Watashi wa Teki ni Narimasen! Chapter 18

The mystery of the pursuer.

“Everything's fine, as long as you are by my side – I will protect you!”

Afterwards, when I was able to walk by myself, I went to Mrs. Beatrice, after hearing the story, I became motivated to work hard. Her appearance of striking on the training grounds is beautiful and has a great impact.

“Well, if my mother here, it will be pretty safe, but if you don't leave the castle, I don't think there will be problem.”

Alan, who has heard the news , agreed with Mrs.Beatrice.

But wait a moment.

Alan’s way of saying about Frontier Countess  is like she's a female knight in escort. Originally I wondered why Mrs.Beatrice began doing something like martial art.

“I wish I was strong like my wife, but …. Wife, when did you start to learn the sword?”

In order to divert consciousness from other things, Evral Count cut in with a strange question, coming all the way to his mother’s room Alan answered.

“That was at time, mother to father … …”

“Wait Alan, everything further is a secret!”

Mrs.Beatrice stood up from the sofa and stopped Alan. Being seized by her words, Alan became startled and let out a low voice.

“I instructed that you can't talk about it before !”

“But every person in the castle knows!”

“Why!?”

“No, rather, was you trying to hide it?”

Looking at those two people’s interaction,I think how good to be like this.A couple who is thoughtful. And figure of affectionate parents, I commit it to my heart with envy. Because I have not been blessed with a family in this life. But, the previous life was normal. Being in the corner of my heart, [My father and mother of the previous life was also lovey-dovey couple], Mrs. Beatrice who finished punching Alan, turns into serious expression and faces me .

“Even so, I don't want to duplicate it with a questionless answer, to return girl who has run away, there is a method I can think about, which is fighting in our frontier army.”

“You will not object?”

Alan asked Mrs Beatriz who shook her head.

“Even then, I can't wait for the direct apology, rather I will just give you a chance to get in. Kiara here as an adopted daughter of the Count, but just as a citizen as a maid. If knight's make a mistake while in practise I would not say anything, but as a maid, if Kiara made a mistake, it would become a pretext for a quarrel. Still, a crowd who tried to make the daughter marry by using sleeping pills, what they were planning to do if they succeeded.. “

As Mrs. Beatrice says.

　To be honest, Earl Patricièl was never close to me as his daughter. It was only when judged as necessary outside. I was usually treated as a special-purpose servant who was dressed in gorgeous clothes and ate the meal at the same time. This is also to use me as a chess piece. The dog who was kept that way had ran away against their will. If found, she could no longer escape.

　Thoroughly,  like this it is good to come under the wing of Evral frontier Count, and I'm happy to be able to work for them.

“Well, as they know that we treat Kiara as a commoner, they might have launched a raid as the easiest method of attack. To bring back daughter of the family, mother would sympathise to the guardian and give her out without objection, that what they were thinking in this situation. ”

Mrs Beatrice is tilting her head to Alan’s guess.

“That's how it is … Yes I think that is the case … Because they don't want to get involved with the frontier army, maybe they wanted to attack, steal from us and escape?”

A man holding an answer to that was caught around the late evening.

I was preparing for bedtime, and someone knocked to the door of my room. It was Wentworth. A young knight with black hair and somewhat lacking expression took me out saying that he was called by Frontier Count.

At first, nothing was explained, so I thought that there was something they wanted to hear about today's events. So I easily wore a shawl from the blue dress that I have not changed yet, and left the room.

I taken outside of the castle – exactly inside the wall surrounding the castle. The insides of the wall surrounding the pavilion has a large garden, there was exposed a bare ground where soldiers can run around with horses, and lodgings for those, working in the castle.

Although the spring, the night wind was still cold and I was wearing only shawl

I shrugged my shoulders unintentionally. Why we came to the outside? It was me who became uneasy, but as Wentworth said in a piece of it, as you would have imagined.

“I caught someone who was looking for you after escape from church school.”

“Huh … … you found!”

He caught the subordinate of Patricièl, who is definitely involved in the raid. I was relieved that he came to inform me because I was wondering as to why he brought me out.

So now I will keep up with Wentworth confidently. When we arrived at the pa.s.sage entering the bas.e.m.e.nt from the outside of the castle, I was urged to get down there. As I was told to go underground, I was worried about where is the final destination.

“Wentworth-san, where is this place?”

When I asked, the answer came.

“Here is the dungeon that confines the prisoners, and where Vain Frontier Count and Prince Reginald are”

It seems that it is a Vein Frontier properly. And when I heard that Reggie is there, I felt more calm. Even if there is something, I believed that if it's Reggie, I will not get hurt.

But why in prison? Is it to talk in secret? Or would they like to show me the state of the Count Patriciel's followers state?

As I move while floating the mark in my head, I suddenly get concerned about my heart beat. I am afraid of entering the bas.e.m.e.nt at night only with the light of candlestick that was light up on the wall beside Wentworth.

Finally when the two of us arrive, my heart still thumps loudly.

“Sorry that you have come all the way to this place, Kiara.”

The Vain Frontier Count was the same way as he was outside, in a cloak and breastplate. Also with a sword on his waist.

“I’m sorry, even though it's so late at night”

said the Raggie, who wore clothes and a cloak too.

“Umm, You wanted to show me something?”

When asked about why I was called, Vain Frontier asked me.

“In the dungeon there is a man who saw you in the daytime.The situation seems to be going wrong immediately after catching him.We called for you because he seemed to have calmed down.”

The Frontier  Count pointed to Inside. Reggie advised me before trying to see it.

“I think I've seen him once, but I feel a bit shocked, so be mentally prepared Kiara, he probably became a magician.”

Probably became what? And when I heard that, I was shocked. I was wondering in what state was a subordinate of Count Patriciel .

At the moment I saw him, I felt my heart started to jump strongly. I don't know the reason. Because the appearance of a man was shocking, but it was not as suffocating as to distract my eyes.

He was somewhat calmer than that magician from before. His back is swollen, but there was no pillar supporting him to stand.

From the day time when I took a glimpse of him, his face and body looks even more swollen. It seems as if he was attacked by some bad disease. He was murmuring something.

'Because I have drank that. I feel so painful because of that drink. I thought it was strange. Dark red blood drink. I bet it was poison. It must be it.'

Endlessly, he looked up at the empty s.p.a.ce and was spinning those words.

Only with that you can a.s.sume that his heart is already broken. It is a human who tried to caught me and tried to take me back to a harsh environment. So I will not sympathize, but … it is a painful scene to see.

“Do you know something about what he talks?”

“If you have heard about some poison from Count of Patriciel, please tell us.”

Following Vain Count, Reggie asked me .

I tilt my head, however I remembered, while listening to that man’s words.

– I got a red drink like blood.

Those words took me aback. Could it be. I remember the red liquid I had drunk and  my physical condition was broken. I thought it was fruit juice, a little dark red drink.

When was the first time? Perhaps the first time I was given it, they said it was 'because it is a special day' when they brought me to the Count. Later I fell asleep for about three days. But only when I recovered, I think that the Count of Patricièl who got angry with anything I did, that day seemed really calm.

A man who drank a similar color drink seems to be in the same state as a magician  who collapsed. Then what if it was the medicine to make someone a magician?

What if he was glad when he saw me, who didn't become sand … … it's corresponding with the story. But that would mean that I was already in a state of that magician’s before he collapsed. However I have not tried using magic?

I have no choice but to guess like this … ….

I suddenly bite over my lower lip.

What to do. If I say about this, they would find out that I too have drank that liquid. If they think of me the same way as those magicians, I may end up in prison.

So that my power will not rampage and hurt someone by chance. While being in self-denial, I was told.

　- As I imagined, I have already retreated to the back of my throat a story about the red liquid. Instead, I let out from my lips.

“I … I do not know, I have not seen it,”

The words of denial.