Book 3: Chapter 48
Thud. I threw a pebble at a window. Then, after waiting for about 10 seconds, a figure appeared on the other side of the windowーbehind the thin curtain. Thud. Thud. Thud. I threw three more pebbles. The curtain was then parted open and Her Highness Anastasia appeared.
She opened the window and I slipped in.
The illumination from the magic lamp made the interior of the bedroom stand out.
Her Highness’s bedroom was about the same size as Muge-san’s warehouse, and a canopy too big for one person alone sat in the center.
『My heart is thumping.』
Her Highness wrote on a memo paper.
There was a reason why I visited Her Highness Anastasia’s room late at night. To pull out Her Highness’ skill orb. If this fact is ever revealed, I can say bye-bye to my head, so I wore a hood deep over my eyes and wrapped a piece of cloth around my mouth. I looked like a cat burglar no matter how you looked at it.
Her Highness, who expressed she was thrilled, was wearing a light blue silky dress. Nightwear, I suppose… The lives we live are way too different. The nightwear seems to be more expensive than the formal wear I borrowed at the guesthouse for the audience.
That made the bandage wound around her neck all the more painful to look at.