Altina the Sword Princess: Loose Threads by Yukiya Murasaki

Author:Yukiya Murasaki [MURASAKI, YUKIYA]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

Another day—

Eddie arrived at a room in the palace, right on schedule.

“Pardon me.”

“...No need.”

The door opened, and there stood Felicia, perfectly dressed for her part. There was a smile on her resolute face.

“How are your injuries...?”

“Oh, I’m fine.”

Only those who knew the circumstances were gathered, and they spoke at ease to one another. Also in attendance was Lillim. She had more or less recovered, still serving as Auguste’s maid and secretly as her staff officer.

“Prince Auguste, I shall be waiting for you outside.”

“...Understood.”

With a curtsey, Lillim swapped places with Eddie and stepped out into the hall. Her wound still ached, but the antidote had apparently been a success. He couldn’t have hoped for more.

“...It’s because we got you treated so quickly,” Felicia said. “Both you and Lillim.”

“Yeah. If we’d taken much longer, the poison might have proven fatal.”

As much as Eddie didn’t want to thank Damien, the explosion had done a spectacular job at waking the doctors. By the time he had come to, there were people running around, carrying him out of the burning building and examining him.

Dressed in her male attire, Felicia slowly came closer.

“You protected me...” she said.

“That’s my job.”

She was still Auguste to the world at large. On that night, thanks to Eddie’s protection, she had gotten off nearly unscathed and thus protected her identity.

“Watch this.”

She sat down, then slipped a pair of boots over her feet.

“What are those?”

“I spoke to Mother, and she had them specially made.”

They looked just like normal boots, though perhaps a little on the chunky side. Once she stood up with them on, it looked as though she had suddenly grown.

“What do you think?”

“How...? Ah, the soles are raised. I couldn’t even tell.”

“Right?” she said, smiling like she had won a board game.

Eddie once again took her in from head to toe. “That’s incredible. At that height, no one would even suspect you’re a girl.”

“I... never could muster the courage to stand in front of people. But I can’t keep that up forever.”

“Yeah.”

“But if you’re with me, Eddie, I think I’ll be all right,” Felicia said, giving him a hard stare. At her new height, her face was even closer, and now that they were holding back on the makeup used to make her look sickly, her features were all the more beautiful too.

Eddie awkwardly averted his eyes. “Ahem... They never did say how long I was meant to serve as your guard.”

“Would you leave if they ordered you to...?”

“I’d resign, perhaps. And I’d hope—if possible—that my next job treated me just as well.”

Felicia chuckled, putting a hand to her mouth. “Just stay here, okay?”

“As your guard?”

“As whatever you want.”

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