The royal palace, the king’s room.
When the new day had just arrived, Liadella had come here with her personal knight Charl to greet her father.
The father and daughter duo did have a fairly good relationship, so their had a good time chatting. Even though Aldia and Charl were next to them, it didn’t actually affect the two from talking.
However, for some reason, on this day, the father daughter pair both seemed somewhat distracted.
Charl even ended up speaking out on that.
“Your majesty, your highness, you two seem to be rather lacking in energy. Did you not gave a good night’s sleep last night?”
Charl asked with concern.
Ancil and Lia did actually consider Charl’s words to be out of place.
However…
“Are we lacking in energy? Father?”
Lia seemed somewhat confused.
“I do feel a bit down.” Ancil turned his head thoughtfully and addressed Aldi, “What do you think? Aldia?”
In response, Aldia calmly spoke.
“Your majesty does seem a bit tired. Her highness Lia is the same.”
The loyal and straightforward knight spoke truthfully.
“Is that so?” Lia nodded. Then, as if she finally realized it for herself, she let out a sigh, “Even though I obviously went to bed quite early last night. Why am I feeling so under the weather now?”
“Lia is feeling that as well?” Ancil similarly sighed and, as if seeking an agreement, “Do you feel like you’ve lost something important?”
Since Ancil pointed it out, Lia did feel something similar.
That’s right, it’s as if something important to them was lost, or maybe left them might be more appropriate. That was why Lia was so lacking in energy.
Maybe this was just a misunderstanding though.
However, as someone with a god’s blessing, sometimes, what one considered a misunderstanding may very well in actuality be that something bad really did happen.
This is especially true for members of the Mitra royal family. As the descendants of a Hero, all of them bear blessings from high ranking goddesses at least. Sometimes, blessings could produce some very mysterious premonitions and give the holder some feelings.
Of course, the whole thing is just a very mysterious and subtle feeling.
Only someone like Lucy, who has a blessing on the level of the Three Great Goddesses, would actually be able to accurately detect any true premonitions of the future. Otherwise, the premonitions from blessings for anyone else is generally not all that reliable.
Thanks to that, although Ancil and Lia both had bad feelings, they did not actually think much of them.
That said, the following conversation ended up happening for some reason anyways.
“Right, where’s Lucy?”
“I don’t know. She should still be in her room, right?”
“Is she resting? Or is she working?”
“She should be resting I think? I heard the knights of the Holy Knight Order mention the fact that Lucy had sped up the pace of her work yesterday for some reason, so a most of her work is already done.”
“That child seems to be doing that and finishing her work early quite often lately, right?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“… Is it because of that viscount?”
“… I think so.”
“…”
“…”
As Ancil and Lia had that conversation, for some reason, they suddenly stopped as a bad feeling welled up in both of them at the same time.
“… I don’t know why, but I suddenly really want to make some trouble for that viscount.”
“Father, please calm yourself. That’s just too unreasonable. Although I feel the same way as well…”
The father-daughter pair became even more listless now.
In their hearts, two sudden urges appeared at the same time.
One is an urge to go give a certain viscount a vicious beating.
The other is the urge to see Lucy as quickly as possible.
(Come out soon, Lucy…)
The anxious father and elder sister both wished in their minds.
However, neither new just when this wish will come true.
…
At the same time, in the Stalim villa, Bali and Limgir were gathered in the same location.
They weren’t drinking tea together and having a family chat though. Instead, they were discussing certain strange incidents that had recently been happening in their territory.
Ever since certain very strange things happened within their territory, Bali had called Limgir over for a meeting before then discussing the prospect of returning to the territory together. There, they hope to properly investigate these issues and resolve them.