Chapter 21
Bang!
If it were a collision between a human and a wall, one would worry about the human’s head breaking rather than the wall, but this time was different. The one who had smashed his head into the wall was Kasselard. A Transcendent’s head was harder than stone, so not even a scratch formed on his body.
“Ugh! Stop thinking about it!”
His physical condition was always more or less the same, but perhaps because he could now receive guiding, somehow he felt relaxed. Even though the numbers displayed on the magic device said otherwise.
Why isn’t that woman coming?
Right. Ephinia had already been out of contact for two full days. When she had been the one to step forward first and propose it, when she had touched his body with her own hands, and after thoroughly kneading his… had she startled herself and run away? There wasn’t even a shadow of her to be seen.
‘I’m not going to go looking for her first.’
He was secretly waiting for Ephinia to visit, but he thought it would wound his pride to be the one to seek her out first. Just earlier, he had even deliberately barged into Hylian’s office because he wanted to hear some news about Ephinia.
But his tactless cousin did not say a single word about Ephinia.
‘No! I didn’t go because I was curious about that woman!’
That brazen woman who grabbed his body all over and then ran away, what kind of shameless face was she making now… Whether it was that thought or this thought, it was the same in that he was curious about Ephinia, but Kasselard muttered denials to himself as he walked toward his office.
He had offices both in the Administrative Palace and in the Crown Prince’s Palace, and right now he was on his way to the one in the Administrative Palace.
“Your Highness!”
At the sight of one of his attendants running toward him in a fluster, Kasselard raised an eyebrow. What is it?
“Baroness Linier has arrived.”
“The Baroness?”
Before he realized it, Kasselard brightened, but then, ha, he came to his senses. She had stood him up for two days, so he thought he couldn’t just meet her right away.
“T-Tell her to… to leave.”
He tried hard to prop up his pride, but the attendant showed an awkward expression.
“She says she will wait until you come.”
She’s already saying things like that?
Kasselard felt pleased deep down, but pretending otherwise, he put on a dissatisfied expression. He deliberately furrowed his brows and spoke.
“Where is she waiting?”
* * *
She had gone to the Crown Prince’s Palace and heard that he had gone to work at the Administrative Palace, so she had come this way, but Ephinia was uneasy inside. It would be troublesome if the Crown Prince heard that she was here and went back to the Crown Prince’s Palace again.
‘Her Majesty the Empress did give me this for times like this, though.’
It was an identification token engraved with the imperial crest. With it, aside from the Emperor’s Palace, the Empress’s Palace, and a few important locations, she could come and go freely.
In truth, the Crown Prince’s Palace was also one of the places one could not freely enter, but she had been told that if she spoke well to the head steward of the Crown Prince’s Palace, they would make it possible for her to go in and out there as well.
‘I can do this.’
The past two days had been days of suppressing anguish and embarrassment. Even if it had been for guiding, she couldn’t believe she had freely touched that of the Crown Prince.
Up until the moment she touched his chest and abs, it was definitely guiding. She could swear it to the Goddess! But after her hand moved to his manhood…
‘N-No, don’t think about it. Forget it!’
Watching such a pretty-faced man moan softly and pant like that, even desire that hadn’t existed was enough to bloom. If she followed her heart, she wanted to touch Kasselard as he was feeling it, all over.
“……”
Should she leave after all? Would it even be possible to empty her mind and focus on guiding… If she wanted to do guiding again that left even traces on the magic device, she would have to reach out her hand to Kasselard’s thing.
When the mage introduced by the Empress handed over that bracelet-type magic device and gave her advice, this was what he said.
‘When His Highness’s value reaches 1400, he is on the verge of rampage. At that point, even evacuating all the citizens of the capital would be too late, so quickly call for people and find a mage.’
‘What happens if we find a mage?’
‘With magic, we will move His Highness outside the capital.’
But when she put the bracelet on him, Kasselard’s value was 1298. There were a little over 100 left until 1400, but it really was a dangerously close number!
‘And yet, even when I grabbed and stroked His Highness’s length, it seems like it only dropped by about 12.’
As she waited while guiding his wrist, arm, and shoulder, the value dropped very gradually. When she touched his chest and abs, it went down by about 1 at most. Touching his chest and even his n*****s made it drop by around 2, but considering Kasselard’s condition, where his waves rose even if he stayed still, that kind of guiding didn’t stand a chance.
‘This isn’t the time to be thinking about my own shame. If His Highness continues to refuse guiding like this, it really will be nothing but rampage. I even doubt whether he can hold out until twenty-six…’
It seemed that taking medicine made it drop by around 30 to 50. So it seemed he had abused the medicine as well.
Ephinia first steeled herself with only one thought in mind, to drop the value below 1000. Today, even if she felt flustered or ashamed, she intended to endure it.
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