
Nicholas and Winter rushed outside and saw Duke Leonard now passing through the main door entering the mansion with several people walking in tandem with him.
“Dad, you have returned safely,” Said Nicholas welcoming his father who had just entered the main door.
“Welcome back uncle, Prince Edward, lord Zeyden and ..?” Welcomed Winter to a standstill when she saw some strangers coming with Duke Leonard.
“Oh, I'm Damian and this is Farkas. We both met with master Duke and the others on their way to the eastern forest and ended up coming along on their way. ” said he immediately introduced himself and Farkas when he realized Winter who looked confused because he saw the two of them.
“Include my name Winter who works with master Duke Leonard,” Winter also politely introduced himself, “Welcome to the residence of the Yarnell family, Mr. Damian and Mr. Farkas,” Welcome Winter politely after knowing the identity of the two.
“Why did Aelfric come back here again, did you not take the wrong elf?” asked Nichola when he saw Aelfric who also came back with his father.
“No, he can help us,” Duke Leonard replied telling Nicholas.
“Master, the servants have prepared a resting place and bath water for the guest of master Duke Leonard, please gentlemen rest first.” Said the butler who had prepared everything neatly asking Duke Leonard and the others to rest first after making the long trip.
“You all follow this waiter immediately to go to your respective rest room except Aelfric, we will soon meet Leathina.” Duke Leonard told the others to rest for the exhausting journey and Duke Leonard himself immediately walked towards Leathina's room on the second floor.
“Good Mr. Duke,” replied Aelfric and immediately followed where Duke Leonard went.
The two then immediately rushed towards Leathina's room to immediately heal her who had been asleep for a long time.
“You don't want to rest?” duke Leonard asked the others when it turned out that Edward, Zeyden, Farkas and Damian had not gone to the room the servant had provided for them but they had all followed him to Leathina's room.
“I'm not tired Duke,” replied Edward who is still following where Duke Leonard went.
“I want to check on Leathina,” said Zeyden telling me why he was following Duke Leonard and Aelfric.
“If I am, I would also like to see the state of Miss Leathina's condition now,” Damian wanted to come with them to check on Leathina's current state while Farkas just followed the others without commenting because he didn't know who the person they were talking about right now.
Duke Leonard did not reply, nor did he forbid them to follow him to meet Leathina in his room. Duke Leonard simply returned to Leathina's room without comment.
“Leonard!
The Duchess of Nice cried when she saw Duke Leonard climb the stairs and she herself was about to go down the stairs to make the two of them meet in the middle.
“Nice, how is it?” duke Leonard asked, curious about Leathina's current condition.
Duchess Nice shook her head weakly then looked at Duke Leonard deeply and looked sad when she heard Duke Leonard's question.
“Why?” duke Leonard asked curiously while holding his wife's shoulder.
“Many wounds that appeared on his body due to lying down for too long,” said Duchess Nice finally told what really happened to Leathina during her sleep.
“His wounds often appeared and were also often healed by royal doctors, but this time when the servants cleaned his body they found a larger wound on his back, the wound blackened and deep. I'm just gonna ask Nicholas to go to the kingdom to pick up the royal doctor again.”
“Zeyden, can you use your teleportation magic to go to the kingdom and bring the royal physician here quickly,” Duke Leonard asked Zeyden.
Zeyden nodded in understanding, “Okay Mr. Duke, then I will leave immediately now,” he said then his magic aura began to cover his entire body and when the aura disappeared Zeyden also disappeared.
”Mr Zeyden!!” exclaimed all of Zeyden's subordinates who were in the magic tower upon seeing her return after suddenly disappearing some time ago.
“Your master anywhere, the kingdom continuously sends a warrant to guard the border.”
“Mr Zeyden, some parties request to meet you soon.”
“We cannot decide because Mr. Zeyden is not in place.”
Complaints after complaints and problems that accumulate due to Zeyden suddenly disappear in brackets for a long time continue to appear, his subordinates also unceasingly provide comments and advice to Zeyden. They even swarmed Zeyden to tell him what had happened during his disappearance and made Zeyden's ears ring slightly as his subordinates were very noisy.
“Where's Andy?” ask her while gently scraping her ears with her little finger because her ears still ring.
"Sorry sir?” asked his subordinates almost simultaneously for not understanding Zeyden's nature.
Zeyden who should have immediately solved the problem instead asked Andy's whereabouts without the slightest worry about the piles of documents and letters that he had to read and reply now piled up in his room and had to be immediately completed and send a reply.
“Master is not the case now, the kingdom sent an urgent letter and asked the tower to send a witch guarding the border.”
“Betul, already many times they sent requests to send some witches but we did not dare to reply because Mr. Zeyden is not in place.”
“Master you must immediately ..”
“noisy!!” zeyden was upset and managed to make all his subordinates fall silent for fear of Zeyden punishing them.
“Just send some witches to the border and for now leave aside the letters that the nobles sent to the magic tower, they all must have just asked that I be on their side because they must be making a move secretly.”
“Good sir,” answered them all almost simultaneously then half of Zeyden's subordinates now went to carry out what Zeyden had ordered, he said, but some of them still stayed behind to wait their turn to report the report to Zeyden.
“Where's Andy? You haven't answered my questions.” Zeyden asked once more to his subordinates who were still standing in front of him who looked like they wanted to report something.
“Andy is not in the tower Master, he went to the kingdom to check the state of the queen who is said to be unwell,”
“Andy called by queen?” ask Zeyden again and feel a little strange because Andy seems to be called in specifically.
“Iya sir.”
“All right I understand,”
“Master then, there are some important documents that you should immediately read kare ...”
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Not yet had one of Zeyden's subordinates finished his sentence Zeyden had disappeared back leaving them all to leave them increasingly depressed because Zeyden constantly disappeared without finishing his work first.
“Where is the boy?” muttered Zeyden who is now in the palace looking for Andy's whereabouts.
“Hey, hey.” Call Zeyden when some guards pass him, “You saw Andy? She combed the healing elements of the magic tower that she said was summoned by the queen today?” ask the guard.
“She is now in the queen's castle, lord zeyden.” Upon seeing who called him the guard immediately lowered his head in salute first then answered Zeyden's question.
“Good work, continue your work.” Zeyden then disappeared again in the blink of an eye and now moved to the residence of Queen Juliette to find Andy's whereabouts.
“Where to.” He murmured again when he still did not manage to find the location of Andy's whereabouts.
“Oh, the boy.” He said when from a distance saw Andy sitting in front of Queen Juliette while drinking a cup of tea in the queen's castle garden.
Zeyden immediately walked towards them to meet Andy.
“Tu-lord Zeyden!” andy said stammering as he saw Zeyden walking towards him.
“Greetings Queen Juliette, mother of all the people,” Zeyden said and bowed to pay respects to queen Juliette.
Queen Juliette nodded softly receiving a salute from Zeyden then looked at Zeyden with a dislike expression for having interrupted her conversation with Andy but she immediately covered it with a smile.
“Oh, jeez Mr. Zeyden.” It then welcomed the arrival of Zeyden in a friendly manner, “What made you come all the way to my castle?” he asked his servant to provide him with one seat and another glass of tea so that Zeyden could sit down and join them.
“You do not need to do that Queen Juliette,” Zeyden immediately refused her and asked the maid not to have to give her a chair and tea as ordered by Queen Juliette. “I'm only here briefly Queen, I want to take my subordinates back.” He said as he glanced at Andy who was still sitting neatly in front of Queen Juliette.
“Ka-then sa-I will go queen,” Said Andy who then immediately stood up and walked away from his chair.
“How dare you interrupt my conversation with my guest and even take him away while I still haven't finished chatting with him.” Rejecting the Queen who still does not want to let Andy go, the frightened Andy immediately sits back and looks at Zeyden with a hearty so that Zeyden will help him to stop queen Juliette and release her.
“I'm sorry for my irreverence of Queen Juliette, but unfortunately I have to take my subordinates away now. There are important things we have to finish together.”
“Ka-if be-that's my sa...”
“You! Said the Queen upset, Andy immediately sat back down because of fear.
“What is this because of Duke Leonard's daughter?” Ask Queen Juliette who seems to be looking into something.
Hearing Queen Juliette's words both of Zeyden's brows furrowed and showed an expression that seemed to suspect the queen.
The Queen smiled meaningfully as she looked at Zeyden's drastically changed expression when she brought up Leathina, “So right” muttered the queen who felt she had learned something interesting between them.
“I heard lately Andy, your subordinate is often visiting the Yarnell residence, is he dying or might he really die? I hope that it really happened it would be better if she was really dying and not bothering my son anymore.”
Zeyden, who realized that Queen Juliette was now digging for information from her, immediately smiled back and covered up her displeasure with Queen Juliette for what she said about Leathina just now.
“You should know, I don't like to interfere with such problems. Andy why did you visit the Yarnell family residence?” zeyden asks Andy to break Queen Juliette's belief that she now knows something.
“Last time I was called there to heal some wounded soldiers after returning home from the black forest Mr.” Andy replied, not daring to look at Zeyden or Queen Juliette.
“Well you heard yourself, didn't everyone know that I didn't have a good relationship with Miss Leathina so don't misunderstand Queen Juliette, it will be safer if you are always careful if you want to take action.” Zeyden said with a smile but his eyes were intense to see Queen Juliette who looked like she still wanted to bring something up.
“Zeyden? Mom!” call prince Yardley who coincidentally saw them in the garden and immediately approach those who are seen gathering.
“Your son came Queen Juliette,” Zeyden told Queen Juliette was polite and smiling kindly but the Queen instead disliked Zeyden's smile and just replied with a snort of being annoyed.
“Prince's greetings Yardley.” Zeyden and Andy were almost at the same time to welcome Yardley.
“Oh, Zeyden what brings you to my mother's castle. This is rare.” Prince Yardley said it was nice to see his friend.
“I came to. ..”
“What prince brought you to mother's castle, did you come to see your mother?” Queen Juliette suddenly spoke and cutting out Zeyden's new sentence would answer yardley's question.
“My mother ..”
“Servants get a chair for the prince and bring him a new cup of tea.” Queen Juliette cut off Prince Yardley and forced him to sit down and accompany her to tea with her.
“No, mother there is something I want to talk to Zeyden.” Prince Yardley tried to refuse but his mother still insisted on asking him to accompany him to tea in the park.
As Prince Yardley turned his gaze the other way, Queen Juliette gave Zeyden and Andy the code to immediately leave from there and leave them both, he did not want his son to talk to Zeyden.
“Then I and my subordinates will leave soon, please enjoy your precious time.” Zeyden said goodbye to leave while Andy immediately stood up and walked hurriedly to Zeyden's back then followed Zeyden who bowed before leaving queen Juliette and prince Yardley.
“You just seem to be spending your time having fun with old ladies as long as I'm gone Andy.” Zeyden comments on Andy after walking away from the park where Prince Yardley and Queen Juliette are located.
“Do I look like I'm having fun with an old lady?!” answered andy who was now busy cleaning his face from sweat with his handkerchief.
“Again the humanity all this time you go, why disappear suddenly without telling us. You should know, the kingdom is being shaken now the king and the people from the residence of Yarnell issued a large circular so that the population is always vigilant because the situation is bad. We are all in trouble because you suddenly disappeared.” Andy's chirps are still busy wiping his face with a handkerchief.
“What does the Queen ask you?” Taya Zeyden is curious about what Andy is talking about with Queen Juliette.
“No, I just sat down and haven't talked about anything. You know I was really shocked when suddenly the royal guard picked me up at the tower. But it seems she is interested in the news circulating about Miss Leathina.”
“What news is circulating about Leathina?”
“People all over the kingdom are gossiping that Miss Leathina is now dying after the disappearance of Miss Yasmine, she said it was karma. And even worse they say that Miss Leathina will be dead soon.”
“Hek”
Andy choked as Zeyden clasped his neck firmly.
“Jaga what you said!” zeyden warned Andy.
“A-me, I ha-just answer your question.” Andy replied stammered after Zeyden released his grip and immediately rubbed his neck as it still felt pain.
“Why be sensitive like this after disappearing.” Andy muttered softly as he was annoyed by Zeyden's behavior.
“Why suddenly the queen calls you, when you are just a fool without your abilities.”
“I don't know why he called me, but I'm not stupid ya.”
“What are you doing spreading the word about Leathina? You're the only person who's been in and out of the Yarnell residence knowing how bad it's been.”
“No! Of course not, why would I do such a useless thing. Are you suspecting me now?” andy defended himself when he felt he was a suspect in front of Zeyden.
“Why do you overreact like that if you don't do it. If you react that way when asked, people will probably think that you are the culprit.” Zeyden said he did not care much about Andy's argument because from the beginning he did not have high expectations on his subordinates.
“I said not me! What I did it for. I have a lot of work to do in the tower!”
“Yes, yes, I know! So stop yelling in my ear. You're noisy my eardrum could soon break because of your voice.” Zeyden said after not being able to hear Andy who continued to speak in a voice large enough to make his ears ring again.
“It seems like lately I've been using too much of my power to make me a little dizzy.” Zeyden murmured softly and rubbed his rough face to restore his freshness in order to refocus.
“How is Leathina doing?” ask Zeyden again.
“The condition is deteriorating day by day, two days ago many wounds appeared on his back due to too long lying down. The wound was indeed still curable but if it continued to lie down like that for a long time he could really die. Duke Leonard must find a way to cure Miss Leathina immediately.”
“So it's that bad yeah.” murmured Zeyden quietly after hearing an explanation from Andy.
“Where are we going?” he asked when he saw the aura of Zeyden covering his body and seemed to be about to perform teleportation magic.
Zeyden did not answer Andy's question which seemed confused, then his magic enveloped the two completely and made them disappear in the blink of an eye. the two of them finally left the kingdom and returned to the mansion of the Yarnell family residence.
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