EP.87 Crazy Dog and Crazy Maid (2)
The night is deep.
The night is deep, but I can’t sleep.
The first princess, Leruel, thinks this as she watches the burning candle. A lot happened during the day. She lives a busy life, but today was an especially confusing and hectic day.
I wrap up my day by looking at the candles.
When I look at the flickering flames, my mood calms down. It seems like his bare face is revealed.
Huh.
The wind blows through the open window.
Although it is early summer, the wind that blows at night is cold. Candles flicker in the blowing wind.
“······.”
Lruelle buried herself in the backrest and looked out the window. It’s night. It is a night filled with darkness and silence. The stars shine beautifully in the wide black sky.
As always.
It’s just shining there.
Even when the sisters of the royal family who were said to have been born with a star died, the star was always shining like that.
“That’s funny.”
Suddenly, such a murmur escapes me.
It’s funny. It was funny. Death is coming, but it’s funny how he remains so peaceful. This situation itself was funny.
‘···Did you say it was a summoning circuit?’
Leruel ponders what he heard from the professor during the day.
The professor gave the answer very easily. The answer the professor gave as if it was no big deal was the answer to the problem Leruel had been searching for his whole life.
Death of sisters.
The death that will one day strike him and Ayla.
No one knew its identity, so there were even rumors that it was a curse placed on the royal family.
‘He said there were disturbing rumors going around, so my brother stopped them. It’s not like a curse. It’s just that the children’s bodies were weak… they talked nonsense like that.’
Because of her brother’s interference, the investigation was always conducted in secret. Lruel had researched the death that had occurred to his younger brothers by searching through all kinds of books.
No one could be trusted.
The only person I could trust was myself.
Lruel entered the magic world. He studied how to read circuits. Know. He said he had no talent for magic.
However, even if one did not have talent, reading circuits was in the category of learning and effort.
So I tried.
The efforts paid off.
She became a pillar of honor in the Ivory Tower.
Immediately after becoming a pillar, I searched all kinds of circuits in the ivory tower. I searched through all kinds of spells and researched them, recalling the symptoms that had appeared in the sisters.
But couldn’t find it.
I couldn’t find it.
And, death came to him too.
There was nothing he could do anymore on his own. I had to get someone’s help.
That’s how I ended up hiring a professor.
‘Rania van Trias.’
Lord Rossel’s adopted daughter and disciple who raised an ashen wizard. And, a professor at Aplia Academy, where Ayla attends. Le Ruel thought as he looked at her.
Maybe, I had hope.
I resigned myself, saying, “If it doesn’t work out, there’s nothing I can do.”
And, God gave hope. So easily, everything was resolved. No, it’s not resolved yet, but it will be resolved.
-This is a circuit used by magic units on the battlefield.
-Activating a circuit using the target’s vitality.
The professor said so.
Those words are neither lies nor speculation. After hearing that, the evidence that L’Ruel had gathered came together and the professor’s answer was confirmed.
If so, there is only one question left.
How did the professor immediately find what Leruel couldn’t find no matter how hard he searched? I didn’t ask the professor directly, but some questions remain.
‘Did you say it was a circuit used by magic units on the battlefield?’
Leruel also has extensive knowledge about circuits. Even after this, he is one of the pillars of the Magic Society.
Life is precious.
It has a higher value than anything else.
The circuitry that handles it inevitably becomes more complex. There’s no way it would be easy to draw it. There is no way that ordinary battlefield wizards would have encountered that.
In the first place, today was the first time Lruel had heard of a magic unit. It’s not that she hasn’t studied her battlefield spell system. She came into contact with books and records.
However, there are some things that cannot be found in books.
“The devil has crossed the front line.”
A place where even letters cannot reach properly.
A place that has been contaminated with demonic energy for a long time and is even called the Demon World.
‘The ordering system there changes every day. There is no time to leave a record. Weaving spells, breaking spells, countering spells…’
Magyeong is a place where the history of magic is rewritten several times a day. That place is not called the Demonic Land for nothing.
A place where common sense does not apply.
A place where common sense does not apply and there are no rules.
‘Probably, it’s a circuit from there.’
It is unknown why circuits used only in demonic scriptures are installed in the royal family. My brother may have pulled off some kind of extraordinary feat to obtain it.
One thing is certain.
The professor he hired has the ability to recognize it at a glance. That’s not all. We also know exactly how to dismantle it.
‘···Those were confident eyes.’
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People who are confident in their abilities are different from their eyes. They are confident. Actions that come from confidence are confident. There is no bending.
I could sense that kind of uprightness from the professor.
“This is so outrageous…”
Lruel mutters like that.
Where on earth is there a professor like this?
‘Thank goodness, Ayla.’
It seems like you have quite a capable person by your side. Muttering that, Le Ruel closed her eyes. She listened to the sound of the wind blowing.
smart.
Noise mixes with the wind.
Someone knocked on the princess’s door.
“Come in.”
The person who opened the door and came in was a professor.
She came into the room dragging something. Le Ruelle looked at her with her brows narrowed.
“···What is that?”
“You said you would catch it during the day.”
With a thud, she puts down what she was carrying.
The person put down was a middle-aged man. I don’t know how they got it, but that’s not the point.
Who on earth is the man the professor dragged in?
It didn’t take long for Lruelle to recognize him.
“That outfit…”
Isn’t this the attire of a court wizard?
The man’s eyes tremble as he looks up at Leruel while lying face down on the floor.
“Eup, eup!”
It was strange that he couldn’t speak, so I looked at him and saw that there was a crumpled white glove in his mouth. After looking at that face for a moment, Le Ruel opened her mouth.
“Isn’t it Lord Nekelt?”
Court wizard, Nekelt.
He avoids Lruel’s gaze. However, the professor won’t leave him alone.
“Uh huh, use it.”
She pulls Nekelt by the scruff of his neck. He lifts an adult man up so easily as if he were a child. When Nekelt staggered to his feet, the professor kicked him in the stomach with the tip of his shoe.
“···!, ·····!”
A silent scream rings out.
Nekelt, who fell to his knees, bowed his head.
“Hold your head up.”
Gather Nekelt’s ankles neatly and trample them with the heels of your shoes. He then grabs Nekelt’s hair and forces him to raise his head.
Parr.
Nekelt’s eyes tremble as he looks up at Lruel, who is sitting on the chair. Those eyes are closer to pleading. He looks at that crazy bitch holding the head of his head as if he is asking him to do something.
Lruel tilted his head back.
“···Phew.”
Then he pointed at his temple.
What on earth is all this fuss about this late at night?
“Huh, professor?”
“yes?”
The girl with gray hair tilts her head.
Contrary to her seemingly innocent appearance, she holds an adult man in her hands.
Also, a person called a court wizard.
Seeing him helplessly subdued without being able to open his mouth or even form a single spell… I feel more embarrassed than surprised.
“What on earth are you?”
“uh···.”
The professor looks away for a moment at that question. There is a word that comes to mind first, but it is not the expression on the face of the person spitting out the other word.
“Professor of Aplia?”
“·····.”
What if the answer is a question?
And, what kind of professor in the world can easily subdue a royal wizard and bring him back like a cake?
“···Yes, that would be it if you were.”
Lruel gave up thinking deeply.
2.
I briefly explained the situation to Princess Lruel. When I first came in, Princess Lruel immediately understood what I was saying, unlike when she gave me a look that asked, “What are you and what is the author?”
“therefore.”
She pointed to the kneeling wizard.
The name seemed to be Nekelt.
“This guy released surveillance familiars in the villa… and since you got rid of him, he came back to release the familiars again?”
I nodded.
Princess Lruel sighed and touched her forehead.
“I knew that most of the court wizards were on my brother’s side, but you dared to set foot in my wife’s villa in such a way.”
She narrowed her eyebrows.
“It looks like these people really treat this woman very poorly.”
Her eyes were cold as she looked down at Nekelt. She closed and opened her eyes once.
“Why did you catch this?”
“It seems like you want to beat up the palace wizards.”
“You really understand what I mean.”
Sigh, Princess Leruel burst out laughing.
It was a laugh mixed half satisfaction and mischief.
“I understand, Professor.”
The princess nodded.
“Time for the mad dogs to bark.”
3.
Early in the morning, a letter arrived to the royal wizards. To be more precise, it was a letter aimed at the five court wizards who were the hands and feet of the first prince.
-Hello, there is no particular reason why the main lady sent the letter to the gentlemen. These people are the hands and feet of the royal family, but she really needs your help…
The letter wasn’t very long.
The short letter could be summarized in two sentences.
– Come back right away.
-If you don’t want to fall behind.
At the end of the letter is the mana of the court wizard, Nekelt. They also know that Nekelt, who went to engrave the circuit at night, will not return.
“······.”
The five wizards thought for a moment and then walked towards the villa. The escort knight waiting in the hallway of the villa led them to the reception room.
Open the door to the reception room.
There is a person visible as soon as the door is opened.
This is the first princess, Lruelle, sitting cross-legged on a lonely chair. She twisted her silver hair between her fingers and welcomed her guests.
“Ah, sir, are you here?”
she smiles
“Because I was in such a hurry, I couldn’t prepare chairs for the guests. Understand. “It would be enough to just stand there and listen.”
Princess Lruelle gestures.
The court wizards chewed their lips and stood at a certain distance from Princess Lruelle.
and.
“Close.”
The princess’s voice sinks low.
The door closes with a clang sound. No one holds the doorknob.
Lock.
The spell locks the door. It is unknown where the order originated. There is an uneasy air in the room.
“···Why did you call us?”
“Well, the main lady caught a dirty traitor.”
She gestured.
I don’t know when it started, but at some point, a maid who was standing there walks out. A familiar figure is held in her hands.
‘···Nekelt?’
There is no time to question it.
Swish, the maid waved her arm. Nekelt fell to the floor with a loud sound. She looks like she has already lost her mind.
“···Princess.”
The expressions of the palace wizards become distorted.
“Our court wizards serve the royal family. “To us without any solid evidence…”
“There is evidence. The author came to her original wife’s villa in the middle of the night. “Without any message to me.”
“There was a reason for that.”
The wizards open their mouths.
This is an excuse I’ve been thinking about ever since I noticed that Nekelt wasn’t coming back.
“Yesterday, all the circuits in the villa stopped working. “Isn’t it a big deal if the circuit that protects the villa is damaged?”
“Hoo.”
“That fact should not be leaked to the outside world. So, Sir Nekelt secretly tried to re-engrave the circuit…”
“It seems that he came to visit my wife’s villa in the middle of the night.”
The princess nodded, saying, “Hmm.”
When she lifted her head up from her lowered position, she had a very sad expression on her face.
“I guess the main lady doesn’t know loyal subjects. “How could she punish her loyal servant like this, who was not a traitor to her, but who came to engrave a circuit in her villa despite threats for the well-being of her maid?”
“Yes, a traitor! This cannot be anything but sad for us. Lord Nekelt is pure…”
“Yes, it seems she was mistaken.”
Princess Lruel smiled.
My narrowed eyes widened. With a creepy smile, she snapped her fingers.
Clap.
A familiar resembling a giant eyeball fell before their eyes. It was only a moment, but the palace wizards flinched and their bodies trembled.
‘How is that possible?’
Every ministry that thought the circuit had blown out and disappeared. The familiar is rolling in front of me. Even while they were confused, Princess Lruel continued to speak.
“She really didn’t know.”
She points to her familiar.
“That scary-looking monster is a familiar to protect my wife and this villa, right? “You mean that familiar that followed her main maid’s head?”
The wizards’ complexions turn pale.
“For the well-being of the king and princess…”
“Yes, for the sake of my daughter’s well-being, I monitored her every appearance. “The loyalty of the priests seems to be a little different from the loyalty in the real world.”
She put her hands on her knees.
“The circuit that protects the villa has never been damaged. “There are other things that are broken.”
Golden eyes glare at the wizards.
“The only thing the main lady damaged was the circuit where those things were released into the villa. “She tried so hard to hide it.”
“Well, that is.”
“Is there anything else you want to say?”
The wizards keep quiet.
There is no way there is anything to say. However, you must not keep your mouth shut. Eventually one of them opens his mouth.
“That, too, the princess…”
“Shut up.”
The princess interrupts the conversation.
In a low voice, she let out a voice that sounded like she was grinding her teeth.
“These people look at me very poorly.”
Platinum hair is flowing down.
The golden eyes shine sharply like those of a wild beast. You can even feel some kind of madness in those eyes.
At that point, the palace wizards realized.
It is not a new realization. It’s just a reminder of a fact that was overlooked for a moment.
“Hold him and make him kneel.”
Mad dog, Leruel.
The royal mad dog beckons. The maid standing behind her takes a step in front of her.
“Right Now.”
“Clap,” she claps.
The magicians in the palace have an intuition. A spell is about to appear. Reflexively they stretch out their hands. Raise your mana to resist the spell.
However, it is of no use.
“ah?”
The raised mana is scattered.
The order I was trying to hastily put together falls apart. And, in the blink of an eye, the completed spell binds their bodies.
Chains wrap around the bodies of the five wizards, making a clanging sound. A chain pulls them to the floor. kneel down
Again.
In front of them kneeling, Princess Lruelle approaches, her heels clicking. The wizards look up at Princess Le Ruel by lifting her head.
“Now I’m finally ready to have a conversation.”
Cold golden eyes look down at them. It was a chillingly cold gaze.
* * *
“Professor, have you seen their eyes? “This is the first time I’ve seen them scared!”
Princess Lruelle chattered happily.
If her original voice was filled with ridicule, her current voice was purely excited.
“I felt refreshed inside. They even forgot the courtesy of bowing their heads in front of the main woman. “Over the next few days, we will need to instill etiquette from the beginning.”
Princess Lruelle laughed. It wasn’t a laugh, it was a laugh of genuine joy.
“You look in a good mood.”
“How could it be bad? Professor, be honest. “My wife hates those court wizards!”
She pointed to the court wizards being dragged into the basement of the villa by their guard knights.
“I was planning on catching them and kicking them if they found anything, but they came crawling back to me. “It can’t be anything other than a happy thing.”
“…Didn’t you say it was the first prince’s faction? Is it okay for me to drag you away like that?”
I thought it would be done more secretly.
In response to my question, the princess shook her head as if it was no big deal.
“That can’t be possible.”
“yes?”
“My brother easily throws away anything. “Even if they were on their side, if they don’t think it will help them, they throw it away like they are flipping the palm of their hand.”
“Still, the court wizards…”
“It’s precious manpower. “Although they are valuable human resources.”
She laughed bitterly.
“My brother is the person who killed even the second princess who was on my side because she did not like him. “Court wizards are valuable, but are they more valuable than someone from a royal family?”
“······.”
“And, that’s not something you should worry about. “It’s something I have to deal with.”
The princess looked at the court wizard being dragged away and the maids who were glaring at the wizard.
Eyes pour through the gap in the open door.
The princess spoke while meeting his gaze.
“On the contrary, it’s a good thing.”
“Is it good?”
“Among them, how many of them do you think became my brother’s eyes? “They will figure out the situation now and report it to my brother.”
She came next to me.
“In their eyes, you are an unknown person. The hairpin you wear disguises your identity. “None of them recognize you.”
He said in a whisper.
“A mere maid stays very close to the princess. They exchange whispers. And, in a place where there were only the princess and the maids, the palace magicians were instantly overpowered and dragged out. “That too, with ‘spells.’”
What does this mean?
she smiled
“They notice. You are an unknown wizard hired by the main woman. However, no one can know your identity. “Then what happens?”
“······.”
“Identity unknown. However, it is revealed that an unidentified person with enough skill to subdue the court wizard is under the control of her original wife.”
At that point, I also realized the princess’s plan.
As I looked at the princess, she also looked at me and nodded.
“They don’t know your power. I can’t even imagine how far you can go or what you can do. What, not even the original woman knows your potential. “You are more capable than I imagined.”
From my perspective, he is a reliable ally.
But what are you to the enemy?
‘, the princess asks.
“It’s fear.”
Princess Lruel narrowed her eyes.
“The more you run amok, the more my brother shrinks. “My brother is not a very ambitious man, so he is wary of even the slightest danger.”
So what should I do?
I also knew the answer.
“So, you can go around as you please?”
“That’s it.”
“Can you handle it?”
“Have you forgotten what you first said?”
The princess smiled.
“Rampage as you wish. “For you, I will gladly bark.”
hmm.
-Raniel, promise me one thing.
Master.
-Quietly, finish as quietly as possible.
sorry.
‘But the princess said it was okay to turn it over.’
Ever since I was at the front, I was a knight who was quick to criticize Commander Heinkel. Because it was the virtue of a good soldier to criticize his superiors.
I smiled.
“That’s nice.”
There was no reason not to go that far.
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