Chapter 196 – The Liar Knight and Queen Stella

Kwalung!

Is this what it feels like to be struck by lightning in the dry sky?

[You, in me, are cheap.]

[Haha, here, somewhere else, there is nowhere to do.
If you spray it on your clothes, everyone, Haang, Notice, Chae!
Lord, the smell of semen is too strong, heheh?!
So… !]

[Haaang, lord, kamu, the people at the time… !
In me, baby seeds, in abundance, please give me!]

[Ahhhhh… !
Uh, also… Wow, a lot… Ah.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, this…
Man’s… Ah, plenty…
Fill me up… Haaa—.]

Ah…
How long ago were you flying?
Or before that, when Marianne and I were together… ?
Or when you’re about to have a baby or not before that?

… There are too many suspicious circumstances, so I have nothing to say.
Angela isn’t the kind of person who would give herself to another man.
I didn’t even have the time to do that.

This is really definitely my child.
If you are really pregnant then yes.

“Angela.”

Dreuk.

I kick off my chair and go to Angela’s side.

Dump.

“!!”

Get her down on one knee.
She is… She is hiding her hand tightly between her legs.

Seruk. Tup.

I take out both of her hands and wrap them around her.
Just like when we lay down together before.

“Don’t worry.
Everything will be alright.”

“I… I’m new to this…”

“… It’s my first time too, but I mean.
There are many things I have seen and heard.
Let’s get tested.”

“… Didn’t you?”

“Like I said before, I only dated twice.
… At least I’ve never slept with one of them.”

“… Lie.”

“Really.”

“… Your lord is a liar.”

“No. It’s all true.”

“… It hypnotized me and made me feel more about my body.”

“… Sorry.”

“Are you still walking? Hypnosis?”

“No. I swear by the black sun.”

“… But why is it like this?”

“What?”

Place one hand over your heart.
Fine snow.
Her other hand wrapped around mine jumps wildly.

“… But why is my heart like this now?”

The sapphire-colored eyes stare resentfully.
The moistened eyes are like a lake in a quiet spring rain.

“… I guess my feelings have been conveyed.”

“You’re always good at sweet words.”

“Love is originally sweet.”

“… Anyway, you speak well.”

Little sigh.
At that sigh, the wall between me and her, which was like thin ice, seems to crack open.

“I’ll call for a doctor right away.
I can silence you with my hypnosis.”

“No.
Tomorrow is the coronation ceremony, and now all the medical staff have been mobilized to treat the soldiers.”

“I need to check your physical condition first… !”

“Checking for pregnancy does not take precedence over treating wounded soldiers during wartime.
Make a distinction between public and private affairs.”

“…”

Okay.
This is angela
I knew it would be difficult to convince.
It’s beyond imagination.

“Lord.
I heard the operation plan from Duke Dupre.
They say they are going out of the castle under the cover of the Demon King’s Army.”

“… Huh.
The palace is not an advantageous structure for defense.
Except for the northern palace.
Now that Nuvacane has also been captured, the enemies won’t be wasting their time.”

If you catch Stella or Duke Dupre, they win.
Or, if the Stella faction is annihilated here in the royal palace, there is no hope even if the leadership escapes.
It will lose its country and become a government in exile wandering without a promise.
And it will gradually become isolated and abandoned in international relations.

“You have to leave the castle.
Based on a just cause, we have to tour each province and attract nobles.”

Not all nobles and knights participated in the crusade.
There should be forces with meaning in each region.
If you unite them, your army will increase.

“Then, once I leave the castle, I will be inspected at that time.
I will be leaving in a few days.”

I hold her hand tightly

“Don’t overdo it when you go out.
And promise me
I will definitely go with you when I get a checkup.”

“I don’t want to burden the lord.”

“Why is this a burden?”

Angela quietly closes and opens her eyes.

“… I’ll correct it.
I am burdened.”

“…”

“My relationship with my lord is over.
Even if you have children, you will not be forced to do so.”

“Angela. I want to be in charge.”

She slowly but surely shakes her head.

“I am no longer your woman.
Just… Just a Guardian Knight.”

“…”

“I was hypnotized, but once you… I loved you.”

Looks like someone’s breaking my heart

“Then she knew it was sincere.
Your touch, your voice, your body.
All of them are fragrant and sweet.”

Beautiful memories pass by.
Like the scenery outside through the dimensional door.
Like laying out several pictures and turning them over by hand.

“So I wanted to have your child too.
I wanted to hold a child who looked like you in my arms, to be held in your arms.
… It was like that at one time.
Not now.”

Like a drain clogged with wet leaves on a rainy day.
I barely squeezed out the words that I couldn’t get out of the way.
The words that came out were so sloppy that it was like wringing out a towel dried in the hot sun to contain water droplets.

“… Angela.
A child needs a father, and you need me.”

I was cut down by Angela’s words.

“It is unnecessary.
I have my family, and I have a manor.
I can give birth and raise as many times as I want by myself.”

Her tongue stabs my lungs sharper than a ghost sword.

“You don’t have to worry about economics alone.”

“I don’t want to forcibly reconnect a broken relationship because of my child or because of people’s eyes.”

“I want to connect.”

“I don’t like it.
… That you meet me because of the child.
That I meet you because of my child.
It’s forced.
It is unreasonable.”

“Know.
To be reunited this way, it’s just a wound.
I also want to be connected without anything between you and me.
However… If you have a child
I don’t want to leave you alone.
I loved you even without children, and I still love you.”

“… I don’t believe it.”

“You said your heart was strange earlier.”

“It’s just a whim.
They say having children makes you feel weird.”

“But why are you crying?
Is that because it got weird too?”

In the end, a single tear like spring rain falls down from the moist eyes.

“This is just… It’s because it’s unfair that I’m the only one who’s been hurting.
It means never, ever.
I hate you
It’s annoying to see you face to face.
Made me like this… Anger rises.”

They say an overly strong negative is a strong positive.

“You liar here.”

“No.
I am a Knight of the Valentine family.
Be sure to keep what you say.”

… Don’t say that in tears.

Don’t do it while squeezing my hand.

I don’t know what to do

“Okay.
Instead, if you get out of here and join the relief forces, come with me to the doctor.
Yes, I really want to go with you.
I don’t like to leave you alone.
You must have suffered all this time alone.
Huh? I’ll erase the doctor’s memory after the treatment.
For your safety, come with me.”

“…”

“And you may not be pregnant.
Menstruation is simply delayed, or vomiting is due to stress.
Or imaginary pregnancy.
I’ve seen all kinds of things around me for 200 years.
Especially in a stressful environment like war.
In this case, let’s get a checkup and think about it.
Don’t worry too much in advance.”

Angela closes her eyes at my words.

“… All right.”

… While unknowingly stroking her lower belly with her hand,
I mean, don’t keep saying it’s okay.
Doesn’t look good at all
Why do you keep insisting?

I reassure Angela by talking about this and that.
He knelt beside her on one knee, at eye level with her, and holding her hand.

She looks at me with her rain-clouded lake eyes.
My heart ached because I felt like I had become rain.
So I stayed there longer.

Until she lays in her bed.

“You must not lie down now.
Prepare for emergencies…”

“The alarm will go off with magic.
There is also a five-minute atmosphere.
Instead of you, I’m going to stand guard now.
Get up right away when the alarm goes off.”

“But…”

“Then go to bed early, and you stand guard in the early morning.
That’s fine. Yes?”

“…”

She covered herself with a blanket and lay down on the bed.

“Actually, I lied.”

“What?
I’ll forgive you.
Say it.”

I knelt down beside her and held her hand with both of her hands.

“…Even if I have a child, I will not resent my lord for it.”

“You can resent me.”

“No.
My lord loves me and… You did.
The one who asked me to bring it inside was me in the past.
This is my fault…”

“No. It’s my fault.”

“…And again.”

“…”

“Mr. Marianne and Mr. Jacques.
He said it all.
My lord is trying to shoulder too many responsibilities.
They say that everything that comes into their eyes is their fault.”

“…”

“That’s why I keep falling into self-loathing.
He said he was a man with too many hands.”

“I see.
It’s embarrassing.”

“… Can not sleep.”

She gently turns her head to look at me.
How long has it been since you met her eyes for so long?
… It would have been nice if it hadn’t happened to me like this.

“You know the story of getting a good night’s sleep when I do that.
Once upon a time, in the hand of dragon cigarettes…”

* * *

“The traitor Catherine harassed Alberic and murdered the former king!
She also kidnapped Princess Anne, a member of the royal family, and sacrificed it to Nuba Kane!
She also personally summoned Amity’s guardian dragon, destroyed the castle, and turned it into a living weapon, causing it to run wild!
How can you be so small!!”

Top of the central palace.
A terrace overlooking the royal castle.
Stella stands tall with the rising sun.
Duke Dupre, who announces her ascendancy as queen next to him.
Devot and Angela escorting it at close range, I.
And Marianne, who was watching this with other nobles from a little distance away.

“Look!!
The guardian dragon of the founding of the nation, Nuba Kane, who assisted King Taejo the Great and founded Amitie!
Aren’t his eyes and mouth stuffed with vicious tentacles?!
That wicked woman, Catherine, conspired with High Priestess Philip of the cathedral to cultivate her demon cells and create a bioweapon!
Indeed, it cannot be said that it is a harbinger of ruin!”

Some of the Templars who heard this under the south gate of the palace spat out curse words.
This sound, amplified by magic, is probably resonating throughout the royal castle.

“Wicked witch Catherine is a lewd prostitute, and her lewd behavior has been seen throughout the kingdom!!
She has brought the authority of the royal family and court down to the ground!!
She also colludes with the high priest Philip, who uses humans as tools,
She tried to assassinate Marianne, the Saint of the Sun!!
Is she all?!
The Demon King’s Army and the Elf Ballondel were drawn into the Cathedral to plan and execute an unprecedented terrorism!!
How can I not be ashamed of the former king, the sun god, and the people!!
To punish all the above crimes!
I declare before the sun god and the kings that the true queen, Stella Amitie, will defend her royal family and her country!!”

“Long live Stella, Queen of the Stars!!”

“Hurray! Hurray!”

“Queen!! Defeat Witch Catherine!!”

“Long live His Highness the King!!!”

A resounding shout.

“On behalf of the pope who was suppressed by high priest Philip!
The Lady of the Sun will bestow the crown on you!”

Marianne, in her maiden garb, walks on her red carpet, holding a golden crown.
Stella on her one knee.
Marianne placing her crown upon her head, and placing her hands upon her head, blesses her.

“Long live His Highness!!”

“God of the sun!!
Bless the rightful successor!!”

“Let’s drive out the witch Catherine!!”

To disrupt the coronation, enemies beat drums and gongs and amplify the noise.
However, Marianne’s mighty miracle creates her soundproof curtain and traps the noise behind enemy lines.
Now all the people of the capital will see this sight.

Beep-!
Why, why, why!!

Air raid alert.

“It’s time to go.”

Okay.
Enemies can’t just see this.

Sister Agnes, holding a long scythe, flies into the air, and enemies knock on three doors: East, South, and West.

Dig!

I kick the ground