chapter 12
Girls under the moonlight (1)
The hazy moon was hidden by a fog-like cloud, and slowly revealed itself.
Then, faintly, the moonlight descended into every corner of the dark town.
I sneaked out of the castle during the night and landed in the village without being noticed.
Nias, who had been clinging to me, let out the breath he had been holding until his face turned red.
“Lord, I thought I was going to die.”
While flying through the sky, Nias tightly closed her eyes and clung to my chest.
He’s a demon king, but he’s afraid of flying?
Of course it’s acting. Nias was only planning to catch me off guard by playing a cowardly maid who relied on her master.
And I’m thinking of passing the hypnotic pill mixed into something, whether it’s cookies or food, into my stomach.
“Fortunately, the lunch box is fine! Rejoice!”
The first thing Nias checked after getting off my arms was a basket beautifully decorated with ribbons and spring flowers.
Inside the basket was a packed lunch Nias had prepared.
“You haven’t even had dinner, so if you get hungry, let’s eat together! Etch.”
When I see Nias coughing lightly while talking with a bright smile, I feel cute.
Shall we eat together sometime? It is true that I am thinking.
But I don’t want to take hypnotic pills either.
I should have shaken it in the air once so that I don’t feel like this.
I uttered a word that was not in my heart.
“ha. A dog would eat that.”
“Bocchan, you can’t call yourself a dog!”
Nias said with concern.
Wait, I think you’re giving this back?
“Are you an idiot! I won’t eat! Take it and throw it away!”
Nias quickly shook his head and held the basket with both arms as if to protect it.
Then, as if he really had to do that, he began to look at her with moist eyes.
“Bocchan… I wanted you to eat…”
Before Nias’ pleading expression weakened my heart a little, I regained my composure.
That was Nias’ strategy.
“What if you don’t throw it away? I’m going to give it to the poor people anyway, so I know that.”
Nias cried out in shock.
However, the system window… did not appear.
‘As expected, once I get used to a pattern, the achievement level doesn’t rise.’
By making Nias have affection for me, the achievement level that I thought was solved was once again faced with a problem.
It’s ‘Mannerism’.
Nias’s masochistic tendencies are not satisfied with the patterns he has become accustomed to.
At this rate, when is the number of times called 10000 supposed to be filled?
No, now I have work to do before this.
‘Achievements window’
I called up the achievement window.
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<Achievement Window>
Achieved (1/100)
list of achievements
1. Satisfy Nias’ masochism. (228/10000) – Reward: Open hidden route (in progress)
2. Satisfy ???’s hypocrisy. (0/1000) – Reward: Open hidden route (???)
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43. The first meeting with Nias starts negatively – Reward: 《The Maid’s Remorse》 route open (clear)
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52. Belongs to the student council led by Yuria. – Reward: Open the hidden route (???)
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78. Acquire the strongest weapon. – Reward: Addition of the strongest weapon, ??? (in progress)
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This was the problem I was facing right now.
To acquire the strongest weapon.
I pursued it for two years to get that weapon, and I was able to find a clue in a picture book on the bookshelf.
If you find the topography in this picture book and move, you will be able to reach the Terranto Slate, which is said to contain the strongest weapon.
But this put me in a slightly undesirable situation.
One of the heroines, who looks fine on the outside but is a bit turned around on the inside, ran into me early.
I didn’t know how they would meet, but I needed to be careful.
‘But the addition of that ??? to the reward bothers me.’
I thought it might be the addition of a new system.
I just hope it’s not a headache.
First of all, I closed the achievement window and opened the picture book instead.
It was a picture book left by Kyeft Danehart, the first duke of the Danehart family.
The content of this picture book is about a boy wandering around the town chasing the moonlight.
The meaning of the full moon slate must mean that this moonlight is important.
That’s why I decided to meet the conditions and walk around the town at night.
“Ech. So where are you going now?”
Nias asked me, sneaking up next to me.
“First the square.”
I said while checking the picture book.
The first place the boy reached after chasing the moonlight was a plaza with a bronze statue of the first duke riding a horse in the center.
After that name, it was named Kiev Square.
I took Nias and started moving slowly.
It would be easy to fly, but few people can use magic. That is, it is easy to identify.
It will be difficult if someone finds out about me and goes into my father’s ears.
“The night wind is still cold…”
Nias said, holding up a courtesy flag.
Even though it’s already been two years, I’ve been cherishing that mat.
“Look around you.”
“Let’s look around together!”
“Eh, if I did that, I’d have to keep my shoulders close to you!”
Both Nias and I were quite tall, so the mats were a bit smaller now.
It would be very frustrating to be inside that blanket together.
“I am good!”
“You are good. stupid Why do you like to stick around so much? Are you a dog!”
Under the moonlit night, Nias’s eyes glowed softly.
Rejected, Nias held a mat in her hand and stared at me with a pitiful glare, like a wet puppy.
“Really…no? Etch.”
Nias let out a small cough, as if flirting.
At the same time, he slightly raises his eyes and looks at me.
I don’t know if it’s the pollen or the cold.
However, that kind of melted action was so charming.
“…ha. okay.”
I let out a sigh as if I couldn’t help it, and snatched it from Nias’ hand as if I was ripping off a mat.
Then, I unfolded the mat and wrapped it around Nias’s body.
The blanket was also a bit narrow for two people to fit in.
As our shoulders met, I could feel Nias’ body heat through my clothes.
Even so, Nias has a slightly higher body temperature than others, so it feels hot when they are together.
Every time Nias gently shakes her head, her thin hair, which seems to have been spun from chestnuts, sways, and a fragrant, sweet scent tickles her nose.
“I am happy. young master. Warm.”
In the moonlight, this time, Nias smiled brightly without any lies.
That smile seemed to seep into my heart little by little.
I tried to look away from those eyes that were about to melt, and I said something I didn’t even want to say.
“I am hot.”
At my words, Nias rather gently put her shoulder on me.
“Why are you stuck like this?”
“Since you are hot, I want to get some heat too.”
“So it’s hot, are you going to get out of the blankets?”
At my words, Nias suddenly raised a hand to cover her mouth.
“Ech.”
Then it looks at me lovingly, asking how to get out because it’s cold.
I took a deep breath and decided to fight the temptation with more nonchalant words.
“Did you decide to go behind? okay. Do as you please.”
“yes! happy!”
Nias clung to my arm.
‘There’s one load. One load.’
I went ahead, hypnotizing myself in my head.
Maybe this is Nias trying to hypnotize me in a different way?
thinking like that
After arriving at the plaza, I wiped off the sweat I had accumulated while walking.
Nias, who had been chattering for a while, put on a sad expression.
“already…”
Nias looked around the empty plaza with a regretful expression and said,
The square illuminated by the moonlight was unexpectedly bright.
The time when the moonlight shines on the plaza is an important factor. Fortunately, it seemed to be the same condition as written in the picture book.
“Enough now. I have work to do.”
As I tried to free myself from Nias, Nias pulled me. Nias stared at me, who had turned her head away for something, and put her hand to her mouth.
“Ech.”
And he looked at me as if he was really going.
I won’t fall for that silly, innocent ploy a second time.
“dummy.”
I left the crying Nias behind and got out of the blanket.
After opening the picture book, I confirmed that the conditions were the same and looked around the statue.
King Seonjo, who rode proudly on a horse, was revealing a majestic figure under the moonlight.
“As expected, nothing is revealed.”
Of course, I didn’t expect to find it right away.
The boy in the picture book found some glowing letters on the statue.
This picture book ends with the boy walking to the statue and discovering the glowing letters. No clue whatsoever.
However, as you dig into the settings, clues aren’t just revealed in the text.
Several circumstantial evidence can fill in the void.
Kieft Danehart, the first head of the Daneheart family and duke, had quite grandiose settings.
He was the strongest archmage of that era that dominated an era, and was the first Five Orbs that later became a title referring to the archmage.
He was the only person who transcended the human realm and met the god of this world, and it was set up that he had been to the world of constellations.
It wouldn’t be strange if he said that he had the strongest weapon sealed somewhere.
It’s not hard to guess why he deliberately sealed this weapon and didn’t pass it on from generation to generation.
There can be any number of people who covet the strongest weapon. It cannot be said that there are cases in which families have been shattered as the years have passed.
So, I hoped that someone, in a time of great need, would be able to get hold of this weapon.
‘A child who needs to read a picture book…
He must have hoped that such a child would notice the strange parts of this picture book.
A genius enough to realize the secret of picture books at a young age.
At that level, he thought that at least he had the potential to become a great wizard like himself.’
Kieft didn’t want anyone to get the weapon.
The proof is that this picture book was left in the family library.
In any case, it can be interpreted that he wanted this weapon in the hands of the Danehart family.
“…In other words, the correct answer is.”