Chapter 295 – The Levantine Empire (4)

Havel seemed to have something to say, but it didn’t come easily, and after hesitating for a while, he cautiously pointed to Karla.

“I know I am your slave, but is it true?”

“Yes.”

“Would you like to sell it to me?”

“… Yes?”

It is not for sale.

It’s a new thing to say now, but Carla is pretty.

No, she’s not just pretty, she has something that stimulates a man’s instinctive desire.

A dangerous piece of glass that could break if touched. But rather, it should be said that it encourages the desire to dominate.

Of course, these are the impressions of the first meeting.

Now that Karla has recovered a lot mentally, she’s not as anxious as she used to be.

But that doesn’t mean that Carla’s charm has declined. It’s just that the type has changed.

Should I say that I feel like an obedient puppy these days… This is a man’s romance like this.

Even if her form changes, Carla always stirs up men’s desire. She seemed innate rather than learned.

But. So, in H&A, the ugly prosper must have been his apostle.

Anyway, seeing all of Karla, when she is taken as a slave, she is sometimes seduced by people who sell her.

She rejected all of them, but some of hers were out of their minds and had smuggled papers and heirlooms from her family.

Maybe if Carla puts her mind to it, maybe her small estate can be controlled by her role?

Of course, I have no intention of leaving it like that. Even if Karla tries to get away from me on her own feet, I have no intention of letting go, but she is too reckless to pass it on to someone else.

… Well, I didn’t expect that she would even be bewitched by a sword master.

Let’s start by rejecting it properly.

“I am very attached to my slave. I have no intention of selling it to anyone.”

“I heard you bought it for 20,000 gold. How about 40,000 gold, which is doubled?”

“Sorry.”

“Then 60,000… No, I will pay you 80,000 gold.”

“It is not a matter of money. No matter how much you offer, I will not change my mind.”

Havel’s eyebrows wriggled for a moment at those words and then let out a sigh.

“Whoa. She knows you bought Theodore’s girls to learn the magic of Lindelheight. But haven’t you learned everything you need to learn? In fact, in addition to 80,000 gold, can you give me permission to read all the magic books in the imperial palace?”

“As I said at the beginning, I am rather attached to my slave.”

“… Is it.”

Then, as if she had been discouraged, Havel looked in front of her again, slightly breaking her upright posture.

What was it?

While tilting her head inside her, he sneakily confirmed Karla’s condition.

It’s kind of cute that when someone wants Carla like this, she resolutely refuses and she is happy with her lips twitching.

Should I say it’s a small pleasure of a random event?

Anyway, I looked back with anticipation to see how much I was fooling around that I had rejected the Sword Master’s offer this time.

“?”

For some reason, the current Karla had already eaten a bite of the sandwich, and she had an expression like someone who had even found the lower body of an insect.

After confirming that Havel wasn’t glancing at her anymore, she whispered softly.

“Carla? What’s wrong with your expression Don’t worry because she said no right.”

“Yes… I know that too, sir. Thank you. But whatever the circumstances, I couldn’t stand it for a bit when the person who pushed my father to death wanted me…”

“Ah.”

That’s right. Come to think of it, it was Havel, not anyone else, who overpowered and executed Karla’s father, Theodore Lindelheit.

The root cause lies in Fiona, who was falsely accused of being a cult, but it would be impossible for Karla not to have feelings for Havel.

What? Why the hell did you ask me to sell Carla?

Is she like the crooked nature of a sword master who takes the daughter of the man he kills?

Could it be that you talked to me instead of Helena from the beginning, or that you kept glancing at me… ?

It was a moment when I stared at the back of Havel’s head without realizing it. Did she feel the gaze? Still with his back turned this way, a low voice came from him.

“… One thing. There seems to be a misunderstanding, so I want to correct something.”

“What do you mean?”

“The reason I want to buy Theodore’s wife is not simply to lust after beauty. It’s because of the last promise with an old friend.”

“If you are an old friend… No way?”

When asked in a cautious voice, Havel nodded briefly.

“Me and Theodore were close friends. Even though it was like sending the last into my own hands, I still consider him a close friend. Maybe the guy did too. … That’s why you left me such a request.”

The story of Havel that followed contained the last of Theodore we didn’t know.

I knew that as soon as Theodore confirmed Karla’s safety, he went on a rampage for her last resort.

There was also a scene that appeared that way on H&A, and that everyone in the trial actually thought that way.

However, the story of Havel, who directly subdued Theodore, was a little different.

“Theodore was strong. At close range, I wasn’t properly prepared, and I wasn’t in good shape, so I had no choice but to get beaten by me… He was able to make at least half of the nobles around him his companions. It may have left His Majesty a wound or two.”

“But there were no casualties. So everyone praised Havel-nim.”

“… It’s because I was deliberately outrageous.”

Having said that, Havel looked back. Where did the sharp anticipation I felt just a moment ago go? The one in front of me was a tired and weary-looking man.

“The constant pouring of higher level magic was terrible. Imagine how many natural disasters are clustered inside a slightly oversized building.”

That’s definitely kind of scary. It’s because the magic that can destroy the walls and suffocate large monsters at once pours down without even giving them a chance to escape.

“But somehow it felt lukewarm to me. As I swung my sword along the chasm of swirling magic, I was able to easily break through. … And the moment I met Theodore, I realized. It was intentionally opened the way for me.”

In a storm where mana and aura are mixed. Theodore left a will in a space where no one was disturbed or monitored, and even Fafnir’s prediction magic could not be properly read.

“Father… ?”

It was a situation where the slave dared to talk to the swordsman first, but no one caught it.

Havel said that from the beginning she saw Carla as her friend’s daughter, but not as a slave, as was the case with me and the others.

Carla’s stern expression softened a little. Relieved by this, Havel continued her words.

“Okay. What Theodore was about to do was not a last resort. A will so that no one will find out… I wanted to leave you a last favor.”

Having said that, she looked directly at Karla.

As if missing something, or as if searching for traces of someone on Carla’s face.

Even though there was affection for Havel now, there were no other nasty feelings.

“It wasn’t that I was trying to claim my innocence or to beg for my life. She said she cared about her daughter who would become her slave and said she would not die even if she died like this, and she bowed her head to me. That Theodore, who is more aristocratic than anyone else.”

“Ah…”

Carla’s ruby-colored eyes fluttered aimlessly as she heard her father’s final appearance.

Carla held her hand without a word from her, and she strongly grabbed her. She seemed to be looking for something that she could rely on even a little bit, and she responded by holding me tight.

Having looked at us for a while, Havel nodded her head.

“All the evidence was clear, and since I threatened you, I had to cut Theodore. … But I couldn’t bear to refuse it coldly.”

In the end, Havel swung her sword after promising to take good care of her Karla.

“She was on her own. Thankfully, the empire spared me no money. I thought I would be able to bring back any number of gold coins that I had piled up until now saying I didn’t need this many.”

But there’s a problem. Of course, a few days before Karla’s auction started, cultists began to cause simultaneous terrorism in Balder, the capital city.

And with an intensity that can’t be ignored.

“I am… I had to protect your majesty. Because that is my duty, and the faith I swore by my sword.”

Karla’s auction ended while Havel was tied up.

I thought I might not be able to find Karla’s whereabouts because I could participate anonymously if I wanted to, but fortunately I became famous and Karla’s existence became famous as well.

“So I tried to visit the academy several times, but… Something keeps happening.”

An attempt to assassinate the emperor, an explosion caused by a failed experiment by an imperial mage, an incident in which the imperial palace, which was supposed to be well maintained, was aging and the crown prince was imprisoned, and so on.

A really unbelievable coincidence happened over and over again.

As if he would not send Havel to her academy.

“Honestly, I had no doubts. But I couldn’t find any evidence. That’s why she couldn’t bear to go far and locked herself in the imperial palace…”

Perhaps, in reality, Fiona was cheating on something.

Unlike the original future where Karla was trapped in her basement and her whereabouts were unknown, this time I took Karla openly.

At the time, she must have thought it better for her vulgar nemesis to hold her than to fall into the hands of Theodore and her friend Havel.

I’m thinking a little differently now.

On top of that, Fiona’s interference is working to my advantage. Hadn’t she already planted doubts in Havel’s mind?

For me, who has to expose Fiona’s true identity, it’s bound to help.

Having said that, Havel slightly raised her mouth, which had been hardened until now.

“But just in time, I felt an enormous divine power from the side of the castle gate. And the daughter of Theodore, whom I was looking for so much, is there.”

Theodore, who stopped even walking now and looked this way, looked straight into Carla’s eyes and said,

“You may not remember, but I do remember your childhood. I remember how much Theodore loved my daughter, and I remember his last request.”

“…”

“I promise you with my sword. If you want, I will do anything to bring you. And free me from slavery. I have thoughts of taking her as my adopted daughter if necessary, and of sending her to a foreign country if the empire is inconvenient.”

“…”

“So tell me. Carla Lindelheit. What do you want to do What do you want and what will help you. I… What can I do?”

“I am…”

After a bit of thought, Kara crossed her arms and smiled at Havel for the first time.

Carla’s unique bright smile without a cloud.

“I am happiest when I am with my master! I’ve become a body that can’t do without my master!”

Bombed me

What do you mean, Carla…