Chapter 273
It is around noon when I wake up.
The temple was still dirty today anyway.
Two days in a row absent.
Charlotte knew about it and made up an excuse for it, so she told me not to worry.
As well as deleting my access records.
Charlotte is more than happy that she is safe and that the power that tried to devour her has calmed down. She thought about what she needed to do right away, and she went right ahead with them.
gave up everything When circumstances change, he immediately does what needs to be done.
It was a pretty bizarre experience.
The people of the Palace of Spring were silent, so I said that my visit would not be known to the outside world. That’s why I didn’t go around the inside of the palace.
I was only in Charlotte’s bedroom.
I shook my head when Charlotte said that it was okay to go back, and that she would return to the temple tomorrow.
“I’ll have to wait another day though.”
“… … .”
Charlotte stared at me.
“You mean you’re going to stay in my bedroom for another day?”
“uh.”
“… … Reinhardt. I really appreciate you, and I will admit that you are a very important person to me. Aren’t you being really rude?”
Do you think it’s your room just because you slept for a day?
Charlotte seemed dumbfounded.
“Uh-huh, it can’t be helped for your own safety.”
“Why are you saying that with your own mouth!”
I confidently declared that I would go to sleep in your room.
No matter how important it is, it’s a bit like a bully.
However, I have to go back to the temple today anyway, so the class is all over. I wanted to watch Charlotte’s condition for one more day.
If nothing happened today, you could think that it would be really okay for a while.
Charlotte didn’t kick me out either because she knew what I was saying. It’s just that she’s been hurt so far and has been forced to sleep in the bedroom, but it’s ridiculous because she’s acting out her guts.
“… … okay. I’ll sleep in the VIP room then.”
“What do you mean by that?”
At Charlotte’s words, I shook my head.
What is he talking about?
“I’m going to stay here one more day to see how you are, but what’s the point if you sleep outside? You should sleep here.”
At my words, Charlotte’s lips trembled. Her face was also turning white.
“support… … . now. Are you going to sleep with me?”
no!
Why are you talking like that!
“Do I really have to say that? You mean you have to make sure there’s nothing wrong with you when you sleep!”
“that that… … . that… … . I know that… … .”
Charlotte was trembling as if she hadn’t thought she would dare to be asked to do so.
“No, what did I do? Are you just looking?”
“Why, why aren’t you sleeping, watching people sleep!”
“No, if you sleep, it’s a problem, and if you don’t sleep, it’s a problem because you don’t sleep? What do you want to do? Is this a funny guy?”
“Ooh, funny guy… … ?”
Charlotte seemed to be shaken mentally by my reckless remarks.
how to say
Why do I have to listen to this?
This reaction is that Harriet is a luxury, but Charlotte is also a luxury. In fact, she must have grown up with Charlotte being treated with more respect.
More than anything else, Harriet thinks she’ll do it if she gets used to it now, but Charlotte doesn’t have immunity yet, so she’ll react.
“Oh, that too… … . Give me that. you are scared.”
Charlotte seemed to want the brooch she gave her back.
Maybe it’s because I’m afraid I’ll come in and check if he’s okay while he’s sleeping, and then do something weird.
“Given and taken away is the worst thing, and do you think I will be taken away?”
“Oh, no! give it back! give it back! this person! I gave it to you for no reason!”
Charlotte and I played tag for a while in the spacious bedroom.
Eventually, Charlotte got tired and left.
“omg… … . Heo-eok… … . omg… … . this, me in vain… … . Just by exercising… … . My stamina has improved… … .”
An exhausted Charlotte sat down on her bedroom floor and glared at me.
“Are you exercising too?”
“It’s the worst, really!”
Charlotte screamed in real annoyance.
A person who can cure the princess.
Except for Bertus, I would be the only one in the world.
* * *
Deciding to stay one more day, I remained in Charlotte’s bedroom.
Charlotte seemed restless.
No, at least I’m going to sleep on the sofa, do I need to be so nervous?
After all, it must be the first time that I have grown up in a precious situation like this.
Of course, it would have been a more terrible situation in the castle of demons, but that and this situation are different.
Meals were brought by servants, and of course I was hiding. Charlotte said she didn’t need wait and ordered more.
I thought I would be able to eat a lot by starving for a whole day, but because of starving, I actually went in less.
Charlotte looked at me, looking at the leftover food.
“Can I eat some more?”
“If you starve too much, you won’t be able to eat much.”
“… … yes.”
Charlotte knows that too.
A sumptuous dinner eaten at the Allied Command barracks after a long hunger.
As if remembering that time, Charlotte’s expression became a little hazy and sad.
* * *
after dinner.
Since I was only in my bedroom, it became night with nothing to do.
Charlotte was moaning like a pooped puppy. She seemed to be trying to do something, but when she tried to get up, she sat down, then when she tried to get up, she sat down again.
why is he like this
Eventually, Charlotte groaned and got up from her seat as if she had made up her mind.
“Oh, that… … . I’ll go out for a while.”
“… … where?”
“Go to another room… … .”
“Do you grow up here? What am I doing every day? Are you saying you’re just checking today?”
At my words, Charlotte opened the ax eye.
“That’s not it, I’m going to wash it!”
ah.
I’m trying to wash up in the bedroom, but I’m noticing it?
“… … If you wash it, you wash it, so why do you have to wash it in another room?”
“Yeah, you won’t hear me… … .”
Charlotte’s face was red.
what.
How can I express this sensitivity?
What is it to hear someone wash themselves? Shouldn’t that be?
Is that what a girl’s sensibility is at this age? I’m not sure
Doesn’t that have nothing to do with the fact that there are bath attendants in the first place?
Is it natural to care in the first place?
me… … . I don’t know… … .
I don’t know what’s right and what’s wrong!
“… … It’s not like I’m going to say this or that. take care of it.”
“I, you shouldn’t tell me to do this or that! Ugh!”
Charlotte sighed and stormed out of the bedroom.
While Charlotte went to wash up, I also washed in the bathroom in the bedroom.
It was very big, but I didn’t bother going into the bath.
only after washing I thought so.
clothes to change into.
no… … .
In the first place, the school uniform I was wearing was bloody, torn in places, and looked like it had been thrown away.
I couldn’t get out of the bath, and I wondered what to do, but after a while, Charlotte came back.
Perhaps because of the sound of the water, Charlotte’s voice came from beyond the bathroom.
-You, are you washing in my bathroom?
“Then why don’t you wash?”
-Uh, ugh… … . eww… … .
It seemed like Charlotte was stamping her feet, whether she didn’t like it or not.
No, you can use some. Why is this? I can’t even get out of your bedroom anyway.
“It’s done. I have no clothes to change into.”
-… … uh?
“Get me some clothes.”
-… … uh huh
Charlotte had no answer for a while, as if she hadn’t thought that she’d hear something like this all her life.
Even so, am I going too far just because I saved Charlotte’s life?
Bring clothes to the princess.
doing this
No, in the first place, the princess isn’t important, but saying that while using a bathroom at someone else’s house sounds like trash in itself?
I’m thinking like that.
-… … I put it in front of the door.
Charlotte had said that in a voice full of complex emotions.
* * *
The princess’s palace didn’t only have women’s clothes.
In the first place, when I collapsed, Saviolin Tana must have brought clothes for me to wear from somewhere.
After a bit of fuss.
Charlotte and I were both in pajamas.
… … This, if anyone finds out, is already a huge scandal in itself. Whatever the circumstances, it’s not the prince and the beggar, it’s the princess and the beggar.
But we are doing this because of our circumstances.
I was sitting in the rocking chair in Charlotte’s bedroom, and Charlotte was lying on the bed.
“… … Are you going to sleep then?”
“no?”
“Well, then… … . Chi, are you going to sleep in the bed?”
Charlotte speaks in a voice that is clearly upset.
If I said I was going to sleep in bed, I feel like I would have no choice but to give up my seat.
“what. The other day, even if we slept in the same bed, we wouldn’t be able to touch each other, so he pretended to be fine.”
“That, that’s what they said, it wasn’t really like that!”
Charlotte exclaims in bewilderment.
But it’s okay for him to scream, right?
I’m sure it’s soundproofed. If it wasn’t for my psychic powers, I wouldn’t have been able to overhear the conversation in the room.
The Charlotte of yesterday seemed to have put everything down.
So he talked to me about this and that, told me very important secrets, and said nonsense.
But now out of danger, Charlotte begins to feel ashamed.
It will be because I can think about living again.
I was just happy about that.
“what… … . Makes a weird face… … .”
Charlotte blushed and pulled the blanket over her to halfway up her face.
“Ah, whatever! Are you really going to sleep in bed!”
Is it because you grew up with a precious body? Do you really care about this?
“I’m not going to sleep.”
“… … uh?”
“I’m here to check if you’re okay, can I sleep? don’t worry. I will stare at your face and not do anything like that.”
Sitting in a rocking chair, arms crossed, I blankly stare at the ceiling of Charlotte’s room.
I wonder if I have any other ulterior motives for doing this?
Just, I just need to make sure you’re all right.
Nothing will happen in the future, that’s all you need to know.
“… … Are not you tired?”
“I ate the treasure among the treasures called the Elixir, but if it wasn’t okay, that would be even weirder. don’t mind. I don’t mind leaking for a day or so.”
I said that because I wanted to be less sorry if I said something strange.
“That, just… … . at that end… … . I can sleep, though.”
“If I sleep, I’ll sleep on the sofa, so don’t worry about it.”
“… … .”
Charlotte was silent for a while.
However, perhaps to make room for me, I was lying in the middle of the bed and then slipped to the edge. You can sleep lying on the opposite end.
Being on the edge also meant being a little closer to me, who was sitting in a rocking chair, quite far from the bed.
The chairs were not facing Charlotte, they were sitting side by side.
I sit, Charlotte lies down.
we were side by side
I was sitting next to Charlotte.
“Reinhardt.”
“uh.”
“… … I do not know. Why are you doing this to me?”
“Your precious body should be treated as precious. Isn’t that obvious?”
“I’m not doing this because I’m the princess.”
“… … .”
Because Charlotte was the princess, there were many people willing to give their lives.
But no matter how you look at it, I don’t feel like that kind of person.
It’s not that he’s risking his life to save it because of his status.
why.
why.
Charlotte seemed curious about it.
“Just, I guess.”
I couldn’t help but say that because I can’t explain the inexplicable.
I wasn’t looking at Charlotte’s face.
Charlotte seems to be looking at me.
As if deciding something, Charlotte cautiously opens her mouth.
“Demon King, what did you do to me?”
“… … okay?”
It must have been a long secret.
The moment such a thing is revealed, everything about him disappears, so he must have kept it a secret until now. I won’t be able to tell anyone
Charlotte tells me what I have only guessed.
“I don’t know what it is… … . I was very sick and scared. I felt sick in my soul, not my body.”
“… … .”
I couldn’t carelessly sympathize with Charlotte’s words, so I just listened.
“I don’t know what it is. still… … . I don’t know what happened to me. but… … . After that, I was imprisoned in a prison-like place in the castle. kidnapped… … . with other people.”
“… … .”
Charlotte’s voice was trembling. She seemed to be saying something she was afraid to say.
“Reinhardt.”
“uh.”
“hand… … . Can’t you catch me?”
I held out my hand and Charlotte took my hand.
Charlotte’s palms were filled with cold sweat.
Is it painful just to say it? what happened
Holding my hand, taking a breath, Charlotte says.
“I starved for too long.”
“… … .”
“Everyone there has been holding on for too long, on too little food and drink. and. By the time the war escalated, they gave us nothing.”
“… … .”
“People, too… … . for a long time… … . I couldn’t eat anything.”
“shallot.”
I look at Charlotte quietly.
Tears welled up in Charlotte’s eyes.
“If it’s hard to say, you don’t have to.”
“… … .”
“No, don’t tell me.”
“… … .”
“It’s hard. stop talking.”
Even if you just say that, you already know what happened.
Charlotte’s voice full of fear, terror, and guilt alone, you can guess.
Shapeless, people who have been shattered by something.
Because I remember that scene.
I know that Charlotte is talking about what happened after that, not about cannibalism.
When told not to speak, Charlotte burst into tears instead.
“only me… … . if it wasn’t just me If it wasn’t for me… … . I could buy them all. all. only me. if it wasn’t just me If I didn’t… … I… … . i’m all I… … uh, um… … . uh, mom… … . Mom is… … .”
these words.
Charlotte would never have done that to anyone.
Even if everyone knows that something happened to the demon king.
I feel like this is the first time I’m telling this story.
If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t be able to talk about it while crying so sadly, as if I were confessing my sins.
I said no words of comfort, no words of sympathy, nothing to justify it.
I just held Charlotte’s hand tightly.
“Hehehe! Ugh! Black! Ugh! Hehe… … .”
Charlotte also cried while holding my hand tightly.
For a very long time.
* * *
After calming down, Charlotte told me what had happened so far.
Those who know about Charlotte’s abilities are divided into two.
The first is those who know that it is a psychic ability to deal with shadows.
The second is those who know that they got this ability because they were hurt by the devil.
There are only four of the latter, including Dyrus, Saviolin Tana, the Maid of the Palace of Spring, and the Emperor.
“What about Bertus?”
“I hope you don’t know… … . I think you know. Even if I knew it, it would have been recently.”
The power to manipulate the shadow itself is already an insidious and grotesque power. So, if you want to weave, you can weave negatively.
Charlotte was looking for a way to control or get rid of her abilities. That’s why she went looking for the sealer.
However, all those efforts were in vain, and Charlotte’s powers were growing and eating away at her.
Sleepwalking.
At some point, Charlotte said that she would suddenly wake up in a strange place in the middle of the night.
“no way… … . you then.”
then I thought of Charlotte watching the snow in her bare feet in the hallway of her mansion in the middle of the night during a group mission.
“That was the first time.”
For some reason, Charlotte’s appearance at that time was a bit strange.
He said it hadn’t happened for a while after that.
However, once again at Temple Dormitory, Charlotte suffered.
After that happened in the Temple Dormitory, Charlotte felt that this was a serious problem and left the dorm and started living in the Spring Palace.
Sleepwalking continued and became frequent.
Later, it is said that he roamed the palace, being devoured by his powers and dyed in darkness. She says it was fine until then.
Although he lost consciousness and couldn’t remember, he didn’t attack anyone, and he said he didn’t resist when Dyrus and the maid who guarded the bedroom door brought him back into the bedroom.
but. At some point, the visits had never been opened, but they would appear and disappear throughout the palace.
Then, an incident occurred in which one of the maids was attacked and killed.
Charlotte didn’t remember anything.
But Charlotte felt that it was all too late now, and all was over.
It is said that he asked the emperor to just kill himself.
The emperor did not allow it.
Instead, Saviolin Tana was sent to the Palace of Spring and all the people in the Palace were reduced to a minimum.
Until you find a way to deal with it.
The imperial family couldn’t find a way.
It’s not certain, but it feels like, without me, Charlotte wouldn’t have come back since the day before yesterday. That day was her last moment.
After that day, Saviolin Tana would have died, and Charlotte would have had to face death by order of the emperor.
In the end, if it wasn’t for me, Charlotte would have died like this.
“I was afraid to fall asleep.”
“… … I guess so.”
“But even if you don’t sleep, you lose consciousness. I knew sleep wasn’t the problem, but… … . I was just afraid.”
In Charlotte’s hands, she no longer felt the fear that came from the cold sweat.
Only warm body temperature comes through.
“Reinhardt.”
“I am listening.”
“I think I will be able to sleep properly for the first time in a while.”
Charlotte said and closed her eyes.
“I’m glad.”
I was just saying that.
“Reinhardt.”
“uh.”
“Nothing will happen. tell me.”
I look at Charlotte quietly.
by the power of the spirit.
I earnestly declare
“Nothing will happen.”
“huh.”
Charlotte closes her eyes and nods.
“I believe so.”
With a light smile on, Charlotte gradually falls asleep.
I listened quietly as Charlotte’s breathing spread evenly.
I was still watching Charlotte’s peaceful face, who had fallen asleep.
and.
[Achieving Special Achievement – Inflection Point in History]
[The main character (Charlotte de Gradias), who should not have existed in the original world line, has survived.]
[The future has changed significantly.]
[You have earned 1,000 achievement points.]
The exact same message came to mind as in the prologue.
I think it’s a bit late, but why is this message popping up right now?
Originally, wasn’t this message supposed to come out during the night before yesterday’s battle?
I stare at Charlotte’s sleeping face. Charlotte, who held my hand tightly, was asleep with a peaceful expression on her face.
Tonight.
I think it meant something to me that I stayed here until Charlotte fell asleep safely.
I don’t know what this means.
As long as nothing happened, I decided not to wonder what was about to happen.
Nothing will happen.
you will be fine
i will make it like that
By the power of self-suggestion.
by the power of the spirit of speech.
in my mind continue.
I believed so and declared countless times.
