Chapter 84 – Episode 84. As Long as You Don’t Get Caught (2)
“Anyway, I’m a bit like that when a woman is too active.”
Ashley scratched her head and laughed, but Astrid was dumbfounded to see that. Is it time for him to cover people? To be honest, even considering the demerit of being her younger sister, it’s hard to say that Ashley is a good character.
And if you’re a man, you have to be tall.
Wouldn’t it be better to have a moderately slim body than too muscular to save his clothes when he wears them?
Besides, if you have scars on your body, it gives a scary impression, so it’s better to be clean.
As for my face, the slim, egg-shaped face is much more handsome than the angular face like Ashley now.
【Iknow, right.】
‘What, what is that?’
She was thinking to herself when she was suddenly startled by the voice of the real Astrid. For some reason, she couldn’t understand Astrid’s intention to say that out of the blue.
【What am I supposed to be surprised about? What you’re thinking right now, I agree with you. Doesn’t His Highness Leopold perfectly match that image?]
‘What… ?’
I heard that too. He is tall, has a slim figure, smooth skin and a slim, egg-shaped face.
If you put all of these together, it’s just Leopold.
【Why don’t you just admit it?】
Is it an illusion that the real Astrid’s voice sounds like a bit of a pout, or is it a misunderstanding? Astrid felt a cold sweat run down her spine at the real Astrid’s words.
“Sister, what are you thinking?”
Astrid suddenly came to her senses at the sudden voice. Her Ashley was sitting in front of her, looking at her with her puzzled face.
“Uh? Ah, uh… No, nothing… “
“Anyway, I think it’s good that my sister has changed a lot. By the way… That tower, anyway, I have a feeling it might be a problem… “
As Ashley tried to change the subject, Astrid, who just felt like it was okay, nodded her head, not knowing what the tower was.
“So, when was the tower discovered?”
“Well, that… Uh, according to the report… Although it was a while before I came to the capital.”
Ashley recalled seeing her report. Astrid, who was listening to those words, suddenly felt a strange sense of deja vu.
According to Ashley, the tower was sighted around the time of the academy’s prom celebrating the end of the training period.
‘Astrid.’
【I’m listening.】
‘You just talked to me, but it didn’t work, and then at some point you said it was fine, right?’
【It was… Come to think of it.】
I felt that the timing was strangely overlapping. No matter how hard the real Astrid tried, she couldn’t hear her, but she suddenly heard it during the ball.
And, according to Ashley, the tower was sighted around the time of the ball.
It may be speculation, but if the time when the tower appeared and Astrid’s voice began to be heard overlapped, would it be a leap forward?
【It’s a bit of a leap. If you read the report yourself, you’ll know right away.]
‘If, by any chance, that tower is an opportunity for you to be able to talk to me and change your body, and at the same time be the means… What do we do?’
Astrid has no problems.
But the real Astrid has a lot of problems.
If Baizik goes and throws magic! If the real Astrid can’t talk to her like before because she shoots and knocks down the tower, and it just seems like she didn’t exist…
It can’t be. Anyway, the owner of this body is the real Astrid, and the possessed Astrid has to return to her original world sooner or later.
But if that happened, if it did, it would be a really big deal. She couldn’t leave her body behind, and if she did, she would have to marry Leopold.
It can’t be.
‘I’m embarrassed, but this.’
【It’s still just speculation. There is no evidence, and since we are in a state where we can’t tell anyone that there are two consciousnesses in one body like this.]
“Ashley.”
“Yes?”
“That tower… Do you think it will break easily?”
At Astrid’s words, Ashley thought about it for a while. If Ashley thought the tower would collapse easily, it wasn’t.
Getting closer is itself a problem, and even if Baizik goes and tries something with magic, it’s a bit unclear whether it will work.
But he couldn’t jump to conclusions. Because he didn’t even get close to see it.
“A little… I hope it won’t be hard. First of all, they say that magic requires mental concentration, right?”
“It’s not like that. However?”
“Well, it might not be if you think about whether the old Baizik will be able to concentrate and use magic in the cold… “
“Hmm… “
The best thing would be for Astrid to go and see for herself. If you go and see it in person, there might be something that you can feel the real Astrid in.
But now is the interim test period. It was impossible for Astrid to gain the time to go all the way to the north no matter what.
*
Ashley and Weizik, Leopold and Astrid.
The four of them decided to meet the next day, and Ashley went back to the guest room for now. Violet said that she would guide her directly, and Ashley clung to her side. Ashley looked at Astrid with an earnest look in her eyes, but she turned her gaze away.
【What do you need to know?】
‘Anyway, don’t do that to your little brother too much. Why?’
【It’s because she’s my younger brother. If she wasn’t my sister, I wouldn’t have treated her as a person.]
‘He’s unkind, really.’
【That’s what siblings are originally.】
Is it?
I’ve never really had a family, so I don’t know.
Astrid bathed her half-bath, wiping her face with a cold towel. Half submerged in her bathtub, she was only hot, so I questioned what was so good about this that I had to do this every day, but she did it anyway, so it wasn’t bad.
At least while she was soaking in her bathtub like this, she was able to organize the day’s events.
‘It feels like I came to the academy for no reason… ‘
She honestly did. None of the goals she initially intended are really working properly, but after coming to the academy, she is just getting swept up in this and that.
If this is the right direction, absolutely not. Astrid was convinced of that. She feels like she is sinking deeper and deeper into the pit.
Her feeling was finally going to be certain. She probably was then. The day she fell under the estrus spell, the day she licked the sweat from the nape of Leopold’s neck.
And the day she felt that sweat was delicious.
Something must have broken inside Astrid that day.
‘No… It shouldn’t be like this.’
【What do you mean it can’t be like that?】
‘Yeah, that’s right. In the first place, my goal is to return to the world I was in. But look, I’m starting to stop being myself.’
It’s nothing to say, but this was a pretty serious problem for Astrid. His self-identity is disappearing, he is being buried.
I washed my face with still warm water by hand. Astrid sighed as his troubled mind did not go away.
‘Let’s find a way somehow. I think it would be a good idea to follow the old Baizik to the north and find a way to visit the tower yourself.’
【What are you going to do? Do you have any plans?】
Having said that, I have nothing to say.
Even so, Astrid couldn’t get rid of the idea that there was something in that tower.
A tower suddenly appeared.
And the tower that is getting bigger and bigger.
Moreover, the time when the tower appeared and the time when communication with the real Astrid became possible overlapped strangely.
Putting all these things together, Astrid thought that no matter how much she thought about it, it would be best for her to go directly to the tower.
【Are you thinking that I might disappear if that tower breaks or collapses?】
‘To be honest, yes. Because if you’re gone, I’ll be in great trouble too. I’m sure you will too.’
【That’s right. Because I want to get my body back soon. That tower… Well, although there are definitely some doubts.]
The real Astrid was also silent for a while.
‘I don’t know what crime I committed.’
【Hey, I committed a sin, so it makes sense that it was written on my body.】
‘What else can I do?’
【It’s impossible to say that it’s because of sin when I’m proud of my body, which is incomparable even in the empire, with beauty, charm, eloquence, social skills, and strength that I can’t leave out.】
Astrid sighed heavily.
Yes, you’d want to say that.
However, Astrid had no intention of changing her words even with the real Astrid’s words.
‘I, who was a man from the beginning, was put on a woman’s body, but if that wasn’t punishment for a crime, it wouldn’t make sense… ‘
And, at that moment, an eerie feeling passed down my spine.
Things that shouldn’t have been said came out inadvertently.
【… What did you say now? Did you say it was a man?]
And the real Astrid didn’t miss that.
