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"............Maria and Hofre are ahead?"
"Yes, Lord Raymond. That's right."
Beyond the opened door was a door leading to a dimly lit basement.
Candlelight flickered at the end of the stairs.
I winked at Master Cyrillos.
"Now, please come this way."
Previous statement retracted. Hofre is quite a bad-natured guy.
It's quite bad-natured to imprison someone in a place that is difficult to escape from, like the basement.
"Your Highness Raymond. It must be difficult to go down the stairs. I can pick you up if you don't mind."
"............That's right. Then please."
He doesn't intend to leave me behind at all.
If that's the case, it's still better to be held so that Master Cyrillos can run without any worries.
"Oh my, this is. I apologize for not being considerate."
"No, don't worry about it. Then Lord Raymond, excuse me."
While being held by Master Cyrillos, I went down the stairs to the basement.
The underground passage was just like an ordinary mansion's corridor, so much so that you wouldn't know it was underground if you didn't know.
A soft carpet that your feet sink into. Paintings in frames with beautiful details.
However, because there is no light coming in from the windows, it feels like a haunted house, giving it an eerie feeling.
After walking down that corridor for a while, Sergio stopped in front of a certain room.
"Maria and Hofre are here?"
In front of the heavy door. The stairs connecting the ground and the basement that we came down earlier were far behind.
"That's right. Please open it and enter."
Sergio was smiling with a good-natured smile and was recommending to open the door.
"Then, I'll open it."
Master Cyrillos held me firmly again, and then put his hand on the door and opened it violently.
"S-so!!? The first time Lord Raymond used magic!!? What was the reaction!?"
"It was very cute. When the wings floated up softly by his own hand, his gem-like eyes sparkled even more and he was rejoicing. The appearance is really just lovely."
"UhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Call an artist!! Call an artist!!!! We must draw that figure immediately!!"
"Um... I want to go home soon."
"What are you saying!? You've been by Lord Raymond's side all this time!!!? I won't let you go until you tell me everything about Lord Raymond that you know, from corner to corner, without leaving anything out!!!"
"I want to go home. ...Oh? Lord Raymond, and Cyrillos-sama?"
I and Master Cyrillos had forgotten to move in the face of the raging exchange that was taking place in the room.
Maria, who was sitting on the only bed in the room, and a man who seemed to be Hofre, who had collapsed on the floor in front of the chair placed next to the bed, were extremely comical.
It felt like time had finally returned when Maria called out.
"Um. I'm glad you're safe."
"I'm sorry for the trouble. I couldn't go back even though I wanted to go back to the royal palace."
"Yeah. I thought so."
First of all, I wanted to make sure that Maria wasn't injured, so I tapped Master Cyrillos's arm. Master Cyrillos approached Maria while being wary of Hofre, who stood up from the floor and stood next to the chair.
"Maria. Are you okay? Has anything been done to you?"
"Yes. I was a little scared at first, but it seems like he just wanted to hear the story about Lord Raymond."
I confirmed the extent to which Maria was injured with a smile as if she was troubled.
I'm not so insensitive as to touch the parts hidden by her clothes.
"By the way, how long is Hofre going to be frozen?"
"Hiu!?"
When I called out to Hofre, who was still not moving near the bed, he made a strange noise.
"Why did you kidnap Maria?"
Taking advantage of the fact that he wasn't moving, I closed the distance with Hofre.
Hofre stiffened his body, but he didn't move from the spot or open his mouth.
".........Hey, you won't know if you don't say anything, right? Why did you separate Maria from my side? Answer me."
I pressed him from the front, looking up at Hofre from below.
"Ah... Uwa...!!"
"What? What do you want to say? I won't know if you don't put it into words."
Hofre's face was rapidly dyed blue and red.
While observing how he was so skilled at rapidly changing his complexion, something glittering overflowed in Hofre's eyes hidden behind his round glasses,
"I-I don't mind dying...!!"
He fell to the ground with a happy expression.
"Eh, eeeeeh..."
Is this chaos?
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