Chapter 273: Questions
“Ehh!? S-Siana-chan, that’s scary! Pulling out a sword all of a sudden, what’s gotten into you!?”
Elizalina put on an exaggerated show of surprise.
Up until just now, since Lux had been there, even if she felt angry, she couldn’t let it show, but…
This was Siana’s own room, and Lux wasn’t here, so Siana opened her mouth and spoke.
“I see. So it looks like you want to suffer before you die… then I’ll grant your wish.”
Saying that, Siana raised her sword.
“Eh! Siana-chan, what are you doing!? That’s scary, stop it already!!”
“…”
In response to Elizalina, who kept up her joking attitude to the very end, Siana swung her sword down in earnest.
And just before the blade was about to touch Elizalina…
“…You’d be better off not letting me die here.”
As Elizalina said that with vacant eyes and a flat, inorganic voice, Siana stopped her downward swing.
“If you think I’m going to listen to you begging for your life, you’re mistaken.”
“You are willing to listen… no, you don’t have a choice but to listen, which is why you stopped your hand just now, right?”
Even as she felt discomfort at Elizalina speaking as if she could see straight through her heart as always.
There was no denying her words, so Siana slowly sheathed her sword.
Then Elizalina stopped looking vacant, and her tone returned to normal as she spoke.
“Yeah, it really was a success to deliberately mobilize all the soldiers to guard my room and make it look like I was staying in the royal castle… if it’d been discovered that I was coming here today, there were any number of countermeasures that could’ve been taken.”
If it were inside the royal castle.
No matter how thick the security might be, once that security was breached, everything afterward would be up to Siana.
With just Violet and me, I was confident we could break through no matter how many soldiers there were… but.
Elizalina wasn’t someone who couldn’t see through that strength and confidence.
Rather, she made use of it, deliberately letting Siana and the others misidentify her as being in the royal castle, then boldly came all the way to Count Rodwell’s residence.
Inside the royal castle, she could clean things up however she liked using the authority of the Third Princess, but at the Rodwell residence, that wasn’t the case.
With Lux nearby, they couldn’t resort to violence, and if she tried to force the issue anyway, the one who’d suffer wouldn’t just be Elizalina. Siana would take fatal damage as well.
That’s why Elizalina came all the way to the Rodwell mansion, fully aware that Siana and Violet were here.
“So? You said you’d keep me company, but you’re not done with just that, right? If we went back after only this, you wouldn’t be able to explain it to Lux either.”
“Yes… there are a lot of things I want to ask Elizalina-anesama, but…”
First of all, she continued.
“Earlier, just what were you trying to do with Lux-kun on the bed? Answer me.”
“What do you mean what? Lux’s face was red, so I was going to take his clothes off and check his condition for him… well, the reason his face turned red in the first place was because I was fluttering my chest at him, though.”
The moment she heard that, and imagined the scene as well, Siana reflexively drew her sword again and pressed it to Elizalina’s neck.
But Elizalina didn’t react with exaggerated surprise like before, and spoke in her usual manner.
“Alright, then it’s my turn to ask Felisiana something next!”
“No, Elizalina-anesama, you don’t have the right to ask questions.”
Siana said that as she moved the sword in her hand a little closer to Elizalina.
But Elizalina showed no sign of being shaken as she replied.
“Ehh? That’s not fair. In things like this, you’re supposed to take turns asking properly!”
“…”
Even though the possibility of her being cut was extremely low.
Despite having a sword pressed to her neck, Elizalina’s completely normal demeanor made Siana feel the same disgust she always did.
And then, toward Siana like that, Elizalina asked with a serious expression.
“I’ll get right to it… Felisiana, do you think you can make Lux happy?”