Chapter 217 – #216 Fierce Competition

“Aslan.”

My neck is sore. After I turned 60, if I did something for a long time, my eyes would get blurry and I would get tired quickly. I tapped the back of my neck a couple of times and straightened my posture.

Right before my eyes, supplies for tomorrow were waiting for me.

“Aslan!”

Instead of turning my head, I picked up a heavy rock. If I delayed answering any longer, my voice would get louder, so of course I responded.

“Why, kid?”

The boy puffed out his cheeks at my answer.

“I’m not a kid! How many times do I say my name is Freyr?”

“Then shall I call you Lord Freyr?”

“Tch. Take care of it.”

The child, who grumbled for a moment, came next to me and stuck his head out. This child, who has nothing to do, has become a regular person to come and harass me on odd days since I became someone to talk to.

The boy looked at the table with a curious face.

“But what are you doing now?”

“We are making teaching materials to be used in class.”

“Can’t we just ask each person to pay money and buy it? Why are you making us tired?”

“… It’s hard for commoners to pay tuition. If I suffer a little like this, it will be of great help to them.”

“Hmm. Aslan is a really nice person.”

I moved my hand and placed the stabilized magicite on one side.

Rattling. Rattling.

The sound of magicite being handled softly echoed in my professor’s classroom, which was brightly lit by sunlight.

“Aslan.”

“Why, kid?”

“Aslan doesn’t bother me?”

“…”

There was silence for a moment.

I turned the completed magic stone around and said.

“Having a little boy like you come to visit me every day… Honestly, it’s annoying. But I won’t kick you out. You wouldn’t have any friends without me.”

“Oh, what can I say? Aslan always eats alone, as if I’m the only one who doesn’t have any friends!”

After a while, I suddenly felt a cool sensation in my right arm. I didn’t have to turn my head to know that it was because Freyr was clinging to me.

“Hey Aslan… Thank you for playing with me.”

“Nothing much to say. Instead, tell me to get ahead in life and repay you later. I will definitely get it before I die.”

“Yes! I will definitely succeed and come get you! Definitely!”

***

“Interesting.”

Inside a running carriage.

The fell hound riding with me looked around, and his eyes lit up.

After riding Linnell’s carriage this summer, I realized how important carriages are for long trips and modified my own carriage to increase comfort and space.

Also, it is fully equipped with various necessary items… This was almost like a moving house, not a carriage.

“It’s lightweight magic, buffering magic, and temperature control magic… Dragon magic is indeed convenient in many ways.”

Demons, humans, and elves each have different magic systems. Among them, humans can follow dragons and use spontaneous and orderly natural magic.

Felhound, the Duke of the Demon World, cannot summon things such as water even if he wakes up from death, but he can use space movement magic that distorts space or bypasses the spirit world even with his eyes closed.

Each has its pros and cons.

“By the way, you have a daughter… It’s late, but congratulations.”

“Thank you.”

“Do your family in Cranberry know about this?”

“Haha. You don’t know…?”

Well, it’s difficult to say how. After all, how can you introduce a child who is only one year old and has the appearance of a lady?

When Raina and Bella saw Wol, they misunderstood that she was their adopted daughter.

“Waaah! Wow!”

As I looked towards the back of the carriage, I saw my daughter, Wally, lying on the bed with Naiad.

I couldn’t bear to leave my daughter alone in the capital for over a month, so even though it was dangerous, I was taking her with me.

“A child born to the goddess Themis?”

“Yes.”

“I am half-god and half-god… I will walk the same path as the dragon.”

“I think so too.”

As dragons grow older, they naturally realize the truth of the world and become demi-gods. Maybe my children will go through that process too.

The fell hound rubbed his chin and smiled at the corner of his mouth.

“Really, there are a lot of interesting things going on these days. If you don’t mind, may I check on your daughter?”

“I… I don’t mind watching from the side, but please don’t do strange experiments.”

“You misunderstand me because of what happened in my past life. I never despise life. If you don’t believe me, you can ask Perez. There will be no harm to your daughter, so you don’t have to worry.”

– Just as he said. That philosophy pervert and his minions don’t fight much or cause accidents. They are very moral, permissive, and pacifists, so you don’t have to worry.

‘But how is it that you are the strongest in the demon world?’

I don’t know about the other Demon Dukes, but the first Demon Duke is a strong demon whose name is occasionally mentioned in mythological books.

It is a well-known fact that he is the strongest among the demons except the demon king.

But it turns out that he is a pacifist?

– Well. Isn’t it because my mother put more effort into it so that I wouldn’t have an accident? Ah, when I think about philosophy perverts, I think of Sarah. The torn anus should have healed by now… Write it. Saliva is coming out.

And then my partner jerks his dick.

Surely Perez and I were starving. Unlike in the capital, where I had women wherever I went, there were no women around me now.

-Why not? There is one person.

[Hey!]

A scream came from Woli’s side, as if he had heard Perez’s voice.

When she turned her head, Naiad was startled and saw Wall hiding behind her.

[What are you guys thinking… !]

“Huh? Nyahaha. What are you thinking, Dad!”

… I can’t do that because I have a daughter.

– Why not! Just think of it as teaching sex education at an early age!

[Ke, kale! You’re not planning on doing it where your daughter is, right? Right?]

Beres popped out of my prick and smiled sinisterly. At that sight, Naiad buried her head in Wolgi’s back and trembled.
Thanks to having watched the actions of Veres and I from the sidelines, our notoriety was reaching an all-time high in Naiad’s mind.

“Wow! It’s Aunt Beres!”

“I’m not ajumma. I’m Wol. Try it, sister.”

“Aunt Perez!”

The inside of the carriage gradually becomes noisy. There were only three women gathered together, but it was almost like a marketplace.

The moment I tried to get him to be quiet, the carriage stopped abruptly.

“We’ll rest here for two hours and then move on!”

It was already lunchtime.

“Lord Kael’thas. Shall we go out first?”

“Sure.”

After handing the meal I brought to Wally and Naiad, I step out of the carriage.

The road along the mountain pass was crowded with long trains of carriages and guards taking a rest.

– Sheesh. There are no women around us?

Even a quick glance shows that even those who served were men.

In fact, since they were not going to have fun but had to go to the border area where a war could break out and make achievements, there was no reason for other competitors to bring in elements that could be found fault with.

People were laughing and talking, but also glanced at each other. There were quite a few glances at us.

“It’s already a war of nerves.”

“That will be so. This is something that the emperor himself proposed and approved. The path to becoming one of the top ten in the empire has been opened in no time, so everyone will do it without sparing their lives, even if they don’t know it. There will also be people who use dirty tricks soon. .”

He moves his feet carefully, following the lead hound. We soon arrived at the carriage covered in white frost. It was a carriage carrying Freyr, the Prince of Icecrown.

– There are a lot of people.

Just as Perez said, there were a lot of people gathered around the carriage.

That number is approximately seventy eighty.

The mission given by the emperor this time is to prevent the situation from escalating into war and to successfully conclude the incident.

Since they had to negotiate with the Icecrown side, it seemed like they were planning to achieve maximum achievement in advance by bribing the prince before arriving in Halstenberg.

‘But this is almost a nuisance to the person involved.’

Is that why? The carriage door was firmly closed and would not open. The guards surrounded it like a castle wall and did not leave their positions.

One of the nobles stepped forward and raised his voice.

“It will only take a moment. Make way.”

“I’m sorry. I won’t meet anyone.”

“Uh huh! You don’t know who I am now!”

The soldiers tremble and look at each other.

Although the guards surrounded the carriage and controlled it, it was impossible for a single soldier to blindly stop the nobles.

Although there were some insignificant people such as barons and viscounts, most of them had the title of count.

“Do you want your head to fall off right now?”

“Count. Calm down and step back.”

“Lord Banan. Even though you are my son’s friend, if you block my path one more time, I won’t let you go.”

Even though the imperial knights came forward and tried to stop him, it was no use.

People blinded by greed acted as if they could solve the Halstenberg problem by simply meeting with the Icecrown Prince.

“…”

The escorts wince at the threat and their morale drops.

In the end, a lesser general manager steps forward with confidence…

“Everyone, please calm down and step back. How would you feel if this matter was reported to the Emperor or Icecrown?”

“Ha. Are you threatening us now?”

“Is that something?!”

The nobles thought that they had caught the number and hung on. The general manager raised both hands in response to the people’s anger.

“I can’t believe I’m threatening you. I’m just worried that this incident will escalate the situation. Look at you now. Aren’t you trying to force the Icecrown Prince into a position that he refuses?”

In fact, I also wanted to point out to people what the general manager said. Isn’t he a completely self-centered introvert?

But I quietly watched the situation.

The surroundings were rapidly becoming cold.

– Uh? Why is this atmosphere like this all of a sudden?

Basically, people feel very offended when they are criticized for something, even if they did something wrong.

There are many cases where couples break up because of this, but what if the situation is like now?

“Tsk. You think we don’t know that!”

“Where is the discipline, the discipline!”

Nobles strongly oppose.

It was a good thing I didn’t come forward. As much as possible, I don’t pay attention to what other people think, but since I have to absorb the forces of the 3rd and 4th Empresses in the future, I also needed to avoid being seen as a bit unpleasant.

“I’m sorry.”

Due to the nobles’ recklessness, the general manager eventually apologized to the nobles.

The guards opened the way and the tightly closed doors of the carriage were opened.

I watched them for a moment, then turned and headed toward my carriage.

“Kale. Don’t you stand in line?”

“Yes. Just looking at it, I don’t think we’ll be able to meet within today.”

“Not necessarily today, but the line being created now is a kind of numbered ticket. If you stand in line, your turn will come later.”

Know. But I didn’t retrace my steps.

Rather, he persuaded the fell hound.

“Can you trust me and wait a little longer? If I don’t achieve satisfactory results on this trip, I will make up for it somehow next time and keep my promise. So please follow my decision this time.”

He looked at me blankly for a moment and nodded.

“… I understand. I will trust you and follow you.”

So I returned to the wagon with the fell hound and joined Wol-i, who was still eating.

After that, the procession stopped several times, but each time I never came near Freire.

People started whispering when they saw me like that.

“You say you’re Florian’s hero, but are you a little lacking in ideas? Or are you just not greedy? Why aren’t you going to see Prince Icecrown?”

“Isn’t it because of reputation? It’s probably because it hurts my pride to take the first step.”

“But that’s true, honestly, if you just bribe that prince, the territory will be wiped out in no time.”

Certainly, if Freyr is at the forefront, there will be no war.

Whether she was able to appease her people, or contact her royal family and forcibly suppress public sentiment in her country… In the end, the war would calm down, and the biggest question for her was whose hand she would take after that.
In other words, one of the missions this time is a game of who will win her favor first.

“Damn. I should have brought a girl.”

“How about getting one in the next town?”

The nobles were struggling to win Freyr’s heart.

It was common for precious metals to suddenly pop out of the carriage, and in fact, some nobles even brought their maids to join her in negotiations. It happened because they misunderstood Freyr as a man.

Maybe that’s why, after recently stopping by the village, there was a woman riding in each carriage. Thanks to this, the smell of powder was everywhere during every break.

– Aslan. Let’s buy a girl too. Huh?

‘Hold on.’

– Or at least Naiad’s asshole…

[Hey! Veres, don’t even think about coming close!]

But that intense heat did not last. After about a week, a change came.

– What. The streets are somewhat quiet.

It was like that. The long procession had almost completely disappeared, and the nobles who used to run to the Icecrown Prince during intermission were nowhere to be seen.

The reason was simple.

[Isn’t that kid who plays Freire really crazy?]

– What do you mean?

[I just went to the carriage he was in, and I thought it was some kind of treasure ship. The carriage is full of gold and silver treasures. There were even women bustling around the carriage.]

– Really?!

As soon as I heard it, I got an estimate right away. The gifts from the nobles who had been continuously bombarding with gifts have run out.

Anyway, there is only one request that nobles can make during a meeting.

To prevent the outbreak of war, and later when he stands before the emperor, to tell him that his accomplishments are the highest.

They competed to offer bribes to each other for that, and Freyr took it all in stride.

And after that, as you can see, it was the same as it is now.

The majority of the nobles had disappeared to Halstenberg. He wanted to arrive there before others, understand the situation, and achieve another feat.

The fell hound looked at me and let out a soft exclamation.

“I see. Did you know that this was going to happen in the end, and then you stepped down?”

“Yes. Anyway, the purpose of my trip is not to Halstenberg, but to fulfill my promise to Felhound. Wouldn’t the result be better when it’s quite like this rather than making an introduction at a short notice?”

Of course, even though he said so, he had no intention of giving up on Halstenberg.

If I hadn’t been friends with Freyr, I would have acted like them.

The fell hound took off his monocle at my words and bowed in style.

“Thank you. You are the most wonderful man I know. I will keep this incident in my mind.”

I could feel the Fellhound’s sincere gratitude. Through this incident, he will probably gain greater trust in me.

By the way, it’s about time to get a response from Freyr.

“Naiad. Is Freyr meeting any nobles now?”

[Doesn’t exist. She was chewing ice and grunting with someone who was either a maid or an attendant?]

“You’re swearing at me?”

[Huh? Do you know well?]

– Aslan, let’s go! Sisters are waiting!

I ignored my partner, who was glowing with excitement, and instead sat down with my butt. Perez and Felhound expressed their doubts at the sight.

– Hey, what are you doing?!

“Is it not moving?”

“Let’s wait a little longer.”

– Eh. They say I’m not seeing anyone right now. Let’s go and fuck some village girls or a little guy called Frey!

That’s true, but I sank back into my chair and closed my eyes. The fell hound, who realized my intention, followed me and sat down.

“… I really can’t stop you. Are you saying you are that confident?”

“Yes. He is quite close to Freyr, and if nothing else, he is quite good at handling children.”

Has an extra day passed like that?

While I was making ice cream and eating it while warming up the carriage, I suddenly heard a noise coming from outside.

Suddenly.

“Kale! Are you really going to come out like this?!”

A door that opens wide without knocking.

A white-haired boy looked around the inside of the carriage and raised his eyes fiercely at me… No, woman.

Freyr likes me.

However, if a person thinks he has the upper hand, he tries to enjoy that position.

“Huh? Freyr? Why are you here when you should be at the Academy?”

“Don’t act like you don’t know! I… I was really looking forward to hearing you participate!”

She probably imagined me coming to see her and groveling. Then, she would have pretended to be generous and tried to ask for something.
However, at other times, I had no intention of doing so in situations where there were many regrets, such as having to introduce fellhounds and eat Halstenberg.

In the end, it led to a war of nerves that lasted a full day.

‘… Well, I expected them to come running within today.’

Because 99 times out of 100, kids are anxious.

She was so emotional that she even started crying, but I smiled brightly and handed her the freshly made parfait.

“Eat it. I made it myself in case you came.”

Freire, who was about to throw the parfait aside, quickly snatched it back. She took a bite of it and stared at me with a pouty face.

“But Freyr. If you wanted to see me so much, you shouldn’t have come to me sooner. I’ve been waiting for you for a long time too.”

“What? I… Did you wait?”

“Well! I went to see you once before, but there were so many people… I went here with Kael’thas and came back.”

Freyr immediately blushed her cheeks.

“Well, that’s right.”

I got off the carriage and stroked her head.

The fell hound immediately became calm, like a cat that has been tamed by humans, and looked at me with an amazing expression.

-Anyway, I heard you have a knack for dealing with Aslan kids.

Freyr hums and eats the parfait, as if he is in a good mood. Mew mul. The cheeks puffed out like a squirrel are quite cute.

“It’s Moon. Dad is going to work with Kael’thas for a bit, so if you want to eat more, tell Naiad.”

“Yes, I understand! Dad, I’m back!”

We followed Freyr and boarded her carriage. I felt a little lighter at the thought that I could finally get rid of one contract.