His Royal Highness System

Chapter 522 510. The accident at the party

The small group in the same class beckoned to Merida, and unlike before when she couldn't use mana, Merida was already on an equal footing with them.Merida joined their circle without flinching.

Cheeks flushed with anticipation and a little anxiety, Merida chatted with her classmates for a while and waited for the parade to start.The remaining parade participants also gathered one after another.

"Wow!"

It didn't take long for an exceptionally loud cheer.

Merida looked over there, wondering what happened; she saw a group of white fairies gathered in a corner of the square.They surrounded the Fairy Queen standing in the center, and praised her excitedly.

"Oh my, what a gorgeous dress!"

"Miss Alice! What's the matter with that suit?"

"...It was prepared by the family."

Seeing the figures of her cousins ​​on the other side of the crowd, Merida couldn't help but let out a "Huh..." voice.

Alice did not come in her traditional St. Friederswald dress.Although the design is almost the same, the high-quality material can be seen at a glance.

Depending on how much light it hits, it will look like crimson flame bird feather textiles, and the flint stones of the fire spirits set into the crown.

Coupled with Alice's own otherworldly atmosphere, other students wearing the same costumes became supporting roles in the blink of an eye.

Although there were also students who gathered around her as if adoring the protagonists of the stage, many girls kept their distance from her in great displeasure.

The second-year seniors standing near Merida stared at Alice with indifferent eyes.

"...What do you think of that?"

"It's not pleasing to the eye."

Hmph──Senior spat from the bottom of her heart as if she felt contemptuous.

"It means she doesn't want to dress up like us. I don't know if she's a knight-duke or something, but she only sees other people as supporting roles.

This set of clothes is obviously an important item inherited from her senior, but she doesn't even care about that...I can't believe it. "

There were the same eyes looking at Alice from all around.

If there is no position like that of senior sisters, Merida really wants to defend Alice and say: "That's not the case!"

Alice wouldn't say that kind of capricious thing.She has been looking forward to wearing this outfit since before, there must be some reason why she can't wear it anyway...

At this moment, Alice suddenly left the circle of students.

"Why, where is Miss Alice going?"

"...The crown hurts a bit, I'm going to put it on again."

After leaving these words briefly, Alice entered an alley.The eyes of the seniors watching her leave were still very strict.

"I hope she just goes away like this."

Melida was really fidgeting, so she ran out to catch up.

"Merida-san, it's almost time to play!"

"Eh? Uh, I'll be right back—!"

After saying that to her classmates, Merida ran to the alley where Alice walked into.

Almost all the residents on the street went out, and no tourists would go to such an uninhabited alley.The hustle and bustle of the festival was in the distance, and the surroundings seemed to be left behind in silence.

So Merida immediately found Alice.Because she heard voices.

"... Woo... Ho... Woo...! Woooo...!"

It's crying!Merida was startled suddenly, and couldn't help but silence the footsteps.

An alley further inside than the meeting place just now.There is also a small square with a tree planted in the square.Alice is sitting in front of a statue that sprays water.

Tears kept falling from the gap between her hands covering her face.

"I really want to wear it... I really want to wear it... I don't want to be alone...! I really want to wear it too... I really want to wear it...!"

Merida stared at Alice from the shadows, feeling her chest being squeezed tightly.

Ever since Merida pushed Alice away and kept her distance, Merida had never seen Alice cry like that.

When they met at the academy occasionally, Alice always had a detached expressionless face, not knowing what she was thinking... Merida didn't try to understand what Alice was thinking.

Alice was crying like that, just like before.Although Alice is very popular with everyone, Melida has never seen a scene where she is very close to anyone.

Could it be that ever since Melida became estranged, she has been hiding in a place where no one can see, crying like that...

Merida unconsciously stepped forward, and the decoration of her clothes rustled.

That breath made Alice raise her head in surprise.

Merida's figure was reflected in the blue pupils swollen from crying, and another large teardrop overflowed.

"...Lea...ta?"

"Love...Eri...that..."

Merida tried to take a step closer to her, just before that──
Boom──Someone came up from behind, as if being pushed by a team.

"Hey, can you go a little further?"

"Ah, right—"

Merida immediately apologized, but she was taken aback.

Not because of the wonderful features of the man standing behind him in a monster costume.

Instead, several people who also had disguises emerged from all directions in the alley at the same time, blocking the exit.

"Huh? What... what... what are you doing!"

Before Melida understood the situation, she was forced to the center of the plaza together with Alice.

They disguised themselves and surrounded Melida and Alice, preventing them from escaping.Unusual by any stretch of the imagination.

"What... what are you doing! What's going on with you!"

Melida yelled without admitting defeat, and the man who bumped into Merida just now put his hand on the hat covering his face.

"What's going on... Does it look like Prince Charming?"

The man lifted his hat, and Melida and Alice standing behind her were speechless.

The outline is indeed a youth, but it is too abnormal to say that it is a human being.The skin of his whole body was cracked like a wilderness, and the lower half of his face was covered with several layers of bandages for protection.

It's as if if you don't do that, the rotten flesh inside will collapse at any time──
Melida intuitively understood the other party's true face, and she unconsciously took two or three steps back.

"Lan Canslow──!"

Just before Merida yelled, the man in the bandage quickly raised his hand high in front of her eyes.

Even though it was just like that, Merida was imprisoned by the sudden drowsiness.Her feet began to unsteady, and she immediately fell to the ground.

Not to mention making a sound, it was difficult to even move a finger.

"Leta! Leta...!"

The last thing Merida heard was the distressed voice of her cousin, and she lost consciousness.

What happened to myself and Alice?How long has it been since then──
The consciousness imprisoned by darkness finally recovered.His head seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, he was still dazed, and his eyelids were heavy.

The blocked five senses came to life at once, and Merida's whole body trembled.The surrounding area is filled with biting cold air.

"What, here is...?"

Melida, who was lying on the icy floor, slowly raised her upper body.

The floor stone polished like a mirror is almost like a hall somewhere.Even small sounds echo loudly.

Pedestals and works of art, large and small, seemed to be piled up here and there on the floor, but the surroundings were too dark to see clearly.

There was no light, and even a few meters ahead were ambiguous.

Merida looked down at her body, she was still wearing the traditional dress of the night of the head ring, she didn't appear to be harmed at all, and she wasn't tied up.

But the right wrist has a strange feeling.Her right wrist was wrapped in a bandage, the pattern of that bandage Merida had never seen before.

Merida immediately tried to tear it off with her nails, but the bandage stuck to her skin inexplicably, and she couldn't pull it off.

(End of this chapter)