Chapter 94.

Walking out of the meeting, I reached a quiet place where no one was around before dropping my hand to apologize to whatever was going on.

“I’m sorry, Marquis.”

I unintentionally said a few words of apology to Derrick, who was caught between me and Derrick’s suffering.

Without saying anything, he just looked at me and pulled something out of his arms.

Then spoke inexplicable words to me.

“Don’t cry.”

Listening to the unintelligible words, I cocked my head and raised my hand to touch my face. Not to mention the moisture, after a few days of no sleep, all I could feel was rough skin.

Sentimentality. Because I never cry.

“Pretty eyes always hide sadness,” was my response when I told him.

“A lady’s eyes are always full of sadness than a smiling face.”

It reminded me of the first time I met him. The moment I heard those words, I couldn’t help my face deflating in.

The truth was that it was a lie. Derrick came to me, and I was hoping that Derrick would help me after hearing what I had to say. ”I know it’s a damn difficult mode, but it’s a game after all, so it’s different from reality. It might be a dramatic change …… isn’t it”

I laughed feebly, then said very late.

“Can I really laugh at ease?”

Maybe not before leaving this game after the endgame. That was the moment when I muttered low, self-deprecating words under my breath and raised my head. A cool breeze came from nowhere.

The folded handkerchief resting on my palm for some reason gently fluttered up in the direction of the wind.

“Ah!”

“The Invisible Man folded the cloth around as if he was playing with something in the palm of his hand, playing in the air. Strokes, bending, binding, and repetition of that process finally turned it into the shape of a bunny.

“Oh ……”

I gazed at it with wide eyes. The bunny-shaped thin handkerchief slowly fell to the clearing.

The little ears flicked as if in greeting. It was a scene that didn’t feel real even with my own eyes.

“Can you hold out your hands?”

He who spoke suddenly. Confused, I slowly raised my hands and unfolded them. It was a rabbit in a sense hopping and flying onto my palms.

The way it rubbed its face on my palms as if it was actually a living life form was really strange. But suddenly, I realized how it was possible to have made magic in the palace and still look like a marquis.

“… But can it also be like this?”

I looked around with an uneasy gaze.

Although it’s off the beaten path, it’s a place where I don’t know what’s going to happen.

“No one is watching, so what?” Very boringly, I answered my reply

You’re going to make a big deal out of it since it’s exposed anyway?

How long has it been since revealing secrets to me. Isn’t that too extreme a change in attitude?

I looked at him with a confused gaze.

“It’s the base of the basics, it barely uses magic and won’t be discovered. Don’t worry.”

So he laughed awkwardly and defended himself.

“Do you hate animals?”

With his question, the rabbit bounced and jumped up from my palm. After that, they rolled over and pampered themselves.

Although they were nothing more than inanimate objects made of cloth, they behaved like an unabashed bunny.

“Ah.”

“You laughed.” Meekly replied.

It took me a moment to realize the reason he was showing me. It was to comfort me.

Suddenly my chest tightens. I diverted my eyes from a handkerchief bunny on the palm of my hand and met his eyes. For the first time, I smile openly at him.

“Thank you, Marquis!”

For a moment, a wave appeared in his pupils. And…

[44% favorability]

The 5% favorability increased drastically. I looked at the cold silver hair and slowly wiped away the smile that filled my face.

In the normal mode magicians would appear like ghosts and gods when the heroine was sad or in a bad mood, displaying whimsical magic.

Even in this case, I wouldn’t exactly enjoy the moment, but rather want to use him as insurance again.

Feeling a little empty.

* *

Despite the major incident of the assassination of the crown prince, the hunting tournament continues.

The only people who knew the exact inside story were the few high-ranking nobles involved in the trial.

Moreover, there were many people from other countries involved.

The hunting tournament was also forced during the attack that occurred while holding the Eve Festival, and if the problem was added to the sudden outbreak of the problem and was completely interrupted, the prestige of the empire would be ruined.

As a result, the hunting competition continued without a host. Four days until the championship selection

Before returning, I ordered no one to leave the hunting grounds for safety reasons.

Early in the morning of the second day of the trial, the personal guards toured the camping sites of the clans to deliver the Emperor’s orders.

They were ordered to detain all nobles at the palace until their return.

“… Why?” I look at the clock bell that brings the rolling bell engraved with the royal script with an aggrieved face. Having been wronged, I thought I would be able to return home soon.

But hearing those words was very reassuring.

But Princess Eckhardt made a great contribution in assisting the Crown Prince ……

“The instructions received were that he should be appreciated and cared for as she is a lady and could move to the palace instead of here if she wished.”

“I’m going.” As soon as I finished speaking, I threw up my hands violently and shouted.

“Penelope.”

The Duke called me in a somber voice. He said with a blank look on his face, “I don’t know anything.”

No one talks to me easily after the trial. Every thing was good.

“Then I’ll prepare the carriage.”

After saluting a staff member courteously, he went back.

“Because it’s time to prepare to move there. I’ll go out first.”

I also couldn’t wait to get up from my seat. Didn’t want to remain in that suffocating Duke’s cage.

“Yikes. You’re really…”

Facing the cold atmosphere, the unbearable Leonard said a word.

The Duke stopped him. Sighing, he nodded.

“Fine. Let’s do it that way.”

“The palace is easier to rest in than here.”

I left the tent without a second thought after saluting her. Finally, I felt the three pairs of eyes deep in the back of my head

left.

Unlike the aura of facing the Duke, once I was outside, my footsteps lost their strength all of a sudden.

“Ah ……”

“Relationships certainly weren’t this bad when the first day of the hunting competition arrived ……” I sighed, trudging to the tent I was using.

The members of the Duke’s family who had committed all sorts of misdeeds without any thought of what they were doing, even being tormented by the accident, understood what I was doing.

Add to that how anxious it should have been to be involved with the murder of the royal family this time, and it was probably for the best that the Duke and Derrick wanted to narrow the incident down to a single paragraph.

But why should I understand their situation?

Understanding is understanding, and me being in a bad mood is another thing.

It’s one thing to ask what happened first and seek a solution face to face. If it weren’t for that, the story wouldn’t have ended the way it did if people had said “Impossible”.

“… Penelope.”

At that time. Suddenly someone called out to me. But I was lost in thought and ignored it.

“Yah, yah! Penelope.”

I stopped after I heard someone call my name.

‘Nasty person.’

In a situation like that, there was only one person who called me in a place where no one else was.

As I stopped, I twisted my head backward to take a look.

[Favorability 34%]

Sure enough. The falling pink hair was rapidly approaching me.