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"My lord, it's time for you all to rest."

It seemed like a long time had passed as I spoke to everyone gathered at the salon about my adventure on Labyrinth Island.

I heard Mr. Lester, the old deacon of the Zepernell family, enter the salon and slap his ear next to Ashley.

- Schwartz.

Ashley turns her gaze this way...

"Apparently, we've talked a lot. This continues... when I'm back again..."

"Let's do that. I'm looking forward to the end of the Labyrinth Dragon crusade, which will surely pay for its work, and the rest of the story."

The gathering at the salon was dissolved when Prince Khan, who rose up supported by Lady Anastasia, uttered words as if he represented the Kurtomerga royalty.

They dropped off King Khan Princes and Princes Ark heading to their respective bedrooms, leaving only me and Ashley in the salon, as well as Chancellor Bergman and Chancellor Zepernell.

Schwartz, you did a really good job crusading Empress Ant.

"No, you haven't been able to crusade in a real way yet. Until we sink the labyrinth dragon (Labyrinth Dragon) reliably, including the Lord of the Labyrinth (Dungeon Master) …"

"Still - it is. At the time, the concubines withstood pressure from the founding of the country and surrounding countries, so they did not send crusaders while they were aware of the threat of Empress Ant..."

"It's impossible for God to root and crusade every warcraft in his eyes."

Schwartz, we're moving the dragon inheritance to Torinto around noon tomorrow, so we'll have everything we need ready by then.

"Okay. In the morning I will go to the merchant ship yard of the Marida Chamber of Commerce. Until then, can you ask no one to enter the stables, Ashley?

As she sat on the same couch for two, Ashley leaned down sometime and shut her mouth tightly and shut up.

"... Ashley?

Chancellor Bergman and Chancellor Zepernell also noticed something was wrong. But instead of worrying about Ashley as much as I do, you sensed the air after this, and you both walked out of the salon to escape.

How long would it have been since I was left in a suddenly quiet salon and sat like a stone statue on the couch?

No, maybe it was actually about a few minutes, but when I'm feeling the heavily flowing air, I feel like it's been hours.

"Ashley......?

"No snuggling"

"- Yes."

I couldn't stand the severely painful atmosphere and tried to speak up but the approach failed greatly. Apparently, it's not like he wasn't hearing me or the surrounding voices - and somehow I feel slight anger from Ashley's voice color.

Once again in a quiet salon, gazing at the ceiling and walls without being able to do anything, the ladies at the service moved through the salon without making a sound from the corner of the room and began to reduce the window door tightness and candlestick lights.

The Zepernell Mansion will soon have bedtime. Mr. Lester called Ashley “the Lord," but he should not have officially inherited it yet - but Chancellor Zepernell is called the Sovereign from within, and I guess he doesn't have to go around with the next Lord.

Even though such a new owner is still here, what the hell are you saying about starting to tighten doors and turn off lights?

Besides - there's still me here. He is also the vault number for the Clan “Spark (Spark)", a guest of the Zeparnell family and a unit in action under the two prime ministers of the Kingdom of Kurt Merga, as well as a large merchant who partitions the "Great Blackhouse", now so named that he deals directly with the royal family.

This must be staunchly protested and educated about what it is like to work as a salary. Ash, the landlord of this mansion right away...... let me tell Mr. Lester, the butler, right now.

Looking to the entrance to the salon, Mr. Lester was just standing there.

When he notices my gaze, he retreats and closes both open doors with his head gently lowered. Shortly before the door was due, Mr. Lester and his gaze overlapped and his mouth angle was seen rising loosely.

Are you deliberately darkening the room?!

The moment I accidentally put my hand into trying to get up off the couch amid only a few remaining lights...

"- No, no, no."

Ashley's hand held my hand and I accidentally stopped moving at my mid back.

Slowly he lowered his floating hips onto the couch and glanced slightly at Ashley, but he leaned down and couldn't see the look on his face.

"Schwartz...... what the hell are you going to say about that earlier?

The word runs through the spine. Ashley, holding down my hand, trembled slightly, and the power to grip was strong as if it represented a shaking emotion - and weakly shaken.

Sink your body deep on the couch and exhale for a long time.

I knew immediately what Ashley wanted to say. I have never made any clear assertions before, but there are significant - inevitable disadvantages - in the means to defeat the labyrinth dragon (Labyrinth Dragon).

Return the hand that Ashley holds back, combining her fingers and gently gripping in.

"I can't hide anything from you..."

"When they come back... you mean there's a chance they won't be able to come?

"The Labyrinth Dragon (Labyrinth Dragon) is a living labyrinth that takes in the power of Elkayness. There's no way there's anything dangerous about saying we're going to defeat the champion of nature"

"Then... Schwartz is with the Marine Knights too - ugh!

Ashley was crying as she raised her face.

"I can't do that..."

"Why Schwartz again! Are you going to save everything by yourself, Barga, King's Capital, or this Amar?!

"I don't mean to... I'm getting help from someone here, whether it's Barga or Wang Capital. I'm an exorcist, so I can't live in this world without someone's help."

"Such lies... Schwartz can do anything alone..."

My voice, spinning as I stroked Ashley's hair, was also a little trembling at some point.

"Alone... I sure can. There's no magic, there's no magic, and I have these guns - this power (VMB)."

That's what I said. Concentrate my consciousness on the palm of the hand where I was stroking my hair and take out Five-seveN.

Particles of light converging in the palm of his hand glow fantastically in a dim salon, and Ashley's gaze is naturally attracted.

"But, Ashley. Even if this power alone tries to survive, all that lies ahead is loneliness… it cannot be said to be alive"

Staring at the Five-seveN delivered in my hand, I make it clear which world I live on.

"I'm not a person. I'm only the Lord of the Labyrinth (Dungeon Master) everywhere I go...... but still -"

Five-seveN looks up and overlooks Ashley with a slight blur.

- I love you.

Would my face have turned a little red? I've never told them clearly before, but now I have to.

Ashley was opening her eyes and taking my word for herself with a big tear. He leaks a voice that is not a voice, and his superimposed hands grip back hard.

"I want to live with you. To do this...... you have to be a person, not the Lord of the Labyrinth (Dungeon Master). Crusading the Labyrinth Dragon is also a ritual for it."

"I love you too - and I want to live with you. But..."

I didn't let any more anxiety go into words. Overlap lips, throw away Five-seveN and hold Ashley.

No matter how many words you line up, you won't be able to erase Ashley's anxiety. Then I'll just prove it, I'm here - that I'm always next to Ashley -.

Rolling on the floor of the salon, Five-seveN loses possession and returns to the particles of light, and the rising particles illuminate every inch of me and Ashley's side, disappearing.

Slight lights and one man and one woman left in the salon. No one approached him, and the night of overlapping to be sure of something went quietly deeper.