Chapter 429 – Morning and Confession

000

The next morning, Cleon wakes up in his room.

What I got used to after becoming an adventurer is the ability to sleep anywhere.

Even if the bed is changed, once you fall asleep, you can sleep close to sound sleep as long as there is no external stimulation.

Well, after falling asleep in a soft bed for the past few months, even that feeling seems to die…

When Cleon thinks so, the space in the bed feels strangely narrow, and the sound of breathing quietly is heard—

He sighs at the thought that someone else has sneaked into his bed.

It’s happened several times since I was living in the Golden Palace’s mansion. This kind of thing.

All in all, Galatea or Caliburn. Or Sasha… And Lilim is the main character.

Cleon was confident that he would not be surprised if any of them came out, so he took a deep breath for a moment and turned his head slightly.

Then there-

“…”

At a distance closer than she thought, she could see the face of a woman sleeping with her body pressed against her.

His eyes his were closed as usual, but his hair his was following gravity.

Also, the curves created by the light purple pajamas, which were a bit thin and seemed to be transparent, were hardly Sasha’s or Lilim’s.

First of all, his hair was brown, so none of them would have been.

Cleon’s gaze naturally turned toward her chest her, although he knew he could n’t.

Wearing black, adult-like lingerie, she is—sooner or later, the woman who is the owner of the Dark Dragon Chamber and provides them with lodging.

The moment he realized that it was ‘Herty’, Cleon jumped up and got up from the bed.

“Kuh…!?”

Because I came down from the bed almost as if I was jumping, there was a groaning sound.

Perhaps awakened by the sound, Herti twitched her body for a moment, then she shrank like a cat and then—

Soon, with a rustling sound, the upper body of her was raised.

Along with the blanket on her shoulders her shoulders, the shoulders of her nightgown her slid off, along with her black undergarments her, revealing her long breasts that seemed like they would all be submerged even if Cleon’s hands her were inserted .

“Oh… This place is…”

As if Herti was still half-conscious in the land of dreams, she stood there blankly with a dreamy face-

Soon after, she flopped again and collapsed onto Cleon’s bed of hers.

“…No, that’s strange. That’s…!”

Cleon, feeling like drinking her bitter water, approaches her tea and tries to get her out of her bed.

This kind of appearance, even if it was accidentally seen by someone, was just the right thing to be misunderstood.

Two days after coming to the Touhou Country, it was something she had to avoid looking at with cold eyes from her colleagues or someone in the company.

Carefully, as I lifted the covers off her, and placed her hand on her on that soft skin to shake her shoulders her —

Next moment.

“Cleon-sama!”

And, calling her own name her in a loud voice, the door to her bedroom her slammed! And opened

When Cleon flinched and turned around, there was Calia, holding the door open with both hands, looking this way.

That moment when Cleon is moving closer to Hertie and touching her shoulder her.

Cleon’s body freezes.

No, maybe it was this space or time itself that was frozen.

Cleon will be suspended in that state, and to Calia, Herti’s subordinate his, he will look like an ungrateful man who is trying to covet his boss’s body his.

You will be kicked out of this inn too.

“…Ah, as expected. You are here.”

However, Calia lets out her sigh with a troubled expression that seems to be helpless.

As if they were saying that they were used to this kind of thing.

“Eh… Calia…?”

After hearing Calia’s voice her, Cleon’s hand was afraid to fall, as if she had finally come back to her senses her, and she stood up.

“…Good morning ah…”

“Yes, Herti-sama. Good morning. We were upset when Herti-nim disappeared from the bedroom again…”

“Huh…?”

As if inspecting the surroundings, Herti pointed at the place where he was sitting with his hand her-

His hand his slips on the edge of the bed, he loses his balance and nearly falls under it.

“Herti-sama!?”

When Calia screams her name, Cleon, who is right next to her, barely catches it with her body her.

Naturally, her face her touches Cleon’s breasts-or should I say, her stomach-like part her, and I hear a ‘huh-bum’sound.

Then, he heard the feeling of those two large marshmallows touching Cleon’s thighs of her, but he struggled to ignore it, sweating.

Cleon slowly put her back on her bed, and she couldn’t help but let out a sigh.

Knowing or not knowing Cleon’s cold sweat situation, Hertie put her hand on her chin as if she had woken up a bit.

“Ah… This smell, Cleon-sama… I-I wonder if I walked out at night again…”

At the word ‘again’, when Cleon turns to Calia. Calia lets out another sigh and shakes her head.

“Herti-sama… Has sleepwalking. He has a habit of moving in the direction of the scent he likes – keuhmm, the scent. Normally, he goes towards me or Bahamut, but… “

‘Smell…’

Cleon lifts his arm and sniffs her, but does n’t feel it.

Although, nothing is as hard to notice as her own smell her.

For some reason, the story of Rempart’s ‘Dad, it smells’ comes to mind again.

“Herti-sama seems to have liked Cleon-sama quite a bit… I did it just in case, but it was as expected. I’m sorry, I made a fuss from the morning…”

When Calia bowed her head, Hertido bowed on her bed, placing her hands on the duvet and bowing her head.

“…Herti-sama. That’s the direction where the window is. Cleon-sama’s direction is to Herti-sama’s right.”

“Ah. I see…”

Herti listened to Calia’s words, then raised her head again and tried to bow her head in the direction of Cleon, but Cleon stopped Hertie for the moment.

“Ah, no. It’s okay. That’s possible. If it’s a chronic disease, there’s no help. More than that, I want you to stop lifting yourself up and down while wearing that…”

“Well…?”

Since Herti himself has never seen what his body looked like, he would n’t know why Cleon reacted that way.

Calia also checked her clothes once again at Cleon’s words and cleared her throat, and then she approached Hertie and put her coat on her.

“K-Kuh-Hum. Herti-sama. It’s just as Cleon-sama said. You’ll catch a cold if you stay like that in your pajamas. Come on. Go back to your room before starting work.”

Hearing Calia’s words, Hertie nodded, and carefully got up from Cleon’s bed, holding his robe her in his hand her so that it would n’t fall off.

And, slowly approaching Calia’s side of her.

“…Cleon-sama. Please keep this matter a secret…”

“Ah, ah… Sure.”

At Calia’s request, when Cleon nodded her head, she was about to walk quietly down her hallway, taking Hertie with her.

‘…I remember locking the front door properly…’

As Cleon thought about that, he sighed at the thought that things had gone awry since morning.

“Oh, that’s right. I almost forgot the message.”

Then, by her sudden return her, Cleon flinches once more and looks at her with her shoulders trembling.

“…Message?”

“Yes. From the palace- This is a message from the Princess of Light. Since we need to discuss the future, he wants you to come to the palace after breakfast.”

Cleon nods her head at her words and replies that he knows.

Then, this time, after confirming that Calia really left the inn-

“He-Cleon does n’t even notice when a woman who is n’t her companion her gets into bed while she’s sleeping-“

At the voice of the nasty wizard who was watching everything from the back, kuh. And spit out.

001

The Royal Palace of Asteris could be said to be the largest building in the city.

That’s probably the case, considering the size of Beauty Painter’s body, the building would have been built to match the body size of previous kings who would have been even bigger than that in the past.

Made of wood, stone, and paper, this huge palace was representing the long history of the East.

Its history is said to date back to before the present kingdom was established.

Cleon’s party-except for Lilim, who hasn’t come to his senses his yet.

Last night, accompanied by Amelia, who is finally able to move thanks to the success of her treatment of her, they go to the palace of Asteris.

I found the residence of the Beauty Painter.

Upon reaching the palace, guiding them to-

“…Wow.”

Lila unknowingly said that.

A woman standing in front of me – her blue hair, beautifully braided and beautifully braided.

Although the lines of the body are exposed, the exposure is reduced to a minimum,

Somewhere, it looks like a warrior’s outfit, and it is said to be a costume for ‘female martial artists’ that has been passed down from generation to generation in the East, called ‘Blue Dragon’s Clothing’.

I didn’t ask, but the one who made a fuss about it was Riomes, who is obsessed with Cleon, the head and instructor of the sex department, the daughter of the beauty dyer wearing it.

I saw the academy’s uniform, the ordinary plain clothes, and the dress worn at the social church.

Riomes, now in front of her eyes, felt as if she was revealing ‘herself’ more than when she was wearing any of her clothes her.

It was the same with the atmosphere, but it was calm and neatly trimmed to the point that I thought it might be a kind of acting, or, in their words, ‘chi’ is flowing.

“Which one is the real Riomes? The usual one is acting?”

Lila asks that way, but Riomes just smiles and turns to Laila.

“Neither of them is my real one. I’m just living a little more freely at the academy.”

“Huh…”

While talking in that way, as she progresses through the palace, Amelia recalls the castle of the Queen of Frost that she had visited somewhere, somewhere in another dimension.

It was also a place made to the size of a frost giant, so everything was huge for humans to live in.

Still, this is a place where people still live.

The building itself boasted an enormous size, but the things placed inside it were adjusted to a size that people could use normally.

“Beatrix, you must have arrived safely at the academy by now, right?”

When Lila says so, Riomes nods her head.

“Yes. Earlier, I got a call from the Magic Transmission District.”

Beatrix and I moved together until halfway, then split the wagon and headed for the academy.

Not only would it be difficult for her academy to follow trends in her kingdom, but she herself could be in danger if she headed to her eastern country.

If you go out with Cleon too much, that is.

At Riomes’ answer, Lila lets out a sigh of relief.

“Ah, come to think of it, I heard from Demis yesterday. Instructor Cleon, it seems that the village has already had a ‘tiny name’ as a knight.”

“…Tinnitus?”

Cleon feels uneasy about the story Riomes brought out, but waits for the next story.

“Yes. When the knights in this country become famous, people give them plausible nicknames. Like ‘Thousand Arms Kannon’ or ‘Ice Emperor’… In the kingdom, adventurers are given titles, right? It’s like that.”

“Ah- that’s right. Well, since we’re a party that doesn’t want to be that famous, we didn’t have titles or anything like that.”

At Lila’s words, Quon scratches his cheek.

For now, she was the only adventurer with an official title in this party.

That, too, was a simple title that could be found anywhere, ‘Saint apprentice’.

“People make up their own nicknames based on their performance or the skills they use.

“… Hearing that makes me even more anxious.”

At Cleon’s story, Riomes smiled wryly, but-

Unable to contain her curiosity of her, Sasha opened her mouth.

“What is Cleon’s nickname?”

“Ah- I think it’s a ‘dark demon’.”

“…A black horse, it’s the same. It doesn’t have much impact… It’s something simple.”

At Lyla’s words, Cleon sighs.

“At first, everyone is short. After that, it’s normal for modifiers to increase… And, black horse doesn’t mean black horse’s clan, it literally means black devil. It was impressive to see him subjugate the scoundrel using the oath .Me-“

At Rio Meth’s words, Layla is taken aback, as if she had heard an unbelievable story.

“Hah!? Cleon, did you use oath magic!?”

“…Is something wrong?”

Cleon himself, because he used it without much awareness, felt doubt about Lyla’s cry for her.

“Of course! Oath magic is originally the magic of demons! There’s no way there’s no cost when humans use it!?”

“…But, it’s nothing.”

Layla sighs at Cleon’s answer and speaks to Cleon.

“That’s because the targets you signed the contract with were ‘thin guys’! I think the stronger the guys you want to bind with the oath, the more your soul’s capacity will be consumed! The oath is magic that damages your soul. Okay. If so, don’t use it carelessly in the future.”

Seriously, this is why beginners…!

Lila gets angry.

Cleon listens to her story her and nods her head.

“…Sorry, I’ll be careful next time.”

“They’re a perfect couple.”

“Yes…”

At Riomes’ words, Quon nodded with a complicated expression.

And, ahaha… Sasha smiled bitterly.

As Amelia looks at Cleon, who seems a little downcast, she talks to him.

“Ah, are you okay, Cleon?”

“Ah. It’s okay. It’s just as Lila said. It’s my fault for using magic I don’t know much about.”

Seeing Cleon’s sincere self-reflection, Amelia blinked her eyes as if seeing her unexpected appearance of her, then smiled slightly.

“Cleon, you look like that.”

“…”

Cleon shuts up for a moment at her words, but she quickly returns to her usual face her.

“Ah.”

“Suddenly, this is my father’s room. Really, it’s unnecessarily spacious, this palace.”

When the party gets into trouble with Riomes’ jokes that are difficult to laugh at.

Finally, in front of the door where Riomes had stopped, the party also stopped together.

Riomes spoke quietly and with precise pronunciation towards the door.

“Instructor Cleon and Princess Amelia. And, I brought the party. Father.”

“Um. Come inside.”

At the same time as a deep voice echoed, the door that covered the room slid open on both sides.

It was a place that could be called the king’s office, and was probably the second largest room next to the throne room in the palace.

Sitting in front of a huge desk, holding a brush and writing something, he confirms that his daughter has brought Cleon, and puts the brush down.

“You’re here. Prince Cleon. And, Princess Amelia.”

“I have repeatedly committed rudeness and rudeness. Beauty dyer. Please forgive me.”

Amelia greeted her like that, but the flamesmith shook her head.

“I have already heard from them what happened to you and why it happened. …It is truly a pity.”

“…Thank you.”

After the beauty flamer said that, he gave Rio Mes a glance and made them sit down.

“First of all. We, the Eastern country, welcome you. I will not tolerate all the injustice that has happened in the kingdom. As long as the leader kingdom continues to do so, the alliance centered on the kingdom will one day crack. The continent will definitely lose its peace.”

“… As far as that goes. We have to stop it somehow.”

When Amelia spoke with her fists clenched and her head bowed, the flamethrower nodded her head as well.

“In a situation where we can’t even reach Cassius by phone. It’s clear what we need to do. Stop the being called ‘the father of all things’ – ‘Adam’. For him, build strength in this eastern country and at the same time, go to the kingdom. We need to prepare for our return. But before that-“

The Beauty Painter stroked his beard and opened his mouth in a more worried voice.

“I want to tell you about the fact that even in this country, the limbs of the father of all things – the demonic powers of the Exiled Church have spread.”

“…!”

Cleon looks a little surprised at his words her.

It wasn’t just Cleon, it must have been the same for those around him.

The Church of Exile has been an organization that has continuously intervened in human history from ancient times to the present.

It would be strange to say that there are places out of their reach, but-

If even the Eastern countries were touched by them, they would surely come after Cleon and Amelia.

“…I want you to keep in mind that the conversations I’m going to talk about from now on will only come and go from here.”

With that said, the flamethrower told Cleon and his companions why he, together with Crown Prince Cassius, had investigated the Exiled Church and had come to fight against them.