Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 341

Part 2 Episode 81

Summer’s Grave

“What should I do with this?”

“Do you understand it’s me? “The prince has changed so much in one day…”

“It’s not that I don’t understand, but really…!”

A month has already passed since Elric stopped by the palace.

During this time, Cromhel almost skipped meals and never came out of his room.

Because of that, the people in the palace were not at all anxious.

“Shouldn’t I say something about this?”

“And what if it gets worse? “If you even offend him…!”

Because of collusion with demons, the Inspection Bureau, known as the hidden sword of the imperial family, was virtually neutralized, paralyzing the functions of the imperial palace.

In addition, the atmosphere in the government and the imperial capital was extremely hectic due to the news that the Empire’s backbone, the Magic Tower, and the Sajagongga, were in conflict and that an armed war was being fought in the shadows, knowingly or unknowingly.

In the meantime, Cromhel, who was actually acting as the crown prince, took his hands off everything and left the government.

Meanwhile, other princes and princesses who had been watching him began to make secret contact with various nobles.

He was trying to take advantage of Cromhell’s half-destruction status to create his own force.

This naturally resulted in disrupting the order of the imperial family.

The people in the palace felt sorry for Cromhel, but they only hoped that he would put this chaos to rest.

“Oh no!”

“Let go!”

It was in the meantime.

A loud commotion was heard at the end of the long hallway leading to Cromhel’s room.

The eyes of everyone nearby turned to that place.

“Even if you let me go!”

“You can’t do that! Calm down, Chief Butler!”

The person who appeared from around the corner was an old man dressed neatly.

Beneath him, a servant was being dragged, holding the old man by his trouser legs.

It’s hard to guess what happened.

However, the maids and butlers nearby quickly lowered their heads.

The old man was the chief butler who managed the palace and stayed by Cromhel’s side for a long time.

Several butlers approached and looked at the head butler and servant in turn and then asked carefully.

“What are you doing here?”

“First, let’s get rid of this guy. “You keep being annoying.”

The head deacon raised his glasses with his white-gloved hand and said.

Uncharacteristically for an old man, his eyes shone sharply.

“Oh, I understand.”

I don’t know what was going on, but the butlers followed his words and tried to throw the servant away.

Then the servant hugged the butler’s leg even more tightly and shouted.

“It’s not possible! “You are having an audience with Prince Cromhel in person!”

“…what?”

At that moment, the deacons who were trying to remove him stopped.

They looked at the head deacon as if asking what this meant.

“Is this true?”

The head deacon opened his mouth while glaring at them with sharp eyes.

“okay. I can no longer stand by and watch the palace fall into disrepair. I plan to tell you in person. So, get away from this guy! “Everyone who stands in front of him should get out of the way!”

Although he was already called a tiger by many servants and butlers.

Today, his expression looked even more determined.

But the deacons could not let him go easily.

They, like the servants, grabbed the butler’s arms and legs and began to stop him.

“Please rethink everything!”

“If you do that, you’ll be in really big trouble!”

“How dare these…!”

The reason everyone stopped him was very simple.

It was because of a word Cromhell left while hiding in his room.

-If anyone tries to disturb my rest, I will personally cut off their head.

That’s why everyone waited with trepidation even though the palace was in such chaos.

Because the 4th prince always kept the words he said.

But the head deacon wants to enter such a place himself?

No matter how loyal he was to Cromhel, it was tantamount to suicide.

So from their perspective, I have no choice but to stop them.

“Then who will go in if I don’t? “Come out!”

However, the deacon’s stubbornness was no less than that of Cromhel.

Using his superhuman strength, he managed to overcome the restrictions and arrive at Cromhell’s visit.

“iced coffee…!”

“Deacon!”

“I will go in, Your Highness.”

Slam!

The deacon lightly opened the tightly locked door and pushed it open with force.

bang!

Perhaps because the blackout curtains had been drawn, not a single light came into Cromhel’s room.

The floor was littered with all kinds of broken items, as if a bomb had been dropped.

Even the sword marks left on the walls seemed to show how much pain he had suffered.

“…what? “I would have told you not to come in.”

I heard the voice of Cromhel, who was only looking at his back from the bed.

A completely broken voice.

The servants and butlers fell down on the floor in contemplation.

Only the deacon went inside, adjusting his glasses again.

“That’s me.”

Cromhel slowly got up, moved to the front, and sat down on the edge of the bed.

“Tangut, it’s you.”

“Just like I heard, you really don’t have any troubles.”

“Didn’t I tell you clearly? “No one is to come in until specifically instructed to do so.”

“Do you know what’s going on outside?”

“Get out. “Seeing the loyalty you have shown to me and Shirou so far, I will forgive you just this once.”

“I am so dizzy. Are you going to just sit there and watch it?”

“….”

“Try saying something.”

“…Are you really not hearing what I’m saying? Or are we just ignoring it?”

Cromhell rubbed his head in frustration.

I couldn’t help but get angry because he didn’t pay any attention to my orders and just kept saying what he wanted to say.

But the deacon still looked confident.

“That won’t work.”

“you…!”

“If you want to cut off his head, hit it. “I’ll give you that damn head any time.”

The head deacon stuck out his head as if to cut it off if it was really necessary.

“…Do you really think I can’t do that?”

“I am eighty-nine years old. “I lived long enough.”

“….”

Cromhel stared at the head deacon for a long time with red, bloodshot eyes.

The deacon stood there with his neck stretched out without moving at all.

There was a suffocating tension between the two people.

and.

“…You are truly consistent.”

In the end, it was Chrome Hell who gave up.

I let out a long sigh. It was a virtual surrender.

The head deacon adjusted his clothes and nodded.

“It’s not time to die yet.”

“is it?”

At that time, a bitter smile appeared on Chrome Hell’s lips.

thud!

Suddenly, the deacon knelt down on the floor and appealed.

“His Royal Highness.”

“you…!”

“This old man cannot know how sad His Royal Highness is. “I can only vaguely guess that it might be similar to the sense of loss this old man experienced after sending his child away about 10 years ago.”

“….”

The deacon’s son also remembered Cromhel.

It was at that time that the head deacon, who had been faithful to his work without taking a single day off, was away for the first time.

“But this old man knows. “His Royal Highness is a much stronger and bigger person than this insignificant and miserable old man.”

The deacon’s eyes were red and bloodshot.

“And that you are the vessel that will build this empire anew. So please come back to your old self!”

“….”

“…Please, Your Highness. “Won’t you grant this old thing’s last wish?”

After a long period of silence.

“…I feel sorry for you, but I think that will be difficult to do now.”

Cromhel turned his head the other way and looked at his face reflected in the mirror.

Almost a month.

His appearance after such a long time was extremely haggard.

Her cheeks had lost so much fat that she looked unattractive, and her eyes were so bloodshot that one could have mistaken them for demon eyes.

Her once shiny hair had become so dry that it seemed as if it would break if you even touched it.

The majestic black lion Cromhel that people knew was nowhere to be found.

Is that why?

Tears began to flow from the deacon’s eyes.

From the time Cromhel was born until now he has grown into a great prince.

The deacon thought of him as another son.

However, I couldn’t help but feel sad to see my son so ruined.

But despite this, he still firmly believed.

The fact that Chrome Hell will definitely be able to return to its former self.

The head deacon continued speaking, wiping away tears.

“no. You can do it.

“Thank you for your words, but no more…”

“I don’t think the Crown Princess would want to see you like this. “Don’t you know that better than anyone else?”

“…!”

Cromhel’s pupils shook for the first time at those words.

“So please! Please make everything right again!”

After the deacon’s words, silence fell in the room.

A long time passed in that state.

However, neither Cromhel nor the head deacon made any move.

He lowered his head and waited for Kromhell to make a decision.

How much time has passed like that?

Finally, Cromhel’s chapped lips moved.

“Yes… I’m sure Shirou would hate to see me like this.”

His eyes were still full of sadness and longing. But one thing was different.

The eyes, which had suddenly regained their vitality as before, were looking straight at the head deacon.

“Raise your head.”

“…Prince!”

The deacon’s face turned bright red when he saw Cromhel’s appearance like that.

Cromhel said as he put on the clothes that were roughly hanging on the chair.

“Get ready to go.”

The deacon was happier than anyone else right now, but he didn’t show it at all.

What mattered now was the fact that Chrome Hell had returned.

“Where can I take you?”

“Sajagongga. “I’m going to see my father-in-law.”

The first place to make things right.

There was deep emotion in Cromhel’s eyes as he said that.

* * *

Before we knew it, Elric’s carriage had arrived at a forest.

A forest so enormous that the end cannot be seen.

Elric looked at the place through the window frame of the carriage.

Wow!

Kiyuyuyu!

The baby dragons were already very excited, as if they knew that they were going to a place that would be good for them.

If you see them come out of the carriage and fly around, howling as if they are happy.

However, Sean was looking at the forest with his arms crossed with an expression full of doubt.

“There really is a forest of jewels here?”

First of all, I followed Elric’s words and said that the Jewel Forest was here.

When I arrived, I had more than one question.

It’s not that it wasn’t, because the forest in front of me looked no different from an ordinary forest.

Elric seemed to have finally remembered something! and applauded.

“Oh, now that I think about it, I forgot about that.”

“what?”

“They say the Forest of Jewels is only visible to good people. Even if I look for you, I won’t see you.”

At the same time, one corner of his mouth was raised, and in Sean’s opinion, he couldn’t be more obnoxious.

Who has been taking care of Mervinger, who has suffered a personality breakdown at the Academy?

“This bastard?”

Sean flashed a twinkle in his eye, but Elric pretended not to see it and opened his mind’s eye to find a hidden path.

From now on, I had to find a forest of jewels hidden somewhere in this wide area.

Countless paths could be seen through the trees that grew densely like a maze.

Elric chose the place with the least foot traffic among them.

‘Because the Jewel Forest would not have been discovered for quite some time.’

If you go to a place with few people, you will definitely find it.

Of course, because of that, some people dismissed it as a legend or folktale.

Fortunately, Elric had a reliable source of information.

[It really exists, right?]

Mephisto was next to me with his arms crossed.

『That’s right! How many times are you asking? It’s been so long that I don’t remember the exact location, but I’ve seen it clearly with my own eyes.』

[If it’s a sphere…you know?]

Elric’s eyes changed from pale to pale.

Wizard who swallowed talent