Chapter 140 – Episode 139. Do It for You
“Room 204, right?”
“Okay, go and see if you’ve left the room, and if you’ve left, clean it up.”
Dave hurriedly picked up the key and climbed the stairs, fearing he would be nagged again.
No. 204.
To be honest, it’s a room I don’t want to go to.
The man staying in the room somehow feels bad.
Feeling like you can’t get any closer.
Eyes that narrowed to the point where I couldn’t tell whether they were open or not.
He seemed to be an academy cadet, seeing as he wore the academy uniform, but I couldn’t figure out why such a person was doing this here.
It was strange that he was staying here even though the whole city was turned upside down because of the academy.
However, there is no reason to report anything or to do so.
Anyway, he was a bad person, so I didn’t want to go near him.
From the innkeeper’s point of view, he said that he only stayed for a week or so, and since he paid a month’s worth, he had no reason to refuse, but today is the last day.
The person who was originally supposed to leave this afternoon has not been seen yet, so I had no choice but to go and check, and if he had left, I would have to clean up.
– Smart.
“Zugiyo, are you there?”
No answer comes back
– Smart.
“Jeuugiyo~ Are you there?”
No answer comes back
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Dave carefully gripped the doorknob and turned it before inserting his key.
The doorknob turned quietly with the sound of metal rubbing, and Dave opened the door and entered, leaving only an empty room with no one in front of him.
“… Did you leave the room with no luggage? When did you leave?”
Well, it doesn’t matter anyway.
It has nothing to do with Dave anyway.
“Shall I do some cleaning?”
There was a man-sized mark on the bed, probably because he had been lying down and left, so he must have woken up and left the room and no one saw him.
I didn’t have to think too hard about this.
Dave went down the stairs again and said he thought Room 204 had been moved out, said he would clean it, and returned to the room with the cleaning kit.
“What is this again?”
A piece of paper with unknown letters and pictures written in red on a yellow background attached to the wall.
Dave stood there blankly for a long while, looking at the paper.
“Something feels wrong… “
Looking at the strangely shaped, scribbled paper, I felt a sudden unpleasant feeling.
I feel like I’m being sucked into something, but at the same time, I also feel like I’m numb.
“Ugh.”
Peeling the paper off the wall, Dave reluctantly tossed it into the garbage bag.
You shouldn’t leave something like this.
It was a bad paper, Dave muttered and started cleaning again.
*
“I thought it looked bad from the first time I saw it.”
I don’t think I’ve ever had that.
Leopold thought so while watching Astrid by the riverside.
Astein caught it really easily.
Astrid hit so hard that Astain passed out and still couldn’t wake up, and though he didn’t know what the principle was, he was still encased in Veracien’s cloak and still motionless.
As it is, he can go back to the academy and hand it over to the command, but…
End like this?
Caught like this?
Like this?
So heartless?
Leopold was seized by a strange, foreboding feeling that something seemed unlikely to end like this.
Astein didn’t know how much, but he must have been sharpening his sword while waiting steadily for a time that was not short by any means.
No matter how unexpectedly he was attacked, and even if he was attacked by Veracien, whom he believed, and Astrid, who he thought he had captured, it was strange to think about how he was caught so helplessly.
“Veracien.”
“Wait for a sec.”
Veracien hadn’t said anything since before.
She seemed to be thinking about something with her eyes closed, but even when Leopold spoke to her, Vera Sien lightly raised her hand and signaled to wait a moment.
“Majesty.”
“Hmm?”
“You are listening to me, right?”
Suddenly looking to the side, Astrid was staring at Leopold with puffed cheeks.
Leopold didn’t seem to listen to her, even though she was making a lot of noise next to her, so it seemed that he was in pain, but unfortunately, Leopold wasn’t really listening to her either.
“Astrid.”
“Yes.”
“Isn’t there any reason why I should know the first feeling you had when you saw Astain?”
“… Yes?”
Leopold’s answer left Astrid speechless for a moment.
After all, she might have been talking about her first impressions of another man in front of her fiancé.
“There is no reason why I should know how the woman who would become my wife felt when she saw the man she had been dating.”
“Oh that. Eh, ah, hing, eek, heh… “
Astrid’s face turned red, then she turned white, then she literally started changing to different colors.
Even as she was, she would never have imagined it.
He must have never expected that Leopold would counterattack like this, so Astrid was quite taken aback right now.
“—Swap this with me… Uh?”
Astrid’s expression suddenly changed and she became dazed for a moment.
Asti, not Astrid—not Leopold, who had an angry face while suppressing her laughter, raised her hand and began to panic, not knowing what to do with her flustered gaze. .
“Looks like you asked for a change.”
“Eh, that… She doesn’t know what to say, so she asks for a change… Did… But… “
“That’s right, it’s a girl that can’t be helped.”
“Well, I don’t think that was the intention anyway… Your Highness understand. Originally, Astrid grew up on the battlefield, she’s not good at saying things like this… No it’s true… Don’t scream… “
Leopold couldn’t hold back her laughter and ended up smiling.
Two souls in one body
Even so, it was strange to me that they were two people who fit each other so well.
The original Astrid is a military commander who is unknown throughout the empire, and a reliable soldier who is loyal to the country.
Asti has a kind and naive side, but she is a young lady who is sure to become a wise mother who sometimes shows the side of a coquettish woman.
The fact that these two are in one body, maybe that is why the balance between the two is exquisitely matched.
When I thought about it that way, it wasn’t too bad.
“Phew, it’s done.”
Veracien, who was doing something in the meantime, let out a deep sigh as if it were done.
I don’t know what he’s doing, but he must have been working on it for a long time, and beads of sweat were forming on his face.
“What did you do?”
“Break the contract.”
“Break the contract?”
It was difficult to understand what it meant again to break the contract.
Was the contract something that could be canceled while thinking with your eyes closed?
“A contract between me and Astain. Originally, it is a rule that cannot be unilaterally broken… It doesn’t matter.”
Even so, Verathien shrugged his shoulders.
A slightly cheeky expression, as if proud of something, as if he had accomplished something.
“What do you know? Like the rules. I’m the Grand Duchess, but I’m above the rules.”
Wow.
There are other people like Obama.
I thought she wasn’t there.
Leopold looked at Veracien and thought.
“—Well, I don’t know that far. He’s probably, I’m hungry like this… No, I didn’t think that I would stand differently, so I guess I was caught like this.”
“Didn’t you just say betrayal?”
“No. It’s because of my mood. Anyway, that’s why I got caught. You don’t have to think too hard.”
Leopold stared at Vera Shien, unable to erase her dubious feeling.
Astein says she’s still trapped inside Berashien’s cloak, but when she gets to the academy she’ll have to release it again.
Only then can I say that Lee Ja made the academy in front of her father, Kreuz, and that she tried to harm the crown prince herself and even Astrid, who was supposed to become the crown princess.
“Anyway, I guess I caught Astain as well, wouldn’t it be all right if I just got a confession?”
There is nothing wrong with Berashien’s words.
She said it was a scheming by Astein and Vera Shien, but she said that Vera Shien had done nothing, according to her words.
She helped with planning, but more than she helped, she just played with herself.
Most of the plans are said to have been conceived and committed by Astain alone, so perhaps Veracien was extenuating circumstances for helping Astain arrest.
After all, the sin must have been regarded as one committed by Astein alone.
“That’s true, but why do you feel uncomfortable with it? If it ends like this… Astain, I wondered if the scale of the things he had done was too absurd.”
“That’s the same, but what can I do with ideals that have already been caught? Should I just kill myself here?”
Judging from the fact that he does not hesitate to say that he kills people, demons are demons as expected.
Leopold shook his head.
Considering the crimes he had committed, he too should have confessed, and he should have been put to death by human hands.
To say he died at the hands of non-human demons would be an insult to the imperial family.
“No. We’ll be arriving at the academy soon, so let’s ask for guilt then.”
“Is that so? But why is he doing that?”
In the carriage heading to the academy, Astrid was engaged in a fierce battle with the real Astrid inside.
Why do you only call me when you’re embarrassed, I’m ashamed to say that to Leopold— or something like that.
Can’t you help me with something like this about the stray cat?
In the meantime, the carriage was running hard and was finally heading towards the main gate of the academy.
“Academy, aren’t you hurt a bit? Was it like that?”
“… At least there was no tent at the front door.”
The academy was still in the middle of restoration work.
