The Duke’s Madness

After the appetizers, the full-scale menu began to appear.

Arthur murmured in it.

“… What kind of person are you?”

“huh.”

“Why is that suddenly?”

“Everyone is usually curious, isn’t it? How will others look at me, what will they think… .”

Elin replied with strength.

“Especially when it comes to people close to you.”

Arthur, who had been stroking his chin, nodded.

‘hmm… . Well, even if I’m the only one, I’m worried about the people around me, so I’m careful at school.’

Then, what kind of person is Elin to you?

‘Aristocratic nobility?’

a bold woman?

Or a self-confident person?

Several things came to mind, but it was vague to pinpoint.

Because of that, when the troubles get longer, Elin asks a question in a voice lacking confidence.

“… Are you thinking about it that deeply?”

“yes?”

“Is it so bad that I worry about it so deeply… .”

Arthur narrowed his eyes at her stuttering look.

“hmm… . Elin?”

“huh.”

“Why do I think Elin is the worst?”

“You can’t answer right away.”

“Then maybe it’s because he’s not the worst, but he’s such a good person?”

Elin’s eyes widen.

“too… . Are you a good person?”

“yes. Why would I think Elin is a bad person?”

“but… . I have a bad personality.”

“Where are you going?”

“that… . Needlessly high self-esteem, can’t say anything pretty… .”

Arthur burst into laughter.

“If you go somewhere and say something like that, you’ll get scolded, Elin.”

“… .”

“And that’s not a bad thing, it’s personality. A personality that everyone has. And Elin’s personality… .”

Arthur, speechless, asserts.

“It’s a good personality in my opinion.”

“… lies.”

“Is it true? I think Elin is a really nice person.”

“Where?”

“I am thinking about that right now. The Elin I look up to is a person with so many good things… .”

Arthur takes out my thoughts one by one.

“Being able to confidently express my opinion to others, as well as the kind side of me who approached me first… .”

“… .”

“There is also leadership. When it comes to Elin’s words, all the same students follow, right? This alone shows that Elin is a great person. But again… .”

Elin, who had been listening to the story in a daze, hurriedly shouted.

“Wait a minute! How far are you going to talk?”

“… Until the end of what I think?”

“So… . A lot?”

Arthur smiles softly.

“A good person is not called a good person because of one aspect. It’s just that he is called a good person because he likes himself.”

“… .”

“To pinpoint one of them… . yes. It’s harder than you think. But Elin asked me to tell you, so I’m being honest.”

At these words, Elin’s eyes trembled.

The reddened ears and the hot nape of her neck were the parts that showed how embarrassed she was now.

Arthur, who was watching, asked a question with his eyes wide open.

“Elin? Why did my face suddenly… .”

“Until there.”

“… ?”

“Please make it there. I feel like my face is about to burst… .”

Arthur shuts his mouth at her mutilated appearance.

In the meantime, Elin took a deep breath and muttered, barely removing her hand from covering her eyes.

“Could it be Arthur? Have you ever given this kind of compliment to a woman other than me?”

“… yes?”

“Have you ever done this to another woman?”

“uh… . no? Don’t you?”

“Never do that. Understand?”

Arthur flinched at the strange momentum.

In the meantime, Elin urged, not trying to hide her reddened eyes.

“Promise. I will never do that.”

“… yes. I promise you, Elin.’

“okay… . Then, are you my chalian now?”

“What?”

“You are what I think.”

Arthur raised his eyes.

“uh… . Am I doing it too?”

“Aren’t you curious? What do I think of you?”

Arthur pondered the question and raised the corner of his mouth.

“Hoo… . Thinking about it, I’m curious. How will I look in the eyes of others?”

“Shall I speak?”

“yes. hmm… . But Elin. When you speak, please use others as a standard. So, based on the same students.”

Elin tilted her head.

“why? Any reason?”

“That’s what I want to know. Does it stand out compared to others or is it out of the ordinary? . I am worried about this.”

At Arthur’s answer, Elin raised an eyebrow.

“… You can’t be normal compared to others.”

“yes?”

“You who I look at… . You can’t be normal compared to others.”

At her answer, Arthur tilted his head.

It was the time when Elin took a deep breath and tried to take out a piece of her mind that had been worrying for a long time.

Suddenly, the mind picks up and is cut off.

thud-!

At the same time, he collapsed on the table, and Arthur, who was watching, blinked his eyes.

“uh… . Elin?”

Arthur carefully called her name and stood up.

And belatedly, he felt the changed atmosphere of the restaurant and hardened his expression.

‘this? My senses were blunted from focusing on Elin.’

It was the moment Arthur awakened the tension along with the thought.

A familiar yet unfamiliar voice is heard.

“It was a good time, did you interrupt?”

Arthur slowly turns his head.

At that moment, a very familiar, yet unsightly blonde caught my eye.

Arthur looked up at the blond handsome man and raised an eyebrow.

“Prince Leon Madrid… . sir?”

* * *

A man dressed in a fancy tuxedo.

Leon Madrid says with a corner of his mouth.

“Looking at you again like this.”

“… .”

“I didn’t expect to meet you so soon, did you say it was destiny?”

At this, Arthur shook his head.

“You didn’t follow fate, did you, Prince?”

“I was after you. I?”

“yes. Rather than meeting by chance, that way is more plausible, right?”

Leon narrows his eyes.

And he smiles heartily.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t go after men.”

“… .”

“If it’s a beautiful lady, what’s the point of chasing after a black man?”

With these words, Leon pulls a chair and sits down.

It was when Arthur’s gaze grew cold.

Leon raises his hands.

“I have no desire to fight. So stop staring.”

“… .”

“This is the restaurant I run. After going through that chaos yesterday, I came to eat some delicious food, and you were there.”

Arthur blinked at his explanation.

“Is this the restaurant run by the prince?”

“okay. Check it out later if you don’t believe me. Whose name is listed here?”

Arthur shuts up at Leon’s confident answer.

‘A lie… . It’s not?’

Breathing or staring peculiar to a person who tells a lie.

I didn’t feel any of those features.

Of course, considering that the other person is a human with a very unique bloodline, you shouldn’t believe it easily.

At that moment, Leon glances at the fallen Elin and asks a question.

“… By the way, did I interrupt you?”

“What do you mean?”

“I found you and unknowingly knocked out that beautiful lady, but weren’t we on a date?”

Arthur tilted his head.

“… Isn’t it?”

“okay? Did you two look good?”

“It was an important moment. But the prince ruined it.”

“… ugh I’m sorry. To think I’m interfering with a man and a woman… .”

“You don’t have to apologize. You can pay it back with something else.”

With these words, Arthur raises my lineage.

Leon raises his eyes at the appearance of bizarre scales covering his body.

“Are you trying to run over me here?”

“Can’t you?”

“… I felt it yesterday, but you’re really out of control.”

Arthur raised an eyebrow.

“I hear that often. But is that the end of what you want to say?”

“why? Are you going to kill me when it’s over?”

“I told you. What I once made up my mind about is that I have a personality that will come true only when I finish it.”

At Arthur’s words, Leon’s eyes twitched.

Arthur thought about the change.

‘It’s still a bad eye. Especially those half-moon-shaped pupils.’

At the same time, I was curious about what kind of ability it was, so I wanted to drink the blood of the prince, but unfortunately, the blood of the imperial family was not absorbed by the blood of Bavaria.

‘It was like that in my last life when I tried to absorb the bloodline ability of Can Madrid… . For some reason, I couldn’t absorb the ability of the imperial bloodline.’

It was a time when curiosity disappeared and only a strange displeasure remained.

Leon Madrid opens his mouth.

“Did I tell you? Can we find a compromise?”

“Isn’t that what the prince thought?”

“First, tell me why you are angry. Wouldn’t that be enough to make an apology or compensation?”

Arthur laughs.

“Do I really have to explain this?”

“… .”

“Looking into someone’s head and hypnotizing them. Isn’t this enough reason to kill the prince?”

Leon Madrid’s expression shakes.

And after thinking for a while, he abruptly lowered his head.

“… !”

Arthur, who was watching him, tilted his head.

‘Why are you lowering your head?’

Are you really going to end it with that apology?

Then the space shakes.

At the same time, a real industrial spy, not Leon Madrid in disguise.

Martial Dust appears and hurriedly whispers to the prince.

‘Le, Leon Madrid! How do you keep your head down?”

The prince, who managed to understand the words he conveyed only by the way he spoke, spoke aloud.

“If I did something wrong, I should apologize, shouldn’t I?”

“… .”

“No matter what the cause is, my actions are wrong.”

Arthur burst into laughter.

“Prince. Are you lying this time?”

“… what? I’m serious! Why would I lie at this point!”

“It all shows on your face.”

“… .”

“Because there are facial expressions that people show when they lie. Eyes shaking or breathing irregularly, or shouting exaggeratedly.”

Leon blinked his eyes and replied.

“Are you that obvious?”

“yes.”

“Write… . But sorry is true. look. Didn’t I, the prince, even bow my head?”

Arthur’s eyes widened at that confident attitude.

‘this person… . unusual? As much as the Cassel I met a few days ago.’

Of course, that peculiarity was unique in a different sense from Cassel.

Thinking about that feeling, Arthur gets up from his seat.

Leon, who was watching, suddenly asked a question.

“Are you going?”

Arthur turned his head and smiled.

“I would have killed him if it wasn’t for Elin, it’s a pity.”

Leon clicked his tongue and said.

“Yesterday’s secret. Can you protect me?”

“What if I don’t protect you?”

“hmm… . I have to catch up.”

“Killing me is the fastest way.”

“That’s the best, but I liked you.”

Arthur tilts his head.

Conversely, Leon smiled.

“A son of a Duke of Bavaria who cheats on his identity and works as a back-street mercenary, and an imperial prince who steals the secrets of the imperial family.”

“… .”

“Don’t you think we have a lot in common in many ways?”

Arthur burst into laughter.

“So why can’t we get to know each other better?”

“why. If you talk to men and have a drink, you can become friends for whatever reason.”

“Because I don’t. People who don’t know what’s inside beat me in the back of the head every time.”

Leon laughs heartily.

“Then what about keeping each other’s secrets?”

“… I don’t like it, but I can sort that out.”

Arthur says as he hugs the fallen Elin.

“I don’t know how long that will last.”

After that, Arthur took a step and left the restaurant.

Martial, who was looking at the back, cautiously gave advice.

‘Shouldn’t it be dealt with?’

The prince who was watching Arthur shook his head.

“no. leave it alone for a while Now that I see it, at least I don’t think I’m going to tell anyone about this.”

‘but… .’

“are you okay. trust me And Arthur Bayern cannot spread my secrets.”

Martial tilts his head.

‘What is that…?’

Leon raises an eyebrow.

“They have the same goals as me… .”

Martial Durst’s eyes widened.

“The goal is to kill the same people, the same people… . So no need to worry Because Arthur Bayern and I are in the same boat.”