Search for a missing person continues?
And then, absent-mindedly somehow found my my calm.
When I move my body, time flows by.
At the breakfast looking at the warm atmosphere of Earl and his wife, Alan's amazed face, Reggie laughing expression, have feel the calm everyday life, thanks to forgetting [things I have to think about]
However, when trying to find out about magic, the content of the book does not come into my head.
It reminds me. A person who have became a magician, who turned into sand and collapsed.
I am afraid to investigate if I think that I will become the same. So I want to turn attention to what makes me feel more calm.
At the same time, I think.
In near future to escape my fate, perhaps I can change the fate of this castle to not be destroyed, maybe even Reggie will not die.
On the contrary, as expected this world, it isn't connected with game. What if this is just dream-like thing from my imagination, it will crush me hopelessly.
“Even though I know ……”
Unintentionally spilling those words.
There is no way anything will work out that way. I knew the [events that took place in the past], so I was able to escape. But other people do not know what will happen to them in the future. In this world they should be fighting in the darkness and originally don't know anything.
That is why I think I must manage everything somehow. But my mind is about to stop. I do not want to die, I am afraid.
“Kiara, you feel sick?”
Reggie asked, and I was taken aback.
“Oh, sorry … I was somewhat dazed, even though I asked Reggie to help me with research, I'm really sorry.”
“You do not have to apologize … just … have you been lost in thoughts recently from seeing the magician die, huh? ”
I'm startled. At the same time, I felt disgusted of how easily I was read. At least I searched for words so I could hide the real reason.
“Um … … after all, people who turn into the sand is a bit too stimulating,” I declared that I was only shocked by the magician’s last moments.
If it is a girl of about my age, she would think, it's not strange to be frightened that person was in that state only after making a contract with the devil.
” So? Even considering this you think too much …. I mean …”
No, he has noticed my inner thoughts, no doubt. At Reggie's words I felt nervous, and he quietly told me.
“Wasa person who you were acquaintances with in similar situation? Because of this you were under such strong shock?”
It felt like I was going to breathe in grandly with my inner heart.
…… Reggie unusual reasoning gave me a pinch and I was saved.
But, I see.
It is not a mistake on a certain aspect that there was an acquaintance who resembles the mage who died. It's Just that it's me two years later. Thinking that way, Reggie is sharp.
I am going back to ambiguous answer saying
“It might be the case …” just to cheat. When I showed my face, I thought that I would be found out if it was a lie.
But fingers are attached to my chin.
Eh, Reggie is touching me! What? I turned to his face while surprised. Reggie who came to immediately poked a hand on the desk and caught my chin with the other hand. The light of the candlestick illuminates us while shaking, keeping an eye on the face of the Reggie. I could not even move.
What is this! This situation, it's something like a terrible love affair! And Reggie is doing a move without hesitation! Moreover, this person seems to be used to it, and it does not mean that I have done something so far, though my head is getting messed up when I think about it!
Even in previous life I had no experience in sweet and sour situation like this. It’s an unexplored encounter.
Thanks to that I don't know how to move, what to say. Although I don't know, the feeling of Reggie's finger is ticklish and I can see that the face takes heat. But because of that, Reggie seems to have erased his doubt.
“Now your face color seems healthier, isn't it?”
That is what he said and took his hand off my chin. To the relieved me, Reggie invited me.
“It looks like what we still can't find anything on the topic, let us take a break? We should go to other places sometimes.. Kiara beside the border region with Margrave's wife, the rest of the castle you haven't seen, right?
Now that he said it, it is true.
Every time I came to the district border of the castle, I felt busy while checking out magic, and even when I had business at work I haven't even visited the garden.
Certainly, it seems that the life not hit by the light of the day is not good for both the body and the spirit.
Nodding, he pulled my hand and with Reggie we left the archive.
“Your Highness, where are you going?”
“I want to go around the castle ”
The knight who was waiting outside the library listens to the Reggie's plan and the nearby attendant runs away.
When I slowly advanced through the castle with the Reggie, we arrived at the stables,thanks to the attendant who previously informed them, the stall servant has pulled out the horses that supposed to be the one of the Reggie and his knight.
From the time I ran away from the church school had passed by nearly two months, but I feel that I went to the side where correspondence like a nobility seems to be done after a long time. Noble lady does not practice horseback riding, but when one tells them they want to ride, those who serve would prepare the horse.
“Kiara, can you ride a horse?”
I shook my head at his question.
Before, I thought that I would like to ride one, but Earl did not let me approach the horse.
…… Now i think, it was to prevent escape.
Such a beginner in horse riding, I was admiring how beautifully Reggie has stirrup rising his foot and sat down on a horses back, grasping my hand he pulled me beside himself
Surprised by a powerful draw, I settle down sideways in front of the saddle.
“Wow, so high”
Being higher than half of my high, I am half curious and half afraid of the heights,so I become restless.
Then Reggie with a smooth motion took hold of me at the waist and grabbed the reins.
“Do not bend too much, Kiara , I don't know if you will fall ”
Reggie who smiled giggly started to walk a horse, and I straightened my spine.
The brown horse slowly walked, but still shook a lot. It was me who hurriedly grasped the front side of the saddle with both of my hands, but still could not stabilize. I am afraid to slide down from the saddle accidentally. If possible I would rather not sidetrack, but when I thought that I wanted to sit like him, Reggie put strength in his hands and turned my waist. At that moment, I felt relieved to be very stable.
“I’m sorry, I will not let you fall down, so it's okay, I'm holding you firmly so relax.”
Again while laughing Reggie told me that, and I nodded.
With Reggie and the knight who was riding behind him, eventually we left the castle grounds. It is a castle that has neither a drown bridge nor an excavation, but what is spreading further is a prairie that envelops the hill. Reggie will go on a loose slope extending there. By that time, I was getting used to riding a horse. I can understand how to sway, and I can afford to look around.
Soon the road enters into a forest with leaves.
“The forest here, the trees are quite tall, when we entered I feel like they are growing more and more, but they're not”
While muttering about my impressions of the forest, Reggie responds.
“Because we went by the carriage, we couldn't have enjoyed the view from a small window.”
“Yeah, it sounds like an illusion … Ah, the forest ends.”
Beyond that, there is a field where the gentle hills flatten. Where you can only see the rising soil of the ridge that just had been seeded. What kind of round vegetables are planted is that cabbage?
Glowing with green, what kind of field is this?
I was curious about the left and right fields, suddenly came to my senses when Raggie gulped..
What happened?
I could not afford to hear, Reggie turned the horse and ran.
“Hang on!”
On a horse running at a speed that I likely will be bounced off, I clung to Reggie.
“What's happening?!”
“It is your pursuer”
“Eh !?”
What does he mean by pursuer ? However, I am so concentrated to not fall back, that I cannot check the surroundings. Finally when the horse slowed down the speed as much as the feet, we were back in the forest.
“Oh, a pursuer? What do you mean?”
“There was a man under the patriarch who was pursuing while you were here, I think that it is not a mistake that it's him.”
I am surprised, but why?
Could it be that time, when we encountered it in the grassland where thunder grass grows.
But so much time passed already.
“Could it be, he thought that I was with Alan, maybe he have been sticking here all this time?"
But wanting to bring me back so much as to capture me, what kind of people are they. They could do it to me, who is not a magician still.
Turning back to the road, Reggie talks with the knight after answering me”I do not know”.
“A man who came out from a cabin that was ahead of him, did not he seem to be chasing?”
“No, since it did not look like he was riding a horse, it would have been difficult to follow him.”
“Then we are okay for now …… ”
Reggie breathed out.
“Perhaps they have been looking for you all this time and have heard about you at the place where you stayed on the way, so that maybe you were chasing while lagging …. But it's already been a month. ”
Reggie also, didn't expect them to chase me for so long. His expression gets bitter.
“I think that they have not seen your figure yet, but let’s return to the castle anyway … it was still early to bring you out, now you have to be aware of your surroundings."
"Um, that much it is not necessary, because I will confine myself in castle …… ”
” You can't afford to stay there forever, right? ”
Horse proceeds while we are talking. Then, I saw several men wearing cloak that we caught before the castle, they were closing at us.
I thought they were escort knights of Reggie.
He is a prince after all. The Guards that learned that he by himself left for the forest, there is no other explanation, and as if preparing for the chasers .
However, it was wize.
When they viewed us, they pulled out the sword.