Formerly, The Fallen Daughter of the Duke

23. Emergency

A few weeks after Claire got drunk in a castle town bal and woke up in a royal palace guest room.

That day, Claire had felt unspeakable disgust since morning.

(You say it’s kind of uncomfortable… chest noise)

Over the past few weeks, Claire, reflecting deeply on her own deeds, had lived a life of more self-restraint than ever before.

It was as usual for Vique to visit Claire’s room just a few times a week, but I don’t hear anything in person about the Martino family.

Claire apologized for falsifying her origins, but Veek said, ‘That would be me too. Never mind,’ he just laughed gently.

“Huh.”

The Royal School break, Lydia sighs.

“Master Lydia? Are you all right?”

Claire heard.

“Dear Claire…. I’ve been having some kind of weird heartbeat since morning. I hope it’s not a sign of bad things……”

Claire is a little surprised by Lydia’s answer.

“Is it Master Lydia, too? Me, too.”

“Your Highness!”

The moment Claire answered that, Keith, Lewis and Donnie came into the lecture room looking like they had changed blood phases.

Near the First Prince and also a Kingsguard knight, the three are more than a royal admirer for a noble son attending a royal school.

The hallways and lecture rooms are bothered by the fact that they are not usually available to see each other.

“What happened?”

Vik, who saw the three of them, instantly returns to the face of the First Prince.

Keith is whispering something to Vik.

The look on Veek’s face remains the same.

(I wonder if something happened…)

After just a few seconds of reporting from Keith, Vike immediately began to get ready to go home.

That’s when Claire had eyes with Lewis looking for something.

I can see Lui’s mouth moving small, ‘Claire too,’ and after Vik hesitated for a moment, he nodded.

……

“Maybe this…”

The moment Lydia tried to utter words, who was carefully observing how things were going,

“Claire, I’m going back to the royal palace. It’s an emergency. Will you come with me?”

Claire was called out to Vik.

The lecture room is even more annoying.

“Yes, we are here for you”

Claire responded instantly to the atmosphere of the four.

“Let’s use the magic of transfer to the royal palace, Your Highness.”

Claire has never seen Keith panic so far, also at the head of the Kingsguard Knight.

“No, you can’t. I don’t know how long it will take Lewis to recover. I don’t know what’s going on. I won’t allow it now.”

Veek dismisses it.

The metastatic magic that moves people is high-altitude magic. Even if you are the owner of powerful magic, once you use it, it takes a considerable amount of time for your magic to recover.

“Yeah. There’s still plenty of time. Now let’s go back on the horse.”

“I like that.”

Lewis’ forehead, which keeps him calm, glows with sweat, and his usual sweetness disappears from the gentle Doni voice color.

Claire perceived what was imminent and serious danger to the Paft nation.

The four of them and Claire flew horses back to the royal palace.

The royal palace looks badly bummed compared to when we visited a few weeks ago.

“I’ll be right back to explain the situation, wait for me”

Vik hastily leaves Claire, and the four go straight to the king’s office.

Claire, left in the reception room, is kind of restless.

When I went to the window and looked outside, the sky, which had been clear until just now, was starting to turn to a darker color.

(What’s this…)

Two, the sight behind Claire’s brain came to mind.

Noon when Claire was just a young girl.

Claire sat on the lap of her late grandmother in a pompous yang, reading a book.

For the book illustration, a darker vortex.

“Aunt Florence, what is this painting?

Claire wonders about that painting she has never seen and asks her grandmother.

“This is called a tornado.

“Tatami?

“Yes, it’s a scary thing that winds up people and houses and breaks them down.”

“Are you frightening the city? It’s frightening, Auntie.”

Wind up people and houses and break them. Claire is frightened by the horror.

“Right. There are a lot of tornadoes, from small to huge. Sometimes something too huge can destroy a country. But, you know, it’s okay.”

My grandmother smiles gently and turns the page of the book Claire is holding.

The next page depicted an illustration of a girl standing on a hill putting light together.

“The girl in this painting was my grandmother when I was younger. Purify the air and the tornado will disappear.”

“Really?

“Yes. We need a very big force, though we have to work hard…. even Claire can do it.”

The young Claire nodded.

When I finished my recap, Vique and Lewis rushed back to the reception room.

“Claire, I’m sorry I brought you here all of a sudden.”

“No, I’ll do anything I can.”

To Vik’s apology, Claire answers straight.

“Thank goodness. Actually, there’s going to be a magic tornado, which is also the worst in history”

……

The feeling of it still intersects with Claire’s reluctance to believe it.

Magic tornadoes are giant tornadoes caused by distortions that occur when you use released magic or metastatic magic.

There is no war. It rarely occurs nowadays, but once it does, it does not disappear for more than a day, threatening to endanger the country and the city.

Claire was also aware of its existence, but she had never heard of it, at least for nearly 17 years after Claire was born.

“Since this morning, I’ve had a bad feeling about the distortion of magic. After investigating with the royal palace magician, I think we’ll probably have a giant tornado in the sky east of the king’s capital within the next hour.”

Lewis adds a quick word to Veek’s story.

Claire nods and answers.

“So what should I do”

“He who is strong in magic will put up a barrier in the king’s capital and evacuate the people there. I’ve already started guiding, but honestly I don’t know if the King’s Capital is the only one I can protect, or if I can cover the whole country, or how big it can be. I want Claire to help me create the biggest possible barrier.”

Claire is bewildered by the words of Veek, which are not what she expected.

“Um, always treat me like that when there’s a tornado?

“No. This scale is almost unprecedented to the extent that small twitches originally occur once every decade or so. The same barrier was erected when it occurred near the border with the Noston State a few decades ago. However, there is a record that the tornado disappeared before any damage was done to the city or people. Plus it was hundreds of years ago, and I don’t even have a detailed record.”

……

I’m worried I could do it, but I didn’t have time to get lost.

Claire was ready, she said.

“Veek, me, maybe we can disable the tornado”