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Side Story: And Then the Commotion Breaks Out
One day, early in the
morning, Nozomu was visiting Irisdina and her family's mansion at the request
of a maid from the Francilt family who suddenly visited his room in the
dormitory.
He was forced to watch
the unusual scene unfolding in the hall of the Francilt mansion with a
mysterious expression on his face.
"Somia!
Somia----! Where are you----?!"
"Mena, we must
move out! Somia..., Somia is ......!"
Thunderous screams and
angry shouts echoed throughout the spacious mansion.
Nozomu, while holding
his ears due to the sheer volume of what he heard, focused his attention on the
source of these noises.
The screams were
coming from Irisdina and Victor. Irisdina kept shouting Somia's name in
frustration, and Victor was being held back by several servants as he was about
to run out.
"Please wait,
milord, as I said earlier, it is highly unlikely that Young Lady Somiriana has
been kidnapped. Now I need you to be calm and tell me where the young lady went
to..."
Mena asked Viktor, who
was being held down, to somehow calm him down. However, Victor did not seem to
be calm at all, and was struggling to break free of Mena's restraints,
shouting, "There is always the possibility of something happening! "
"U-, umm...
Excuse me, what's going on?"
Nozomu, who did not
understand the situation at all, approached Mena to at least find out what had
happened.
"Oh, Nozomu-sama,
you came. Actually, we haven't seen Somiriana-ojōsama since this
morning..."
"...Ha?"
"Nozomu! Somia,
Somia has suddenly disappeared from the mansion! Do you know where she
is!?"
Somia is missing.
Hearing these words, Nozomu's cheeks tightened.
For a moment, Nozomu
couldn't understand what Mena was saying, but he opened his mouth to ask her
about the current situation in order to get a grasp of it.
"Let go of me!
I'm going to go search for Somia----!"
However, before Nozomu
could ask his question, he was interrupted by the paranoid Victor. He began to
shake off the servants who were restraining him by force.
Victor threw the
servants off with such force that one would wonder where he had the strength to
do so, even though he was a civilian.
After eliminating all
the servants who were holding him back, he rushed toward the front door of the
mansion.
"I have no other
choice. I beg your pardon, sir."
"Hau!?"
However, just as
Victor's feet advanced a few meters, Mena came up behind him and flashed a hand
sword. She knocked him unconscious.
In an instant,
Victor's body, having been knocked unconscious, followed the law of inertia and
gravity and crashed face-first into the floor. He then did two and a half
forward somersaults with great momentum, and was slammed to the floor again on
his back.
"U-, umm. Will he
be all right?"
"Yes.No
problem"
While standing in
front of Victor, who has completely lost consciousness, the head chamberlain,
who was the culprit, nonchalantly replied to Nozomu with a brief answer.
"Umm, is there
really no problem...?"
"No problem at
all."
Nozomu couldn't help
but ask again, but Mena only gave the same answer with a nonchalant expression
on her face.
Perhaps at a loss for
words due to her deftness and unchanged attitude, Nozomu did not question her
any further.
At the same time, she
averted her gaze as much as possible from Victor, who had collapsed.
