Episode 4
“…young master.”
“Oh, it’s okay.”
I waved my hand at the words of the butler who was slightly out of luck.
But this time it was a little different.
“I don’t mean to say that.”
The butler’s eyes were strange.
“Have you been training in other ways without the Marquis’ knowledge?”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
I had a rough guess, but I pretended not to know.
The butler said to me with a stern face.
“The strength you showed earlier was not at the level of the 3rd circle.”
“….”
“The role of supporting the Marquis is not something anyone can do. Even if I am not a great wizard myself, I am confident that at least my knowledge and eyes have reached a fairly high level.”
“So you think I may have violated a taboo in order to forcibly raise my level.”
“That’s right.”
The butler wasn’t smiling at all.
The usual indecisiveness was nowhere to be found.
I told him that
“It’s not? If I really broke the taboo in the first place, there’s no way my father wouldn’t have noticed.”
“I know that. There is one just in case… …“
The butler did not back down meekly.
Well, if you dare to think of the identity he is hiding, this will never be easily overlooked.
It doesn’t matter if you just skip it.
My innocence will come to light naturally.
However, it is unreasonable to expect such a relaxed attitude from a butler.
“Then check it out.”
I reached out to him.
“…Are you okay?”
“There is no reason to doubt the butler unnecessarily.”
“Then where…”
The butler carefully grabbed my wrist and started checking.
After a while.
“Huh…”
The butler removed his hand from my wrist and looked at me in amazement. His fingertips were trembling as if he was quite startled.
“The ring…That’s four.”
“yes.”
My body is never in a normal state thanks to ‘autonomous circulation’.
However, it was not difficult to pretend to be normal. At least from the point of view of the butler, I must have looked like a simple 4th circle.
“why…When is the 4th circle?”
“About a day or two ago.”
“…!”
The butler looked at me with an expression of even more disbelief.
“Wait a minute…Are you saying that you suddenly came to a realization two days ago and entered the 4th circle?”
“yes.”
At those words, the butler’s eyes filled with astonishment.
“These two days. Huh… …No matter how high the 4th circle is, in two days… …”
“You just checked. Are there any taboo marks on my body?”
“…That’s not it.”
“That’s it.”
It wasn’t a completely convinced look, but the butler nodded.
“Um, that’s good. If that’s the case, it means that it was drawn entirely with the master’s own talent… …How the hell did you go through such an important moment? I can’t remember anything else.”
“haha.”
I smiled warmly.
“No, why not? It was a car.”
“…yes?”
“The marriage was unilaterally broken off by the duke’s family. When that happened, I was very alert.”
“Are you serious?”
“Oh, seriously.”
The butler looked at me with the same expression as if he was lacking in anything.
“What is this…“
There is such a realization.”
“If you take five more, you will be able to do 9 circles.”
The butler grunted and let out a small sigh.
“Anyway, you reached the 4th circle and came here in a fit of anger?”
“yes.”
“…is that really good? I am still anxious.”
“It’s okay.”
I hold a card they can never ignore.
“Butler, what do you think will happen if the Duke Lindell family collapses?”
“There will be great confusion. I don’t know, but even the empire won’t be all right.”
The butler thought for a moment, then answered firmly.
“Yes, I guess.”
“Then why did you ask that all of a sudden?”
“Nothing. It’s just that I have no intention of letting the ducal family go astray like this.”
There is no doubt that the Lindel dukes are the pillars of the Empire.
In fact, the empire’s chaos accelerated with the fall of the Duke of Lindel family.
Now that I’m back, I have no intention of watching it.
Yes, now that this has happened, we need to change the very basics.
And the first one for that is the Lindel duchy.
“Whoops.”
“…Didn’t you really eat something wrong, Bocchan?”
Looking at me with a smirk, the butler asked worriedly.
“Oh little! Is it not?”
“If you ever have a headache, let me know in advance. It is a must.”
The butler continued to feed me my candy with a normal voice until the very end.
…It’s sad that I’m used to this flow, really.
how long has it been like that
I raised my head to the shadows in front of my eyes.
“…Mikhail.”
Eileen Lindell.
She was glaring at me with her cold eyes shining.
“How are you?”
He laughed and stood up.
* * *
Black hair down to his shoulders and golden eyes.
As much as I was enchanted when I was young, Eileen’s appearance was obviously very beautiful.
“What are you doing today? Didn’t you say everything you needed last time?”
“Yeah, you’ve done it.”
I smiled and looked at her.
“But you did everything, didn’t I?”
“That’s not even funny.”
Eileen glared at me and said.
“The breakup was formally made through an agreement between the families. There’s no room for your coercion in that.”
“That’s right, it was officially done through an ‘agreement’. But doesn’t that have a premise?”
I slowly approached her.
“If there were no problems with the engagement.”
“…!”
At that moment, even for a very short time, her eyes trembled.
“No such thing as a problem…”
“No?”
haha that could be
A shame that the family that claimed to be the chivalry of the empire tried to hide.
Could there be no problem?
“Do you really think so? Can I consider what you said, Aileen, as Lindell’s doctor?”
“You talk too much!”
At that time, MacCoin, the knight next to Eileen, intervened.
“No matter how much Walpurgis’s heir would allow such an insolent attitude… …”
“Eileen.”
I stared at Eileen without even looking at him.
“Was this the only Lindel article? You haven’t been polite since earlier, and now you can’t tell the difference between where to wear it and where not to wear it.”
“…Sir McCuin, please stop.”
“Hana lady!”
Eileen warned McCoin, who was about to say more, in a strong voice.
“Don’t make me say it one more time. remember That you have a duty to protect Lindel’s pride.”
“…All right.”
McCoin gritted his teeth and stepped back again.
I laughed inwardly and watched the skit.
It is a play that is not even funny.
Not anywhere else, but the knight of the ‘ducal family’ goes out on his own without the owner’s permission?
It’s nonsense.
“So let me ask you again. Can I assume that everything you say is Lindel’s will?”
“that…”
It looks like a panic, but I could see that it wasn’t the only thing.
My eyes didn’t budge.
To some extent, it means that I had the possibility of coming out this way in mind.
“What good. Whatever you think doesn’t matter right now. First of all, let’s move from place to place. Isn’t that what we’re talking about in a place like this?”
I pointed to the overly open surroundings and told her.
“All right.”
She nodded, perhaps realizing that things weren’t going too well.
“The promise I made, my lady…”
“First of all, think of it as an afterthought. anyway…”
The gaze turned towards me.
“…It won’t take long.”
* * *
The mansion was as it was in memory.
I guess so.
It literally went against time without any variables.
“…It’s still the same.”
“Boss, you haven’t come here much.”
“Can’t you just take my word for it? That’s how it feels.”
“No, you speak as if you are an old man, right?”
“Not quite like that.”
Ha, what is an old man?
“But what are you really going to do? I didn’t come with the Marquis, but the Bocchan alone… …”
“I’m not alone.”
“yes? no other person… …I
smirked at the butler with a puzzled look on his face.
“So you have a butler.”
An ally more trustworthy than anyone else.
“Isn’t the butler the one who helped my father the most right now? Of course it’s better than the average guy.”
“that…At my words, complicated emotions passed in the butler’s eyes for a moment
.
“…I’m not great.”
“You are very self-deprecating.”
I patted the butler lightly on the shoulder and walked ahead.
The issue of the butler will also have to be resolved in the near future, but first and foremost is the Duke of Lindel.
Soon we arrived at the drawing room of the Duke of Lindell.
“Sit.”
“Okay, you don’t seem to have much time either, so let’s get right to the point. first of all…”
Leisurely, with her legs crossed, she glanced at McQueen and met Eileen’s eyes.
“I want to talk to you alone. The butler is out for a while.”
“…Sir McCain.”
Eileen didn’t particularly object.
She, too, gave orders to McCoin, and before she knew it, only she and I were left in the drawing room.
“You lied.”
“What are you talking about?”
“A promise between families. It is a promise that at least during the time when they were engaged, they should not engage in ‘mana training’.”
This is a very sensitive matter.
The engagement between our family and the Lindell family was not simply to solidify the family’s solidarity.
heir.
It was to create a pure blood line that inherited the blood of both direct lineages. Whether it was magic or swordsmanship, the importance of talent could never be ignored.
It is fair to say that the lower limit of growth is set at the same time as birth.
“I told you, but we didn’t break our promise.”
“Hoo…”
“If you have any doubts, why don’t you check it yourself? Rather, I am the one who got into trouble because you informed me everywhere that I was your ‘fiancee’.”
Aileen rather drove me away with a cold attitude.
yes i guess
At this time, I was indecisive.
It must have been the judgment that I was bluffing that I couldn’t be.
but.
“What good. check it yourself… …That’s a good word.”
“If you need…”
“Ah, I don’t need it here right now. Anyway, this isn’t my family, and I don’t know if it’s fair.”
“…Are you saying you don’t trust our family?”
“Isn’t that obvious? Even a great family, no matter how prestigious, could be stabbed in the back if necessary.”
“…!”
At my words, Eileen trembled and looked at me.
“Are you really Mikhail?”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden? Of course it is Mikhail.”
If I had to say it, I would have to say Mikhail 20 years later.
Anyway.
“The situation must have been prepared just in time. There is no need to delay.”
“What are you talking about…As if remembering something, Eileen’s expression hardened
.
“Wait, you can’t…!”
“Oh right.”
The reason why I dared to speed up and come here.
Aren’t those who will judge from a neutral standpoint more than anyone else?
“I said to check it myself, so I can check it then. Are you coming now?”
“…!”
I continued talking as I saw her staring at me with both eyes wide open.
“Count Parslov.”
Great mage who transcends by regression
