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"Hiahh!"
"you are doing well."
"Hiahh! Hiahh!"
The compliment continues to be given when a baby raises a sword. I smiled with great pride as Baal moved his hands and clapped his hands.6
"When you raise the sword, you should not create an empty space."
"Okay."
I straightened my posture to Baal's words. Then the shadow devil creates a pleasant aura.
"Yes, just like now. Good job."
'I guess I'm talented.'
I must have been surprisingly gifted with swordsmanship until the devil praised me that much.
'Annisa Euclid' was not a figure who used her body. But now Anissa was me. It's all up to me now how Anissa grows.'1
In order to stay safe in Lagrange, I thought I needed to know how to protect myself other than with my Euradia's ability. At first, I wanted to ask Dietrich to tell me about self-defense,
'But as can be seen.'
He was always busy participating in the successor candidate games. During the day, there was no law in the palace, and there were many sleepless nights.
It's a chicken instead of a pheasant*, and The devil Baal gladly accepts my offer when I asked.
Of course, the corresponding price had to be paid. Baal was a devil, and the devil does nothing without a price.
'I want to learn the sword.'
'What?'
'If you teach me the sword, I will give it to you.'
The reward I gave to Baal was a cookie. It wasn't a waste, because after all, it was a cookie I stole from Lancel. Baal is a demon who really likes cookies.26
Finding Baal's taste wasn't difficult. The demon always looked at me when I tried to put cookies or candy in my mouth.
'Bar, wannit?' [Bal, want to eat?]
'Yeah. I want to gulp a bite.'
'Okay?'
'Yeah… But your Majesty said it wasn't possible.'
The devil became sad because of chocolate.4
So I tried twisting it once with a similar cookie, and Baal comes over.
'Of course. I'll teach you, sword.'
The fact that Baal is a demon with a sword is known in the novel.
My heart is anxious thinking about the reason if Baal asks where I know he can use the sword, but that devil didn't ask anything.
"Come on, shall we go again?"
I picked up the sword that was put on the floor at Baal's signal. It's the sword that Baal lent me. Baal said It was so cheap until he was embarrassed to lend it, but on my eyes, it was pretty shiny.
'Especially this jewelry is pretty.'
The red jewel in the center of the handle was much more transparent than the ruby. It close to the light pink color, and shines brilliantly when it receives sunlight.
It a little heavy sword to use when I'm just three years old, I like the feeling of being heavy and sturdy.4
'And Baal put a strengthening spell on my forearm.'1
"Hiahhhh!"
I rushed to Baal with a sword almost the size of my body. He's the devil, so he won't get hurt because of me, so he's a good opponent to hit.
"Ouchhhhhh."1
Baal gave me a false moan and slapped me on the sword. I really doubt that because it doesn't make sense. I narrowed my eyes and stared at the devil who had been beaten and fell on the floor.
"I didn't really stab you."
"Oh, no. It hurts so much."
"Baa is a liar."
"What?"
"You're not going to lose to me."
I stared at Baal and turned back with my mouth sticking out. Then the devil tries to soothe me with unparalleled perspiration. Black water dripped from Baal's face.3
'Uh, it's dirty.'
"Don't swit!" [Don't sweat!]2
"Oh, sorry."
Baal smiled embarrassedly and shook off the black sweat.
"Oh, no. At first, I was really going to talk about the award."
"You did?"
"Your Majesty– oh, he told me not to tell you. Um…"
Baal tries to say something, and his words fall apart. I rushed to the hesitant demon. What order did Dietrich give him?
"What? What did you say?"
"No."
"Baa, hurry!"
"I can't help it if by chance you hate me. Please don't hate me again."
I left Baal, who avoiding my question and answered slyly and left the garden. I turned to the palace, but one of the dog holes I couldn't normally see caught my eye.
'When did it appear?'
In novels and movies, the main characters would go out through a hole like that and have a hard time.
'Where does it go?'
I approached the hole because of my curiosity but I hesitated and backed up. It's been three years since I came into Lagrange, but I've never been away from the Dahlia Palace.
'Detrich seems to go out often….'
Marilyn and Baal never let me out.
Of course, I was so scared that I wouldn't want to go out. Because I didn't want to suffer like the characters in adventure novels. A peaceful life is my goal.
'And I was desperate to survive.'
Maybe it's because of my struggle to bring a bottle of milk and feed Dietrich, so to some extent he has a position in the Dahlia Palace. It was thanks to the fact that he was a more easy-going villain than I thought.
"Huh."
I slipped my foot into the hole. Since it's a dog hole in the garden, wouldn't the other side be a garden, too?2
"Let's ask Baal."
I checked the size of the dog's hole and then turned the back to see what Baal was doing. As a demon, Baal was a great reader, and he always read books when he didn't see me. In my opinion, when focusing on an interesting book, a person may die next to it.
'No, don't look at a book or something when you're dying!'
I thought about it, but I didn't tell him.
"Let's just look at the front of the hole."
I dug into the hole before Baal looked at me. I don't go outside the hole and just have to see what's there.
The wall isn't thick, so I could reach the other side of the hole quickly.
"Ah?"
As expected, it was the garden of another palace that touched the withered rose forest.
'Isn't discrimination is too much?'
The size was similar, but it was very different even the degree of decoration was different. The garden on the other side of the hole was gorgeous and feel luxurious.
'The forest of withered roses has always been desolate like winter.'
The colorful roses which have a sweet scent wrapped around the marble pieces and bloomed like a bow, it was so beautiful and captivated.
The floor in the forest of withered rose was just soil, and this garden is covered with gravel paths all over the place. A white butterfly never seen in the Palace of Dahlia flies over the garden.
Above all, the first thing that caught my eye was the fountain in the garden.
"Wow."
'How much money do you have to make a gold fountain?'
It's gold! I crawled carefully to the fountain in admiration. I couldn't help but go to the enormous appearance I've never seen in my previous life.
The fountain was decorated in various pieces, and all the decorations were gold, even the goddess statue which spouting water is gold. The statue's eyes were covered with diamonds.
I noticed a flower sculpture decorated with ruby and sapphires when looking around.
'Can't I take this off?'
The Dalia Palace would be a little better off if I tore off just one statue of the goddess from this fountain. I look around in the quiet garden as if no one was there.
I was worried.
"...but where am I?"
No matter how many Lagrange's palaces, there couldn't be many palaces with such luxurious gardens.
'Don't tell me it's Leatrice's?'
Thinking about that make me jumped up to my feet thinking that I should get out of the garden.
'I must be crazy!'
No matter how amazing the golden fountain is, still, I shouldn't appear here.
Fortunately, no one was caught me and it near the dog's hole. But I heard a buzz in the back.
"This asshole!"
'Oh, my! Did they catch me?'
I was so surprised and uptight because I thought it was a curse from someone to me, but fortunately it wasn't. Because I could hear the sound of beating someone along with profanity.
Buagh! Buagh!
I can hear the cruel sound, but I can't hear a moaning.
'I don't know who is that.'
I shrugged and quickly leaned down to get into the hole. It was none of my business whoever will died in this garden.
"You have to be careful before I gouge out those blue eyes? Close your eyes! Close it!"
'Blue eyes?'
I paused for a moment. The word on the back wall reminded me of a boy who had been forgotten. A child that I met a long time ago.
'Yuric Lagrange.'
It seems that the child being beaten is the boy who will be Dietrich's right-hand man. I hid in the dog hole and then stretched my neck out to find the source of the sound.
The sound seems coming from a maze garden not far from the hole. The violent sound that was crying for a long time stops momentarily.
"Are you so stupid that you can't get rid of a Dietrich? You'll only bring shame to the Leatrice Palace! You're useless."2
I hid in a hole so I couldn't have been caught. I could see the boys who were believed to have beaten Yuric came out and passed me.
I didn't crawl out until I couldn't hear the children's footsteps. It's been a while, so I thought Yuric might have been out of the way, but fortunately, the child was lying on the floor.
The blood splattered here and there on the gravel road seems so ruthless.
"Ukhhh."
As I approached Ivy's labyrinth, I could see Yuric's face more closely as expected. I strode to that boy.1
"Who is that?"