Episode 100
“Klarna, wait a minute…”
“Follow me quickly. It will close in a little while.”
My attempt to stop for a moment ended in vain as Klarna, who was extremely annoyed, urged me on.
I tried to cater to Klarna as much as possible, but I had no idea that the dessert cafe would have such a lovely atmosphere.
“Klana, there’s a place I know well other than here…”
“So, are you saying we should all come and go there? I don’t plan on wasting that much time because of you.”
She expressed her disapproval and tried to prevent entry by any means possible, but Klarna was stubborn.
How on earth can a person change like this just by remembering one oath?
“Hello…..”
With that in mind, I entered the store holding hands with Klana, and the clerk who was trying to greet me with a bright expression froze.
Well, it’s worth being embarrassed about.
The third princess of the empire and the first son of the dukedom came in the middle of the night.
“The most expensive seat in this store, the most expensive course.”
“Ah, ah, I understand!”
The waitress, who had been staring at Klarna and I’s faces with her mouth open, quickly left the place after hearing Klarna’s order.
“If the waitress looks at you and looks confused, it doesn’t look like you’ve been here before.”
“You have no idea.”
After looking at the employee and asking Klana a question with a curious expression, she responded coldly.
“…I’ve been here a few times in the past.”
Of course, her muttering continued without fail.
‘Once upon a time… Are you talking about the previous episode?’
After reading the unconcealable bitterness in Klarna’s words, I quietly entered the room while looking at her eyes.
“You, come here for a moment.”
“Yes? Ah… yes.”
As I was staring blankly at the design of the room, which made my face feel hot just looking at it, Klarna called a staff member far away and started whispering something.
“Okay. Then, with that design…”
“Please take care of me.”
Eventually, after interrupting the employee and thanking her, Klana turned her head and started glaring at me.
“Is this incident also related to you?”
“Uhm…”
After thinking for a moment about the question that came out of her mouth, I quickly smiled and answered.
“What if there is?”
“ha…”
When I asked Klarna a question to get her reaction, she sighed and started talking.
“Are you going to keep being so uncooperative? Even after the pledge we made?”
“It’s an oath…”
“Okay, if you keep betraying me like this… you’re just giving me an excuse to betray you.”
Klarna scolded me with a stern expression and continued speaking in a very distressed voice.
“And, you also made an oath back then, right? If you can’t make me emperor…”
“I will give you everything I have?”
“is it so.”
When I said exactly the line I heard from her subconscious that I saw with Kania, Klarna nodded and said.
“If you keep preventing me from becoming emperor like this…”
“I guess I should give you everything?”
When I said this to her with a smile, Klana started to blush.
“Stop joking.”
“joke?”
“There’s no way you could give me everything. If it wasn’t for the pledge in the first place, you wouldn’t have cooperated with me.”
Looking at Klarna, who was looking away while saying that, I asked in a low voice.
“What if it’s not a joke?”
“…Please stop it.”
Then, Klarna made a cold expression and began to emit solar mana.
I guess I’ll have to stop teasing her here.
“How much do you remember about today?”
“Huh? Of course…”
With that in mind, I carefully asked Klarna a question, and as she was about to answer right away, she stopped talking and started flinching.
“Uh, huh? Umm…”
“Ah, dessert is here.”
“…yes.”
Seeing that and guessing the situation, I quickly pointed to the dessert that had arrived, and Klana, who had a shocked expression on her face, quickly accepted the cake.
“what…..?”
However, this is a cake I have seen many times before.
“It’s a silver cat decoration?”
There was a cake with the same design as the cake that I had seen in my dream long ago and that Kania had specially ordered.
Now that I think about it, it was none other than Klarna who prepared the cake in the dream.
What an odd coincidence.
“Oh my, what are you doing here?”
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“…you?”
While I was thinking that, I suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from behind Klarna.
“Why are you here?”
“Princess, why did you take Mr. Frey with you?”
When I poked my head out with an expression of uncertainty, I saw Serena stroking the white owl on her shoulder.
“His birthday party was ruined, so I have to take care of him in this way. I have an obligation to do so.”
“So this is a temporary birthday party?
When Klarna quietly nodded to that question, Serena smiled and sat right next to me.
“Then, as Frey’s fiancée, there’s no reason why I can’t participate?”
“Serena, I didn’t know you were this rude.”
“But, the princess unilaterally took Frey away without consulting me, right?”
“I have the power and authority to do that.”
“Well… I think I still have more power and authority.”
As I listened to the conversation between Klarna and Serena that followed, I whispered a question to Serena, who was talking to Klarna right next to me.
“Serena, what about cleaning up afterwards?”
“Because the context is so clear, an incompetent imperial investigation team is enough. Since the culprit has already escaped, there is nothing we can do. Of course, we will have to investigate that suspicious person.”
“What about Cania?”
“…There is something to investigate.”
After inquiring about Kania’s whereabouts, I cowered under Serena’s stern gaze. Then, I got up in surprise when I saw someone suddenly running into the store.
“Mr. Clanna! Are you okay!”
“Perl… Roche?”
Because that someone was none other than Perloche.
“What did bad Frey do again this time!”
Perloce, who was breathing heavily as if he had been running for a while, soon glared at me and opened his mouth.
“You! Because of you, Klarna these days…”
“Just take a seat, Perloche.”
“…Ugh.”
Perloche was trying to stimulate Clanna’s memories of her ordeal, so he quickly suggested she sit down, and she flopped down on the chair with a pouting expression on her face.
“”…………””
And then, silence began to flow.
‘…Kania and Irina had a birthday party in advance, so it’s them this time.’
After briefly recalling the details of the birthday party written in the book of prophecy, I quietly asked Perloche a question.
“How did we get here?”
“Oh, that’s right. I was invited to the dance today, but I got lost…”
According to Perloche’s words, although she was not on good terms with the imperial family, she was also invited to this birthday party because she was the first saint in a thousand years.
However, it is said that Perloche got off the carriage briefly to buy firecrackers and lost her way, and when she arrived at the ballroom a little late, it was already devastated.
In such a situation, I managed to find out where Klarna and I were headed after searching around, and I was afraid that I might have done something to Klarna, of whom I had recently heard bad rumors, so I rushed over and found this situation unfolding.
“So, why did you buy fireworks?”
“It’s… because it’s my birthday…”
Perloche, who was answering my question like that, suddenly pointed the firecracker at me and pulled it hard.
– Bubble!!
“…Mr. Perloche, such behavior is rude.”
“S-sorry.”
It was an action that seemed very intentional, but fortunately, no problem occurred because Serena blocked my face with her fan in time.
“So, what is it doing now?”
“…a birthday party.”
“yes?”
“We’re having Frey’s birthday party.”
Perloce, who was slightly cowering after being scolded by Serena, asked a question. When Klana avoided her gaze and blurted out her words, Serena answered with a smile.
“So, there is no need for you to stay here. You must be very tired, but since you are now gone…”
Eventually, Serena tried to use her momentum to send Perloche away.
“I’ll be there too!”
“yes?”
“I will watch over Frey to make sure he doesn’t do anything bad to Mr. Klarna!”
As Perloche made a determined expression and clasped her hands, Serena, who had sighed, soon snuggled up next to me and said,
“…Then, please sit next to me.”
“yes!”
After answering that, Perloche headed to a chair a little away from me, and Clanna, who had been looking disapproving until then, took out a candle and muttered.
“Anyway, happy birthday…”
And so, a small birthday party began.
Still, it was one of the best birthday parties I’ve ever experienced.
.
“…Mr. Clana.”
“yes?”
Perhaps he was secretly looking forward to today’s birthday party, or maybe the cake was more delicious than expected, but when Frey, who had been eating several times more than usual, eventually went to the bathroom, Serena quietly asked Klarna a question.
“What are you going to do with Mr. Frey from now on?”
“hmm…..”
Then, Klarna, who was eating the cake quietly, sighed and answered.
“I still hate it terribly, but we have to try to rehabilitate it.”
“Why did you suddenly change your position?”
When Serenaga, who clearly remembered Klarna sending her advice on Frey’s assassination, asked her a question, Klarna answered with her eyes closed.
“…You have no idea.”
“Hmm…”
Of course, Serena, who had told Cania the truth earlier, glared at Klarna with mysterious eyes and then turned her gaze to Perloche.
“Perloce, you…”
“This is too bitter to drink…!”
“…okay.”
Serena soon noticed Perloche munching on both cheeks like a hamster, sighing and looking away from her.
“Serena, what are you looking at so carefully earlier?”
Klarna, who was glancing at Serena, tilted her head and asked a question as Serena, who couldn’t eat anything sweet, continued to look at something without even looking at the cake.
“I’m solving a mystery.”
“Are there any riddles you can’t solve?”
Eventually, Serena answered with a serious expression, and Klarna asked the question again out of pure curiosity.
Aside from the fact that Serena looked hateful from before for some reason, it was quite surprising that there was a riddle that she couldn’t solve.
“There’s too little information… maybe I’m thinking too hard… and I still have a long way to go.”
When Serena responded to Klarna with a bitter smile, Perloche, who had been chewing on the cake until then, opened her mouth.
“That riddle! I’ll solve it!”
“yes?”
“I’m confident in riddles!”
Serena, who was staring blankly at Perloche with twinkling eyes, soon smiled and started talking.
“Well, as there is a saying in the East Continent that it is better to hold a blank sheet of paper… Maybe you need a new and unique perspective different from mine.”
“W-what do you mean?”
“…I’ll tell you a riddle, so think about it carefully. Of course, it would be nice if you could help me, Klarna.”
After hearing those words, Perloche looked at Serena with an expectant expression, while Klarna nodded quietly while looking skeptical.
“One coincidence, five realizations. And… a boomerang passing between a half moon and a new moon.”
“”……?””
When Serena revealed the riddle to them, Clanna and Perloche began to make puzzled expressions.
“I think I roughly understand the meaning of the first two… but I can’t figure out the last one.”
“What is that…”
“Even when I compare it to a total solar eclipse, there’s something strange… I search for related legends, but I can’t find anything… Maybe it’s an ambiguous expression? No, no matter how much I think about it, I think I’m making it too complicated…”
“Serena?”
“I was wondering if there was a magic mark that only the Starlight family could identify, so I even lied to Frey and said I couldn’t see the letters, so I checked, but the letters he read and mine clearly matched. But why…”
As Serena got lost in her own thoughts while explaining, Klarna frowned and asked.
“Look, you have to explain where this came from. If you just say riddles without that…”
“I think I need to find the hidden meaning in that sentence. Only then will new paths open.”
“…hmm.”
After Serena finished answering, there was a long silence in the room.
“Half moon and new moon… Isn’t it related to the lunar cycle? Or a total solar eclipse…”
“I’ve already thought about both of those things.”
“Well, maybe it’s a metaphor.”
“…Maybe so.”
Eventually, Clanna broke the silence by opening her mouth instead of Perloche, who had been confident, and started talking to Serena with a slightly interested expression.
“Boomerangs… come back, right? But the boomerang passes between the half moon and the crescent moon…”
“hmm…”
“By any chance, is there a name for the intermediate process where a half moon changes into a crescent moon? If there is a name for it and its meaning…”
“…There is no such thing.”
Klarna, who was eagerly offering her opinion, frowned slightly when Serena shook her head and answered.
“As expected, I hate the moon.”
“………….”
The moment Serena glanced at Klarna at those words.
“Give me paper and pen!”
“”yes!?””
Perloche said with a confident expression.
“If you can’t put it into words, you can draw it!”
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Meanwhile, at that time.
“…Okay, I guess this is enough.”
The Demon King ran for a while while holding the fake hero’s weapon.
“Now, it will begin in earnest.”
When he reached a crowded street, he stopped, raised the corners of his mouth and muttered.
“It’s starting…?”
And behind the demon lord, a girl wearing a black robe was following, as if someone had done so.
“…What starts?”
The girl’s left ring finger was still shining.
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