Chapter 123

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As soon as Abish answered, our bodies flew into the air.

And as if slowly assimilating with the world, our bodies became transparent from our fingertips and became invisible.

“Huh?”

Cedric groaned and wiggled his limbs.

Jake says he’s been practicing levitation magic these days, so he wasn’t too surprised.

But the real problem was me.

Because I dropped the pair of shoes I was wearing!

“Oh, my shoes!”

Hearing my dizzying cry, Abish, who was just about to cast a spell, was flustered.

“What? Did you drop your shoes?”

“Yes!”

“Then go and pick it up! Come on, go!”

Saying so, Abish sent me and all back down to the ground.

No, that’s exactly how it should have been.

Although I acted hastily, he sent Jake down instead of me.

“Yes?”

Jake, who suddenly descended rapidly and touched the ground, blinked with a blank expression on his face.

After a while, Abish put his forehead on it, apparently realizing my mistake.

“Ugh, I guess it’s because I’m getting older, so I make a lot of mistakes.”

Then he tried to get me down instead of Jake, but Jake shook his head and then reached out and grabbed something.

It was my pair of shoes.

Then he flew into the air again. Perhaps it wasn’t the fairy’s power, it was Jake’s magic.

“Come on, Mir, I’ll put on your lost shoes.”

Saying that, it was Jake who put the shoes on one of my empty feet.

In that moment, somehow, I felt like Cinderella who had regained her lost shoes.

Then Abish asked us in a gentle voice.

“Then, now that we have found our shoes, shall we go?”

“Great!”

We shouted, waving our arms vigorously with our bodies completely invisible.

***

For a moment, it felt like the world was spinning around.

I shut my eyes tight. Then, in an instant, the dizziness disappeared and I felt my closed eyes brighten as if the place had changed.

At the same time, a feeling of softness was transmitted to my back. It looked like I had fallen on a bed or sofa. I slowly opened my eyes and looked around. It was a familiar place I had seen before.

“This is…!”

“It’s the princess’s room!”

“Hoho, it looks like we came to the right place.”

It was. The place we moved to was none other than Ninaina’s bedroom.

It was also on a large bed. I got up.

‘Oh my God, if I move wrong, will my dirt-stained shoes hit the bed?’

I jumped out of bed.

It was then. The door swung open. Without even a moment to hide.

We hardened like ice, but fortunately, it was not the maid or the attendant who came in.

“……So, brother, have you really not seen them? They promised to hide in the banquet hall, but I don’t know where they went. Oh, oh?? Why are you here!”

It was Ninaina and Nicholas.

Ninaina had grabbed Nicholas and talked with him in a very worried tone, but when she saw us on the other side, she was terribly surprised.

Ninaina ran up to us, checked on one after another, and shouted.

“I was worried! I thought that you were caught by palace guards or guards from other countries who hid at the banquet by any chance, I thought you may have lost your way, I was going to ask my knights to secretly search the inside of the imperial palace. I almost gave the order.”

‘Well, we lost our way.’

I felt guilty. But before it was obvious, Ninaina found something.

“But what is this……?”

It was the glittering dust that had been scattered over the bed we were lying on.

Naturally, the true nature of the dust was fairy dust. Ninaina tilted her head as if puzzled.

“Why do things that are neither soil nor jewels shine so brightly? Could it be poison that an assassin sprayed?”

“What a shame, human child! What do you mean poison!! It is fairy dust!”

Exactly as soon as Ninaina uttered the word ‘Is it poison?’, Abish suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

What, you didn’t go back to Fairy Island?

“……!”

And Ninaina was startled by the rumble coming from her head, and she lifted her head and then opened her eyes wide with anger.

Then she hurriedly backed away, as if she was about to fall on her butt, and closed her eyes tightly.

“Uwa…ack?”

She tried to scream, but she noticed something strange and she opened her eyes again.

Absi, who seemed embarrassed by such a reaction, was furious.

“No, you don’t need to be so surprised like you saw some kind of ghost, do you?”

“Who, who are you, dare to come into my room……”

Ninaina tapped Abish’s wings with her trembling fingertips.

Then, Abish got angry on the contrary.

“Do not touch the wings! How sensitive and precious the wings are to a fairy!”

“Fai,ry?”

Ninaina was blank, and she stood still.

Of course, so was Nicholas, who was standing behind her.

Alice and I had to explain the situation to them again.

Fortunately, Ninaina and Nicholas also promised to keep Alice’s secret.

“So that’s how you came back to this room.”

Ninaina made the excuse that she was not feeling well to find us, and she left the banquet early, and Nicholas seemed to have left together to take Ninaina to her room.

After that, unfortunately, we were forced to leave the Imperial Palace.

We failed to properly enjoy the banquet.

It must have been unavoidable because we were uninvited guests.