Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 13 Episode 2 (section)

===Part 3===
「Was it fine, Listelka-sama?」

Around that time when Lisha and the others were showing their motivation to capture Avalon and take back the Seven Dragon Paladins.

Inside a bedroom in the old castle that existed a few kl ahead, Listelka was stripping off her clothes.

「What is it, Mishis? It’s an unclear question coming from the wise you. I won’t be angry even if you stop acting so reserved you know? Though it will be a different matter if it’s an insult against Fugil.」

Listelka said that with a teasing smile. Her cheeks were faintly dyed red.

Soft white skin that looked like even the circulating blood underneath would become visible.

Long silver hair swaying softly.

And then her purity that was the same like the pure white underwear she was wearing.

The bedroom where Listelka and Mishis were inside was different from the bedroom of Lux and Aeril.

The surroundings and inside of the old castle were crowded with a lot of traps and brutal Abyss, but several safe zones existed. The Abyss wouldn’t get near those zones.

Listelka was able to perceive those zones due to the power she obtained from Baptism──the ability to govern a part of Avalon’s system.

They had gathered food and clothing from each Ruin into that safe zone beforehand to construct a temporary base.

「…………」

Inside that room, Mishis was hesitating with her master’s words before she finally formed her words in the end.

「It might be slightly related. It’s about the permission to entrust him to her highness Aeril.」

「Aah, you mean that Lux Arcadia.」

「Yes.」

The maid Mishis immediately nodded at the voice of imperial princess Listelka.

「Although he has the Wedge put on him, isn’t it a bit dangerous to use him as a pawn? That is what I think.」

「Perhaps so.」

The girl smiled as though playing the fool.

After finishing changing into her sleepwear, she sat down on the bed that had a canopy attached.

「I can comprehend how he can become a central figure even among the Seven Dragon Paladins with his potential that cannot be measured. He is far from being a match against Fugil, but he seems quite competent. Though his appearance looks like an unreliable boy.」

「In that case──why did your highness make that decision?」

Mishis’s question was extremely calm. Listelka lightly stretched herself.

‘Fua……’, she lightly put her hand over her lips and yawned. It was a lovely gesture befitting her age.

「Well, there is also how I chose Fugil, but it is just as I said before, it’s like my present to Aeril. Unlike Hayes, that delinquent girl, she was faking herself for a few months alone and accomplished her mission for us.」

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「…………」

「Besides, I also understand Aeril’s feelings a little. We too are grown women of that age. It is in our instinct to search for the person who will become our pair. Even the imperial princess of the beginning who once reigned in the past──Arshalia was also said to welcome a young man who was called as the White Hero to be her close aide. Originally it was a love of different social status……there is also an aspect to it that seems similar to my feelings towards Fugil.」

「I see, your highness.」

「You still cannot be convinced with only this answer?」

Listelka let out a sigh ‘fuu’ and let herself fell on the bed to lie spread-eagled.

Mishis approached Listelka’s side and put a blanket over her. And then next Mishis calmly formed her words.

「I have a tinge of anxiety remaining. Surely in this capture of Avalon, we will have to pay a considerable effort even for us the Lords. Although we possess enough combat force, it’s also a fact that it will be better to spare some strength in reserve. In that case, I am aware that using him──Lux Arcadia as a pawn is an excellent plan.」

「You are worried for the slightest chance of his collar getting taken off aren’t you?」

When Listelka pointed that out, Mishis nodded briskly with a serious face.

The collar of Wedge would generate electricity if the wearer went against orders, harbored rebellious thoughts, tried to take it off, or if the collar simply got hit by a strong impact. But Mishis was apprehensive to a certain situation.

The content of her apprehension would also become doubt and insult towards the imperial princesses in a sense.

It was something that made her hesitate to say easily.

「Is it the possibility of Aeril betraying and stealing a march on us to control Avalon with him?」

「……!?」

A sentence was spoken from those lovely lips that cut into the heart of the matter.

The content of those words caused even Mishis whose face was like an iron mask to become speechless spontaneously.

It was bull’s eye.

Aeril had been working as a spy away from the Lords for too long a time.

She was blending into the heart of the world alliance so much so that she wasn’t doubted by almost anyone.

The possibility of someone compassionate like her giving help to them wasn’t zero.

「There is no need to worry Mishis. It’s impossible for Aeril to betray us. After all, that child is also the same like me and Hayes. She remembers the tragedy of the past.」

「…………」

「Just what kind of experience we went through because of that family of traitors……when thinking about it, don’t you think it’s foolish to distrust her?」

Listelka let out grief to show on her face seen from the side. Mishis couldn’t say anything to that.

The absolute rule that conquered over the world, the imperial family of the Holy Arcadia Empire.

Due to the rebellion of the family of traitors, the atrocity of the counterattack was running rampant to the extreme.

In the far away past, Listelka and the others escaped the disaster by sleeping inside the hibernation pods for the use of the imperial family, but the hell they acutely went through to reach that point was still fresh in their memories.

She also remembered how a few hundred years later, that pod was discovered by a descendant of the family of traitors and once more she almost got killed, but Fugil saved her in the nick of time.

She could remember them all as though they happened only yesterday.

「Either way, in this world there is no place where we belong anymore. There is only this Ruin, only the pride in the form of the legacy of ruler that our ancestors left behind for us.」

The imperial princess muttered earnestly, her hand touching her chest.

「That’s why, I swear I will obtain Avalon no matter what I have to do. That should be the correct action.」

「That’s──」

「At present, the Wedges are set up so only us, the three imperial princesses, can take them off, isn’t that right?」

Mishis nodded silently.

The Wedges were a part of Avalon. Once it was put on, it was set up so the third electric shock would give instant death as long as the collar wasn’t taken off.

Aeril took off Lux’s collar once in order to reset the electric shock count that had reached two due to Hayes.

Listelka and Mishis also knew about it through hearing it from Aeril herself.

「But regarding Lux Arcadia, the Wedge is already set so even if it is Aeril herself who tries to take it off, an electric shock that will grant instant death will suddenly flow. Even the person who tries to take it off will die from the aftershock of the electricity. That’s why──there won’t be any problem at all.」

「──!?」

Mishis spontaneously felt a chill in her spine seeing that pure smile.

In a glance she was an elegant girl, but she was hiding enough cruelty as a ruler.

Listelka didn’t even tell Aeril how she had changed the settings.

Even in the worst case that she attempted to take off the collar of Lux and the other Seven Dragon Paladins, Aeril herself would also die instantly. She would be executed right on the spot.

「Besides, I have already thought up the countermeasure that I didn’t tell to even my little sisters. The plan of a ruler is arranged in such way that one will win no matter how the situation becomes. That is the basics. If the capture of Avalon advances by the pawn called Lux Arcadia, then one other secret plan that can destroy the world will be carried out.」

「…………」

She didn’t have mercy even toward her own flesh and blood relative by not granting them important information.

And then, she was letting Aeril act while laying out even more traps.

Mishis felt a chill from fear that came from the bottom of her heart.

In that case, Mishis V Xfer who was serving this person could only pray.

That one of her masters, Aeril wouldn’t think to quarrel with this terrifying ruler.

That Aeril wouldn’t do anything like searching for a path that she should walk herself and chose it.