Necromancer’s Evolutionary Traits

[ Episode 225. A fight started]

“Wow…….”

“Look at them.”

“How can you be so beautiful?”

The entrance to the mansion was noisy, so when I looked down from the second floor, the maids and servants were facing the arriving guests.

And the guests immediately looked up to see if they felt my gaze.

“What are you doing there? Are you going to keep watching?”

Lucia, dressed in a gorgeous light pink dress, as if matching her hair color and color, spoke to me with sleepy eyes.

Beside her, Vivian, dressed in a neat navy blue dress, bowed her head shyly.

“I will guide the guests. Everyone go back.”

I went down the stairs defeating the servants.

As I got in front of them, Lucia looked me up and down and tilted her head.

“It’s not a banquet attire, is it?”

“uh. I’ll have to change in a little while before leaving. Isn’t it a greeting first?”

“long time no see. How have you been?”

“No, every day is hard. Vivian, come this way.”

I held out my hand to Vivian, who still had her head down and was at a loss.

“Your clothes look good on you.”

When she saw my hand, she blushed and placed her own hand in a gentle way.

“huh.”

After that incident, I felt a bit embarrassed, but I couldn’t take my eyes off her.

After standing there for a while, Lucia intervened from the side.

“It was prepared by our family. Of course, it has to be pretty.”

“Are you from Hollington with me?”

“yes.”

When I entered the drawing room, the noise outside the bustle of work in the middle of the day disappeared and it became quiet.

Lucia sat on one side of the sofa as if it were her own home and gestured to Vivian.

“Sit here, sister.”

“huh.”

I asked the parlor servant for Rastilia tea and sat across from them.

“It’s the first time since the war.”

“Iknow, right. It looks like you must have been quite busy.”

“I told you that every day was hard. Is the Lord of Everlast safe?”

“You’re too busy these days, so you’re even taking care of me. Still, listening to him say, if Cromwell were busier, he would have been busy, but he probably wouldn’t have been worse than us.”

As she said, a month had already passed since the war with the barbarians had ended, but it was still a hectic day.

If the academy hadn’t pushed back its vacation schedule due to the aftermath of the war, Amy would have been in quite a bit of trouble without my help.

“Isn’t Vivian also going to be awarded a medal for her merit this time?”

“huh.”

“Good. You don’t have to worry about your career after graduation.”

At my words, she just turned her head away in embarrassment.

Seeing us like that, Lucia sighed and shook her head.

“Ehh.”

“Why are you sighing all of a sudden?”

“no. It’s just that someone is a bit frustrated.”

Who are you talking about?

Are you talking about Vivian?

As I was about to ask her questions, Amy knocked on the door and came in.

“Welcome, both of you. Lucia-sama, it’s been a while. Is the person next to you Vivian? My name is Amy Cromwell.”

“It’s been a while. How have you been?”

“Vivian Velocan. Please take good care of me.”

Seeing Amy appear faster than expected, I immediately asked.

“Are you ready already?”

“Oh brother, quickly change and come. I’ll take care of the guests.”

After leaving Amy to serve the customers, I went back to my room and changed my mind.

As with ordinary nobles, a servant would originally dress me in clothes, but I, who had memories of my previous life, struggled to put on clothes by myself.

Next time I’ll just have to ask for help.

“Shall we leave now?”

When I came back down to the parlor, everyone just looked at me and said nothing.

After a strange silence passed, I wondered if you hadn’t heard, so I spoke again.

“Let’s go.”

“Uh uh.”

Amy nodded and rose from her seat.

Then he came up to me with a strange smile and slapped me on the shoulder.

“Why are you suddenly like this?”

“I thought I had eyes to see. Are you killing your teeth? I never knew.”

“These clothes? I had a hard time wearing it, but the hard work seems to be worth it.”

By my standards, it was a black suit with a bit of fancy embroidered decorations all over it.

Fortunately, the embroidery was just a little darker, but it was the same black color, so it didn’t show too much, so there was no burden.

Needless to say, this outfit was custom-made by Amy.

I was completely out of touch with fashion, so I wasn’t involved in anything other than measuring.

“I was really surprised. I didn’t know it at all when I always wore only loose robes like wizards.”

Lucia looked me up and down and smiled.

“I wear a robe because I am a wizard, not like a wizard.”

“Oh, I see. You were a senior wizard, right?”

She grabbed Vivian’s hand, who was staring blankly at me, then stood up and approached me.

Then he touched the embroidery on my clothes and chattered.

“Look at this sister. Why did you make it the same color? It’s so beautifully nailed.”

“My older brother is shy, so I did it on purpose. He’s the younger brother I want to cheat on…….”

I didn’t know that such a behind-the-scenes story was hidden.

However, in the eyes of her who accurately grasped me, I thought that my younger sister was also a younger sister.

“Sister Vivian?”

“Yes?”

“how is it? The senior wearing a suit?”

Now that I look at it, Lucia…

It seemed that she knew about Vivian’s confession.

The way she deliberately troubled Vivian overlapped with the way she made trouble for me in the first place.

“Ready to depart.”

Just in time, Maria, Amy’s secretary, came to us and said,

As she was also participating as a secretary, she was dressed to the fullest, even if it wasn’t a dress.

“It will be a long carriage trip. now. Let’s go.”

Amy urged Lucia and Vivian out first.

As I looked at the two of them, who were pushed toward Maria by her natural touch, Amy came over to me and whispered a whisper in my ear.

“what?”

“Suddenly what? And why are you whispering?”

“Are you and Vivian Veloccan’s brother like that?”

I was taken aback for a moment, but I kept my unique expression and tapped Amy on the shoulder.

“It’s not like that. Let’s go.”

“no? really? I think it’s right…”

“Don’t be rude just in case. Because it really isn’t.”

“okay. You must know that because my brother is like that.”

Amy, who smiled and followed the group, was somehow unreliable.

**

This banquet held in the imperial palace was carried by carriage.

Of course, taking the train was much quicker and more convenient, but in the case of banquets held at the imperial palace, numerous nobles flocked to it, so it became customary for them to ride in their own carriages to maintain dignity.

Thanks to this, a splendid procession of carriages was lined up at the imperial palace, where they had barely arrived after spending several days of unexpected homelessness.

“I came here to come a little early, but everyone is diligent.”

Amy muttered as she watched the long line in front of the imperial palace.

It’s a matter of course here, but high-ranking nobles get a free pass, but insignificant nobles like us had no choice but to wait in line.

“You are struggling to buy. Wearing a tailcoat and sleeping on the street for several days isn’t enough, waiting like this……”

“Because that’s polite. What can I do?”

Occasionally, the background was medieval, so there was useless formality.

It was like riding a carriage with the train next to it, but the most frustrating thing was the change of clothes.

No one was checking, but seeing the women enduring for days in dresses as if it was natural, I got sick of it.

Of course, simple washing is possible with magic, so it’s better than the experience of a previous life where you spent a few days in place solving the toilet and urine, but while that was an unavoidable situation, it was just inefficient and frustrating.

‘I’ll have to get used to it.’

Come to think of it, when I first came here, everything else was uncomfortable.

These things will gradually get better.

smart.

Then there was a knocking sound from the coachman in front.

“Sir Cromwell. An imperial palace gatekeeper has come.”

At the coachman’s words, I opened the carriage window.

“Meet Your Excellency Cromwell. I am Bayer Montaigne from the Imperial Palace Guard.”

“Nice to meet you, Sir Buyer.”

I wondered if he had come to check his identity, but it felt like he had come right here without visiting the other wagons.

“It’s nothing else, the Cromwell family has come here because the superiors contacted them saying that they can enter right away.”

“……Is that so.”

At the words of the knight, the atmosphere of the people inside the carriage was felt to lighten.

“Is it because you made a lot of contributions in this war? Thanks to my brother.”

“I want to go quickly and rest.”

I hesitated for a moment.

This is the Imperial Palace.

For me, it was a place like a tiger’s den, and a place where you should never be vigilant.

There was a high probability that the imperial palace already knew my identity, and they probably thought that I was hostile to my father because of it.

In fact, I had no intention of taking revenge for my father here, whom I hardly remember, but in the end, the emperor was a huge obstacle to protecting this world, so from the point of view of the imperial palace, my enemy did not change.

“I wonder if they are the superiors…”

“These are the people I dare not speak of.”

Unlike other people, as a knight working in the imperial palace, he could not carelessly mention the imperial family.

The story of this is that a member of the imperial family or the emperor himself ordered

it himself…

I don’t know if the order was calculated after the calculation, but it was caught correctly.

If the emperor had issued an order, it was clear that he intended to make me in trouble, and if it was an order issued by another member of the imperial family, it would have been an act of ignorance.

“All right. Let’s go.”

Although Cromwell was a count, his prestige was weak.

It was obvious that other families would look at it like this with a free pass.

However, refusing the imperial palace’s offer could have been a great disrespect, so in the end choosing one of the two would inevitably result in a loss.

‘I was looking forward to it, but he’s blowing the first bread properly.’

The imperial palace was a pandemonium.

Even within the aristocratic society, it is a place where all sorts of strife take place, enough to be called another world.

When I thought that the hand was already reaching out, I was involuntarily lifted.

“Was it that good?”

“uh?”

“Your brother is laughing right now.”

I realized I was smiling at Amy’s words.

And as soon as he realized it, he smiled even brighter.

“uh. I was expecting something more than that.”

“……okay?

The quick-witted Amy looked at me with a slightly stiff expression, perhaps noticing something, and was lost in thought.

Lucia muttered indifferently about us.

“You must be looking forward to it. Because a great major awaits.”

“yes.”

Major?

It would have been nice to have it for sure.

However, I did not want to lose anything in doing something, so it was only something I gained, not the main purpose.

Most people probably think the same as Lucia.

“I’m really looking forward to it.”

What else can I get from the imperial palace?

[ Episode 225. The dark struggle that started] End