The Teddy Bear Sends the Insomniac Villain to Dreamland - Chapter 87

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Chapter 87
The sky was a brilliant blue, and Mystic had turned deathly pale.
Mystic hurled curses at Ren, who had abandoned him in this place and fled.
‘Damn it, Ren! You bastard!’
He’d kidnapped the bear doll—what kind of situation was this now!
The Crown Prince simply smiled with an unwavering grin, as though he had no intention of backing down until he received an answer, waiting with eerie patience.
Why was he smiling? It was unnerving.
A smile from him was far more terrifying than anger.
Cold sweat trickled down my spine. I had no intention of telling the Crown Prince that the bear doll was in the Magic Tower.
Especially not that Ren had kidnapped the Leblanc Duchy’s doll!
The very honor of the Magic Tower was at stake.
“I-I’m afraid I don’t know anything about this matter.”
I stammered, attempting to evade the situation, but it was futile.
“Don’t even think about lying. I’ve heard everything.”
From where to where had he heard everything?
I couldn’t gauge when he’d started listening, having sensed no presence at all.
That was when Ian stepped forward.
“Your Highness. Allow me to resolve this matter. Since it concerns the Magic Tower and the young lord Blake, it would be far more convenient if—”
“Who told you to interrupt me?”
The words that burst forth were sharp and irritable. Ian flinched, his shoulders trembling.
Edwin regarded Ian quietly, then muttered through gritted teeth.
“You remain so cheerfully oblivious. Do you not see that I’m restraining myself right now?”
“…Your Highness.”
“Don’t speak to me. Unless you wish to die this very moment.”
The murderous atmosphere caused Mystic to clamp his lips shut.
Ian, still unaware of why Edwin was behaving this way, sensed the Crown Prince’s heightened irritability and quietly retreated a step.
It was as though dark storm clouds had settled between the two brothers.
Edwin turned around. There was nothing more to ask. If she was in the Magic Tower as he’d just heard, he simply needed to go there.
Yet Edwin, having taken a single step, came to an abrupt halt.
‘Wait, now that I think about it…’
The Magic Tower was a region where magical teleportation was impossible for anyone except the Mages who lived there.
Rather than traveling there by carriage…
“Mage.”
“Y-Yes, yes!”
Mystic responded with a rigid posture.
Edwin smiled gently as he regarded Mystic.
“Open a magical gate.”
“I-I beg your pardon?”
“I don’t enjoy repeating myself. My patience is wearing thin today, so I’d appreciate it if you’d move quickly.”
“A magical gate, you say… to where…?”
“To where my friend is.”
At the sudden mention of seeking a friend, Mystic’s head tilted slightly to the side.
“A friend…? Might I ask whom you’re referring to?”
Though he had little desire to ask, his counterpart was the Crown Prince. Here in the Royal Palace, and given that he was the Crown Prince, Mystic had no choice but to oblige.
He yearned to shut himself away in the Magic Tower and devote himself to magical research, but Mystic waited patiently for a response. What came next exceeded mere surprise—it was utterly astounding.
“A teddy bear.”
Edwin delivered an answer that shattered Ronald’s composure.
“….”
Watching the Mage’s face gape uselessly, Edwin spoke again with unshakeable calm.
“I’m going to meet my friend, the teddy bear, so open the magic circle. If you do that, I won’t inform His Majesty the Emperor about this matter. It means I’ll bring the doll back myself.”
“…Might I ask the reason why you’re taking such action yourself, Your Highness?”
Ian, standing nearby, finally could not hold back and interjected.
For Edwin, it would have been more advantageous to go directly to the Emperor and report this matter at once.
He could have even claimed that diplomatic relations with the Magic Tower had failed because of this incident.
Both Mystic and Edwin’s Advisor, who were present, seemed equally curious about the reason—their ears perked up attentively.
Edwin, the focus of all eyes, appeared irritated.
“There’s no reason I should have to explain that to you.”
So just open it.
Mystic’s mind raced rapidly.
At this point, now that the Crown Prince already knew the entire situation, if he personally retrieved the doll and didn’t inform the Emperor…
‘That’s the best option!’
Having reached this conclusion, Mystic swiftly shifted his stance.
“Very well. I shall open the magic circle to the Magic Tower for you. It’s only possible outside the Royal Palace, so you may depart immediately.”
“We leave at once.”
With that response, Edwin, Mystic, and the Advisor vanished from the room in an instant.
Watching the three disappear, Ian’s mind grew turbulent.
As he slowly exited the Conference Hall and passed through the Garden, he suddenly lifted his head.
Carefully reconsidering the conversation, he noticed something was decidedly off.
‘If he’d heard talk of the Magic Tower, he would have also heard that the teddy bear can speak. Yet unlike me, Edwin showed no surprise whatsoever.’
As if he already knew—he focused solely on the revelation that the teddy bear was in the Magic Tower.
‘As if he were someone who knew from the start that the teddy bear wasn’t just an ordinary stuffed animal….’
Does Blake also know that Edwin is aware of this?
Or does Blake himself even know what that teddy bear truly is?
“A talking teddy bear….”
He was beginning to grasp a clue as to why Blake cherished and obsessed over that doll so.
In any case, it was clear that things were unfolding in a strange manner.
The Crown Prince going to find that doll in Blake’s absence—it was peculiar.
‘Should I inform him beforehand?’
Ian’s deliberation deepened over whether he should relay this news to Blake or not.
Meanwhile, Mystic, who had sent Edwin through the magic circle to the Magic Tower and returned, came rushing back in this direction in haste.
Ian, who had been silent for a moment, finally called out to Mystic in a loud voice.
“Mystic, I have a request!”
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A small town in the Eastern Region was shrouded in an eerie silence.
Rein, the vice-leader of the Mekain Cartel’s Eastern Branch, greeted Blake as he arrived with roughly a hundred men.
“Boss!”
Rein’s eyes widened as he saw Elio and Jikan, the action commander, rushing over with unbridled enthusiasm.
“Boss?”
“….”
Blake avoided answering. Instead, he offered a light greeting as he watched Elio dash toward him and begin chattering away.
“I’ve kept you waiting long.”
“My goodness, why did it take so long? I nearly died dealing with Demon Beasts while waiting nearby.”
“You look fine to me.”
At Blake’s cutting remark, Elio shook his head in disagreement.
This man certainly had no sense of humor. Yet on this brutal battlefield, he was absolutely indispensable.
Elio swept his crimson hair, damp with sweat from the Demon Beasts he had slain that very morning, back over his shoulder.
“Let me report now. Around ten Demon Beasts appeared in the predicted emergence area, and we eliminated them all. The townspeople evacuated, though some still remain to guard their homes.”
Jikan, the action commander who had spent the past few days patrolling the vicinity of the area where he had been ordered to wait, added his own account.
“By organizing the emergence zones and narrowing the search area, we were able to identify one region with an unusually high concentration of Demon Beasts.”
Impressed by the thorough report, Rein leaned in beside them with admiration.
“Excellent work organizing this.”
Blake and Rein scanned the map, where dots marked every point where Demon Beasts had appeared, and both focused on the area where the dots were densest.
“Here.”
“Yes, that’s correct.”
Elio nodded in agreement.
The Eastern Forest Valley, not far from this place.
It was a location near the most treacherous mountain range in the Eastern Region, where a deep river flowed.
“There’s a cave there, and I suspect the Demon Beasts are emerging from it.”
A gathering place for Demon Beasts.
Rein looked at Blake and asked.
“You’ll go, won’t you?”
Ophelia had not yet arrived in the Eastern Region.
If there was truly a way to annihilate the Demon Beasts, I had to find the heart-eating Demon Beast first.
An opportunity to uncover the reason why it consumed hearts.
“I can’t let this slip away.”
Knights and Cartel members gathered around Blake.
He surveyed them and spoke.
“Half of you remain here, the rest follow me to the cave. Elio, you take command here. Rein and I will head to the cave.”
“Understood, sir.”
“We accept your orders.”
Rein and Elio’s gazes met and held.
Everyone present could feel it—this would be a battle where lives hung in the balance.
“See you alive.”
With that farewell, spoken by someone whose voice was lost in the moment, the two groups parted ways.

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