Chapter 60

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In the remaining two soldiers' barracks, there was no hidden room at all.

Edwar said he would go to check on Elizabette with Eugenia, so Olivia and Cyrius decided to return to their room for a while.

As Olivia was writing down the name of the place "Vomosa" she had discovered in the hidden room of the soldiers' barracks, Cyrius, who had returned to his room to take off his jacket, came in. Colin and Ritzburg were with him.

Taylor asked the maid to prepare hot water and began making tea for everyone.

Since there weren't enough sofas for everyone to sit on, they brought chairs from near the window and the bedroom and arranged them around the low table near the sofa.

Cyrius sat next to Olivia, Ritzburg took one of the chairs, and Taylor, who had finished preparing the tea, sat in a chair near Olivia. Colin, saying he couldn't sit still, stood in a place where he could see the entrance to the room.

"The only clue we have so far is the five old maps."

Cyrius said, peering at the old place name Olivia had written down.

"Yes, that's right..."

Olivia said, spreading out a piece of paper she had tucked into the biography of the first king, Batiste I.

"Olivia, what's that?"

"This is a list of the names of the towns that Batiste I conquered before founding Filarus. I've arranged them in chronological order."

Since the ceremony was started by Batiste I's queen, she thought that something related to Batiste I might be a clue, but nothing really clicked.

Ritzburg peered at the paper Olivia had written.

"Should we rearrange the letters?"

"I thought about that, but with so many place names, there are too many possible words..."

"Indeed. ...May I try as well?"

Since Ritzburg wanted paper and a pen, Taylor was asked to prepare them.

Ritzburg, looking at the paper Olivia had written, wrote down the names of the places found in the hidden room in the order of "Kazave, Lusel, Vomosa, Beruche, Queluce" vertically.

Next to each place name, he wrote down the words that could be formed by rearranging the letters.

Olivia, watching this with interest, suddenly thought she recognized a word.

"Karlovequa..."

It sounded familiar, and as Olivia read out the first letter of each place name, Cyrius suddenly looked up.

"No, Olivia, it's Karlovequa!"

"Karlovequa!"

Olivia stood up involuntarily.

Ritzburg also stood up, unable to hide his excitement.

Taylor and Colin tilted their heads, not understanding.

"Miss Olivia, what is Karlovequa?"

"Karlovequa, Taylor! It's an old word... used during the Granoria Empire era, meaning 'library'!"

"Library?"

"In other words, does it mean the sword of selection is in the library?"

Colin asked, nodding in understanding.

Cyrius, holding the paper Ritzburg had written, slowly shook his head.

"We still don't know. Even if there's no sword, there might be some other clue."

"Ritzburg, you didn't measure the size of the library, did you?"

"I skipped the library because there are so many bookshelves."

The library was covered with bookshelves from wall to wall, and there were several tall bookshelves that almost reached the ceiling, dividing the room. Since it was a difficult place to measure, it was excluded from the beginning.

"But, Your Highness, even if there is a hidden room in the library... moving the bookshelves would be difficult."

"That's true."

Cyrius's face darkened at Ritzburg's concern.

Even if they measured it first, the bookshelves would make it difficult to investigate.

"... What about from the outside?"

"Olivia, what do you mean?"

"If it's difficult to investigate from the inside, I thought we could measure the size of the room from outside the castle... by the position of the windows. If someone stands at each end of the library and drops a rope or something from the window, we can measure the approximate width, right?"

They didn't need to know the exact size of the room; they just wanted to check if there was a hidden room. If there was a discrepancy between the scale of the floor plan and the size of the room, a rough measurement would be enough.

"I see. That sounds simple. Let's report to Prince Edwar and Princess Eugenia and get started right away."

"Yes!"

While Olivia and Cyrius reported to Edwar and the others, Colin and the others were asked to prepare a long rope that could be dropped from the second-floor library to the ground.

Olivia, suppressing her eagerness, hurried to Edwar's room with Cyrius.

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