Chapter 108 – A Banquet of Sun and Moon (2)
‘Ah…’
I instinctively realized that I was dreaming.
It was there again.
A pure white space with nothing.
I didn’t feel bad about the dream itself, but I didn’t feel very good when I remembered what happened after this dream.
‘…I have to wake up soon.’
You already know how to wake up.
‘Dark light’
You have to find that contradictory existence.
Maybe it’s because I’ve experienced it once, but it’s different from the time when I was completely in a spiritual state, but it’s faint, but I could feel something like hands and feet.
‘…That way.’
As I flew for a long time, tracing my faint memories, I saw a ‘dark light’ just like that time.
‘Found.’
As I cautiously approached the ‘dark light’, to my surprise, the ‘dark light’ spoke to me.
“■■■!”
It was a strange feeling.
I’m sure I’m hearing something, but I can’t hear it.
‘A little more…’
As I waved my arms and moved closer, I saw something hidden under the ‘dark light’.
—Charleureuk
The figure of a bloody woman with her wings pierced by skewers and her whole body bound in chains.
‘…!’
When I stepped back, started by the terrible sight, I saw what the ‘dark light’ was hiding.
The first thing I saw was four.
No.
Not four
How can you misunderstand these numbers?
Beyond hundreds and thousands, there was something packed all the way to the horizon.
The non-existent body trembles.
I was mistaken.
It wasn’t ‘dark light’.
That was just ‘light’, but it only became dark because it blocked ‘darkness’.
‘…!’
The moment I realized that, I intuitively noticed that ‘darkness’ was looking at me.
I couldn’t even see my face, let alone my eyes, and I couldn’t even tell what it was, but it was never a good feeling.
“■■■■Go!”
And once again ‘light’ shouted.
At the same time, I felt that the force of gravity had increased several times and my body fell.
**
“Haha…!”
He exhaled heavily, as if his airway, which had been blocked, had suddenly been opened.
“…Master?”
“… Lucia.”
Words didn’t come out properly, as if it were thorns.
Then, Lucia suddenly burst into tears.
“…Higuk…Heh…Thankful…Fortunate. If something happened to the master… I… I would.”
I took the startled hiccup Lucia in her arms and patted her on the back.
“…Okay. Don’t cry, nothing happened.”
Lucia, who had been crying in her arms her for so long, seemed to have finally calmed down, but I still patted her her Lucia and asked.
“… So why are you crying?”
“…Huh…Lord…Master… Hasn’t woken up yet.”
Lucia’s answer made her laugh.
It seems that I slept for a long time because I had a strange dream.
“There is no need to cry just because you slept a little.”
“…That…But… It doesn’t wake up for days…”
It was as if she had been hit in the head at an unexpected period of time.
“..Few days? Lucia. How long have I slept?”
“…He slept all week.”
“…What?”
I was startled by Lucia’s answer to her and shouted.
‘…A week.’
She had been asleep for quite some time.
However, apart from being stiff from a long sleep, he was in better condition than usual.
‘Is it because the body needs to adapt because of the rapid growth?’
As I pondered why I fell into a deep sleep, Lucia came back into her arms.
“…Master… You’re really okay, right? If you didn’t wake up by the time we arrived at the appointed place, I was going to cancel all the schedules and take you to the Urella family.”
I swallowed a sigh of relief.
‘…I’m glad I woke up on time.’
He didn’t have the confidence to handle the aftermath of breaking his promise with the princess.
“It’s really good. It’s okay.”
“Really…Really…Are you okay?”
“Didn’t you say you were fine?”
“Hehe…Then…Thank you…This…”
Lucia, who smiled lightly, staggered for a moment, and then she collapsed in my arms.
“… Lucia?”
Perhaps because of a dream, the memories of midterm exams suddenly come to her mind her, her lips her dry up and her heart burns.
“…”
“Lucia! Wake up!”
When I grab Lucia by the shoulder and shake her, there is no response.
‘…No way.’
Did you go to see the same thing as me?
Lucia’s going to see that ominous place sent goosebumps all over her body.
“Lucia! Lucia!”
When I called for Lucia again and got no response, I knocked on her carriage as hard as I could.
-Boom! -Boom!
“Stop the carriage! Her Lucia’s condition Her is strange! Stop!”
After a while, the carriage suddenly slowed down and a girl in a white suit ran inside.
“Bocchan, you’re awake.”
“Yes, it is more Lucia than that! Lucia’s condition is strange.”
The girl examines Lucia’s body her.
It was only a few minutes, but it felt like an eternity to me.
After examining her, the girl let out a short sigh.
“…Whoa.”
“Why is Lucia like this! Is she even sick!”
“How can you two look alike? When I examined the boy, the lady said this… Don’t worry. It’s just plain fatigue. Just take a deep breath and you will wake up.”
“Fatigue? Don’t talk nonsense! Did you see it right? I can’t fall asleep this deeply from fatigue…!”
As I shouted, still flustered, the girl put her hand on her shoulder to calm her down and said,
“Young master. Please lower her voice her. Lady Lucia did not sleep a sigh during the week the Bocchan was asleep.”
“…”
Even if I stayed up all night, I was tired, but if I stayed up all night for a week, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to fall asleep like that.
“..Ha… Sorry for shouting. That…”
“This is Marjan.”
“Yeah, thank you. Marjan.”
“No. We will arrive at the meeting place soon, so please wait for Miss Lucia until then.”
Marjan smiled and went out again.
I, who was left alone, looked at Lucia and muttered.
“…That’s stupid.”
It’s not because I didn’t like something, I just said that I fell asleep because I was tired, but how could I be so stupid to stay awake for a full week?
…But it wasn’t a bad feeling.
“Good night.”
Raising the corner of my mouth slightly, I tugged at the sleeping Lucia’s cheek her.
***
Lucia woke up when she was almost at her appointment.
“…Heeing…I brought a lot of things to do in the carriage.”
Lucia took out her box from under the seat of her carriage and looked at it with regret.
“…”
I’m sorry to say this, but I thought it was fortunate that I fell asleep for a bit.
‘How can I use that on a carriage?’
I’ve attacked numerous game games so far, but the box was full of items that even I couldn’t imagine using.
I pretended not to see and got off the carriage.
“… Then Lucia. See you at the imperial castle.”
“…Yes. I will go first and wait.”
Lucia, who started running first, held out her body her at her window and waved at her until I was out of sight.
“Good times. Eddard-sama and Kiara-sama also had times like that.”
Seeing that, Alfredo laughed and said,
“Father and mother?”
“Sure. Although the position of the two of you was opposite.”
Tired of being in the carriage, I sat next to Alfredo.
“Young master. The weather is still cold. You are wearing thin clothes, but go inside the carriage.”
“I don’t mind being cold.”
After absorbing the ‘Essence of the Glacier’, the cold resistance increased to an extreme.
You will feel a bit cold only if you have high-level ice magic.
“Tell me more about your mother than that.”
“… Well then, let’s do that. What does Kiara-sama say…. He was not aristocratic in a good way. Because he treated people of mixed race like us without prejudice.”
Alfredo’s words continued with a hearty laugh.
The story of how my mother first reaped mixed-race children.
The story of how Uncle Gordon succumbed in a one-on-one fight when he didn’t listen.
The story of running away after being confessed to by his father on the battlefield.
The story of her abandoning the name of Pavolier and becoming her father’s concubine.
And…
Even how my mother died.
“…That’s how much mother loved you, the young master.”
It was a completely different feeling when I was researching Pavolie Chiara as a source of material and hearing her mother’s story about her from Alfredo.
“…”
As I was sorting out my complicated emotions in one corner of my mind, a soldier shouted from the top of the castle wall.
“Stop!”
Alfredo stopped the carriage and chuckled.
“Oh, I didn’t realize how much time had passed, and as we talked, they had already arrived. Bocchan Even so, if I want to enter the imperial family, the formalities will be cumbersome, so I’ll go back here.”
“You must be tired, so why don’t you take a little rest?”
“It’s okay. A lot of work remains to be done. If we don’t get back quickly, things will pile up.”
After hearing Alfredo’s words, I said with a little regret.
“…It didn’t have to be Alfredo to drive the carriage.”
“Heh heh, don’t worry about it. It’s something I supported. No matter how many things we have to do, serving the young master is the first priority. It is an honor for this old man to serve the young master.”
Alfredo smiled benevolently.
“…Then please take care of yourself. Young master.”
As I nodded and walked to the front door, a soldier approached and said,
“Please state your identity and purpose of visit.”
First of all, the attitude of the soldiers is compliant, perhaps because the clothes and carriages are high-quality even at first glance.
In fact, if you were a soldier in the imperial castle, you would know who the family crest on the wagon belonged to.
‘…Really arrived.’
I raised my head for a moment and looked up.
Looking up at the pure white walls, I feel like I am out of breath.
At least one week from now…
I had to survive in this imperial castle.
I shook my head and opened my mouth with a short sigh.
“…The third son of Calliope. Eugene Calliope. He had been invited by Her Highness the Princess to her.
