Episode 98
“”Uuuuuu…””
“…It’s like undead.”
They are imperial nobles who have rotted so much that they are no different from corpses, but it is a new feeling to see them come closer to them, transformed into corpses.
– Kwasik!!
With those foolish thoughts in mind, I kicked the broken door down and hurried out of the room, holding Klarna in my arms.
“…Just throw it all away?”
Eventually, as I watched the nobles rushing in like ants in the ballroom, I stroked my sword and muttered, but then sighed and shook my head.
Most of the nobles are rotten, but if you cut them all down, it would be quite difficult.
Although there are very few nobles, there are good nobles, and there are nobles who can be changed, and if you do not take into account the social chaos that will occur when they suddenly die, it will be more difficult.
“hmm…”
In the end, I slowly lowered my sword, looked around at the nobles surrounding me, and began to ponder the thoughts in my mind.
‘I’m fine?’
I’m fortunate that I have ‘Star Mana’, ‘Hero’s Strength’, and a mental strength score of 9.3. This is because you can move freely in situations where such a mental attack is suspected.
“Frey…”
“…Huh.”
While I was thinking that, Clanna, who was in my arms, spoke to me in a low voice.
“Is this really, really a dream?”
“uh?”
“Look at those nobles over there… they look like undead.”
“…….”
“As expected… there’s no way you’d treat me well… this must be a dream, right?”
Klarna’s expression as she said that looked very sad.
“Wait a minute, you… that memory from earlier… primrose… huh!”
“…I’m sorry, Klarna.”
As I looked at her with a sad expression, I knocked her out again and began to hasten my steps towards the room overflowing with dark magic in the distance.
“…First of all, we need to put out the urgent fire first.”
Now, more than anything, I have to do something about Klarna.
.
It’s dark everywhere.
Klarna, who opened her eyes in the darkness, looked around for a moment to see what was going on, then suddenly remembered the situation just before and became thoughtful.
“P-Frey… Huh?”
But suddenly my memory faded. It’s like a memory that never existed from the beginning.
“Meow…”
“Huh!”
As he was making a puzzled expression, something bit his ankle.
When I looked down in shock, I saw a black cat biting my ankle and heading somewhere.
“Ha… I’m so shocked.”
Klana, who had been dragged around by the black cat for a while, soon found the young girl grumbling and writing something in the distance.
“Uh, over there…”
Klarna, who was looking at the young girl with an anxious expression, approached her cautiously and asked her a question, but no answer came back.
“what?”
I reached out and touched it just in case, but as expected, I couldn’t feel anything.
“…oh.”
Clanna, who was tilting her head in such a situation, was able to understand the situation only after looking into the contents of the diary she was writing as a child.
‘This is… a memory from back then…’
Recalling the memories of when she first met Frey, Klarna began to read the diary slowly.
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○○ month 03rd
My debutante ball today was just as bad as I thought it would be. The only people who approached me were lechers or opportunists, and some even approached me asking me to get engaged.
To propose to me at the age of 50 when I wasn’t even 10 years old… I was really disgusted. But the worst moment was when the tea party was held.
At that tea party, no young lady or young person… did not have a tea party with me. Of course, because I was used to being alone, I wasn’t particularly impressed.
It was a little, just a little bit sad.
Still, there was delicious cake and coffee, so I was comforting myself by eating them, and that’s when the boy sat down in front of me.
Did you say your name was Frey? He is the eldest son of the Starlight Dukedom, so he is truly a man of high status. Several times more than a scarecrow like me.
Anyway, the way he behaved towards me was very pretentious. Not only was it sympathy, but the idea of taking advantage of me was rampant.
So, if he wanted to become friends with me, I asked him to pick some ‘evening primroses’ that are often found in the rugged forest near the ballroom. I was hoping that he would get in trouble for approaching me with the intention of just taking advantage of me.
He probably looked for it for a few hours and then gave up and started swearing at me, or he only said he would tell me, but he cursed and gave up as soon as he left, right?
I know everything.
Because I am only worth that much.
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When Klarna finished reading what was written in the diary, the surroundings changed and the memories from the diary flowed into her.
“OMG…?”
While Klana was confused by the memory that suddenly came to her mind, young Klana, who was sitting in the same seat, began muttering in an anxious voice.
“Probably not…probably not…”
Klana carefully approached her again, looked at her younger self writing in the diary with trembling hands for a moment, and then began to read the diary.
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○○ month 04th
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There’s that kid named Frey who was grumpy to me yesterday. The child has not returned to the Duke’s house until today.
What is it? Are you trying to get me into the Starlight family? Or is it just the child’s deviation?
Yeah, it’s probably one of those things. There’s no way you could be looking for flowers all night for someone like me, right?
There shouldn’t be…
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“Ugh…!”
Klana, who had been dazed for a moment after reading all the information written in the diary, held her head and moaned as it felt like it was going to break.
Anyway, the scene in front of her changed again, and this time what came into Klarna’s field of vision was her younger self, biting her nails with an anxious expression and writing in her diary.
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○○ month 06th
It’s already been 4 days since the child named Frey disappeared. He went out to search at the Duke’s house, but he still hasn’t found it.
What should I do? What should I do? Maybe it’s good? I guess he really really wanted to be friends with me.
That flower is so rare that there is a legend that it only blooms once every hundred years… There is no way a child my age could find it…
I was just being grumpy because I thought he was approaching me in a pretentious way like other kids… I thought he would give up soon anyway…
To the child who reached out to me for the first time…
What have I done?
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Klana, who read that far and began to take a step back, began to look around with a trembling expression.
“W-this place…”
That’s because the area around him was turning into a forest that looked like something he had seen before.
“oh…”
Klarna, who was looking at the phenomenon with blank eyes, soon found her younger self looking at someone with trembling eyes.
Her clothes were torn in several places from being caught on tree branches, her fair skin was bruised, and her whole body was tangled from wandering through the forest.
“You… that’s…”
He opened his mouth, looking blankly at Frey, who was also in disrepair.
“It’s a primrose!”
Frey gives her a bright expression and holds out flowers.
A silver evening primrose that looks just like you.
“And take this too! It’s a sunflower!”
“Why, why did you give something like that to me… I have no use for anything…”
Eventually, when Frey took out the sunrise holder from his chest and gave it to her, Klarna cried and asked a question.
“Because I want to be friends!”
When Frey, who kept the flowers intact even though he was completely destroyed, responded to Klarna, who was filled with guilt, she lowered her head.
“…why?”
“Because we’re not friends yet!”
Eventually, Klarna, who had difficulty asking the question again, began to talk in a low voice to Frey, who was still giving an incomprehensible answer with a bright expression.
“I have nothing to give you right now. I am a scarecrow who has no power and is hated by the people.”
“It doesn’t matter?”
“Instead, I will make a promise to you.”
“Yes?”
“In this forest, the oath that was said to have been shared a thousand years ago between the princess, the hero, and the daughter of the Moonlight family… I will place my bet on you.”
After saying that, Klarna held Frey’s hand, who was looking puzzled, and began to make a pact.
“At this time, I declare an absolute covenant between the three families.”
“What’re you doing?”
“I, Klarna Solar Sunrise, will serve Fray Raon Starlight forever.”
Frey, who heard those words, begins to open his mouth.
“Unless you betray me first, I will never hate you… and I will serve you until I die.”
“Uh, uh…?”
“If you break the oath, my hands will tremble every time I see your face, my heart will heat up every time I think of you… and in the end, I will go crazy.”
“Well, you shouldn’t make promises like that!”
“It’s the best gift I can give you right now.”
When Klana responded like that and was about to end the oath, Frey quickly opened his mouth.
“I want to make a promise too! I promise too!!”
“Da, you! What are you doing!”
Then, the mysterious energy surrounding Klarna moved to Frey.
“Don’t do it! It’s a gift from me to you! It’s meaningless if you make a promise too!!”
“But what kind of friend receives gifts one-sidedly?”
Klarna tried to let go of Frey’s hand, but he responded by holding Klarna’s hand tightly.
“Gifts are given and received together.”
Frey, who said that, began to make a pact with Klarna, who had a blank expression on her face after hearing those words.
“I, Frey Raon Starlight, will make my friend in front of me emperor.”
“you…!”
“And if you break this promise…”
“Boo, it’s impossible! It’s impossible for me to become emperor!!”
When a completely unexpected remark came out of Frey’s mouth, young Klarna tried to stop him with a shocked expression.
“Now that it’s like this, set the price to something insignificant! Like, give me a cookie! Like, give me a coin!”
“I will give my all to you.”
“ah……..”
When Frey finished speaking with a smile, he started making dumb noises.
“That’s right… Freyr told me…”
And in the next moment, the space around began to fade.
“Yes, that’s what it was. That’s what it was…”
In the fading space, Klarna, who had come to enlightenment, began to mutter quietly.
“Frey… Because of that promise back then…”
Klana, who was muttering to herself like that, soon finished speaking with a questioning look on her face.
“But, I think I forgot something..?”
.
“Huh…”
“Kania! What happened?”
When Kania, who had been continuously touching Klarna, took a deep breath and got away from her, Frey asked her a question with a nervous expression.
“First of all, it’s a success… but I think we’ll know whether it worked or not until Klarna wakes up.”
“…Ugh.”
Frey looked nervous after hearing those words, while Cania spoke with a worried look on her face.
“I blocked it by overwriting it with the only powerful memory that can surpass Klarna’s memories of the ‘ordeal’… This is also a fairly dangerous memory.”
“Damn, I didn’t even remember making a pact with her… Where did that come from?”
“Probably, it’s an erased memory that we had in common… that can only be retrieved from the subconscious.”
Kania, who spoke in a low voice, soon frowned and continued speaking.
“Once again, black magic is not omnipotent. It is highly likely that this unconscious adjustment failed… and even if it was successful, the memories of the ordeal could resurface at the slightest trigger.”
“Well, as long as you’re careful…”
“No, even if you leave it alone, it won’t be long before the memories of the ordeal will naturally start to surface again. What I did was literally just a temporary measure.”
“How much… can I hold out?”
“It could be as short as a few weeks or as long as a few months.”
When Frey clenched his fist at those words, Kania stood up and finished speaking.
“So… unless a fundamental solution is found, the occurrence of a penalty can be considered a confirmed issue.”
“shit.”
Frey, who was pacing around the room with a curse coming out of his mouth, soon sighed and answered.
“Kania, if I die, will you leave the will in my secret pocket… Cania?”
However, as he stopped speaking, Frey began to tilt his head.
“Kania, what’s wrong?”
This is because Kania, who heard Frey’s words and was about to jump up from her seat and say something, froze like a stone.
“What’s wrong with you?”
Soon, Serena’s owl, which had flown in from the next room and was sitting on her shoulder, fell helplessly to the floor. Frey quickly caught it and then looked at Klarna, who was lying down with a puzzled expression.
“………….”
Clanna, who had been moaning and tossing and turning just a moment ago, also stiffened.
“What is this…”
Eventually, Frey, who saw that all the crazy imperial nobles visible from the room’s window had frozen, tried to go out, breaking into a cold sweat.
“Hello, Frey.”
“…….!!!”
Suddenly, someone opened the door and entered, and I was so startled that I hit my ass.
“We finally met.”
The eyes of the girl watching Frey were still shining with ruby light.
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