Huh? I tilted my head, picked my ears, and asked again.
“what?”
“He is the prime minister of the Quisen Empire. haha. “I feel a little embarrassed talking about myself like this to Celia.”
The Prime Minister of the Empire… … ?
The highest peak of imperial officials, the Prime Minister?
Suddenly, I remembered the time when Scarlett and I were drinking juice at Zedo Cafe.
‘It was a very exciting negotiation scene. It reminded me of the war of words that took place two years ago between the Prime Minister of the Empire and the Minister of the Kingdom of Adrin over the Tishen River.’
Uh, um.
I narrowed my eyes and looked him up and down slowly.
Cedric looks docile thanks to his cloud-like pink hair and round glasses.
Now that I look closely, Jo Oh-geum is tall… … The eyes behind the round glasses were quite sharp.
“Then you had a war of words with the Minister of the Kingdom of Adrin two years ago?”
“Oh, that. Yes. It did.”
what. This is something familiar. I thought hard about the original.
Chancellor of the Quisen Empire. Tischen River. Pink hair. Round glasses.
And finally I remembered it.
“… … “Are you a genius or something?”
“oh. Don’t do that, Celia. Because you were always better than me. “I don’t want to hear that nickname from you.”
Cedric scratched his head with a shy face.
I blinked in surprise.
I finally realized who this man in front of me was.
If Dazar, the current representative of the imperial faction, is in charge of military force as her right-hand man,
The core of the political world in charge of the left arm.
Before Axion went crazy, he was a scholar whom he deeply respected, and a person who led the Qizen Empire to a bright future together with King Sejong Scarlet.
‘Marquis Seidrig Eihartz.’
Cedric was your nickname?
No, before that. My childhood friend was such a big guy?
While I was dumbfounded, he laughed and said.
“Uh, I guess it’s time to take a break now. Because it’s like a sabbatical year. “I came here after handing over some work to my aides.”
But I never thought I would come here and meet Celia. he added.
‘What is this place? The emperor’s left and right arms are all gathered together, right?’
A feeling of anxiety hit the back of my neck, as if I had somehow crawled into a terrible place.
And a few wisecracks followed.
Celia, this guy. Were you farming while your friend was so successful?
“Anyway, I think we need to talk about the crack day. “Celia.”
While I was immersed in the idea of hitting for a while, Cedric spoke with a serious expression.
“I think it would be a good idea to leave here for a little while that day.”
* * *
‘The Day of the Rift’ was the day when the barrier surrounding this continent became thinner.
Because of this, on that day, demonic energy would come out through the barrier surrounding the continent, and demons would take advantage of that gap and escape from the ‘crack’.
Therefore, when the ‘Crack Day’ came, each transcendental person removed the monsters that had leaked from the ‘crack’ they were responsible for and kept the ‘crack’ from widening further.
The reason the general public did not know about this day was because the transcendentals had set up a strong barrier around the ‘crack’ in advance.
It was thought that if the general public knew that monsters were pouring out of the demon world every year, anxiety and fear would encroach on them.
“Ah, that’s right. “It’s ‘Crack Day’ soon, right?”
Elston said, shaking his golden rattle repeatedly. Every time he came to teach Vanilla, he would stop by here to see Axion.
Hey, hey.
No matter how cute Axion is. Isn’t it a bit rude to not even look at the face of the person you’re talking to from beginning to end?
I held Axion upside down so that his face was facing me.
“oh!”
Whether Elston was embarrassed or not, he rubbed his face against Axion’s cute cheek. A look of envy appeared on Elston’s face.
I pretended not to notice and opened my mouth.
“As expected, Elston knows. Crack Day.”
“Hmm. That’s right. “I guess he’s a magician from the Magic Tower.”
Rather, it may be because he is a magic tower lord. I completely ignored him, who had an awkward smile on his face as if he was being stabbed by lying, and kissed Axion’s nose.
“Kyaaa.”
Axion smiled and closed his eyes prettily. Oh my, my baby. Pretty, pretty.
I asked, pretending not to notice that the envy in Elston’s eyes was getting stronger.
“It’s the crack day, isn’t it dangerous?”
“Hmm.”
Elston rolled his eyes.
what. Is this something worth worrying about?
A monster appears, so of course it’s dangerous!
With that thought in mind, I glared at him.
Elston still looked worried.
“why? “Of course it wasn’t dangerous, right?”
“Yes, but that’s true.”
Elston twisted his hair with his index finger, then held his hands together and leaned against the sofa.
When he twirled his head, he looked a little short, but with his hands clasped like that, he looked quite like a magic tower lord.
“Did you know that originally, the Siaster family never had any customers?”
“hmm… … .”
From the way he speaks, it doesn’t seem like he’s just a guest stopping by for a moment, right?
“no. “I didn’t know.”
Elston continued as if he had been waiting.
“Not only the Siaster family, but also other transcendental families do not allow people into the mansion. So the nobles think they are arrogant and keep a distance from them. In reality, it is largely due to the special nature of this mansion.”
The special nature of the mansion.
This mansion is called a ‘crack’.
‘Elston knows too.’
Cedric, who visited me the other day, said this afterwards.
‘As I said last time, this is ‘that’ Siaster’s joint residence. therefore… … This mansion, or should I say castle. Yes, because this castle itself is a ‘crack’.’
‘huh?’
‘This place itself is called a ‘crack’. So, when the day of crack comes, monsters appear everywhere in this castle.’
‘… … !’
what! It was such a dangerous place?
There was no such story in the original! I thought there was a ‘crack’ somewhere far away.
But that’s it.
“… … “But I’m here now, right?”
“yes. “That’s exactly what I’m trying to say.”
What are you talking about?
I looked at him dumbfounded because I had no idea what he was talking about.
Axion’s cheeks are puffing out as if he feels the same way as me or is following me.
Cute guy.
Elston, who managed to see this, held his forehead with hearts in his eyes.
“Whew. So, I’m guessing that Duke Siaster has no intention of letting his daughter into the rift.”
“Ummmm.”
“Wouldn’t it be a good idea to talk to the Duke first?”
but. It would be quicker to talk to the person guarding this place.
Agreeing with Elston, I quietly asked another question.
“By the way, Elston. “Do you know me as Ruben?”
“yes?”
Phew. Elston, who had just taken a sip of black tea while looking at Axion with her loving eyes, spat out a handful of tea water.
Thanks to this, his pants got soaked.
I knew it just by looking at it.
also. I thought the magic tower lord would know.
I roughly handed him a tissue and asked again.
“You know what Ruben is, right? “What is that?”
“Well, where did you hear that?”
“It’s just that I happened to see a book in the study here at the mansion.”
“… … “Umm.”
Elston broke into a sweat.
“Eh, that’s… … . Because it is a field that is even more special than the day of cracks… … .”
If it’s a special area, does that mean it’s information that isn’t even known to the general public?
I stabbed him a few more times, but Elston only spilled tea and did not spit out any useful information.
As I watched the floor gradually become flooded, I decided to give up on getting more information from him.
‘Uhm. Dazar won’t say anything, and neither will Elston.’
First, I had to solve the Rift Blade problem, so I left Axion in the care of Cal and headed to Dazar.
* * *
“Just what?”
The other day, Dazar, who had been uppercutted with soy sauce egg rice, had a very rotten look on his face when he looked at me.
The look in his eyes was so murderous that I thought he could kill someone with his eyes.
Still, I was glad that my face was good and didn’t look ugly.
He must have enjoyed sitting at the window, but when I visited him, he was sitting on the window again, holding a long cigarette in his mouth.
In the office, where there was still no servant in sight, he put out the light in his pipe and led me to the sofa.
“So, I’ll be gone for about a week.”
He asked, sitting down gracefully and leaning back on the sofa.
“why? “Why not?”
“Do you really need it? Of course, a dangerous day is coming soon.”
“Hmm. “I was going to tell you, but I guess you heard it from Marquis Seidrig before?”
Since the general public does not know about the ‘Day of the Rift’, I guess they heard about it from Cedric.
He treated me like a fraud when I first came here and mentioned the Eastern Continent, so he would say something strange if I told him I already knew about the ‘Day of the Rift’.
Moreover, it was true that Cedric brought up the story of ‘The Day of the Rift’ to me, so I nodded roughly.
‘It’s dangerous that day, so I think you should leave the mansion, Celia.’
In my mind, it was Cedric who had rapidly risen in social status from ‘a childhood friend who was pitifully given over to this person’ to ‘the prime minister of a country’.
I would say that thanks to this, a little trust has been built that wasn’t there before.
As I was just nodding my head and not saying anything else, Dazar opened his mouth first.
“don’t worry. “I will set up a separate barrier around the annex you are in.”
“… … ?”
“Never, no harm.”
“… … .”
“Don’t you believe it?”
“yes.”
Dazar frowned at my immediate answer.
“Why don’t you believe me?”
“Yes, Axion has a Dragon Heart. Isn’t the Demon Dragon’s Dragon Heart very attractive to monsters? What should I do if monsters are attracted to it? “What if Dazar’s barrier doesn’t help?”
Apparently, in the original work, there was a story about the demonic dragon being targeted by monsters because of its dragon heart.
Then Dazar cocked his nose arrogantly and crossed his arms.
“What are you looking at me for?”
“… … .”
At that moment, I remembered what Vanilla had whispered.
‘It’s a bitch.’
When I didn’t say anything, Dazar, who was looking at me with curious eyes, twisted his lips.
“you.”
“yes?”
“You just cursed at me.”
“no?”
His eyes narrowed further at my confident answer.
