CH 45

Chapter 45: Long Day

Eliana is the one who took my fiancée from me in my first life and drove me to my death.

But in my second life, Eliana is just a girl who loves her father.

“[Deploy infinite formula]! Chain of commandments!”

The magic chains bind the hands of Laseid, who is about to attack Eliana.

“Oh! Hey Mariel! What are you doing?!”

Laseid protests agonizingly in front of me.

I wasn’t sure if it would work against an ancient elemental dragon, but my magic seems to work against Laseid.

“Because Eliana is human again.”

“I’m aware of that! Quick, break these chains!”

Laseid is struggling to break the magic chain.

“Keep it that way because it’s funny. Marie.”

Bern looks at Laseid with amusement.

“Bernhardt, I’ll remember you later!”

Laseid bared his fangs in anger. The fangs were sharp. I wondered if he would bite his tongue with his own fangs. I’m thinking stupid thoughts.

“…weird.”

Eliana, who was lying on her butt on the floor, got up before I realized it and muttered something similar.

What’s weird?

“Why can’t I trace it? This has never happened before!”

Bern turns to me in a panic.

“Marie! Deactivate the magic formula!”

I look around me and see countless magic circles still floating around me. I haven’t deactivated it yet!

“One more time! Trace!”

I hurriedly tried to deactivate the magic formula, but Eliana’s chant came first.

But nothing happens.

“…I can’t…what is that? What are you?!”

Eliana, confused, holds her head in her hands and backs away.

Bern rushes out of the gap and strikes Eliana with a fist to the solar plexus, knocking her unconscious.

This move is often used to stun an opponent, but I’ve only seen it in dramas.

“Bern… Isn’t that a bit much against a girl?”

The solar plexus is a vital point in the human body.

It’s a hand used in self-defense, but it hurts when it’s done, and it suspends breathing.

Trained personnel or not, you can’t do that to children!

“If I leave her alone, she may harm Marie.”

Bern says firmly as he places Eliana, who is unconscious, on the ground.

No, no, no! Eliana was just trying to trace magic. I don’t know why it didn’t work, but…

“Hey! Unfasten this chain!”

Ah! I forgot about Laseid.

◇◇◇

When we returned to the palace, it was already dawn. It was a long day.

We landed some distance away and went to the gardens, where I found a crowd of people.

No wonder. It is chaos, as if there had been a storm.

Bern goes to the emperor to explain the sequence of events.

“Marie, I’m sorry. You ended up staying up all night. You can spend the rest of the day in your room.”

“Bern, are you all right?”

“I’m used to it, I’ll be fine.”

“You need to eat and sleep well or you’ll never grow up.”

Those were the words Marie’s grandmother used to say to her. I used to stay up so late that my grandmother would find me the next day and get mad at me.

“Why is that? But I’ll keep it in mind.”

Bern chuckles and walks away with Alois.

“Kyu~y!”

I was just about to go back to my room when Ruria hit me with a thud.

“Ruria!”

“Kii~yui!”

“I was worried,” Ruria said, rubbing his face against me.

“I’m sorry, Ruria, for worrying you. Come, let’s go to our room.”

“Kii~yui!”

When I returned to my room, Luna and the others all jumped on me at once.

Their fluffy fur was so comfortable that I fell asleep on the bed immediately.

I heard later that Eliana’s magic was sealed and she was sent to a monastery in the Kingdom of Kalkstein.

As punishment for trespassing in the Crown Prince’s palace twice and destroying the gardens…

I sympathize with her situation, but Eliana lacks a little common sense. At best, she is free-spirited.

Noble daughters are raised to be ladies from a young age, so they can’t always express their true feelings.

Socializing is like warfare. How do you mount up? In short, the law of the jungle is the law of the jungle.

The world of the aristocracy is cold.

Eliana, on the other hand, was raised on the streets and lived freely.

In retrospect, it may have been this freedom that attracted Edward and the noblemen.

I can’t help but hope that she will be able to study again in a monastery and one day live with her mother.