A Narrow-Eyed Nobleman Is Always Misunderstood

Episode 25 – The Grand Duchess and the Handmaid’s Illusion

Elizabeth Almerozé Bertus, a girl with charming blue hair with a subtle silver sheen, walks the streets with her entourage. Was walking

“Elina.”

“Yes, lady.”

Elizabeth called her own entourage, and her entourage answered her call.

“The man you saw, named Alberto. How was it?”

She asked Elina, her attendant, how she felt about Alberto.

Her attendant Elina, a skilled assassin and maid raised by the Bertus family, was in charge of Elizabeth’s close-quarters bodyguard.

Her stealth skills, mnemonic skills, and dagger skills were at a considerable level.

As far as her surprise attack was concerned, she was the one capable of wiping out and eliminating one or more unmanned aerial vehicles without a sound or rumor.

“… ….”

Even for her, Alberto was an erratic man.

“I don’t know. Miss.”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

Elizabeth asked back as if she couldn’t understand Elina’s words.

Elina opened her mouth to Elizabeth’s reaction.

“We, who were raised to protect the young lady, train our special senses rather than ordinary senses. Through that sense, we judge the skill of the other person.”

“Really? So, how was the man you saw named Alberto?”

“He was a man who couldn’t see a single gap.”

“What?”

Elizabeth reacted in disbelief to Elina’s evaluation.

The person she knew, Elena, was a person who said that no one in the world was afraid of her assassination and surprise attacks.

Elizabeth couldn’t believe the situation where she said that she couldn’t show the slightest gap.

“So, is it that good?”

“Yes. Miss.”

Elina answered Elizabeth’s question without changing her expression.

After hearing Elina’s answer, Elizabeth’s face slowly began to harden.

“Elina, that man named Alberto. Didn’t he say he was an intermediate sword expert?”

“It is known within the Royal Academy. Since it came from the mouth of the famous Lord Semiterne, it can be said that the reliability is high.”

By mentioning Anna’s name, Elina proves that her words are authentic.

“If you’re talking about Lord Semitern, are you referring to Anna?”

“Yes. Miss.”

“If that self-respecting older sister said, the sword expert intermediate skill is correct…….”

Elizabeth was now tipping the scales in her head.

Really, which one is the closest to the truth?

“As you know, the Assassin is basically thoroughly prepared when eliminating a target.”

Since Elina is an assassin, she can assassinate a target that is at least one level stronger than herself, and at most two levels stronger than herself.

Dealing with a well-prepared assassin in an advantageous terrain was no different from walking toward her own death.

“What such an assassin needs is the ability to accurately grasp her own abilities and the abilities of her opponents, and to penetrate her opponent’s gaps.”

Therefore, the most important thing for Elina was her ability to spot her opponent’s abilities and gaps.

The existence of an assassin basically observes the gaps or habits of the opponent in detail and creates a way to deal with the target based on that information.

“All the opponents I have faced and seen so far were opponents that I could take out with my own skills. But… ….”

“But… ….”

Elizabeth wondered why Elina’s words faded.

“That guy named Alberto, I didn’t know his skills. I didn’t see any gaps either. As far as I know, there was only one person like that in the world.”

“Who is that?”

“Alberto is the father of his man, Dittorio Harun Meidern, the current head of the Maidern family and a sword master.”

“Sword…… Master?”

Elisabeth was speechless at Elina’s conclusion.

The reason was that her words sounded absurd.

She couldn’t believe Elina’s words that a 15-year-old boy like her was as skilled as a sword master.

“Are you sure?”

“Sure. In the past, I went to the estate of Count Meidern with the head of the household, and I felt the same feeling from Prince Albert that I felt from Count Meidern back then.”

As Elina’s explanation continued, Elizabeth just listened to her explanation with her mouth wide open.

“So, that man named Alberto is a sword master?”

“Yes.”

“Haa, there was a real genius… ….”

Elizabeth belatedly recalled the bravado she had shown herself in front of Alberto.

How funny it must have been for her to call herself a Genius Beauty Wizard!

“Elina.”

“Yes. Miss.”

“From your point of view, do you think that the man named Alberto is the person of the promise?”

The word “The man of her promise” Came out of Elizabeth’s mouth.

Shortly before she first met Alberto, she asked Alberto this question.

“Okay. If the person of the promise was Prince Alberto, wouldn’t that person also know about the promise?”

“Isn’t it? Given that he doesn’t know about such an important matter, he probably isn’t a man of promise.”

Elizabeth thought Elina was right.

If Alberto was the one who knew about the promise, he wouldn’t react like that.

“But, isn’t it possible that you’re trying to find out about us?”

“Us?”

“Yes. Miss Elizabeth.”

At that time, Elina raised a question.

That’s right, they were saying that Alberto was looking at them.

“Why do you think so?”

“Is a person with genius talent enough to become a sword master really not aware of the promise?”

“Um, is that so?”

As Elizabeth listened to Elina’s words, her question arose.

“But, Alberto. He really didn’t seem to know anything about promises.”

“No. His appearance hasn’t changed even once, from the beginning to the time we left.”

Elina seemed to think that Alberto was the man of her promise through her judgment.

“For normal people, when they lie, they change their breathing or their eyes.”

“But, Prince Alberto didn’t show any reaction like that?”

“Yes. Miss.”

Elina was judging Alberto as the man of her promise, according to her own standards, as she was the perfect assassin.

“Then why did you say that?”

“Maybe we were disappointed in our skills?”

“Thread… net?”

“Yes. Miss.”

“Can you elaborate on what you mean?”

At Elizabeth’s request, Elina began to speak what she had in mind.

“Prince Alberto must have been disappointed when he saw the skills of the young lady and me.”

“Why?”

Elizabeth asked Elina.

“Isn’t it enough for us?”

“No, not enough.”

“Is the being called the ‘Apostle of the Evil God’ that strong?”

What came out of Elizabeth’s mouth was, surprisingly, the word that she was an apostle of evil spirits.

An apostle of evil spirits.

That was a word used to indicate a person he favored, to the extent that the evil god would directly share his power with him.

“Yes. Long ago, it is said that it is the evil spirit that drove the world to the brink of destruction. Such an evil god is the one who shared his power, so of course he must be strong.”

“Honestly, I can’t believe it. It’s just an existence that only appears in ancient records, right? Do you really think that a being that can only be described in one paragraph really exists?”

“My lady. To that extent, the apostle of evil spirits is a terrifying existence. At most, to the extent that it can be explained in one paragraph, people at the time were afraid of even mentioning the apostles of evil spirits.”

She was Elina who pretended to be indifferent, but unlike Elizabeth, she knew how terrifying the apostles of evil spirits were.

“It’s against the Assassin’s Oath, so I can’t tell you much. But, I can tell you one thing.”

“What is that?”

“If an apostle of evil spirits descends on this world right now… This world will surely perish.”

Unlike usual, the end of Elina’s words about destruction was not calm and very trembling.

Elizabeth heard the trembling of her voice in her Elina and only then knew what she was saying was not a lie.

“Then… I can understand Prince Alberto’s reaction. It means that we are not yet strong enough to stop the apostles of evil spirits.”

The “Promise” That Elizabeth spoke of was related to this apostle of evil spirits.

A long time ago, an apostle of an evil spirit appeared on this land, and there were people who defeated it.

This was called the first hero, and they gathered together and made a promise.

‘In the future, if the Apostle of the Evil God appears again in this world, let’s leave a record so that our descendants can fight against the Apostle of the Evil God, and promise to fight together.’

This was exactly the promise Elizabeth had spoken of.

One of the descendants of these heroes was the Bertus family, to which Elizabeth belonged.

I don’t know Alberto himself, but his family, the Maydern family, was also a descendant of the first hero.

Elizabeth thought she would be good enough for herself, but the truth was different.

She

She has to help him fight against the apostle of the evil spirit, but she was content with being supported by the people around her, so she was walking in place.

“Prince Alberto alone cannot save the world. Aren’t you also a wizard of ‘promise’? Others must be training hard even now.”

“Yes. That’s right. I’m the wizard of ‘promise’. So, I will have to work harder than now.”

“Good posture. Miss.”

Elizabeth vowed to train harder in magic in the future.

A happy smile was drawn on Elina’s face as she looked at Elizabeth.

But do the two know?

“So, what does it mean to be that person of the promise?”

“Well? I don’t know either. I haven’t received anything from the head of the household.”

“Ehh. Should I write a letter to my father?”

Alberto, whom the girls talked so hard about, actually knew nothing about the ‘promise’.

However, in the end, this misunderstanding ignited Elizabeth’s magic training, so in a way, it could be said that it was a good thing.