The Secret Behind the Door / Back to the Village!

When the door opens completely, the guard doesn't know what to do.

Behind him, in the distance, a large safe made of iron with large locks and clearly massive.

Another guard near the safe observes me and is instantly taken aback.

I shouldn't have seen that, I suppose.

"Hey, you can't see what's in here!" The guard in the back says.

The guard in front of me looks terrified.

"Please don't tell anyone what you saw, okay?" The guard closest to me pleads with a shaky voice.

"Okay, okay..." I respond, a little confused by the whole sequence of events...

After that, I turn around and go back up the dimly lit stairs that lead me to the hallway.

What was inside that safe?

Maybe a sea of money?

I don't know. Even so, those guards wouldn't be that scared. They were like I had discovered some secret...

What could make them so desperate like that?

If I think about the possibilities, money is probably the answer, but there are other things that could be there.

During my return, I went to the bathroom that was in the other corridor, as I walked, I kept wondering what was inside that safe.

Maybe money, a powerful artifact, a forbidden book, a magical weapon...

Anything could be there.

However, I didn't keep thinking about it in my head and went to sleep.

...

Birds...

Ugh, it's clear.

Opening my eyes, I see sunlight streaming into the room as the curtains swing.

Today, my family and I are leaving the castle. It was good while it lasted, I felt like a hotel guest.

After my family got together, we had breakfast in the kitchen. Grilled bread with butter and Jaranla juice, a fruit very similar to the orange from my previous world.

After we ate, the king told us that he had prepared a carriage for us at the entrance to the kingdom. We said goodbye to them and went to where our carriage was.

It was a very luxurious carriage, white with blue details on the doors. In front, two horses would guide our destiny. The wheels were large and silver, making them appear shiny.

When we got into the vehicle, a leather sofa and a small table made us comfortable.

But, when the coachman, the man driving the carriage, was about to leave, Ryza hurriedly appeared next to my vehicle window.

"Now that you've met my parents, you can come visit me inside the castle whenever you want..." She says, panting.

"Really? They won't stop me at the entrance?" I ask.

"Of course not, the guards definitely remember your face!" She responds.

I immediately had flashbacks of those guards getting desperate last night, they definitely won't forget my face...

"So it's easier for me to live in the castle!" I say.

"Serious!?"

"I was just joking..." Apparently, she can't understand irony...

"You're hard to understand sometimes, you know that?" She says. "Well, come back safely!"

The coachman then puts the horses to work, and we go to our village.

Along the way, I realized how fast riding a horse is.

I look at my mother, and she is exuding sudden happiness. She's even humming!

"You're happier than usual, Mom..." I say.

"It's the first time I've ridden in a carriage in my life, and to top it off, it's still a royal carriage!" She says.

"I even feel guilty about dirtying this seat..." Richard says.

"Father, buy me a carriage?" William asks innocently.

"Hahaha, if it were that easy, I would have bought one a long time ago." William is a little upset.

Even as the trip progresses, that memory of the safe remains stuck in my mind. It's the kind of thing you can't forget once you've seen it once.