Go back? There's no going back.

"…What's the specific reason?"

After being asked this calmly by the other party, Su Wei fell silent again.

"Something you can't tell me again?"

This time, after hearing these words, Su Wei secretly observed the First Princess with her brows furrowed, but he did not feel that her mood had dropped too much.

After all... it seems to have reached the bottom, with no more room to go down.

"I said, no matter what happened, you... can try to tell me."

At this time, Su Wei heard the voice of the princess again.

However, after she finished saying this and met his surprised gaze, the princess herself was also stunned, and then turned her head away and added again: "For the time being, you are also a child who grew up under my care... Do you know that?"

"...Well, I understand."

However, being treated so gently, Su Wei felt even more depressed.

He looked at the princess in front of him in silence. She was in such a bad mood, but she was still so calm towards a little Karami like him...

As expected, this gentleman is a gentle person.

No, that's not right.

If you think about it carefully, the fact that the princess still cares so much about an employee like herself who has been fired shows that her magnanimity is perfect and impeccable.

This is undoubtedly the temperament that will allow her to become the next queen...

"Well, actually... I want to sign up for the hunter training camp in the royal city as soon as possible, and then become a useful person as soon as possible."

After hesitating for a long time, Su Wei finally opened his mouth.

Although it is not easy to say directly that my goal is to become stronger as quickly as possible, get rid of the label of incompetence, and then find a way to resolve the danger around my mother.

But... there is absolutely no problem in expressing your simple purpose of becoming stronger.

Moreover, maybe it was because the ignorant little Karami in front of him finally became sensible for once, Su Wei clearly saw that after he spoke this time, the princess' mood improved a little.

Although just a little bit.

"You're going to the Hunter... training camp?"

The first princess blinked in confusion, as if because she suddenly heard unexpected words.

"Although the teaching progress in that kind of place is fast, it is too monotonous, the training intensity is high, and the mortality rate is not zero. In the end, even if they pass the training, they will only become a group of hunters who can only do manual labor."

"...If you want to try practicing, the academy under my name is a better choice. The knowledge and teaching there are more comprehensive, and the progress will not be much slower."

Then, perhaps having thought of the nature of the training camp, the princess's eyebrows, which had just relaxed a little, quickly knitted together again: "Moreover, when signing up for those training camps, the requirements for cultivation talent... are very high."

"..."

Su Wei completely understood the hidden meaning of the princess' last words.

Everyone in the First Palace knew that he was a practicing black hole.

And this gentle adult had just reminded him of this in a very tactful way.

However, if Su Wei remembered correctly, the talent requirements for students in the academies in the royal city were even higher than those in the training camps, right?

"Well, I really want to try the training camp after all."

As a self-aware person, Su Wei did not directly reject the princess's suggestion. He just expressed his thoughts again in a tactful way.

After the words were spoken, the entire ward fell silent again.

After being disobeyed twice by a little Karami in just a few minutes, the princess stopped talking and just looked at Su Wei quietly.

As for Su Wei, he became trembling with fear.

He was not afraid that the princess would blame him. After all, he knew very well that this lady was dignified and upright and would never vent her anger on others.

The most important thing is that he was afraid that this adult would be angry.

If a person can make the second benefactor who pulled him out of the quagmire angry... then he is really a jerk.

"Are you so eager to participate in that desperate training camp because of someone on Mount Rosso?"

After an unknown amount of time, Su Wei finally heard the princess' voice again.

However, unlike the cold words expected, it was a question that sounded quite... heart-stopping.

...What's going on.

How did she know that he did it for his mother... No, could it be that the thing he had always wanted to cover up had been exposed from the very beginning?

"……Yes."

After a moment of silence, when Su Wei opened his mouth to admit it, he felt his heart skip a beat.

"I think I should straighten my back and meet her openly."

Their eyes met. Although Su Wei didn't know how much the princess in front of him already knew, he gritted his teeth and nodded.

However, what made Su Wei feel a little relieved was that the princess in front of him did not continue to ask questions.

This time, she just stared at him quietly with her eyes that seemed a little complicated.

"…Yeah."

Hearing these words coming out of Su Wei's mouth and looking at his eyes that were completely determined and no longer wavering, Celsia was in a trance for a moment.

Once upon a time, the little boy who was taken in by her on a whim, who could have lived a carefree life of eating, drinking and having fun, but who always tried hard to learn various etiquettes and always had the courage to bring bad luck to her when she was in a bad mood, seemed to have looked up at her with such eyes.

However, the person he was looking at now was completely different.

"..."

For some reason, the moment I realized this, a feeling of irritation far more obvious than ever before surged into my mind.

"Well, it's up to you."

Raising her hand and rubbing her temples vigorously, the first princess stood up and walked straight to the door of the ward.

"I'm very sorry to trouble you."

Seeing this, Su Wei hurriedly stood up, staggered to his feet, and bowed slightly to the back of the person in front of him.

"…You have to stay here for at least three days, understand?"

An unexpected response sounded in his ears. Su Wei raised his head in surprise, only to see that the princess, whom he thought had left, was standing by the door, staring at him coldly.

“…Yes, I understand.”

"Don't go near that mountain for this month. Do you hear me?"

"Yes, I heard it."

"If your talent doesn't meet the training camp registration standards, come back and find... Elsie."

"……Yes."

***

"Listen carefully to the doctor."

After a while, standing at the door of the ward, watching the princess' back as she walked down the stairs, Su Wei heard another soft female voice.

He turned to look at the maid beside him: "Yes, I know."

"Do you really know?"

However, for some reason, Ms. Elsie, who had always trusted Su Wei, looked at him suspiciously: "You just left the palace for a day and you ran to a place like the Rosso Mountains?"

"...I won't do that again. I...will stay in the training camp obediently."

Looking at the maid who had taken care of him like a sister next door for nearly eight years, Su Wei scratched his hair a little embarrassedly: "Don't worry, to be honest, when I woke up just now and saw the unfamiliar ceiling and no one in the room, I thought I had arrived in heaven. I don't want to experience that strange feeling again."

"Really? Actually, the princess has been staying in the ward. You should be able to see her when you wake up..."

The maid's focus is always different from that of ordinary people. After hearing Su Wei's thoughts, she sighed silently: "I was busy all night last night, and just now, another adult came over there... I just missed it."

"No, I didn't miss it. Didn't I just finish talking to the princess?"

Listening to the maid's sigh, Su Wei was a little confused.

The next second, he felt a slight tugging sensation on the right side of his face, as if it was pinched and pulled by the maid in front of him.

"...Anyway, I have to listen to the doctor's advice, don't be picky about food, and don't stay up late at night. I have to sleep well..."

After habitually changing hands and completing the task on the left side, the maid gave Su Wei some instructions and then went down the stairs in the direction the first princess had left.

"Are you okay?"

Going down to the hall on the first floor, Elsie soon noticed her master, who was leaning alone in a corner, looking depressed.

“…Not very good.”

Hearing the voice, Celsia raised her head slightly.

"Do I look scary today?"

Looking at the maid who grew up with her, her voice sounded a little low.

"No, it's no different than usual."

Elsie shook her head, then as if she had thought of something, she added, "You look even gentler with your hair tied up than usual."

"……Yeah."

After hearing this, Celsia calmed down again and remained silent for a long time.

Now, the hair that was originally tied together and gently fell on her chest has been untied and is spread out again.

Even in her cold green eyes, there was a hostility that was completely inconsistent with her appearance.

Just like the calm before the storm, observing the First Princess like this, Elsie suddenly felt dazed for a moment and felt a slight chill on her back.

She took two steps back silently. After so many years, she seemed to see the bad guy who often snatched her toys and pulled her hair when she was a child.

"There shouldn't be anything else sneaking in at Rosso Mountain these days, right?"

I don't know how much time passed before Celsia suddenly asked this.

"No, under the Queen's order, no other forces have been involved in the past two weeks."

Elsie shook her head.

"Yeah."

Hearing this, the beautiful face of the princess of the empire gradually turned cold in the reflection of the window beside her: "In other words, it can only be that bitch?"

"...Elsie, get ready. I'm going there myself."

Celsia chuckled suddenly as she slowly lifted the hair that fell in front of her forehead and put it behind her ear with her right hand.

A cold smile that could not be called elegant at all appeared at the corner of her lips. She turned her head and looked through the window leisurely in the direction of the Rosseau Mountains.

"I really want to see how shameless she is to be able to charm a little kid she just met for the first time."

Chapter 24: The Queen (Part )

Wangcheng Third Hospital, top floor.

After the two adults who came to visit him left, Su Wei looked at the empty corridor, was silent for a moment, and breathed a sigh of relief.

The heart that had been tense all the time finally calmed down a little.

I feel relaxed and my breathing is smooth.

Even the thoughts that were almost a mess just now began to become clear again bit by bit.

Su Wei was confused by this.

He couldn't understand why he felt so stressed when he met the princess today.

It's obviously never been so outrageous before.

Moreover, when the princess left... she seemed to be in a bad mood.

This is the royal city, she shouldn't... have any problems, right?

After a moment's silence, Su Wei silently shook his head, temporarily dispelling these useless thoughts that had no answers.

Although he really wanted to register for the training camp right now, he had already promised others, especially to the princess, and he couldn't go back on his word.