Chapter 114
[gossip] Flashback
I hear a woman calling me. I wonder where we are.
“Marieta!! Hey, Lady Marieta!! What are you doing, don’t stop and run!!
Burning flames. Screaming, yelling and the sound of something breaking down.
“Marieta!! Hold on, you idiot!!
“Huh!! Lady Marieta, no, let’s hurry. It’s already dangerous here. Wow. If you don’t hurry, you’ll burn. ‘
Looking back at my voice, two orange-haired women are waiting for me.
One is a maid with orange hair, two doughs above her head, carrying someone on her back.
Is that… Your Highness Christopher?
‘Merry’, the maid bearing His Highness Christopher, exclaimed.
“Lady Marieta, you can’t be here anymore. Hurry up!!
“But the tower…”
I looked back behind me.
Me and His Royal Highness Christopher and the maids’ Merry ‘and’ Ann ‘. The’ Tower ‘, where the four of us lived quietly, collapses and falls away.
Closed, but still, Shin’s happiness, memories, lots of clogged white towers wrapped in flames, shattered, and collapsed. Many flowers planted under the tower also collapse black in flames.
‘Huh… Sad, but I can’t do anything about the tower anymore. Wow. First of all, it is important to evacuate His Highness Christopher safely. Lady Marieta, no, we should get out of here. ”
Another woman, ‘Ann’, who turned her orange hair into two doughs under her head, complained that way in tears.
“Right… Let’s get out of here.”
He manages to escape through the royal palace building, which was drunk by the sea of flames, and hurries towards the walls.
‘Huh… Why did you catch a fire? Bella, did you hear anything from Captain Dymon Kingsguard?
‘Hey Ann, how many times do I have to tell you? It’s not “Bella,” it’s “Merry.” This is not in the tower. You don’t know who’s listening. ”
“So… no one’s heard about this fuss.”
“It’s okay, Bella, there’s nobody around. Besides, Alice doesn’t want to lie to herself because she doesn’t know when it’s going to happen.”
“Huh!! You guys are always swallowing and you’re in trouble because you’re not alert.”
“But Bella will protect you.”
‘Naturally. And I just want to say, I’m carrying His Highness now. Try your best, but don’t lose sight of your surroundings. ”
‘Huh… Bella… I only have a fork and a knife that could be a weapon.’
Ann (Alice) takes the fork and knife out of her pocket and shows it to Merry (Bella).
‘On the contrary, why are you keeping a fork and a knife in your pocket? You… that’s good enough. Give me that. You wouldn’t be able to handle dishes as weapons. You’re hiding a knife in my left and right thighs, so you two hold it.’
Alice dived into Bella’s skirt and came out with two big knives.
The knife I received from Alice was a large sweeping knife with a blade length of about 30 cm, with a firm weight.
Did Bella always hide such a big knife in her skirt?
“I don’t know how to use a knife this big.”
“Huh… me too. Sooo…”
“Ann, you don’t let the knife out of your sheath (or otherwise) except in an emergency. How dare you, I’ll chop off my own fingers. If Lady Marieta gets through this place safely, I’ll show her how to handle a knife. In the meantime, until then, keep it instead of amulet ‘
“Right, it’s a promise, Bella. If I can get through this crisis safely, how to handle a knife… yeah. Tell me how to fight and what else you need to do to keep His Highness alive.”
‘Right. I keep making more promises with you, but I haven’t had a chance to fulfill them. When we settle down in a safe place, we’ll keep our promises one at a time. If that’s what you decide, we’ll go.’
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“Damn!! They don’t even melt, deform and open this gate. Now the Kingsguards are preparing to destroy the gates. ‘
Drawing on the waves of people gathered to get out of the castle gate, Bella, returning, explains the information gathered that way.
I sat on the lawn and looked at the crowds gathering in front of the castle gate with the upper body of His Highness Christopher supported.
“Yes, then let’s wait until the gate opens”
“Bella… Dimon, have you met the Knights of Kingsguard?
To Alice’s words, Bella lays her eyes down a little.
“Brother… no, the Knights of the Dymon Kingsguard is dead”
“That’s it!! Why?!”
“Huh!! How so!! When did that happen?!
“There was a password. He’s been suddenly disappearing from work with a few of his men for a few days. They were searching for something because there were no records of them coming out of the walls, but they said they were all found dead last night. Do you know there’s a big, two-story warehouse just down the road that leads to the tower?
“I don’t know… You had a warehouse there. What warehouse?
“The warehouse itself seems to be a warehouse where gardeners and others had tools in it, but it hasn’t been used much for the last thirty years or so because they say there’s aging and spookiness. They found him dead by the stairs of that warehouse.”
“How could you be in such a…”
“The stairs were hidden in the basement, apparently. They had a broken barrel in the basement, but they don’t know what it is. It turns out it was only recently that the barrel was destroyed, but the contents are mysterious. Sounds like the Sorcery Division and the pharmacists were looking into the identity of the contents, but I guess it ends without being able to figure it out in this state.”
That’s what Bella says. Once she bites her lips off with regret, she continues with a trembling voice.
“The chief of the Dymon Kingsguard Knights… only Brother Dymon noticed” me “without having to say anything. I didn’t put it that way clearly, but only my brother thought that I was his own sister. Must have detected the crisis in the royal palace and moved because he was such a brother ‘
With a trembling voice, but with her face firmly raised, Alice held Bella firmly behind her back as she stared straight at the castle, which burned down little by little.
“It’s only a matter of heart that you have to leave here without being able to figure out what caused your brother to lose his life… Oh, Lady Marieta. Looks like the castle gate is open. Let’s hurry. ‘
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“Bella!! Bella!! Hold on!! Don’t leave me!! Don’t leave me alone…”
In the flames, I hold Bella’s hand and scream.
Bella opened her mouth with an empty hand attached to my hand as she opened the lid that was closed.
“… believe in the story of Oga (the old lady), have you come this far, but couldn’t you? If that were true, Your Highness, Alice, and your brother… I thought I could take it back. ‘
“I’m sorry, Bella. I lost my powers and couldn’t cure any more magic. I’ll resume treatment as soon as my magic recovers, so good luck until then. Stay conscious of something… keep talking about it.”
“… does Marieta believe in the story of Goga?
“Yeah. Yeah, I believe you. I love it especially if it’s something that makes everyone happy and happy.”
‘Right…. when I was sending you to this academy with Alice, there were some strange stories like the Aga story, and one of them was a hidden library. ”
“Hidden forbidden library. Nice, I wonder what kind of books there are.”
“It seems that in its library there is a book written about the sealed place of the” false king (Fraurus) ”
“‘The King of Falsehood (Flaurus)’? Why is it sealed?
Ask Bella, but she hasn’t responded.
“Bella!! Bella!! Hold on!! Take care!!
“… oh,… marieta. I’m sorry. I think I slept a little. I wonder what you were talking about… Yes, a” false king “. You know what they call the Seven Big Sins?” Greed, jealousy, arrogance, lust, anger, bulimia, laziness “and” falsehood “. I hear the seven types vary from land to land.”
“I wonder why it’s the Seven Sins.”
“The old saint and I said,” I don’t know. The contents of the crime seem to fall apart in the land. Let’s get back to it… there’s a king somewhere sealed from the men of the Holy Knight crowning the sin of “falsehood” ‘.
“Why? Because you’re a liar?
‘Cause I’m gonna lie about everything. Says he’s capable of that. Ha… what a gaga story it would seem’
“Well, since we got out of the royal palace, these past few years… No. I wish everything from before was a lie…”
“I’m sorry, Marieta. I thought if we found him, we could get His Highness and Alice back. Believe me, I’ve taken you all the way around here… Sorry. ‘
Look over the discipline building that burns and collapses.
Bella took me back from my neighbouring country of refuge to this college, but I finally lose my coco too.
A lot of encounters started with this college.
Meet Your Highness, or the ladies who have been replaced. Lots of memories, it burns away.
“It was a stormy life… I still dream of the fear of the day I switched with a strange girl and ran away with Alice when she was about to be killed. Only Your Highness believed our words for some reason, and the relief when you protected us. That’s why I gave my loyalty to Your Highness for the rest of my life, and the night I swore to Alice to protect her. But we both lost… ‘
“I get it, Bella. Me, too, I’ll follow that story. So when you’re feeling better, look for the forbidden library with you. And we’re going to search for the sealed King of Falsehood together.”
‘Right… let’s try again…. Now it’s time for… Your Highness, Alice and I, to live together,… a quiet life…’
Bella’s hand falls that was attached to my hand.
“Bella? Did you sleep again? Wake up, Bella. Bella!! Wake up!! Wake up, Bella! You’re going to go find it with me, Bella!! Hey wake up!!
Oh… I remember.
I had forgotten it dozens of times.
This is my “first time” life.