Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga - Chapter 113

Deciding that it would be better to take a break at least a little than to build up fatigue by continuing to speculate without anything clear, I gave up thinking and closed my eyes for a while.

Of course, that didn’t mean I couldn’t sleep peacefully, but there was nothing I could do other than that right now. In the room where only the ticking of the clock reverberated, Asilie and I stayed silent and waited for Renissa to come with new information.

About an hour after that, Cheryl appeared as expected by Ekaf.

“Eldmia!”

Not even in a wagon, but by driving a horse.

– Kaang!

The problem is that it didn’t just appear, the guards couldn’t wait to greet and show their respect, and they showed up kicking the mansion’s gate with the energy to smash it. I got up and looked out the window and saw Cheryl striding in with some maids behind her.

Looking at his appearance, there is no such thing as an in-house manager, but with a pretty kid doing that, the gap is huge.

“Eldmia! Where is Eldmia!”

“Ah, lady please be discreet…”

“That’s not the answer to my question! Eldmia!”

It honestly feels fresh to see Cheryl, who is visibly embarrassed even as she recalls the past. Normally, I would have savored it and made fun of it, but it was regrettable that I didn’t feel like it because of the current situation.

It was an instant for Cheryl to find me shining through the window and run upstairs waving her school uniform skirt, but since it was a guest room, she knocked on the door with a very polite attitude, unlike the momentum she had just spurred on the front door.

“It’s okay Cheryl. Come in.”

Sheryl, who entered the room after hearing my answer instead, acted confidently as if she had no shame in the attitude she had just shown, although she was polite. Seeing her like that, Asilie rolled her eyes as if she was very interested and asked me to introduce myself, so I simply gave her a full statement while looking at the two of them.

“Cheryl, this is Asillie. Asillie, this is Cheryl. We are all colleagues who are thinking in unison about the situation Ragnis is currently in.”

“You were the benefactor who raised you. This is Cheryl Tsusin Ogatorp. I’d love to have a proper place to talk to you, but unfortunately, I’m having a hard time today.”

“I understand Cheryl.”

“Thank you. Eldmia? Any other news? Sir Renissa?”

It was very Cheryl-like to go straight to the main point as soon as she asked for the other person’s understanding, but the story I could tell her was no different from the letter delivered to her, so I had no choice but to shrug my shoulders instead of answering.

“Suddenly accused of treason. What the hell happened in the Empire?”

“Nothing happened, but I can assure you that it had nothing to do with the treachery.”

“Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu,,, if it’s okay even if it’s briefly, let’s talk about it. Anyway, if Lord Renissa didn’t come, there’s nothing we can do right now.”

It took less than five minutes for her to tell the story of the Empire to her, who, as always, was quick to make judgments and calm down.

“I can’t afford to ask questions right now, but I think I’ll definitely need to hear the details later.”

“I’ll tell you as much as I can when the situation is safely sorted out.”

I wonder if I waited another hour, leaving Cheryl behind, who decided to return to her room with a deep sigh.

Taking a weary step, Lenissa visited the mansion.

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“The place of temporary detention… I mean temporary detention, but it was just a prison. Even if I protested, it was useless because the influence of the nobles was already strong.”

In that short period of time, as if she had not been able to rest for a week, Lenissa, who had become emaciated, struggled to open her mouth and explained the situation at the gathering of me, Ashlie, Cheryl, and the butler.

According to the claim of the aristocrats, which was conveyed through the mouth of a third person, the circumstances that Ragnis had been plotting a treachery by acting as the devil’s agent over about five years were put together. It is that there is no way to know. It wasn’t because the royal faction was incompetent, but because no one knew anything about the four years or so before Ragnis entered the capital.

Yes, of course. Roughly, after I rescued him and made him stay at Lady Alicia’s inn, I’ve been living in Ogwen for the past four years. I heard that he sent a letter to Radnell Vandes near the age of majority, but it’s strange to know.

While they were at a loss, not knowing whether it was okay to say this or not, the expressions of the head butler and Cheryl became even more serious, unlike Asilie, who was at a loss similarly to me.

Even in the midst of this, Lenissa’s words with a small sigh continued.

“There was too little information to be obtained, probably because they thought it would affect the verdict and thoroughly shut down the mouth. The only stories I could hear by barely asking around were the Marquis of Levien after the Marshal of Levien was razed to the ground, and there were quite a few things about the Marshal and his physical characteristics. It was just that they came looking for people similar to these people… and that a small search party belonging to the aristocratic house that was secretly dispatched to find him was massacred.”

For a moment, as if we had promised, Ashley and I met eyes. In the illusion that a lot of conversations are coming and going in just that brief moment, Cheryl’s question comes into my ears.

“A knight secretly dispatched?”

I thought maybe it wasn’t, but when I focused on the story again with the mindset of just in case, Lenisa added a little more flesh to the story.

“That’s right. They said it was one knight and several semi-knights. Even a dragon and a dragon pilot were mobilized, but they all died.”

Goosebumps ran down my spine and I was terrified.

This is a Delt story.

You can link their deaths to the demons? I know that even the drake pilot, Gieth, is still quietly saving himself with the help of Ragnis in a small village near Ogwen?

It was such an unexpected situation that Lenisa continued with a more gloomy face, perhaps assuming that it was because of the seriousness of the situation that she had become rigid without even realizing it. In fact, the head butler and Cheryl look like they’re in total trouble, so it’s hard to say anything about that assumption.

“At least, that’s about the specific information. There was a saying that a connection was found among several recent incidents near the capital, but in this world, it was not at the level of being able to deduce that it was the case.”

At the end of those words, a heavy silence began to fill the room, but I and Asillie couldn’t form a sense of sympathy and only looked at each other.

The reason is simple. It was not easy to decide whether it would be right for us, who knew the whole story of the case, to open our mouths and ventilate the atmosphere, or whether we should keep our mouths shut considering that the information would go to the aristocrats.

Isn’t there a saying that if you want to deceive your enemies, you must first deceive your allies? It’s not like we can prove anything right away, so I think it’s best to keep your mouth shut for now.

There was nothing I couldn’t believe in the people in this room, but I decided to ask Ragnis how much he knew.

“Has the Marquis of La…Levien heard of this?”

“No. I was going to tell you after asking the Ogatorv family for help. It’s more useful to inform someone who can act first.”

Being put in a situation where you might lose your master twice, your mentality might explode, but even in such a difficult situation, Lenisa seems to be cool-headed in her judgment.

Cheryl, who had been watching this scene, suddenly jumped out of her seat and stood up.

“Eldmia. Let’s go to the guild.”

“Guild? Adventurer’s Guild?”

“Yes. If the aristocrats are trying to connect Ragnis with the demons and, as Sir Renissa said, found a connection among the recent events, it is certain that the guild will be able to find information related to the demons.”

“That…is a valid opinion.”

Certainly, recently, there has been a strong tendency to resolve security outside the capital through adventurers rather than the military. Cheryl’s claim was more reasonable than I thought.

Right now, even if it’s just her and me, I’m involved with a Pavaella or something, and I’m also involved with a demon in an abandoned dungeon. A few more such incidents would give us a clue.

“The butler. What did your father say to you?”

“He has commanded you to treat Sir Lenissa with courtesy and do what you deem necessary.”

“Please. I’ll try to find something helpful outside with Eldmia. I’ll change my clothes first and come back.”

Cheryl immediately ran out of the room, and I, who was still wearing the Ragnis family’s attire, decided to get up to change into my adventurer’s attire.

Leaving behind the butler who was talking with Lenisa, Asilie, who stood up with me, spoke to me with an ambiguous expression.

“Cheryl is something… like Eldy.”

“Where are you looking?”

“Even though it seems strangely fiery, the fact that it doesn’t lean towards emotions when it judges the situation? Above all, it has no hesitation in its own actions and is confident.”

“I can’t believe you’re trying to put me on the same level as that violent kid.”

I showed a sincere and dumbfounded reaction, but Asilie just looked at me with mischievous eyes.