenbertz and the emperor Kalik Launtum Romancia.]
Its content was unbelievable in many ways.
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“This… What… ?”
The parchment had something like the faint language of gin and sorcery written all over the page.
Perhaps it was a spell drawn with special ink so that it would not interfere with seeing the contents at all.
And, as if overwriting those spells and magic circles, a contract with unbelievable contents was written.
About the betrothal between the hero Emilia and the emperor Calric Romancia.
At the top, such information was written concisely, and below that, detailed conditions were written.
For example, Emilia will give permission when she is an adult after her coming-of-age ceremony.
For example, if either of Emilia or Kallic Romancia loses the designated position (Hero, Emperor), it will be invalidated.
Such detailed and detailed conditions were listed in order.
Of course, even though it was her own story, Emilia was completely unaware of it.
Judging by the date written at the top, she seemed to have written it while she was still ■ years old.
‘I forgot because I was young… I don’t think so.’
Looking at the magic tool contract with unbelievable eyes, my eyes went to the sign at the bottom.
A sign sworn in blood.
One of them was the emperor’s name.
The other was her father’s name, which she admired.
‘Father… This contract… ?’
Marrying the emperor is definitely an honor.
Regardless of how Emilia herself felt, perhaps the status of a count might be promoted to a marquise or a duke, and Emilia herself would have enemies in the royal family, an irreplaceable honor.
But her father, whom she knew,
Edgar Edenbergz,
He is not the kind of person who decides these things on his own without any explanation to her.
It’s probably not.
To arbitrarily decide Emilia’s future at an age where she can’t even annihilate herself.
It was natural for a noblewoman to be engaged or swear to marry a man from another family, even at a young age.
It would be embarrassing to see her with her heroic mission as the same as her ladies,
She even uses magic tools like this to create a situation that can’t be refused…
‘It’s full of discomfort.’
Father can’t do that.
There’s no way my father would allow this.
Then…
‘FALSE… ?’
Was it necessary to bind Emilia to her royal family?
Why with the emperor, Kalik Romancia?
Is it because she has no prince who can be said to be the successor to the emperor?
Is that why the name of the prince is written on this contract?
… I have no idea.
The information Emilia now knows is too limited, and it is unclear how this connects to Count Meln’s intentions.
“First of all, the blood used for the autograph is definitely that of Edgar Edenbertz and Kallic Romancia.
Aside from the emperor’s signature, aren’t Leah’s bodily fluids reacting to the other signature?”
What Mona pointed out was the light grains still floating in the air.
The grains of Emilia’s bodily fluids pointed to the parchment she was holding in her hand, and the bloodstained signature of the name 『Edgar Eden Bertz』 Written on the bottom of it.
There is something related because they are of the same blood… Probably like that.
There may be many possibilities, but for now, I’ll organize the situation as it looks.
What was discovered in this secret storage was a contract to swear marriage between himself and the emperor.
This contract was written with a sorcery tool, and probably some kind of magic whose efficacy does not allow breach of contract.
And the one who agreed to this contract was his father, Edgar Edenbergz.
‘… I don’t know. My father and the emperor.’
I don’t know what the intention was or how they came to write these contracts.
But beyond that, it’s hard to know.
“What does this have to do with Earl Meln’s purpose?”
“Well~. Isn’t that something to think about?”
She holds out her parchment to Mona and asks a question, but she evades it as if she has no intention of giving a proper answer.
In fact, it was a question she asked without even expecting it,
However, Mona unexpectedly added one more word.
“You want to know about the master, don’t you? In order to do that, there are still a few more things to figure out~. It’s hard to know at this level.”
“I heard that you will know about Count Meln.”
However, what is written on this parchment is only about himself.
Could this be said to be a breach of contract?
Thinking so, Mona said firmly.
“There is a relationship.”
“Where.”
“Obviously there is.”
“…”
“It’s okay. ‘Cause you know it slowly Isn’t it too blatant to say that you want to know the picture of the whole puzzle just because you found one piece?”
Mona’s words are soft, but never allow objections.
In the end, it seemed that she couldn’t pursue any more, so Emilia decided to give up for now.
What does this contract mean, how it was written, and how it relates to Count Meln…
I think we need to know more about those things in the future.
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Creak… Creak… Creak…
Squeeze… Slurp…
――’It’ was just waking up from a long slumber.
――”It” Was starving.
――”It” Was enraged.
To the ‘hero’ who killed ‘it’ that could never die and left it sealed for hundreds of years.
To that infernal ‘hero’ who murdered the demon king who no longer exists and is no different from the enemy of all demons… Was angry
The body waking up from death trembles.
Saliva overflowed from his mouth and trickled down his terribly rotten jaw.
The whole body of ‘it’ was a disgrace, and yet a strange black mist wrapped around it as if to hide its decayed body.
Angry.
Angry.
Hate
Kill the warrior
Kill the warrior
Kill the warrior
Such orders fill my head.
“Dragon… Buy…』
‘That’… The ‘monster’ crawls on the floor like a bug and heads out of the stone chamber where it was confined.
The door to the stone chamber, which should have been closed with a strict seal, was open, and the barrier that burned him was gone.
The heavy, rusty chains that bound him loosened one by one as he crawled away.
There is nothing stopping him.
Filled with divine energy, he came out of the stone chamber where he continued to kill unkillable monsters over and over again.
The freedom that had been forgotten for hundreds of years had finally come to the monster.
Flesh and muscle are born in the decayed body.
The black mist that had been pouring out faintly gathered more densely and embraced him.
The monster no longer crawled on the floor, but stood upright and walked on its own two legs.
The sound of clicking, clicking, clicking resonates.
The monster, whose body had been exposed like a rotting corpse just a moment ago, was wrapped in jet-black armor full of intimidating power before anyone knew it.
A helmet with hideous horns was also put on his head,
The helmet’s two eye sockets flashed a vicious red light.
“Dragon… Buy…』
『Hero… Warrior… !』
“Porridge… Female… Hey… Kill… Kill… Hey…』
Clap, Clap, Clap!
I left the stone chamber and proceeded through the dark corridor that continued behind it, accompanied by a black mist.
A Death Knight who was a direct subordinate of the Demon King in the past and his right hand.
Being favored by the demon king, he showed exceptional ability among the many knights who rose from the dead and brought tremendous achievements to the demon tribe and the demon king he devoted allegiance to.
A special knight who was specially made and showed loyalty to the demon king more than anyone else despite being an undead.
No matter how powerful the undead knight is, it is an immortal knight who never perishes and never dies in the true sense of the word, even in situations where extinction cannot be avoided.
【LICHs Death Knight】
That became the name he was called with reverence by allies and enemies alike.
“Dragon… Buy… Warrior… Kill… Hey…』
“Devil… You’re… Second… For…』
Among the knights born from the dead, the only monster with the name of the highest rank, and who was called by countless children’s names in countless stories,
The majesty of the past advances, ringing in jet-black armor that has not faded in the slightest.
With that mouth, as if he would never forget—
Repeatedly putting the last command he received from the demon king into his mouth, he escaped from the sealed room that had been imprisoning him.
