The Snow Leopard Baby of the Black Leopard Family - Chapter 195

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Chapter 195
Most records of Craxion’s mad princess have been lost, leaving nothing behind. What little survives consists almost entirely of accounts of just how deranged she was.
The only detailed record of who the princess had been before her madness was the one that Iandros had found in the Emperor’s archives.
What was strange was that her name appeared nowhere in any of them. The books referred to her only as “the mad princess” or “Her Highness the princess,” but nowhere was recorded what name she had actually borne.
Because of this, Iandros could only suspect that the “girl” they were now witnessing might be that princess—he could not be certain.
Then a small boy’s silhouette tugged at the girl’s sleeve.
The underdeveloped boy chattered away in a sweet voice to his older sister.
“Sister, this place is so boring. There’s nothing fun in the Imperial Palace. Sister, won’t you open a Subspace for me?”
In that moment, Tiel and Iandros locked eyes with each other. Both their gazes sharpened in the darkness—they had caught every word the boy spoke.
‘Subspace!’
The Ability of Subspace Creation manifested only within Craxion’s imperial bloodline. Up until now, there were three who possessed it—including Iandros.
Of those three, only one could be the “girl.”
Craxion’s mad princess.
‘My suspicion was correct.’
What they were witnessing now was the dead princess of Craxion.
Whether time was flowing backward or whether a misconnected Subspace was showing them a fragmented memory of the past, one thing was certain—they were seeing something the dead princess had experienced.
“But Father said we mustn’t open it carelessly?”
“It’s fine if we just open it for a moment and close it again.”
“Really?”
The girl’s silhouette placed her hand on the boy’s head.
Then, as if flesh was being drawn onto bone, the silhouette began to gain form bit by bit.
They were no longer silhouettes, but two distinct people.
Over the boy and girl whose hair had been entirely black, a golden shimmer—the color that symbolized Craxion—now overlaid itself.
“The color changed……!”
Tiel whispered. Iandros nodded in agreement.
The hair color of the two siblings was now exactly the same as Iandros’s own. Tiel cautiously scanned the surroundings.
Even the seemingly dilapidated Imperial Palace now appeared more refined and stately. Tiel tilted her head. Had it always been changing continuously like this, layering itself anew?
Whether Tiel and Iandros noticed the mystery or not, the boy and girl burst into bright laughter and suddenly sprang to their feet.
“Just this once.”
The girl whispered in a mischievous voice. The boy nodded eagerly.
Burst—!
A luminous rift materialized at the girl’s fingertips. It resembled the one created by Iandros, yet it shimmered far more brilliantly.
Moreover, the circular opening was remarkably stable, unlike Iandros’s.
Iandros’s Subspace entrance wavered constantly and uneasily, but the girl’s entrance stood perfectly still, like an actual door.
“Come here.”
The girl pulled her younger brother’s hand.
Tiel narrowed her eyes. From where Tiel and Iandros stood, the interior of the girl’s Subspace was completely invisible.
“Come on, let’s look from over there.”
Iandros, equally frustrated, took Tiel’s hand and led her closer.
After a moment of hesitation, Tiel followed where Iandros led. After all, the siblings couldn’t see Tiel and Iandros anyway.
‘So it should be fine to get closer?’
Tiel and Iandros approached a vantage point from which they could peer inside the girl’s Subspace.
For both of them, this was the first time seeing the interior of a Subspace created by someone else.
In this generation, only Iandros Craxion possessed the Subspace Creation Ability—he alone.
Tiel and Iandros worried that the Subspace’s interior might remain as invisible to them as the portrait’s face had been and as the boy’s words hadn’t been, but contrary to their fears, the interior was clearly visible.
“Let’s go in!”
The girl called out cheerfully.
Tiel and Iandros gaped with wide eyes as they peered into the girl’s Subspace.
“What is this…….”
Iandros murmured.
Tiel, equally astonished, gripped Iandros’s sleeve tightly. Her fish curiously approached and wandered near the girl’s Subspace entrance, their eyes gleaming with fascination.
Tiel stared with wide eyes, slowly taking in the contents of the girl’s Subspace.
Within the yawning rift.
There lay a vast grassland, a brilliant blue sky, and horses galloping across the plain…….
“This is…… a Subspace?”
Tiel murmured in a trembling voice, looking up at Iandros.
Iandros, too, was astonished as he gazed within.
The records about the princess mentioned her Subspace as well.
The princess’s Subspace was described as a burning hell, or something evocative of a demon’s lair—a Subspace of terrible and cruel proportions.
A Subspace that, when opened once, would swallow hundreds of people whole—clearly that was how it had been recorded.
But…….
‘It’s far too different from what the records said.’
It wasn’t merely different. The princess’s Subspace that they glimpsed was vast and magnificent, overflowing with wealth, as if another complete world existed within it.
The boy and girl burst into bright laughter and vanished into the Subspace.
Soon the open entrance slowly closed. Tiel and Iandros stood dazed, quietly watching the entrance seal shut.
“Magnificent…….”
Iandros’s Subspace, too, is extraordinary. Iandros is the master of that mansion, and he can store unlimited quantities of objects within his Subspace and even imprison others inside it.
But the princess’s Ability was far more than that.
Within the Subspace lay another world entire.
They realized that this was the true power of the Subspace Creation Ability possessed by Craxion’s royal bloodline.
And in that moment.
Crash—!
Iandros’s Subspace shattered brutally. Tiel and Iandros instinctively grasped each other’s hands tightly.
“Tiel!”
“I, Iandros!”
Iandros seized Tiel’s hand and drew her into his embrace.
The illusion the Subspace had been showing crumbled away.
The refined Imperial Palace walls cracked and collapsed into fragments, and the bed where the boy and girl had been playing moments before turned to dust and vanished.
The illusion layered over the interior of Iandros’s Subspace was collapsing entirely.
Tiel was seized by the fear that she, too, might disappear along with that illusion.
“Don’t worry.”
But Iandros’s hand holding her was so firm, his arms wrapped around Tiel’s back so unwavering and unyielding, that she was able to calm herself.
In the center of the crumbling illusion, they watched as everything they had just witnessed vanished into darkness.
Of course, those things had been hidden in darkness from the beginning, so they would never have been visible without Tiel’s Ability.
Had Iandros entered the Subspace alone, he would not have seen any of this and would have found himself trapped within before managing his escape.
But fortunately, because Tiel was there, they were able to witness clearly and completely every vision the Subspace had wished to show them.
Yet why had the Subspace shown them such things?
To reveal that Iandros’s Ability, originally, had been this magnificent? Or perhaps…….
Tiel and Iandros felt a powerful force drawing them, and they closed their eyes.
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Thump!
Plump!
Tiel and Iandros returned to the Eberard Mansion.
Since Iandros’s Subspace had the same entrance and exit, those who entered it would always reappear where they had been before entering.
Knowing this, Ferdi, Ludian, Cassius, and Alpheus had been waiting in Tiel’s room for Tiel and Iandros to reappear.
And then.
“What? Wait! There!”
With Ludian’s cry, Iandros’s Subspace opened and ejected the two of them outward.
Fortunately, Tiel landed on the bed with a soft plump, while Iandros landed on the floor with a heavy thump.
Tiel, her dizzy head slowly clearing as she lay on the soft bed, looked down at Iandros and spoke.
“A, are you alright?”

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