The Youngest Daughter Of The Great Wizard Of The Famous Swordsmanship [EN]: Chapter 150

150. The Way to Save Rosette (1)

March 29, 2024

“Could it be that His Highness Joshua sent you?”

Silver didn’t know how to react, so he rolled his eyes upward, desperately trying to avoid Lucas’s gaze.

Lucas kept pressing Silver, who was mumbling.

“Hey, wolf. Answer me. Did His Highness send you, or what?”

Pipi, who had moved to hover over Lucas’s head, also watched Lucas carefully.

[Piiiii…]

“Why would His Highness send you at this hour? Tell me.”

Silver seriously considered shaking off Lucas and running away. If Joshua hadn’t said, ‘You need to find out exactly what happened to Rose,’ he would have run away already.

[Awoooo!]

Just as Silver howled once and decided to run, Joshua’s voice came from Silver’s necklace.

Lucas was so surprised that he took a step back, and Silver quickly ran to the window.

Silver, who had put his front paws on the window, returned to Lucas.

“Oh, so, is that Your Highness?”

“Oh, um…”

Lucas wondered if he should show respect to Joshua as a member of the Imperial Family and awkwardly bent his waist. Joshua seemed to have noticed and said,

“Yes.”

Lucas straightened his back and paused for a moment before asking,

“By the way, did Your Highness really send Silver?”

“Why, though…?”

“What kind of discussion at this hour…?”

“Her Majesty the Empress did? But why send Your Highness instead of a letter…?”

Normally, Lucas wouldn’t have questioned Joshua so closely. But given the situation, he had no choice but to risk being rude.

In the end, Joshua decided to change the subject naturally.

“That’s…”

Lucas sighed deeply. Silver and Pipi also made gloomy noises, following his lead.

Lucas hesitated to tell Joshua this story. Duke Adrian had issued a gag order to the mansion’s residents about this matter.

‘But…’

Even if he didn’t explain now, Silver, who had already seen everything, would go back and explain to Joshua. Knowing Joshua’s personality, he would come directly to the Adrian mansion to ask about the situation if he heard everything from Silver.

It was better to explain calmly now.

“The little one suddenly collapsed.”

<...Collapsed?>

Lucas approached Silver and whispered softly,

“She collapsed once before and hasn’t been in good health since, so I was worried. Then she suddenly collapsed.”

“The doctor said he couldn’t find a specific reason. Celine said…”

Lucas stopped talking belatedly, and Joshua urged him.

“That’s…”

Joshua sighed as he looked at Silver’s eyes, which were staring at him.

“Your Highness, this humble servant dares to ask. May I, may we, the Adrian family, trust Your Highness?”

Lucas looked at Rosette, who was lying in bed, and opened his mouth.

“Does Your Highness remember what happened at the Adrian estate 12 years ago?”

<12 years ago? Are you talking about the carriage accident my teacher had?>

“Yes. My father told me to be careful with my words, so the truth of the incident was not known outside, but in fact, it was the little one who saved my father then.”

<...I see.>

Lucas slowly approached Rosette. Silver followed behind him, his tail drooping.

Lucas put his hand on Rosette’s pale forehead and continued,

“I’m not a mage, so I still don’t know exactly how the little one saved my father. However, I do know that the little one collapsed for nearly ten days as a result of using a large amount of magic at that time. Celine said that the little one’s mana was depleted.”

“Celine said that the little one’s condition is similar to that time.”

“Strictly speaking, she said it’s a bit different, but that’s essentially it.”

Joshua groaned softly from beyond Silver’s necklace. Lucas clenched his fist tightly.

“Why did the little one become like this? The little one has grown a lot since then, and as far as I know, she hasn’t used enough mana recently to strain her body.”

<.......>

“But why…?”

In the end, tears that he couldn’t hold back fell.

Pipi rubbed his face against his cheek as if to comfort him, but Lucas couldn’t calm down.

“When I first saw the little one, I wanted to protect her as her brother. But I could never protect her. Even this time, I…”

“Thank you for your consideration.”

With those words, Silver looked at Lucas and slowly walked towards the window. Lucas, who had barely calmed down, asked Silver’s back as he moved away,

“But Your Highness, is that really all?”

“I’m asking if Your Highness really has no ulterior motives for sending your familiar [a magical animal companion] today.”

Before Joshua could finish his answer, Silver quickly jumped out the window.

“Your Highness!”

Lucas quickly clung to the window, but the wolf had already disappeared. He sighed once and returned to sit next to Rosette.

“Little one, what is your relationship with His Highness?”

Of course, there was no answer from Rosette.

But Lucas could guess the relationship between Rosette and Joshua.

‘Daniel was very wary of His Highness before.’

Daniel must have noticed the relationship between the two of them.

Normally, he would have been furious. No matter how much the other person was Joshua, he would have questioned how he dared to covet his lovely sister.

But the situation was too bad.

“Won’t you open your eyes and talk to me, even if it’s just a word? This brother will understand everything…”

[Piiiii…]

Lucas and Pipi lowered their heads at the same time.

It was a night of complicated thoughts.

* * *

Silver, who had returned to Joshua’s bedroom, whined and looked at Joshua. He was sorry for being caught by Lucas because of his carelessness.

Joshua tapped Silver’s head.

“It’s not your fault, Silver. It couldn’t be helped.”

Silver still made whining noises.

“It was going to be revealed someday anyway. It’s just a little early. Ah, of course, Rose might get angry if she finds out…”

This time, Silver groaned for a different reason. Joshua asked in a weak voice,

“How was Rose?”

Silver described the scene he had seen.

“I see. She was pale with no color in her face.”

Joshua pondered over Silver’s description and Lucas’s explanation he had heard through the communication device a little while ago.

‘Mana depletion…’ It was a rare occurrence. Moreover, like Lucas said, there was no reason for Rosette to be mana depleted given the circumstances.

If there was one thing to point out…

-I hadn’t thought about it until now, but are there any side effects from turning back time?

-Side effects?

-Yes. I don’t know exactly what kind of magic you used. But I’m a little doubtful that there are no side effects to such magic.

Joshua had once expressed such a question to Rosette. It must have been after she collapsed for no reason on the day of the hunting competition.

At the time, Rosette replied that she had been fine so far, so there would be no problem in the future. Joshua also replied that he hoped so; no, it had to be so.

In fact, he hoped that things would pass without any problems. But the cruel Goddess Asella seemed to have no intention of leaving Rosette alone.

“If Rose collapsed as a price for magic, I’m the only one who can save her.”

[Woof?]

“Because I’m the only one who knows what happened in the past and what Rose did to change everything.”

Joshua went to the drawer and held the pendant Ophelia had given him tightly in his hand.

“First, I need to ask Mother about this pendant.”

The magic stone pendant that was said to protect its owner from any threat.

It was unknown exactly what was included in the scope of that ‘threat’.

But if this magic stone that protected him from Rosette’s magic could also save Rosette, who was paying the price for that magic…

But in order to do that, he had to ask Ophelia for more details. There was a possibility that Rosette might not wake up if he only used the power of the magic stone.

“Mother will be asleep, so I should look for another way first. Silver, follow me.”

Joshua put the pendant back in the drawer and left the room. His destination was the library, where all kinds of magic books were gathered.