Chapter 78: Some Egg

“I didn’t find anything, did you?”

“Weird.”

“It’s suspicious.”

“Brother, what did you find?”

I wonder if I’m the type of person who shows my face that much.　I should have mastered the poker face. I couldn’t hide anything from her.

“Nothing, nothing at all. Look, let’s go to the next place!　There was nothing in this corridor. Okay?”

“Not “Okay”. Just tell me what you found. You’re making me even more nervous. I’m not going to be able to sleep at night if I don’t.”

Yeah, it doesn’t matter. If Chloe can’t sleep at night, it has nothing to do with me.

Perhaps noticing my attitude, Chloe again said, “Gunununuh.” That’s not the kind of face a princess should make.

“Hmmm, I’m going to act like that. If anyone asks me why I can’t sleep at night, I’ll say, ‘I can’t sleep at night becauseI can’t stop thinking about Julius,’ okay?”

“Don’t do that!　They’ll get a weird misunderstanding, so stop!”

That’s not good, Chloe. If such a story were to reach your parents, His Majesty the King and Her Royal Highness the Queen, it would be misunderstood. I don’t want to get involved with such a formal place like the royal family.

I feel like I already have one foot in the door, but if I give up, that’s the end of the game.

“Hey, why do you hate me so much?　I don’t know why, but it’s hurtful!　Come on, Caro, say something to Julius.”

“Huh?　you don’t have to force yourself on Julius if he doesn’t want to ……”

“What a betrayal!?”

What’s wrong with you, Chloe? What’s going on? You look like a different personality somehow …… maybe this is the real Chloe. She’s usually in royal mode, probably living on the edge of her nerves. Because now Chloe is more lively.

“I get it, Chloe. But don’t touch anything in the room at the end of the hidden passage. You never know what’s in there. If you do anything wrong, it could be my neck.”

“Dear brother ……”

I patted Rosalia’s mellow head as she looked up at me with concern next to me. Hearing this, Chloe’s and Caro’s faces grew tense.

“I understand. I promise.”

Following Chloe, Caro also nodded.

You’re not giving up, are you?　Is my head really that worthless?　I feel like I’m going to cry

I came to the wall where the hidden passage continued. I touch the wall, but it doesn’t seem to slip through.

“It’s just up ahead, right?”

“Yeah. That’s right… is there a switch somewhere?”

“I don’t see anything in particular.”

Chloe and Caro are examining a wall made of piled gray bricks. There is nothing special to look at. I invoked my ‘appraise’ skill. Now if you look at the wall, you can see …… Oh, there’s some writing on it. Is it a spell to open a hidden passage?

“Open sesame?　Why this spell!”

At that moment, the brick wall in front of us began to move without a sound. A dimly lit passageway appeared in front of our stunned eyes.

“Hey, Julius, what’s going on?”

I want to ask you the same thing.

“As expected of the reincarnation of Sage-sama.”

“Eh, Caro, is that setup still going on?”

“Brother …….”

Rosalia is looking at me with squinty eyes. That’s it, that’s the look everyone gives you when they are disappointed

“Stop it, Rosalia. Don’t look at me like that!　Also, don’t tell father and mother!”

“I don’t think it’s possible.”

“I agree with Chloe.”

“No way, betrayal!　 wasn’t it the two of You who told me to do it!”

“Well, I didn’t. ……”

“Caro, you’re an accomplice when you didn’t stop them. Give it up.”

“Aww. ……”

Okay, now we’re all in this together. I can no longer be the only one to be hesitant. With nothing to fear, we made our way down the dimly lit corridor. The walls seemed to glow faintly, so we didn’t trip.

After a short walk, we arrived at a small room. This must be the place where my “Search” skill had responded. It was just a square room with a small pedestal in the center.

“What is that?”

“Chloe, don’t touch it.”

“I know.”

The four of us went to the pedestal in the center of the room. On the pedestal was something that looked like a pure white egg. At a glance, it looked like a chicken egg.

We looked at it from a distance with trepidation. It was an egg of some kind, no matter how we looked at it.

“An egg?”

“It looks like an egg, doesn’t it?”

“It looks like an egg, but what is it ……?”

“Brother, if I warm it up, will it produce a chick?”

Will a chick be born?　I don’t think so,…… and it looks like it’s been abandoned for a long time, so I don’t think it will be born.

“I wonder if they aren’t ingredients for a magic potion?　Maybe it could be used to make some amazing magic potions.”

When I said that, the egg reacted with a jerk.

“Hee! I just saw the egg move!”

Chloe clung to me. Hearing that, Caro and Rosalia stuck to me too. I wonder if they’re snugglers?

“It’s just your imagination, Chloe. Now that we’ve solved the mystery, let’s go home.”

As I was about to leave, pretending that nothing had happened, this time it moved left and right in an easy-to-understand manner. I let out an inarticulate voice and the three of them clung to me with tremendous force. It was painful.

“Julius, something is wrong with that egg.”

“I know. Let’s run away!”

“lets escape! I feel like it’s coming after us!”

“I’m scared, brother.”

I’m scared, too. What is that assertive egg? Yes, it’s times like this when I need to use my “Appraisal” skills. There is always one truth!

Holy dragon egg: waiting to hatch. It can be made to hatch by channeling magic power. By hatching, a master-slave relationship can be established.

Let’s run away now. This suspicious little room! There is always one truth. I smell trouble. This smells like trouble!

Just when I had made up my mind, there was a change in the egg.

“Oh, my God, the egg is flying!”

“Whoa, whoa, what do we do?　What do we do?”

“If the egg falls, it’ll break!”

The three people who had just been startled by the egg began to panic. They had just been startled by the egg earlier, but they seemed to have forgotten about it already. Perhaps they are feeling sorry for the egg that was all alone? Maybe this is just motherly instincts.

…… Hey, isn’t that egg flying toward me somehow?

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