Chapter 128
The unexpected event was over. The vanishing traces on all sides removed all the tension at once.
I shifted and leaned against the wall.
“Gong Daughter!”
The Crown Prince opened his eyes and came toward me with a breath.
“Why are you here? Is it where you’re hurt?”
The Crown Prince grimaces menacingly and quietly observes the body as if he’s worried that I’m hurt.
Flashing colors slowly for good measure, I guess. And his huge lizard that was stabbed to death by his bayonet flopped all over the place, making me wonder.
(It would have been the end of the line to do something a little bit.)
The moment of despair when magic can’t be accepted and the heart cackles and goes limp. Suddenly seeing blonde hair, I wouldn’t know how to describe the mood.
That scary guy!
As if he’s worried about me, there’s a low glint in his eyes.
“Why don’t you say anything, where are you hurt? Did you beat up?”
Without a word, he stared at him as he lowered his head and peeked out his face.
“What are you doing?”
Startled, I pushed him away without hesitation. Then clutched the beating chest against the wall
“I’m fine, Your Highness. No injuries anywhere.”
Looking up at the Crown Prince, I saw only one of his already loose sleeves leaking crimson liquid from there. , a sticky fishy odor emanating from the tip of his nose.
“Ah, Your Highness is injured.”
I yelped in shock. The Crown Prince, who noticed where I was looking, glanced at the injured area and then acted as if nothing had happened.
“It’s nothing serious! Just stay put.”
Calmly, he walked in the direction where there was a monster. Because of running directly towards me, the Crown Prince’s sword was still stuck in the monster. The corpse of the monster with its mouth open and naked was menacing. The monster that was burned black because I used attack magic pulled out the Crown Prince’s sword from inside.
Then I used it to cut off the end of the skirt and turned around with the sword and the cut cloth.
The crown prince looked at me with a strange expression.
“Please take it. Then extend your arm.”
An olive branch was extended to him. At my request, he arched his hand and stabbed his sword into its scabbard, holding out his injured arm.
I attached the torn skirt to the injured area and rolled it up in a circle. To stop the bleeding, it mimicked the habit I’d seen in roughly the same books, but it wasn’t as pretty as I’d imagined.
“Can cast magic. Can’t you use healing magic?”
The crown prince who was puzzled by this behavior of mine asked. There was nothing to hide either, I answered immediately
“No.”
“Hm?”
“Say that again?” Can’t you joke? Why are you so thin-skinned?
“When I looked with one ear at ‘talking nonsense again’ and said ‘I’m done with the thinning dandruff’, when my deep gaze looked at the sky-blue lapel that would soon blow blood out of my eyes
“…… There’s no need to make that face.”
In the preamble calm voice pressed a part of the feelings burst out, the
“What does the flow out look like, Your Highness?”
“It seems like a blatant insult to the royal family now.”
The Crown Prince looked at me with a sad face and smiled with amusement. But immediately wiped his expression away and asked.
He said, “Why are you guy here alone?”
I was momentarily speechless in the face of the unreserved question.
“It’s been very dangerous around the Aquinas Islands lately. Plus, without an escort, want to dispose of the monster alone? What should I do if it doesn’t end?”
“I thought about it during the last bear hunt, but male females aren’t usually mad dogs.”
Isn’t that what I thought?
Even though it looks dead, it can’t be said that this is the result of the system. Looking at me who didn’t answer, the Crown Prince narrowed his eyes.
“It can’t be that the archaeological information …… gave you last time wasn’t satisfactory enough for you to personally come to such a faraway place? I didn’t know you were an exploration freak.”
“It isn’t! It’s not like that.”
When I came to volunteer, the kid I came with was kidnapped by the remnants of a political party.
I agonized over the extent to which I would have to explain to him, and helplessly abbreviated the facts appropriately.
“Voluntary… activities?”
The Crown Prince looked back at me as if he had heard something I had heard for the first time.
Hearing that subtle tone, for some reason the mood changed for the better. The Crown Prince murmured.
“Truly… the most surprising thing in what you said was the basic quality of nobility.”
I asked back through clenched teeth before it was too late
“How could you possibly be here?”
Callisto’s appearance did come as a surprise, having been delirious because of the monster.
A renewed glance at him couldn’t help but make him avert his eyes.
“… After the news of the appearance of the demonic creature spread, the palace is also keeping a close eye on the Aquina Islands and the Latratan Islands.”
“The Imperial Palace? Then is His Highness also there because of that?”
“…No, like that.” Callisto was late again.
“Do you know how absurd it is to suddenly see you here? ”
“Thanks to you, I found these places. They have deployed their navy around the Aquinas Islands, fully aware that they are shuttling there.”
The Crown Prince looked around the interior of the cave, shrugging his shoulders and looking away. I suddenly frowned when I heard his remark.
“Are you following me?”
“What? Stalking what?”
The Crown Prince stormed toward my skeptical gaze. That’s even more suspicious.
Then how were you with me? Where were you when I killed all the monsters? The person who came with me also fell because of the trap.”
“Haha. Then…”
When asking questions that were as suspicious and fearful as a barrage of questions, the Crown Prince immediately gave a dry cough. He turned his red pupils as if he was looking for an excuse.
“The secret of the royal family.”
I was puzzled by the absurdity.
“Huh?”
“Don’t tell me it’s because of an injury.”
He said, “That’s just nonsense.”
“That, male daughter.” Didn’t you say you were going to rescue the kidnapped child?
Suddenly Callisto blocked my rear.
If I wanted that, I should have crawled over the monster cub that was splattered away. There was no time for that.
I swept past him bitterly.
“Oh, oh ……”
I looked out at the crown prince’s back.
‘What are you doing telling me to come quickly?’
Reaching the monster’s corpse, he waved at me hastily.
“It’s really strange.
I still gazed at Callisto with a skeptical gaze and then liked him. Stalking me or not, the most important thing was to save the children.
A hulking, placid corpse of a monster demon blocked the aisle. Just like the crown prince said, crossing over to the monster was something unavoidable.
As expected, Callisto, true to his name, easily climbed up the demon even with his injured hand. At that time, he was looking blankly at how to follow.
“Here, hold my hand.”
He stepped on the ponytail in an instant, and suddenly bent down and held out his hand to me, which I looked at silently and immediately grasped. In that instant I thought he would leave me for ever, and had not expected this.
It was then that Callisto pulled me up violently with a tremendous grip.
“Oh!”
Lost in contemplation, I was pulled up like a piece of paper. While looking at my tightly closed eyes in a handsome way, I was already standing on the monster’s head without realizing it.
“Ohhhh!”
“Careful.”
Seeing the wobbling me, he rushed to hug my waist. My eyes widened, and I managed to fight my way up as if I was going to jump out of his sturdy chest.
“…….. Well, thank you, Your Highness.”
Probably startled, his heart was fluttering like it was about to explode.
“Hey, I can walk by myself.”
Flustered, I broke free from his arms, and the Crown Prince released me without saying anything special. The hand in his grasp burned. I didn’t dare to select the “Favorability Confirmation System”.
We quickly climbed over the monsters and walked through a passage formed by a straight line. I don’t know how long we’ve been walking, but the darkness of our vision suddenly brightens up and 4 forks in the road appear.
“Damn, this is troublesome.”
The Prince muttered to himself. I also reached the point where I looked at the passageway with an embarrassed gaze.
The system obtained Winter’s whereabouts.
The square window in front of my eyes lit up, and immediately the look of an arrow pointing to one of the four roads appeared, flashing and red
“Your Highness. I think I know the way.”
“Hmm?”
“Yes. A magical signal left by the children.”
I couldn’t actually feel it at all, but I made excuses to shrug off whatever it was. The Crown Prince who looked back at me with a surprised gaze nodded slightly.
“Follow me.”
We scrambled down the leftmost, topmost aisle as I saw the arrows pointing. The next path was as complex and winding as a maze. It seemed to have been made this way on purpose to prevent intruders.
A new fork in the road kept appearing. Without the “arrows” given by the system each time, one would be helplessly lost and wandering!
The Crown Prince followed me around the enemy camp without question. I was severely lectured by him and my heart was in turmoil.
Holding on in silence for some time. I moved in the direction of the arrow for the third time, and when the needle failed to go in, I had to speak first.
“Let’s talk magic.”
It was like remembering what the Crown Prince had forgotten about my question. So I started answering.
“So it seems magic is being used as well. Stone bow magic. It’s getting harder and harder ……”
“Don’t worry, Duchess. I have nothing against wizards.
He looked at me and glanced at me, not taking me seriously. His eyes lifted with a blink, and I asked back, cautiously and with real suspense.
“No suspicions?
“What suspicions?
“Suspicions that I might be in league with them.”
He said listlessly.
“Why do all that useless stuff?