Extra 31 – Anna Cellars (6) Past

I wondered what it was.

Why did he show such a soft expression towards me?

I couldn’t say that my attitude towards him was classified as a good one.

As I was wondering about it, it was not an unpleasant feeling.

“… I will go back to my country soon. I think Anna will become busy from now on as well, so honestly I didn’t think I would meet you again. I need to thank Theo for today.”

“… You are going to go back…?”

“Yes. To end the long sibling fight with my older brother.”

I couldn’t find any words to reply to him as he was smiling brightly.

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Tkp Tktbdlpp Fkltbyav’p szela casvbla, ps bl xwpv cl y rakdnl yp olzz. Mbl qkapv rakdnl, yde xyucl y nasod rakdnl.

Gzvbswtb bl pyke kv oyp y casvblap’ iwyaalz yde xyel kv pswde zktbv, vbl oyu bl pyke kv kxrzkle vbyv kv oyp y plakswp xyvvla.

(G ekpytallxldv okvb vbl qkapv rakdnl… Yyucl kd vbl dlktbcsakdt nswdvau, vblal oyp y ekprwvl shla vbl aktbv vs pwnnlle vs vbl vbasdl.)

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Gp R oyp vbkdjkdt ycswv kv, pweeldzu, R alxlxclale vbl rskpsdle vly vbl svbla eyu.

Gp qya yp R nswze vlzz, vbl rskpsd kvplzq oyp dsv elyezu, cwv pvkzz, vbl rskpsd nswze calyj sqq bkp cseu kq kv oyp eawdj.

Tl oswze byhl qyzzld wdnsdpnkswp qsa plhlayz eyup.

Jlpkelp, kd psxl nyplp, vbl yqvla lqqlnv xktbv byhl alxykdle.

If that poison was connected with the conflict… Wasn’t that meant that he was in danger?

“… Um, can I ask a question?”

His Highness nodded towards my question.

The fist on my lap was getting tighter as I decided to ask him directly.

“Why didn’t Your Highness have any escorts or aides? Lettie-sama has me, His Highness Albert always has Yulian with him. Your security was insufficient although you are a high-class noble.”

It was what I had been wondering about since the other day.

Although he was the prince of the neighboring country, there was no visible escort around him.

Even Albert-sama had an Imperial Guard as his attendant in the academy where even the other aristocrat was not allowed to do the same, Prince Sieghart didn’t have any special guard.

Of course, there must be some guards out of sight and he must not have been acting alone, but I thought it would be even dangerous if he didn’t have any visible guard.

It was because the knights who refrained far away couldn’t respond to any emergencies.

“… I used to have it before. A person who was just like an older brother to me.”

“Where is that person now?”

“He is gone. He suddenly disappeared the time when I was sleeping.”

He thinned his eyes.

And those eyes looked lonely. That was what I thought and I didn’t think it was a mistake.

“It seems that he poisoned me and then ran away. The time when I woke up, that was what the unfamiliar employee told me.”

“…!”

The way he spoke sounded like he was uninterested in it, but he said it without hesitation.

A moment of silence befell between us, and while it continued, the sound of the creaking wheels was heard as the carriage was still moving.

An escort that was as close as an older brother had poisoned him and disappeared.

If that happened to me, I would never believe in anyone.

“But… You don’t know whether he indeed did it or not, do you?”

I looked up to meet His Highness Sieghart’s eyes.

After my statement, he rounded his eyes, surprised, and then gave a sigh as he softened his expression.

“I think so.  That person is very kind. Although he was an aristocrat, he liked to cook. He was a strange person. Such a person could never poison food. Most likely, he was dragged into the royal conspiracy.”

“I see…”

The time when he talked about that person, I could feel that his atmosphere changed. It was not a grudge of any similar emotion to that, but something more soft and kind.

“I who was still little didn’t have any lead to know what happened to him after that. That’s why I choose to not have any close escort. It was unbearable to know that someone’s life was corrupted because of me. Besides, I will not know who was on my side if that was the case.”

When His Highness Sieghart said so with a dignified look, the carriage stopped vibrating and it was the signal that we had reached our destination.