A while later, ra arrived and I allowed her entry into my room. Her greatly worried eyes greeted the mont we made eye contact. Sitting on the bed — because I was feeling dizzy — I greeted her almost casually.
“Hello, ra.”
She stared at my current state and saw that I was sared by dust, and my dress was dirty. Well, Oryn was controlling the fucking wind, so of course I got dirty. But she noticed my bloodshot eyes, and she seed to panic. Good thing the traces of blood on my nose have been wiped off by my brother.
“M-Milady, so Oryn was a traitor?”
“Surprisingly so…”
Well, not that really surprising since I was also suspecting him. But I didn’t expect him to have that kind of power.
“ra, didn’t you feel vibrations in the air?”
ra blinked before answering. “No…”
Huh, I thought I would affect the entire palace like last ti, guess my control and will to limit it has worked. But still incredibly hard. I tried limiting the area of effect of my rampaging since I don’t want to burst them all away and hurt more than I should, and I don’t want to waste mana.
I may have been able to limit the range or output, but I in turn failed to lengthen the ti of accurately guiding the mana to pin down Oryn.
“Help change my dress, and it appears I will need a small cleaning.”
I smiled wryly.
“I will bring a wet towel… And milady, I’m glad you’re alright.”
She said with blushing cheeks which I found so amusing.
Oh no, she loves .
Just a casual and teasing throw away comnt...
The way she felt could just be admiration and mistaken as love. That said, there’s not much difference between the two — eh whatever.
“Yes, thankfully Brother and Vernon are there… Otherwise, I might have perished. Quite a close one, actually.”
I giggled with shaking lips, then my hands trembled as though terrified to think back about it.
“But there’s nothing to worry anymore, ra… It’s all okay now…”
With that said, ra went out and brought back a clean wet towel and rubbed only the dirt parts of my skin. After that I changed my clothes, I had the process go a bit quickly since I was planning to do sothing.
I may be feeling a bit dizzy, but nothing I couldn’t handle. Before the knights could take out the body, I want to check it out. You see, a sudden occurrence, and the death of soone like Oryn the infiltrator, could reveal so nice stuff.
The stuff could be sweet or bitter or sothing else, at least it would be sothing. Of course, there will be so tis that you get nothing after a lot of effort, so that sucks.
In any case, I’m gonna go and check things out.
But you know, this made think, if my other enemies are gonna be like Oryn…. Fuuuuckkkk!
Are they gonna be as strong as him? Bullshit! No way! First the guy who warned turned into a fucking fog, and now an infiltrator has the ability to control the wind, and an elf no less! Then… What about the others? Surely Oryn’s not alone.
Why are they going after ?
I couldn’t arrive at an answer.
Looks like I will need to get stronger than what I am now.
If the world could just give a fucking break.
This was so distressing that I wanted to pull my hair in frustration. Well that was just an urge, not that I would actually do it. My hair is precious, okay? It’s way more precious than the jewels you guys wear, hehe.
With the minor affair done, I exited the room with ra in tow. A short ti had already passed, so I wondered if they had moved his corpse out. But the mont I stepped outside, I encountered my mother wearing an intensely worried expression. Behind her was a knight.
“Estelia!”
She rushed towards and held on my shoulders firmly. She frantically checked all over as though looking for any wounds or damages to my precious being.
“You okay?”
She then proceeded to sandwich both by cheeks with her hands.
Um, mother, is this necessary?
“You seed to be fine, thank the gods.”
The way she looked at sohow made glad that my heart began to race. Why was I feeling this way? And her wide smile of relief was beautifully bright.
“M-Mother…”
“A knight ca and told what happened…” she told with a faltering voice. “I’m glad you’re alright!”
She suddenly took into her arms, then proceeded to kiss on the cheek multiple tis. The warm embrace and the pleasing kisses on my cheek...What a weird sensation… But… I like it…
A genuine smile unconsciously curled on my lips. I couldn’t even bring myself to lie and act… Thus, I was left unable to speak. Before I knew it, I had snuggled more into her, my face hidden from everyone. I might have blushed a little...
Only then the healer arrived.
“My apologies! I heard the princess needs imdiate dical attention.”
I backed away from my mother, a strange sense of longing rose from within , but I pushed it away. I didn’t know what had gotten into , for to feel that way… It was a blunder to imrse myself in such a luxury when there were pressing matters at hand.
“Estelia, let the physician check on you and rest…”
I shook my head.
“Not yet, I’m still fine. I want to check on….” I paused for a mont as though frightened to speak the na. “... on Oryn…”
“Estevan’s assistant... And the traitor…”
“Yes…” I turned and looked at the knight. “Are they already taking out Oryn’s… body?”
The knight wasn’t able to respond imdiately due to his shock that the princess suddenly spoke to him.
“... They should be at any mont. It will be brought out of the palace and placed elsewhere.”
Of course, they wouldn’t let a corpse stay inside the palace where royalties stay.
“Then… Mother, please excuse ….”
“I’ll co with you…”
No reason to refuse, we headed towards the stairs together. The physician also ca with us just in case sothing suddenly happened to . As we went down the stairs, there were already several knights standing guard around while so were quickly patrolling the hallways.
Word must have already spread that the traitor has been discovered. Only then that a group of knights ca down the stairs carrying a stretcher with a body laid upon it.
“...I can’t believe that Oryn would…” the mother muttered from beside .
I also turned to look at how ra reacted, it would appear that she wasn’t all that disturbed. Well, they were never close it seems. However, why did it seem like she was glaring at the corpse?
Oh well…
When the group of knights carrying the corpse reached the ground floor, only then soone frantically ran forward. It was a familiar girl.
“Wait!”
The girl stopped the knights and looked at the corpse, upon recognizing it, she covered her mouth. Tears began to well up her eyes, stepping back and shaking her head as though she couldn’t believe that this was real.
Her despairing expression remained agazed at the dead Oryn. As if she couldn’t bear it anymore, she fell to her knees, her tears never failing to stream out of her eyes.
“N-No…” she muttered in denial.
Ah yes people, this might be the stuff that I was talking about. The one that was to be revealed.
Allie’s sorrow for the sudden death of Oryn.
She looked confused about everything. Vernon who was following the group gazed down on Allie with pity, he after all also had an idea of what potential relationship she had with Oryn. We three saw them after all.
Estevan anwhile was puzzled about it, only then that Vernon whispered to his ear that he nodded.
“Keep going.”
Estevan ordered and the knights continued on.
“Oh dear…” my mother murmured as she watched my personal chef wallow in sorrow.
“Mother… please excuse …”
I walked towards Allie and ra followed behind . I glanced at her for a mont and she had a sowhat sympathetic eyes. Which made wonder if they ever spoke with each other in a friendly manner.
“Allie…” I softly called out to her.
She looked up with wide eyes as she beheld .
“Y-Your highness…?”
Her hand was trembling as she muttered.
“Allie… Oryn was a traitor…”
“...” she was silent for a while. “A traitor…? No… no…”
“And he needed to be struck down…” I said.
“No… why? It can’t be…”
I saw despair in her eyes before she lowered her head.
It was then ra chid in.
“Allie, I’m sorry…”
Allie didn’t respond.
O how the maiden’s heart was shattered into pieces, not by heartbreak, but of grief. The broken maiden clenched her hand on her skirt, tears falling, then she gazed up at .
“P-Princess… what did he do?” she asked.
“He…” I paused, fear in my eyes. “He tried to kill …”
“I see…” she lowered her head again.
It’s hard to talk to people in grief.
Good grief, I’ll just leave her to it for a while. She will need so space. I turned to her two companions from the kitchen.
“As her friends, can you please tend to her?”
The both of them responded in affirmative with no hesitation. With that, they carefully took Allie away.
It was then at that mont that Estevan returned to and Mother.
“My son…”
Mother held out her hand and stroked Estevan’s cheek.
“Mother… It’s still a bit hard to accept that he was a traitor. He had been helping for years… And to think that…”
Estevan’s pained expression was shown before Mother with no reluctance. It was different from it was just the two of us.
“Estevan…”
“I was the one to take his life… But… I have no regrets.”
Better be.
After that, the entire palace was on high alert the entire day and they imdiately went to check Oryn’s lodgings. A ssenger had also been imdiately sent to the Church where my father was supposed to be.
When he arrives, I will need to share to my family what I have discovered about Oryn’s identity.
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