Prologue
Why did it turn out this way?
“A title for you, and even a fiefdom prepared just for you. Do you see? The lands and people spread out before your eyes, all will be yours.”
A stunningly beautiful woman with long, golden hair shining so brightly it almost hurts the eyes, speaks to me.
“Didn’t I tell you, Swen? You are mine. I can give you everything for your sake. Wealth, honor, power… if you only wish it, I can even grant you the surname ‘Aingardt’. You understand what this means. Neither Lin Bransdor nor Baranga Yuri Aishers can offer you as much as I can, I’m sure of it.”
She looks straight into my eyes…
As if she’s looking at something incredibly dear to her.
“Even if that’s not the case… you can never, ever escape from me. You’ll be with me forever. Since the moment we first met… it’s been a fact, as if determined by fate. Hehe…♥”
Why?
She looks at me with a low laugh, her eyes sparkling like a girl’s, and then she asks me ‘that question’ she always has.
“So… now, bestow upon me your ‘Prophetic Insight’. Can I, Serphina von Aingardt… take this world into my hands?”
Whether I want to or not, once I receive the question, I begin to predict.
I think hard, lost in thought.
Can she bring peace to this chaotic era and become the sole ruler, holding this world in her grasp?
Soon enough, the answer comes embarrassingly simple.
Well, my intelligence is 100, after all.
And then.
I had no choice but to give her the same answer I always had.
“…My lord, you cannot hold the world in your hands.”
Not yet, at least.
Hmm interesting, I hope tis will be an entertaining start