Chapter 75

[ Hex ]

Thoughts: It concerns me that they were kidnapped from the slums, I hope their parents did not tell them.

This surprised Siervian.

In an instant, a strange pain pierced her heart.

She instantly empathized with the abandoned children, recalling her past.

‘I am fine now, but those kids have nowhere to go.’

She stopped her fearful attitude and looked forward.

Glancing at the children carefully, and as she expected, everyone still seemed to be frozen.

Then she saw a peculiar status window out of the blue.

[ Angel ]

Occupation:

Favorability: 1,000

‘Angel? From the magic arithmetic… that Angel?’

She rubbed her eyes, but it was still the same status window.

She thought it was just someone else with the same name, but the red hair stood out.

‘The famous Angel in my previous life also had red hair…’

To put it simply, magic arithmetic is the study of how to draw magic circles.

Magic isn’t the only thing a person needs. In addition, it is necessary to learn various methods of formulas together to use stronger magic.

It was magic arithmetic that organizes theories and pursues an efficient method.

‘But Angel is only famous in the Southern Continent.’

Thinking about it over and over, she quickly pulled the hem of Hex’s uniform.

“Hex, Hex.”

“Yes, Your Highness? Are you tired?”

“Uh-uh. Where did they find the children?”

Hex, who was looking at the Children with pity, got curious about Siervian’s words but answered them mildly.

“It was said that all the children who arrived here were rescued from the southern part of the continent.’

“I see.”

The Southern Continent still maintained slavery, so it was natural to search there first for the children.

Angel had been a slave for a long time, and someone who recognized Angel’s talent restored their identity.

‘I suppose that’s really Angel.’

It seemed to be the same person in many ways, although a lot younger.

‘Let’s get closer.’

Her heart beat wildly.

Angel’s ‘12th Magic circle’, which was later organized, reduced mana consumption and it was called an innovation.

It was the time when Siervian was imprisoned, so she never saw the end of it.

‘You’re such a highly important person, I am certain you must be thinking a lot about something lately.’

The sight of talent suddenly gave her energy.

It felt like making Tanka eat macaroons enough to make him enthusiastically do magic research.

As soon as she got closer, Siervian could not hide her odd expression.

[ Angel ]

Emotions: Terrified

Thoughts: Haa, I don’t, I don’t know what this is. This is scary. What if I stutter, do the guards come in? And the party hall collapses and so the whole empire?

“…”

A voice stutter couldn’t possibly do that much damage.

At that moment, I misunderstood whether Angel was plotting something else.

After a little while, one of the nobles talked to Angel. However, Angel was very nervous and eventually got stiff. The noble soon lost interest and approached another child.

[ Angel ]

Thoughts: Huck-,huck-. I almost bit my tongue because I was nervous. No, I think I bit it. Oh my. What if I bleed to death? I survived that mess, but I die like this…!

Both of them couldn’t control their faces this time.

‘…You’re so worrywart, Angel.’

Siervian thought of herself as a very concerned person, but she was nothing compared to that.

After that, Angel was frozen in place like a statue. Due to her timid personality, the number of nobles who showed interest in her decreased.

Siervian became restless for no reason and looked around the place.

‘Huh?’

She then saw a boy among the children who had an occupation.

Moreover, the occupation was extraordinary.

[ Zecko ]

Occupation: Navapal’s spy

‘What? A spy?’

It must be the tea that the Navapal Kingdom was concerned about.

However, there was no spy among the children rescued from the South!

Siervian rushed to the boy who appeared at first glance.

She crumpled her face with an odd expression again.

[ Zecko ]

Emotions: Emptiness

Thoughts: I will destroy the empire that abandoned me. Hahaha. D.E.S.T.R.O.Y.

She had a similar expression to when he saw Angel who was very worried earlier.

If to say that this empire had abandoned him, she was in the position of preventing that. If he misunderstood that Antonio the wizard is a member of the palace, he could do that.

‘Where did he go?’

Siervian sure is being bothered by spies these days.

But Zecko was just leaning around the corner in the shade.

Rather than hiding, his purpose seemed to be standing behind the shade.

[ Zecko ]

Thoughts: Haha, I don’t even know the mission I’ve been given, and everyone’s smiling. And I don’t like the light, aahh.

In her field of view, nobles and servants looked at Zecko in a strange way.

Siervian, one of them, quickly hid at the other table before making eye contact.

There was another weird thing about the boy.

‘That level…how could it be so low?’

[ Zecko ]

Occupation: Navapal’s spy (Lv. 5)

A spy level of 5.

Sarah, the former chief maid, was unable to work like that, she was level 14 at the time.

Siervian hadn’t seen anything lower than that level.

‘With that level, he must be bad at being a spy!’

Since then, Zecko has been looking for shadows, trying to lean against the wall beautifully.

Since it was such a weird behavior, nobles talking to him gradually became lower.

‘Don’t you need to be friendly with them since you’re a spy…?’

Siervian became more worried without realizing it.

Her head pounded at the thought of two weird people, one being an outstanding talent in the future and the other is a spy from Navapal named Zecko.

She was worried generally about how this changed history would play out in the future.

‘Firstly, I need to inform them that there is a spy, but how?’

Siervian stopped wandering around the party and fell into thought.

But fortunately, Siervian’s behavior wouldn’t be noticed since the hall was full of children.

At the end of the banquet hosted by the Crown Prince, Siervian realized that the atmosphere was very strange.

‘Aren’t the nobility, more welcomed than I think?’

She didn’t mean that they did not like the kids back.

They understood the Crown Prince’s intention, but they are reluctant to sponsor or adopt the children themselves.

Some nobles did not understand the Prince who held a banquet for the children of commoners.

‘Many people are thinking they have shown their sincerity just by participating here.’

It is a matter of responsibility for a child’s future, so she understood what it would take.

She didn’t want to understand the commoner’s thoughts.

But she memorized the faces and names of the nobles who cursed the Crown Prince.

“Are you all right, brother?”

“Yes, Siervian. I’m all right…I am just worried about the children.”

Until the end of the party, there were no significant achievements of it.

Most of the nobles tried to speak gently in front of the Crown Prince, but it wouldn’t make a difference.

It became tough.

[ Damien Erveldote ]

Thoughts: What should I do? All those kids

She didn’t want to find all the children’s houses right away as it could cause some problems.

Still, Siervian became sad seeing her brother’s mind hoping for them a better future.

‘Is there anything I can do?’

This question was also on the children’s heads while they continued to answer questions even in the state of being frozen scared.

Looking at this atmosphere, their faces darkened.

[ Angel ]

Thoughts: I knew this would happen. They can’t take someone like me.

Seeing both the outside and the inside of the people, Siervian simply wanted to cry.

Some of the children blamed their parents for not showing up at all.

When she asked Hex again, he said that there were many cases where the children’s parents didn’t show up, even if they were not sold out.

‘They are the children who grew up in the slums. After all, I’d rather hope that the Imperial Palace would solve this problem.’

It was until now that Siervian’s mind became complicated.

[ Zecko ]

Thoughts: …My parents said they could come, but they didn’t after all. What should I expect? Such an empire must be destroyed.

Zecko was also one of the children waiting for their parents.

As she found out she was a spy, she suddenly became wary. But Zecko was such a strange child indeed.

This case seemed a little different from Lara’s.

“Let’s wrap up the party for today. I would like to thank the nobles for attending.”

As the Emperor officially closed off the banquet, the nobles headed out of the palace with faces of ease.

It was great that the children were rescued, but this was another problem for them.

There were even some worried about what would happen if the Emperor left the child to them by force.

‘Brother must be really upset.’

The Crown Prince came forward and took care of the children as if he had grown attached to them.

The children were now temporarily gathered in a small palace.

He was troubled since he couldn’t let them stay there for so long.

‘What should I do now?’

Siervian felt particularly responsible.

Angel was a talented person who would have made great achievements in the future, but that is if Angel was left alone, and the latter choice wouldn’t be known until the future.

But she couldn’t just leave them alone, there are no places left in the empire.

‘There’s got to be something I can do!’

Seeing the children with a dark look, Siervian made a promise.