The Survival Strategy of the Contract Duchess - Chapter 95

Wow!

On the way back, Sasha was in a daze. Even though it was something she had done, she couldn’t quite grasp what she had just done.

Kyler also didn’t say anything about it. Sasha, with her mouth open and spaced out, and Kyler, sitting and watching her without taking his eyes off her.

“How, how could that happen? Did it really leave because I told it to go back? Do monsters ever just run away into the mountains in the middle of a fight?”

Sasha was still somewhat dazed, staring somewhere beyond Kyler. Kyler silently fixed his gaze on her and replied.

“I’ve never seen anything like that before. Monsters are basically aggressive and attack people on sight. And running away is extremely rare. Especially in a fight where they seem to have a high chance of winning like just now.”

To anyone who saw it, it would have looked like she was talking to the monster. How was that possible? Her ability, or rather, non-ability, to hear the existence of monsters as noise wasn’t even recorded anywhere, but talking to monsters was unheard of.

“Um! I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. Did I step in for no reason?”

After a dazed time of wonder, a slight shadow fell over her face. Kyler looked at her, a bitter smile on his face, and shook his head.

“No. Whatever you do, it doesn’t matter. It’s okay.”

She knew what he meant. He had immediately understood what Sasha was worried about.

Still, his words were reassuring. If she were a monster, he would kill her instantly without pain, or he was the kind of person who would postpone even that identity and protect her.

What a trustworthy and wonderful man. Even in the midst of all this, Sasha was sending hearts towards him.

“Yeah. Thank you. It would have been helpful if I could have communicated with them more clearly. Right?”

She was a little disappointed in that regard. She didn’t even have a sense of how much they understood her words, but she felt very sorry that she couldn’t fully understand their words.

“I’m really disappointed. If we could communicate properly, wouldn’t we be able to ask where they’re generated?”

At Sasha’s words, still dazed and speaking vaguely, Kyler slightly narrowed his brow.

He stared at her intently, thinking that she remembered more than he thought.

“Has there ever been anyone else who could communicate like me?”

“There hasn’t been.”

Kyler sat on one of the sofas in the Emperor’s audience chamber, looking at the white-haired old man opposite him with a serious face.

The old man looked like he was about to be blinded by his white hair and beard, but Kyler stared at the magician, who was dressed in white, with an intense gaze. The old man shrugged his shoulders, unfazed by the stare.

“There’s no record anywhere of anyone communicating with monsters. Isn’t it just a delusion? Moving their heads up and down to make it look like they’re agreeing, raising the end of their cries to make it sound like they’re asking a question?”

Kyler frowned even more at the magician’s face, which was full of playfulness and sarcasm, despite his dignified appearance.

“If you keep acting like that, I might just destroy the Mage Tower or whatever.”

Then a cool voice flew from the head seat.

It was Lydian’s voice, looking down at them from the throne. The magician’s face, which had been sitting comfortably and listening to Kyler’s story with a sneer, turned as white as his beard or clothes.

His face was so white that he looked like just a white lump.

“Y-Your Majesty. Even so, the Mage Tower. In the first place, how are you going to destroy that tower? Ha, haha.”

“How? Did you just say ‘how’ to me?”

One corner of Lydian’s mouth turned up menacingly. Lydian’s ‘scary’ side, which was not usually seen, was very clearly revealed after a long time.

This was the scary side of Lydian that those who knew him knew, but not many people had actually seen it. He said terrible things with an indifferent face, and it wasn’t a lie.

The words he uttered were unimaginably terrible. If he didn’t grasp the situation and continue to appease him, he was the type of person who would make that terrible imagination a reality.

“Are you going to bring out a smiling face that I haven’t enjoyed in a long time?”

When even his pupils shone brightly, the old magician immediately averted his eyes and lowered his tail, realizing the seriousness of the situation.

“No, well. Yes, you’re someone who can destroy it, enough.”

He smiled so much that his face twitched and looked at Kyler again. He didn’t show any discomfort, nor did he look at him with pity or ridicule for being rejected by the Emperor in front of his face.

He had just been serious from the beginning until now. The magician cleared his throat and tried to make a serious voice after being conscious of the Emperor’s eyes once.

“But the truth is the truth. There were no such records left.”

What the magician was saying wasn’t wrong. In the old days, methods of controlling monsters were actively leaked, taking over various fields and even creating a group called Geranel.

But soon, the magicians began to find the monsters annoying and didn’t want to pay attention to them, using the excuse that they lived in distant mountain ranges.

As Geranel continued for several generations, losing its principles, the Magic Department also stopped paying attention to monsters, so the records were even sloppy.

“Was the record omitted or was it completely non-existent?”

Kyler asked the magician again in a low voice to confirm. He couldn’t push in too friendly, but instead, he continued the question as gently as possible.

“There are no traces of deletion. It didn’t exist at all.”

The magician answered Kyler’s question and looked at Sasha, the person in question. The woman who showed a unique ability that had never been heard of before, making them investigate, was small and beautiful. On the surface that was all.

“Hmm… It certainly seems like a very unique situation. A husband who hears the sounds of monsters and a wife who communicates with monsters. So, does that mean that the magician also has no opinion at all on how these monsters are generated, or how to eliminate them all from the mountains? None at all?”

When Lydian intervened once again, the magician looked around and swallowed hard. If he said he didn’t know, he felt like he would be locked in the top room of the Magic Tower.

“Th-That’s right. To eliminate them, we need to know the cause of their creation, but that’s difficult.”

“How about looking for it instead of just talking about it? Who knows if there might be a very old record left?”

Kyler made a voice as cold as Lydian’s. His voice was so cold that it was as freezing as Lydian’s, and the magician bit his lip tightly.

That was true. If he looked for it, he would find a book someday. Of course, on the premise that someone had discovered it.

“I’m always looking at the records. If I find anything, I’ll let you know.”

“Um! Good. Your Majesty, I will return this way and move to the mountain of the Magic Tower.”

Kyler didn’t want to waste even a little time. It wasn’t like she had an incurable disease or was terminally ill, so it wasn’t like time was running out and he was in a hurry, but he judged that it wouldn’t be good to delay now if she had a constitution that attracted monsters.

“Is the magician’s help no longer needed? Then…”

“Oh, how could we not help? That’s, Ah, I have some good information.”

Lydian was just trying to finish the story quickly and move on to the next one, but the magician, who was caught red-handed, opened his mouth.

It would be nice if he would just leave if he was just going to say anything. Lydian’s expression was exactly that.

The magician’s butt wiggled in an atmosphere where the words he had confidently brought up somehow didn’t work.

In fact, he had come to the Imperial Palace to receive some money in the name of research expenses, hearing that the Imperial Palace was looking for him. Recently, his finances had been a bit bad, which had been constantly threatening his position.

But he didn’t bring up the story of monsters, and even brought up the story of a woman who could communicate with monsters.

He was about to say that if she could communicate with monsters, she must be a witch, but he held back after seeing the atmosphere, but who would have known that the crazy Emperor would pop out just because he said a few sarcastic words.

He almost saw the Magic Tower being destroyed while trying to make some money.

In the end, when he brought up the story that he had good information, the eyes of the Emperor and the Duke were once again focused on him. He slightly avoided the eyes of the crazy Emperor and the ice pick Kyler, who were no different, and opened his mouth, looking at his nose.

“Shouldn’t we ask those who have been dealing with monsters for a long time for information about monsters? Magicians only helped with the very first time they dealt with monsters, but they quit quite early.”

At the magician’s words, the two looked at him with faces and eyes that didn’t move, as if they were losing interest. Feeling a slight sense of crisis, the magician waved his hand and opened his eyes wide.

“No, don’t you know Geranel? They have been dealing with monsters for so long, it’s a group that can’t be ignored.”

Tsk, it was the Emperor who calmed down the excited magician. When he leaned forward, the magician seemed to shrink slightly.

“Is there anyone who doesn’t know Geranel? The problem is that we don’t know who the leader is.”

“That’s it! That’s the good information I was trying to give you!”

Geranel was a famous name, but its leader was kept strictly secret. They didn’t even know who was in charge.

The Emperor and the Duke’s gazes were quietly directed at him. The magician swallowed hard before opening his mouth.

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