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The tall Elven King, who walked ahead of me, always had his back to me.

The long, fiery red cloak rippled like a waterfall in front of me.

I have to be careful not to step on it at all times.

That's just embarrassing.

The powerful elf king Maispil should not be a person who likes gorgeous dresses.

So I had the audacity to ask.

"Is this cloak a holy relic too?"

Meispier didn't make the slightest sound.

Did you not hear me?

Or are you thinking about something very complicated and you don't react?

Or do you just just don't want to talk to me?

Please, Mespier, you're not Elle and Liu Xiao, why are you playing this with me.

"Haven't you thought about it?"

Hmm? Why did Mespier ask that?

"Uh...... I think it's a holy thing."

"No"

Not a holy relic?

"What I'm talking about is why you came to the Dawn Mountains"

Ha?

Maispil: Are you sure your head is still normal?

It doesn't tie in with what we're talking about at all.

"I'm talking about why you met Elice Heranna"

"What I said is"

Mespier then turned his head and stared at me with a pair of cold, silver-white eyes.

"Why did you establish a soul connection with Ellie Heranna?"

My whole body trembled, and goosebumps were about to fall from my body.

There was no reproach or anger in the Elven King's eyes, he was simply asking me a question.

But that's what scares people.

Because, what is his mood now, I don't understand at all.

If he's angry, then the first thing I want to do is avoid provoking him further.

If he is calm, then I can try to apologize to him.

But now, what do I do?

This is the Dawn Mountains, the royal city of El Gonda, a dark treasure trove.

Not only is it the home of Maispil, but it is also a place where you can kill people and sell goods.

The atmosphere suddenly dropped to freezing point.

There was silence all around, except for the footsteps of two people.

After a few seconds, Mespier looked back and stopped looking at me.

"I know Princess Ellie Heranna doesn't like me"

Oh?

Maispear said this unexpectedly.

"Both of us know that neither of us likes anyone"

Anyway, I think I heard something similar from Ellie's mouth, just last night.

But I didn't expect Mespier to say such a thing in front of an outsider like me.

"I want to keep this marriage ......"

Maispear turned back and looked at me with a strange look.

There is contempt and disdain in this kind of eyes, and there are all kinds of strange feelings in it.

“...... Or something, do you think it's possible?"

Even more unexpectedly, Mespier's implication was that he had no intention of maintaining the marriage at all.

"I'll only be interested in something powerful"

"She's only interested in novelties"

"I'm completely different from her, and it's impossible to maintain a stable marriage"

"No matter how much I hide it on the surface, no matter how much she endures"

"We all know that it doesn't work"

Mespier looked at my surprised face and looked back ahead.

"Princess Ellie Heranna cares more about the Dawn Mountains than I do"

"She cares about keeping the elves alive"

"All I care about is for the elves here to win"

"Me and her, from the very beginning, were contradictory"

The implication of Mespier's words is that he may make the elves give up their lives in pursuit of victory.

Ellie, on the other hand, may make the elves give up the victory to save their lives.

Such an idea is indeed difficult to imagine for human beings in the 21st century.

But after coming to the Dawn Mountains, I have read a series of related books, plus the recent situation.

I've learned that elves can really be faced with a dilemma at any given moment.

"I don't have to hide the truth"

Mespier, still looking ahead, spoke to me behind him in a tone as hard as a rock.

His voice haunted me as if by magic.

The voices swirled around in the spotlight, never to travel outward.

"You are my choice"

Ha?

I don't understand what Mespier is talking about.

What he seemed to mean was that he had chosen me to be Ellie Heanna's medium.

He chose me to establish a soul bond with Elice Heranna.

And that's far beyond what I've ever known about the past time.

"You have ...... Magic to control people's hearts?"

Mespier smiled helplessly, as if concerned about my comprehension.

"The dominance of a man's soul over his will is very strong"

"There is no magic that can break through this barrier"

What does that mean?

Meispier, you're completely confusing me.

Could it be that the magic of the elves is so magical that I can't even understand it?

"Elice Heranna's anchor magic allowed her to land permanently near your school after traveling through the world's gates."

Anchor magic?

Looks like an upgraded version of some kind of door magic?

"I examined all the humans there and chose you"

And so on and so forth......

"The one who chose me to be the medium, it was Ellie"

I retorted.

"I gave her a spell"

"The effect is that she can be seen by interesting people"

Meispier!!

So you're the one who started it!

I finally know why Ellie's ridiculous spell chose the medium.

It turned out that you were fooled!

And Ellie, you were really deceived by such an inexplicable lie?

The ...... in my mind That one......

Well, if I want to talk about the image of Ellie in my mind, I would really be deceived by such a spell.

What Mespier said is certainly true, I dare to assert it.

"But why me?"

I really want to know why His Majesty Mespil, the invincible Elven King, pushed me, a middle school student, into the fire pit.

"According to my investigation"

"You're the most likely one in that area"

Possibility?

"A human who has become a psychic medium, and gradually gets closer to Ellie in soul"

I was suddenly woken up.

It feels like it is.

There is a feeling of convincing.

"And the only one"

Mespier slowly turned back and continued.

"After learning the whole thing, the humans who were able to continue to stay close to Princess Ellie Heranna and the Dawn Mountains"

The Elven King's face was cold.

The whole thing looks like a rock.

At this moment, he probably didn't have any emotions lodged in it.

Because that's all his strategy.

The strategy he used to get rid of Princess Elle, the strategy he used to get rid of this marriage.

Moment.

There was a deep disgust that welled up from within me.

What Mespier did to Elle is, to me now, so unreasonable.

Whether it's intimacy on the surface, or betrayal behind the scenes.

are all challenging the bottom line of my endurance.

What struck my endurance was a strong urge to rush up and punch Mespil's combo.

The true face of Maispil.

I didn't expect it to be so cold.

Even to his own sister.

Such a decision can be made.

It seems that in this world, for him, anything other than victory can be excluded with some kind of strategy.

Whew――

I exhaled to calm myself down.

Isadur is a symbol of strong family camaraderie and a spirit of unafraid sacrifice.

Did Mespier deliberately give me such a name?

To satirize me, or to satirize himself?

"Why are you telling me this?"

I felt my eyes were slightly blurry.

Not sad for me, not sad for Mespier, but sad for Ellie.

"Princess Elice Heranna is not a fool, being deceived by me now does not mean that she will always be deceived by me"

"If you hadn't helped me keep the secret, she would have finally realized the truth"

"I, help you?"

I don't understand what Mespier thinks.

"As I said, I don't have to hide the truth"

Mespil's eyes became like bayonets, directly against my heart.

"But you need to"

"Me?"

This man is really unreasonable, what the hell is he talking about?

"I've Examined Your Heart"

"You should ask yourself now"

"Which would you rather see if Princess Elice Heranna never knew the truth, or let her know the truth?"

"Of course...... It's ......"

I hesitated.

Mespier's words cut my heart like a knife.

As he said.

I can't let Ellie know the truth.

Elle told me last night that she had been running away from the marriage and Meispier was trying to keep it up.

So I feel guilty about Mespier.

I know how much she trusts her brother.

I don't want to see such an Ellie, learn of Mespier's betrayal.

If the truth had been submerged underwater, there would never have been a stalemate between Elle and Mespier.

Before this marriage is mentioned again, I'm afraid Elle has been wandering the human world for decades.

Until then, there should be enough time for her to figure out how to face Mespier.

But now, I can't ruin the relationship between the two siblings.

Even if it's just Ellie's wishful thinking, an illusion.

What's more......

I can't even imagine Ellie's sadness.

I really don't want to see it again, if I could.

I looked up and looked back at Mespil.

As if to tell him 'you won'.

"I'll keep it a secret for you"

"But you have to promise me"

"Don't take off your mask in front of Ellie"

"Continuing to play his brother"

Mespier's face didn't rise or fall at all, like a frozen soil.

He looked back and looked ahead.

It seems that even what I will say is already in his calculations.

"Don't worry about it, I know how to be Elice Heranna's brother"