What Happens When The Second Male Lead Powers Up [EN]: Chapter 615

But even if it was a ‘original work’ that could no longer be called an original work, I couldn’t stop respecting this place. Or rather, the people here.

If you ask me what respect I’m talking about when I’ve caused all sorts of accidents······.

Still, there’s such a thing as human decency, isn’t there? We’re not really villains.

“If possible, we should avoid causing a disturbance. The less I use my oracle, the better. If we haven’t been caught yet, we should try to avoid being caught in the future. Wouldn’t it be better to cause as little trouble as possible to Cristel, to you, Your Highness, and to the elders of the imperial family?”

“······.”

I quietly let go of his wrist as he stared at it so intently.

I wondered if he was very displeased, but he silently put the sword back.

Sir Johan, who had been watching my every move from head to toe, asked.

“Then what should we do, Lord of the Palace? Those guys will want to clean us up.”

The expression of the person who cleaned the portal platform looked so refreshed. What a fate.

“······If the house is clean, they won’t try to clean it. It seems they haven’t found any dust yet, so we just need to hide more perfectly.”

“But it’s really desolate here······. No, I’m sorry. I mean, the natural environment is really beautiful and wonderful, but there’s no house or space to hide in, is there? I didn’t see any caves on the way here either. Going into a place like that could be dangerous.”

Gaine whispered, looking back and forth between Sir Johan and me.

I bit my lip, pulling the Gaga bag that was slung behind me forward.

That was actually the biggest problem.

It was good to get out of the Imperial Palace, where there were thousands of eyes and ears watching, and the Imperial Capital, where the guards were bustling around, but we didn’t have any further plans right now.

The faces of my teacher and His Majesty, sighing as they looked at us, seemed to flicker before my eyes.

I wouldn’t be able to say anything even if they scolded me for causing trouble without thinking······.

【Yeah, you cause trouble without thinking.】

Ah, not Hyung! Everyone else can scold me, but not Hyung!

“Your Highness, is there really no place to hide? A place where we can stay quietly without being noticed. As the lord of this territory, you must know something······.”

I hurriedly looked back at that rascal Cedrick.

Then he let out a sigh-like word.

“······I’ll have to open it.”

“Yes?”

What are you going to do when you get back?

“I can’t think of any place right now. I always camped out when I patrolled the territory.”

“Ah······.”

Oh dear. I tried not to show my anxiety in front of the prince.

Looking back, he was smiling gently and hugging Leia and Ferry.

The holy relic bracelet hidden in his robe pocket occasionally emitted a reddish-green aura and then subsided.

율리터’s [unidentified name] headdress had never done this before, so this friend seemed a little different.

However, it didn’t emit Etherna mana, and it wasn’t particularly unpleasant, so I kept it safe for now.

I gently stroked the top of the pocket and peeked beyond the bushes.

Knights in red armor were moving around on horseback.

Fortunately, the situation didn’t feel urgent, and it seemed they had entered here while searching the forest.

I sat between my partners and spun my head around. It was late at night, but I was wide awake with tension. Um, um······.

“Ah, there was an uphill slope that looked like a cut-off cliff on the way here. First, we should clean up the fire pit and bedding, hide behind that uphill slope, and avoid the area······.”

“That’s enough. Follow me from now on.”

“Yes?”

I was squeezing out anything I could with improvisation, but 슈 [Shu] suddenly spoke, who had been quiet until now.

Then the prince and even the precious ones widened their eyes and looked at the elder.

He had looked tired just a moment ago, but his wrinkled eyes were now filled with energy.

The goat 도토리 [Dotori], stuck to his side, looked as brave as a Liester warhorse.

“I am a formal employee of the Evelyn Summer Palace, and among them, the person with the widest range of movement permissions. Now that things have come to this, what difference would it make if an old man feigned ignorance? If I pretend to be coy, I’ll only hasten my own demise.”

“You mean······.”

“Let’s go. To the sea that even the big, red mountain cannot dare to chase.”

노온 [Noon] put on a thin shawl and firmly gripped her cane. Crack!

We all shuddered at the same time.

-Meeeh

It was a moment of welcoming an unexpected leader!

*

Early the next morning.

Near a coastal cliff in Evelyn.

-Clatter, clatter, clatter······

-Swish, swish, swish······

Cristel, who had lost her precious prince friend, was riding a pony with a somewhat subdued mood.

The little ‘죽창이’ [Jukchangi – Little Spear], carrying its owner occasionally made her laugh with cheerful cries, but the strange feeling was not easily washed away like a greasy dish.

The sound of the waves approaching from afar did not sound as refreshing as it did today.

It was she who suggested coming to Evelyn, and it was also she who had been dragging her friends around to find the prince herself from before.

So, she should be energized during the search, but recently, she often felt like this······.

-Clatter······

“······.”

Yes, that broken necklace was incredibly 신경 쓰였다 [bothering her].

Cristel fervently stared at the necklace string sticking out and shaking from the man’s pocket.

While realizing that she was acting too young, she rationalized that it was okay to some extent since she was using a young body.

Her personality hadn’t changed much even after entering college and until she was thirty, so she wondered what was so new about being mature.

Even though they hadn’t properly reconciled after a big fight, she was still the Crown Prince’s ‘fiancée’ anyway.

The man had noticed her gaze early on, but he was pretending not to notice with a haughty attitude.

Seeing his and 샤를마뉴’s [Charlemagne’s] prim side profiles made her feel angry.

“Hoo······.”

Cedrick Liester was looking for the owner of that necklace, and that person was likely a priest, and perhaps a very important person to the Crown Prince······. She understood that much.

She had seen the poster with her own eyes and had heard the story.

But understanding with her head and······. That······. Completely accepting it was a different matter.

If you ask what nonsense I’m talking about, I don’t have the confidence to explain it neatly either.

“······You are cursing with your eyes.”

“Ah, did you hear me?”

“If you have something you want to ask, ask.”

The Crown Prince, who was cutting through the bushes with a pure white sword, said lazily.

Cristel didn’t miss the chance.

Now was the perfect opportunity, with Elizabeth and Marquis Dwiem and Andre Gongja not here.

The three of them would now be carefully examining the wide forest leading to the cliff.

“You have a ‘blessing.’ Why are you trying to find that priest so much?”

“······.”

“That person may not want to meet Your Highness. If I were him, I would be a little scared and 싫을 것 같은데 [wouldn’t like it].”

The man this time openly let out a deep breath.

On his forehead as he looked back at her, the words ‘I’m speechless’ were written all over it.

“No, it’s not that I have any other thoughts. I’m just wondering why you’re going to so much trouble when you already have a way to solve it in your hands. Maybe that······.”

“······.”

“This is real curiosity, just curiosity. I’m not asking because I have other intentions.”

“Speak.”

“······Are you trying to find a religious partner?”

At those words, the Crown Prince frowned and snorted. Cristel really only thought it in her mind.

‘You little 새끼 [ssae-ggi – brat], I’m asking you seriously, and you’re laughing?’

“Is that all you’re curious about?”

“Well······. That and now, when will you have breakfast and······. How old is 샤를 [Charlemagne]······? Ah, haven’t you thought about what you want for your birthday present yet?”

“Ha.”

The other person made a short sound in his throat as if he had heard something very funny.

His black horse also snorted, following suit.

Cristel barely managed to resist the urge to raise her middle finger in front of her fiancé’s handsome face.

Whenever that young punk acted so haughty as if he knew all the principles of the world, she honestly felt a twinge in the back of her neck.

But no matter how annoying he was, she couldn’t use her fingers. It wasn’t the first or second time he had reacted like that, so she had to be patient for Isabel’s sake.

Above all, he tended to answer her questions if he could.

That’s how he dragged out the time.

-Clatter, clatter, clatter······

“That person may know the imperial family’s top secrets.”

Oh, such a behind-the-scenes story? Cristel’s eyes widened at the finally opened lips.

“So I must catch him, interrogate him, and take the necessary measures. A religious partner is······.”

The following sentence wasn’t very important, but her ears perked up for no reason.

Cristel grabbed 죽창이’s [Jukchangi’s] reins and looked up at her fiancé with big eyes.

She had the illusion that the corners of his lips were rising diagonally along the cliff.

Cedrick took out the old necklace as if to show it off and stared at her.

“······Jealousy is not a virtue of the empress.”

“Yes?”

······What? What are you talking about all of a sudden?

“You must cultivate yourself more.”

“Me?”

The princess pointed to herself with an absurd expression, and finally, realizing the prince’s meaning, she quickly turned red and purple.

She was terribly offended and her anger soared to the top of her head at the fact that he had accepted it in that sense when she hadn’t asked in that sense.

Hey, what is that, 씨― [ssi – term of address]!

“Wait.”

“What do you mean wait? Do you know that you only change the subject when it’s my turn? I haven’t even started yet,”

“There’s something over there.”

The prince instantly aimed the edge of the cliff with sharp eyes.

At the same time, his eyes containing the sea turned away.

This was land that even the Grand Rouge and front-line imperial troops who had been urgently deployed could not easily set foot on.

The entire cliff was a place where outsiders were prohibited from entering, so they had to pass thorough security checks, and even the palace’s servants and maids dared not enter without permission.

Only Cedrick himself, His Majesty the Emperor, and 대모님 [Daemoniim – Grand Mother]······.

“······Wow. Is that a bell tower? It’s so pretty.”

“······.”

The man’s gaze passed the white bell tower beyond the bushes and went to the building behind it.

A small, faded shrine was visible.