The Snow Leopard Baby of the Black Leopard Family - Chapter 199

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Episode 199
“Ugh…….”
Tiel, who had been examining documents, suddenly collapsed forward as exhaustion overwhelmed her. She’d had a habit as a child of burying her face in things when tired, and that old habit lingered in her body still.
Iandros caught her forehead at precisely the right moment, steadying her before she could fall, and drew her against his shoulder instead.
“If you’re tired, go rest. I’ll search through these.”
Tiel shook her head.
Iandros’s eyes were bloodshot. He hadn’t slept a wink—had been poring over documents the entire time.
Since they couldn’t bring food into this place, Illum had suggested they all leave together to rest and recover before returning to search, but Iandros refused.
He needed to find the information as urgently as possible. Ferdi and Tiel, unwilling to leave Iandros alone, chose to remain at his side.
They had examined an enormous quantity of documents, though precious few of them proved useful.
The materials that the former Head of Household of Eberard had arranged for his son—who would be born centuries later—contained only information about enriching Eberard’s farmlands and managing the waterways so they would never run dry.
Of course, for Karl, all of it was valuable and important information; he committed it carefully to memory.
Since they couldn’t carry anything out, memorizing what they saw was all they could do.
The problem was that this place held not a single record of the “Princess.” Tiel couldn’t shake the feeling that she’d been looking in the wrong place from the start.
Why would the Head of Household have kept such materials in a room he’d prepared for his son?
But now that they’d come this far, there was no point in giving up and leaving, so Tiel forced her eyes wide and read through the documents with determination.
How much time had passed in this way?
Tiel, reading on despite her hunger, discovered a sentence that made her heart leap.
‘The day His Highness the Princess visited Eberard.’
Tiel examined the page carefully. She worried it might be a record of some other Crasion princess, not the one they sought.
“I found it!”
But it wasn’t.
The book contained a record of the Crasion princess who wielded the Subspace Ability visiting Eberard.
What was strange was that the portion containing her name had been completely erased.
At Tiel’s cry of discovery, everyone scattered throughout the chamber converged on her location.
Illum too took his place beside Tiel. She opened the book wide and pointed with her finger, reading carefully so they could all see clearly.
“……His Highness the Princess visited Eberard. The Princess requested of the Head of Household: could he create a ‘river’ for her?”
“The Head of Household agreed to the request at first, but after learning where the Princess wished the river to flow, he declined.”
Tiel read on slowly.
“The Princess requested of Renato that he cause water to flow in a place that was within the Princess’s own Subspace…….”
“Within a Subspace?”
Iandros’s eyes narrowed. Tiel looked up at him. Their gazes met—his sharp amber eyes meeting her glimmering emerald ones.
They realized the same thing at once.
That day. The vision they had seen within Iandros’s Subspace.
There, they had glimpsed the interior of the Princess’s Subspace.
Within the Princess’s Subspace stretched vast plains and an endless sky.
“She wanted to create a river there…….”
Tiel murmured. Iandros nodded in agreement. Yet in the next moment, his brow furrowed with incomprehension.
“But why would she want to create a river within her Subspace? What for? What was she trying to put in there?”
“Given that she asked for a river to flow, perhaps the one thing absent from that world was ‘water’ itself?”
Ferdi offered his thought.
“The Princess had a world within her Subspace where just the presence of a river—or a sea—would complete a perfect ecosystem.”
Ferdi’s words held enough credibility that Tiel and Iandros nodded in agreement.
The Princess’s Subspace might have been far more magnificent than they had imagined.
Then what had the Princess intended to do with that Subspace?
There were countless mysteries, each one leading only to more questions the more they read.
And they couldn’t even fathom why the Princess’s name had been completely erased.
“Do you think Renato deliberately erased the Princess’s name?”
Illum shook his head.
“I’m not certain. It was so long ago—there’s no way to know now.”
“Then is there truly no one alive who remembers the Princess’s name?”
Iandros murmured. Tiel nodded.
And they recalled the ‘intruder’ they had seen within Iandros’s Subspace, and the visions of a boy and girl they had glimpsed within that space.
A Crasion princess of such extraordinary and immense power, of such high station—and yet now no one remained who knew her name.
‘It’s rather sad.’
No—it’s deeply sad.
What wrong could she have committed for all her records to be erased like this?
It was as though she had been cursed so that no one would ever remember her name…….
Tiel turned the page absently. The book continued with repetitive entries, and it seemed to be one volume from a record that Renato Birhileo Eberard’s aide had kept—a detailed chronicle of his master’s entire life.
The Princess appeared in subsequent passages as well; it was recorded that she persistently implored him to create a river within her Subspace.
But at some point, the record stated, she came no more.
“Why did she stop coming? Did she eventually succeed in creating the river within her Subspace?”
“Even if she had, it wouldn’t have mattered.”
Iandros spoke.
“Everything created within a Subspace is a phantom. The grass, the sunlight, the flowing river—none of it is real. It’s all illusion.”
“An illusion?”
“Yes. If I created a pond flowing through my manor, it wouldn’t be a real pond—your hand wouldn’t get wet, you wouldn’t drown. Even if you somehow got wet, the moment you step outside the Subspace, it would dry completely as though nothing had ever happened.”
“Then……even if the Princess had learned how to create a river, she couldn’t have built an ecosystem within her Subspace?”
“No. And moreover, things created within a Subspace tend to carry the maker’s obsession and will very strongly. If absorbed into the body wrongly, it could be dangerous.”
Tiel recalled the vision she had seen that day within Iandros’s Subspace.
‘The Princess said she wanted to…….’
That one part had sounded obscured, as though deliberately hidden, and she hadn’t heard it clearly. Yet Tiel felt strangely certain she understood what the Princess had wanted to do.
She had wanted to create another world within her own Subspace!
Tiel continued turning the pages.
At the book’s end, it was recorded that the Princess came to seek out Renato Birhileo Eberard once more.
But nothing followed after that.
The subsequent volume had either been lost or never written; no matter how thoroughly they searched, they couldn’t find it. So Tiel, Ferdi, and Iandros never discovered why the Princess had sought him out again.
“Did she learn the river was a phantom?”
“It’s speculation, but she may have realized the river she created was false and sought him out again, hoping he could help her create something real.”
“Then wouldn’t there be a record of this in Arnae? If everything the Princess created was false, then all the plants within her Subspace would be false as well.”
Tiel continued carefully.
“Might she not have also requested of Arne to plant vegetation within her Subspace……?”
In that instant.
Boom!
A tremendous explosion erupted from somewhere. Startled, Tiel reflexively clutched the book to herself.
Her Ability burst forth, wrapping protectively around her body. The Ability, seasoned through countless dangers and crises, instinctively shielded its master.
Ferdi tried to reach for Tiel to shield her as well, but Iandros was faster.
Iandros pulled Tiel into his arms and turned toward the source of the explosion.
Crack-crack-crack-boom—!
Again, a deafening roar tore through the space. This time it was so loud and piercing that everyone had to cover their ears.
Then.
“It can’t be…….”
Illum’s face went deathly pale as he roughly realized where the sound was coming from.

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