Chapter 113
Chapter 113
The wide-open sky was not just the usual black and pitch dark color. The sky was blue and purple, and occasionally pink.
The wind couldn’t find a way, and it passed through their hair, caressing their cheeks. The sweet and moist night air seemed to lift the heart even more.
The stars embroidered in the sky showed off their light in place as if they were studded with jewels.
They looked like Luciel’s eyes.
“Kizef, drop me off.”
Luciel urged him, releasing her hands that had wrapped around his neck. Kizef lowered her to her floor.
“Wow…It’s just beautiful to look at.”
Luciel completely tilted her head back and looked at the sky for a long time, it was such a beautiful landscape that it could evoke tears of emotion.
She will fall down again.
Kizef held Luciel’s body from behind so she wouldn’t fall and he suddenly had a thought.
He wanted Luciel to see the stars a little more comfortably.
‘I wish I had a soft sofa or bed.’
As Kizef walked and looked around, he saw a small table next to the telescope. There was something inside the round glass case placed above it. They were little pieces of furniture that looked like toys. A light purple bed, a long sofa, a rocking chair, a dining table, and even a desk.
Only after looking for a bit did he realize what they really were. Mini-size furniture from Bellstein’s warehouse.
They were made to be stored in small spaces using reducing spells.
“Luciel. Look at this.”
“Huh? What?”
As Kizef called, Luciel turned her head. She wanted to run fast, but she couldn’t move easily because of her leg.
“That star……Do you want to lie down or sit down to see them? There’s a piece of furniture enchanted with a miniature spell.”
“Really?”
Kizef brought a small sofa and bed showing it to Luciel.
“It’s about the same size as the one in my Rabbit Castle. Pretty and cute.”
“You choose what to make it bigger.”
“Well….”
Luciel looked around. The space of the observatory was not very large, and there were telescopes, so it seemed that only one piece of furniture could be resized.
Both were good options, but I thought the bed would be more comfortable.
“With this, I think it will look really cool when you lie down.”
Luciel smiled broadly and her eyes lit up with sparks.
“Then how about the bed?”
“Yes! I think magic is very convenient. To think you can use it like this.”
“On the contrary, it is very expensive and difficult to obtain. To maintain it, you need a magic stone.”
Luciel nodded her head as if she understood.
“Ah, as expected, is it possible because we’re Bellstein with magical prowess and wealth?”
Kizef nodded, laid the bed on the floor, and supported Luciel to take a few steps back.
Then, when he pressed the red button in the glass case, it quickly became a soft and comfortable double bed.
The bed was in the shape of a light purple cloud, and the pillows and duvets were soft making it a perfect bed.
Luciel excitedly took off her shoes and sat on the bed. Now she could see the stars without caring about her sore legs.
“Very soft! Like marshmallows.”
She dragged Kizef’s hand. He took off his shoes and sat down on the bed.
“It’s so romantic to have a bedroom with a view of the stars.”
Trollong, Trollong!
Luciel muttered while making emeralds and peridots. Kizef put his hand above her head because it was cute to see her smiling brightly.
“Lie down and look at the stars.”
“Yes.”
Luciel playfully collapsed onto the bed. Even if she did, it was so soft and fluffy that it didn’t hurt her.
Kizef followed suit.
Then the stars seemed to be visible hundreds of times better than before. No, the stars all over the sky seemed to shine around the sky above their bodies.
Twinkle twinkle.
The two stayed silent for a long time in the magic performed by the endless night sky.
‘I want to protect this happiness for a long time. So that the beautiful sky of Bellstein doesn’t collapse.’
Luciel muttered in happiness as she looked at the stars.
“It’s a good thing we came to see the stars.”
“……Yes.”
“I want to come again.”
“Yes. Let’s come together.”
As Kizef added that, he intently stared at Luciel. While Luciel was looking at the stars, Kizef was looking at another star.
His gaze burned a little, but Luciel thought that Kizef was also admiring the stars like her. When Luciel didn’t answer his words, he whispered again.
“I have something to tell you next time we come, so we should come again.”
“Something to tell me? What is that?”
“You don’t have to know yet.”
Kizef approached with his eyes closed and kissed Luciel’s forehead. Her heart plummeted for a moment, and she tried to get herself up in embarrassment but was blocked by Kizef’s hand.
“……!”
“Just lie down.”
Then, a sparkling pink spinel fell from the air to the bed.
“I don’t think this jewel comes out often.”
When Kizef asked while examining the spinel, Luciel wanted to hide in a mouse hole.
Every time Luciel’s heart was pounding because of Kizef, a spinel was created. It was definitely the first time she felt this feeling. A feeling she had never felt even at the moment she had trusted the Prince in the far-off past.
Perhaps this was excitement.
“Is your ankle still sore?”
“Yes.”
As he anxiously asked, Kizef got up and looked at Luciel’s feet again.
“Heal!”
Paat.
A transparent light that extended from his fingertips touched Luciel’s ankle as if it was caressing her.
“Because of my dark attribute, my heal is weak, but…….”
“No. It definitely feels less painful.”
When Luciel said that it was less painful, Kizef’s pretty eyebrows folded once again.
As she told Princess Claudia last time, it was not empty words that Kizef was like a soft and fluffy Castella.
He was so sweet that whenever he reaches out his hand, Luciel always has no choice but to hold it. He has always been a comfort to her heart. Because of her legs, she couldn’t observe the celestial body with a telescope, but it was definitely a night she’ll remember later.
When they moved to the private residence after stargazing, a little guest unexpectedly came over.
It was a familiar back, playing with toys on the parlor carpet. The round back of the head, which seemed to have been carved like a chestnut, quickly turned around.
“Sister! Bro! I want to sleep here.”
Sasha, Bessie and Rose were terrified, but Rose smiled softly and quickly comforted Leoni again.
“Our gentle Young Master Leoni. You said you would go back if you saw her face, right?”
“……No, when did I?”
Leoni flinched, but stubbornly came to Luciel and hugged her.
“I can’t sleep these days. I mean, if Sister Luciel read me a fairy tale, I will sleep well…”
When the clinging child began to tear up, Luciel patted his shoulder.
“Really? Then Sister will read you a book…”
“Leoni, I’ll put you to bed today. Let’s go. Luciel, you should sleep comfortably.”
Kizef took Leoni’s hand and pointed to his bedroom upstairs. But Leoni shook his head and let go of Kizef’s hand.
“Leoni?”
“N-No. I’m going to sleep with Sister…..”
Leoni rolled his pomegranate eyes and looked into his older brother’s eyes. Kizef remained silent with his arms folded, but it was clear that he was not comfortable.
“I used to put him to bed sometimes. Even on days with thunder. Leoni, come here.”
“Yes!”
As Luciel called with a laugh, Leoni walked up to her like a puppy waving his tail.
Leoni took Luciel’s hand and looked at his brother’s face once. At that, Kizef had a strange feeling that Luciel had been taken away.
Kizef tossed and turned all night before falling asleep, thinking that Leoni should be told off when he was a little older.
* * *
He said he had insomnia, but before she could even read a whole page of the fairy tale, Leoni quietly fell asleep, and Sasha took him away from the early hours of the next morning.
Luciel visited Cicline’s reception desk to cheer for her exam, went out to the greenhouse garden and the little fief, looked at various things, and returned.
At noon a carriage arrived at the Duke of Bellstein. At Gillard’s request, the jeweler Baron Tez had visited and Luciel was also there.
The baron, an old man with white hair, was trembling even when he walked around.
“Oh, be careful. Baron.”
“Young lady is also kind. I am okay.”
His pupils shook a lot as he looked around with a magnifying glass at Luciel’s jewel placed on a black velvet cloth.
“…Whoa, it might look like an ordinary gem, but it’s not. The strength, elasticity, and quality of the jewel are also close to that of a masterpiece beyond the highest grade. Besides, this cutting method…It is not crafted by human hands. In 70 years of working with jewels, I have never seen anything so rare.”
With a burst of admiration, he put the jewel back on the table.
Gillard nodded his head.
“Yes, you have keen eyes. As you said, these jewels are very special and precious.”
“If you want to show their value as jewels, you don’t need to work on them anymore…Are you planning on using it for something else?”
Gillard and Luciel looked at each other and nodded their heads.
“That’s right. I want to put them on my wand.”
“So that the special power contained in the jewel can be used as it is in the wand.”
Immediately, Luciel summoned and showed her wand. But Baron Tez said.
“I can craft jewels on the wand as you wish, but I don’t know if the power it contains will be unleashed. I’m not a weaponsmith, I’m just a jeweler.”
Luciel pondered for a moment and then wanted to do one test.
She was curious as to what would happen if she did not make a groove and just made a decorative piece of jewelry.
“Then I have one request. Can you craft this jewel on something else?”
“Yes, I can do it if you give me the goods and the jewelry.”
Luciel held out the dagger for self-defense that Soliaphe had given her and an emerald.
“It will take at least three days.”
Baron Tez’s carriage left soon after, and exactly three days after that, she could receive the dagger she had entrusted to him.
It was very beautiful to look at the blade decorated with emeralds.
With that dagger, Luciel, along with Erika and Gillard, went to the little fief’s research lab to measure it.
The result was half success and half failure.
Although the sword contained mana and the wind element of the original jewel, it could not fully capture the power and unleashed only a part of the power.
“Luciel, this alone will be a powerful weapon, but it is a disappointing result in many ways.”
Luciel agreed with Gillard words.
“Yes, Grandpa. Then, the way to go is…going to Rupdell.”