I still haven’t figured out anything about my secret.
To find out more, I had to stay here longer and look for some plausible clues.
I mean, like trying to catch a straw.
Just then, Callion looked at me and asked, “Do you want to go back home?”
“I don’t know.”
“See, in the end, you can’t completely deny it, can you?”
“….”
“Don’t you want to learn more about what was between us? Or maybe you want to dig it out forcibly. I know you used to be someone with a thirst for knowledge.”
Once even a single clue comes in, it’s unlikely that I can leave this place.
“From your expression, it seems like you’ve already found some suspicious clues.”
“….”
“So, what’s the plan now?”
With a sluggish voice, he stared at me as if seeing through me.
Even though Callion already knew the answer, it seemed like he was asking me on purpose.
“Even if you don’t remember everything right now, you won’t be able to leave easily. Once you start doubting, we won’t let you go easily from here.”
“….”
“Of course, Dante.”
*Squeak, squeak!*
Maybe he decided to stop watching, as Dante’s long tongue had been sliding against my chin since earlier.
Maybe he understood roughly what was being said. He had been quiet in my arms all along but suddenly he became noisy.
“Kiiing. Kiing!”
Looking up at me desperately with his watery eyes, it seemed like he didn’t want to leave me.
His rough scales climbed up my arm and vigorously brushed against my hand.
“Nng, kiiing….”
“See, Dante is telling you not to go. Even if you try to run away again, Dante will go catch you.”
Callion chuckled confidently.
It seemed like Dante was speaking while looking at my entwined arms.
*Sigh.*
Now I was in trouble now.
No matter how intelligent he was at five, I couldn’t push away a one-year-old child in front of me…
Even if we assume the worst, I was scared that Dante might be the child of me and Callion Blissias.
It was like walking into a tiger’s den, but there was no way out.
‘You remember me well.’
Entered the academy with top marks in the written exam and graduated with top marks.
Callion saw right through me.
Although my practical scores were lacking, my thirst for knowledge was always burning.
I couldn’t leave the Grand Duke’s residence like this, even if it was uncomfortable.
I felt somewhat defeated, but even my pride had to be given up.
“….Just for three days, I’ll stay a little longer.”
The villagers would welcome me back whenever I returned, so it didn’t matter when.
“What do you mean to stay, it’s a welcome. Let me show you to a room to stay in.”
*Squeak, squeak!*
“….Yes.”
In the end, pretending to be deceived, I cautiously picked up Dante and stood up from my seat.
* * *
The room Callion personally showed me was none other than his bedroom, instead of the guest room.
“What…,”
“Is this not allowed here?”
“What?”
‘Stay in your bedroom instead of a guest room?’
I was speechless, my mouth dropped.
What kind of nonsense is this?
Without any hesitation, I grabbed Kalion by the collar, who was boldly making a proposal.
“You said we used to be such a good couple, you and me.”
“What are you saying?”
“Just holding hands is fine, nothing more than that…”
“If you don’t like it?”
Man, I must be crazy!
It was a series of shocks.
With each passing moment, my blood pressure was rising and my suspicions were growing.
“Look, I’m serious”
“You don’t like it?”
“Even if my heart isn’t in it, my body is—.”
“I said I don’t like it! Just don’t like it!!!”
* * *
At the same time, there was an emergency in the town of Memoria, where Louis had disappeared.
“Who are you?”
“I came from the Duke of Blisias.”
“Oh my, why would such important people come here…?”
“I have the authority to officially search this village. Before, this place was a goblin village that was not clearly marked on the map. Do you happen to know who the representative is here that could be called the village chief?”
“Just a moment, please excuse me.”
Bang!
When the woman harshly closed the door that had been slightly open, the sound of knocking on the door again could be heard.
“Hey, open the door!”
“I’m coming.”
She was suddenly very flustered.
She knew she would be found out at some point, but she hadn’t expected to be found out so soon.
“Of course, it must be that dragon’s doing. I shouldn’t have underestimated it.”
If this continued, a full-fledged investigation of the village would soon take place, and it was only a matter of time before the true identity of the village was revealed to the Blisias Grand Duchy.
In fact, this place was a goblin village artificially created by Louis Bachett.
Yeah, well, it’s better to hide for a year.
“…but still, it’s worrying.”
Larissa Aint, who was standing behind the door with her back against it, let out a quiet sigh.
Until this morning, she was surprised by the sudden disappearance of Louis, who had been plowing the fields with her, but she understood what had happened.
There were reasons for everything.
Louis Blisias’s one-sided separation had come to an end.
“That damn dragon probably figured it out in the end. What are we going to do now?”
What should we do? We need to erase the memories of those investigators first.
The man, who was looking at the door, let out a small sigh.
“Let’s just erase the memories and kick them out. How dare they come here and search for us…”
“Should we do that? Should we buy more time for now?”
“Yes.”
Abel Aint, who was sitting with crossed legs and leisurely stirring his tea, blinked silently.
“Annoying.”
Things have become troublesome.
Activating a mental magic to erase human memories from two people was nothing.
The time that Larissa and Abel Aint had spent together as co-owners of the magician’s tower, Aint’s joint tower, and powerful archmages, was almost immeasurable.
If they joined forces, they could even challenge the descendants of the nasty dragon of Blysias.
But if they did that, Louis would be sad.
For whom has he been sacrificing himself, rotting away here for well over a year?
“It’s truly a tearful love.”
Abel shook his head in disbelief.
Such a foolish act from a fellow who’s been living with amnesia for over a year.
It was embarrassing for anyone watching from the sidelines.
“Though it’s been nice having you all to myself.”
Louis’s manipulated memories were not perfect.
They help her to erase her memories and she helps them to survive.
Lerissa changed her gender to become the “Grandpa Michael” next door, and Abel changed his body to become the “youngest son William” across the street, barely keeping up with their roles.
It was like the character of a youngest child who was a bit of a troublemaker.
But somehow, Louis, who had managed to escape on his own feet, had been caught again by the Blysias Grand Duke’s residence.
There are no perfect secrets in the world.
It was the sound of all her efforts and sacrifices over the past year going to waste.
“Abel, should we have just taken Louis to the tower in the first place?”
“Lerissa, do you really want to force someone who doesn’t like to come with you? She’s married and has a child to take care of. Louis seems to really like him, she’s willing to follow him to the top.”
She has erased the memories now. Isn’t it all the same either way?
Louis only ran away briefly because he was scared of the future.
Abel let out a big, fake cough in the tense atmosphere.
I didn’t completely know about the situation.
Sometimes, Louis was so kind that it was suffocating,
“It’s definitely weird that a star plant came out of Aint Tower.”
“I agree with that.”
Abel stuck out his tongue and gulped down the remaining tea.
The Tower of the Sorcerer, the title of Grand Sorcerer.
It was quite regrettable that Louis had turned back her life, even giving up the prestigious title of ‘Aint’.
But she has become entangled in fate with the dragon again.
“Let’s hold on as much as possible, let’s erase the memories first.”
“Okay.”
The virtual village created by Louis, Memorium, was returning to a trick of the two accomplices’ magic.
She probably won’t even remember these memories, so she won’t know anything.
I don’t know what future she saw, but the two of them had to follow her wishes as fellow Grand Sorcerers.
‘Poor Louis.’
‘I should have stopped that marriage.’
How terrible must her destiny have been for her to run away like this?
They lamented pitifully.
Future sight.
The ability to see far into the future.
It’s a special magic that only Louis Blysias can activate.
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