Chapter 352
The search for the ground level of the Devil Castle only resulted in Charlotte admitting the facts she did not want to admit.
Charlotte had come to the conviction that Valier had used her from the start. According to the logic of not saving her life, but for the resurrection of the demon king, it was because the anglers of the logic that were loose fit perfectly.
So, right now, Charlotte was in no state to do anything more.
The feeling of betrayal seemed to have wiped out all motivation.
Do you regret warning Elleris to run away?
At that time, Charlotte was already almost certain that I was the successor of the Demon King.
However, it was only now that he had confidence in Valie’s intention to save him.
It’s clear now.
The moment my identity is revealed, even if no one else knows, Charlotte has no choice but to hate me.
The important thing is, if I find a way to completely improve Charlotte’s condition in the Devil Castle and execute it, even if my identity is later revealed, Charlotte will be able to realize that my intentions in trying to protect Charlotte were pure.
no wonder.
Now, I think it is a premise that a situation in which the identity will be revealed will definitely come.
Can not help it.
If you just try to live a quiet temple life, you won’t face situations where your identity will be revealed.
But it can’t be, so I’m doing this and that.
Knowing that if the tail is long, it will be stepped on, and it has no choice but to lengthen it gradually.
It was not a situation where further exploration could be carried out, and since the above ground had already been revealed, there was nothing more to see.
I found Valier’s room, which I didn’t know existed, and Charlotte was convinced of something because of it.
So, naturally, there were questions.
The first place I came to my senses was not in Valier’s room, but in the hallway.
I am Balie, the prince of the Demon Realm.
But I’m not Balier either.
In real life, Prince Balie wasn’t a very good prince. He was stupid, lazy, and an idiot with nothing to do with his abilities.
He is a pitiful bastard who believes in the authority of the demon king and only giggles.
I replaced it with the easy-going excuse of losing my memory, but I didn’t know anything other than that Valie was just a spoiled brat.
But in Bali, there must have been a life before I became Balie.
therefore.
Even when the demon king was about to die, he must have been doing something in Bali too. At that moment, I possessed Valie’s body.
I saw Valier’s room for the first time today.
The first place I came to my senses was the hallway.
A hallway, not a room.
It means you are going somewhere.
In Bali before I was possessed, where was I going?
To the battlefield of the demon king where the fight is in full swing?
In a weak state at the time, which was at the height of incompetence?
A question I had never had before came to mind when I arrived at the Demon King’s Castle.
* * *
The VIP room of the garrison headquarters.
It seemed to be a room prepared in advance for high-ranking nobles or soldiers who came out on inspection.
Like a hotel, there were several bedrooms inside, and it was a comfortable place to stay for a few days.
Instead of sharing a room separately, we decided to share a room, not knowing what Charlotte’s condition would be in the middle of the night. It didn’t matter because the bedrooms were separate anyway.
“I will find out the situation of the underground search and come back.”
“Yes, Sir Tana.”
“May you rest.”
Saviolin Tana vacated the room for a moment. Charlotte stared at me as she hung the robe she had been wearing all day on her hanger.
“… … why?”
“… … I want to wash.”
right.
Wasn’t he really ashamed to hear who was washing himself? She wanted to say something to Charlotte, but I could see she was hesitant because she was sorry.
“… … I’ll be out for a while.”
Normally, I wouldn’t know, but the current Charlotte is not in a situation where I can touch it.
“… … Sorry.”
While Charlotte was washing, I was outside the VIP room.
Corridor in front of the VIP room at the headquarters.
Through the window, I could see the high walls of the Demon Castle.
secret place.
The basement is most likely, but how do you get there and how do you break through the traps?
There must be rangers and wizards who are familiar with traps in the garrison to uncover the secrets of the Dark Castle, but the fact that they are also struggling means that even if we go, there will be no sharp points.
– Click
While I was thinking about this and that, quite a bit of time had passed, and with the sound of the door opening, Charlotte poked her head out the door.
Water was dripping from her hair and her face was flushed red.
“I washed everything… … .”
Something.
That’s what makes me think strangely… … .
* * *
Charlotte, who had changed into a white dress, was rubbing her hair dry while looking in the mirror while wearing slippers.
Something like that would have been done by someone else, but at Temple, basically, you have to live alone, so it wasn’t particularly awkward to see Bertus and Charlotte doing that.
The princess’s dignity or authority.
It didn’t seem to feel that way. I feel like a normal person at that age.
“Why do you keep looking at me like that?”
Charlotte asked if I was conscious of my gaze as I continued to stare.
“No what. just.”
“Hmm.”
At my words, Charlotte looked in the mirror again and dried her hair.
After a while, Charlotte, with her hair roughly dry, came and sat down next to me.
She is a princess wearing only a white dress and slippers.
Charlotte, sitting next to me, leans her head against me.
Charlotte must be very tired today, so I didn’t say much.
“It’s not surprising.”
“… … what?”
“The story I heard from Detto. I keep thinking of you these days.”
That strange sound that we will get married.
“When I first heard it, I wondered what this meant. We don’t really match, and I think you’re a good person, but honestly… … . I wasn’t interested in that.”
“… … So what.”
“You are the champion of Tuan.”
“… … yes.”
“Identity? That doesn’t matter anymore.”
Tuan’s champion.
Just being a being chosen by God makes my status more special than anyone else in the world.
It was something different that could not be compared to the royal family or the imperial family.
“I don’t think emotions are a problem anymore.”
There are special feelings for me, Charlotte says calmly. To put it too plainly, it was rather a strange confession that didn’t resonate that much.
“I thought the prophecy must have been wrong.”
Do you think it’s strange that the prophecy doesn’t come true? I couldn’t say anything, so I just shut up.
“I still think it was wrong, but the reason has changed so much from before.”
“… … What are you saying?”
Charlotte leans on me and looks up at me.
“I had no intention of marrying you.”
“… … Is that right?”
Charlotte smiles at me.
“But now, even if I have intentions of marrying you, you are saying that you are not going to do it.”
The words seemed to catch my breath.
It was so direct, I couldn’t find the words to answer.
“Since you have this kind of personality, even if His Majesty issues an edict to marry you, it seems that you will run away somewhere.”
“Mu, dae, what the hell… … . What do you mean… … .”
No, what the hell am I supposed to do? When I was speechless, Charlotte suddenly hugged me by the neck.
The scent of Charlotte’s hair wafted up to her nose, probably because she had just washed.
“You don’t have to love me, Reinhardt.”
“… … .”
“But, promise me one thing.”
I felt water on the nape of my neck.
Charlotte was crying now.
“me… … . Please do not betray me.”
I won’t want you to love me, so please don’t betray me.
that can be said
Anything you can do.
I’ve given you this much, so I want you to give me this much too. Soaked in a sense of betrayal, Charlotte is now very weak mentally.
That’s why you’re asking me.
Say you won’t give up.
Anything can be done.
“of course.”
but.
the moment you say so.
Since I couldn’t be sincere anymore, I was tantamount to betraying Charlotte.
The further I grew away from Valier, the closer Charlotte seemed to me. She and she let go of her attachment to Valier and the moment she reached the idea that she was completely taken advantage of.
Charlotte clung to me even more, and seemed compelled to let go.
My relationship with Charlotte only adds to my guilt.
Just as Charlotte is somewhat obsessed with me, I eventually become obsessed with her.
An obsession mixed with a certain, obligatory sense of wanting you to live as happily as possible.
So it’s hard for me to lie to Charlotte every moment, but I couldn’t leave her alone.
and.
This is not a single room.
So, a problem arose.
– rattle
“!”
“!”
“Oh.”
While Charlotte was clinging to me, Saviolin Tanna returned.
“… … .”
Charlotte froze, clinging to me and never looking back.
As soon as she opened the door, she turned to stone with a word.
It was the same that I froze with eye contact with her.
It’s a good situation to misunderstand.
No, it’s not even a misunderstanding.
Tana seemed to hate herself for opening the door without knocking, and Charlotte seemed to hate herself for doing the first thing.
After a long time, I can read Tana’s thoughts from her expression.
‘What did I see?’
‘Should I leave?’
‘No, I’ve already seen it. What if I leave?’
‘Should I dry it?’
‘No, why stop?’
‘What am I?’
‘What should I do?’
In the end, Tana stepped back with a stiff expression as if nothing had happened and closed the door.
– Click
“… … .”
Charlotte fell away from me.
After making something like a confession to me, Charlotte blushed, as if surprised herself that she hadn’t thought at all that anyone might see this.
“Me, I am. well… … . finely… … .”
“… … okay.”
Charlotte staggered into the bedroom as if her soul had been sucked and shut the door quietly.
after a while
– smart smart
A quiet knocking sound was heard.
“… … There is only one VIP room.”
Saviolin Tana sighed and said, looking as if she didn’t know what to do.
no.
Did you try to sleep in another room beyond the level of avoiding your seat?
Aren’t you supposed to stop this from happening?
“I, this, this kind of thing… … . What should I do… … .”
It seemed clear that she suffered more mental damage than Charlotte.
With her lips quivering, she cautiously opened her mouth.
“that… … . Contraception is… … . must be sure… … .”
no.
what
What is it?
– Knock!
“no! no! No!”
A completely unexpected sound came out and I was speechless, and Charlotte opened the door, blushing and screaming.
* * *
Charlotte went into her room to sleep or pretended to be asleep, and she didn’t seem to be stepping out of the room today, and Saviolin Tanna sat on the sofa, idly.
“I… … . What are you talking about… … .”
It seems like it was something an adult would say, but it was a sudden rush, for sure.
Words usually jump out of nowhere without even realizing it, and that was the case with Tana just now.
In some cases, blasphemy for sure. Charlotte won’t take issue and I’m glad no one listened.
At this rate, it is clear that even Tana will be mentally out today.
“It is a misunderstanding. whatever you think.”
“… … is it?”
A room with only two.
Men and women hugging.
Can there be a misunderstanding in that situation?
look at me with that expression
No, that’s why I can think of anything, but it’s not that far!
“Let’s talk about work.”
“Day? ah… … . Oh yeah. Day.”
Saviolin Tana seems to have completely forgotten why she came here. She cleared her throat a few times.
“I heard the situation of the underground search from the commander… … . It was strange.”
When I asked to talk about work, the person’s attitude changed immediately.
She laid out the map she had brought.
“The search has been completed up to the 5th basement floor. There were places like storage, prisons, armories, and large breeding grounds where monsters were raised or confined. The size of the facility is large, so the underground part of the Demon King’s Palace is actually bigger than the ground part.”
The basement of the Demon King’s Palace. Looking at the map, it was quite large.
“Most of the underground passages have already been searched for and treasures have already been retrieved.”
“Are you down there? You said the search wasn’t over yet?”
“Yes, while searching the 5th floor a few months ago, they found a secret stairway leading down to the depths.”
“Is there a sixth floor?”
“yes.”
Where Saviolin Tana was hiding, there was a new door drawn instead of a circular staircase leading to the basement, and underneath it, another circular staircase leading to the basement was drawn.
However, the lower part of the circular staircase was unpainted.
“The stairs go all the way down here. You can keep going down for hours.”
“… … yes?”
“However, if you go up a few steps again, you will reach the 5th floor.”
Saviolin Tana said with a firm expression.
“Soon, the 6th floor is a labyrinth.”
labyrinth.
“I don’t know if there are stairs on the 7th or 8th floor underground, or even deeper than that. It’s useless to draw a map after exploring the 6th floor. It seems that the structure keeps changing every time you explore. No matter how much a trap is dismantled, it seems to be rebuilt as the structure changes.”
The commander’s explanation was too brief.
The trap was not the problem, but it was a labyrinth whose identity was unknown below the 6th floor in the first place.
“I thought I would be reprimanded by Your Highness, so I deliberately understated it. This underground labyrinth has not even been reported to the imperial family. In fact, it should be seen that the search for the 6th floor or lower is not progressing at all.”
“… … That’s it.”
“It is an understandable situation. Wizards also don’t know what magic is in the labyrinth, and there are too many casualties. Injuries are minor, and there are countless numbers of people whose life and death are unknown.”
It was recently discovered that there is a labyrinth at a level where you have no choice but to give up your search in the basement of the castle.
The commander deliberately evaded the labyrinth and said that the underground was dangerous. She deliberately didn’t explain properly, fearing that something like being reprimanded for not telling the princess about the labyrinth or having her position removed would happen. Since I thought this was an inspection in the first place, I have no choice but to do so. I would have thought that I would go back after looking around in moderation.
But we’re here to explore, not inspect. So Savi Olintana must know what’s under the ground, so she must have made her tell the commander the truth.
An unknown underground labyrinth of the Demon King’s Palace.
The structure of the labyrinth is constantly changing and traps are being regenerated, so there is no point in dismantling and moving forward.
That’s why the commander waited for the withdrawal order to be issued, wasting his time rather than aimlessly pouring people into the labyrinth and increasing the number of casualties. It was a neglect of duty, but it was a neglect of duty that the garrison soldiers were truly grateful for.
In the original version, of course, that labyrinth would not have been excavated. Because the Commander tried to cover up the fact that the Labyrinth exists. If the imperial family knew this fact, she would have ordered more soldiers to be sent in, which would result in numerous soldiers being injured or killed.
People’s lives are precious. I agree, but since Saviolin Tana found out about this, the commander’s head seems to be gone.
It is certain that there is something in the labyrinth. And it is certain that it is related to the secret space.
But that’s the problem.
“Your Highness, it’s too dangerous for you to go there yourself… … .”
It is too likely that I will be stopped from going there.
Because too important people are going to places that are too dangerous
