A young girl in a village without protection - Chapter 85

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Selesina was absorbed in reading books in her study with Hisui, confining themselves in there. The reason was to find a solution to what to do with the black tree in the garden. 

She added one more finished book to a pile and gave out a sigh which was so deep and so long. 

“Lady Sele, I know nobody beside me is around, and yet, aren’t you too untidy?”

“Um, but… I can’t find any book that has anything about the black tree!” 

She felt an urge to throw books. 

Looking at Selesina behave like that, Hisui smiled wryly. He admired that she usually feigned to be a graceful lady by hiding her true self. He wondered how no one had ever caught. 

On the other hand, he understood how she felt. 

To their surprise, the black tree couldn’t be pulled out. 

Although Selesina had decided to simply pull it out as long as it was the cause of anything wrong, they couldn’t manage to cut, pull out, or even pluck off its leaves in any way. 

She gave it a try to ask the gardeners not expecting to succeed, and they couldn’t either as she had thought. She made sure they wouldn’t tell this to anyone because it would affect Rinklats’ good name and asked them to cover it with a piece of cloth so that no one could see. 

“…Now that there’s no book about it in the mansion, the remaining options are either in the shrine or in the library of the royal castle, I guess.”

“Right. Let’s go there as I also don’t have a particular plan in the afternoon.” 

“Certainly.” 

All aristocrats were allowed to use the library annexed to the royal castle freely. However, it didn’t mean they could read whatever they wanted since there was a reading prohibition zone. 

Keeping it in mind, Selesina and Hisui were reading books intently. They couldn’t dare to take Toi along as the place was a library. 

‘The necessary procedures to read books in the prohibition zone was too troublesome… I hope we can find the book we’re looking for in the free zone.’ 

One, two, three… Books were being piled up in a heap. 

Though many books written about the great tree were found, most of them were novels and fiction. Others were studies that were rarely related to fact. 

Selesina took a breath after a few hours passed. 

The last book was piled beside her. 

“There isn’t…” 

“No, indeed…” 

Selesina and Hisui gave up and got up from their seats while they sighed in their mind. They had no choice but to go through the necessary procedures for the prohibited books. 

When they were about to apply to the librarian for the procedures, Soratek came into the library. The moment he spotted Selesina, he smiled broadly as if flowers opened on his face. [Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

“Sele!” 

“Lord Soratek…” 

This game’s capture target, Soratek Lily Alvard. 

He is the villainess Selesina’s fiance who is the crown prince of this country with blessings by the God of war Thur. 

Only, the heroine had feelings of love for him. Unless they got together, Selesina would have a harsh ending — her death. 

It seemed Soratek rushed here as soon as he heard Selesina was in the library. 

“Emilio told me he had seen Sele in the library. He should have told me sooner but hadn’t until I finished working.” 

“Oh… I appreciated. Thank you, Lord Soratek.” 

Soratek was very happy because both Selesina and he had been too busy to find time to see each other often. 

But he noticed Selesina’s somewhat a tired look on her face. 

“…For what information did you come to the library?” 

“Well…” 

Selesina couldn’t find words for Soratek’s question. 

How could she tell him that a black tree had grown in the garden…? She felt guilty to get Soratek involved in this undoubtedly difficult matter. 

Then, Hisui spoke out the reason unhesitatingly. 

“Many people have been getting sick since a tree sprouted from a petal of the flower that Lady Meria made bloom on Lady Sele’s great tree.” 

“Hisui!” 

“What!? What does it mean!?” 

Selesina and Soratek’s surprising utterances in different meanings coincided. 

Selesina, Hisui, and Soratek moved to the guest room. Around the entrance of the library wasn’t the place to make a disturbance. 

Selesina could have reproved Hisui for telling the truth, but instead, she accounted in order since Soratek had been there when Meria made the black flower bloom. 

And Soratek put his hands on his head. 

“I wonder how much more trouble can satisfy Miss Meria.”

After he sighed as much as he wanted, Soratek left his seat telling them to wait for a moment. He came back about 10 minutes later with an old literature in his hand. 

It was a book not in modern binding but in tattered paper and string. It looked quite old enough to fall apart easily by handling carelessly. 

Soratek opened the book calmly and said. 

“The tree is probably ‘a never-bloomed great tree'”.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]