The Snow Leopard Baby of the Black Leopard Family - Chapter 139

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Episode 139
“Hmm?”
The cushion was certainly out of place in Iandros’s Subspace. Tiel approached the pink cushion and poked it gently.
“……I feel like I’ve seen this cushion somewhere before.”
“…….”
“Is this that tiny cushion from before?”
“…….”
Iandros didn’t answer, but Tiel was certain. It was definitely the small cushion she’d sat on before. But……why had it grown so much?
Iandros deliberately turned away from the cushion and pulled Tiel’s hand along. Tiel didn’t ask further about it and followed him.
Iandros’s Subspace was the same dilapidated, desolate mansion as before. There was almost nothing different about it.
The only change was that some of the children’s toys scattered haphazardly across the floor had disappeared.
Iandros and Tiel passed through a long corridor. Iandros led Tiel to the room at the very end.
Iandros’s Subspace was still dim, but the fish that Tiel had created with her Ability illuminated everything before them, allowing them to move about without difficulty.
Iandros paused in front of the door and turned to look back at Tiel. Tiel gazed up at him.
Golden eyes reflecting bright light and emerald eyes shimmered together.
“I think this is all because of you.”
“What is?”
“See it with your own eyes.”
Iandros opened the door. Then a spacious room came into view.
The room at the very end was nearly empty, save for the Sacred Object imbued with Ability that Tiel had gifted to Iandros.
The Sacred Object that Tiel had given long ago, infused with her Ability out of affection for Iandros, still shone with light.
But that wasn’t what mattered.
Candles hung on the walls of the room, and every one of them was burning. The light was faint, yet it was unmistakably light. Tiel’s eyes widened.
“The candles are lit!”
“For some reason, I can produce light in this room alone. But as soon as I leave the room, they all go out.”
Iandros approached the candles slowly as he spoke. Tiel rushed forward as well and stood before them.
A room with five or six candles burning.
Even combined with the Sacred Object that Tiel had given, the room could hardly be called bright, but Tiel understood how much this room meant to Iandros.
So she was happy. Because Iandros had said it was “because of you.”
Tiel gazed around the room with joy, then took Iandros’s hand and asked.
“But why didn’t you show this to me before?”
“I’m showing it to you now, aren’t I?”
“Before this! You didn’t take me to the Subspace all this time.”
“The candle wick only started catching flame recently. Besides…………because of that.”
Iandros’s voice grew quieter. Tiel, unable to hear him clearly, furrowed her brow and asked again.
“What? Because of what?”
“Because of that cushion……! I don’t understand why it won’t disappear, but it keeps getting bigger, and it’s embarrassing and troubling.”
Iandros’s Subspace is created to reflect his subconscious.
The mansion itself was formed entirely from Iandros’s subconscious and the faint remnants of his memory. Yet a cushion remained in such a place.
Moreover, growing larger with each passing day—Iandros had a rough idea of what this cushion signified.
That’s why he hadn’t wanted to bring Tiel here! Iandros turned his head sharply. When Tiel saw this, she smiled brightly, about to tell him that the cushion was wonderful too.
But then.
Whoosh—
Something strange passed swiftly behind the open door. Both Iandros and Tiel sensed the anomaly and turned their heads toward the doorway.
“……Huh?”
“……?”
“Did you perhaps summon another beastman besides us……?”
“How could I? You’re the only person I’ve brought into my Subspace.”
Iandros replied. Tiel tilted her head. Had she imagined it?
The owner of the Subspace was Iandros. Naturally, no one Iandros hadn’t permitted could enter it, and only Iandros possessed the Subspace Creation Ability.
Then had they really just imagined it? Yet both of them had sensed something at the same time……that was a bit strange in itself.
Tiel and Iandros cautiously stepped out into the corridor. It remained dark and empty. Though Iandros furrowed his brow in suspicion, he thought it was ridiculous to come out and check like this.
If this had been the Imperial Palace or the Asterian Mansion, he would naturally have come out to check whether someone had been spying, but this was his own Subspace.
It would be utterly absurd to check when no one else could possibly exist here besides themselves.
Yet the “incident” from a week ago—referring to the one where Lisa had tried to harm Tiel—had happened, and the strange movements he’d noticed these past few days were real, so Iandros remained vigilant.
Then it happened.
“Iandros, look……”
Tiel grabbed Iandros’s sleeve, her expression frozen with fear. Iandros stiffened like stone on the spot.
There truly was another person inside Iandros’s Subspace.
At the end of the dark corridor, the Black Brother stood, glaring at Tiel and Iandros.
The fish circling around Tiel instantly split into two, then shot toward that form in a flash.
It was beyond Tiel’s conscious will. The fish reflexively darted toward the intruder, and the form twisted as if trying to hide itself.
But in that brief moment, as the fish brushed past, light traced the path and illuminated the face of the “figure” standing at the end of the corridor.
It was a woman.
A beautiful woman with long golden hair and emerald eyes. Though only for an instant, Tiel saw her face clearly.
And Iandros saw the same.
Golden hair and emerald eyes are the exclusive mark of the Crasion Imperial Family’s legitimate bloodline. Only those born within the Crasion Imperial Family possess both blonde hair and emerald eyes.
Which meant……
“……How is this possible?”
The intruder before them was of legitimate Crasion bloodline.
Yet in this generation, only Iandros carries the legitimate bloodline of Crasion. His father is dead, and his father’s siblings are dead as well.
Moreover, there is no woman of this appearance in the Imperial Family. But if this woman truly possessed legitimate Crasion bloodline, it would explain how someone else could have infiltrated Iandros’s Subspace.
The Subspace Creation Ability is an Ability inherited solely within the Crasion Imperial Family.
If that woman were a daughter of Crasion who possessed the Subspace Creation Ability……
Then a small door opened beside the woman. It had the same shape as the entrance that appeared when Iandros used his Ability.
But unlike Iandros’s Ability, it was composed entirely of ominous black, and the Subspace opened and closed repeatedly in an unstable, writhing manner.
The intruder disappeared into it.
Everything happened so quickly that Tiel and Iandros couldn’t even think to capture her—they simply stood frozen, watching the scene unfold.
Iandros regained his senses and rushed to where the woman had been standing, but the entrance she had opened had already vanished.
Tiel quickly approached Iandros’s side and looked up at him. Iandros wore an expression of profound shock.
“How……how is this possible?”
“Iandros……!”
“I’m the only one with the Subspace Creation Ability. If there were others, the Imperial Family would have known. Who is she? An illegitimate child of the Imperial Family?”
“Iandros……”
“No……among those with Crasion bloodline, there’s no one like that.”
Iandros muttered numbly. Tiel and Iandros emerged from the Subspace.
As Iandros’s mind became unstable, his Subspace grew unstable as well.
When Iandros and Tiel emerged from the Subspace, both looking shocked, Ferdi and Ludian, who had been waiting, asked with puzzled expressions.
“Why do you both look like that?”
“Did something happen inside?”
Iandros did not answer their questions, instead looking at Tiel. Tiel looked back at Iandros. The eyes of the young man and young woman met.
“Tiel, I need to go to the Imperial Palace and investigate this matter. I may not be able to see you for some time. My letters might take very long to reply to.”
“Yes, that’s fine.”
“And just in case……you should be extremely careful as well. If that truly is the Subspace Creation Ability, you could be in danger……”
After cautioning Tiel, Iandros didn’t even say goodbye to Ferdi and Ludian—he swiftly left the drawing room. The young man looked utterly distracted.
Ferdi and Ludian stood side by side, watching blankly, then turned their attention to Tiel.
“What on earth happened?”

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