The Tyrant Mistook Me for a Companion

Chapter 75:

 

“You seem a little quiet now.”

“……What are you going to do?”

“What?”

“……Leon.”

I looked into Edgar’s eyes and asked.
Now that he knows the power he has, there are many possibilities that father will use it.

“I have one thing to tell you.”

“If you’re going to tell me where you’ve been, I already know.”

“……How do you know?”

I’m sure I saw that El fell asleep at the door.

“Because I saw you there.”

“Oh.”

I didn’t expect that.

“I’m sorry.”

“I didn’t think you’d stay home calmly, so it’s my fault for leaving you behind.”

Fortunately, my father did not scold me. Maybe it’s because of Leon in front of him, he has a lot to think about.

“Leon is Janice’s companion.”

“…Surprising.”

“And perhaps…… His Highness Delther might have the same pattern.”

“Does it mean that there will be two companions instead of one?”

“Yes. It may have appeared by now.”

“Yeah, you’ve been weird since you were a kid. You didn’t even go out, but you knew well about outside world, and you soon behaved well.”

It was to survive you!
You’re quiet now, and my neck is less likely to fly.

“But didn’t this guy not recognize the others?”

“That’s right.”

“But strangely, he seemed to recognize you.”

I nodded. Originally, he should have recognized only Janice, but he recognized me straight away.
On the contrary, he may not have recognized her if it had not been for his companion’s imprint.

“Actually, I knew that and brought Leon home. Father is very…….”

“What’s with me?”

“You did a lot of work that would make me lose my neck, so I had to come up with a solution to survive.”

“And it’s this guy?”

Edgar swallowed a laugh.

“I was going to get help when he woke up later. If father don’t stop, I would have died with him.”

“Ha.”

“You didn’t say no. You intended to use Janice to rebel.”

“……You knew everything.”

I sighed at Leon, who had fallen asleep.

“Are you really going to go all the way? Janice is… …my cousin.”

“Even so, she’ll be side with the royal family.”

“Will she?”

I don’t think so. When I watched her from time to time, she had a very bad feeling for the royal family.
The reason she’s obsessed with Leon is probably to get rid of them.
How much Delther told her…….

“Dad, sometimes what you see isn’t everything.”

“And so.”

Edgar crossed his arms and stared at me.

“Are you going to leave this guy like this? What if he go to the princess and betray us. You’re the one who told me.”

“I told you, Delther will have the same imprint as her companion.”

That would create confusion in imprinting. I have to dig into the gap.
Above all, if one of the two clearly imprints, the other may naturally come off.
Actually, I wasn’t sure because it wasn’t in the novel.
But there are always variables.

“You must have an idea again.”

“I’m always full of idea in my head.”

I smiled at him.

“Your companion, Duke Sen, will come first.”

“But we can’t move hastily. He must find me first.”

“That’s not allowed”

“I know it’s dangerous. But there has to be a reason, right?”

We were of the Count family, and he was a Duke.
If there was a fight between nobles beyond class, there needed to be a reason.

“So please wait a little longer.”

“……I will.”

Edgar took a step back.
Actually, I was still afraid.
I couldn’t conclude anything now because the story went wrong a lot.
It was a development that wouldn’t be strange no matter what happened.

“Father, I really…… Did my mother die at the hands of the royal family?”

Edgar’s eyes shook. The story he had never told me, and the revenge he had been harboring in his heart, seemed to boil over.

“……Yes. So no matter how much you tell me to stop, I’ll go all the way.”

“Even if it kills me and you?”

“The royal family is already rotten and needs to be cut out. You didn’t know that.”

“Why should my father do it?”

I grabbed Edgar’s arm and shook my head.
How did we get here, but now I can’t go back to square one.

“Just leave it alone. The corrupt royal family is bound to collapse anyway.”

“Elle.”

“Please.”

I gripped Edgar’s arm and begged him as if I would not let him go.

“I don’t have a mother, but I will be alone without a father. I don’t want to be left alone.”

I hugged him and cried like a child. I thought he’d say yes if I did.
I shed tears in Edgar’s arms for a while.

“……Okay, I won’t.”

Only then did my father’s voice fall affectionately on my head.
Slowly raising his head, he sighed with a light smile.

“If you do the same thing as your mother, I can’t win”

“……Really?”

Edgar nodded.
Only then did I wipe away my tears in relief.

“……I saw the emotional embrace of you two, but may I intervene?”

Leon’s small voice made me turn my head in a hurry.
He smiled lightly, rising from his bed, leaning against the head and exhaling hot breath.

“A diamond. The pattern of the Duke of Sen is the same as yours.”

“……How can you know that?”

“I was curious, so I went to see it.”

“For some reason, you did something I liked.”

Edgar opened his eyes wide at Leon.
It was dangerous to get close because his mana was still running wild.
Edgar reached out and lightly drew a line around the bed.

“Don’t think about coming over here.”

“……That’s too much.”

“Elle, I think you’d better do that this time.”

I couldn’t help but look at the two of them with arms crossed outside the line at Leon’s words.

“Since when did you two get along so well?”

“Let’s say from today.”

Edgar’s words opened my mouth wide.

“Dad!”

“Now, shall we continue to talk?”

At Edgar’s words, Leon nodded softly.
No wonder the madness seems to flash in their eyes.

* * *

“Since he’s looking for me, shouldn’t I be the bait?”

“No way.”

“Elle, that’s a not going to happen.”

Two people answered at the same time.

“……You realize that you two are really awkward, right?”

I fluttered my tongue at Leon and Edgar, who became one mind.
What’s this.

“Most of those with red patterns died and lost their companions, so the pattern disappeared.”

“It’s probably because of the sensational pattern hunter.”

Yes, father, that’s the man in front of you.
I looked at the two alternately with a sullen look on my face.
Leon continued to talk without changing his expression to make sure he wasn’t caught.

“That’s right, and recently the suspect was selected, and he visited the Duke of Sen’s house, and it became clear”

“I like your action.”

“Jenice is the one who sends out magic. She’s sacred, she’s qualified as a saint…… And suppressing my power.”

Leon paused and stared at me.

“She will be able to do it easily.”

“……If you are fully imprinted as a companion, the rampage will stop.”

“Yes. Fortunately, I can control it now.”

“It wasn’t like that before”

“……It’s because it’s become unstable recently.”

Leon raised his eyebrows and lowered his voice.

“That’s because Delther has the same pattern.”

Leon didn’t seem to have heard at all the conversation I and Edgar had, he had really lost consciousness.

“So it’s been weird lately.”

“Lion, was there anything else unusual when you met Princess Janice?”

“There was none at all.”

He clenched his fists and narrowed his brows.
Maybe he thinks of the forced feeling of attraction.
I know it because I’ve experience it, but it felt pretty dirty.

“I’m going through the line.”

“No, it’s dangerous.”

I approached the line Edgar had drawn.

“I know you’re selfish, but not this time, so don’t think about coming over.”

My father warned me again.
You know I’m not the one to be told.

“Leon, do you remember that time? When we first met.”

Leon’s eyes turned red.
“Even then, you told me not to come near me. But I…….”

I’ll approach you even then and now.
I was the one who reached out first, and you just have to hold it.

“I’m still not afraid of you.”

One step, and two steps.
Closer to the line, I entered the line with a big smile.

“……Really, I can’t stop you.”

He gasped and tried to put Mana to stop.
I approached Leon and reached for his hand.
A groan leaked out at the pain all over the body, but he did not let go.

“So, you can do it.”

Even if it’s not Janice, he can control himself.
Even if you go on a rampage, you’ll recognize me.
And Leon really put his mana to stop.
With a determination not to hurt me.