chapter 18
18. The Princess and the Grand Duke of the North are in total chaos (7)
1.
The enemy was inside.
Elena, who was sighing on her forehead, spurred the door straight away. Behind her, she could feel Lorenzo’s gaze on her incomprehensible face, but she didn’t mind.
‘I never thought a lizard would do such a cute thing.’
The teacup was shattered as the hand momentarily strained. A splinter of her seemed to be lodged in her hand, but she had no time to care.
Anyway, in the yard where everyone regressed in the same way, it was Elena herself who took the lead first by using her hand. Under such circumstances, even the world’s Princess Elena did not expect that she would dare to infiltrate into the middle of enemy lines like this.
I just thought that if I knocked out the player like this first, the other four would be wondering where to start.
In reality, her cousin hadn’t been able to take any action other than to drop by and shine her face.
In her rushed mind, naturally, her pace towards her villa also sped up.
Seeing her unaccompanied by a person performing differently than usual, people around her bowed their heads whenever they met her, sending her a puzzled look at her, but each one of them I didn’t have time to say hello.
And finally arrived at the villa.
She manages to find a room with a nameplate that reads “Sylpia Andres” And takes a slow, deep breath in front of her door.
‘…… Not sure yet. I heard that dragons change their identities every time they play. Isn’t it possible that they’re completely different people with the same name?’
With that thought in her mind, the moment she tried to calm herself down, she placed her hand on her doorknob.
“Come in. I know.”
“…….”
The moment she heard a familiar voice, Elena, who almost lost her composure, took another deep breath.
And she opened the doorknob without saying a word, and as soon as she entered the room, the first thing she saw was a woman sitting cross-legged in her chair, yawning in boredom.
Her red hair flowed down like her signature flame. And her attitude of not being interested in her, while tying her hair, making a plain expression as if she was going against the princess of a country.
It was strikingly similar to what remained in her memory.
“Sylphia Bernoa…”
“I’m Silfia Andres now. Could you please stop calling me by another person’s last name?”
“What is the meaning of a stolen or stolen castle anyway?”
“Well, humans are unnecessarily important.”
She didn’t ask to sit down, but Elena just sat down on one of the nearby chairs.
Unfilteredly revealing her uncomfortable plantings.
“Is it a longitude regression?”
“Just as you were.”
A reconfirmation of what we already know.
Sylpia nodded her head in silence and continued her words.
“I was surprised at first. I wasn’t the only one who returned to the past.”
“…….”
“And I didn’t even know that you had already put your hand on it. At first, I just thought that you were simply taking a seat in the imperial palace in advance.”
As if to prove Elena’s uncomfortable planting, her frowning face and eyes dripping with hostility.
Sylphia, on the other hand, was answering with a leisurely smile.
She was Elena. From her point of view, she was unwittingly preparing a table for her competitor, and from her Sylpia’s point of view, her competitor was also unknowingly, it was like a pumpkin rolled across the vine. That’s it.
After she finds out, the truth is that the feelings of the two will inevitably diverge.
“What are you going to do from now on?”
“How do you do it? I have no idea what to do.”
“You’re lying to me again. Hiding my identity, infiltrating and doing such a cute thing.”
“Oops.”
Unlike Elena, who responded with a sullen face, Sylpia giggled.
“He hid his identity and infiltrated it. It’s true that he hid his identity, but he didn’t approach it intentionally.”
Underneath the words that were spoken, there was a subtle hostility towards each other.
And as if responding to Elena’s rising hostility, Sylphea’s red eyes split vertically.
Yongan.
The strongest life form that no living thing can match one-on-one, the eye of the dragon, and proof that it is a predator by nature.
While staring at the dragon’s face, which could cause a faint-hearted person to pass out just by looking at it, Elena calmly continued.
“So. Are you going to deny it now?”
“You’re right in denying it, because I never really did.”
“Sir, what you just said was the funniest joke I’ve heard this year. The dragon pretended to be a wizard at leisure and infiltrated the imperial palace to play house, but it was all a coincidence. What a funny joke.”
“There’s nothing I can’t do. I actually did that before I returned, what.”
“If you’ve done it once, isn’t it about time you got tired of it?”
“I did it once, can’t I do it twice?”
A sharp battle of words was going on without one step back.
To put it a little vulgarly, Elena was in what’s called a raging situation. She had already drawn all the blueprints under the premise that she had regressed alone, but she kept interfering and ruining the picture she drew, so she must be offended.
On the other hand, Sylphia was enjoying herself while taking offense at Elena’s painting.
The premises are completely different from each other.
Moreover, unfortunately, the opponent was a dragon.
Like her cousins and other rivals, she was not someone she could use her position to intimidate, nor was she willing to do anything with force.
And like driving a wedge into it.
“And there are unspoken rules between us.”
“……I’m sorry, but I hope you’ll respect that expression. You and I have nothing to do with each other, but it gives me goosebumps if you express it like that.”
“Anyway!”
The content of the rule is to just quietly wait for Rudrick’s choice, and respect that judgment regardless of the outcome.
It is not an opponent who will be able to get through if each other uses dirty tricks or tricks, but if five people start fighting over one man, that day is the day a civil war breaks out.
In that case, it was a rule that everyone implicitly agreed upon in the sense of just resolving it as peacefully as possible.
After she tripped over that, she had nothing more to say as Elena.
“If you don’t like that, you’ll have to fight me.”
“…….”
“It would be really fun to see a dragon in the middle of the imperial palace, incarnated as its main body, run amok. You’ll have to bring about 20,000 knights to catch me.”
“……Whoa, just being strong is a gangster.”
“When the princess of the human empire says something like that, she’s kind of funny.”
As if it couldn’t be helped, Elena shook her head, and at some point Sylpia’s eyes returned to normal.
She stood up as if she had nothing more to say, and Sylpia waved her hand at her back as she left.
“Let’s take a look.”
“f*ck.”
On the way back to the office after closing the door with a sullen reply.
Helena’s head was complicated.
To the point of greed that she would have been better if only she had regressed alone.
I had never thought about other variables, but the fact that she had to constantly revise her plan was the most annoying.
One day, I had a memory of hearing from Rudrick about a novel titled ‘Long Legged Mister’. As I listened to the story, it was a novel that gave me the feeling that the phases of the times and the roles of men and women were strangely disturbing.
I remember wondering when I found out that the novel had never been published anywhere in the empire, but this time, I was thinking of taking on the role of Ludrick’s long-legged uncle.
‘…… Things are getting difficult.’
When he returned to the office, the broken teacup had been cleaned away, and Lorenzo was not seen as if he had gone back to the lab.
At the moment I was about to sit down on a chair and organize my future work.
Bang.
The door slammed open without knocking again.
Elena raised her head with her frown at the appearance of the rude visitor, and there stood her familiar face.
“……Why did the wonder that should be in the north come to me again this time?”
“I came here because I had something to say. Would you have come for something else?”
At the moment I was about to say something about the sudden appearance of my cousin, I wonder if it’s not a bit strange to come in without warning.
“Leave Rudrick alone.”
“……Ha?”
“There was no need for you to be greedy in the first place. If you just leave me to study on my own, I can do well on my own, so why bother bothering me?”
“This is another wonder… No, I don’t know what your cousin is talking about. Wasn’t it something that your cousin tacitly agreed to be accepted as Lord Lorenzo’s apprentice?”
“Withdrawal.”
“…….”
Eileen didn’t have to tell her that she had an artifact that could be connected to her, but when she cut the front and back, it was enough for Elena, who was already under stress from Sylpia’s case, to cross the threshold.
The corner of Elena’s mouth twitched.
With a crooked smile on her face, Elena deliberately said brightly.
“Cousin, that’s all bullsh*t.”
“…… Bullsh*t?”
“I don’t know why they came to me and said this to me again, but they seem to have lost their minds today.”
“Busssssishs.”
Eileen muttered and nodded her head, keeping her expressionless face intact.
“Okay.”
And with those words, her clenched fist slammed her on the table.
Bang-!
It doesn’t look like it’s loaded with mana, but Eileen, who split the wooden table, nodded her head.
“Helena, it looks like you won’t listen to what I say.”
“Who do you say!”
“I didn’t intend to quarrel like I did when I was young, but… Come out. It’s a duel.”
“If it comes out like that, I think I thought I would cry and run to Obama like I did when I was little. My cousin is making a big mistake, so I have no choice but to correct him.”
The voice naturally rose, and besides the sound of her breaking the table, a high pitched voice leaked out.
The detonator of the invisible bomb was burning. The atmosphere is not strange no matter when it explodes.
And in that threatening atmosphere.
Smart.
I heard a small, incongruous knocking sound.
No matter who said it first, the eyes of the two headed towards the door at the same time, the door opened and Rudrick poked his head out to look inside the door, and their eyes met.
“hahahaha…”
Awkward laughter.
“It’s nothing special, it just made a loud noise… Ah! Look at the things!”
Bang.
And with those words, the door quickly closed.