"The Royal Palace has all sorts of tricks everywhere. This is one of them. I'll tell you what I need this time, but there's no point in saying anything else."
To Lady Leticia's words, we nod.
After she saw it, she pulled a book and pushed the outgoing part that was hidden behind it.
Then one part of the bookshelf opens as if in front of the door.
"Come on, let's go"
Master Leticia walks down a dark staircase that leads to the basement without hesitation.
"There have been many royal men who have done dark things behind them in their long history. They used this trick to keep people out of sight. That's exactly where we're headed."
I went out into the aisle and went further straight ahead.
And at the end of that road, which was not long, there was again a staircase leading up.
"Push the third large stone from the right, upwards"
I climbed the stairs, but it was a dead end.
When Rudius takes the place with Lady Leticia and pushes it as directed, it opens.
As soon as I did, the light plugged in from the top.
When Rudius went out of that door to the ground, it was a narrow space of stone.
Only sturdy ground doors and elongated spiral stairs are on the spot.
"Come on, I'll climb a few more stairs."
Master Leticia leads again and begins to climb that staircase.
"No way... is this a tower?
I reached my middle belly and I opened my mouth.
"Yeah, I am. This is a tower for people of high stature to shut down when they commit any sin.... Given its original use, I wonder if there is a door other than the entrance... Well, as I told you earlier, you must have created an earlier trick to do something invisible for its original other purpose"
With a bitter laugh, Lady Leticia said so.
Her complexion reveals slight fatigue as she climbs the long stairs.
Climbing up the stairs, it was a small space.
If you take some stones from the wall at the behest of Master Leticia, you can see the other side of the wall.
The three of us looked at each other and peered into the view from there.
Across the wall is a room surrounded by an iron lattice.
And there's that gloomy atmosphere. There, there was Yuri Neuer.
"... Dear Leticia, this is..."
To Rudius, who asked in a whisper without concealing the confusion, Lady Leticia lays her 'sissy' index finger in her mouth.
When the three of us watched the space silently for a while, it became noisy in Russia.
And it was Master Edward, who should have been locked away somewhere else, who appeared with that noise.
"Yuri! I'm here to help you."
Blurry she stares at him as he approaches the iron lattice with his loving voice.
"... how, here?
Yuri, by contrast, asked him lightly.
"This man let me go. Wait, I'll make you free now."
One well-dressed man stood, trying to stay behind Master Edward.
Me and Rudius open their eyes to that man who looks familiar.
He was not involved in the gold case, although he was a second prince, so he was a relatively minor punisher of superior residency disposition after the main shift.
And behind it, there are two knights who are supposed to be guarding the entrance to the tower.
"... stop"
She looked down and said that in a cold voice, Master Edward, who had succumbed to open the iron lattice.
Master Edward, who has already opened the door, looks up at her as surprised.
"What's up? Yuri, there's nothing to be afraid of. After I run away from here, this guy and his comrades are supposed to hide it from me. Dive in for a while and return as the rightful heir to the throne when the time comes."
Her complexion does not clear against him, whom I said with a smile.
Instead, she laughed with her nose as if she were frightened.
"Don't you get it? He doesn't want to help me."
"You may not believe it right away, Yuri. Get out of here first..."
"If I leave here, I will be murdered unknowingly. To him and his people."
"Yuri, that's not true! These are the ones who will help us. Anyway, let's get out. Trust me."
"For them, I need you. 'Cause you're available. The only way for us to regain our power is to take charge of you as a god. But, you know, I'm not. Instead, I'm in their way, too.' What if the relationship between ourselves and the Twill nation, which is not yet on the table, leaks from a woman named Yuri ', because we are concerned. Besides, if you could take the throne, if I were on your side, I wouldn't be able to send my daughter in as my rightful queen."
"Yuri. That's inconsistent. In the unlikely event that... a hundred million people are disturbing you, we won't need to help you until we invade the danger now."
"Now's the only time. Prince Alfred's palm wants to pick out a bud of anxiety that speaks to him, and he wants to erase it before you take the throne. Isn't the best time to rely on them while you're hiding yourself?
Yuri said in an unmistakable tone, laughing coldly.
"... in the first place, I don't need help from people in this country who are coming to an end. Honey, there are other nights you can help me with."
The man who was following Master Edward laughs at the words he said with a nickel laugh.
"Did you hear that? Prince Edward. I wanted to help the truth, your beloved… still, how she is connected to the Twill Nation. You don't deserve it."
"That's not true!... Yes, she's here and she's just emotionally unstable. Yuri, I'm your night, right? I promised you I'd protect you from anyone, no matter what."
Yuri does not respond to Edward's inquiry.
It was just pointing a cold gaze.
"Dear Edward! You are deceived. You could have sat on the throne without falling into this state of affairs, but this is what happened because this man conspired. Now let me wake you up."
The moment I said that, one of the knights behind me pulled out his sword and pressed her.
The other knight is holding him back so that Master Edward will never shelter her.
She just looked at the sight with her blurred, cold eyes.
"Stop it!"
The moment that sword reaches her...... Master Edward shakes off the suppression of the knight and breaks between the sword and her and enters.
... it was a moment.
With the dull sound, Master Edward was pierced by the sword.
As if time had stopped, silence dominates the place.
The knight, who had the sword in his hand, exposed his agitation so much that he knew so, and eventually the trembling hand let go of the sword.
Karan, and the sound of the sword falling echoes on the spot.
And at the same time, Master Edward, painted red, collapsed and fell on the spot.
Seeing a red flowing from his own body as surprised, he smiles and looks up at Yuri at the next moment though.
"... Yuri..."
Master Edward, who fell, reached out to her side, though.
To that sight, the light returns to her eyes, which had been somewhere blurry until earlier.
"Why... why, did you shelter me?
She asks to scream.
"For you, I have nothing more to offer but luggage! Like them, the intruders erase... is that nobility? And yet, how could you!
On that question, he laughed, spitting blood out of his mouth.
"... you promised, didn't you?
'Protect from anyone, no matter what' … as the saying goes, he took refuge in her by presenting himself.
In the first place, I wouldn't have gotten into this if Master Edward hadn't come with them... still.
Still, he was the only one really trying to protect her.