Chapter 562 – [My Admissions Expedition]

Luminous stayed with me through the winter night until the sun came up.

And when I asked the people of the territory, they said it was one of the traditions of the territory.

Winter nights are long, and nights are a special place in this domain where monsters attack. And no matter how much it is in the battlefield, underage men and women cannot participate in the battlefield.

Strong adult men go to the castle walls to fight monsters, and among those who remain, underage men and women spend the night.

Among them, the act of a minor woman going to a man’s house and staying up all night is said to be an engagement tradition here. Even if chastity itself is not touched, the fact that an unmarried woman stays up all night with another man means ‘I will marry this person’.

I thought I was leaving evidence by committing something, so I made a mistake. The idea of ​​Ruminus was not to make a pre-established fact, but to create another pre-established fact before that so that it would not be possible to gamble.

You tricked me!!! Luminous!!!!

To be honest, I was just upset. All I was preparing for was for her to attack me, but it wasn’t that, it was the purpose of staying up all night with me!!!!

“Did you enjoy the night?”

“… There’s no way other people didn’t know that Luminus acted like that. Then you, my older brother, would have known, is that okay?”

“It’s good if Her Highness connects with my sister. And she’s all the more so if the child likes her.”

“What about the Marquess of Beastra?”

“I made sure not to go into my father’s ears.”

The cause was you, Knox!!!!

That father and that son, and that same little sister and that brother!!!

“But, isn’t His Highness not the kind of person to disregard and hand over such Luminous?”

“……If rumors spread like that, it wouldn’t be right for her to marry someone other than me.”

Nobles’ society is closed, so it’s easy for rumors to spread. In fact, it was an outlier.

However, if there was an important problem, it was Zion.

“But she has a crush on her. Even if I like her Luminous, if she is there, I’ll make her my number one priority.”

“Oh, that’s fine”

“……?”

“That means that you will eventually accept that child, and anyway, isn’t it a story that she will connect with the person he likes? That’s enough.”

He wants his younger sister’s happiness rather than gains or losses… He’s a pretty good older brother.

I don’t know how the result will be, but I can judge that it’s good. I can give it a decent score, but right now it’s an ambiguous problem.

See you after you come to Zion. Understand? I don’t know when it will come, but it won’t be that late.

Anyway, Knox said he didn’t want this story to reach the ears of the Margrave of Bistra. In the end, there is no child who wins the parent, and no parent who wins the child.

What do you mean? That means it will eventually catch up.

“I bet you had a great time”

“……I am also a victim, Count.”

“I guess I’ll do that too.”

I’m the one who saved Yeongji, and there’s no such thing in front of a father who has his daughter a thief in front of him.

It is a law to make sure that public and private matters are shared, and it is fortunate that the window does not pop out when you think of the daughter thief, who is the highest level among private matters.

“Let me ask you one thing. Are you going to take responsibility?”

“If you’re a boy, of course you should.”

“I like that.”

Jin-do only kissed, but Luminous’ power of action is frightening. Later, on the first ejaculation day, I think I will hide in bed in earnest.

Anyway, it’s not that I don’t have feelings for Luminus either. Besides, it’s already different, but since rumors spread, I wondered if she would be able to marry someone else other than me.

I have no choice but to take responsibility. If you find someone else you like later, you can send it to them then.

“If you talk like that, shouldn’t the count have to remarry?

“Since the children’s mother was there, I’m not interested”

Did you have Judging from the past tense of the words, it seems that Ruminus and Nox’s mother has passed away.

Marriage among nobles is a means of creating cliques through blood ties. That’s why most of them use it. Currently, the prince’s older brother also announces that he does not have a lover, so he is deliberately gathering the power of nobles with daughters…

Is it a family tradition to be pure love? It’s a pretty well-behaved family.

“After the winter, we will start developing it in earnest.”

“Yes, we will develop the Black Forest, which was the long-cherished wish of our ancestors, and develop the territory.”

“There will be flies too.”

“I’m confident that I can beat that much”

“Well, if that’s the case, it’s fine…”

“But because of this incident, military materials are not so necessary. From next year, we will reduce the amount of orders.”

“Count Vermilion might be a little bit more enthusiastic.”

“It’s probably the same for the second prince.”

For Count Vermilion, the second prince’s mother and the main source of income from military supplies, the Bistra estate is not a big profit, but it is a good source of income that continues to benefit.

Knowing that fooling around is going to suck, even if military corruption doesn’t happen, in an empire where there are no major wars other than Territory War, it has a great advantage to be a profitable business.

However, this time I replaced Viscount Brandish and even saved the Bistra estate, one of the sources of income, so it was unintentional to fuck that side.

To be honest, it looks good!

The word human and retribution is written like this. If I had been nice, I would have felt some remorse and covered it up to some extent.

“When this winter is over, I will have Luminous enter the academy with Her Highness around next year.”

“Originally, Luminus insisted on going, but…It’s just the right timing. I won’t be bothered.”

“Besides, it’s not good to leave it alone in my arms, and I’m glad I have the best guardian.”

“……Am I younger than Luminus?”

“Ah, sorry. You’re usually a grown-up.”

As a reincarnated person, I often hear that I am the same because I am old when I am young. On the contrary, I often hear that I am like a child when I become an adult.

If the Margrave of Bistra became the real power of the empire, his children would be targeted. Even if the Margrave of Bistra had no intention of remarrying, it was because Knox and Luminous had to marry eventually.

Among the dark-hearted guys, there are probably not many people who genuinely love and go out with each other. At least I have Luminus, but Nox will have a hard time.

No, even with me, I can’t say that no one clings to Luminous. Even if it’s not a man, my mouth tingles when I think of noble ladies smearing honey on their mouths and shoutinghaha.

For that reason, he deliberately evacuates to the academy. At least at an academy far from the social world, it would be a little different.

“I have something to ask you, Your Highness.”

“What is it?”

“If I become the real power of the empire, Your Highness will be the most likely candidate for emperor.”

A territory at the level of one quarter of the empire’s territory.

My father-in-law is in the 10 continents, and I am also in the 10 continents.

Thinking of those two conditions, it was clear that if I participated in the battle for the throne, I would become a bitch character who deviated from common sense.

“Aren’t you interested in being the emperor?”

“Do you think Luminus will be happy if I become the emperor?

“You’re right”

The Margrave of Bistra smiled heartily as if he knew that.

It was me who kicked the emperor in the face before, who offered to give him the emperor’s seat. From now on, I will not act like an emperor.

Power is addictive if you have it, but it’s like cigarettes or alcohol. It makes you feel better, but taking it for a long time will eventually ruin you.

If you see a lot of such a tail, you will feel disillusioned with power. And it’s annoying to deal with what’s going on there.

As a reincarnated person, it’s not once or twice that I feel exhausted and lazy… She was like this when Ana died.

“Anyway, I hope you’re comfortable during the winter.”

Let’s put the gloomy thoughts aside for a moment.

Because I live in the present, not in the past.

*        *    *

Winter passed quickly. Residents here prepared for the arrival of spring and made preserved food, doing productive activities that could be done at home.

Having already prepared last year, they had enough resources to get through this winter. If you think about the time when you usually fight monsters, spending time at home is rather boring.

And as the weather gradually warmed up, spring arrived.

It’s the year I turn 9 and the snow melts quickly due to the weather. Warmth was carried by the wind, and buds bloomed.

The black forest regained its green color and began to turn blue again. It will flower in summer and bear fruit in autumn.

The real spring came, not a metaphor, and people headed to the forest. Other than monsters, there were no threats such as wild beasts or wild animals, but animals were not a big obstacle to them fighting against monsters.

Oh, by the way, there are no monsters on this continent. Since the discovery of imagination, the seeds have dried up altogether.

It is said that the remaining monsters are probably about the ones in the dragon’s nest, but that means that they are difficult to see. Even in this world, dragons are creatures with a large gap.

“After going back to the imperial palace, I’m going to take care of a few things and enter the academy. What about Luminous?”

“Oh, then I’ll come too.”

“Is there anything else to do or prepare? Once you go, it will be hard to come back.”

[Bridges connecting spaces] Might exist in the academy, but I couldn’t come and go often. I heard that the academy is basically a dormitory life, and no matter how comfortable it is as long as you go to school, going back and forth to your house every day is… Isn’t it?

Furthermore, the weight of the luggage that can be transported with the [Bridge that connects space] Is fixed. Even if a few people could move, you had to use people to move daily necessities and other things.

“They say that the academy has pretty much everything. There aren’t many things I can bring myself.”

“Then what…”

“Oh, I’ll take the spear.”

“What window?!?”

“There is also a martial arts department at the academy, so I want to refine my spearmanship a bit more.”

The department that Leticia came out of was the general department. So, it means that there are other departments, and I heard that there are departments that focus on learning imagination.

It’s the best and largest educational institution in the world, so it’s only natural that there are classes. Rather, I think it’s good because I have a lot to learn.

It’s fun to build up knowledge of another world. Speaking of the history of the fantasy world, I feel like reading a fantasy novel, so I’m quite interested.

“I’ll go back to the palace after all. See you later.”

“Yes!!!”

After saying goodbye to Luminus, I returned to the Imperial Palace via the 【Bridge Connecting Space】.

And I met Dr. Adam separately at the Imagination Institute in the capital. I met him not for any other purpose, but because of an object I found while dealing with the Black Witch.

“Ah, Your Highness. Are you back!”

“How are you?”

“Yes, research is progressing smoothly and papers are being written smoothly.

No, I want to be a graduate student in moderation!!

…….Anyway, I took it out of my pocket. Something resembling a transparent glass bead, yet elastic. It wasn’t an object made with imagination, but it was an object that avoided even my interference and made it undetectable.

Because of this, I couldn’t pinpoint the location of the Black Witch in the Black Forest. It was only when I got closer that I was able to find it, starting with the void of Gigam.

No matter how you think about it, it’s an unusual thing. If Shion existed, she would have left it to Shion to analyze it, but since she is not there yet, it was best to ask the most knowledgeable person among my acquaintances.

“What is this…?”

“It’s something I found together with the Black Witch. Perhaps that’s why I couldn’t pinpoint the Black Witch’s location even with my detective self-fantasy.”

“Then…..!!!”

Dr. Adam analyzed the glass marble by examining it and rolling it in his hand.

He is also a person with the ability to dream, so I tried injecting him with imagination…But there was no response. I’ve already tried injecting this ability or something and seeing the reaction.

“Investigate this. I need to figure out what it is and how it was made. And who made it.”

“It will take a little time, no, a lot of time. It’s not self-fantasy, and it’s the first time I’ve seen it, and there’s no papers related to it… But I’ll do my best.”

The Black Witch first saw us and mistook us for someone else.

We are the first people to face her and her to us. And the one she gave this thing to.

I had to figure out what his purpose was and who he was. I don’t really like the bastard who is messing around behind me.

And I felt an ominous feeling in a corner of my heart.