Chapter 252
Neilla whispered to Roina.
“Aiha-nim told me to hide here and help Roina-nim enter the deepest part of the royal palace.”
The deepest part – usually in a castle, the most important person is the king, and the deepest part is the king’s bedroom. The one acting as the king here is Icardo, so it must mean Icardo’s bedroom.
Roina turned to Neilla with a shocked expression.
“So, you’re telling me to be chosen by Icardo and become his nighttime attendant?”
Neilla looked at Roina with an innocent face.
“I’ll go in with you!”
Good heavens. Roina covered her forehead with her palm. Goddess Aiha, why are you giving me this trial?
Ethan woke up, holding his throbbing head. He didn’t know exactly what had happened, but his head hurt a lot.
‘The same sensation as back then.’
It was the sensation from when he became a black knight helplessly by the Crown Prince, when he lost his mind and fell. The sensation of having the control of his body taken away and being manipulated.
‘No way.’
That couldn’t happen. How could he, who had just regained control, lose it again? Ethan struggled, but he felt like he was sinking into an even deeper swamp, and he bit his lip tightly.
He needed her.
“Roina, nim.”
Squeezing out his last bit of strength, he called Roina’s name. As he spoke, water gurgled and bubbled. Only then did Ethan realize that he was submerged in water. He was sinking into the dark water. He desperately tried to move his stopping body. His hands and body twitched, moving as if they were about to gain strength.
‘Can’t, breathe…’
That wasn’t nearly enough. He only sank more and more slowly.
‘Is this the end…?’
He could feel the light fading and being swallowed by darkness as he moved farther from the surface. As expected, without the light called Roina, he would only fall endlessly. He was the one who betrayed the Castrello Kingdom first, so what was he so great about to come this far? It was a ridiculous thing.
With a resigned heart, Ethan closed his eyes.
At that moment, he felt a force supporting his back and pulling him up towards the surface.
“……!!”
Pulled by that force, Ethan suddenly, in an instant, rose above the water’s surface.
“Gasp……!! Hah!”
Thud, his body, completely pulled out of the water, was thrown onto the cold stone floor. He coughed and spat out water.
Gradually calming his panting breath, he looked at the being that had saved him. Ethan’s eyes widened.
“Airas…?”
The being rising above the water was undoubtedly Airas. He looked at Ethan with an innocent-looking face, tilting his head, and then shook his body once, poof. Even though he didn’t have fur and was just covered in a hard, armor-like exoskeleton, his gesture was quite like that of a furry animal.
“……”
He looked around. A dark and damp cave, with faint light seeping through a crack in the rock. He didn’t know where this place was, but thanks to it, he was alive.
“Thank you.”
Ethan said that and casually stroked Airas. Airas happily received the stroking and then left, as if he had many things to do and was busy.
“……”
How on earth did this happen? Confused, Ethan took a breath and surveyed his surroundings. Seeing that some warmth and light were coming through that crack in the rock, there might be people over there.
He carefully approached the crack in the rock where the light was seeping in. The place connected through a slightly sloping passage was a larger passage than he had thought. He had to bend down a little, but it was a passage that people could pass through sufficiently.
“……!!”
Leaning carefully against the rock and looking through the crack, Ethan’s eyes widened.
“Could it be,”
Beyond that crack in the rock, in a space that seemed to be a servant’s room, a woman was sitting, letting her tightly bound hair hang long and checking her bow and weapons.
“……Sister?”
His voice was louder than he intended, and she turned around.
Unlike him, she had reddish-brown hair, dark skin, but the same eyes and nose bridge as him, and a firmly trained body.
She was a dead ringer for his sister, whom he thought was dead.
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