Chapter 197

“Uwah!”

A snowball that should have flown to me, instead hit Cedric’s shoulder.

I was stunned by the sight.

…… How the hell did this happen?

And suddenly, I felt a faint energy surrounding me.

It was a kind of energy that was just like magic.

‘No way…… ?’

I suddenly had a guess, so I turned my head.

Then I saw Jake standing nearby.

“Mir, I just cast a protective spell on you! I did well, right?”

Jake smiled brightly as he said to me.

‘Um, I don’t think it’s just protection magic, is it?’

Seeing Cedric holding his shoulder in pain, I wondered if there was also a magic that rebounded back the force several times what was thrown.

Cedric, who had been staggering after being hit by the snowball, came to his senses and shouted.

“It was you! How can you use magic? No fun!”

“But I couldn’t just watch Mir get snowballed.”

As Jake retorts brazenly, Cedric pauses for a moment, seemingly at a loss for words.

Then he suddenly turned and shouted.

“Then there is nothing I can do! I have no choice but to throw it at you!”

Cedric threw several snowballs at Jake.

Then Jake panicked and opened his eyes wide in surprise.

“…… !”

He had given me protection magic, but it seems that he didn’t have time to cast that kind of magic on himself.

In the end, Jake was hit by a snowball.

After being hit, Jake, who belatedly embodied the defensive magic on his body, shook his head, shaking the snow from his hair.

‘I’ve never seen Jake look like that!’

But somehow, Jake’s eyes on Cedric were more bloody than usual.

I had a foreboding that Cedric would not be safe now.

My prediction was right.

“Uhaha! You couldn’t avoid it! Then take this too!”

A dark cloud appeared over Cedric, who was not aware of Jake’s suspicious energy and was preparing to throw snowballs hard without noticing.

“…… what?”

The moment Cedric recognized the cloud.

It was already too late.

Dropdropdropdrop-

Dozens of pretty snowballs in a perfect sphere fell all at once, aimed exactly at Cedric.

“UWAACCKK!”

Cedric screamed and ran to avoid the snowball, but the dark clouds above his head continued to follow him and poured snowballs.

Only after Cedric was messed up with white snow from head to toe, the snowball attack was over.

“Uhhh, I won’t let you go!”

Cedric was so angry and began to harden his eyes.

Jake said while gazing at Cedric with a relaxed attitude.

“If you want more snow, I’ll make more.”

As a dark cloud formed over Jake’s hand, Cedric was startled.

But Cedric was no longer afraid.

“You think I’m afraid of something like that!”

Like a brave knight, Cedric, who worked hard to make the snowballs with quick hand movements, began to throw snow.

At the same time, Jake sent a dark cloud to Cedric.

In the persistent snowball fight between the two, snowballs that were missed or splattered in the wrong place flew to the other children.

“Ack!”

“Who threw snow at me?”

“What are you doing!”

There was no way the children who were hit by the snow could stand still.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and started to join the snowball fight.

‘…… What is this?’

Of course, in the meantime, the protective magic Jake had made for me was still there, and I was the only one standing peacefully in the midst of the chaos.

‘Phew.’

I walked out of there with leisurely steps and sat down on the bench.

‘I’ll just watch the snowball fight.’

***

After a while, the children who were all covered in snow stopped the snowball fight and returned to their place.

“Gasp, gasp. It’s definitely cold, but why is it hot?”

Cedric who had been running and throwing the snow so hard was soaked in sweat and sat down exhausted.

So did the other children.

Ninaina and Nicholas also abandoned the dignity of the imperial family and were lying on the ground with snow all over their bodies.

“Aahh…… so refreshing. And so tiring.”

It was Ninaina, who was lying in the snow and muttering to herself.

I, who was sitting right next to her, asked cautiously.

“Your Highness, do you want to make a snowman?”

“Snowman?”

The voice, which had been exhausted, immediately came back to life with vitality after listening to my question.

“Are you going to make it together with me?”

Suddenly, Ninaina got up and came over to me, wiping the snow from her clothes.

Her red eyes seemed to gleam with anticipation.

“Yes, let’s make it together.”

I nodded.

‘I took a break from watching the snow fight, so now I can play.’

Then Ninaina was overjoyed and she pulled my hand and headed somewhere.

“Great! Come on, let’s go.”

The place Ninaina headed to was none other than the place where she had placed the items she had brought before to make a snowman.