The morning after the last day of the school festival, I received a letter; it was from Airi, saying she wanted to meet me at the boys' dormitory cafeteria.
For some strange reason boys couldn't enter the girls' dormitory, but girls could enter the boys', what an absurd world this was.
"If she wrote this, it must be for something, better not keep her waiting."
"Ixion, let's go to the cafeteria."
The strange floating sphere with arms was at my side reading the letter.
"Master, put on some pants before going out."
I looked down and was in my underwear.
"Teehee, sorry."
I made a strange gesture like those girls in teen shows.
Ixion gave me a cold look and disappeared.
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Frey was outside the white-uniformed boys' dormitory, sitting at a table playing shogi alone.
He was very sad due to his defeat yesterday with Rudel.
He was so broken he kept losing, even to himself.
"My head won't stop thinking about the defeats against Bradford, I really am such a pitiful person."
Frey made one clumsy move after another, when it was the opponent's turn, he stopped moving.
"Maybe I should stop following in my father's footsteps... if I lost against a nobody twice, it means I'm weaker than I seem."
Frey was drowning in his own mental weakness, losing to Rudel left him in that state.
Suddenly, someone moved the piece that was the opponent's turn.
Frey directed his gaze to the board, more precisely the hand that did it.
(It's a small hand, must be a girl's... though it's very small for a girl.)
Frey didn't look at the person's face, only moved his piece, the mysterious person acting as rival moved their piece after taking their time.
Frey showed a bit of interest in that move now, raised his eyes a bit and observed the black uniform on her.
It was his turn again.
This time he made a stronger move, after a while, he thought the girl had given up, but she made a move at the same level as his.
This time he almost raised his face more, he was looking at the girl's lips.
Noticing he was looking at her, the girl spoke.
"You seem to be regaining your enthusiasm little by little, don't you?"
Frey raised his eyebrows at that comment.
"I heard what happened yesterday, I don't think you lost because that guy was more skillful than you."
"...I think he cheated."
At his ignorant comment, she responded to him.
"That's impossible, the board responds thanks to the magical power sent to it, something like that is impossible to think."
Frey knew cheating was impossible, but the girl's next comment made his brain and hands stop for an instant.
"It's possible, that boy possesses scarce magical power, yesterday some girls saw at a shooting stand, he couldn't fire the bullets, even someone with low magical power can, but that guy couldn't manage a single one."
Those words made Frey break into a cold sweat.
"The board responds to magical power, if that boy doesn't possess even a minimum spark to move his pieces..."
Frey suddenly changed his gaze to a serious one.
(Now that I think about it, that boy had a lost item, maybe he has something that can alter the board?)
He moved his next piece managing to eliminate the opponent's general.
Frey's eyes opened upon noticing how without any effort, he achieved a victory.
"You seem better now, with your permission I'll go have breakfast."
The girl stood up making a bow of respect while running out.
Frey could only notice from a distance how her orange hair in a pumpkin shape shook as she ran.
After seeing her run, he could only say something.
"Was she an angel?"
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I had arrived at the male cafeteria, at one of the tables away from the center I found Airi, she had her head lowered looking at the table.
There was neither a plate of food nor anything, girls could also eat here, but the supervisors didn't care about that.
I approached with a cup of coffee I bought for myself, but she seems to need it more.
"Good morning, have you had breakfast or were you waiting for me, haha."
I made an innocent joke, but there was no response, I sat down and this time asked her seriously.
"What's wrong?"
Airi slightly lifted her head and looked at me, her eyes were red from having cried a lot. She spoke to me in a sad tone.
"Good morning, Rudel-san, I'm very sorry to call you at this hour, but I received this last night."
Airi took a letter from her pocket, it was a bit wrinkled, stretched out her hand and I took it. After unfolding the letter, I read its contents.
My face made an expression of surprise the more I read it.
"Airi this is serious, your island is being attacked!!"
She still seemed sad, but I understood her.
The summarized content was that the village, her home island, was under attack by pirates, sky bandits. I once wondered why they were called that, but it was just my head asking obvious things and not absurd ones as they seemed.
But this is very serious. I once ran into them and they almost killed me, so I understand her distress.
It seems the feudal lord who administers Airi's island is a guy who doesn't care about his vassals.
Damn scum.
She still had her head lowered so I gave her words of encouragement.
"Don't worry, I'll immediately request permission from the palace to go to a foreign territory and to the adventurer's guild to gather reinforcements. Though I can only do all that by myself, but I don't want to cause problems for the locals."
I made my best smile with this terrifying face so she wouldn't feel anguished about her village.
Airi lifted her face to look at me, she really looked bad so I hastily said goodbye to head off to do the paperwork.
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Airi saw Rudel say the only thing that could only worsen her mood.
Her head filled with problematic thoughts.
(Why did you accept just like that?)
(Don't you notice it's my handwriting?)
(The paper is wrinkled, the writing is smudged and stained with tears...)
(Why don't you realize there's something wrong there!)
While she had various sad thoughts, there was someone who heard what Rudel said, his hair was red with black roots, that person was almost two meters tall and very burly. He left with a smile on his face.
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Meanwhile at the Royal Palace of Altfode. Liam had gone to visit his mother for a personal matter.
In an elegant room with decorative ornaments, tables with white tablecloths embroidered with gold, two people were conversing while one of them drank tea.
"Liam, may I know what you're doing here when you should be in class?"
Asked a beautiful woman with ash blonde hair, unlike what she wore yesterday, today she had her hair gathered with a large curl on the left side, this time she wore a dress worthy of a queen.
While the boy next to her, her son, wore the usual school uniform.
He had come to his house, that is, the Royal Palace.
He had a few things to ask his mother, but there was one question he wanted to know the answer to most.
The boy stared at his mother who drank her cup of tea elegantly.
"Mother, may I know exactly what happened yesterday with Bradford?"
The queen finished her sip, after leaving the cup on her saucer she stared at her son.
"What nonsense are you saying, I went to meet the baron a bit in person, I wanted to know what kind of man he was in person to understand his actions a bit."
"I'm not mad at him for hitting you, but as a mother, I was a bit mad about his criticisms towards you, though they were true, even so, it was still a bit personal my eagerness to meet him."
Liam's mother was telling her own son she approved of a guy giving him a beating, of course he'd be angry, but that wasn't what Liam wanted to know.
"Mother, that's not what I want to know."
Liam stared at his mother, she wondered what he meant, grabbed a butter sandwich and when she was about to take a bite...
"What I want to know is what happened between you and Bradford."
...Liam left her frozen.
With a trembling face, the queen, Lecia, looked at her son as if she had been caught in an act of infidelity.
"S-son, what are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about what you and Bradford talked about yesterday, a servant slipped up when I interrogated her. About how you turned red when you spoke with him."
Lecia immediately remembered what happened yesterday with Rudel, how a young man the same age as her son told her unimaginably obscene things.
Such an act would be considered bad enough to send him and his entire family to the gallows.
But she said nothing, the reason was something she herself couldn't comprehend.
She really liked adult romance novels.
One day, she was reading one as on any other day until that happened...
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It was a couple of years ago when Liam was still a child.
Lecia was in her personal room reading a romance novel as always.
She had a low table where she had her teacup and teapot ready.
Everything seemed normal until suddenly, Lecia made a strange sound.
"E-ehhh!?"
For some reason she quickly threw the book away.
"W-what was that!?"
On one of the visible pages of the book, there was a context that made her feel uncomfortable.
She was with her face red from what she read.
"Everything was fine, the man left his house to work in the field and the wife was preparing food."
"There was nothing strange in that."
"But why, Fillia!? You loved your husband Caules, didn't you? Why did you decide to go to Duke Bronson's house?!"
"You had wonderful children like Reines and Romani... why did you decide to leave your family for carnal desire?!"
Lecia was a lover of romantic stories, but the book she was reading was one about a farmwife's desire for adultery.
She thought something like that was very normal in commoners' lives, such a feeling nauseated her, but...
Despite what she read, she felt curious about knowing how the book ended.
After a few times of removing her hand from the book on the floor, she picked it up and left it on her personal bookshelf.
The next morning, she mustered courage and read the book, but immediately closed it after a few pages, it wasn't even a third of the book.
Weeks passed... months and she, little by little, read the book until reaching the end.
Upon reaching the climax, Lecia's face turned red, but not from embarrassment, but from happiness.
It seemed the woman had been forgiven by her husband and they lived their days happily, but... the immoral feeling still remained in her.
She was happy because the farmwife returned to her family, but it bothered her what she did, in her head such an act was despicable and dirty.
She thought.
(Such an act is unforgivable, I would never do that.)
That was her feeling.
That was what her heart said.
But...
Currently she has a strange feeling of discomfort in her heart related to a man, no. A boy the same age as her son should be said.
A country baron named Rudel van Bradford.
Yesterday she had gone to the Royal Academy of the kingdom to chat with him.
But something strange happened.
She asked him if there was any girl of interest to him.
But the answer left her mortified.
It was the first time in her life something so ridiculous was heard.
Normally, such an act would be enough to send him to the gallows.
But she treated it as a joke thanks to Alisa's trust in him.
All that was in her head currently, it was also the first time someone indirectly told her he desired her.
She wondered if this was what the farmwife felt.
"Mother!"
Upon hearing her son's voice, she stopped daydreaming.
Let out a foolish "What is it!"
Liam looked at her strangely. He repeated his question.
"Mother, what happened yesterday between you and Bradford?"
Lecia looked at him with a nervous face, she knows nothing happened, but she had a lump in her throat for some reason.
"Could it be you..."
Her son's words made her heart beat stronger than ever.
"You were..."
She felt her heart palpitating like an engine at full speed.
She thought for some reason her life would end if her son said those unpronounceable words.
"Were intimidated by that guy, isn't that right?"
"I didn't commit adultery!!!"
Both spoke at the same time.
But Liam couldn't hear what she said as his thoughts were concentrated on his mother being intimidated by Rudel.
"Mother, I didn't hear what you said, could you repeat it?"
She having stood up to declare her innocence, quickly sat down at her son's questioning face.
Her face was so red she didn't know what was happening to her.
"I-it's nothing..."
Liam stared at her and seemed sure of something.
(I knew it, that scoundrel Bradford intimidated my mother with some of his cheap tricks!)
The prince had no idea his mother had awakened an innocent adultery fetish.
Someone knocked on the door after an overwhelming silence.
The queen quickly regained her composure and with a still foolish voice said "A-advance!!"
A servant entered the room after bowing to both members of the royal family.
Lecia changed her distressed gaze from nerves to her serious working side.
"Do you need something from me or my son?"
The servant shook his head.
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry to bother you, but this is something I wanted to notify you as you are the only one with authority right now to approve this."
"Approve what exactly?"
He took out a form and handed it to the queen.
Upon seeing the applicant's name, Lecia made an astonished expression.
"Mother, what's wrong?"
Liam asked her curiously and his mother, with a smile as if planning something, responded to him.
"A permission request from Baron Bradford has arrived asking for reinforcements, he wants to go to a feudal lord's territory to support with the subjugation of pirates."
"Pirates!! You say?"
Liam shouted like a child upon hearing he would go to a candy store.
He wanted to ask permission to go, but remembered who requested reinforcements was Rudel.
Liam hated Rudel for calling him stupid, manipulable, and then stupid prince.
He hated being treated like a child, but the person who said all that and didn't receive a scolding was Rudel.
Liam annoyed, asked his mother who was looking at the form with a face that said she found a discount offer.
"We'll use this opportunity to know if the baron is a man who can be useful to the Kingdom."
She signed the form to have it approved.
"Make sure the members are people without experience or who are professionals, I want to know what he'll do to solve this problem."
Lecia was the Queen of Altfode, in the game she didn't exist, there were only vague mentions of her. Her nickname in the game was the reason she never appeared.
The Shadow Queen.
With that name given in the game, she was thought to be a horrible and manipulative woman, she also put obstacles in Liam's reasons to make Airi his wife.
Her setting was only mentions, so in this fantasy world, she only had her nickname, her personality was a mystery.
Through gritted teeth she murmured.
"Baron Bradford, I hope that just like your tongue, your power is as brusque as your words."
Liam looked at his mother, but he wasn't surprised at all. Meanwhile, the servant felt pity for Rudel as the queen had set her eyes on him.
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In a dark place in a seedy bar.
There were two hooded figures.
One of them handed over a large leather bag, when the hooded person opened it, he made a horrible expression of happiness, his wrinkled and ugly face showed his yellow teeth missing several front ones.
The bag had around one hundred gold coins.
Upon storing the bag, the ugly hooded man said very happily to the mysterious man.
"Payment was successfully made, I'll proceed to tell my captain about tomorrow's plan. It's a pleasure doing business with you, kakaka."
Letting out that strange laugh, the hooded man left after paying a beer for the ugly man.
Not before telling him a few words.
"If you fail, you know what will happen to you, right?"
After taking a big sip and burping, the ugly man made a smile, he had beer foam in his mouth which he spat while speaking.
"Don't worry, we the [Bluebeard Pirates] always successfully complete our assassination missions."
The hooded man smiled upon hearing that. He left that seedy bar.
Upstairs there was a group of knights on guard.
One of them noticed someone coming out from the basement floor of a warehouse.
He drew his sword, but the hooded person knew that would happen so he removed his hood and a fake beard he had.
The soldier saw that and immediately apologized.
"I-I'm very sorry, Rossini ojou-sama!! I didn't recognize you."
The man, no, rather the girl who had disguised herself, told the soldier after telling a servant to remove her clothes.
"Of course you shouldn't recognize me, you imbecile, I'd get into a lot of trouble if that happened."
After the servant removed all her clothes, he brought her a new change to hide the fact she was in her underwear.
While being dressed, the girl talked to herself without caring if the soldiers and servants heard.
"I have carried out exactly what my lord had been planning for weeks, with this you, Klein von Kingsfort, will be able to take revenge on that Bradford trash."
That night, a Machiavellian plan to assassinate Rudel using Airi had officially been established.
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As I had said, the permission request took an entire day to be ready.
In all that day I missed classes, I had to request several permits at the port, normally this would only be if you had several ships at your disposal.
But in my case it was different, my aircraft named Brunhilde. It was anchored at the port, its length is four hundred meters, it's the ship managed by Ixion.
I had to tell him to make external and internal visual camouflage to not raise suspicions.
My friends, Alisa and Airi, got anxious several times seeing that everything was steel and metal.
For me it wasn't a problem, but for others it was.
Ixion was annoyed at having to use camouflage and paint.
But the result is better than expected.
It looked like an ancient luxury cruise ship, it had several hot air balloons at the ends to simulate regulating the wind or something.
On the hull it had several propellers to simulate flight, it even had a dirigible on the top, the cannons and other weapons were so well hidden leaving only two side cannons visible to show it was a warship and not a passenger cruise.
I felt proud as if I had done it myself, but...
The problem was the front part, the bow, I felt he did it on purpose to annoy me.
There was something like the head of a golden dragon that seemed to spit fire, the stern part had something similar to a dragon's tail and on the sides, as if limbs, there were two large foldable wings which moved with the wind.
(I really want to hit him and turn him into a trash basket.)
While cursing Ixion in my head, someone approached me, it was supposed to be Airi or the reinforcements I requested...
"What the hell are you doing here!?"
...But it was just a red head and several other colors.
The person I looked at with a bad face was one of the idiots I defeated in the inter-school tournament, one of the stupid prince's friends.
"Chrome!!"
"I'm Chlust!!"
"As if I cared if you were Clamp even."
The red head had come with a dozen other boys and girls with him, not counting him would be equal halves. They all wore combat uniforms worthy of adventurers which made me think badly.
"W-why are you here?" I asked scared.
Since he was much taller than me, he looked at me from above, I hated when people do that. Cursed a bit my low height that barely reached his muscular and stupid chest.
Without much enthusiasm, he responded to me averting his gaze from me.
"I wanted to test my strength outside the academy, after my defeat to you, my father gave me a beating."
I thought he wanted revenge on me after saying that...
"So I thought this was an opportunity for that. I didn't imagine you would be the one requesting reinforcements."
...But only annoyed me with his obvious lie.
(You think I didn't notice you in the cafeteria? Who wouldn't notice a giant red ape eating so many large stakes in the morning!)
I wanted to tell them to leave, but if they're here, it means no one else accepted my request, I felt a bit disappointed and annoyed.
"What are they doing here?"
I understand he's here, but, and the rest of that rabble?
"They are future knights of my house, they came from the military academy after informing them I needed a minimum number of people to let me accept the mission."
(Why do you say mission, this isn't a video game, you damn giant muscle...)
I wanted to get rid of them, but if they were accepted by the guild I can't do anything.
Then I could see a silhouette among the crowd.
It was Airi, who came without luggage and only in uniform. It seemed a bit wrinkled and her hair disheveled.
A commoner girl's care must be scarce, I should tell Ixion to prepare some female hair care items for her.
I raised my hand to get her attention and without wanting to, my mouth made a smile. The group of annoyances noticed, but I didn't pay them importance.
Airi lifted her head and after looking at me, her expression became rigid and trembling, must be because of these pests.
Upon arriving towards me, I greeted her and she asked what was happening here.
"These scoundrels are our reinforcements, I expected more capable or useful people than this pile of garbage."
The garbage looked at me with a bad face when I called them garbage, sorry, but they are garbage. I'm sure they were allowed to come because their families or someone inside the palace qualified this as a game where they can gain experience, but my experience with pirates says you are very conceited about your abilities against bandits.
Those bastard scoundrels will kill you if given the slightest opportunity, I remembered what I lived through before finding Ixion.
After giving them a bad face, I grabbed Airi's hand and walked towards the reclining stairs to go up, only then did I tell them they could go up, but I won't allow my robots to carry their things.
They reluctantly accepted, after I and Airi went up, the others did too.
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Before Brunhilde departed from the port, a strange insect, no, it was a black thing with red wings flying near the aircraft.
At the moment of setting sail, it had stuck to the hull, the creature moved slowly to the center, where it started shrinking until it looked like a long and thin parasite, pierced the hull and went up who knows where.
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It had been delayed an entire day, but Alisa had finally arrived at the academy, she went to consult with her father to solve the problem Rudel had caused.
After being on hold an entire day, the problem had calmed down it seems.
Alisa was very happy. Before entering the academy, she had gone to buy some sweets at a pastry shop where they used to drag Rudel to.
She had sweet cakes, bittersweet ones, and a bitter one for Rudel as punishment, but she also had an extra one that was very soft, after making him make a distressed face.
First, she headed to the girls' dormitory to talk with Airi about what happened and thus apologize.
Her apologies were for not being there for her, she also thought like Airi, her friend, a commoner. She had become an irreplaceable person for her life.
While walking thinking of what to say as apologies, some girls tried to talk to her, but Alisa simply ignored them as she wasn't interested in what they said.
Upon arriving at Airi's room door, she knocked on the door, at this hour she should be available after returning from breakfast.
Knocked again but no one responded, she thought she had gone out when her eyes met the poorly closed doorknob, Alisa unintentionally decides to open the door, not before asking permission.
"Airi, are you here? Your doorknob was---"
Upon opening the door, Alisa got a horrible surprise, dropped the bag with colored sweets, all crashed on the floor.
In Airi's room, there were evident signs someone destroyed this place, there was her underwear and her books destroyed scattered around, her bed was overturned and there was trash on it.
On the walls there were words and obscene drawings about how she was Rudel's pet and how Alisa and Rudel were intimate like animals in heat.
Alisa's eyes were horrified at what she saw, after averting her gaze to the floor, she noticed a large amount of small blood drops that had dried on the wooden floor.
Alisa immediately left the room and closed the door hard so no one would see what was inside.
Her mind was on fire while walking enraged through the corridor.
(Who, who did this to Airi's room?!)
(More importantly... Airi, where are you?)
(Did you tell Rudel about this?)
While Alisa walked through the lobby to leave the dormitory, a girl called her.
The girl made a mockery while calling her.
"My, if it isn't Lady Alicelotte-sama, so early in the morning and you're looking for some man? It must be horrible for your dog to have such a lustful mistress like you."
Alisa gave a look at the girl who said that, it was the same one from that day, but she had no time to lose there, so she continued on.
But stopped at the mysterious words of the girl.
"If you're looking for your pets, they're no longer here."
Immediately upon hearing that, she changed her course towards the girl.
The other girls saw her approach, but then their faces showed fear as Alisa was making a terrifying face.
It was the villain face she was supposed to have made to Airi in the event, after moving forward despite what she did to her room.
Her red eyes showed a diabolical sharpness, while her lips were deforming from the anger eating her inside.
Upon approaching the girl, she put her hands on her uniform and then after lifting her, threw her to the side, the crash was so loud all the girls and supervisors saw that. The supervisor present the day Airi's room was destroyed looked at Alisa with panic and ran out of there.
After getting up, the girl noticed there was blood on her lip, after wanting to say something, she was grabbed by Alisa's hand on her neck and lifted as if she were a piece of paper.
Alisa used magical power to lift her and with her free hand, gathered magical power, the aether density was so visible it scared the people around who ran out.
Alisa looked with hatred at the girl and then spoke to her calming down a bit, but without losing ferocity in her gaze.
"Where are Airi and Rudel? What did you do to my friends! Answer!"
The girl tried to free herself and said things like "Let me go, you'll regret it." Or, "A vile fox like you who hides under your dog's crotch is nothing to me".
Upon hearing that, Alisa made a slight smile, for a moment she remembered what Rudel did when he ran into situations like this.
Then her fist was raised, and impacted with great speed against the wall, a large crater was made and the girl's ear bled from the shockwave.
Panic was reflected in her gaze, she understood the girl in front of her was no joking matter.
Upon seeing she raised her fist again, she asked without courtesy for her to stop.
"S-stop... they are on that guy's ship, heading to the kingdom's northwest border."
"Why would they go there??" Alisa prepared her fist again upon not receiving a response.
The girl bit her tongue and showed a sinister smile.
"B-because a certain person really dislikes... that guy being around without receiving punishment."
Upon hearing that, Alisa threw the girl and left the place heading quickly to her house in the capital.
"I must contact my father as fast as possible, I can't know who planned this, but somehow it involves Airi, who would be a weakness for Rudel."
Alisa's steps became faster and faster, her head only had two things now.
"Rudel, why do you always cause me problems."
"And Airi, please be safe."
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At that same time at the Royal Palace, the queen was once again conversing with Liam.
"This is two days in a row you come, you're a student, you should be learning things at the academy and not here, harassing your mother."
"Mother, yesterday you didn't tell me anything about what happened between you and Bradford."
Lecia yesterday had a complicated expression on her face, but today having the same situation again. She showed a face of anger and rage towards her son.
(Is this child an idiot perhaps? I don't think he is, but yesterday I told him nothing happened and he still came to bother me... maybe I should tell Baron Bradford to take him with him so he doesn't bother me.)
Lecia unintentionally made a questioning expression in her gaze, she didn't have a close relationship with Rudel, but wanted to ask him to take care of her son as if it were his obligation as a father.
Once again like yesterday, the door was knocked and a servant entered.
"I-I'm very sorry to bother you my queen, in your meeting with the prince, but there are problems!"
Lecia, who had returned to normal, looked at the servant and without changing her serious expression asked what was happening.
The servant had run here.
"I-it's about Baron Bradford's request!"
Without changing her expression, she asked "What about it?".
"We received a report from the guild about the exact direction he's going, turns out the receptionist never checked the location..."
She again showed no change in her expression, until the servant mentioned the place Rudel was heading to.
"The baron and his reinforcements who are still students, are heading to the northwest border, near the Elizarina mountain range and the Issard prairie."
The cup Lecia was holding suddenly fell from her hands upon hearing that, Liam looked at her worried.
"Mother, what's wrong!"
But she ignored him and instead stood up, quickly approached the servant raising her voice.
"Is what you say serious?! There's no mistake?!"
The scared servant looked at her, saw her beautiful eyes which radiated fright and worry.
"Y-yes, we could confirm it also thanks to the daughter of Duke Bismarck who went to her house and from there contacted us a few minutes ago, the guild information arrived a bit earlier."
She grabbed the servant's shoulders and asked about Rudel.
"Has Baron Bradford not left the port yet? He's still here, right?"
"I-I'm afraid they already set sail an hour ago, if we organize now, we'd leave an hour after their trip."
Lecia removed her hands from the servant's shoulders, directed her gaze to her son and brusquely dismissed him.
Upon leaving there, the servant was behind her.
"What's certain is that Alisa is also organizing a fleet with her family's help, look for available personnel now."
"We cannot allow the baron to perish in that place without showing me his worth to the kingdom!"
Lecia walked stronger making her heels echo in the place.
Her mouth said she wanted Rudel for the good of the kingdom, but her mind was worried about him.
(Baron don't be reckless, don't you know that in that place the worst pirate nest in the area resides?)
Her steps became stronger.
(The Bluebeard pirates are the worst scum that has led this country to lose many trade contracts and sponsors... I don't know what he's thinking, but I don't want anything to happen to him.)
Due to her concern for Rudel, she couldn't comprehend the last thing she had thought.
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Somewhere in an estate, in one of the luxury rooms, several people were there.
The place was dark, only the light from the window illuminated the room, both on the floor and on the bed there were several women without clothes.
The stench of the room reeked of alcohol and other viscous smells.
Near the window there was someone, a man without clothes admiring the view around him.
He had a bottle in his hand, it seemed expensive from the label, he drank it as if it were water.
After finishing drinking, he let out a burp as if he were an alcoholic.
The man, rather the young man, had blond hair covering the left side of his face.
He looked at an ancient clock in the room and laughed.
"Very soon that trash will pay for humiliating me."
That young man was named Klein.
"After that guy dies like the dog he is, I'll make sure to make you pay too, Alice, I'll show you you're nothing more than a bitch craving her master's food."
After finishing his bottle, he broke it on the floor, went to where a girl was and opened her legs as if they were scissors.
His body was busy, but his mind was concentrated on Rudel.
"I'll make sure scum like you learn that an heir like me is nobody's toy!"
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End of the School Festival arc.
Now begins the "Villain's Awakening" arc.