Book 1 Chapter 1005
1005.
Seeing Leo disguised as an elf woman, Luna made a dumbfounded expression.
‘What the? Isn’t that a complete pervert?’
Luna, who was gazing at Leo who looked beautiful to anyone, made a serious expression.
‘Did I really fall for a person like that?’
How to put it?
She couldn’t imagine a future where she would fall for Leo.
‘Of course, I thought he was cool when he gave me flowers.’
Seeing him like that, even his cool image seemed to completely shatter.
‘Did my future self really go crazy while researching magic?’
If not, it couldn't be explained.
‘Yeah. Her head must have gone crazy. I don’t want to become a mad mage…….’
Clap-!
“……?”
Luna stared blankly at her right hand.
Her right hand had suddenly slapped Luna’s cheek, completely unrelated to her will.
It wasn't a hard slap, but Luna couldn't help but make a bewildered expression at the movement that clearly went against her will.
Meanwhile.
Rena, who was startled to see Leo, covered her mouth with an "Ah-!".
Elena placed her hands on Rena's shoulders.
“Why did this little girl call Leo-nim ‘mama’?”
Elena squinted her eyes suspiciously.
“I mean. Where on earth is Brother Leo…… Huh?! No way, that elf woman?!”
Chelsea, who hadn't been able to grasp the situation due to the recognition-inhibiting magic, opened her eyes wide.
Elena smiled brightly at Chelsea's reaction.
“Isn't she pretty?”
“What did you do to Brother Leo!”
As Chelsea protested with a beet-red face, Elena pouted her lips.
“Oh my? Look at her? Do you think I could do such a thing?”
“But Senior Elena is the only one who could force Brother Leo into such an embarrassing state!”
“Considering how embarrassing it is, doesn’t it suit him incredibly well? And…… Lil did that because she was being mean to Leo-nim.”
Elena, completely feigning ignorance and putting all the blame on Lil, looked down at Rena.
“Anyway. What’s this little lady's identity?”
“Now that you mention it……”
Chelsea also looked at Rena with a perplexed expression.
“Just in case I’m asking. Did this child come from the future?”
Elena asked, narrowing her eyes.
Instead of Chelsea, who hesitated for a moment at the question, Luna, who had been frowning and looking down at her palm next to her, nodded.
“Yes, that’s right.”
“You are……?”
Elena's eyes, which had been looking at Luna with a bewildered expression, widened greatly.
She had broken free from the influence of the recognition-inhibiting magic that had been placed on Luna.
“Today, I’m seeing…… a lot of strange things.”
Elena, muttering to herself, politely greeted Luna.
Luna scratched her cheek at Elena's attitude.
“Anyway, if this child really came from the future.”
Eiran cautiously spoke, taking Elena’s words as she squinted her eyes suspiciously.
“That…… Leo-nim’s descendant…… wouldn’t that be it?”
He spoke questioningly, but Eiran was confident.
At the question, Rena, who had been covering her mouth and blinking, soon let her shoulders droop.
“……Yes. That’s right.”
Rena readily admitted her identity.
“My name is Renacion Flove. The second princess of the Arhi Kingdom, and……”
Rena glanced- at the parade moving far away.
“I am Leo Flove-nim’s granddaughter.”
***
Chelsea looked at Rena, who was sitting opposite her.
‘Uncomfortable.’
Such a thought naturally arose in her mind.
Elena and Eiran were sitting to Chelsea's left and right.
Luna was sitting next to Rena.
The reason Chelsea felt uncomfortable was very simple.
It was Rena’s presence.
‘Leo oppa’s granddaughter?’
Her mind was in chaos.
Realizing that fact, she noticed that, indeed, apart from her hair and eye color, she had quite a few resemblances to Leo.
‘It doesn't seem like a lie.’
Chelsea rolled her eyes back and forth.
Actually, it wouldn't be strange if Leo had children.
Leo was a respectable king of a nation.
It was natural to have offspring for succession.
The problem was…….
‘Whose child’s child would it be?’
Perhaps thinking something similar to Chelsea, Elena and Eiran were also exuding a strange atmosphere.
Just then, the door opened and an elf entered.
The place the five people had come to was an elf-style tea house run by Seirun students.
Elf-style tea houses are characterized by being assigned luxurious rooms and offering all sorts of high-end teas and snacks.
It was quite different from the tea houses Chelsea usually frequented.
The Seirun student acting as a server opened the door, came in, and quietly placed the snacks.
Eiran, sitting next to Chelsea, said.
“It seems this tea house is really popular with the Lumen students.”
Eiran made a bewildered expression.
“Why do you think that is?”
“Well. It's nice, isn't it?”
“Huh? Aren't human society’s tea houses much better?”
“It’s a difference in culture. What can I say? Unfamiliar cultures often feel fresher and better, don’t they?”
“Is that so?”
Eiran tilted her head, then grasped the teacup handle and lifted it.
Chelsea carefully lifted the tea saucer with both hands.
She brought it to her nose, smelled the aroma, then placed it back on the table.
Then, after neatly arranging the teacup, she closed her eyes, lifted the cup, and took a sip.
Click-
“The tea is good.”
Chelsea, who had savored the tea, opened her eyes with admiration.
“Huh? Is there something on my face?”
When Chelsea asked with a puzzled expression, Eiran said.
“I was surprised by how elegant you were.”
“The nobles of the Rodren Empire are strict about etiquette, aren't they? I thought Chelsea wasn't like that.”
At Eiran and Elena’s words, Chelsea made an embarrassed expression.
“Normally, I just drink it, but coming to a place like this makes me observe etiquette.”
Because the interior of the elf-style tea house was very luxurious, Chelsea naturally observed etiquette.
“Hmm? So you were a young lady from a noble house. Just like her.”
Luna looked at Rena next to her.
Rena also savored and drank the tea just like Chelsea.
It was not a skill practiced only once or twice.
Perfect, unblemished etiquette.
Watching that, Chelsea made a peculiar expression.
‘That’s Rodren-style etiquette.’
It wasn't an imitation, but the etiquette of someone who had been educated since childhood.
Just then, Rena, whose eyes met Chelsea’s, smiled with sparkling eyes.
It was as if her face said, ‘I did well, didn’t I?’
As Chelsea made a strange expression upon seeing that.
“Just by looking at her, she’s my granddaughter.”
Elena said with a gentle smile.
Chelsea glanced sideways.
“See, she’s cute because she resembles me.”
“You said she looked arrogant when you first saw her.”
As Chelsea pouted her lips, Elena smiled gently.
“Doesn’t that even resemble me?”
At those words, Eiran wiggled her fingers and said.
“Well…… since she has the appearance of an elf, it’s also possible she’s my granddaughter……”
“This is just a disguise.”
Rena replied, touching the tip of her pointed ear.
“Ah! I see.”
Eiran nodded.
Seeing Eiran, Elena tilted her head.
“Why doesn’t your face look disappointed?”
“Leo-nim is the king of a nation, isn’t he? Don’t kings have many wives?”
“What?”
“Even if Miss Rena isn’t my granddaughter, wouldn’t there be a child born between Leo-nim and me?”
At that, Chelsea made a dumbfounded expression.
“Moreover, no matter who it is, the fact that Miss Rena was born means……. that the future Leo-nim no longer sees the women around him as children, right?”
Elena, who heard that story, looked at Rena with a slightly sullen face.
“Does your grandfather-to-be go around messing with this woman and that woman in the future?”
“It’s a secret.”
Rena smiled gently and brought her index finger to her lips.
“And I could also be Eiran-nim’s granddaughter.”
“What?”
“Because elf blood flows in my body, for one.”
Chelsea's mouth opened and closed silently, and Elena lightly frowned.
“Of course. My father could also be someone with elf blood flowing in him.”
“She’s completely playing with us.”
Elena pressed her temple firmly.
“So? Who is your grandmother?”
Chelsea asked directly, frowning.
At that, Rena blinked her red eyes.
“Are you confident you won’t be shocked?”
“…….”
Chelsea, who had looked slightly tense at that, nodded.
“Yes.”
“It’s Illiana-nim.”
“What?!”
Chelsea gasped in shock and sprung to her feet.
At her reaction, Rena smiled brightly.
“It’s a lie. Who my grandmother is, is also a secret.”
“Kiiiieeeek!”
Chelsea made an enraged expression.
Seeing that, Rena burst out laughing.
“By the way, is it okay to just tell information like this that could change the future?”
As Eiran cautiously asked, Chelsea narrowed her brows.
“When you think about it, isn’t this a hero’s world?”
It was a plausible hypothesis, but Elena shook her head.
“If so, they wouldn’t approach us like this, and……. given that there’s no change in our emotions, it’s not a hero’s world.”
At the three people's words, Rena sipped her tea.
“My coming here is ultimately magic. The future won’t change or anything. I also factored in the possibility of my identity being revealed when crafting the magic spell.”
Luna, who heard Rena’s explanation, tilted her head.
“Rena. You suddenly seem to have changed your personality a little?”
“Yes?”
Rena made a slightly bewildered expression.
“Hmm…… rather than a change in personality……. you seem to be treating us more intimately than before, don’t you? The distance has disappeared.”
“That, and you also seem to have matured?”
Eiran blinked her large eyes and tilted her head, and Elena also made a puzzled expression.
At that, Rena feigned complete ignorance.
“I want to go sightseeing outside more.”
Just then, Luna stood up and said.
“Ah, I’ll go with you too.”
“We’re going to where the pervert is, so come there.”
Luna smiled gently and exited the tea house.
“Pervert?”
When Eiran tilted her head, Chelsea answered.
“I think she’s talking about Brother Leo?”
“Ah ah…….”
Eiran understood and awkwardly nodded.
“Anyway, a granddaughter……”
“I’m really curious whose granddaughter she is.”
As Eiran and Chelsea rolled their eyes back and forth.
Elena stroked her chin.
“Hmm. Anyway, that human. It means I can make him fall for me if I try, right?”
“Senior Elena is very proactive.”
“Yeah. I’m the type who’s not satisfied until I get what I want. Anyway, how should I seduce that human?”
As Elena was pondering.
“Well……. in books, they feed people medicine to seduce them. Couldn’t you make him take something like that?”
“…….”
“…….”
Elena and Chelsea looked at Eiran.
“Eiran. Magic-like medicines from those unhealthy books you read don’t exist in human society.”
“What? Mis…… no, wait! There’s no such thing as a love potion?! They appear so much in novels?!”
“……Of course there isn’t.”
Chelsea sighed softly.
Elena looked at Eiran, who was drooping her ears and making a disappointed expression, and thought.
‘Come to think of it, she seems like the most dangerous one.’