The Count Family's Young Master
Chapter 26 - To the Border (3)

"Please let him in." Valias and Dylan see Frey making his voice while restoring the king's appearance.

"Your majesty."

A woman in clothes like Mareen makes a low pose. "Thank you for coming. I called you here because there are things to do with your help" Frey said.

"I? Ah, I mean, I'd love to help, your majesty. What should I do?"

Frey pointed at Valias with his right hand. "Be this man's personal mage for a while."

He looked at Valias. "When are you going?"

"Now, your honor."

"Is that so?" Returns his eyes to the mage. "Miss Vetra."

"I understand, your honor. I'll do your orders."

"...Valias."

Dylan mentioned his name when Valias was about to stand up. "Yes?"

Valias looked at Dylan who looked to turn his head with a pouting face and clenched hands.

"Can I come?"

Dylan finally looked back at Valias with his flat face. Valias smiled slightly. "No problem. Is it okay with you, miss?"

"Y-yeah? Yep. Not at all, sir." replied Vetra. Quite surprised by her being summoned all of a sudden.

"alright. You don't have to tell your father?"

Dylan shrugged his shoulders. "No need to bother."

Valias chuckles.

This child's base.

He pointed his body at the crown prince. "Can you tell Duke Adelard, your majesty."

Frey snorted in the heart. Who do you think I am?

Frey gave a friendly smile. "No problem. Enjoy your journey, Valias Bardev."

Dylan had no idea what more impression he would have of the older brother of the person who used to irritate him.

"Can you take us out?" ask Valias.

"Yes? Yep. Sure." Sure." Vetra moved his short stick and light surrounded the three of them. Make Frey back alone in his room.

Carrying both of his hands held his own waist. "Ha.. Is a person like Valias natural to exist?"

BRAAK!!

"Sister! Brother called the mage?–"

Wistar realized the condition of the room he had just entered.

"Where are Valias and Dylan?! Where are they going without me?!"

Frey saw the sister immediately put on a scornful face. "Wissy.. Your friends hate you. They're gone."

"WHAT?!" wistar did not accept. "Dylan hates me but Valias is impossible! Where are they going?!"

Frey grunting. "really. Go awayl. You really don't have a job and just play. Come with Valias. He asked Vetra to take him out of the palace. See if you can catch up with them."

"Sister! My best brother!" Wistar immediately ran out at his best speed. People and servants were made to wonder why the prince ran inside the palace. "TIMES!! WAIT!!!"

Wistar looked at the three of them. Black-haired children, red-haired children, and women with black hair like Hayden in general. The three of them turned their bodies towards him. Wistar looked at the surprised face of the mage but he did not care.

Climbing open windows and flying jumps down. He who was used to playing and had a good physique had no trouble landing on the grass from the second floor after spinning a little and jumping back up before returning to running.

"You.ha.bdua.ha.." Wistar had trouble speaking after all his hunting action.

"Pathetic."

"Y-His highness??"

"Wissie? Is there something you want to say?"

Wistar directly grabbed both Valias' shoulders with his thumping hands. "You.ha.you're supposed to.rest.you.ha..cannot die.ha.."

Vetra was surprised by Wistar's remarks towards the person Frey Nardeen asked him to serve.

...This guy.. is going to die??

Vetra felt his heart cool. Valias has had enough of all the misunderstandings. "Wissy. I'm not gonna die. His Majesty Frey just misunderstood. I'll live long."

He didn't know if his words would be real or not. But so far she's felt pretty good - despite having nosebleeds twice and losing consciousness three times. If Valias' body really had a severe illness, then there was nothing else Valias could do. But for that moment, for people to misunderstand the condition of his body, Valias felt uncomfortable as well.

"You..promise..?" Wistar had already begun to regain his breath regularity.

"Yes, your honor."

Valias will promise even if he doesn't know the future. He had no plans to commit suicide. As long as his plan went as expected, he was sure that everyone including himself would be fine.

Wistar scanned Valias' eyes for a while before releasing both of his hands. "good. You promised. Besides, I'm sure my brother won't let your body die so easily. He will prepare the best potions and medicines in Hayden for you. I won't let you get hurt anymore either. Where are we going?"

"'us'? You wanna come?" Dylan scoffs.

"You're right! Valias! I was busy asking the waiter to prepare the best room for you but you left me instead?!"

Valias. "I forgot. Excuse me. I'm in too much of a hurry."

Valias's smile was awkward. Wistar grumbling. "good. Its alright. I accept your apologies. So then? Where are we going?"

"We're going to meet the elves, Wissy."

"????!!!"

Even Vetra who had been silent since then could not help but round her eyes.

"Valias... You serious?"

Valias doesn't care if everyone doesn't believe him. He's nodding. "Can we go now?" ask him on Vetra.

"Where do you think we should go?" ask Dylan. Keeping the curiosity behind his flat expression. Valias put up a grin. Clapping the journal in his hand slowly.

"The boundary where Miss Vetra was found."

Once again Wistar and Vetra were taken aback.

"You think the elves will be there?" Dylan raised his eyebrows.

The Vetra that became the core of the words just now could not help but make a sound. "....But.. There's nothing? Even if you want to search, elves, wouldn't it be more natural to look for it in a forest that no one has ever been to? They might live and hide there.."

Just saying that feels strange to Vetra. He felt like he was playing a script for the kids.

But at least Vetra states things that make sense. Because of the border that red-haired man—that Vetra had never seen before that—that means is an area filled by stone pillars. It has no place that allows living things to stay for a long time. Especially hiding.

Valias nodded. Understand why the Vetra is trying to make another suggestion. But

"We'll stay there. Can we go?"

Vetra frowned nervously but still obeyed Valias. The light surrounded the four people in front of the palace and the next second they were already in the area that was the border area of Hayden's power. Far to the north, they would see the city of towers. Where the mages gathered and formed their own city. Where the Vetra comes from.

Vetra saw Valias walking away from himself as well as the prince of Wistar as well as someone he did not know.

The red-haired young master that Vetra knew named Valias walked slowly while touching the nearby stone pillars.

The young master opened the book he had been carrying and took a stone from there.

"..Valias? That's..?"

Wistar was astonished to see a stone that was inside a book. The thick sheet of the book seemed to have a deep space that could store the stone neatly.

The three people saw Valias sticking a stone in his hand on a pillar that had a wall space without contents. Valias pulled back his hand. And then the ground around them shook. Dylan and Wistar were quite easy to control the balance of their bodies. But Vetra and Valias—who unsurprisingly didn't have the slightest bit of athleticism in his legs—almost lost balance.

"Miss." Wistar grabbed Vetra's right hand while Dylan grabbed Valias's shoulder which looked the most frail compared to the three of them.

"Thank you." Valias' little smile. He found himself helped by a child six years younger than him. Dylan just looked at Valias flatly.

The pillar seemed to split into two and shifted away from each other. Displays a hole in the ground surface that looks like a nest of dug animals.

"I-this.." Vetra doesn't know what to say.

"....Valias... You're really looking for the existence of that elf..? All this time..? Is this why you disappeared from the Bardev area before finally deciding to return?"

Wistar voiced all the assumptions he made himself. "You.. have come to this place before? By himself? But.. is not possible.Is this why your body is like this? You walked so far.."

Wistar knew clearly where they were and how far it was from Bardev. It would be quite reasonable if Valias had a mage with him. But the number of mages in Hayden was very small. Wistar had never heard of any mage in Hayden who did not choose to stay in the palace.

Then, the location of the border is a location that almost no one has touched. It just so happened that Hayden's knights were conducting their inspections and found Vetra who was resting after using magic moved several times.

"....Now what are we gonna do?" Dylan who was still holding Valias' shoulder asked.

It was completely new to him. A stone pillar that split in two? Only after someone stuck a stone on that pillar? That doesn't make much sense to Dylan.

"..We're going in?" ask Wistar.

"No. We'll wait for them to show up."

Valias patted Dylan's hand gently on his shoulder and sat leaning against one of the pillars with a journal over his thigh.

"....We really just wait?"

tanya Wistar did not believe it. Valias nodded. "You wanna go in there? To a place we don't know at all? Better wait and see what happens."

Wistar, Dylan and Vetra agreed to what Valias said. It was Dylan who approached Valias first before being overtaken by Wistar and the mage.

Vetra stood quietly next to Wistar before being told to sit by the silver-haired prince and the golden eyes. "Miss. No need to stand up like that. Just sit here. You've used enough of your power to bring the four of us here."

Wistar gave a witty smile. Vetra hesitated for a moment before finally deciding to follow the words of the prince Hayden. Feeling himself was indeed quite tired after using quite a lot of his mana.

An awkward silence surrounded the four of them.

"Dylan. This is your first time too, right? Roughly what should we do if the elf— is said like us but with pointy ears—it really appears?"

Wistar spoke to Dylan, who was bounded by Valias, as if he had deliberately shunned Hayden's crown prince's sister. "Shut your mouth. You're gonna bother that elf."

Dylan's cold words locked tightly onto Wistar's mouth. What Dylan said was true. They knew nothing about the elves. Even during this time they only considered the elf as an imaginary creature that an author made before inviting new ideas to other book authors.

But here they are now. Following Valias. Who said that he would meet the elves.

Is correct. Maybe they don't know at all. At least, Valias—which became the root of this trip—may be quite know about them.

Wistar, Dylan and Vetra even thought Valias had been there and done the same thing and met the elf just pretending not to know.

Sruk...

The four of them heard the sound of a landslide.

They come.

That's what's on their minds.

"You guys. What are you guys doing here?"