Chapter 216 - Jean

"Have you informed the North?"

"Captain Porter was said to be in a hurry to return to the capital with his troops." In the meantime, the situation report was over.

Callisto frowned violently as if he were having a sore bone.

Even if Cedric brought the troops under his command, the rebels had already camped in the imperial palace.

palace. The siege, which was equipped with a solid defense framework, could not have been easy. It was then.

"Eckart will support you, Your Highness."

The duke suddenly froze the bomb ship with a determined look. "Father."

I and Renald looked after him in amazement.

The Crown Prince asked, with his eyes slightly open. "Are you serious?"

"The country is in trouble, and I can't just sit still."

"What a surprise. You didn't support at least the troops in the war." At the Duke's reply, the Crown Prince muttered.

Eckart, who did not even participate in this conquest war, deserved it. The crown prince asked again with suspicious eyes.

"The Duke's remarks now, can I say that you support me?" "Of course, that's not true."

But even before his questions were over, firm negation returned. "Marquis Ellen owes it to Eckart."

"Owe?"

"He dared set my daughter up in a hunting contestand acted like a rat."

"Ah."

"When I think about the fact that the Queen let him go right in front of me!"

The duke shook with his fists clenched.

The Crown Prince nodded his head as if he knew it.

"Then you were the first to dig up the Marquis. It failed and only called the treasury."

"Thanks to your active participation, I was able to take away half of his territory. It's a belated appreciate, but thank you."

I had no idea there was such a backstory after the hunting competition, so I looked at them alternately with just a round face

"I didn't forget the debt eitherThere are so many things I want to do after catching that rat, but I'm

glad there's a family that won't oppose it in a long time."

"What do you mean 'opposite', I don't think so. Eckart will definitely join you." "I look forward to your kind cooperation, Duke."

When the Crown Prince reached out his hand, the duke grabbed it and shook it. In an instant, the alliance between the two was formed.

After roughly finishing a conversation with the Duke, the Crown Prince came straight to me and said.

"I'll leave you a wizard and an escort, so stay here. I'll come to pick you up after I've cleared up the palace with your father."

I shook my head straight away.

"I'm coming with you. Yvonne would have gone to the palace too." "No."

"Why? I'm strong. I'll drink potions, too."

I couldn't understand why the Crown Prince against it.

There was no wizard as powerful and aggressive as I was. Even though it was so shameful to say a spell, it can be arranged in one attack with ancient magic.

"I didn't mean you're weak."

The Crown Prince shook his head in my expression of injustice. "I know best how strong your ignorant magic is." "Ignorant?"

"But now that the rebels are on the rampage, the palace will be like a battlefield, I don't even know how many troops the 2nd Prince has hidden."

"........."

"There's no way Leila's gonna get caught easily in that situation. What would you do if the trap was for you?"

No answer could be given to the Crown Prince, who calmly grasped the situation.

To be sure, I tended to believe only at powerful ancient magic and only to be motivated with it.

"There's a limit to protecting you during a dog fight. So when I'm done with the scumbags, you're safe with your head. Huh?"

The Crown Prince said as if to comfort me with my sullen face.

The former tactic was completely out of line, but his words made sense. But.

"But whatabout the hostages she's holding? They're important maids and young children to me."

The hostage wasn't just a duke.

Yvonne, cleverly, knew the extent to which I wouldn't mind if they died or not. "If she kills all the hostages while you're putting down all the rebels"

"Just because you move according to Leila's demands, there's no guarantee that you'll save all the hostages, princess"

The Crown Prince flatly cut off my hesitation again this time. I could feel my eyes shaking looking at him.

Callisto sighed and hugged me.

"I'll talk to the operatives and set up a hostage rescue operation first, so don't make that face."

Words of soothing me poured out at my side. Like his firm arms, it was a reassuring voice. Callisto had never disobeyed a promise.

He was a good commander, though he was a bit ill-mannered. So, he would rescue the hostages and put down the rebels soon. 'Why am I so nervous?'

An unknown sense of incompatibility has eroded the ankle.

I stared blankly at the sky, where the redness was sprouting, being held by him still in his arms. "Tch, it's already dawning."

Whether he was looking at the same thing, Callisto suddenly clicked his tongue. We stayed up all night dealing with Yvonne and monsters.

"You worry too much. Get some sleep."

A large, warm palm sat down over the eyes.

Deep tiredness like a dream swarmed through the nerves that stood up. "When you wake up, everything will be settled."

I dug a little further into his arms in search of warmth.

As he said, I hope everything is over when I open my eyes.

* * *

Callisto hurried away from the duke mansion. With guards and a palace wizard left behind.

Even though I came back to my room after a long time and lay down on a fluffy bed, I could hardly fall asleep.

This was because I kept thinking that I was missing something. I slipped my hand into my pocket and took out what was inside. A piece of mirror taken from Yvonne and it was still in my hand. 'I'm sure you have a good place, aren't you?'

I was going to visit him when I got back to the capital, but I couldn't even find time to do so because the fucking Yvonne suddenly revealed her identity.

I was lost in thought, staring blankly at the faded shabby piece of light. It was originally part of the 'mirror of truth' created by ancient wizards.

But after the mirror of truth showed me the truth, it collapsed and crushed right away.

But what I had in my hand was still intact. That means the rest of Yvonne's pieces will be fine. 'But what did Yvonne do with this?'

I looked back at the piece in my hand.

And I recalled "Hidden Story," which I didn't even read properly because I was puzzled.

[After extorting her strong vitality to the fullest extent, she uses a piece of mirror to unseal her brothers and complete her revenge.]

I was so embarrassed that I didn't think deeply about it. Surely it was a big deal to wake up the Leila again.

'I mean, some crazy monsters like Yvonne are going to add.' I suddenly became serious and sat up.

The feeling of missing something was not a sense of incompatibility for nothing, and it was almost a disaster. It was a close call.

"I have to stop the seal from unraveling."

I grasped the piece of mirror I was holding as hard as I could. "By the way, then where are the rest of the pieces?"

A hidden story immediately came to mind.

[The Leila hid some of the pieces in the tomb of the golden dragon to secure the future.] "I should have gone straight to the palace, not to stay here."

Then maybe Yvonne found the pieces she had hidden before arriving at the palace. When I feel sorry for it.

"Ah."

At the same time, there was a scene that flashed through my mind. I slowly opened my mouth.

"Then, the corpse I saw in the cave"

The Magic Circle I saw in a cave where I was chased by an assassin along with the Crown Prince during a hunting competition.

Callisto belatedly said the remains were identified as ancient Leila. 'Sothat was a piece of a mirror?'

What the hell, this crazy game didn't even come up with a random quest.

I got goosebumps when I thought I might have stopped Yvonne in advance if I knew something then. "Wellthen, the only piece left is what Vinter really has, and mine."

I've been too complacent.

I thought I'd just have to stop the brainwashing, but there was a bigger ambush left.

One chance already given through an unexpected quest was missed, and this was all I could believe now that Yvonne had commanded the Imperial Palace.

"I need to see Vinter for now." I jumped out of bed.

My mind was in a hurry. There's no way I'd stay still let that monster, who'd done all sorts of mean things to take the pieces away from me.

With the mirror wand firmly in my hand, I hurriedly opened the door. "What's the matter, Princess?"

As soon as I opened the door, I could see five guards surrounded the corridor by the Crown Prince's order.

I'm speechless with a sense of Deja Vu. ''A ghostly guy.'

I said yes, but I'm sure he knew I wouldn't just wait. I was tongue-tied at Callisto's thoroughness.

"The potion was a bit strange, so please call me the palace wizard who came with me."

In the end, I had no choice but to say that and close the door again. Because I didn't even dare to beat out the unsightly knights like his master.

Soon after, the palace wizard came with a knock. "Crown, the Crown Princess, I have come"

He greeted politely with a gruesome title.

The day was now quite ripe because we were known to be together in the swamp. "Hey, what's your name?"

"Je, it's Jean, Your Highness."

"Yes, Jean. Now you can use the teleport magic, right?" I spoke bluntly, and he opened his eyes wide.

"Eh, teleport magic? I can do short distances"

"There are times when you come with me. Of course, it should be a secret mission." "Yeah?! Ha, but His Highness makes sure to keep you from going anywhere"

As expected, my prediction was right.

"It's all right. I asked you to go, so I won't get away with it. It's not far away, so I think you're just lending me magic for a moment."

Jean cry at my emphatic words with a look of no good at all. "But if His Highness finds out...I will be in charge of it"

"You're in charge of it?" "Well, I can't! I'm sorry!"

Jean refused wildly as if he would never listen.

I tried to conciliate gently, but now I couldn't do much. "You, do you want me to hit you now?"

Jean's face turned pale as I pointed the mirror wand I was holding with me. "Hurry up and memorize the spell."

I was satisfied to see him simply reciting the spell. 'Threats are the best way.'

And after some time, the place where she arrived with the wizard was not the top of the white rabbit, but a collapsed abandoned house.