It didn''t take long for the academy and Cirlus Kingdom people to return to Blue Turtle Ind. Before dinner time, they had returned to the castle of the Cirlus Kingdom. It was possible because their magic ship was traveling at high speed, and their journey was not disturbed by magical beasts.
The people from the academy immediately rested after they got to the castle of the Cirlus Kingdom. As for the injured people, they were directly taken to the treatment center to be healed by the royal mage. Megumi and Kyouka also helped while Hikaru and Sintaro returned to their room to rest.
On the other hand, Ziel and Princess Iris brought ra back to her room. Princess Iris left the two of them in the room because she knew that there was something that Ziel wanted to discuss privately with ra.
After the door closed, Ziel created a barrier in that ce and touched his fingertip to ra''s forehead. Not long after, ra began to wake up from her unconscious state.
"Hmm... Ken? Where am I?" ra slowly opened her eyes and saw Ziel in front of her. She was confused after looking around the familiar-looking room. ra remembered that before she lost consciousness, she and the other girls were still on a certain ind in the territory of the Cirlus Kingdom.
"You''re already in your room in the Cirlus Kingdom, mydy." Ziel answered her question gently. He knew ra still couldn''t figure out what had happened.
"How can I be in my room? What has happened? Thest thing I remember is that I felt sleepy and then lost consciousness." ra tried to retrieve herst memory, but her memory was still hazy because she had just woken up from her unconscious state.
"Please drink this tea first to warm your body, mydy." Ziel gave ra the hot tea that was prepared beforehand. Then Ziel exins how she got in her room at this time.
"Thank you, Ken." ra smiled slightly and epted the teacup. As she was sipping her tea, she began to remember what had happened. What stuck in her memory the most was when Kalya hugged Ziel and joined hands. ra''s body suddenly trembled, and the teacup in her hand almost fell.
"Can you exin everything to me, Ken?" ra asked in a low voice and teary eyes.
"I understand." Ziel nodded slightly and began to exin his life experiences so far, except for the one about reincarnation.
He started his story when he became a butler for Princess Elise, Princess Aishia''s younger sister. Then an incident urred in the royal capital of Argaint Kingdom until he finally met ra''s father, Duke Castilene. After that, ra already knew what happened next.
"That''s not what I want to know, but about your rtionship with Miss Kalya." ra said in a voice as low as a mosquito.
"If it''s about that, then it all started when we entered the academy." Ziel tells again about the beginning of his rtionship with Kalya. From the moment they first met and how they ended up in a rtionship. Ziel also said about his cottage near Kalya''s mansion.
He also told about Princess Iris, who had found out about their rtionship, and Ziel asked her to swear that she wouldn''t tell anyone without Ziel''s permission. Of course, all of that was a lie. He didn''t want to bring up the master-servant contract they had made. It would demean Princess Iris as a princess of the Neigal Kingdom.
ra believed what Ziel had said and looked a little guilty about her previous attitude towards Princess Iris. But then she pouted after remembering the rtionship between Ziel and Kalya.
"Why didn''t you tell me, Ken? Or should I call you Ziel?" ra became confused as to how she should call Ziel. She was used to using that nickname on Ziel.
"You can call me whatever you like. I couldn''t have said all the things I did if you didn''t ask, mydy." Ziel didn''t care how ra called him because those two names were his.
"You are right. I am only your master and nobody to you." ra misunderstood what Ziel meant, and she looked depressed.
"You seem to have misunderstood, mydy. If I find money on the street, should I tell you? If I buy food at the stall, do I have to tell you too? But if you ask me, I will answer honestly, just like now." Ziel tries to calm down a depressed ra. What Ziel had done work and light returned to ra''s beautiful eyes.
"Is that true?" ra looked straight into Ziel''s eyes.
"Of course." Ziel answered confidently.
"Okay. I will forgive you this time. but you must promise that next time you will tell me about such an important matter." ra pointed her pinky finger at him, and Ziel knew what ra meant by doing that.
"I promise." Ziel hooked his pinky finger with ra. A wide smile formed on ra''s cute face. After ra finds out that Ziel has a special rtionship with Kalya, she fears Ziel will treat her differently. But it turned out to be just her fear. ra felt calmer after she knew that Ziel was still Ziel for her. Ziel''s treatment of her didn''t change at all. But suddenly ra remembered something and her face became cloudy
"Is there any other girl close to you besides Miss Kalya?" ra asked that because it wasn''t only Kalya who had been close to Ziel recently. But there are also Princess Freya and Princess Aishia. ra also knew that Lilith was close to Ziel. But at that time, she only thought that Ziel''s rtionship with the girls was just friends.
"Yes, there are other girls." Ziel answered tly.
"Who''s she?" ra''s face clouded over. She guessed that the girl must be among her friends.
"Freya and Aishia. But I can''t say for sure my rtionship with Aishia. But she is one of the most important people to me." Ziel answered her with a straight face. Meanwhile, ra stared at him nkly but quickly returned to her senses and then screamed.
"You idiot, Ken!" ra threw a pillow at Ziel''s face. She was a little annoyed with the way Ziel answered her. Apart from that, she also felt jealous of the girls. Ziel could only sigh heavily and leave the room because he thought ra''s feelings weren''t as bad as before. At least she''s back to her old self. After Ziel came out, he asked Princess Iris to apany ra. He walked slowly along the castle corridor and suddenly disappeared.
***
The sky was getting darker, and the lights in the garden behind the castle started to glow to illuminate the surroundings. While the people from the academy were resting due to exhaustion from today''s incident, someone was sitting contemting in the garden while gazing at the seascape. That person was Lilith. Since returning to the castle of the Cirlus Kingdom, she has behaved a bit strangely and has a gloomy expression on her face.
"What are you doing in this ce?" A man''s voice came from behind her.
"Eh!?" Lilith was startled after suddenly hearing the voice because she didn''t hear footsteps approaching her, and Ziel was already behind her.
"I asked why are you sitting here? Shouldn''t you rest like the other students?" Ziel sat on the chair opposite Lilith. Right now, he could see her gloomy face directly. But Lilith quickly turned her face away from him.
"Ah, I don''t feel tired and bored in the room, so I decided to breathe the night air in this ce." Lilith tried to find an excuse to obscure her purpose ofing to that ce. What she said was the truth, precisely partly the truth of why she went to that garden. She had to reason properly since she couldn''t lie in front of Ziel because of the master-servant contract.
"Is that so?" Ziel looked at Lilith, but she kept her face away from him.
"Yes." Lilith gave a small nod in response.
"I sensed fluctuations in your emotions when I fought those people from the divine race." Ziel said in a low voice. He didn''t put up a barrier in that ce and didn''t want anyone to hear their conversation. Lilith''s body trembled after hearing Ziel''s words, but she kept quiet and didn''t answer.
"I can feel it from the master-servant contract. Although I don''t know what kind of emotion it is, I know that fluctuations in your emotions appeared when I fought against those people. The fluctuations continued until they ran away. Can you exin to me about your emotions at that time?" Ziel narrowed his eyes at Lilith. He knew that those emotions were neither hatred nor anger towards him. Otherwise, the punishment from the master-servant contract would activate right then and there.
"Ah, that''s..." Lilith seemed to be at a stalemate and could no longer make excuses if Ziel had said that.
"I asked you to answer it. I didn''t use the master-servant contract to force you to answer because you''ve been taking good care of ra all this time. Besides, do you know why I didn''t give you the ve seal from the start but instead made a master-servant contract with you?" Ziel asked Lilith. He paid no heed to Lilith, who kept staring in another direction while talking to him.
Lilith finally turned her gaze to Ziel and dared to look at him. She shook her head because she also didn''t know the reason Ziel made a master-servant contract with her either. People who have imnted ve seals or master-servant contracts will still be referred to as enved people. Even so, the one who made the servant-master contract would have more freedom and less punishment than the one imnted with the ve seal.
"I once had acquaintances of people from your race. She''s different from the people of the divine race I''ve met. She is not arrogant and has no evil thoughts on this continent. I thought maybe you were the same as her when I saw you. But if you''re the same as the average divine race, then I''ll have to rece the master-servant contract with a ve seal." Ziel said softly at the beginning but became cold at the end.
"Please do not! I love my freedom right now! Please don''t do that! I will tell you what I felt at that time!" Lilith got up from her seat and screamed in exasperation. Luckily Ziel quickly set up a barrier. He also didn''t expect Lilith to react like that. Ziel just kept quiet and waited for her to continue her speech.
"I… My feelings beplicated when I see people from my race being killed by you one after another. I know those who look for trouble first. But still, I couldn''t bear to see it and didn''t want it to happen." Lilith lowered her head weakly.
Ziel got up from his seat and walked back the way he came. But before that, he patted Lilith''s head gently. Lilith''s body trembled slightly but then became more rxed.
"I understand what you mean. As I''ve said before, I think that not everyone from the Divine Race has evil intentions on this continent. You and my acquaintance are one such example. Even though you may have been like them in the past, you can change. I promise you that I will not kill people from the Divine Race indiscriminately unless they are the ones who seek trouble with me first." Ziel left that ce after saying that to Lilith.
"Thank you, Ziel." Lilith smiled sweetly, and tears fell from her eyes without her noticing. Her feelings became calmer after hearing Ziel''s words. She kept looking at Ziel until his figurepletely disappeared.
***
On an ind in the territory of the Cirlus Kingdom, Oilllet sat bored, waiting for Fornius to return. She couldn''t monitor Fornius as she did in Ziel''s fight with Leviathan. The power that Fornius released was interfering with the signal from her magic projection.
Oillet frowned after remembering what Fornius had said before he left. Fornius told that if he didn''t return by nightfall, he had Oillet go using the teleportation magic circle he had prepared.
"I will avenge you, Lord Fornius!" Oillet clenched her fists so tightly that her fingernails pierced her skin and bled. A tear rolled down her cheek without her noticing. Even though she was afraid of Fornius, but Oillet was always treated very well by him.
After Oillet reached the teleportation circle and activated it, a light enveloped the entire area, and Oillet reflexively closed her eyes at the dazzling sight.
"Where is this? This ce is not the destination of the teleportation circle as lord Fornius has said!" Oillet became startled when she opened her eyes and saw that the surroundings were divided. Half of it was pitch ck, and the other half was bright. Suddenly a ck and white light shot into her body. Oillet''s body shook violently.
"Ugh! What''s this!?" Oillet was terrified because her consciousness was being taken over. She tried to rebel, but her efforts were in vain.
[You don''t have to be afraid. Surrender your body to help me manifest myself on the Clorius continent and y irregr existences. In exchange, I will help you get your revenge]
The voice seemed to know what Oillet was thinking at the moment. Those words were like the devil''s persuasion for her. Oillet finally stopped rebelling and surrendered herself. She was silent for a long time until she finally slowly opened her eyes. Her originally golden eyes had now turned ck on the left and white on the right. Her eyes stared intently at the human region.. To be more precise, in the territory of the Cirlus Kingdom.