Her Royal Highness Seems to be Angry

"Say..."

From windows cloudy with cracks and dirt, grey light flows into a simple room.

In a twitchy, dim room despite the still high sun, Jacques Doe had handled the injury by closing one eye in front of a mirror that was still going to crack.

The area around his closed right eye in the mirror is stained red and the injury is not mild just at first glance.

"You've had a lot of painful counterattacks."

While looking laterally at such a jacquado, Milgrain was leaning against a wall by the window to monitor what was going on outside.

"You didn't really get alarmed or anything. Hey, you look cute and relentless ~, that princess"

"Hmm, I guess I imitated you making fun of Hilarious anyway. You deserve it."

"Mill, that's terrible! I'm serious about this one!

Even though I suffer wounds that could have gone blind if I had taken one wrong step, Jackdo's tone is floating and I can't feel the rush.

"How long does that allowance take?

"Wait a minute, too, 'cause I got a piece of glass stabbed. It hurts a lot, doesn't it?

Wipe the still stained blood with a cloth, and Jacquedot points to a brown lens monocular placed on the floor unconstructively.

That was always what Jackdo had on his right eye, but now the lens was shattered unbroken, almost like there was only a frame left.

"My favorite glasses will break, too. It was expensive."

"You should buy glasses again"

It wasn't Milgrain who replied to the unfortunate Jackdo voice.

A silver masked boy enters the room where the two are. He's a master for Milgrain and a boy called Dana for Jacquedoe.

"Dana's gonna buy it for you?

"Buy it yourself"

"Chi."

Even with such a light mouth, Jacques Doe is bandaged to the wound at best. The blood had already stopped.

"... you wouldn't be doing anything extra"

"Hahaha, Maasa ~"

To the boy who lays between them and drops a slight tone of voice. Jacquedoe laughs out in a voice with Kerakera, opening his right eye, which had been closed until earlier.

"At least, I didn't do anything to put Dana at a disadvantage ~. You hate me if I'm too suspicious, don't you?

Jackdo's right eye, reflecting the boy, shines red like blood, and the sincerity of the words cannot be read from that smiling expression.

"... I don't know"

Without pursuing anything further, in one word the masked boy cut up the conversation and left the room.

"Hey, Jackdo. What a way to speak to your master."

"This much better be Frank, isn't it? Mil-kun is really tough."

Jacquedot gets up clearing his tools as he drops off his own husband's back. The blunt silver bell on his left ear shakes small.

On the surface, its bell, engraved with a crest depicting a bird with a head of eagle and crow on a silver shield, continued with a chillin and sound whenever the owner moved.

Three days have passed since the party at that school.

Because it was a holiday that day, Leticiel was in his room in the mansion. He sits on the couch by the window and looks at the blurry garden under his eyes.

Luvik and Cloud can also be seen in the afternoon garden. He wants to change the flowers he grows in the vase of the mansion, and he's been discussing them with the cloud since lunch.

Nicole is out of town for dinner buyouts and Leticiel is the only one currently in the mansion.

……

Off his gaze from the window, Leticiel takes a book he has by his side as he sits deeply on the couch.

I found it quite a while ago, it's Drossel's past journal. Opening the appropriate page, Leticiel follows the text inside with his eyes.

In the past few days, Leticiel has been thinking about Adelhardt and "Drossel" all the time.

When I first found this, I only paid attention to a few pages at the beginning and to Alec's letter, but by the way, there is a person named 'Eddie' who seems to me to be Edelhardt as I go ahead and read it.

Some days he appeared alone, but most of the time he was named in the diary with Alec.

(... What is the pattern between Your Highness and Alec?

Some of the diaries that were written about the two of them told me that when Alec went to visit him with a cold, Eddie was seeing him clearly.

At least he won't be just a friend, but he can't read clearly from a young Drossel sentence about whether that's family or what.

(You can ask the person directly...)

Leticiel tells Edelhardt that he has no memory of the past, and I'm pretty sure he knows the old Drossels again.

But I need to be a little more cautious stepping in here than I can even say that Edelhardt believed all of Leticiel's explanations.

"Um... ma'am, are you there?

If I wanted more clues and kept reading the diary, the time was already in the evening if I realized it.

I heard voices coming from outside the room on the lid. Nicole's voice. Leticiel closes the diary and immediately puts her in the room.

"Oh, Nicole. I thought you were preparing dinner.

"Yes, it is, but I wanted to ask the lady something..."

…… What is it? "

"Um... Didn't you see Mr. Luvik?

"Luvik? Isn't he in the garden?

"I thought so too, but I'm a little worried because I won't be in the kitchen for long..."

Nicole and Ruvik are the only two people who work at this mansion staying in, always sharing meals, chores, etc.

And the two of us were going together to prepare the meal, and rather Luvik always took the initiative. Leticiel shakes his neck.

"You're not in the mansion?

"Yes... I also asked Mr. Cloud that we were together until just now but I need to know what happened after we broke up..."

Leticiel thinks into Nicole's words. I mean, Luvik was definitely in the mansion until just now. It's hard to believe that left the mansion in such a short time.

Besides, given Luvik's character, I can't even assume that it retraces for no reason. Is there still something going on when that happens?

"I'm worried about that. Okay, I'll get it. Nicole needs to be back in the kitchen."

"Wow, I get it"

Returning Nicole to the kitchen for a moment, Leticiel came to the garden alone.

If there is no sign of Luvik in the mansion and Cloud and Luvik were together earlier, it is likely that Luvik is still somewhere in the garden.

Through the garden flower beds dyed in the sunset, Leticiel looks around and searches for Luvik.

The gardens of Leticiel's mansion are not that large. Thanks also to that, Leticiel was able to find Luvik immediately.

Ruvik's voice was heard from the westernmost side of the garden, beyond the hedge at the furthest distance from the mansion.

"...... please stop!!

……

I wonder what you're doing on the edge of a garden like this, Leticiel tried to get close, but suddenly he stops shouting at me.

The voice now undoubtedly belonged to Luvik, but Leticiel had never seen it, such as a scene where he abhors his voice like this.

"Luvik! What's wrong... of..."

Leticiel, who immediately popped out across the hedge, saw Luvik with a blue face and a young man looking at this one as he leaned against the wall in its front.

"Your husband is here."

Even when he sees Leticiel, the young man is laughing at Kerakera without a scratch of upset.

The young man, weaving a white robe and wearing a hood, had ear decorations on his left ear and one-eyed glasses with a light brown lens on his right eye.

"... Lady..."

This is the first face I should have seen, but Leticiel felt a tremendous fear. My legs tremble, I can't stop sweating cold, and I can hear Luvik's voice somewhere far away.

Leticiel couldn't help but be confused as to why he felt that way. Unconsciously, I take a few steps back with Jirijiri and realize there is a fuss.

(... No, it's not. "This girl" is scaring me)

Leticiel is the first person to meet a youth in the first place and has no reason to be afraid. But this body of 'Drossel', this memory, recognized the man in front of me as an object of fear.

When? Where? I wonder how he and 'Drossel' met. Something bothers me. But now is not the time.

"What did you do to Luvik?

"Oh, I'm frightened. It's kind of you to worry about your servant first."

Saying that in a floating manner, the young man in the white robe leaves his back off the wall with a good groove.

"But I think you'd rather ask your servant than me."

"... answer the question. What's the point?

Leticiel narrows her eyes softly to a young man who has no intention of answering the question as if he were relaxed.

"I don't have a big purpose. If you miss your house, you'll be gone soon."

"You think you can believe that story?

"Ugh, I don't think so. 'Cause you're still looking at me like you could kill me, princess."

That's what the youth laugh at. The white robe swayed into small pieces and its chest was seen embroidered with a cross drawn crest on the wheel.

If he is a person wearing an equally white robe, Leticiel has previously witnessed during the Duke's rebellion. What does that person have to do with the youth in front of him?

"Well, I don't know how you're going to miss it. For example... if you run out of time on me, will you miss it?

Lifting the nigger and the corner of his mouth like a tease, the youth reaches for Luvik. A young man's hand approaches Luvik's neck, which does not move from the spot as if it had hardened.

"Get away from Luvik!

That's what he shouted almost reflexively, and Leticiel quickly unfolded his sorcery. An ice column as sharp as a knife strikes straight at the youth.

"Oops."

The young man immediately noticed Leticiel's attack and tried to avoid it by pulling his head in.

But the ice-column was quicker for a moment. The moment the youth tried to dodge him, the ice column blurred his right eye monocular glasses, making a noise and the lens cracks.

Some of the splashed brown pieces of glass stuck straight around the youth's right eye. A few small steps away, the young man puts his hand on his right eye. From between those fingers, countless red muscles fade away.

"Come on... you've got a princess who's gonna go blind."

Thanks to his eyelids down at the critical point, he painstakingly spared his blindness.

A piece of glass should sting and hurt quite a bit, but I can't feel any sign of that from a young man checking for a snag and scratch.

I felt as if I wasn't in pain, as if I wasn't human, and a cold sweat conveyed Leticiel's back.

"Ma'am, the princess is killing me, and I'm going to disperse for the rest of the day. I'll see you somewhere."

As he bled from around his right eye, but the young man smiled and shook his hand with a flicker, and jumped from there with a flicker as he jumped up against the wall.

Eventually, confirming that the signs of the youth were completely distant, Leticiel breathed relief and looked back at Luvik.

……

Even as the youth disappeared, Luvik has always been in the sky above. Worried about Luvik, who will never move off the spot, Leticiel speaks softly.

"Luvik, are you okay?

"Uh... Oh, yes. It's okay..."

……

He finally returned to me with Leticiel's voice, and Luvik shook his shoulder in a vicious shake.

Leticiel puts his neck around Luvik, who is looking a little different than usual. My complexion is still a little blue, so maybe I'm not feeling well?

"Luvik? What's wrong?

"Oh, no. It's okay, it's okay..."

Leticiel reached out to grab Luvik's sleeve, but before doing so, Luvik said so with a quick mouth as he took a sassy step back and shook his full neck to the side.

"Really? Fine..."

"Yes...... then help me with dinner, I'll be there"

So the conversation ended and Luvik walked out toward the mansion early as he bowed his head small. It's like running away from this place.

(... something, like being avoided?

Leticiel, who was left alone, had no choice but to snap his neck. I knew something was wrong with Luvik.

I don't see Luvik in the garden anymore because he was walking pretty fast. Leticiel stands in a garden stained with sunset, staring in the direction he left.

(... Was that just shocking...?

At that time, thinking that Luvik was in danger, he unleashed magic on the youth in an aggressive manner.

Man's blood is not as surprising as Leticiel, who lived the war, but that sight could have been shocking to Luvik, who lives in a world now at peace.

From the time he broke up with the cloud until Leticiel found him, Luvik was probably with that man.

What was being talked about between the two of them during that time? I just have to ask the person about all this, but I feel that Luvik's reaction earlier blurred the back of my brain and he doesn't seem to answer me if I ask.

(I don't think that's a very good story as far as listening to Luvik shout I heard the first time...)

In the meantime, let's see how things go a little more until Luvik settles down, Leticiel thought inside.

(... Speaking of...)

Speaking of Robe's youth, Leticiel remembered that there was. It looks like it was embroidered on the chest of his robe.

At dusk the surroundings were a little dim so I didn't see any fine patterns, but there must have been a cross painted on the wheels.

What the hell is that tattoo?

I can't think of anything to follow the memory I have now. Leticiel thought as he walked over to find out next time it might have something to do with the territory or 'Drossel'.

On my way back to the room, the smell of fragrance drifted from the kitchen. I'm sure Luvik and Nicole are cooking because of it in the kitchen. Imagining the sight, he smiles, and Leticiel smiles small.

And it was in the library that Leticiel came. I have time to finish preparing my meal, so I thought I'd check to see if there were any clues that could lead to the example pattern.

At the end of the heavy doors, a large number of bookshelves filled with overflowing books greet Leticiel.

The mansion was equipped with a library room from the beginning, but most of the reading has been done in the school's large library room, so what do you care if Leticiel visited here for the first time?

In the meantime, I look through a few books that seem to handle the tattoos, and Leticiel turns the page with a pepper.

…… Is that it? This pattern somewhere...)

And soon I found the crest of interest. Not a wheel pattern, but what Leticiel noted was a crest depicting a bird with a head of a eagle and a crow on a silver shield.

I saw it for the first time, but I have a pre-existing sense of vision somewhere. When I looked at the description section on that crest, it said 'The First Duke of Filia Legis Family Crest' there.

Not anymore now. The Duke of Filia Legis house. The family crest, which I had captured several times at the edge of my sight, should certainly have depicted two swords crossing eagles on my shield.

(I see, you must have looked reasonable and familiar)

Convinced Leticiel returns to the task of searching for the wheel crest again. But in the end, I couldn't find a clue like that until Nicole came looking for me.