Love Letter From The Future

3. Dragon’s Eye, Human Mind (44)

The princess could not erase the slightest bit of anxiety.

It was the same even though he was accompanied by escort knights and entered a secret evacuation route that only the royal family knew about.

The crypt located in the basement of Berrata Palace was still standing after hundreds of years. Luminous bodies emitting a soft scarlet light scattered the last illumination.

There were hundreds of lights hanging along the endless road.

It was a point where you could see how much effort the imperial family had put into creating and maintaining this crypt. Even Shien, one of the members, couldn’t figure out why.

Isn’t it just a crypt?

If we wanted to create a secret space, it would have been more reasonable to undertake more serious construction. However, since it was a space created haphazardly, the traces of effort were evident everywhere.

However, on the ground, hundreds of monsters were attacking the academy.

There was no time to indulge in idle worries. However, despite this, the princess was just calling anxiety out of habit.

Something was strange.

In the first place, it was strange that hundreds of monsters were deployed around the academy. Because it meant that no one noticed.

In addition, the monsters that attacked the procession of the homecoming festival looked different from ordinary monsters.

At first, they pretended to be stray cats, but suddenly they self-destructed or grew in size and attacked people.

Although she is said to be a princess who has access to all kinds of information, she had never heard of such a magical beast.

More than anything else, I couldn’t read the emotions from those magic beasts.

To be more precise, I felt emotions, but I didn’t feel any hostility or murderous intent. No matter how much a master of emotion control was, it was normal to reveal that aggression right before the attack.

However, the monsters who attacked the academy did not.

Far from showing signs just before the attack, no emotional ripples were seen during the battle. Rather, it felt like seeing a stray cat enjoying a leisurely walk.

While exposing his teeth and swinging his claws, his heart was no different from when he was sunbathing.

The princess was afraid of that.

Traditionally, sight was power.

Human history began with observation.

You can control what you can see, and you can own what you can control. That’s why Shien resented my eyes, but loved her.

It was because he was able to manipulate the emotions of others based on this.

But just now, the limits of that ability were exposed.

It was the reason why the princess couldn’t be sane with the sudden attack. Always confident, she couldn’t get rid of her anxiety at all.

Convulsively, Shien’s light gray eyes scanned the surroundings.

Every time that happened, I could feel the waves of emotions surrounding her.

The tension and nervousness, as well as the favor towards the princess and the strange inner conflict, were all vaguely caught in his sight.

this was normal

At least among the two, there were no characters who showed hostility toward the princess. She tried to comfort herself, saying that her worries were in vain.

Yes, they were picked and picked to keep only trustworthy people.

He had no worries about betraying the princess.

Perhaps noticing Shien’s uneasiness, the beautiful blue-haired female knight cautiously opened her mouth.

“Your Highness, do you have any problems?”

As if that question was a signal flare, the party’s gaze focused on the princess.

They were also watching the princess closely. Because she was the object they had to protect, and she was a woman who inherited the noblest blood here.

The princess smiled bitterly at the lightly permeated anxiety.

I became a superior and caused unnecessary worries.

Deciding not to show off at least from now on, Shien shook his head and said.

“Ugh, no… I’m just a little surprised Rather than that, how much further do you think we will have to go?”

Irene, who had been helping the princess for a long time, was looking a little suspicious.

However, if it was the princess, there was no room for objection by the escort knight. She immediately closed her eyes and measured the distance she had passed.

It didn’t take long for an answer to flow from Irene’s mouth.

“I think we are now at the third quarter point. You can go on like this if you want, or you can take a break. There might be remnants of demon beasts left outside the crypt.”

The princess thought for a while after hearing those words.

Anyway, the location of this crypt was a secret. Even if he knew, he would have been tipped off about the existence of the heirs of the five noble families.

Even if they were magic beasts, there was no way to have information about this place.

Then it might be better to take a break just in case.

If he had to leave the crypt too soon, he might be swept away by the chaos outside. Even though there were many magic beasts, the academy’s strength was formidable.

After some time, it was decided that the situation would surely calm down.

The princess who had made her decision let out a calm voice.

“… … Then let’s rest here. Not for too long, I’ll take a quick breather and then we’ll start.”

At those words, the escort knights let out a sigh of relief.

It was a tea that I could feel the sweetness in my exhaled breath. Not only did they break through the road to the academy at high speed, but they were the ones who cut down countless monsters.

No matter how expert they were, even the strongest players had no choice but to get tired.

Once a spy agent for the imperial family, but now the long-retired head maid was also the same.

She sighed and trudged away with a weary expression on her face.

The place where those steps headed was Irene.

Since the two had the commonality of being the princess’s closest aides, there were many cases where the two of them would gather opinions together and then make suggestions to the princess.

This was also part of the process to clarify the hierarchical relationship.

The subordinates held a meeting and decided on a proposal, and the princess only decided on whether or not to approve the proposal.

It was a familiar thing, so the princess soon turned her attention away from the two.

It was.

So Cien’s cognition was separated from reality for a while.

There was the sound of blood spurting out.

The princess was unable to respond to that auditory stimulus for a moment. He just cast a languid gaze wondering what was going on to the epicenter.

No, it wasn’t just the princess.

Everyone in the room was unable to respond.

Even Irene, with a dagger lodged in her shoulder, was just staring blankly at the woman in front of her, as if she didn’t feel any pain.

A woman with dark hair and a tired expression.

There was no hostility or intent to kill in her eyes. Such inconsistency was emasculating the princess and the party’s sense of reality.

In those hands that creaked and moved, a thread made of magical power was already entwined.

“Poem, Maid… … ?”

Irene asked while holding my shoulder, stammering like that.

My relationship with her has been around for a long time. It must have been several years already.

Irene knew. How much affection and loyalty the maid of honor had for the princess.

The lady-in-waiting just tilted her head as if asking what was going on.

“Yes, Sir Irene? What happened?”

There was no hesitation in that calm demeanor.

Irene looked down at her blood dripping shoulder once, then at the maid again. The lady-in-waiting had a face that showed no abnormality.

so it was weird Irene had to feel a sudden chill.

Instinct started to sound the alarm.

Irene immediately brought her free hand to the handle of the sword. And he scolded the escort knights who were still sitting idly by.

“Get over it right now! Evacuate Your Highness!”

“yes? what does that mean… … .”

Still, the lady-in-waiting looked like she couldn’t understand what Irene was saying.

Regardless, Irene drew her sword at once.

A blue aura resembling her hair left a trail in the air. The lady-in-waiting avoided the sword attack like a floating plant on the water.

And the bon dance of naturally connected threads.

As the head maid’s body rotated twice, the magical threads on her hands showed complex movements. The white string that rose up on the anti-elastic force burrowed into Irene’s shoulder like a snake.

It was a technique she had never seen before, but Irene guessed the root of it.

The Imperial Secret Service deals with all kinds of strange armaments. I’ve heard of agents who have mastered the art of fighting unarmed.

This must have been the skill of the lady-in-waiting when she was active.

However, Irene’s physical ability, which had already reached the expert level a few years ago, was at its peak. It wasn’t to the point of being pushed by a retired agent.

Yes, it definitely had to be.

However, the moment the thread of magic wrapped around her sword, Irene felt something strange.

The flow of magical power that was supposed to flow through the bloodstream was stagnant.

Why, before I even thought about it.

The thread of magical power that had been entwined around the sword came up on her arm.

And the sensation of bones being crushed along with the crunching sound colored the top of my brain white.

“Turn it off, keueuuuuuugh!”

“Irene-nim!”

While Irene gritted her teeth and endured her screams, the escort knights who had adjusted their posture were immediately fired upon.

The hardened knights rushed like cannonballs.

In particular, if a large number of knights were running in a complex sword net, there were few people capable of blocking the attack.

But the lady-in-waiting did it.

The means were simple.

A string of magical power wriggling up and touched the ankle of one of the escort knights.

That was the end.

The escort knight’s body began to swell around the ankle. The escort knight didn’t seem to notice the change in my body at all.

It was only an instant.

Before the rush of knights could reach the maid, a storm of light and heat swept through the crypt.

A booming, booming sound shook the eardrums belatedly.

The escort knights left with a scream. The knight who became the medium of the bomb was reconciled with a handful of blood and fell to the ground.

Even so, the lady-in-waiting’s expression remained unconcerned.

With a face that seemed completely unaware of what had just happened, her hand fired several poison darts.

The poison needle stuck in the bloodstream of the escort knights who groaned.

“Turn off, turn off… … .”

It was normal to get up soon no matter how much the explosion hit, but the escort knights who were hit by the poison needle only flinched and couldn’t move their bodies.

Irene’s consciousness gradually faded.

The mana did not move as if it had hardened, and in the end, she couldn’t stand it and fell to her knees.

The sound of gasping for breath was harsh.

She asked in a ferocious voice, holding the maid in her shaky vision.

“What, what did you do… did it… … .”

Even so, the lady-in-waiting only tilted her head a couple of times.

“Sir Irene, why are you like that? Why is everyone lying down… Her Highness the Princess?”

The head maid’s eyes glanced at Shien.

The princess was staggering backwards with eyes full of fear.

It was the same.

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Judging from the vertically slit pupils, the lady-in-waiting’s mentality was the same as usual. On the contrary, it was to the extent that even the worries were buried.

As if the person moving the body and the personality that entered it are separate characters.

It was the same as the monster that attacked the academy.

A chill ran down the back of the princess who realized this fact.

The demons’ goal was not the procession of the homecoming festival or the academy.

It was her.

And the lady-in-waiting was slowly moving her steps while facing the princess’s astonished gaze.

With a face that doesn’t know anything.

That gap made Shien feel so afraid that he couldn’t bear it.