“Even in the underground library of the ‘We have prepared a dinner for you at the palace. How about you join us and enjoy it?”
‘Ah.. I really want to attend, but I have something important to do, yes!’
‘That’s too bad.’
Right before leaving the castle, a duke among the Automatic nobles tried to grab Yooseong as a representative, but Yooseong politely declined.
It wasn’t really because there was something important to do, but because the dinner prepared by the Automatics wasn’t food for humans.
The Automatics, who burn whatever they eat with the core heat in their internal organs to use as energy sources, eat things that can be used as firepower instead of food for living creatures.
In other words, high-energy sources such as magic stones, oil, and coal, not food for humans.
Since they have some understanding of humans, they must have prepared food that Yoo-seong could eat.
Since the Automatics don’t know what food tastes like, there are times when they can’t match the saltiness and sweetness of the taste, or when they put in things that people shouldn’t eat because they don’t know, so Yooseong wanted to avoid meals.
‘Whew…’
Yoosung, who came out of the Iron Road Royal Castle, sighed and ran his hand through his hair.
Ancient Magic Nation, the ore I was looking for wasn’t there. I asked Iris to search for the mineral with the keywords [Mana compliance higher than Mithril, strength like Adamantium], but it didn’t come up.
If the Information Guild can’t find it, there’s at least hope that I’ll find it someday.
But if it couldn’t be found in the library of the Ancient Magic Nation, it’s highly likely that such a mineral doesn’t exist in this world.
Even though it was an ancient country, it was a country that had achieved an extremely advanced civilization in the fields of magic and engineering that even today’s technology couldn’t catch up with.
It’s possible that the information agency was also created with information gathered from searching the entire continent like a mouse.
‘I’ll be back!’
‘Have fun! Princess!’
‘Yeah yeah!’
While Yoosung was feeling upset, on one side, there was the Pink Princess laughing cheerfully while being seen off by the knights and nobles of the castle.
‘Yoosung!’
As soon as he greeted her, Princess Iris ran briskly and hugged him tightly.
‘Huh? Didn’t we just greet each other?’
‘I’ll take you home!’
‘You… me?’
‘Yes!’
Iris confidently shouted. It was already past dusk and the night sky was slowly getting darker. But the princess, who was less than half his height, was insisting on taking him home.
‘Absolutely not.’
‘Isn’t it dangerous to walk at night?’
‘Who would say that…?’
Yooseong looked at Iris with a dumbfounded expression. However, Iris still had a smiling face and showed no sign of backing down.
Although she was sad when they parted ways, she had never insisted on going with him.
Yooseong, who felt that she was different today, nodded, thinking, ‘Who would dare touch a queen-class automatic?’ and thinking about Iris’s always frustrating situation in the castle.
‘Hand!’
At that, Iris even offered her hand.
Since Yooseong hates walking with someone on the street, he absolutely refused to hold hands, but she was always the one who let him use the underground library.
Princess Iris.
‘Okay. I guess I should do this much. Heh.’
‘Let’s go.’
‘Yes!’
Yooseong held Iris’s small hand and they started walking across the drawbridge toward Metallica’s shopping district.
‘Wow… Everyone is moving busily!’
Just as Iris said in surprise, the people in the shopping district.
The merchants were moving busily and organizing their items.
The busiest times for merchants were the early morning hours when they opened their stores and the evenings when it started to get dark.
They prepare their items in the morning and organize unsold items at night.
There were hardly any people on the streets, and the only stores open were bars and entertainment districts.
Yooseong covered Iris’ eyes slightly as she looked around curiously, and quickly started walking out of the shopping district.
…As expected, they don’t recognize Iris.
I was worried that there might be a commotion if someone found out about Iris’ true identity. However, the merchants I met on the street and greeted her only looked at Iris with curiosity at her appearance or asked if she was their girlfriend or daughter.
They had no idea that Iris was the queen of this country.”
Even though she had hidden her crystal crown, considering Iris’s appearance was incredibly unique, it would be more accurate to say that she didn’t recognize her rather than that she didn’t know who her country’s queen was.
YooSeong knew who the queen was because she had many connections to Iris, but not ordinary citizens.
Most of the anti-automatic faction magic engineers who had seen Iris’s face the most (through the rebellion) had either gone into hiding or left the country, and among the pro-automatic faction people, only three Meisters had seen Iris.
‘Come to think of it, didn’t you say that you can’t leave the castle alone?’
‘Iris… Now that I think about it, how are you out there? I think you said that a queen-class automatic can’t leave the castle…’
When YooSeong asked, Iris, who had been absentmindedly looking around, said,
‘When you’re next to the warrior (master), you can act freely for a while!’
‘Why…?’
It was an answer that Yoosung didn’t quite understand. He had already disassembled and analyzed an automatic once, so he knew very well how strong the restrictions inputted into them were.
If an order had been inputted not to leave the castle, then unless something broke down, they wouldn’t be able to leave no matter what.
However, Iris, who had been told not to leave for thousands of years, was now walking alongside Yoosung.
As a magic engineer before being a transmutationist, this was a phenomenon he simply couldn’t understand.
‘Why are you staring so intently? Did you finally fall for me..?’
‘No.’
Yoosung, who didn’t know that he was set as Iris’s master, couldn’t figure out the answer.
Yoosung, who had been playing along with Iris’s pranks, entered a dark alley where the workshop was before he knew it.
‘This is where Yoosung lives?!’
‘Huh. There.’
As Iris followed the tip of YooSeong’s finger, she moved her gaze.
‘…’
A very crude iron gate appeared. Iris stared blankly at the iron gate for a moment, tilting her head several times before realizing that there was space inside the gate.
‘A house?’
It seemed like a victim mentality, but it was a look that asked how a person could live in a place like this.
‘Actually, if you think about the castle where Iris lives, it’s just like a dog house.’
Yoosung hesitated whether he should ask Iris to come in.
At first, since it was late, he thought about telling her to sleep over if she wanted to, but once he arrived in front of the house, he couldn’t help but think that it would be rude to let Iris, who was a precious princess who had grown up in the castle, sleep in a workshop like this.
‘I’ll go back now.’
However, Yoosung didn’t have to worry about it, and Iris said she would go back on her own.
I guess the workshop was a bit like that after all… He thought.
‘Should I walk you to the castle?’
Yoosung suggested, but Iris shook her head.
‘I have something to do!’
‘Something to do?’
To come to the castle again? Don’t come every day when you have something to do!’
‘You have something to do..’ Yoosung trailed off.
Now that he thought about it, he had definitely only visited the castle to use the underground library or ask the Automatics for help.
‘Okay. I’ll try.’
‘Yes! But do you have—’
‘Only come when—’
‘Promise!’
At the sight of Iris sticking out her pinky, Yoosung slightly bent down to link fingers with her.
Whoosh… He pushed his hand away and was kissed in an instant by Iris, who was on tiptoe.
That’s right. It was a cheek kiss, not a kiss.
Yoosung was dumbfounded by the soft feeling on his cheek.
‘Next time I’ll do it on your lips! Dream of me, warrior!’
Iris waved her hand vigorously and ran into the alley.
And Yoosung, who was standing alone in front of the door, opened his mouth as he watched Iris’s back as she touched her face and disappeared.
‘There… is in the opposite direction.’
The direction Iris was running in just now was not towards the exit of the alley, but towards a dead end.
Although he was briefly worried…
‘Well… if we’re going to catch Iris, we’ll need about three Grandmasters… and she has her own mental network. She should be able to get in on her own.’
Yoosung quickly took his eyes off the alleyway and the back of Iris, which had disappeared, and entered the workshop.
Thump…
The iron door of the workshop closed and not long after.
Squeak-
The door of the herbal medicine store across the street opened and a small figure walked out.
In yeong, who had been standing in front of Yoo-seong’s workshop for a moment and staring at the iron door…
thud.
thud.
thud.
disappeared into the shadows of the alley where Iris had disappeared.
“Heung-heung”
Iris continued to walk further into the dark alley like a child excited to go out after such a long time.
The alley where Yoo-seong’s workshop was located was the most deserted alley in the capital.
As a result, the further in she went, the more eerie the scenery became, with not a single person, not even a single rat, to be found.
“Heung-heung-”
The sight of Iris humming and walking with a bright face felt even more out of place.
Thud.
At that moment, Iris’s steps stopped.
In front of Iris was a dead end alley built up with bricks.
Since it was blocked, she could go no further.
Actually, if she wanted to go, she could have just broken down the wall and gone, but…
“Hello-?”
There was no need to go any further.
Iris, who had been spinning around, greeted her in a lively voice.
“…”
Then, a pair of golden eyes shining brightly in the darkness of the alley looked straight at Iris.
“Hmm… I guess your hobby is spying on others? For a girl, it seems like a bad hobby.”
At Iris’s words, the black figure that had been silently watching took a step forward.
Slowly…
she revealed herself.
Long red side twintails.
Dark circles standing out under her golden eyes.
Her outfit consisted of a red cape, a skirt that matched her hair color, and a shirt with a ribbon, giving her an overall cute and magical girl vibe.
“You… what are you?”
The exhausted face and the fiercely glaring golden eyes combined to create an extremely murderous atmosphere.
“Hmm… me?”
Iris, who was completely oblivious to him and maintained a playful atmosphere.
“I am Iris Queen Ironlord, the princess of this country.
At the same time… am I just a metal doll loved by my beloved master, Meteorite?”
Crack-!
As soon as Iris with her smiling face finished speaking, the sound of gnashing her teeth rang out clearly from Karen’s side.
“That’s not what I’m asking!
I’m asking who the hell you are to Meteorite… why did you put those dirty lips on my Meteorite!”
“You vixen bitch…”
Karen was sure of it.
You were definitely mocking me.
She was saying that she had clearly seen herself standing behind the glass window when the pink-haired fox kissed Meteorite in front of Meteorite’s house earlier.
“My Meteorite… I don’t know what you mean.
Wouldn’t it be more correct to call you ‘your Meteorite.”
“You_!!”
As Karen opened her mouth wide and was about to pour out her words,
“Karen Redleaf, the court sorceress of the Griffin Kingdom.
Be careful with your words and actions?
I am the queen of this country.”
“Tsk…!”
As if the girlish appearance just a moment ago was an act, he pressured Karen with a blank face and a serious expression.
Although he may look like a girl on the outside, he is in fact the ruler who has ruled a country for 3,000 years.
His experience was different from that of Karen, who had lost the political battle between the magicians in the palace and been ostracized (subtly bullied)!
“I… am not affiliated with the Griffin Kingdom.
I have already given up my position as the palace magician!
There is no need to use formal speech with you… because!”
Karen, who did not want to lose, denied her affiliation.
In fact, Karen had abandoned her lifelong goal of becoming the palace great magician solely to meet Yoo Sung, so there was nothing left to tie her down with.
“Ha… is that so?
But what?
“What?”
“What do you want me to do now… Karen Redleaf”
Karen was momentarily speechless at Iris’s question-like tone.
The moment another girl kissed the face of the meteor she loved and adored, her head snapped up and she ran away, but she had neither the qualifications nor the basis to actually question the other person.
The other person is a beautiful woman with a mysterious appearance that makes even a woman like her feel dizzy, and she is also the princess of the country, so she looks so intimate that she even kisses Yoo Sung on the cheek.
—
“Ahahaha! You like me? You like me?”
The only connection with YooSung is that they were former comrades in the warrior party.
Even that relationship was full of ill feelings between the victim (YooSung) and the perpetrator (Karen).
Even Karen herself thought about it, and the other person and herself were incomparable in terms of their positions with YooSung.
“Ugh. I like YooSung! Right now YooSung hates me, detests me, and thinks I’m horrible, but… if I beg for forgiveness and beg again, someday YooSung will…!”
Karen eventually bursts out mentally at Iris’s constant gaze.
She starts muttering in a voice that’s close to nonsense, shedding tears at the frustrating and miserable reality she’s in.
“…Ahahaha!” Iris, who was listening to that, suddenly grabs her stomach and bursts into laughter.
“What… what’s so funny?!”
“Haa. Seriously.” Iris’s face, which had been full of laughter, suddenly turns cold.
Even Karen, an Archmage-level magician who never lost momentum, froze for a moment at the sight of Iris’s cold star-like gaze.
“Karen Redleaf. How could you like Yooseong? Don’t you have a conscience?”
“What does it have to do with you whether I like Yooseong or not?!”
“Even if it doesn’t matter. If you think about what you did to Yoo-seong, you should know that just seeing you hanging around is quite unpleasant for Yoo-seong.”
“Do you know what I did to Yoo-seong, you kid?”
That’s right.
Iris knew almost everything Karen Redleaf, a former member of the warrior party, did to Yoo-seong.
Of course, Yooseong wasn’t the type to tell his story to others, so she didn’t hear it directly from him.
However, since all the Automatics’ eyes and ears were Princess Iris’s sight.
What Yooseong said at the bar.
What Yooseong muttered to himself.
And everywhere else…
As long as Automatic was around, there was almost nothing Iris didn’t know.
“I know too… that you did something terrible to YooSung… but… still…”
“At first, I thought YooSung would take care of it, so I didn’t stop you from entering my country… but if you continue to bother YooSung, the benefactor of our Automatic, like this, I will exercise my authority as the queen of this country and banish you, Karen Redleaf.”
“! ”
The declaration that she was being banished came from none other than the queen of Iron Road, Iris.
“No..! Stop it..! How… how did I come to see Yoo Sung… No… Can’t I… see YooSung?”
Karen wrapped her arms around her shoulders and began to mutter to herself frantically with a dark, dead face.
When the life in her eyes gradually disappeared and she even lost focus…
“Do you think you’re going to make me fall away from Yoo Sung?!”
Ziing-!!!
With Karen’s scream, ten magic circles appeared above her head.
One magic circle can be operated per circle.
Karen is an archmage of 10 circles.
With a total of 10 magic circles, she can simultaneously emit 10 high circle magics.
“I won’t let you go…! Anyone who tries to get me away from YooSung will not let you go!!”
Iris, who is in front of a magic battery that looks like it will go berserk at any moment, lost her mind.
“How arrogant.”
She held out both hands toward Karen with a blank expression that even felt arrogant.
Swoosh…
Then, crystals gathered in Iris’s both hands.
Flutter!
Giant crystal wings spread out behind Iris’s back.
Before she knew it, a crystal crown was shining brightly above Iris’ head and.
Swoosh…
As if to restrain the 10 magic circles that Karen had deployed, ten giant crystal spears spun in the air while scattering particles of light.
“You can’t make a fuss near Yoo Sung’s house. Follow me.”
With those words, Iris soared into the sky.
“There!!”
Karen, whose eyes had already rolled back, also tracked Iris using levitation magic.
At that moment, Yooseong’s workshop.
“If it’s hard to find information about minerals, should I just approach it with knowledge about dimensional transfer?
Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever looked up information about dimensional transfer devices in the underground library.”
Yooseong, lying on the bed trying to sleep, only thought about the *dimensional transfer gate* until he fell asleep.
Kuung… Kuung…
“Hmm?”
Then, as if an earthquake had occurred, a loud vibration and a noise like something exploding continued to be heard.
Yooseong opened his eyes wide and raised his upper body.
“Hey..! You little punks, are you guys doing experiments at night?”
He thought of the demolition-loving elves who were one of Metallica’s pillars, and laid back down in annoyance.
Earthquakes and explosive noises were certainly strange, but they happened often in the capital city of Metallica.
Kuung–Kuung–Kuung–
“Go to sleep… Please.”
Yooseong, who had been unable to sleep recently, muttered to himself and begged…
Instead of going outside due to the loud noise that was longer than usual, he pressed his face against the pillow and tried to go back to sleep.
He had no idea that the vibrations and loud noises he was hearing right now were the aftereffects of the two girls fighting because of him.
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