That’s Bertrand’s final line if he were to be your target character.
The same line that will lead to a kiss in the forehead!
Aslan had always been calling him a devil, but at that moment–as he said the last line, she turned to look at him.
‘T-t-that can’t be! I’m not prepared for this yet!’
Unwittingly, Aslan closed her eyes.
Envisioning the texture of his moist lips that would brush her forehead.
But, there was none.
“Here, a gift.”
“……?”
Instead, she felt a cold metal against her neck.
She opened her eyes and saw a necklace hanging around her neck.
“This is……?”
Chains made of silver.
Rugged thumb-sized gray gem hung at the end of it, also commonly known as mana stone.
Inside, a round circle and a five-pointed star was drawn, which was also carved with the magic language called runes, magic that could be used if mana were infused in to it.
It was coarse yet pretty, but it was not something a noble could use ordinarily as it looked cheap.
“Give it a shot, infuse it with magic.”
As he suggested, she took hold of the mana stone and imbued it with mana.
The magic came into play, and Aslan felt her body grew heavier.
“Ugh! I, I feel heavy!”
“Do you think it’s bearable?”
“It’s just enough to make me feel unwell?”
“……Enchanted with 30 times the gravitational pull. That’s truly remarkable.”
30 times the gravity.
A magical necklace that’ll make Aslan’s 33kg into 990kg!
“You’ll have greater effects if you put it on while exercising. You’re too strong anyway, so you’ll have to work together with that tool in order for it to be enough to deplete your magic.”
“No, what kind of necklace is this? A necklace which makes you feel heavier. What is this used for?”
“Right, it’s for criminals. It was originally shaped like a dog’s collar, but I had it modified by someone I know to look like that.”
“A collar for dogs……”
You’re supposed to have conscience.
Never have you made your student wear a dog’s collar.
‘This will definitely surprise people.’
Come to think of it, I’m always the only one surprised.
He was so different from how he was in the game, and the rough classes were always acted on her.
‘I want to see his surprised face at least once.’
Bertrand was still at eye level.
Aslan looked him straight in the eye and said.
“Then me too…… This is the best I can give you.”
Before he got the chance to straighten his back.
She immediately brushed her lips on his forehead.
It was a brief moment–not even a second, but her lips became hot and her face heated up.
‘Ugh. How embarassing.’
However, the effect was tremendous.
‘A success!’
Bertrand’s face that usually held an icy smile.
It was colored with surprise.
Well, in the least his eyes were enlarged and mouth slightly agape. Still a satisfactory result, nonetheless.
“…… Thank you.”
“Goodbye, then, teacher!”
Still embarrassed, she waved her hand and quickly left away.
‘Bye. Bert-nim. My favorite character.’
Finally, a delightful smile creeped into her lips as she recalled her teacher’s face.
‘Thanks to you, I’ve got the chance to start a new life. I’m grateful to you from the bottom of my heart.’
***
Bertrand, who was leaving the Duke of Levonsuit’s estate in a carriage–rubbed his forehead.
The touch of Aslan’s lips still lingered on it.
“……”
He had been engaged to a woman since childhood.
Their wedding was over a year ago, but they had yet to have children.
His wife wanted a child, but things didn’t work out well.
He had just become an aristocrat, and had the responsibility to raise his reputation and raise his family’s name.
He had to, lest he be ignored by the other aristocrats.
So, he often participated in the affairs of the state and of the aristocrats, and was always short on time.
The teaching for Aslan’s came in that sense.
“Hmm.”
His heart.
It lept from Aslan’s surprise kiss.
“Aira……”
My wife already wants it, so there should be no big problem.
He peered out of the window with a warm smile that he had never shown to Aslan.
The scenery beheld chilly autumn landscape–falling leaves and cool breeze.
“I’ll have to go home and try.”
The wind blew in through the window and wrapped around Bertrand.
“I wish for the firstborn to be a daughter.”
He felt a push on his back from the wind, like an eagerness to make him go home and try.
***
Autumn had passed in a blink, and winter had come.
The first snow of winter in this world was so fast to come that even in November, snow was already piling up.
“Yahoo! It’s snow! Snow!”
[T/N: Yangho 양호, honestly have no idea what that is. I just had it interpreted as “Yahoo”. Pls cmiiw.]
Aslan, who was playing on the training ground in warm fur, darted like a puppy while watching the snow fall.
To her, snow had always been something for her eyes to behold, but never touch regardless her want of it.
In her previous life, she’d lay in a hospital bed, stare at the snow falling out of the window like a picture.
“Snows are really cold.”
But now, she’s thrilled to be able to play in the picture.
It was a lot of fun to her to be able to hear popping sounds every time she stepped on it.
As she wandered around the training ground, she soon found knights.
‘Snowball fight?’
To be exact, it was a knight trainee.
Despite there being knights, this world is not thoroughly medieval.
More precisely, the world is out of the middle ages and entering the early modern era.
There’s magic, but apart from that, science is also improving progressively. There’s quite a bit of old stuff from Earth, too.
Bicycles, and metal type books could be mass-produced, phonographs have been recently developed as well.
In such a world, knights were not clothed in iron armor.
‘The uniform looks cool, too.’
A red uniform symbolizing the Levonsuit family.
There was a yellow lion-shaped badge on his chest proving he was a knight trainee.
“You son of a bitch! Take this!”
“Haha! Too slow! I won’t let you hit me either.”
They were still trainees, so they were having a snowball fight during their break time.
She thought it looked fun and tried to get near, but halted right away.
‘Ugh. If I make a mistake while having a snowball fight together, it will certainly be a big problem, right?’
The completion of her body has greatly increased her muscle strength and physical durability.
For one, unaware of it usually, but whenever she gets emotional, her control of muscle strength goes askew.
‘Well. Teacher said that I have no choice but to gradually get used to it.’
Therefore, it would be obvious if she happened to get excited during a snowball fight and failed to control her strength.
‘No, it’s snow anyway. Wouldn’t it be ok?’
Let’s do an experiment.
Aslan gathered snow to form a snowball.
‘No matter how excited I get, I won’t raise it more than 50% unwittingly, shall I throw it at 50%?’
When she turned up the output to 50%, her body heated up. She felt her strength springing up, and threw the snowball at a tree.
Syook–!
At that moment, the snowball flew like a cannonball.
The snowball, which had been molded with strong force from the beginning, was harder than a stone, and soon collided with a tree and emitted a roar.
Kwaaaang–!
Then she saw it.
The sight of a completely destroyed tree rising in all directions.
Fortunately, no matter how hard it was, it was just a snowball, so the snowball that had done its job after destroying only one tree and disappeared as a snowflake.
“What’s going on!”
“Was that a monster? Or an assassin from another country?”
At the loud noise, the knights rushed out.
As soon as they saw Aslan, they protected her in a dense formation.
“It’s dangerous, young lady!”
“There’s an assassin after the young lady!”
“Actually, that’s……”
The knights searched the perimeter immediately.
But there were no monsters, no assassins.
“It’s surely an invisibility magic!”
“There are no monsters that can use invisibility magic.”
“In that case, it’s an assassin. If it’s an assassin that can use invisibility magic……”
“The silent killer of the Decan Empire!”
“But he’s locked up in prison? I’m sure Lord Bertrand had already caught him……”
“Excuse me? Can you hear me?”
Aslan’s voice was heard by the bewildered knights.
Everyone stared at Aslan.
“No way…… Young lady?”
The knights, which knew she’s a possessor of enhancement mana, looked at her with a puzzled expression.
“Young lady…… Did you do that?”
“That’s……”
Embarrassed, Aslan apologized with a red face.
“I just threw some snowballs.”
***
‘Uwah. I’m ashamed!’
Aslan, who returned to her room after explaining the situation to the knights, was still beet-red.
The knights were despodent at the fact that it only required her a snowball at the making of the situation, ‘You’re much stronger than us……’ they had said.
Some loyal knights were exasperated, ‘How strong will we need to be to protect the young lady.’ they had said.
‘I’m ashamed. It was fun, though.’
I didn’t expect my first snow to be so fun.
Every day has been a pleasant day for Aslan since she regained his health.
“Young lady. It’s meal time.”
“Yes. I’ll be right there!”
There were no restrictions with meals unlike before.
Of course, she didn’t list a ton of food and eat just one bite like she used to.
“Oh! My daughter! Come, quickly!”
“You look lovely today as well. Aslan.”
“Yes. Father, Mother.”
Meals that taste moderately delicious food. Still, she was saddened by the food she haven’t eaten so far, so she finished almost three servings alone.
‘Ah…… Delicious!’
Still, the excess calories were converted into mana, so instead of gaining weight, Aslan only became stronger.
I wish I could do this every day.
How good it would be to always have fun days.
However, that happiness was broken by a word from the Duke Leon.
“By the way, Aslan, you should join the party in the imperial castle this time.”
“Party?”
“Yes, the Crown Prince’s birthday is next week. As the Duke’s family, of course, it would be polite for us to go, too.”
The Crown Prince of the Isaac Empire where they live.
Upon hearing the title, Aslan recalled.
‘Wait. If it’s the crown prince, it must be……’
I know the name.
As an aristocrat, memorizing the names of the imperial family is a basic culture.
But the name is.
The presence of the Crown Prince was the last thing Aslan wanted to see.
“Ruden Von Heinberg!”
The first of the two princes.
If the current emperor passes away(昇退), he will be the next emperor, the future emperor.
But he was not just an ordinary Crown Prince.
Because he is……
‘Another final boss!’
He was one of the three final bosses of Fantasia Attraction.