Chapter 426 – 15. A Short Vacation in Hinera Village

“You’re back.”

Knock, thump.

A secret place hidden somewhere in the capital. As soon as I entered the place, I bowed lightly to express my gratitude to the soft voice that enveloped me.

“Thank you, Prince.”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

Oberon seemed to be surprised at me thinking that he would leave as soon as he arrived, seeing the embarrassment in his trembling golden hair and red and purple jewel-like eyes at the polite greeting.

“It means caring for you. Thanks to you, I finished well and came back.”

“Ah. I again… I thought you were going to quit when everything was over.”

As if my guess was correct, Oberon smiled shyly and tapped his finger on her desk. I shrugged my shoulders and told him my true feelings for him.

“I have a lot of family members, so I have a lot to earn… I want to work for the prince anytime.”

“Yeah, it was… “

In my opinion, it was a skill that I could use, but Oberon’s face darkened slightly. A failed drip is a dead drip, I sat down in a chair scratching my head in embarrassment, and Oberon, who glanced at the reception table, quietly stood up and sat across from me.

“Then I must have finished all the remaining work, I must also finish the governor. I had a lot of trouble this time, I can’t guess how many rabbits I caught thanks to you.”

“Is that so.”

Oberon with a really proud face, he bent down slightly, stretched out his hand that he couldn’t reach, and patted my shoulder in praise.

“But I have to tell you that I am worried that saying these things in front of you, who worked so hard, really shows my incompetence.”

“What’s going on? I know you caught Rell without a problem.”

“It’s not like that, whoa, Lel-her, she had a noble who personally sponsored her, and a noble who secretly used her Liberation Army as private soldiers. Unscrupulous people who donate goods, report illegal slaves owned by hostile nobles, and help them plunder their lands.”

Whoa, even thinking about it again, his head hurts. Oberon, who melted as if he was buried in his chair, wrapped his hand around his small forehead and whispered in a melancholy voice.

“There are a lot of nobles involved, and a lot of damage, so it would be unreasonable to give you a grand prize and even hold a small banquet in this situation.”

“I am okay.”

What do you do with a separate reward anyway?

In fact, it’s even more unreasonable for me, an idiot who doesn’t know anything, to interfere in something like a banquet. Now he is working for Oberon, but he only used the shell of his vassal, and there was no such thing as a title, and there were no good rumors.

It would be more comfortable to just eat the honey Oberon gave me and manage Hinera Village, but Oberon scratched my forehead with a sad face and whispered quietly.

“But everything came to pass thanks to you, I want to praise your efforts more than anyone else. Is there anything you want?”

What you want

If you ask too broadly, it won’t come out right away…

Was worrying too obvious? Oberon advised me not to worry too much with a friendly face and a short clap.

“You’ve done so much this time, no matter what I give you, it’s not enough compared to your hard work.”

Are you talking about that?

I only had a few taken out from under Remia, but I looked into Oberon’s endlessly praising eyes, but he seemed to be really sincere and opened me up with sparkling eyes, and I coughed and said I would think about it for now.

“Could you give me a minute?”

“Oh, there is no need to rush, yes, I will wait for you whenever you want.”

“Thank you.”

“And since you’ve worked hard one after another, rest well for the time being. If there’s anything I can contact, I’ll contact you through Arsil.”

“Are you sure?”

Did she arrive? I asked her back, recalling the secret conversation she had with her in bed, and Oberon, her cheeks slightly red, nodded her head obediently and answered.

“I heard they completed the espionage branch in Hinera village just yesterday. On the surface, she is masquerading as a statue of her skin, so you can see her selling her skin.”

“It must be cute.”

“… You are cute.”

Imagining Arsil, holding rabbit skins in both hands and greeting guests with an expressionless expression, a feeling that jumped out without my knowledge. Oberon, who had become swollen, pouted her lips with her sullen face and quietly issued a congratulatory order.

“You want to take a quick break, but it looks like I held on too long. Come back soon.”

The boy…

Oberon, who does not hide his pout, tilted her head, wondering if there was anything to be upset about in the conversation she had just had, but I felt proud that I had become a little closer to him at the first glimpse of her naked feelings.

Still, the bastard shows off his temper?

Oberon’s voice caught me turning my back while I was hiding her blasphemy by clenching her fist.

“Well, shouldn’t congratulations on success keep you energized? So I’m thinking of holding a small banquet… “

“It must be fun.”

“I’m only going to call my close friends, can you come?”

“Of course.”

“I see, hmm, heh, I see.”

“Then, if you call me anytime, I will come running.”

“Even words are reassuring.”

“Then… “

***

Cooong.

The door closed firmly with Cassano’s back.

Oberon, who blankly watched him leave, leaned his shoulders on the chair at the feeling of being popular after clattering an empty glass for a long time.

“You’re here.”

“Did that bastard go?”

“… Why do you keep saying mean things to him? Even you, Lily, can’t tolerate it anymore.”

“What if you are a man? I have to cherish and love only one woman seriously. Where would you give such a guy an honorific title? Am I wrong? Huh?”

“Lily, you were also interested in the handsome servants.”

“… What, who asked? Big!”

Tou-wook, disregarding the lord he served and throwing the prepared object on the reception table, Oberon opened his eyes for a while at her disgraceful behavior, but decided to show mercy as it was the object he was looking forward to.

“What are you going to do if it folds?”

“I don’t want you to cry out so hard to show that bastard something good… “

“It wasn’t even that far… !”

“They say they’ll take care of it and come back, but I’m looking for something wrong like a parrot, wondering if something is going to happen.”

“And that, it’s not like that… ”

Faced with Oberon’s slightly reddened face, Lilia, Oberon ignored his grinning friend’s words and turned into a girl’s face the moment he remembered him.

“It’s not a good look, huh, I didn’t pay attention to it and I couldn’t go back to the village for a long time, so I wanted to give you a prize… “

“Hmm.”

It was definitely a haggard face, but when Lilia remembered Cassano’s face when she first entered the room, Lilia thought that Cassano’s exhausted look was like her brother’s face, just before returning from her vacation.

“That’s why I sacrificed my body for that… “

“Wow!”

-Kooung!

Oberon cut her off by banging the table roughly because of Lilia’s unnecessary words.

He had shown the dignity of a strict prince until recently when he was alone with Cassano, but now he had the warmth of an ordinary person.

Lilia, who watched Oberon happily, smiled even deeper at her words that came out of his mouth and gently hugged her small head.

“It’s not like that, and… It’s just a small favor for him who is suffering.”

“Nia… “

‘You’re so nice, why would you want such a bastard… ‘

Just looking at the innocent Nia makes her laugh, but Lilia couldn’t understand why she had a crush on such a bastard.

‘A man should truly love only one woman, and polygamy is a natural thing here, so I’m not used to it.’

A lifestyle that makes your head spin. Lilia looked at the things she had prepared and looked at Oberon or Nia heading to her dressing room and vowed that she would never give up to that bastard easily.

***

Ugh, to blame!

No matter how many times you go through it, you won’t get used to it, and you won’t get used to it.

Standing tall on the floor, barely stretching my feet, I admired the scenery of Hinera Village, which I had visited for the first time in a few months.

“Don’t go there, go downstairs! Yes, listen there!”
“I heard that a monster I’ve never seen before appeared in the jungle? Really?”
“He pretended to be a human, but he said there was a bounty.”

Opening my eyes wide at the noisy liveliness, the explosive liveliness that I couldn’t feel in Hinera Village, where only prisoners used to live, I swallowed a drool as I watched the newly built buildings and the beastmen who were entangled with humans and gave off the smell of humans.

“Oh, that child… !”

When I was happy watching the lively town streets, a sharp voice shot at the back of my head. The moment I turned my head at the familiar voice, I ran into Minerva, Rachel, and Eruka, who were taking a walk hugging their swollen stomachs.