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Volume 6 Chapter 2 Part 5

Translation: Kurehashi Aiko
Editing: Team Foxsunes

「This is getting more and more messed up by the minute.」

「Edi?」

Looking up at that man’s beautiful face, his words made little to no sense to me. What was that supposed to mean? But that man never answered me, instead of that hugging me even tighter and offering no further explanation. Instead, what came out of that man’s mouth were not normal words, but the words spoken in the magical language, ancient and nowadays almost nothing but forgotten. The huge magic orb at the end of that man’s cane started to glow brightly, in the same color as that man’s eyes. After a brief moment, there was a bright light coming out of the orb, gently enveloping that man and myself, as well as expanding towards the carriage with the Princess still inside and the knights and the maids.

Being outside of the sphere of that man’s magical protection, the bandits continued to be attacked by the relentless wind and the sand it was carrying. Finally, after a moment that seemed to have lasted for eternity, one of the bandits shouted ‘Retreat!’. After that, the bandits grabbed their injured comrades, mounted their horses and hurried away from the sight.

Soon enough, all of the attacking bandits retreat and disappear behind the huge sand dunes. In response to that, about ten raiders from the newly appeared group separated from their comrades and started to give chase. With the bandits gone from around the carriage, the sandstorm dissipated and some of the sand birds created during this event also started to chase the bandits. It looked really beautiful, but was also quite terrifying.

After a moment or two more, that man swings his staff and dispels the barrier of light that surrounds us all. Even though the worst was seemingly behind us, I could not hear any one of us breathing a sigh of relief. Instead, I knew that we were all relieved, but no one dared to show it off so openly. It was a miracle that we managed to overcome this crisis so quickly, and seemingly without that many losses on our end. That being said, I could not stop the droplets of cold sweat to drip all over my body. Ahh, I see. I know why that is. It is because deep down inside I was afraid. But for now I try to endure the feeling that was rising inside of me, one that was urging me to hug that man back really tightly in order for me to feel safe. Instead of that, I look over that man’s shoulder towards the carriage where the Princess was located.

I could feel that my heart was starting to gradually calm itself inside of my chest, but my mind was nothing but restless still, presumably pumped full of adrenaline. But my state of mind does not matter now. Right about now, the Princess is the one who should be given full priority. When I thought that, I could see that the Princess was just about to gracefully exit the inside of the carriage with the help of Heinrich and one of the maids. Even at the time of such crisis she would not lose her composure and grace.

 Seeing that the Princess, our living jewel, was alright and unharmed, the tension instantly drained from our bodies, and right now everyone let out a sigh of relief, with the maids and even some of the knights dropping onto the sand, their legs seemingly too weak from all the emotion to support them. Those who could still stand dropped on their knees as well before the Princess. The group of raiders that arrived to our aid did exactly the same after getting off their mounts.

However, amongst everyone present, there was only one person who did not get on his knees or did not even bowed slightly before the Princess. A rather petite person with their face hidden by the helmet they were wearing. They were riding the horse with the most ornamented armor, and instead of bowing down they just dismounted their horse with the help of someone who looked to be their servant. Then, that person of unknown sex just casually walked up to the Princess with no hesitation, as if they owned the place.

 「It was a good thing that we happened to be passing by. It seems that the love of the Goddess is a graceful to as ever, Princess.」

 It was a very young voice. No, that was not it. It was a young voice that for some reason did not have a young vibe to it, like it remained unchanged. I also realized that it was the very same person that told us all to lower our weapons. I honestly could not imagine who it could be, so I just looked at that man in confusion while also getting on my knees.

「It was a rather warm welcome, I must say. So warm that in fact you might have overdone it a little bit. The situation was growing to be really dangerous for us all, so thank you very much for your much needed intervention. But I must say, is it not a common courtesy to show your face to the one you are supposed to greet?」

Said the Princess while cocking her head slightly to the side, even in front of that new person keeping up her warm smile and calm demeanor. And once the suggestion about their helmet was made, that person cocked their head on their own while muttering ‘Is that so?’. Then after a brief moment of silence they nodded their head in agreement. I could feel that the atmosphere about that person warmed up slightly. Then they reached their tanned hands towards their helmet and took it off with relative ease.

At that moment, I could hear someone gasping loudly. Perhaps it could have been me, it was entirely possible. Because looking at the face of the petite person, I could not react in any other way but to hold my breath in admiration.

The one underneath the helmet was a beautiful young boy. I know that it might be a huge overstatement, but when it comes to looks alone, he looked cuter and more beautiful than anyone that I have known. His beauty was simply out of the ordinary.

Illuminated by the bright light of the setting sun, his long hair reflected all colors of the rainbow. I wonder, is that only the reflection of the light, or maybe it has something to do with his hair directly? His hair seemed to be almost waist-long, but they were tied in a ponytail and were gently dancing in the weak wind. I also had no idea how he managed to achieve such an effect, but his hair was so lustrous and smelled so good that I was even able to smell it here. It must have been some really potent technique they used, to make someone’s hair look so beautiful and dazzling even in the middle of the desert. But not only his clothes were so dazzling and beautiful. His clothes were made out of lots of colorful cloth, making him look like some sort of exotic bird straight out of tropical islands.

His eyes were as beautiful as his hair was. They were big and bronze in color, so shiny that they seem to reflect the color of the evening sky in them. There was also something else to them, some kind of bright shine that seemed to have conveyed the strength of will of their owner, giving him some sort of almost divine vibe.

Even though the boy looked just like a small child, I think it would be safe to assume that he was at least in his teens. Still, with looks like that, he could make the most beautiful women feel jealous, and in just a few years he was sure to turn out to be such a looker that no one would be able to resist his charm.

Although I was able to tell that this boy looked really young, I got this strange feeling that the way in which he was behaving really contradicted his looks. It might sound even weirder, but I get the feeling that seeing him like that for the first time was like meeting that man or the Princess for the first time ever. Not only his looks were beautiful, but his aura and the atmosphere about him were quite different from all the ordinary people. But even more than that, that boy as a whole seemed to be awe-inspiring.

It also seems that I wasn’t the only one to feel that way about the boy. The surrounding knights and maids were so in awe that the only thing they could do to react was to stare blankly at the boy, while both that man and I only blinked for a couple of times before eventually getting our acts together.

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