"So the magic is back, right?
"... Yes"
"Besides, he was given protection by the Dark Spirit King,"
After returning from the woods, my Highness and I, and Lady Theodore, moved to the reception room at the Milicier Lordship Hall.
He was explaining to them from me what had happened to me until earlier.
His Royal Highness muttered to himself, "You surprised me" with a pocan look when I finished my explanation as a whole, exhaling loudly.
Lord Theodore knew about it when I returned from the land of the Spirit, or he just snorted quietly at my explanation.
"From now on, how do I do it? I'm confused too..."
After the explanation was complete as a whole, His Highness, sitting next to me, smiled at me with a soft expression. And then I mouth it there trying to stir up my hair.
His Majesty's figure, as if it were an illustration of a fairy tale, makes his chest squeal unexpectedly.
But His Highness gave me a soft smile from his heart as if he didn't even notice my mood like that.
"Good for you, Rachel."
"Huh?"
- Good?
"The magic came back because Rachel worked so hard to get here without giving up from the lack of magic"
"Your Highness...... I am not alone. Dear Sarah and Theodore, and above all, Your Highness... thanks to you."
"Rachel... you're really good at keeping me afloat"
As His Highness stroked my hair gently and politely, he turned to peek into my face with his hand on my cheek.
His Royal Highness didn't give all the explanations, and he didn't try to ask me any more. More importantly, I am aware of it, and yet you respect me, and I sincerely think again. The words above all creep into my chest.
"Nevertheless, the protection of darkness? Which means Rachel will be the Virgin of Darkness."
"Dark Virgin, huh. Miss Rachel told me from the Spirit King that the Dark Spirit lived in a neighboring country."
"Yes, that's what he said"
In my affirmation of Lady Theodore's words, Lady Theodore opens her mouth again after muttering for a while, "Well," as she thought deeply.
"I mean, there could be someone in the neighborhood who had dark protection."
"Neighboring country, huh? My mother, the Lady Dowager, is from a neighboring country, but even after the resurrection of national traffic, that country is riddled with mysteries, and they are like the royalty of a neighboring country, unisex and bihabits."
"Do dark spirits exist in neighboring countries... Explore them"
"I'll do the same"
Neighbouring countries….
They used to be in the same country, but they didn't have any exchanges since the country split. It seems that the predecessor has made an alliance with it and His Majesty's marriage to the princess of the neighbouring country has led him to have a connection, but it is still hard to know about the neighbouring country.
Because it is a land of many mysteries, it may be difficult to explore a neighbouring country, even if it is His Royal Highness who has a former princess from a neighbouring country as his mother.
"So what is the power of darkness? Do you already know Miss Rachel?
"That's... the Spirit King told me that if I put my strength back, I would know it... and I feel the power, until I use it."
To Lord Theodore's words, I lower my gaze to the floor.
The Spirit King said that if you restore magic to me, you will know what the power of darkness is, but even now that magic has returned, I have not been able to grasp what the power of darkness is.
"Rachel, you don't have to worry too much. It could lead to knowing the power of darkness within knowing our neighbors."
"Your Highness...... thank you"
It lightens my heart to the care of His Highness who follows me, as if he knew how I was in a hurry.
As I stroked my chest down relieved by His Highness's smile, Crowe climbed to my knees with a smile in his mouth.
"Nyer."
Cro came back with me when I was sent out of the land of the Spirit by the Spirit King, but with it, the only thing I could understand was the ringing voice as before.
In the land of the Spirit, I am lonely because I could chat with Cro, but I guess I can't help it either.
"Flowers? And you're dead."
When Crowe received the flower in his mouth, it was apparently a tulip that had withered. It's smudged, and then the flowers are looking down.
When Crowe gave me the flowers, I jumped to the floor again just to say I had done my errands and moved with Tokotoko to Lady Theodore's feet.
"If you put it in a vase, could it be a little better?"
It's a beautiful flower around the corner, so I want to see beauty for as long as I can.
With that in mind, carefully hold the tulips received from Cro with both hands.
Then, strangely, the tulip flower in my hand slowly changed straight from shriveled and returned to being exactly as lively as it had just been cut.
"Become..."
"What!"
To the changed appearance of the flower, I shook it as if His Highness would support my hand unexpectedly and unexpectedly.
"The flowers..."
Is this an illusion?
Is it really something, such as the flowers that were soaked back to normal... Turning his face to His Highness in an incredible way, His Highness also stares at Tulip with open eyes.
Only Master Theodore, after calmly looking at my hand, held up the clo so that he could face the clo. Cro sounded adorably 'nya' toward Master Theodore looking in a good mood.
And I grin as I lift the edge of my mouth, "I see."
Does that mean Master Theodore figured something out?
"I hear you brought some tips, Black Cat."
"What do you mean?
"It wasn't enough to explain the Spirit King, so I guess that means Miss Rachel has come to teach me the easiest way to use her powers so that I can express myself"
From Lady Theodore's words, I guess the power now is the power of darkness.
That means......
"So what is the power of darkness... but is that what happened?
The flowers in my hand shake slightly.
But I can also understand that if this power really existed, the Dark Spirit King could have brought me back to the past.
It's not something I somehow don't understand, either, that after the Spirit King of Light frowned on me when he saw me, 'Did you change the future', he had an interesting look on his face when he realized he had gone back in time.
In other words, knowing the future cannot be done except by the Spirit King of Light.
And returning time to the past can only be done by the Dark Spirit King, I guess.
When I arrived at one conclusion, His Royal Highness, sitting next to me, put his hand on his chin in the same way and often contemplated it, then looked up hah.
"Right. The power of light is the power to speed up time. The darkness against is the opposite... the power to bring time back to the past."