The Return of Lilietta - Chapter 65

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Chapter 65

“Gid, is this really the time for jokes? Brother, calm down and listen to me!”

Lillieta shouted at Gideon and pulled on Richard’s arm.

However, Richard glared at Gideon without even looking back at her. Cold sweat dripped down his jaw. The Crown Prince’s smile deepened.

“Rita, your brother has good instincts. His talent is remarkable. No wonder he was summoned by the Pascals, but was there a reason he couldn’t become a hero…?”

“Just shut up, Gid! Brother Richard, calm down. It’s not the situation you’re thinking of…”

“Resolve the misunderstanding when you get home, Rita. If you stay here any longer, even I’ll have trouble cleaning this up.”

Gid pulled out an elegant letter bearing the Imperial seal from his chest, strode forward boldly, and stood casually at the sword’s point.

“…!”

Then he calmly slipped the letter envelope into the startled Richard’s pocket, stepped back refreshingly, and pointed to the open window.

“Prince Raskail, please leave with the Noblewoman and head to the Northwest Gate. A carriage will be waiting to escort you.”

“What…”

Gideon said what he had to say, gazed at Lillieta for a moment, then left the bedroom. Only then did Richard lower his sword and mutter with a pale, bloodless face.

“What kind of monster is that…”

“Let’s go for now, Brother Richard.”

“Huh?”

“Let’s go home and talk.”

Rita hurriedly dragged him along.

As Gid said, the longer Richard stayed here, the harder it would be to clean up.

Whether it was to save his sister or whatever, barging into the Imperial Palace and pointing a sword at the Crown Prince was definitely treason.

‘Are there many witnesses? Gid will somehow clean it up, right? It’s Gid’s fault for kidnapping someone in the first place!’

Though she trusted him, she moved quickly, frightened by the weight of the crime called treason. Richard was led by her to the window and asked in bewilderment.

“R-Rita, are you okay…?”

“I’m fine, I’m perfectly well, so let’s hurry and go.”

She dragged her flustered brother and jumped out the window. Heading northwest without thinking, they found a side gate of the Imperial Palace, and as Gid said, a carriage was waiting. As soon as they got in, the carriage departed on its own.

Rita let out a long sigh only after confirming the carriage had left the Imperial Palace. Then she spoke to Richard, who had a confused expression.

“Were you trying to save me?”

“…Yes.”

Regardless of the tangled situation, she felt touched. Richard couldn’t have been unaware of how dangerous and reckless this was, yet he had been willing to throw away everything from his status to his life for her sake.

Rita gently placed her hand on top of her brother’s hand sitting across from her.

“Thank you, Brother Richard.”

“…”

“But next time, don’t do such reckless things. Brother Leonhardt and our parents were against it too, right?”

“…They said to lock me up until my head cooled down when I said I’d go rescue you. But how could I do that?”

Richard muttered like talking to himself with his head down, his eyes bloodshot.

“Knowing what you might be going through at this very moment, when it’s only been so long since I promised to protect you somehow… how could I just wait quietly like that? If something happened to you, I would…”

Rita felt sorry imagining his mental anguish, while also wanting to smack Gid Pascal on the back of the head about seven times. That guy who so brilliantly grasps his position and surrounding situations acting so carelessly without a plan.

‘No, maybe it wasn’t completely without a plan.’

She looked at the smoothly moving luxury carriage and the envelope sticking out of Richard’s pocket, let out a small sigh, then spoke calmly.

“It’s okay, brother. Really nothing happened. It wasn’t a big deal.”

“…”

He looked unconvinced. Seeing his eyes trembling, it seemed he suspected she was deliberately acting composed.

Richard gritted his teeth and asked fiercely.

“Hey, nothing happened? When you were trapped in the Crown Prince’s Palace for three whole days and couldn’t come out? When all of father’s and brother’s requests to at least see your face were ignored, it’s not a big deal? Don’t lie.”

“…When you put it that way, it does sound serious, but it’s really a misunderstanding.”

Rita cursed Gid once more in her mind, then chose her words.

Would it be okay to reveal to her family that the Crown Prince was a returnee?

‘It should be fine.’

If it was something that absolutely shouldn’t be revealed, Gid would have warned her when they talked. To keep it secret even from family.

The fact that he didn’t specifically warn her meant he left the judgment to her, and she thought it would be okay to talk about being former comrades, keeping only things like hero resurrection and history alteration secret.

If not, he’d handle the aftermath himself. He’s the one who caused this mess.

‘How can I explain this situation while hiding that we grew up together in the same world? Everyone must have been incredibly worried.’

Having quickly reached a conclusion, she carefully opened her mouth.

“Um… brother, actually I’ve known His Highness the Crown Prince from before.”

Richard frowned at the strange explanation.

“What do you…”

“In the Ashen World.”

“…Huh?”

“You know the comrade I told you about. Gid Pascal, who was with me from the very beginning of training. That was His Highness the Crown Prince. He also lived in the Ashen World like me. He was in a catatonic state for 5 years, right? He even drew his sword because of Patchouli incense.”

Rita watched her brother’s eyes widen and his mouth fall open, then continued speaking calmly.

“Neither I nor His Highness the Crown Prince knew we’d reunite like this here, so the situation got tangled. I’ll tell you the details when we get home and the whole family is gathered.”

Richard, who had been staring at her with a shocked expression, suddenly narrowed his eyes. His gaze moved past her face to rest above her head. His purple eyes wavered.

“Wait, hey. What’s that thing in your hair?”

“Huh? What’s in my hair?”

“That… it looks like a men’s cravat.”

“Huh?”

Rita blinked, then finally realized what was tying up her hair. And what this would mean by social circle standards.

“Ah.”

“…Is it the Crown Prince’s?”

She hurriedly raised her hands to untie the cravat from her hair, then stuffed it haphazardly into her gown pocket.

“N-no, it’s nothing.”

“…”

“Don’t misunderstand, it’s not like that. It’s really nothing. I just borrowed it briefly because I had nothing to tie my hair with…”

“…”

Richard’s eyes grew narrower and narrower. Lillieta felt like she was sinking deeper into a swamp the more she spoke.

“Anyway, this is also a misunderstanding, brother.”

“Ah, I see.”

“It’s really a misunderstanding.”

“Right, I made a big misunderstanding… a really huge misunderstanding…”

Richard laughed wistfully and emptily. Lillieta cursed Gideon in her mind once again and tried to smile.

“Brother Richard, you understood what I meant properly, right?”

“Yeah, don’t worry. I’m on your side no matter what you do. You’re all grown up now, so it could happen. I’ll keep it secret from our parents and brother. I see, so you had that kind of relationship, that’s why…”

“…”

Rita turned away from her enlightened brother and held her forehead.

A misunderstanding harder to resolve than the Crown Prince’s kidnapping and confinement incident had clearly arisen, but there seemed to be no way to clarify it.

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After returning to Creme Dome and talking with her family, Rita was able to learn how the situation had unfolded after the Kraken attack.

First, the Imperial Palace had classified the monster attack as an assassination attempt or terrorism using monsters and was investigating the perpetrators. The name ‘Kraken’ had come up, but there was no mention of it being a magical beast, so they seemed to be hiding the fact that it wasn’t an ordinary monster.

The Kraken’s corpse was collected by the Imperial Palace and announced to be studied in cooperation with the Magic Tower, and the Crown Prince apologized for the unfortunate incident during the Imperial boating party and compensated the nobles for their damaged yachts.

Thanks to the spectacular battle with the monster conducted in full view of the social circle’s nobles and the capital’s citizens, everyone had been talking about that incident for days.

Since there were no deaths or seriously injured people, and such an unbelievably huge monster was defeated with unfamiliar magic and techniques, people found this incident extremely interesting rather than feeling a sense of crisis.

Moreover, the Crown Prince mentioned that the prowess he displayed was a new combat technique he had personally researched with a small number of talented individuals, causing rampant speculation about it.

As a result, stories and rumors about Lillieta were also inflating to an absurd level.

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