Watashi wa Teki ni Narimasen!

"Your Highness, I've been waiting for you."

Waiting in the small chapel of the fort were Jina and Girsch.

As he stood the two people on their knees, Reggie immediately asked.

"Let's hear about the ice fox first"

I hadn't heard more about why an ice fox named Leela had become huge.

Jina nodded.

"I don't know why either, Your Highness. It's just that as soon as Leela rode herself out when Gilsh was making allowance for Mr. Cain and licked Mr. Cain's clothes with blood on them... like that"

So it got huge.

Reggie thought.

To the extent that I licked the blood, would it be something that the Warcraft would make a dramatic change? Instead, does it mean that Leela's power has increased?

Then I thought it might have something to do with Chiara curing Wentworth.

That's where I remember.

When I treated Felix, I heard reports that Chiara had cut off her hand and let her blood touch the wound. I'm sure that was needed for treatment. Then I should have done the same to Wentworth.

"Chiara's blood...?

They have their own magic in the blood, albeit traces. So I hear that it is easier to use blood when making earthly shapes, etc.

And I heard that the ice fox was easily missed by the sorcerer, and along the way to Chiara had gained only a small amount of its magic.

Then there's no doubt that the cause of Leela's huge enlargement is Chiara's blood.

Reggie concluded in her heart, "I see the situation. Thank you," he tried to walk away.

"Um, Your Highness"

So Jina called it off.

Reggie looked back and went on to hear something unexpected from Gina.

The next day the troops of Salehard and Luain, who were in Riadna, moved further north.

Now I can ease my guard a little.

While relieved, he visited his sleeping room again after being contacted that Wentworth had woken up again around evening.

The nursing soldier who was on Wentworth has also been discouraged, and Growl has been asked to wait outside the door.

In the room alone, Reggie walks over to the side of the sleeping table where Wentworth lies.

And I sat in a simple chair with no back that was beside me.

Wentworth felt somewhat more pale than yesterday.

Slightly red would be due to the fever from the injury.

Still, it was Wentworth who called me to talk. Reggie figured it out and chose to be alone.

He utters the words Reggie anticipates.

"Your Highness, if you recover, please order me to rescue Mr. Chiara."

"Wentworth. You don't have to. I know you feel responsible, but it's gonna be hard for you to infiltrate alone."

"But someone has to go help her out. Otherwise, our army will suffer considerably. Ms. Horace had guessed that Viscount Credias would have the art of manipulating the sorcerer's crease instead of being able to use witchcraft to carry out direct attacks. In fact, we're going to fight as many as ten sorcerers..."

I see, I heard from the Earl of Ennistel that there were too many magician deviations and that he went after Chiara with Viscount Credias, but the Viscount was manipulating them.

If they used that in battle, they would put you in a pretty tough situation.

"Without a magician, it's hard to keep up against it. In that case, instead of victory, even Master Alan and His Highness could lose it. So in the worst case scenario, Mr. Chiara..."

Reggie calmly anticipated Chiara's death.

The truth is, I guess Wentworth doesn't want to say that either.

But as an entire army, and when we consider those who should prevail as knights of Evrard territory, we hesitate to say the words, but with our heads we conclude that we have no choice but to do so.

I create the illusion that my mouth is filled with something bitter.

Even Reggie had a head start once. But I didn't want him to say it.

On the other hand, in his position, we also know that we have no choice but to say so.

"You don't have to decide, Wentworth."

Yet Wentworth shakes his neck to the side.

"... If that ever happened, I wanted to be the one to kill. If only we could ruin it together."

All this time, he was the one who stood by me.

Although he was usually knightly, like the Growls, it was Wentworth's role to scold Reggie for keeping up with Alan's pranks, only then, with the same eyes.

Now that we have crossed a situation that we were not deeply aware of until now, but which we might lose, we are made to recognise the love that was rooted in us.

"Wentworth...... I don't want to lose Chiara. But I don't even want to sacrifice you. Are you replacing me or Alan's brother?"

You can't lose your brother.

... I don't want to lose Chiara. Without her, I don't feel like living.

For the first time, Reggie thought she didn't want to say a word to anyone she was supposed to command.

I want to help both. Reggie has always tried to think of trumpeting someone to protect her position and life, but I don't think this is all she can give in.

Hearing Reggie's words, Wentworth smiled a little surprised.

"... Chiara knew that, didn't she?"

"What?

"Just before Mr. Chiara was taken away, I thought about it. Stab her right now and she won't be taken away by the enemy... but I couldn't."

I'm glad I didn't, I think the bottom line Reggie.

At the same time, I felt that Wentworth cared for her so much that I thought of her that way.

"I also told Mr. Chiara that they thought it was a complete joke,"

"What, did I tell you?

If I was surprised and put it in my mouth, Wentworth laughed bitterly, too.

"I think Mr. Chiara was a prospect for everything. Even when letting me go, His Royal Highness, who knows how Chiara felt that her family wanted me to try to protect me, thinking instead of her brother, said she would understand. If they told me that, they might have thought that there was no way that I, who had lost my family... who had wished to help me in my place, wouldn't notice being put in the opposite position. If you're someone you think of as a family, you want them to live, rather than die with you."

Reggie grabs her chest for the reason Wentworth went on to tell her.

Chiara cared about Wentworth like a family member, which is why she tried to help even in lieu of her life. I guess Reggie knew she'd think the same thing again.

Reggie shrugged her lips.

"Chiara only makes herself crude while telling others that a lot of important things won't be easy to throw away."

Reggie, Wentworth, and Alan and the others care about Chiara. She only tries to sacrifice herself while she knows it.

"I'm sure Your Highness knows why. She... is not obsessed with this world at all."

Memories of previous life.

That's what Chiara said would make this situation, the cause.

It is also a memory of a previous life that created her into a slightly deviant personality.

Anyway, there are no more adults in Chiara who teach and guide us about this world in very young age. On top of that, I guess the other adults assumed she knew the basics and taught her little or nothing because she had gained some knowledge from her memories with her family in her previous life.

And everyone saw her only as a tool.

That's why Chiara thinks of the kinder past life as her true world.

There are verses in which she unconsciously recognizes the world so that she can treat the family of this world as something that has been pushed aside somewhere, and so that it does not hurt her heart too much to treat it badly.

Since I became a magician as I remember it, I stopped so repenting of hurting myself because even if I died, this was something in the story, and the feeling that I could return to my original world even if I died was strengthened.

On the other hand, I respond remarkably to the tragic sight that I had never experienced or to killing people.

From the memory of my previous life, I guess it's because it's heterogeneous.

Then I thought Chiara, who felt she would stay away from what she thought was a 'modified story'... even that was in the story, didn't she?

I don't know what's actually going on without checking with her one by one.

Reggie thinks this guess just won't be so far from the truth.

Wentworth probably felt the same thing.

"I wish I had the chance to teach her that this place is real"

"Then there's one good way"

Cain says.

"Let her protect you"

"... why"

"Didn't you notice? It was an attempt to protect Your Highness that Mr. Chiara fought in an unscrupulous way when he assumed that the war was because it was like an event in a story. You told me not to protect you, so I guess I got mean... because for her, that was something I couldn't give in."

"But if it's just to protect you, so are you."

"I'm not."

Reggie blinks.

"Mr. Chiara would have just tolerated me because I'm pathetic. And I'm sure Chiara will be fine."

Wentworth went on to say.

"Yesterday, I couldn't tell you. The king over there, too, seemed to treat Mr. Chiara harshly because he had a position, but in the end he was trying to hurt her on a piecemeal basis. It is possible that having been in contact with her all at the same time as wanting a magician, caused her to have feelings for Mr. Chiara. Chiara used it to set me free."

Well, the other side seems to have a relieved part of Chiara, too.

Reggie decided so, too, from what she had heard about Salehard.

"Actually, Jina told me something about Chiara..."

Reggie feels strange discussing what we can deduce from each other's information in that way.

It's been a long time since I've had an in-depth conversation with Wentworth about Chiara. Besides, isn't it the first time we've exposed each other so far into each other's minds?

Somehow, Reggie felt happy.