How To Save A Time Limited Young Master - Chapter 34

“……”

She couldn’t bear to say anything, so she kept opening and closing her mouth.

Heloise was the daughter of Viscount Lorca, the Duke of Lionerik’s vassal, and nothing good will come out of digging up the dirty linen of Marquis Velks, who was devouring the Lionerik Duchy.

While her father usually had a poor opinion of Marquis Velks, she didn’t know she’d hear if it was prodded at again.

However. Even so…

What about Zenon, who was confined without knowing anything?

She knows that he’ll be used as the <Heart of Zenon>, can she pretend to be unaware when she had already noticed that a strange cult was involved?

Heloise gulped her saliva down and then bit her lower lip.

“It doesn’t matter.”

She looked straight at Blake.

“I need to know. After all, if I don’t know about this and Zenon dies, I’ll end up dead one day.”

Only then did Blake, who was looking at Heloise calmly with a smile on the corners of his lips, burst into chuckles and asked.

“She’s really fearless. Isn’t she?”

“I don’t know!”

When Andrea was asked that, she ruffled her hair and shouted temperamentally.

She seemed to be very sensitive to the words that Marquis Velks wasn’t caught.

“Why aren’t you working and instead bringing an outsider in to complicate the situation? I’m telling you, this definitely wouldn’t have happened if Sir Soma was on the job!”

“Yes, you have proven your incompetence, Andrea.”

“Argh! How does Sir Blake’s breach of the pact prove my incompetence?”

It seemed like Andrea couldn’t browbeat him due to the order of hierarchy, and was left fuming in a loud voice for a long time before calming down.

By then, she looked as listless as someone that gave up on everything.

Instead of Blake, who she couldn’t communicate with, Andrea chose to talk to Heloise directly.

“So, my lady, what is it that you want to know?”

“Everything!”

“To think that someone that had just come over is asking me to tell you everything. You’re quite a courageous one.”

Heloise flinched a little.

That was actually the truth. Without courage, Heloise Lorca was a corpse.

Rather than feeling offended, Andrea seemed to be slightly bewildered and couldn’t help but chuckle.

She immediately reached out her hand and officially gave her greetings.

“I’m Andrea Bigelow.”

“I’m Heloise…”

Before Heloise could finish responding, Andrea cut her off in the middle of her words and said what she had to.

“As you’ve heard from the previous conversation, I’ve received the great Fairy King’s command to manage the sacred entrance leading to the human world.”

“Ah, right…”

During the ‘sacred entrance’ portion, Heloise glanced around the messy surroundings furtively, and lowered her gaze after reading Andrea’s mood.

When they shook hands, Andrea’s expression seemed to improve at meeting someone with common sense and she proceeded to give Heloise a once-over.

“You’re Miss Lorca, right? Your status must be guaranteed as Blake was the one that brought you here. There’s nothing I can’t tell you if that’s what you want. However.”

Andrea stopped speaking and approached Heloise with a scary expression.

Seeing a gloomy face that’s shaded by the backlight approaching was quite burdensome.

“If you would like to tell me more about what you saw earlier, unlike that slacker that fools around.”

A humming Blake was in the direction she pointed at.

Heloise nodded quickly.

Andrea’s expression changed into one of satisfaction.

“Alright. If you do well, I’ll also provide you with some good information. You can believe me. Fairies don’t lie.”

“You’re a fairy?”

“The guard protecting the fairy bridge is obviously a fairy. Were you surprised?”

Andrea asked triumphantly.

But she wasn’t surprised. Even Sienna’s setting in the game was originally that of a fairy born in the fairy world.

“This job was originally entrusted to Soma, the Fairy Kingdom’s garrison commander, but this heavy task fell to me…”

When she looked at Andrea, who was much more talkative than she thought, she could see why Blake makes fun of her.

She muttered with a teary face, then corrected her expression and spoke.

“Returning back to the main point. My, no, our guild, to be more accurate, us fairies are driving out Kashuaism due to our grudge against believers of Kashuaism.”

“Grudge?”

“In order to satisfy their selfish interests, those b*stards attacked the fairies in the Northern Forest and exterminated entire families.”

When the fact that fairies were being attacked was mentioned, Andrea’s expression was distorted with hatred.

Then Blake, who was silent, cut in and explained.

“Our royal family felt responsible for this tragedy and decided to have me represent them in investigating this incident. Investigations about heresy happened at the same time.”

“Wait, not sending in someone else, but the Crown Prince?”

“I’m not just a Crown Prince, but a competent Crown Prince. I’m good at magic and also good at investigations.”

Blake’s chest puffed up as he answered.

“……”

To think he had once said that he’s a lackey of the organisation, those words were said well.

Andrea seems to have already known about Blake’s identity, and wasn’t at all surprised to hear about it.

True, it’s because she knew, so she didn’t dare to defy him.

“As you’ve probably witnessed today, there are quite a few members of Ballide nobility in the Kashua cult. Who did you see today?”

“……The Count of Infanta……”

Surprised, Heloise’s lips opened weakly.

Andrea nodded with an indifferent face and wrote something in her notebook.

“So that person was also involved. Very well. At least you’re more useful than Blake.”

“If you continue doing that, I’ll be really hurt.”

“Who else did you see?”

When Andrea asked again without responding to him, Heloise’s expression darkened and mentioned a person that she didn’t want to.

“……The butler. The butler of Langbert Mansion.”

“Langbert Mansion?”

Blake added a supplementary explanation when Andrea tilted her head like she wasn’t familiar with the situation in the human world.

“It’s a townhouse owned by the Lionerik Duchy. Though the real owner is the uncle of the Lionerik Duchy’s heir, Marquis Velks.”

“……”

He was right.

Zenon was the successor of Lionerik, and the Langbert mansion should have belonged to him, but the real power has always been held by the Marquis of Velks.

Was the butler also colluding with him?

Perhaps Zenon was also unable to personally select the people that are around him.

As he had always said, “Uncle’s people are planted beside me.”

Heloise wondered if Zenon was also suspicious of the butler.

When the conversation turned to Langbert Mansion, Heloise’s expression darkened.

When Andrea saw that, she closed the notebook that she had been writing in.

“In the end, you saw someone belonging to Marquis Velks.”

But the butler was different.

Didn’t the butler help them during the <Founding Festival>?

Nevertheless, it was undeniable, as she had clearly seen the butler with her two eyes.

“It would’ve been great if you could use the butler and exploit the Marquis with that, but that would be hard.”

“If you could use that sort of method to crush heresy, why would rebellions or wars occur?”

“You mean rat.”

Andrea seemed to be dissatisfied and bit the end of her round thumbnail.

Heloise stared blankly at the nervous Andrea and asked.

“Why are you after the Marquis, of all people?”

Andrea turned her head and replied.

“While there’s no tangible evidence yet, the Marquis is a key member of Kashuaism. Once that guy is taken down, most of that cult would be exposed. We want to get revenge for our Northern Forest comrades.”

“Revenge…”

“Miss Lorca, why did you follow along all the way to this place and learn about Kashuaism?”

“Ah, I…”

When Heloise found it hard to explain, Andrea changed her question.

“I heard that your life depended on it.”

“That’s, yes.”

“Why?”

“Marquis Velks is being parasitic to my friend, Zenon. It’s Young Lord Zenon Lionerik. And I…I can’t live without him. That’s what I meant.”

Blake, who knew Zenon, burst into laughter from the side.

Heloise pouted at his appearance.

‘Let him laugh to his heart’s content. Or should I say that everything will be ruined due to the regression?’

Saying it like this was the best choice.

“Parasitic?”

After hearing Heloise’s choice of words, Andrea raised an eyebrow like she was surprised, and paused her words for a moment.

“It isn’t enough that he’s after our kind, but he’s also angling for your friend’s life?”

“Yes.”

Andrea smiled with her arms folded, seemingly liking Heloise’s determined voice.

“Hmm. Fine. Then we have the same goal.”

“The same?”

“I have to get revenge for events that have already happened, and Miss Lorca has to stop the Marquis in order to prevent something that has yet to happen.”

When she thought over it carefully, that was the case.

Come to think of it, the Marquis had actually offended the fairies in the human world.

It was a setting that Heloise didn’t even know.

Did something go wrong during the monster subjugation?

It was an incomprehensible move.

“How about it, shall we cooperate in incidents that we’re both in the know about?”

“What do you mean by ‘in the know’?”

“I heard you’re Young Lord Lionerik’s friend? Ling… what was it, do you know that mansion’s butler?”

“Yes.”

“Then you’d be able to approach the Marquis easily. Let me know about the Marquis’ movements regularly. I’ll tell you what Sir Blake has told me and the things I had personally investigated.”

“Wait a moment, what am I, a dog? Isn’t your treatment too much?”

Blake interjected in the middle, but no one listened to him.

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