CHAPTER 313: CHAPTER 21 - MY PARENTS EMERGENCY ROUTE

Our journey home went smoothly without a hitch.

Right after entering the Main Mansion’s entrance gate, I saw my father and mother preparing something in the front garden, something that caught the attention of my twin sisters and me.

"Alice... Alyssa... it looks like Father and Mom are doing something interesting in the front garden," I said to Alice and Alyssa, who were watching our parents doing something in the front garden.

The horse carriage we were riding in stopped in front of our parents, who were working in the front garden, which Reina and Mio were also repairing.

Kreett...

After making sure the horse carriage had stopped, I immediately opened the horse carriage door and walked out towards my parents, who seemed to be doing something in the front garden.

"What are you guys doing... Father... Mama?" I asked as I walked towards them with my twin sisters.

Alice and Alyssa followed me from behind, watching as my mother interacted with her magic staff, in her hands.

"Oh, you’re back, Lily," my father said with a gentle smile at me.

"Yes, I’ve come back after picking up the order you made, Father," I replied while returning my Father’s smile with a sweet smile.

"I’m glad to hear that, there’s no problem in that ghost town, right?" my father asked, as if he already knew that the town around Marquess Rommel’s Main Mansion had been deserted by its residents who had fled elsewhere.

"You must have planned this, right? You even requested a Quest at the Adventurer’s Guild," I replied with a sigh that sounded annoyed at my father.

"I’m sorry about this, Lily. I just wanted to show you, this Marquess Rommel’s territory will be fine as long as you go into the forest to find an alliance of a race that is difficult to find," my father said as he raised his hand to stroke my hair.

Caress...

Caress...

For a moment, I felt like a little girl, still growing up, from my own father’s eyes. His caress was so warm that it made me breathe heavily.

"Sigh... I knew Father was doing something crazy. But I didn’t think you would be this crazy," I said in a tone that sounded like I was grumbling.

"Haaahh... you just realized something this crazy from your father, Lily-chan? Rom-chan was quite crazy when he was young, you know," said my mother after she finished drawing something on the ground using her staff.

"Have you realized this, too, Mama?" I asked mother after seeing her finish doing something.

"Amagi, please don’t let our daughters know about the crazy things I did in the past, it’s embarrassing, you know," my father said as he stopped stroking my hair and turned to caressing my twin sisters’ hair.

"Of course, I know about the madness your father did, when he was young, Lily-chan. Even with the madness you did, I understand it even more... because I know where your madness comes from," my mother continued while giving me a wink.

As if teasing my father, I was watching a couple having fun in their free time, doing something together.

I glanced at what my mother was doing and realized that she was making a teleportation magic circle that would be used soon.

While understanding the pattern and shape of this teleportation magic circle, I also realized that this was a teleportation magic circle that could be used repeatedly, as if my father and mother would use this to do something related to things that made them travel back and forth in a short time.

"Are you curious about what Mama is doing?" my mother whispered after suddenly appearing beside me.

I don’t know whether this has become my mother’s habit or whether she just wants to tease me by suddenly appearing beside me like this. I’ve gotten used to her sudden presence like this.

"Yes, this is a reusable teleportation magic circle, right?" I replied, looking at all the magic circles my mother had created.

"Fufu... Lily-chan must be curious about this, right?" my mother replied with a mischievous smile at me.

Seeing her mischievous smile that was trying to tease me, I could only sigh at her childish attitude.

"Yes, I’m curious about this, Mama," I replied after taking a deep breath and swallowing the mischievous given by my own mother.

"Good... because this will make Lily-chan happy. This is a magic circle created for emergency teleportation after the war season between nobles begins. Is Lily-chan curious about the purpose of this teleportation magic circle?" asked my mother with a smile, and made me shiver after seeing her smile.

"Don’t tell me... this leads to a final step that Marquess Rommel will take and break through our moral boundaries as nobles of the Aurora Kingdom," I replied, racking my brain for a reasonable answer.

"Fufu... exactly right, Lily-chan. This emergency teleportation circle will break our moral boundaries as nobles!" my mother shouted with a wide smile on her face, causing my father to clear his throat.

"Amagi, this teleportation magic circle will be used by us to attack the Royal Palace when we are in need. Don’t make this plan sound like a war crime to our daughters," my father said after gently stroking my twin sister’s hair.

"Teehe~ I was just having fun before I got busy with this war season between nobles," my mother replied, sticking out her tongue.

"..." This made me speechless when I thought about the last plan that my parents would do when the situation was critical.

This crucial final plan would have been a lot of fun if all the nobles were busy fighting and Marquess Rommel’s family had attacked the Royal Palace as a last resort.

With no nobles in the Royal Palace, who being busy with the war between nobles, it would make this plan go smoothly if all the nobles were provoked to attack Marquess Rommel’s residence.

A scenario that my father himself had created, even as we were exhausted from fighting off attacks from various noble factions, would make it even more advantageous for us to be forced into an emergency like this.

When they saw the empty Main Mansion of Marquess Rommel and returned to the Imperial Capital, it was then that they realized that the Imperial Palace had fallen into the control of the Marquess Rommel family.

Like it or not, they must attack the Marquess Rommel family, which is equipped with defenses tools from the royal family’s treasure room.

"This is an interesting plan," I muttered to myself after understanding most of the emergency plans my father had put together.

This fun-sounding contingency plan made me smile.

"Hey, Rom-chan, does our daughter really like things that involve destruction? She even smiled happily after hearing about this emergency plan," my mother whispered into my ear.

"Well, Lily must have her reasons for smiling happily like that. If Lily is smiling happily like this, then this is a pretty good contingency plan in her head. I can only hope this one doesn’t go into action," my father replied in a whisper that reached my ear as well.

My heart was a little touched when I received praise from my parents, and it made me even more convinced that this was the right plan to carry out when an emergency occurred.

Squuiisshh...

Squuiisshh...

My mother suddenly pulled my cheek, making me, who was thinking about this plan, turn to her, "Mama?"

Tilting my head, I tried to understand what my mother was doing.

"You don’t have to think about something complicated like this, Lily-chan. It’s Mama’s job to think of secret contingency plans like this and fool some spies who are watching us at the moment," my Mother said while pulling my cheeks and playing with them.

Squuiisshh...

Squuiisshh...

My cheeks, which were being pulled by my mother’s fingers, felt painful.

"Mom, my cheeks feel sore if you pull them like this," I said while my mother was still playing with her fingers to pull my soft cheeks.

Nyuutt...

Nyuutt...

I could feel my cheeks twitching, and it hurt a little after my mother’s fingers pinched my cheeks with a feeling of affection.

"Ah, sorry, Lily-chan’s cheeks felt so soft that it made me forget that Lily-chan could feel pain like this," my mother replied with a smile as if she was joking.

While I was enjoying a warm family atmosphere like this, I was surprised by the appearance of Aiko and Sirius in front of my mother.

"Marchioness Amagi, we have discovered a rat’s nest that has been set up by another party and originated from adventurers who are fulfilling a special order from a place called the Dark Guild," said Aiko, emitting a faint presence that was easily felt by my mother.

"Should we clean them before someone else cleans them, Marchioness Amagi?" said Sirius, who made her presence appear next to Aiko.

While my soft cheeks were being played with by my mother’s fingers, they appeared at the wrong time, until both of their eyes blinked as if they couldn’t believe what they were seeing at that moment.

"Oh, good afternoon, Supreme Commander!" Aiko exclaimed, acting quickly and bringing me back from this awkward situation.

"G-Good afternoon, Supreme Commander?" Sirius said in a somewhat awkward greeting after seeing what my mother’s fingers had done to my cheek.

"Cough! Good job from both of you," said my mother after positioning her body to look like a graceful and wise adult woman.

"With this, we have confirmed that unauthorized individuals are spying on us. In this case, individuals who are not affiliated with the Aurora Kingdom’s noble families and are affiliated with the Dark Guild, am I right?" My mother said, confirming Aiko and Sirius’s scout report.

Nod...

Nod...

Aiko and Sirius nodded their heads to confirm this report.

"Hmm... this will be more troublesome because it involves the Adventurer’s Guild, which has defected from their principle of neutrality in every situation," my mother muttered while thinking about this.

"If it’s from the Dark Guild, then there’s a Cleaner Guild Adventurer who will take care of this. Are they around here?" my mother continued, asking Aiko and Sirius a question.

Aiko and Sirius looked at each other as if they not understood the question my mother had asked.

The question was quite complex and only known by the Adventurer’s Guild, making the two stealth slimes confused, which made me enter into my mother’s conversation with Aiko and Sirius.

"If you mean the Adventurer’s Guild Cleaners, I’ve met them at the Adventurer’s Guild building," I replied to answer my mother’s previous question.

With this answer, my mother seemed to be thinking about something in her head, something related to the Dark Guild.