“……Huh?”

Lizbeth, as if bewildered, opened her mouth wide and then burst into laughter.

“Really… Miss…”

It was then. The woman who had gone to the room where the children were instead of coming out suddenly jumped from the second floor. She had a protective barrier around her body. Sesenia, who had been looking at Lizbeth, clapped her hands toward the woman.

“Congratulations on the safe escape.”

“Are you really crazy?!”

The woman, who had been moving listlessly like someone with no will to live, suddenly made a loud noise with an expression that had never been seen before.

“Thanks to the fire, the magic circle on the floor was destroyed. You should be thankful that you were able to escape from there, shouldn’t you?”

“That’s…!”

“How do you know about such things? Why are you asking me such questions?”

Her complexion didn’t look good as she looked at Sesenia.

“But is now the time to ask such questions? It’s better to escape before the owner who found out that the magic circle was broken comes back.”

“Where are the kids!”

“If I were going to tell you that, I wouldn’t have done this in the first place. Honestly, if you’re not bound by the magic circle, you can run away. So, why not run away while being thankful?”

Looking at the strangely confident Sesenia, Lizbeth chuckled, but Sesenia didn’t even look at Lizbeth. She was too busy looking at the woman.

“Isn’t it?”

“…….?”

“Are you afraid of the future? Are you afraid of becoming a fugitive because of this? But you see, even if the kids were alive, even if they safely went to the Salmon Kingdom, you would have been killed.”

At that, the woman shouted as if waiting.

“What do you know!”

“The appearance of an orphanage that seems about to collapse. The floor was strangely clean in a dusty place like that. The orphanage teacher who doesn’t care about the kids at all. Only she cares about the head of the orphanage. And I said earlier, ‘If you’re an Empire citizen, no, if you’re a person running an orphanage on Imperial land, you should follow the law,’ but you didn’t even comment on that part. So you realized that you’re not from this country.”

“That’s… That’s absurd. You can’t possibly figure out everything from just that, can you?”

Sesenia chuckled.

‘I could never do that.’

If she hadn’t seen the past, Sesenia wouldn’t have known anything. The fact that there was an orphanage here, and who the twins in this place were.

She had heard about those kids when she was the empress, but she couldn’t have known in such detail. Everything was learned thanks to Lizbeth. Other than that, it was what Sesenia had expected.

‘Judging by that woman’s reaction, it seems that everything I thought was correct.’

“If you don’t want to believe it, you don’t have to. But you must know that you don’t have much time.”

“…….”
“Go to the Imperial Tower. They will accept you no matter how you were born there.”

“You want me to rely on the Imperial Tower right now!?”

“What else can you do? You, who have no power at all, you who have no one to help you, what other way do you have to survive?”

Her piercing words caused the woman’s complexion to harden.

“Don’t put up unnecessary pride. To survive, you have to rely on someone else’s country’s tower. Besides, as long as you have power, anyone is welcome at the tower. It won’t be that bad.”

If the Salmon Kingdom’s royal twins went to the tower, they would have a bad life, even if it wasn’t an experiment. But this woman was different. She was a magician with a reasonable amount of power. And she was someone who wanted to seek refuge in another country because she wasn’t safe in her own.

She would be a suitable talent for the tower.

“…….”

Thinking that saying this and that here wouldn’t benefit her, the woman bit her lips hard.

The twins were gone. Even if they looked for them, there was no way they could find them. She knew how difficult it was to bring the twins here. They were the Salmon royal twins who had barely been caught after escaping.

‘I can never catch them. If I do that…’

From the beginning, there was no choice. How Lady Sesenia Vestel treated her didn’t matter, and those things weren’t important.

What was important was that the old magic circle that had bound her here had been broken. She also knew to some extent.

Even if the twins safely returned to Salmon, there was a high chance she would die. Just like another friend who took care of the orphanage. She had died that way.

“……Aerianne.”

“Yes?”

“My name is… Anyway… whether you become a Moore or not, you did help me get out of there… So I’ll tell you my name.”

“I hope we don’t meet for good or bad things. I hope I don’t hear news about you from anywhere. I’ll pray for that earnestly.”

That was the end of it. Aerianne, who had finished saying everything, quickly disappeared. She acted as if she were going to find the twins right away, but the probability that she would go to find the twins was extremely low.

Seeing that, Sesenia slowly moved on in the carriage.

“Let’s go.”

“Are you okay with this?”

“Sure.”