Episode 214
“Hmm…”
Isolette is sitting in front of me, sipping tea.
“”……..””
Lulu and Irina, who were close next to me, were glaring at Isolette with cold expressions.
“Um, hey… sister.”
“Why are you doing that?”
“How long are you going to stay here?”
When I asked Isolette a vague question, her eyebrows rose.
And then. She looks at me with a look in her eyes that suggests she doesn’t quite understand what that means.
“The tea smells nice.”
“When are you going?”
“What is the name of the car?”
“……”
This situation has been going on since before.
After the investigation team left, she started following me around for some reason and stayed at my house for hours.
“Um… Frey. I just want to take a look at your room for a moment.”
“Really? Well, I guess it doesn’t matter. Then…”
– Boom!
“…what?”
He secretly avoids my gaze and says he wants to look around my room, but as soon as I give him permission, he goes inside my room and closes the door.
“…What are you doing?”
“Ah… ah! No, I mean… you use a good bed. For sickly people like you, there is nothing more important than a bed, so I tested to see if you were using a good bed.”
“…..?”
After that, he didn’t come out for a while, so I thought something had happened, so I opened the door with the emergency key and went in, and he was lying on my bed, curled up, even covered with a blanket.
“Why the dresser drawer… No, that’s enough.”
“I-I didn’t do it. The investigation team… the investigation team did it.”
There are traces of being opened in the closet drawer in my room.
“This is the underground warehouse of the famous Starlight family.”
“So, how long are you going to be here?”
“…Ugh.”
“excuse me?”
Next, he said he really wanted to see the underground warehouse, so this time the two of us went in, and he stood still for several minutes, looking down at me with a gloomy look in his eyes, and then trembled.
“……..”
“Do you like it that much? Should I give you one?”
“Oh, no… there’s no particular need…”
I stared with my mouth wide open at the pictures of me smiling as a child displayed in the hallway, pictures of me sweating while practicing swordsmanship, and pictures of me just entering the academy in my school uniform.
“Come to think of it, you did that there.”
“huh?”
“I like you! I want to marry you when I grow up!”
“……..”
He muttered that with a wistful expression at the training ground in the mansion’s yard.
Anyway, after showing her around here and there without losing track of time, she is now leisurely drinking tea in front of me.
Thanks to you, I feel a little awkward, but…
‘Still, it’s true that I helped you today.’
It is clear that she helped me today.
In the first place, she was such a capable knight that she was offered the position of vice-chief of the knights by the imperial family and the position of chief by the order.
In addition, many knights have recently been overthrown due to the appearance of the Demon King, so most of the knights are her underlings or subordinates.
Moreover, she is the daughter of one of the few prestigious marquis, and was recently appointed as the commander of a warrior party.
There was no way that the vice-leaders, who were in charge of the leadership of this investigation team, could defeat her by force or power.
Therefore, the girls who failed to scare me had no choice but to be scolded by her for a while and then cry and bite the investigation team.
Well, of course, that won’t solve the problem.
A significant number of black magic tools and corruption ledgers have already been passed over, and although Isolette is said to be using today’s ‘incident’ to reach an agreement, it is unclear whether that will actually happen.
“Whew.”
Of course, to me, neither matter.
If Isolette succeeds in reaching an agreement in some way, it will give her more time to prepare for the next attack.
And, even if an agreement fails, won’t the points increase anyway? So no problem…
…Is it really not there?
– Excited…!
“Wow.”
Suddenly, a sharp pain struck my heart.
“Frey?”
“master!”
Thanks to this, I grabbed my heart and made a pale expression, and Lulu and Irina grabbed me in surprise.
“ah…”
And, at the same time, Isolette froze while drinking tea in front of me.
‘…That’s annoying.’
It seems like the number of times I feel a sharp pain in my heart has increased significantly these days.
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Seeing that there is no improvement even after taking painkillers, I wonder if it is also a psychological problem?
“Lord, master…”
While I was thinking that, Lulu came up to me with a scared expression.
“Lick it.”
Then, she suddenly licks my lips lightly with her tongue.
“Lick, lick.”
Just like that, she held my arm with a frightened expression and licked every inch of my lips before whispering in my ear with a trembling voice.
“Well, don’t worry…”
“huh?”
“I’ll somehow… find a way…”
Her lips were slightly stained with fresh blood.
‘…I thought it was just a case of anxiety.’
Recently, whenever I was worried about something, my heart started to hurt, so I thought it was because my anxiety symptoms were getting better.
However, heart pain was not solely caused by anxiety.
The biggest reason is probably that my body is starting to slowly die.
This may be true, as the blood that comes out only when you exert yourself physically, comes out even when you are just a little anxious.
Well, there are 3 penalties and a special penalty, so it should be worth it… but if it continues like this, it will be difficult.
Is there really no way to restore the lifespan and vitality that have been so cruelly lost?
“Hmm…”
As I was thinking this, feeling my heart getting hot, I soon quietly summoned a system window out of thin air.
[Hidden Quest: Remove Serena’s Curse of Dependence]
[Reward: ???, ???, ???, ???, Serena’s 19+ event release, highest priority]
‘Maybe there is a way.’
Apparently, King Seonjo said that ‘Serena’s Curse of Dependence’ only has an unlock code and there is no way to execute the code in the game.
And, there was one more thing in that format.
That is the code that increases my vitality and lifespan.
‘If you clear this quest, the curse of dependence will be lifted. That means…’
For some reason, a way to execute the ‘code’ to break the curse of dependency that had no solution has now appeared before my eyes.
That means that there is a way to increase my lifespan and vitality somewhere.
Of course, in the past, when I asked the system a question, it said that there was no way to increase my lifespan and vitality.
However, isn’t that limited to the system?
And, at that time, there was no ‘update’.
[System updating…..]
Even now, only the affection system has been updated, and all other functions are stopped and the system is running busily…
As expected, it is worth having expectations.
– Excited…!
“…ha.”
Of course, it suddenly seems like Do-jin’s ‘anxiety symptoms’ need to be fixed somehow.
If you were to cough up blood just because you felt even the slightest bit anxious, there would be nothing more difficult than that.
“”……..””
After being lost in thought for a while, I suddenly looked up and saw that everyone around me was staring blankly at me.
“Kkiing…”
Lulu is crying and rubbing her head against my side.
“It’s not too late, even now… If I only feed them good food and elixirs… I should let them live on…”
Isolette is muttering in a panic.
“…….”
Irina is silently linking her arms with me.
“hmm.”
As I look at these people, a thought suddenly pops into my head.
‘So… what on earth is an age-restricted event…’
First of all, Isolette, who is currently looking at me with dark eyes, definitely has a related event.
Although it is called a ‘subordinate event’, there are as many as three of them.
I’m not sure what the event is.
‘Also, what is the highest priority event…?’
First of all, Lulu, who is crying and pressing her cheek against my side, has an event open.
So nominally she’s the top priority, but something pretty interesting is happening in the system window.
[Affection level system
Irina, Kania, Klarna [Highest priority candidates]
Lulu, Isolette [Potential Candidates]
※ The occurrence of events for potential candidates is completely random.
.
Currently, the phrase is flashing in different colors next to a total of three names.
Kania is black, Irina is red, and Klarna is yellow.
[End period for candidate selection: Until the last day of vacation.]
As if there was competition.
So, does that mean that one out of three… or rather, one out of five people will come out and have an event this vacation?
Come to think of it, didn’t Serena’s unlock event pop up just now? However, for now, only the quest name and reward have been released…
There is nothing you can do because there is no way to proceed, no solution, or even an accept button.
Anyway, looking at the message in the system window, it looks like the event will happen within this vacation.
Indeed, who will be having the event with me?
‘…I don’t know.’
It’s quite interesting, but that’s not what’s important right now.
No, in some ways it is quite important, but… In any case, what is more important is the ‘potential’ of each heroine.
From what I can see, completing the strategy will unlock their potential.
Then no way.
Do I have to screw over everything…?
– Beep beep, beep beep!
As I was about to reach a conclusion after much thought, I heard a mechanical sound in front of me.
“…hello.”
Eventually, Isolette took out the communication magic tool from her pocket and started a conversation.
“It was a legitimate exercise of authority. So… yes?”
Judging from her expression, it looks like some kind of problem has arisen.
“…Okay, then.”
After that, she stayed on the phone for a while, then hung up and looked at me blankly.
“Anyway, I guess I’ll have to go now.”
And then, Isolette stands up from her seat with a regretful expression.
“…Come to my house in a week. You have to train, and we can talk about any unfinished business later.”
I once again explained to her with great care that it was not time-limited, but for some reason, she did not seem to believe it very much.
“Okay then…”
“Hey, sister.”
As I watched her heading toward the front door with that dark expression on her face, I soon spoke out the question I had been thinking about asking before.
“…What was that thing you were carrying in your arms earlier?”
“…!”
Then, instead of heading out, she flinched and stopped in her seat.
“Hey, do you mean this…?”
Then, she carefully took something out of her arms.
“Yes, you didn’t give it to me.”
“…….”
What Isolette took out were my photo albums that she had been staring at blankly for tens of minutes.
“I see?”
“Yeah, okay. No problem.”
However, her stomach was still protruding.
Because she has been training at high intensity all her life, her stomach has never bulged out.
“Now that I think about it, why was my closet door…”
“Goodbye.”
When I tilted my head and tried to take a step closer to her, she hurriedly ran to the front door.
– Crash.
Just like that, she left my mansion in an instant.
“…Whoa.”
When Isolette disappeared from the mansion, I somehow felt a sense of relief, and at the same time, a strange feeling of regret.
“…what?”
As I sat on the sofa with such complicated feelings, Irina furrowed her eyebrows and stood up.
“Klana… has arrived already? Why? Why?”
“…..?”
I’m talking on the phone without a communication crystal ball… Could it be that I’m conducting a phone call?
“…Ugh.”
As I was staring blankly at her, who was calmly doing things in her daily life that could turn the world of magic upside down, she started chewing her lips.
“Frey, I think I need to stop by somewhere for a moment.”
“Uh, uhm…”
“If you think it’s dangerous, call right away. Or tear this scroll. I’ll come help you right away.”
And then, she gave me an armful of scrolls.
“The promise is wrong… Klarna!”
He shouted fiercely and left the mansion.
“What on earth…”
I felt an inexplicable chill and stared blankly at her back.
“…That’s right, Serena was supposed to come.”
Today, I was trying to prepare to welcome Serena, who was planning to visit my house with the results of the request I had entrusted to her.
“master…”
“huh?”
Lulu, who was sitting quietly next to me, looked around for a moment, then quietly wrapped her arms around me and tilted her head.
“Now, master and I… are we alone?”
Lulu was looking at me intently.
“I have something to tell you, master.”
Soon, he whispered in a low voice.
“Please listen.”
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Meanwhile, at that time.
“Hehehe~ Hehehe~”
“…Ugh.”
Serena, who was smiling brightly, wondering what was so good, was entering the Starlight Mansion with Miho, who had a very dissatisfied expression on her face.
“I’m meeting Frey~♪and we’re going on a date~♪hehe…”
“Human, are you a genius? Or a madman?”
“Hehehe, hehe…”
Despite Miho’s questions, she just smiled and crossed the yard of the mansion.
“…..?”
Soon, he started tilting his head.
“what?”
This was because her keen eyes caught an unknown movement in the grass near the window of the mansion.
“…hmm?”
Serena’s eyes, which had been smiling like a fool, shone sharply.
“Blood, blood… hemoptysis… ooh, ooh…”
That day, Ishiwa came to check on Frey’s condition under the pretext of having fun with him, but after witnessing Frey’s bleeding, she cried alone.
“P-Frey, what kind of time limit is there… He must be a faking illness. Yes, yes.”
Roswin was hiding in the grass of the mansion, looking around with anxious eyes.
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