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At the Royal Library, the situation was just as Kazuya had predicted.

A cold chill made the formerly enthusiastic knights nervous after the old librarian had just finished informing the beautiful princess about her tardiness when she looked for the hero.

"(A change of pace? Preposterous! He's clearly avoiding me!!)" She resisted the urge to grit her teeth as she was still in the presence of a lot of people.

"Do you need anything from the hero-sama, princess?" the old librarian ignored her bad mood and asked the princess sitting on a wheelchair.

If he could, he wanted her to wait in the library so that many of the people here would be willing to dust off the books that have been on the shelves for a long time.

"I will be borrowing a book as well. I need to speak to him about a matter…" Alicia chose a book from the pile that had been separated to have been read and returned by Kazuya before leaving the royal library.

"sigh… While I am glad that you are being proactive in trying to get along with someone, a.s.suming that everyone is supposed to respect and like you is wrong." The old man could only mutter as he watched the large doors she breezed through once again shut.

The meeting with Zwei had taken a bit of her time because of the questions Alicia and her father had posed to Zwei which were not up to their expectations compared to all of the legends of the previous summoned heroes of the past.

Alicia had her doubts about Zwei's words but her father seemed to have believed him more than she would have liked. This had been because although Zwei was under the banner of the Eberbach family, he had once been very close to Benino himself and had been one of the mentors Alicia had as a child.

Benino had said that if Zwei's life had not been saved countless times by Elrich, the old butler would have accepted a position of general that had been saved up for him or the position of being the head of the royal guards.

Of course, with the time that Zwei had spent being under the Eberbach family, Benino was not naïve enough to trust Zwei wholeheartedly. After the meeting, the father and daughter had a discussion about how they should go about and confirm the reports they had just received.

From Zwei's observations, the newly summoned hero had great potential. This potential however, was not towards the direction they had desired.

Although everything had yet to be determined with a hundred percent a.s.surance, the hero himself had taken an interest in the route that they did not want him to be interested in.

The records of each hero had been made up of glorious battles and victories. This is what the Zweifel kingdom had been expecting when they decided to summon a hero for themselves.

Who would have thought that instead of getting the kind of hero that they hoped for, they would get a supportive type who made up a small percentage of the records.

Of course, that hadn't been the only problem. Heroes and their summoners would usually build their relations.h.i.+ps with each other because of the language barrier that would impede them when they first met. The current situation however, was unlike the records that had happened throughout history.

The hero arrived and not only was he able to speak in their native tongue, he had initially been highly aggressive towards his summoners. All the pans they have made on their initial approach had crumbled and they now shared a very fragile and shaky relations.h.i.+p with the unsociable hero who might even refuse to cooperate with their plans.

These worries however, were the problems that were in the back of Alicia's mind.

As one of the people who had been most crucial to the conspiracy of making good use of the hero as their personal and disposable weapon, her importance of the plot had been worsening ever since the first encounter with the hero.

Not only had the hero been unfazed by her beauty. He had been extremely cold towards her compared to everyone else he had been interacting with ever since his arrival.

"(I refuse to believe his act!)" were Alicia's thoughts about the hero's cold demeanor towards him.

This belief was backed up by the expression he made when he first caught a glimpse of her. She had been the first person to see him and vice versa so only the two of them knew what happened before the situation turned to what it had been.

She was the very first person who encountered this hero but after a time of consideration, many of the people that tried to a.n.a.lyze the hero's behavior and reasons for acting like he did had an understanding of his actions. They were quite familiar with such individuals and compared his actions to be the actions very similar to the n.o.bles in the capital.

While this may pose somewhat of a problem, many people did not find this to be much of a problem. The most important thing they had to do now was to gain his cooperation and trust. Things from then on will proceed as planned.

Alicia had similar thoughts which was why she had been receiving more pressure as time pa.s.sed by. The longer the hero stays in their world, the more likely it is that he will need to find a person to confide in.

While the Eberbach family seems to be the most likely to receive this grace, the failure of Sodina's a.s.sa.s.sination turned out to be a blessing in disguise as Elrich himself had been taken out of the picture as he needed to settle things in the territory he had just taken under his wing.

There was now an invisible race within Maynira. With Sodina being stupid enough to antagonize the hero despite her G.o.ddess given advantage, the others were slowly crawling their way to become the one that will be able to potentially control the fate of the newly summoned hero.

"Hmm?" the wheelchair that Alicia had been magically controlling slowly stopped as her peripheral vision caught a glimpse of a head of hair that reminded her of her own.

"That's…!" a sight she had never expected to see immediately caught her attention.

She had been a distance from the gardens but her sight had been sharp enough to spot the unnatural combination of a jet-black haired young man and the golden-haired little girl interacting happily in the royal garden.

The scene was like a beautiful portrait. The handsome black-haired young man was of course the hero who had put her in the wheelchair she was currently on while the little girl who shared the same golden hair was her younger sister that had been scheduled to arrive at the capital today.

*CRACK*

Alicia's hands gripped the armrest of her wheelchair tightly after noticing the expression on the young man's face.

He was smiling towards the young girl. It was unlike all of the expressions he had ever given the people he had met, much more, the current look on his face was something that she should have received on the very first day that he had arrived in this world.

The two were no longer in the secret area where they had discovered. Kazuya had been sitting on the fountain with a stuffed animal sitting on his lap. He was observing the little girl who had a practice sword that was just right for her size as she gave out some practice swings in front of him enthusiastically.

This was not the only thing that bothered Alicia. Her sister had been a known headache amongst the sword instructors of the royal palace as she was known to run away from sessions and disappear. Seeing her enthusiastically doing one of the things she hated in front of a complete stranger irked Alicia.

The magical wheelchair moved swiftly from where it stood and pa.s.sed by numerous servants who could not help but nervously stand aside after noticing the chilly aura surrounding the supposed frail looking princess who was injured at the moment.

"Felicia!!"

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