Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 101

King’s brother, Amol Cleydale

I was not familiar with the royal family, but the current king had about ten brothers, and most of the male royals went off to be a duke or son-in-law in another country, but for one reason or another…. The youngest brother, whose fiancée had not been decided for a long time, was left in the royal family just like that.

Considering the current situation of the royal family, which Sera had told me about, he must have been left in the royal family as a “spare” for the current king, who had chosen a woman of low status as his queen.

The position of [King’s Brother] was essentially equivalent to that of a grand duke, who assisted the king in his political affairs.

But if the situation was as I had imagined it, he was not even given the power equivalent to a duke, and I assumed that he was “kept” as the only member of the royal family.

In this light, the crown prince, who had the blood of his elder brother, the current king, and the queen, must not be a favorable existence for him. Therefore, I suspected that he felt a distorted desire for protection towards Elena, who was in a similar situation to him.

“Why don’t you say something?”

Amol impatiently pointed a dagger at me as I stood there in silence, and Sera, looking tired, admonished him softly.

“Please stop, Your Highness. This is one of the members of “[Rainbow Sword],” our collaborators, this time. Their leader, Dalton, is a nobleman who has been awarded a quasi-noble title for his achievements.”

“He would be a one-time commoner noble. A Dwarf nobleman and adventurer is no better than a ruffian.”

He sounded a little hard-headed. I exchanged a glance with Elena behind Amol, and she gave a small nod.

We were not “weak” enough to lick each other’s wounds. I turned my back on Amol, who was arguing with Sera, confirming to each other that it was enough to keep each other alive.

“Where are you going?”

“I’ve defeated the enemy here. Sera and the knights will be enough to protect you, so you can do whatever you want. I’m going to join my companions while I search the surroundings, just in case. If you have any more complaints, you can talk to our ’employer’.”

“Nah!”

Amol was absolutely mortified by my tone. It would normally be considered disrespectful to royalty, but neither Sera nor the knights moved, and Elena turned her head to the side and clamped her hand over her mouth.

I heard that the [[Rainbow Sword]’s] employer was the Prime Minister of this country. Even if the Prime Minister was the direct employer, since the [[Rainbow Sword]] was hired as a royal escort, it should be His Majesty the King who approved of it.

To agree with Amol’s opinion was to go against the king’s order, and it was understandable that Sera and the knights who understood this would not move, but the fact that they did not move in response to my disrespect suggested that the [Rainbow Sword] had that much trust from the knights.

When I parted from them and returned to my original location, Feld had already finished his extermination and the knights were capturing the few surviving attackers.

When I appeared, Feld noticed me and raised one hand.

“Aria, are you safe? How are things going over there?”

“No problem. I also confirmed that the subject was safe.”

I was used to being scolded by Viro and Sera, but I was not used to just being worried about them, and it made me feel a little itchy.

I returned to the carriage with Feld, who was not injured or even fatigued, and Viro left the carriage as if to replace him after I reported the series of events.

I guessed that he went to greet Sera, who was related to his employer. Viro probably had some trouble with Amol, but he came back with a frown on his face and lightly touched my forehead with his finger without saying a word.

Our carriage joined Elena’s group, and we headed for the port town together. However, even though we were going together, we didn’t have to see each other since we were going ahead of Elena’s group to clear away the debris.

I thought Amol would not like to see me, let alone approve of me seeing Elena.

According to what Viro heard from Sera, Amol was not originally involved in this dungeon attack, but he forced his participation.

It was hard to believe that he, as a “spare”, would be allowed to enter such a dangerous dungeon, but to put it another way, the royal family’s power must be declining to such an extent that they had no choice but to allow him to enter.

What was it that the royal family wanted so much from a dungeon?

A few days passed, and we together with Elena arrived at the port town of the Duke of Fudale’s domain without any problems.

We had expected Elena, who was physically weak, to rest for a few days, but it seemed that the rest of the group had already arrived, and they were going directly to the ship after handing over the survivors of the attackers to the quasi-Baron who managed the port town.

According to Viro’s report, the assailants were the handiwork of a baron who was a child of the “Noble Faction,” the marquis, and the baron would probably be left for dead, but the fact that they were able to seize the weakness of the marquis, who was the parent of the baron, was enough for them to consider it a war success. But he considered it a victory enough just to have seized the weakness of the marquis, his parent.

Leaving the butler’s grandfather and the carriage at a medium-class inn in the port town, we headed for the large ship we planned to board.

The large ship was a military sailing ship owned by the Duke of Fudale, and it was said to be capable of carrying up to 1,000 soldiers, but this time there were only a few dozen people on board, including the dungeon attackers and 150 people including the knights and sailors of the duke’s territory.

On that day, Dalton and Viro only greeted the people concerned, and the next day at dinner, a meeting was held for everyone to meet each other.

When we met in the party hall on board, the boy who was introduced as the crown prince standing between Elena and Amol looked a little surprised to see me.

When I wondered about this, Feld, who was standing next to me, secretly told me the reason.

“Do you remember the first time you met me? The boy called Elle that Mira and I were escorting back then is him, and it seems he remembers Aria too.”

“…”

I remembered the “first” time I met Feld.

I see Ervan, hence “Elle”…Feld finally reminded me how the crown prince was allowed to roam around the city…but he was the crown prince.

However, I was more interested in the “girlfriends” flanking Elena than in Ervan, the crown prince.

One of them was a young girl called Clara, the daughter of the Count of Dandol. A few years had passed since then, and she had grown up to be about 14 years old and a beautiful lady, but when she saw me, she pulled a long face.

And the other one… “Her”, when she caught sight of me, her morbidly dark face distorted a little as she gave me a pretty smile.

I had thought that it might be…but the Crown Prince’s fiancée, after all, is Carla?

[Carla Lester] [Race: Human Female]

[Magic Power: 440/450] 55Up [Strength: 29/51] 4Up

[Total Combat Power: 749] 426Up

…She had become terribly strong.

Only her physical strength value had not increased like a curse, but her magical power value alone had increased to more than the same level as Samantha and my master.

I wondered how hard she had trained, perhaps she had been diving in the dungeon alone for a long time.

If I were to fight her, it would be a “fight to the death,” in which one of us would surely die.

The evening dinner was a buffet party with drinks served, and the children, who had grown to near adulthood in appearance but were under the age of 12 before entering the school for socializing, were sent back to their rooms early.

I was an adventurer, so I was a bit fuzzy on that part, but Viro was a bad adult when alcohol was involved, so I left early, too.

Monsters appeared even on the sea. Since we were still in port and the ship itself burnt incense to ward off monsters, there was no danger of going out on deck, but even so, Elena and the others with their escort did not come out on deck at night.

Even so, I came out on deck at night because I was on the lookout for human attackers and had a “hunch” that they would be there.

“I knew you’d be here, Aria.”

“No one will mind if you go out alone, Carla.”

She looked and felt even more morbid than before, but her way of life was even beautiful.

Carla approached me slowly, without hiding her enormous magical power, and with a smile, she reached out to me and traced a line of scratches on my cheek with her sharp black fingernails.

At that moment, I also grabbed Carla’s thin neck with one hand and put a little more force into that hand.

“You want to kill each other here? Carla.”

“I’d rather not. This isn’t the right stage for us.”

I removed my hand from Carla’s throat, and she wiped the blood from my cheek with her handkerchief, then used [Cure] to erase the wound and clutched the soiled handkerchief to her chest.

“Bleeding Aria is beautiful…someday I want to defile you with the blood overflowing from my heart.”

“Die on your own.”

We walked to the edge of the deck and lined up as we leaned our backs against the railing.

“What is Carla’s purpose for going into the dungeon?”

“I’ll tell you anything you would like to know, Aria. The purpose of our dungeon dives is to receive ‘gifts’ from the spirits of the dungeon.”

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“Do you know what that means?”

The “gift” you would get from the dungeon spirit was a “trap”.

It was said that the spirits gave “gifts” as a reward for reaching the lowest level of the dungeon, but the power given by the spirits who were not mortal was “poison” to those who were mortal.

Of course. I didn’t know about the “lovely El-sama” or the “little girl” in Dandol, but wouldn’t a “princess” who had looked into it herself would refuse the Gift?”

I looked at Carla, who laughed at the older Clara Dandol as a “little girl,” and I asked her what was beyond that.

“Then what does Carla want?”

“It would be nice to have a gift… to be able to live as myself,”.

“And heal your body?”

I asked Carla as she gazed up at the moonlit sky, and she slowly turned her head toward me and smiled thinly.

“That moon is like Aria. That’s why we who live at night reach out to you.”

“If Carla is going to heal her body, I can help.”

Carla called out to me, amused, as I backed away from the handrail and started to walk away.

“You don’t mind if I do that, do you? Even though I might try to kill you?”

“What’s the difference between us now?”

Carla started to laugh, and her low-energy level was reduced again.

The night dawned and the boat with us departed for a remote island under the control of the Duke of Fudale. We set out for a “large dungeon” where spirits were said to reside.