Chapter 111

Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse

Sure enough, there were no guards in the basement.

I came to the basement for the first time, but there were only 3 rooms.

“Since he said that it’s the innermost room …”

“Ahh, it should be the room at the end. Let’s go.”

Lyra’s teleportation magic seemed to have some weak points, as she can only teleport to a place that anyone that is going with her had once gone to. So, in this case, I can only teleport to a place where I, Lyra, or Yuki had once been to.

Yuki and I secretly walked down the stairs to the basement and checked the room.

“There is no presence of people here. Probably.”

Yuki took the lead and walked ahead.

There was less than 10m in a straight line to get to the target room.

“Here.”

Yuki put her hand on the doorknob of the room and put strength into it.

“E, eh? It won’t open. It looks like it’s locked.”

“Eh!”

I never imagined that it would be locked.

But now that I think about it, I realized that there’s no way he would leave the heirloom in a place that is not even locked. 

“Key…Is it in your father’s study?”

“I’m troubled.”

『If it’s just this kind of lock, I can easily open it.』

Lyra spoke directly into my head.

She said that since she had lived as an assassin before, it’s a piece of cake to unlock this.

Lyra’s consciousness appeared for just a moment and she skillfully unlocked the room.

『It’s open. This lock is very easy to open. If they don’t change it to a better lock, then anyone might be able to open this, you know?』

“Th, thank you. Lyra.”

“Lyra is amazing.”

I can’t help but show a wry smile when thinking of Lyra who quickly unlocked it.

For people who can unlock rooms, a key is something that they won’t even need to have.

“…Where is it?”

“Do you know what kind of container it’s in?”

“If I’m not mistaken, I feel like there were 3 bottles of lotion inside a 15cm square wooden box. Father once showed it to me.”

“Do you remember the color of the wooden box?”

“I think it was a beautiful amber-colored box. There was no ornate decoration and only a rose design was carved on the surface of the box. The lotion itself was in a transparent container.”

The first time I was shown the heirloom lotion was when my mother was still alive.

At that time, father also loved me.

Nowadays, he cherished me as the fiancee of the crown prince, but after my stepmother came, I was treated gingerly.

I accidentally remembered about that time, then reflexively I was about to cry.

Yuki was trying her best to find the lotion, which is why she didn’t look at me, so she didn’t seem to realize that I was about to cry.

『It’s not always good to have a family huh…』

Probably because we’re sharing our consciousness, she seemed to have overheard my thoughts. Most likely, she can also see my memories of the past.

I heard her muttering as if she was lonely.

“Ah! I wonder if this is it!!”

“Eh? Did you find it?”

As I was immersed in past memories, Yuki had found and was holding the 15cm square box that I had described earlier.

The box was covered in dust because it was neglected for many years.

“It’s the box that is in my memory.”

“Ok! Let’s open it now!”

Yuki slowly opened the wooden box.

There is no lock on the box, so it smoothly opened.

There were 3 bottles of lotion inside.

“Who is there!!”

As I was relieved because I have the lotion in my hand, I heard a man’s voice from outside the room.