Time rewinds a bit here.

“Your Majesty, a letter has arrived.”

“Well, thank you. Put it there.”

“What? Excuse me!”

The King of Reflexion, Albert-R-Bardfield, was in his office looking over his papers. As he was getting ready for lunch, he received a letter from his minister, Flugel.

“Oh, it’s from Libra. And …… Hmm, Roen, things have been better since he returned to the Lord position, but did something happen?”

Albert opened the package and checked the contents of the letter. Although the letter was sent by a different person, the contents were almost identical.

“…… Lars-kun again. …… Fufu, interesting boy.”

After reading the letter, Albert left the room to gather the people in the meeting room. Shortly after, the main members gathered and he told them the contents of the letter.

“–So. I would like someone to go to Luitzar to “greet” him.”

Then Flugel raised one eyebrow and opened his mouth.

“If it’s okay with you, I’ll go. It’s not that I don’t know Lars and the others, and I’m the Prime Minister, so I won’t be turned away.”

“Then Hawk and I will be your guards.”

“You’ll have to work hard, Eagle, since you showed a bad thing time last time.”

The two knights who could not fight well against Retzel at the harvest festival raised their hands, and Albert nodded.

“I would have gone myself, but Flugel stopped me. I’m sorry, but I’ll leave you to it.”

“Of course …… If we don’t know the circumstances of the kidnapping and its authenticity, it’s dangerous to trust them.. But still, it’s still a neighboring country, so I doubt it will lead to war.”

“Hmm. I’m sorry, but I need you to go check on Lars and Tigre-kun. They are necessary for this country.”

” ” “Yes.” ” “

Albert nodded at Flugel’s words and instructed him to go to Luitzar. It was just about the time that Nora, Jack, and Makina were found.

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In the meantime, while Lars and the others were having an audience, in the back, Queen Lucera of Luitzar and her second daughter, Grace, were arguing.

“Mother! Why did you include Verna in the strike force? I heard that father called her back because he wanted to see her. As for me, she is my sister by half, and now that my grandfather is gone, I thought it would not be a bad idea to live with her.”

“…… How can you say that when you used to abuse her as a child?”

“Oh, that’s because mother told me to do that in order to get along! I had to ask her to give me her treats, take away her clothes …… and lie to her that I was doing it for Verna! You were jealous of Clary-san, weren’t you?”

She asks that she was jealous of Verna’s mother, Clary, who was receiving Frederick’s love. Grace wanted to get along with her, but she was slowly using her daughter to drive her away.

But she doesn’t seem to take offense at Grace’s denunciation and smiles wryly.

“Kuku …… Well you’re right, so there’s nothing to say back, is there? Besides, if you accept the dragon’s demands, Grace, you’ll die too …… For the time being, we don’t need to defeat it. If Verna is sacrificed, the dragon …… and I will be able to have my fill too. She’s starting to look just like that woman ……! How annoying ……!”

“……! Mother ……. Then what about the Knight Commander, Veig! My sister’s husband is the next king!”

“It’s okay. I’ve told him to leave Verna and run away if he’s in danger. Well, there are always replacements ……”

“I didn’t know mother is like that ……”

“……”

Lucera takes one look at Grace and turns on her heel to leave. Then Shiina, who had been hiding behind a pillar, came out, her face pale.

“Ahhh, Veig is …… and Verna too …… and the man from Reflexion says we don’t have enough strength to defeat the dragon …… What do we do, Grace …… If we don’t do something, they’ll both die and the Order will die for nothing ……”

“Big Sister ……”

Shiina’s shoulders are shaking, and Grace looks puzzled, but she decides to say to Shiina.

“…… Let’s go, we’ll go to the dragon. If I use my skill [Mirror Vision], I think I’ll be able to find an opening even with a dragon.”

Shiina’s eyes widened at Grace’s suggestion. However, he immediately turned serious and nodded.

“…… I agree. Let’s go to father–“

◆   ◇   ◆

“Wait, Tigre-sensei!?”

“Teache-!?”

Before we could stop him, Tigre-sensei walked out of the audience hall. The rest of us were dumbfounded, but we quickly came to our senses and told Mom.

“W-We have to go after him! If Verna-sensei is in the Dragon Mountain, we have to go help her!”

“Calm down, Lars. As Tigre-sensei said, dragons are dangerous monsters. If you go there, you might fall prey too. I can’t allow you to do that as I have a child in my care.”

The word “dragon prey” frightened us, but Jack said, looking away.

“W-We’ll be fine! We’ll run away if we have to ……”

“That’s right, Auntie! If Verna-sensei is in trouble, I would at least like to take her and run away! “

“Yes. Mom, can’t I and Lars at least go? We’re your first students.”

“I’m coming with you-!”

“With my magic and Jack’s collaboration, we’ll all be able to cast Invisible, so we’ll be able to escape.”

“But, you know ……!”

“Mmm …… you guys, calm down, we also –“

When we were trying to talk her out of it, the king opened his mouth with a troubled look on his face. But at that moment, there was a figure rolling into the audience room.

“Father! We too are going to the dragon! We have to go and save Verna!”

“We need the knights!”

“Y-You guys!”

That’s the princess of this country. And they were Verna-sensei’s sisters …… Wait, the princesses are going!?

The king and my mother froze at the unexpected remark, as well as me.

A full-on dragon slaying?

Thank you for reading.

[Afterword Theater]

“I can’t wait to see how good it is. I hope they haven’t been eaten already.”

Let’s not be like that ……

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