Chapter 44
44 Ville changes
I found out again. I fell in love with a hell of a woman.
Sonia Carnelian, a witch with luscious beauty who doesn’t seem to be sixteen.
Character is evil, even if it is modest. Self-centered, arrogant, smart and cowardly.
I’ve been totally taken by the balls, and I’m being told. Quite regrettable as an older person.
But Sonia is never a bad girl.
It’s strange and elegant, and if you think back often, every word and deed is overflowing with kindness. Much more grown up than me, and I know what I’m talking about. I guess the vessel as a person is big. Most things make me laugh and forgive, and I’ve never seen an angry face in the first place. I’ll thank you if I can help at all, and if I find out you’re hurt, I’ll say sorry. It always goes through the muscles, no doubt at the heart.
Genius when it comes to my handling. It understands me better than anyone, it spoils me, and it makes me feel strong when I’m loved.
It’s comfortable to be around because that’s who you are. She is the best woman, both as a lord and lover.
Oh, trouble. I can be in love as much as I want in my heart. I can’t tell you anything when I have to put myself in front of you.
… Is it really good that I’m the other guy?
I don’t suppose you and I have a match in Sonia.
I want to feel confident in myself somehow.
Sonia says she’s healing me. Though I don’t understand the feeling at all while I’m at it, I just want to polish it because it’s a beauty. Every time Sonia loves me, I hate feeling sorry for not returning anything.
Vague, but I tried to set a goal.
For starters, Sonia will be the only one who can safely expose her emotions.
Apparently Sonia’s mother Aronia was a hysterical and ugly woman. Because he teaches it the other way around, Sonia seemed to hate to expose her emotions.
I found out again at this meeting. Normally I would be more angry with Emelda.
No, I’m thankful that Sonia acted rationally because if she was serious and angry, she could have blown up every reception. But with all that cursing noise lined up, how about a cold smile? Besides, instead of making Sonia fool herself when we’re alone, it’s the end of something for me to counsel her.
… Sorry Sonia. Intensive. Are you under any extra stress?
Of course I don’t want Sonia to disturb my mind. I don’t think it’s a bad idea to stay calm and not put your emotions on the table at all. I just want you to know that when you’re sad, you can cry and be angry. I want her to feel the rest of the crowd, who couldn’t live with her emotions.
And I want you to show me the only side of Sonia that no one knows. I try to be even more special even though I have become a lover. I grew greedy, too.
If I win Sonia’s trust, I’m sure one day…
Anyway, while my heart renewed my vows to work hard, me and Sonia went back to the cruise once. To prepare for and report to the King’s Capital.
“Dear Phantom, Coral and Bubba. Say hello about the inside. Will you ask the apprentices to take care of Unica?
The two women nodded at Sonia’s words, but Phantom ate down.
“Dear Sonia! If you’re going to fight, please take me with you. No…!
“No, you can’t. There aren’t many people left to deal with the Kruge. I can’t be relieved if Phantom doesn’t stay.”
“So…”
Sonia slapped Phantom on the shoulder.
“I’ll be right back. Protect us all.”
“Yep. If Phantom goes, Frana’s gonna miss you, too, huh?
Being given his beloved daughter’s name, Phantom reluctantly pulled back. Instead, turn your insanely pregnant eyes on me.
“Ville… you’re absolutely going to protect Master Sonia…! If anything happens… if anything happens…”
“All right, all right, so keep the chain away from my hand”
I nodded many times at the power that was going to drag me to the bottom of hell.
I hear the Royal Castle is in tough shape right now.
Those at the end who do not know about the curse are tightened up and some of the magicians, doctors and bureaucrats are struggling. He seems desperate to keep the royal scandal from leaking to the outside world, but nearly another month after the king’s fall. It is time for the necessary rulings not to be reached, for exchanges with their own lords and neighbours to lag behind and for debacles to arise.
Lord Sunnig’s secret detectives have successfully purchased and contacted information from the debacle.
The queen continues to shelter Prince Rain, who cursed the king and the heavy minister, and the situation seems to be on the way to deterioration. But there are no dead yet. If we hurry to deliver the tear silver Shizuku, we could avoid the worst.
We left Azrite territory on the day the Ganoderma attack team returned.
Unica is a five-day journey, but a flying dragon arrives in about three days. It’s going to be quite a forcible force to keep the break to a minimum as well.
It’s been a long time since I’ve ridden a flying dragon. This feeling of being sucked into the sky has been around since I was a prince’s Kingsguard knight in the castle.
I have to guard my face with goggles and such because the air flies at such a rate that it cleaves my skin.
I’ll hold the reins and get Sonia on the back. It’s easier to breathe in the back, and it’s less onerous on the body.
Lord Sunnig rode the flying dragon of his own escort, and Charlotte manipulates the dragon of the Air Arm Chamber of Commerce by herself. And Emelda remains asleep with medicine, being carried by the magicians on a large dragon.
I couldn’t leave her in Azraw. Because I don’t know what’s going to happen to the gap I took my eyes off.
…………
In addition to his predictive abilities, Emelda is a hater with all-knowing power. Moreover, she is an artificially created human being, and her brain is said to be mastered by the bosses of terrorist organizations.
Sonia’s reasoning was ultimately incredible.
I mean, I don’t really understand what Emelda’s capable of, Sonia told me. What is the difference between prediction and omniscience in the first place?
Reminds me of additional explanations I heard before I left.
“First, I’m going to talk to you about normal predictors. All matter in this world is very small and inhabited by magic, connected by a river of magic. Predictive abilities follow river flows, gather vast amounts of information about one thing, and make many predictions. And come up with the most likely answer. Automatically.”
For example, the Predictor tries to find out about the Phantom Family dinner menu tomorrow.
Then Chuang Brain follows the river of magic to gather information on the preferences, recent dedication, contents of the ice chamber, temperature, physical condition, mental state, etc., and performs complex calculations to find the most likely future.
But the capable person himself cannot be aware of the process of gathering information or the formula. It seems like only the answers that came out come down to my head. Even if we can predict the Phantom family’s contribution tomorrow, we won’t know yesterday’s table.
“It’s strange that you’re using it to predict, but you can’t recognize the content of the information you collect.”
“Brain defense instincts, I guess. If I had carved out all the information, I wouldn’t have enough capacity. We have to erase it, except for the answer.”
Like I know, like I don’t.
He can’t even explain the detailed principles of prediction to Sonia in the first place. It just taught me the theory that there are actually predictive abilities and that they are going with this kind of principle.
“Regardless of the general predictive abilities, in Miss Emelda’s case, they were not able to use their predictive abilities, so the answer to what they wanted to know did not necessarily come down. So Prince Rain would have been struggling, wouldn’t he?
Indeed. Emelda’s predictions helped me many times during my journey in pursuit of the strange incident, but there were many times when I would have liked some more detailed information. It would have been quicker to solve the case if we could have predicted who would be the killer, not who would be harmed.
“But if everything was manipulated by Mr. Mastermind, there’s no way he’d come up with the answers he wants.”
Reminds me of Emelda during the journey. Now that I think about it, I feel like I was taking off my predicament due to the predictions that always come down at an exceptional time. I hate to believe that was all the same scenario as the enemy thought… but Sonia’s reasoning comes to a realistic end.
“… so, what do you mean, all-knowing?
“The ability to grasp all information through the river of magic. As predicted, the risk of brain death was very high, and if realized, it would cause confusion to the world, so it was banned. They say the harder it is to trace past information. Think of it as basically the ability to know what happened recently.”
Separating distances doesn’t matter, but the passage of time seems to affect it. Everyone has a hard time digging up memories as far back as the past, so I don’t have to figure that out.
“Past vision only traces one’s memory, so it’s still less burdensome. It’s just video and audio. But the whole thing really condenses all the information and pushes it against my brain. Five senses, emotions, knowledge, everything. If we don’t do something about it, it won’t happen. Well, there’s no historical example of all-knowing, so I can really only teach you airborne theories on your desk.”
For now, I only understood that prediction and all-knowing are similar and non-existent.
Prediction is computational ability, and all-knowing is memory capacity strains the brain. If you have both abilities, Emelda means you have a hell of a brain.
It’s just that even if Emelda really has all-knowing abilities, she won’t be able to use them on her own volition, just like prediction. If it was available, it would be abandoned.
“So is it possible for the mastermind to use it remotely?
Sonia just laughed lightly at my question. You can’t tell, I told you.
If we can do this, it means we’re out of action right now, and it’s very bad. But I’m sure there’s nothing I can do to rub my mind about what I don’t know.
My concerns lie elsewhere.
If you can’t use Emelda’s abilities remotely, it means the enemy has always been right around Emelda. There were still gaps during the journey. However, only a limited number of people have access to Emelda, who is under house arrest in the castle.
I wonder who.
I manipulated the flying dragon but couldn’t help but think in the corner of my head, and I didn’t calm down.
I took an inn in a town the night after half the way to the Wang capital. Exactly the fatigue is accumulating and the decision is that night flights are dangerous.
This trip is a treat of patience for the Lord. I don’t have time for noble hospitality the first time I go. Lord Sunnig is distracted by the surroundings worrying about being able to rest at a safe place to stay.
The man was to rest in a large room together. By the way, Sonia is in a single room, and Emelda while asleep seems to be in the same room as a female magician.
“Oh, you know, Ville… how’s it going?
While Lord Sunnig was in a meeting with his men, Charlotte whispered to me as I checked my luggage in the corner bed.
I was busy getting ready to leave and haven’t had a chance to talk since we met again. Sometimes it was awkward. Looks like Charlotte is trying to get rid of that air. I don’t have the strength to blame my voice.
“I’m fine. Well, a lot of things… you’ve just strained Charlotte. Sorry.”
While Charlotte was running for Prince and Emelda, I lived a peaceful life under Sonia. I had a grip on my heart, and although I was dying several times, it turned out I was having the best time of my life with my lover. I’m kind of very sorry.
Charlotte sat in the bed next to me, and she laughed.
“Fine. There’s nothing for Ville to apologize for. I’m the one who always leans on me. I’m sorry. I’m pretty strong, too, and I thought I could afford a spiritual mountain, but I couldn’t stand my teeth at all – I’m sorry. That wasn’t good enough to be told to the last generation. Ville, I’m so glad you didn’t see me!
Charlotte, laughing at the roundness that she was feeling fine, sighed deeply after a while.
“It’s okay. I wasn’t alone. I was with Mocha and Citrine.”
That’s why it was so hard, I whispered. Wouldn’t it be because women and children are working hard that they can’t make weak noises and throw out their mission, and feel like it’s all their responsibility?
Mocha and Citrine were injured during the Ganoderma attack, so they returned to the Wang capital first without accompanying Azrite territory. Charlotte seems to care about that, too.
I stroked my chest down like I wasn’t hurt enough to move for now.
“Emelda didn’t say anything about you two.”
“He said he had no choice. You only had one thing in mind about your favorite Prince Rain. It’s amazing how desperately you can love someone.”
Charlotte has turned a raw, warm gaze, as if to ignore the bitter air.
“Speaking of love… I’m surprised. I can’t believe that ville chick is deadbeat with a witch.”
“Become!?”
“No, if such a beauty triumphs on you, that’s just how Ville Chi falls. I can’t do it either. Hey, how did you start dating? Hmm?”
I smashed my tongue into charlotte, who tamed and slapped me on the shoulder.
Yes, it was. It was this kind of guy. Depressing.
“… I don’t want to talk”
“Don’t get carried away. What does it usually look like? You’re full of happiness and you’re with me at four or six, right? In front of my girlfriend, Ville, I’m interested.”
“That’s what I’d love to hear, too.”
No, Lord Sunnig stood in front of me. I wonder how long you’ve been listening to me, this guy.
I chewed on the unexpected appearance of the big man, and Charlotte looked apologetic for once.
“I ended up in a hurry and haven’t received a social report?
“That’s because… the situation is a circumstance.”
“So is that. But there are some things I’d like to make sure of because it’s an emergency like this. Ville, are you serious about Sonia?
I felt cold air from the orange eyes that reminded me of the sun. If you give a boring answer, they will immediately identify you as “unnecessary”.
“… I mean it. Whatever happens, I will stay with you as Sonia’s ally.”
Don’t look away, answer straight. Even in a situation where you abandon Sonia, I’m the only one left with her. So I want you to feel safe. With that willingness.
For a while Lord Sunnig looked down on me to deserve it.
“… good. It doesn’t look like the first time Sonia brought me to my mansion.”
They got the point somehow. I lost my strength from my shoulder.
Lord Sunnig nodded to show understanding.
“Let’s also miss out on that one before we get married. Sonia is not an aristocratic lady, and I won’t say anything hard if both sides agree. I can’t help it if I live alone with that kid. Rather, it’s what I’ve always endured.”
“Gu…”
I want things to be calm around there if possible.
I was going to take more care of it, too. I have a reputation for patience, where have I been? No, that’s all Sonia was attractive to me though.
I’m so shy, my face is going to burn so hot. The charlotte is obnoxious at the edge of his sight.
“Sonia will continue to swing at me, thank you very much. It’ll be about Ville I can hang out with. Don’t make me cry.”
Lord Sunnig seemed refreshed to say what he wanted to say, and went back to his men with a refreshment. I’m kind of in the mood for inconsistency.
I struggled with one thought or both, and Charlotte laughed like any other HR. He also felt that I was putting my thoughts on Emelda. Forget it already.
“But I think Ville and Sonia look great.”
“… flattery is fine”
“Seriously. ‘Cause I haven’t seen you in a while, but you look a lot better than before, and I feel soft on your expression. I can’t feel the sharp feeling of being stuffed with feathers anymore, and I feel like I can afford something”
I’m not sure about the change myself. Although I feel that my skin gloss has improved because I have a rich diet.
“Maybe it goes well with Sonia, doesn’t it?
Compatibility…… I never cared about that.
Sure, there are guys in this world who are a lot more level than I am, but I’m probably the guy best suited for Sonia. I share all sorts of secrets, I shouldn’t be a foot wrapper warriorly, and my taste preferences for flavoring are similar.
Thinking about it made my eyes much brighter.
“No, Ville Chichi is pure. I meant compatibility at night.”
“………………………………………… is!?”
“That’s what Ville’s all about,” Charlotte nodded with a laugh. The fever in my face is pounding back.
“… you’re the one. About Mocha. Have you made progress?”
Ask in a low voice all about retribution. Even I don’t know anything.
Mocha had a pale love for Prince Rain for many years, but Emelda’s appearance cut off her thoughts during her journey. She didn’t have to fall apart from her thoughts because Charlotte was comforting her. You must be concerned about Mocha.
“Wow, poking where it hurts…”
Something happened, apparently. Charlotte laughed bitterly and forcefully struck off the subject with apologies. He’s had a painful blow besides his thoughts. I’m sorry.
I don’t deserve a mocha.
I thought I heard such a fine voice.
I was unexpectedly worried about Charlotte, but I didn’t have the words to call.
I’m being harsh on Sonia.
Never trust Charlotte, he says he’s definitely hiding something.
The word was misplaced.
At the timing of a few moments to the Wang capital, Charlotte disappeared. Use a smokescreen or medicine to fool the lookout and grab Emelda while she’s asleep.