Chapter 188. Wait, Aidan. I’ll save you 2021.11.20.
Back in time, the morning of the verification ceremony. A fresh breeze blew through the open window. I leaned against the window sill in my nightgown and felt the fresh breeze.
“Yeah. It’s a perfect day for a verification ceremony!”
The tweeters, startled by my cry, said [Why are you tweeting like that] and flew away. Refreshingly stretching, I went out after finishing my breakfast. Enrique, the escort, was waiting at the bedroom door. Today, I said hello to Enrique, who boasts a dazzling beauty like the brilliant sunlight.
“Have you eaten Enrique’s rice?”
“ah. I don’t eat breakfast because I have no appetite.”
“What? Enrique. People live by their heart. I can’t. be punished After the verification ceremony, eat with me.”
“Your Majesty.”
Despite being punished, Enrique smiled kindly and nodded.
‘How can I live in this harsh world because I’m so kind and gentle…’
Even without ambition, he overturned what everyone expected to become the head of the Javier family and even became a knight.
“Why are you looking at me like that…”
Enrique avoided my gaze in embarrassment at my staring gaze. Seeing Enrique, who was much bigger than me and had to look up, gave me a new feeling again.
“I remember the first time I saw Enrique.”
“Do you remember the first time we met?”
As if surprised, Enrique’s eyes widened slightly.
“of course. Enrique, even though he was a very small kid, he knelt down for rudeness as if he were an adult.”
“That’s it.”
Enrique’s cheeks turned red. Even at the age of 20, I added a spiteful remark to the naivety that still remains.
“You were cute, Enrique.”
As he smiled happily, Enrique’s expression changed into something strange. It wasn’t clear whether he was smiling or frowning.
“Why is that Enrique?”
“It’s not me that’s cute, no, no.”
After speaking, Enrique muttered and shook his head. I guess I’m ashamed The memory recall was about this, and for some reason I looked around in search of another invisible person. However, the soldiers guarding the bedroom door, Enrique, and me were all in the wide hallway.
“Has Aidan not come yet?”
“yes. When I arrived, Count Aserad was not there.”
“weird…?”
Not once had Aidan been late for my escort. Or rather, it arrived before I woke up. Sometimes I wondered if I was getting enough sleep. Especially on days when there was an official event like today, he would come and wake me up in advance for me who couldn’t wake up easily. The last time I saw Aidan was last night. After working in the office until late, he escorted me until I returned to the bedroom, and then returned to my lodging at the latest. I left the main house and went under a nearby tree and called the tweeters in groups of three to five.
“Guys. Have you ever seen a red-eyed man?”
[A barley head? Chirp?]
“Black head, not barley head!”
[Jaeaejaek… I didn’t see the black head!]
All the tweeters said in unison that they hadn’t seen Aidan. Enrique, who had been watching me interact with the tweeters, asked cautiously.
“your majesty. Is the red-eyed, black-headed Count Aserad?”
“that’s right.”
“Then I…”
“Yellow head.”
“Yellow head…”
Enrique stiffened in shock. I tapped Enrique’s arm as if to comfort him.
“Animal friends are naturally a bit straightforward.”
“I guess so.”
Since then, I’ve been looking for Aidan. It’s never been like that, but I was worried that Aidan might be sick, so I searched all over the room next to my bedroom and the knights quarters that I often use, but I couldn’t find him. Originally, Aidan lived without a sense of life, so as always, everything was neatly organized.
“Where the hell have you been? this angel.”
“Have you ever gone out of the imperial castle? Maybe you stopped by the top of Evil.”
“wait for a sec. I need to contact Casey.”
Without hesitation, I took out the communication magic tool and connected it to Casey.
[Uhhh… Muse, baby…]
An inhuman voice greeted me.
“what. Are you alive, Casey?”
[About half of it is invoices…. Yesterday’s dinner. So what’s going on?]
After clearing his throat a few times, Casey asked as if nothing had happened.
“Did Aidan go to the top?”
[Um no? The only thing here is a rolling keg and me who became a corpse.]
“You haven’t seen it?”
[yes. I don’t even show my face unless I’m with the lady. A sleazy person.]
“If anyone sees it, they will think that Aidan is Casey’s lover.”
[We have a stronger and deeper relationship than that, lady.]
“Yes, yes.”
After a short chat with Casey, I ended the communication. The Imperial Castle or the top of the Evil. Aside from that, Aidan couldn’t think of anywhere else to go.
“Maybe he went out of the capital.”
“no. If you’re far away from me, you can tell by the barrier I put on Aidan. But there is nothing wrong with the barrier.”
It was calm as usual. without any fuss. Just as I was contemplating whether to search the inn again, Xavier came running from afar.
“Here you are, Your Majesty. It is said that the preparations for the verification ceremony are all over. Everyone is waiting for Your Majesty.”
While I was looking for Aidan, time had already passed.
‘It’ll be fine since the barrier is safe.’
After the verification ceremony, I decided to look for Aidan again and started walking.
“Is the place of the verification ceremony a hall?”
“no. It is said that it is held in front of the northern forest lake.”
“Northern Forest Lake?”
At an unexpected place, I tilted my head and turned my feet towards the lake.
***
When I arrived at the northern forest lake, everyone except me had already gathered.
‘It seems like there are a lot of people.’
Unlike the previous verification ceremony, there were also faces of nobles who were not so familiar. They were the ones who saw their faces when banquets were held or occasionally. As if he had read my puzzled mind, Michael, who came closer, gave a brief explanation.
“I am a spectator.”
“A visitor?”
“okay. I heard that this verification ceremony is the biggest topic in the social world. So I gave permission. Invite some of those who wish to see it as spectators.”
“Who do you like?”
“By the authority of the God King. It was approved by your aide.”
“Sheesh.”
Since I entrusted Gustaf with the verification ceremony, I couldn’t argue anymore.
‘Michael Abelardo. What kind of plan is this?’
The verification ceremony was kept in strict secrecy. At the last verification ceremony, the circumstances of the leak were revealed, so security was more stringent this time. Renesmee, standing in front of an elder named Elliot, was fiddling with the hem of her dress, looking very nervous.
“Now that the two candidates have gathered, let’s start the verification ceremony.”
At Michael’s words, everyone’s eyes turned to him. Michael, with a rather bored face, stretched out his hand towards the lake. Then the light began to fade on the surface of the lake.
“Through the lake, you can enter the virtual realm I created. There, the one who first finds the ‘treasure’ I’ve hidden and comes out through the ‘exit’ will be qualified to become the seed of God.”
“God King. What does finding an exit have to do with Godseed?”
At Oscar’s question, Michael raised an eyebrow and smiled.
“It doesn’t matter. Ordinary people will never find an exit.”
“So, you mean that you must have certain abilities to solve the God King’s problem?”
“that’s right. The prince is quick to understand.”
Elliot the elder also asked a question.
“His Holiness. What kind of treasure did His Holiness speak of specifically? Is it a thing?”
“I can’t tell you that.”
“hmm. … All right.”
Elder Elliott stepped back with a look of embarrassment. It was a very unkind clue. You have to look for it without even knowing what to look for. It was a time when I was not going to think about anything because I had no intention of looking for it anyway. Kung… Somehow, as if my heart was falling, a clear sensation rushed in with a cool feeling. The reverberation of some of the divine power that had been leaking out unconsciously.
“Aidan…”
I had felt this sensation before.
‘The barrier I put on Aidan has been destroyed.’
It was not the time for a leisurely verification ceremony. It was clear something had happened to Aidan. Michael caught me taking a hasty step and resolutely declared the start.
“Then let the verification ceremony begin. Let the two candidates stand in front of the lake.”
Even though my head was full of thoughts of Aidan, the verification ceremony went smoothly.
“God King. Something I must say to the God King-.”
I tried to say the circumstances and postpone the verification ceremony, but I couldn’t. with a plop! Renesmee threw herself into the lake first. Then a dazzling light covered my vision. It was the moment when I closed and opened my eyes because I couldn’t see properly in the afterimage of the light.
“If you win, I’ll give you back your angel.”
what? Before I could fully understand Michael’s words, I was shoved on the shoulder by him.
“…hey!!!!”
with a plop-! I lost consciousness for a moment with the water pressure of the lake pushing me. A dark, desolate darkness descended.
***
“Ugh…”
I opened my eyes with a shallow moan. I must have fallen into the lake, but neither my clothes nor my hair got wet.
“okay. You said it was a virtual realm, right?”
I looked around. It was a back alley.
“Aidan…”
If the sudden destruction of the barrier was due to Michael’s manipulation, he didn’t seem to have much to worry about. Due to Michael’s personality, there was no way he could just watch Aidan run amok, so he would have taken whatever action he took. The problem was right now.
“If you win, I’ll give you back your angel.”
The voice that Michael whispered before pushing me into the lake came back to me.
‘You mean child!’
Do you mean you and I do our best to win by using these numbers? I stomped my feet and passed through the alley first. It was the seed of God, and for now, it was to save Aidan.
“Wait Aidan. I will rescue you.”
Even if it meant playing into Michael’s hands, Aidan was more important to me than anything else. . . . The place I fell seemed to be the back alley of the slums. When I came out, a dirty street unfolded before my eyes. Of course, the streets were also full of people. They passed by, glancing at me in a detached outfit.
‘It’s really lively.’
It was so real that I didn’t even think it was a virtual realm. The first thing I did was unbutton it and sell it to buy a robe that covered the whole body.
‘Because this outfit is too flashy.’
It was obvious that it would be an annoyance if I ran into even a back alley rogue boat aiming for money.
‘Renesmee must be here somewhere.’
It wasn’t near where I fell, so there was a good chance it fell somewhere else.
‘I was going to order Renesmee, Seed of God.’
He couldn’t do that because Aidan was taken hostage. After wandering around among the noisy people and grasping the atmosphere, I hid again in a deserted alleyway. There was no way you could find a fucking ‘treasure’ you didn’t know what it was by wandering around aimlessly.
“Michael Abelardo…”
I muttered the name ominously as I looked into the alley. I wasn’t alone in the dirty alley. Being conscious of the gazes of people who are casting puzzled glances in the corner, he summoned the surrounding animals. To be honest, I tried it with the feeling of gambling, but the squeakers really gathered. Michael’s ability to make the virtual realm so realistic was frightening.
[What is it?]
Goosebumps. I was surprised that the talking bastards were not much different from the imperial squeaks.
‘hi.’
[Tell me about the business.]
‘Is there anything strange around you? Or did it suddenly appear?’
Squeak. The squeakers exchanging opinions busily walked around. Soon, the guy who looked like the captain stepped forward.
[I don’t know.]
‘Really…?’
[Going, squeak.]
Watching the squeaks try to turn around, I took something out of my pocket. It was the hard bread I bought along with the robe.
‘There is delicious and warm bread, but it’s a lot to eat alone.’
My lightly thrown bait.
[I’ll look for it!!]
The cameramen snapped at it. Whoops. Laughing, he broke a piece of bread and gave it to all the squeakers. As if tantalizing, the squeaks looked at me with their eyes twinkling. But I didn’t give more.
‘Then thank you for your hard work.’
[Shoot!]
Everyone immediately scattered.
“Once the data research began.”
It was time to investigate areas that the Velcro could not do. I mingled among the people and overheard their conversation. It was what I thought before, but it wasn’t Ermano’s language.
‘It’s not an official language, and it’s not even Langard. Not even Abelardo.’
However, I was able to understand it because I had my own reincarnation benefits. I was able to understand the language of an unknown country just like I was able to hear the language of the Ermano Empire from birth. I listened to the voices among the busy people.
“Epidemic disease… scary…”
“…Ermano… seeds…”
Stories I knew came to me from time to time. It was to the extent that I forgot for a moment that this really was a virtual realm. At that time, someone’s words were clearly heard.
“saw? red-eyed man. It looked tough.”
If it’s red eyes…
“Aidan?”
This is a fictional realm and Aidan is being held hostage by Michael. Still, Aidan came to mind first. Maybe it’s because my head is full of worries about Aidan.
