chapter 28
28. Admiral Goldsun, Racille Leppert
1.
Racil Leppert.
On the outside, she was a positional figure.
The Leppert family was a Korean-American military family who had been commissioned into the navy for generations and served in the military. Prior to Rasil, the highest ranking position the Leppert family had ever produced was the captain of the Karak Ship, which led about 100 people.
However, unlike her Korean-American background, Rasil stood out for her outstanding talents as soon as she was commissioned into the navy, and finally, in her mid-twenties, she became an admiral who commanded the entire southern navy of the empire solely with her abilities. Took the place of
She could be said to be a model of her rise to fame and self-made artist, but unlike the success story she had written, her personality was very light.
He’s always optimistic, and it’s his daily life that he messes around like a third-class bully on the street, so it’s hard to find the weight of a naval admiral unless you’re wearing a uniform.
She would have shook her head, saying that even her lieutenant, Crow, had no answer for her superior.
‘Well, it’s none of my business.’
The person who recalled the memory just shrugged his shoulders once and left Elena’s office feeling refreshed.
The brown skin tanned by the warm sunlight unique to the south and the golden hair that seemed to have melted pure gold were a heterogeneous combination, but combined with the white uniform exclusively for naval admirals, it gave off her healthy beauty.
Rasil giggled as she glanced down at her own uniform, which accentuated her slender figure.
“It’s not that I’ve never held a man’s hand before, but I didn’t intentionally hold it. Of course, I have to hold Rudrick’s hand first.”
A sailor and a man who usually do hard work have an inseparable relationship.
Often her lieutenant, Crow, disrespectfully teased her boss for not holding a man’s hand yet, even at his age, but now it was okay.
Even the cumbersome issue of where to go was resolved through the disrespectful act of subtly pressuring the princess of a country, and now all she had to do was stay in the capital for the time being and think about bringing Rudrick’s heart slowly.
Hopefully, she succeeds in marrying Rudrick, and all problems are solved just by bragging excitedly to Crow, who is not married yet.
Drawing her happy rosy future, Rashil hummed her song and crossed the hallway of her villa.
Through the three-way meeting with Princess Elena and Archduke Eileen, they knew that Rudrick had entered the court mage’s apprentice.
It was rude for her to visit the court mage’s lab without warning, but Rasil wasn’t the kind of person to care about such a thing.
Her steps toward her lab were as light as ever.
The research lab has moved forward with such light steps. Standing in front of the door to her lab, Rasil took a deep breath, and then she knocked on the door.
Smart.
In my heart, what I expected was Rudrick’s voice telling me to come in, and what I expected was the old Lorenzo telling me to come in, but I expected it.
“Come in. It’s open.”
What I heard from inside the lab was a pure, sweet voice.
“……Tsk.”
Rasil clicked her tongue and opened her door. Just as expected.
A girl with red hair, leaning back in her chair, greeted Rasil. Her eyes, as red as her hair, curved like crescent moons.
“Are you disappointed that it’s not Rick?”
“Of course.”
Sylpia’s eyes were smiling, but her mouth was not.
As for Rasil, her usual sad eyes were sharply curved, and she was also crooked in her natural reply.
“Where’s Rick?”
“I was away for a while because it was time to feed the cat. It seemed that he had started raising a cat.”
“……Really? You don’t seem to have had pets before, which is surprising.”
“Whoops.”
Sylphia covered her mouth and laughed softly.
“Sit down and wait. It’s been a while since I’ve been out, so I’ll be back soon.”
“You’re not a great person to be unnecessarily kind to others. Well, do you think anything pleasant happens?”
As Sylphia recommended, Rassil asked with her butt on a nearby chair.
The Sylphia in her memory was terribly selfish.
It was natural since he wasn’t human in the first place. It is a widely known legend that dragons, who live for eternity, melt into human society and enjoy amusement.
But in essence, dragons are not humans. He imitated humans and tried to resemble humans, but he could never become a human.
That terribly selfish figure is due to his true nature.
I don’t know how the dragon came to love a human so much, but it wasn’t a favor Sylphia, who didn’t mind treating all humans except for Ludrick as bugs, was showing kindness.
“It seems like you don’t know yet. I guess I’m the only one who knows.”
“Really, you still have a bad personality. Why are you acting so conceited that you only know about it by yourself?”
“Sure.”
Sylphia, who responded softly to Rasil’s criticism, acted conceited.
“I knew it by the smell. Whenever Rick left to feed the cat and came back, there was always a faint smell of blood.”
“So what is that… Wait a minute.”
Rasil, who was about to reply curtly, stopped talking.
In an instant, my thoughts spun rapidly and a series of hypotheses came to mind.
The first thing that came to my mind was the hypothesis that Sylpia smelled blood because she was scratched or bitten by a cat, but Rasil shook her head inwardly.
This is because the word ‘blood’ is more deeply related than anyone else, and a race that has not yet been revealed naturally overlaps.
Arwen Nosferatu.
Except for her, all four of her regressors have gathered at the imperial palace or have visited at least once.
And the only race of Arwen that hasn’t been revealed so far is a vampire. Not just a vampire, but Jinjo, the founder and king of all vampires.
At the conclusion reached through the process of extremely obvious reasoning, Rasil narrowed down her army.
“Then is that cat…?”
“There was one person who hasn’t been revealed yet, right? Oh, it’s ridiculous to call him a human.”
“……Vampires.”
Sylpia smiled brightly at the conclusion Rasil came up with.
“Right. Perhaps the cat that Rick has recently started keeping is a shy, clueless bat who has slyly turned into a cat and lives with Rick sweetly.”
The venom he spat out with a smile on his face was sharp. By the end of it, though, his voice had become somewhat ferocious and sharp, with emotion.
At some point, as if to prove Sylphia’s uncomfortable feeling, not human pupils, but vertically split pupils unique to reptiles appeared, and Rasil gritted his teeth.
“So you’re saying the vampire b*tch is living in the same room as Rick?”
“Isn’t it?”
“……Ah.”
Rasil sighed.
She couldn’t even run the so-called happiness circuit.
The circumstantial evidence is too obvious to think that Arwen, as a true ancestor, abandoned even a hint of pride and approached with a nasty, filthy, dirty trick, disguised as a cat.
The fact that he smelled the fishy smell of blood every time he gave the cat food meant that Rudrick already knew Arwen’s identity and was providing blood to Arwen periodically, just like in the past before returning.
“That’s why even if a person is too nice, it’s bad. Whether a vampire dies of starvation or not has nothing to do with Rick.”
“Oh, did you get your idea for the first time?”
Sylphea agreed to Rasil’s sigh and stepped out. This is the first time both before and after returning to agree.
If Ludrick had willingly shown Arwen a favor by saying that he would rather drink his blood as a product of coincidence before the return, it would have led to a roughly similar development this time, no matter what kind of development it might have been.
And in the middle of the conversation, the person involved in the incident opened the door and appeared.
“……What is it?”
“Ah, we’ve already seen it in Her Highness’s office, right?”
As if the appearance just before had been a lie, Rasil jumped up from her seat and strode towards Rudrick.
For a moment, Rudrick hesitated at the sudden atmosphere. Reading Rudrick’s expression and her youthful vigilance, Rasil smiled and held out her hand.
“Rasil Leppert. Until recently, I was Admiral in the South.”
“It’s Rudric Weiss. But until recently…?”
“Ahahahaha, I’m on leave after I’ve finished my job as an admiral. My adjutant will have a hard time instead of me. I’m planning to stay in the ecliptic for a while, so I’ll see you often.”
The speed at which Rasil’s demeanor changed was as fast as flipping the palm of her hand.
She returned after giving blood to Arwen, and suddenly Rudrick, who was facing Rasil in the lab, looked at Sylpia asking what was going on.
Having received that signal from her, Sylphia raised her body and said.
“Now then, Admiral? It’s time for Ludrick-kun to do his research with me again. It’s good to become friends, but please do that next time.”
“Baron Andres. Right now, I’m talking to the Weiss family’s Youngshik. It’s a bit awkward to interrupt the conversation.”
“I’m in the middle of an important research right now. If you’re going to make friends, I’d better do it after the research is over.”
The relationship between the two people, who had been talking about each other until just now, cooled down rapidly again. Actually, this was originally the relationship between Rasil and Silfia.
And Rudrick, sandwiched like a sandwich between the two, muttered with a bewildered expression, as if he hadn’t grasped the situation yet.
“……So what is the situation?”