The next day, the third morning I came to Nortlach.
Cecilia dressed as a servant just like yesterday and dropped the rope from her room just like yesterday. Putting her glasses in her pocket to keep them from dropping, she jumps out of the window holding the rope. I have not forgotten to wrap my fingers around the cloth so as not to burn them.
Cecilia stepped off the rope with a familiar touch and said, "Okay!" Guts pose on his chest.
Actually, we've already decided on our destination for today.
(I also had a map written for you, and you're quite right!)
Thinking so, I opened a small notepad. There is a rough map of this royal palace. This is what Anne taught me, one of the servants I got along with yesterday.
I can't remember yet, but do you want to take a picture?
It wasn't long before Anne showed her handwritten map from her pocket. This is what I copied in haste.
And there was a star on the map. It is a mark that was not on Anne's map. It was written by Cecilia while listening to them, and that was the destination of the day.
Cecilia walks toward the star mark.
As I walked forward, I remembered the conversation I had with the servants while cheeking the sweets.
Prince Janice was really wonderful! It's a nice person who speaks to us with kindness. "
Looks like I'm a little out of the castle for diplomacy right now, but I'd love to see you again.
I've known him since I was a little girl, but there's really no one as delicate as him.
Nice, easy-going, nice person, delicate.
She's not like Janice, who Cecilia knows. Certainly, he is a lovely person at first glance, and he is friendly, but he is by no means a good person, and he is not delicate... However, they could hardly hear Janice's bad rumors. Cecilia once told me that she cut off the arms of a married princess.
"There are certainly rumors like that, but we don't know the princess very well." It's true that the princess who had married her had to go home, but that's all I know. "
Besides, that Prince Janice wouldn't do that, would she?
That's right.
I got a kick out of it.
Janice was really liked by her servants.
Then the story flew to the royal family, and Cecilia was able to hear many stories about the royal family of Nortlach from the servants.
Especially impressive among them was Isabelle's story.
”Prince Janice had two very good brothers, but they passed away......”
Moreover, it seems that his mother died one after the other at that time, and he was too shocked to come out of his room for a while.
"With the death of the last two princes, Prince Janice became the number one heir to the throne, there were many people who rumored." The royal family has never been as rough as it was then. It seems that the king is also suspicious of Prince Janice, and has not officially nominated him as the next king...... "
But I still can't imagine what Prince Janice would do!
Of course!
Speaking of which, it's just like that, right? Prince Janice's vagabonding had begun...... ”
I'm sure you wanted some time to think about it.
Cecilia breathed out as she remembered the stories of the servants.
I don't know how much of their story is true and how much is a lie. However, it was also true that there were people who felt a little sympathy for him when they heard that story.
But that doesn't mean he's allowed to do what he did to himself, and even if there were to be something relative to him from now on, I'm not going to add any caution.
(You can think about what is true and what is a lie later. First of all, I'm just collecting information!)
Cecilia, who had reached the place of the star, looked up at the door in front of her.
What a room it was for Janice. Of course, the key is taken out of the servant's room.
(If you come in so you don't find out, and come out so you don't find out, you won't have a problem!)
I suspect, but Cecilia's cheeks were cold sweated by the weight of the unauthorized intrusion into the royal rooms of neighboring countries rather than her own. They don't usually clean up much here, and there aren't many people in the hallway. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with you coming in and out in silence.....
(Ugh... nervous)
With that in mind, I turned the doorknob to make sure the room was locked. And...
"Huh...?"
It is open.
The door to his room was open without opening it.
Strangely, Cecilia rushed into the room and closed the door behind her. And I looked around the room.
Perhaps because the owner of the room was not present, the room was very hesitant. I didn't have any important documents or precious metals that could be converted into money so that my servants could come in at any time. There is a large desk for working, and there is only a low table and a sofa in front of it.
Cecilia checks the office drawer and then opens the closet. There is a fountain pen in the drawer. There was only one coat in the closet.
"There's nothing there..."
I don't know if Janice did it or if she did it around him, but there was hardly anything left in the room that could be called his personal belongings. I didn't know anything about Prince Janice.
I'm sorry, but if there's nothing to do, I can't help it.
Depressed by the lack of harvest she had hoped for, she told her to switch. And when I decided to leave the room as soon as possible...
"What are you doing, Cecilia?"
Cecilia looked back as she heard a familiar voice from the door she had just closed.
And I opened my eyes wide. The person there was a stranger.
"Huh? Oscar!? What are you doing here?!"
"Last night, you were acting weird, so I put it on." But you can't even start looking for a home in disguise..... "
Oscar holds his head in a deep sigh.
Apparently, my appointment with Laurent started at noon. So when I was thinking of spending the morning with Cecilia, it seemed like she was following me because she was showing some suspicious behavior.
He walks towards us.
"Do you know how I felt when I saw the rope hanging from the window of the room? [He did it again, didn't he?] Oh, come on, can't you be quiet? No way, if you stop, you'll die!?"
Well, there was a time when I was thinking that.
It was only a few months ago. Now, as expected, I don't think that "if I stop, I will die", but I think that "if I don't move, I may die".
"Or rather, Oscar. I see that this is me!"
Cecilia points to herself with her palm as she says so.
I'd say so myself, but her disguise was perfect. The clothes are worn by wigs and glasses. "Maybe I'll find out," I thought, but I was surprised to find out.
In Cecilia's words, Oscar snorts with his arms crossed.
"That's right, will you be fooled again and again?"... or are you done with your errands? Then it's time to get out. I can't explain this situation anymore. "
The room key was available, so I said, "I was lost! I thought for a moment that I could make sense of the excuse, but it's quite a distance from where Cecilia and the others are staying. Considering that this royal palace is an unfamiliar place for the Cecilians, this is a little too far apart and, first of all, she has disguised herself.
There is no excuse for this.
I had to get out quickly, and it was when the two of them pointed their toes at the door of the room.
A slight footsteps can be heard from outside the room.
"Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, Oscar."
"I don't care what you say..."
The same is true of Cecilia's face, but also of Oscar's.
She looked around the entire room and looked into the closet she had just opened.
And then he starts pushing Oscar's back to see what came to his mind.
"Oscar, come in!"
“How's it going?
It's okay! Hurry up!
Cecilia packs Oscar in her closet and enters the same closet. Then I closed the door. Inside the darkened vault, Cecilia pushed her body and that of Oscar to death.