The Male Lead’s Sickly Aide is My Type - Chapter 90.1
Chapter 90.1
As the rift closed, the monsters vanished into smoke.
This included both the ones who screamed like demons and the ones who writhed in their final struggle. Soldiers who had been fighting the monsters in the central square looked bewildered. Marta, who had been trying to hide her feelings with a blank expression, also looked bewildered.
Carinne turned around with a chuckle.
What caught her eye was Archen, who was unable to control his body like falling leaves. She hurried over and supported him.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m a little dizzy.”
He muttered.
He blinked slowly, as if he were sleepy, and leaned against Carinne, closing his eyes.
She waited for him to regain his strength, but no matter how long she waited, he didn’t move. It was the same when she shook him. However, he didn’t seem to have lost consciousness. His face wasn’t particularly pale either.
Carinne tilted her head and listened closely, and then she was relieved to hear a faint snoring sound. He had fallen asleep standing up. He must have been very tired from using magic all day.
As she was wondering how to get the sleeping Archen home, Duke Lucas came up and said one word.
“He’s weak.”
“Is that what you should be saying now?”
If it weren’t for the hand-holding Archen, she might have punched Duke Lucas. Iris also ran up and shook her fist.
“Duke, how can you say that?! Don’t you know how hard the aide has been working!”
Duke Lucas eventually retracted his statement. Not only did he retract it, but he also had to help support Archen. As they walked briskly towards the central square, Iris ran up and asked with a curious face.
“But Carinne, what was that? What you said when you cast the protective barrier. The protective barrier… what was it?”
“Ahahaha, it’s nothing, nothing. So, when are you coming to drink tea?”
Carinne awkwardly smiled and changed the subject. No one should know about the activation word for the protective barrier. But then…
“Why are you trying to hide such a cool activation word?”
“….”
“Ah, so that was the activation word? Carinne, did you set it?”
“….”
“It’s an activation word that will go down in the history of activation words.”
She was tormented by Duke Lucas, who was determined to tease her, and Iris, who was innocent, all the way back to the central square. It was a blessing that Archen was asleep and couldn’t hear the conversation.
* * *
After the rift closed, the situation was quickly sorted out.
Marta dismantled the barricades, the injured were transported to the capital’s hospital, and the refugees returned to their homes. All that remained was the aftermath—how to repair the damage caused by the monsters, who would compensate for the loss of life, and so on.
Among them, the most pressing issue was ‘why the rift to another world opened.’
The King held an emergency meeting to deal with various issues related to the monsters. All the regular meeting members were present, and Carinne also attended the meeting as a substitute for Duke Trisha, who was not in the capital.
A few minutes later, the meeting room was heated.
“What’s the conclusion? In the end, no one knows why the rift to another world opened, right?”
As the King snapped, the nobles only looked at each other. As the silence grew longer, one of the nobles adjusted his monocle and opened his mouth.
“According to the records, rifts to other worlds open in unspecified areas once every few hundred years.”
“Why the capital of Esmeril, of all places? Do you think it’s just a coincidence, Your Majesty?”
The nobleman who had answered the King’s question shut his mouth again. Whether the rift was opened by chance or not was a question that no one could answer unless the person who opened the rift knew.
“Or someone deliberately opened the rift…”
Someone muttered in an uncertain voice. Whether it was a coincidence or someone deliberately opened the rift. This was exactly what Archen had said so far.
Carinne pricked up her ears, waiting for what would be said next.
“Is there anyone in Esmeril who can do such a thing?”
“Magic to open a rift to another world is known as forbidden black magic. Even summoning a single monster is not easy, and opening a rift to another world is impossible without a very skilled dark mage.”
It was Duke Lucas who said it. He seemed to have done some research this time, as he didn’t even know what a dark mage was in the last meeting. Anyway, a skilled dark mage can open a rift to another world. Come to think of it, the only dark mage she knew was residing in Esmeril.
‘No way…’
There were too many things that bothered her to just dismiss it.
The novel didn’t feature a chapter related to the rift to another world. If the rift had opened by chance, there should have been a chapter related to the rift in the original story.
However, Carinne has never seen the word ‘rift’ or even the word ‘monster’ in the novel. That meant that the original story had changed because of Carinne, and someone deliberately opened the rift. The fact that the person who could open the rift was one of the top dark mages in the world and that such a person happens to reside in Esmeril…
Was this really a coincidence?
She felt as if she couldn’t breathe when she realized that. The previously denied option gradually revealed itself.
The King noticed Carinne’s contemplative expression.
“Princess, you mentioned before that Saraha might send a dark mage through Irita. Isn’t there a possibility that they sent them through another way?”
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