I Became the Villain of a Romance Fantasy

24 – Eight Buddhas (4)

Joachim, who disappeared with the empty carriage, reappeared in front of us shortly after.

On that second visit, unlike the first time, he had a reddened face and was holding a mass of magic that could easily blow away Krause’s lord castle, but as soon as he saw Elena standing next to me, he moved back as if he had never done that before. returned with the same face.

However, the mass of mana still remained in his hand.

Seeing Yohaim not being able to get angry in front of Elena, his father laughed humorously and said, Then Joachim also shouted loudly at his father, as if he couldn’t stand it in the end.

“As expected, he’s a great wizard. It’s really amazing to go back and forth between Merohim and Sarham, who are so far away in such a short time.”

“Arthur!!! How dare you make me a clown?!”

“Who was the clown, and why are you angry with a stern person? Is it my fault that you suddenly came and disappeared with a wagon?”

It was hard to see the father making fun of his old friend as a son. To be honest, my concern right now was not what my father said, but when Yoheim would throw the lump of magic in his hand at my father.

Even so, it’s unlikely that my father would die from a direct hit with that thing, but who knows if it could fall into the castle behind us by Joheim’s mistake.

Even though the Duke of Joheim is an excellent wizard, it was only natural that he would be worried if something like that was in front of his eyes.

It seems that the parties concerned are not at all concerned about it. It would seem that both of them are confident in their skills, but from the standpoint of standing next to them, they are uneasy.

So I quietly put my hand on the handle of the sword hanging from my waist to be ready to strike it at any moment, and waited for him to throw the bomb at my father.

But fortunately, it didn’t happen that Joachim threw it at his father.

As an old friend of his father, Joachim himself must have known very well that he would not be able to hurt his father with such a thing.

If he was sincere, he would have poured high-level magic as soon as he came here, but that huge mass of magical energy was only enough to show that he was this angry.

Joachim eventually gave up on continuing the conversation with his father after dispersing the mass of magic power gathered in his hand.

In fact, Yoheim’s appearance was no different from a declaration of defeat, and my father turned his head and looked at me with a face as if he had won, but I couldn’t say anything to my father’s appearance.

This kind of father’s appearance was not unfamiliar to me, and it was the same as my usual father, but Yoheim himself, who had been beaten by his father, was in front of me, so I couldn’t smile and reconcile as usual.

He sighed, looked at me and Elena, then put his hand on my shoulder and said:

“Haa…then what about luggage?”

“Didn’t all of you send them away?”

“That’s right. The servants…the ones in the carriage earlier were Hayley and Ken, so I won’t need them anymore, and this time will be the last. Unless the children in front of me are the servants you disguised as reverse magic.”

“…Your skills have deteriorated. I don’t think Joachim Edelweiss, the great wizard of the world, can’t see through a trap like reverse magic.”

“I just said it once. I’m afraid I won’t even recognize my daughter.”

Saying that, Joachim looked at Elena with warm eyes, and when he looked at me, he made a mysterious expression and tapped my shoulder.

I couldn’t understand the meaning of those eyes, but at least one thing was certain that he wasn’t disapproving of me.

Considering what I received from my father, I think this level of evaluation is generous enough. At least, ‘I can’t hand my daughter over to you!’ Aren’t you glad you didn’t hear that?

In the original story, Joachim should have met Damian long ago.

If that were the case, no matter what Damian did, the engagement between Elena and Damian would not have been possible. Damian’s behavior must have given Yoheim a great sense of betrayal, who trusted his friend and entrusted his daughter to him.

Of course, I had no intention of tarnishing the family’s name, nor of giving him such a sense of betrayal.

Just like when he first disappeared with the carriage, Joachim tapped the staff once on the floor. Then, the same magic ceremony unfolded around me, and a white light began to surround the three people, including Yohaim, me, and Elena, who were holding my shoulders.

Soon, a huge flow of magical power passed through my body, and a pure white light filled my vision.

It was an inexplicable moment, but I was able to feel the movement of the space with my body, and I began to feel excited unintentionally at the strange sensation.

It is described in various novels that teleportation is said to make people feel sick to the stomach for those who experience teleport for the first time. Maybe it is because my body is beyond human limits, but in a world where only white exists, I can accurately distinguish between front and back, up and down. there was.

No, is that what I think it is?

These questions did not go on.

The moment was literally a very short time, so the light that was blocking my vision was removed from my eyes in an instant, and the world reflected in my eyes was no longer the lord castle of Count Krause.

A tall tower behind a beautiful white castle told me where it was.

“My territory. Welcome to Merrohim. Damian Krause.”

Along with Joachim’s words, a small snowflake that came down from the sky landed on his nose.

***

“Wow.”

At the scenery outside the window, I spit out pure admiration.

There is no shortage of saying that the snow scene made up of snow that has fallen all over the city is truly beautiful. Even in Sarham, it snows in the winter, but there was a feeling that it was not enough to create this feeling.

It’s spring now and the weather has started to warm up a bit, so I wondered if it would be winter, if it really snowed up enough to form a mountain, but the Tower of Dawn adjusts it on its own.

If it had been Krauss instead of Edelweiss, the knights would have come out as a group to clear the snow. It’s terrifying to think about.

It’s really fortunate that Krause is located in the South.

Outside the walls surrounding the city, you can see a white mountain range covered with ice caps.

The Lunproud Mountains, which straddle Sarham, had forests and trees in harmony, so I could feel the scent of life.

But I knew

The sharp wind blowing from the top of the mountain tears the skin and freezes living things in their natural state. There is a storm of harsh cold winds blowing, but there are creatures living in such a place.

A dragon lives in a high place that has not been touched by humans for hundreds of years.

“I don’t think we’ll be seeing each other right now…but it feels a bit like thinking that we’re within sight.”

The dragon living in that mountain is not an evil dragon.

Like dragons in any fantasy, they are arrogant and have great power, but at the same time, they are wise and have a heart to protect the world from evil.

What I know is, of course, that the dragon that lives in that mountain appears in the novel.

That’s a pretty important role too.

The dragon that lives on Mount Pelioros, which is called the end of the sky, later appears in the original work as Elena’s teacher.

Even so, the dragon and Elena met after five or six years from now, so there was no reason to worry right away. Perhaps, he should be asleep by now.

If I could be by her side by then, we might meet, but I didn’t want to think about it any further.

I am well aware that imagining an opaque future with the knowledge of the original work is not a good thing for me.

However, it seems that the reason why I keep thinking about it even after erasing it like that is because I am personally interested in the dragon.

“Right now, even with Krauss, there are legends related to dragons, and well… dragons… I wonder what it would be like to see him in real life.”

I had seen many things similar to monsters before I was possessed here, but I had never seen a dragon, or a creature resembling a dragon. Even in the famously rugged Runnproud Mountains, creatures known as subspecies of dragons did not live.

In the first place, Sarham was a place where dragons could not come because of the legends that were entangled there. However, it is said that you can occasionally see wyverns and drakes in Merohim, so if you are lucky, you might be able to see a creature resembling a dragon for the first time after possessing here.

I heard someone knocking on my door when my heart started pounding in a different way than when I saw the snowy scene.

I went straight to the door to open it, but when I stood in front of it, I hesitated to open it.

The reason was that the knock on the door was completely different than I thought it was Elena or Ken, and I needed to think about why he knocked on my door.

Eventually, unable to keep him standing outside, I opened the door. Entering the room, he sat down on the prepared chair and looked at the open window and asked me.

“Were you looking at the scenery outside?”

“Yes. The scenery has a different style from Sarham.”

The person who kept knocking on my door was none other than Elena’s father, Duke Joachim Edelweiss.

I sat down, praying that he wasn’t a petty person who would blame his son for what his father had done.