Chapter 16 – 03. Kingdom of Ulstro – Squire Life (7)

“No, everything was fine. Would you like to come inside?”

Mercedes stopped for a moment at the sight of Valdez naturally guiding her into the room. But soon, he moved his feet as if nothing had happened.

“… Excuse me for a second.”

Originally, I only intended to talk for a while in the hallway, but I couldn’t resist his sincerity his, so I cautiously entered the room.

Upon entering her room, her unknown scent of hers overtook her. She sniffed her nose involuntarily at the addictive scent she had smelled somewhere before, but she stopped in surprise. Fortunately, Valdez didn’t seem to see it because the door was closed.

‘This, this smell….’

It was definitely the smell of Valdes. The smell that lingered as we moved our bodies together to restore our swordsmanship.

“Have you been exercising at all?”

“I did some gymnastics for a while because my body was sore.”

“Well….”

She came inside without thinking, only then did she realize.

That this was the first time I entered a boy’s room. No, maybe it was the first time she had set foot in a man’s room. Even though it was a place to stay for a while, the smell of his body in the room made me forget even that fact.

‘This. I made a mistake adjusting the density.’

Of course, the smell that emanated from the restoration of swordsmanship, and now, was all that Valdes had used enchantment magic.

Perhaps she did not know this for the rest of her life.

Valdez casually guided her and sat her on the bed. And she, too, sat a little further away and spoke her words.

“So what happened…?”

“Uh, um. Rice, it’s nothing special. I just thought you wouldn’t be discouraged because the first mission turned out like this…”

“Ah…”

Seeing him let out a small exclamation, Mercedes realized that her spirits had been lifted.

Intoxicated by the smell, she unknowingly sat on the bed. If it was a man other than him, he could be misunderstood enough, and it was a situation that could be dangerous.

‘Yes? Isn’t he?’

Even though I thought of it myself, something was strange. In what sense did he really think this way?

Could this boy be misunderstood, or was he safe? Otherwise….

It was her party who made her do this that brought her to her senses her from her confusion her.

“Thank you, Mercedes-sama. I guess that’s why our eyes met earlier…. To be honest, I was a little disappointed… But I feel a little cheered up.”

“… I see. I’m glad.”

“As expected, Mercedes-sama is kind.”

“That, I just did the obvious thing as a knight you serve.”

“…”

After those words, there was a brief silence.

She said that the distance between her and Valdes was about 1 meter. If it was a training ground, the distance was short enough to jump over with just one step.

But for some reason, Mercedes felt that the distance between them was too far away.

“Um… Mercedes-sama?”

“Huh? What’s going on?”

“I have a favor to ask of you, is that okay?”

“Ah, say anything.”

What kind of request do you want to make?

They’ve been together for a little over a fortnight now, but during this time she’s been able to learn a little bit about him.

Valdez was basically not good at asking others. Although she is usually quite silent, she took the initiative to renew her mood when others were silent.

Since this was the first request he would make, anticipation welled up inside him.

“That… Mercedes-sama is comfortable talking to people she’s close to.”

“!!”

“So, by the way…”

She could immediately understand what Valdez was talking about shyly. If he had been like everyone else, she would have been angry at what he was saying after only 15 days, but he didn’t feel that way at all.

Rather, I was glad that he approached me like this first.

“Of course. No, …Of course.”

“Ah! I’m glad.”

Seeing the boy smiling brightly, Mercedes stared blankly at him.

At first, he was interested in him because he was just a talented boy swordsman, then because he was an unusual mixed demon race, and then because he was his own seed with the swordsmanship of a hero.

If so, what would he be like now?

Even she herself was not convinced.

“Mr. Mercedes?”

“…Yes?”

“That hand…”

“Hand?”

What are you talking about?

Valdez’s hands were placed side by side on his lap. He Appears to be overly tense. I felt like I was going to laugh at that fledgling look.

Then I noticed something strange.

For some reason, his face looked bigger than before. Someone’s hand was caressing his cheek.

But I know very well where the boy’s hands are.

… There were only two of them here now.

“… ? … Uh, uh, uh?!”

Then, of course, the owner of the hand has no choice but to be himself.

I screamed in bewilderment and stepped back.

‘What, what, what, what!’

Only then did she realize that she had moved closer to him and put her hand her to her face her. It was clearly her own body her, but she did n’t notice it at all.

“Ahaha… Uh… Me, Mercedes-sama’s hands are warm…”

Valdez also let out an awkward laugh as if he was embarrassed.

My face is hot.

Even without her mirror of her, she could tell that her own face of her was blushing.

“I, uh, um. Me, I’m sorry, no, I’m sorry.”

Mercedes apologized and turned around to leave the room.

“No. I was rather glad that I became close with Mercedes-sama.”

Her body her stood still.

He wanted to turn her head and tell her that he did too, but he was embarrassed to show her her wine-colored face of her. Eventually, she stood there with three steps left to the door, took her remaining steps, and opened the door halfway.

The wind in the hallway, not the air full of Valdez’s body odor, hit her body her, and she seemed to come to her senses a little. She managed to open her mouth with that force.

“Me, me, me… Me too.”

Bang.

“Hmm.”

Although the timing overlapped with the sound of the door closing, Valdez could hear her words enough.

“Kukuk, you’re more naive than I thought.”

Even though she is 22 years old, she is well past adulthood. Thanks to that, she felt like she was bullying a good girl for no reason, so her heart her was disturbed.

“…Well, it’s trash. I did it a lot when I was a mercenary.”

But she quickly took it lightly.

If I had thought that I would quit or feel remorse in the first place, I would not have even tried to make such a plan.

Valdez took off her armor, realizing that she hadn’t even changed yet. In her heart she wanted to change into comfortable clothes, but she thought that she was not in the Templar building and that no knight would tolerate wearing such clothes in a strange place.

She changed into light armor for more active everyday life and lay in bed thinking.

“Let’s see, Mercedes seems to need some more time… Let’s start with Glette.”

She remembered an aristocratic young man named Jiktra whom she had just met.

I can’t believe he was Glet’s childhood friend. From his point of view his, Jigt clearly had a crush on Glet.

I didn’t have any ill feelings towards him, but an interesting idea came to my mind.

‘Should I play a little joke about what happened like this?’

“…Then what that idiot said…”

Jojal jojal.

My ears are noisy.

“… Ha.”

A sigh came out of nowhere.

I couldn’t understand why I was assigned a seat next to Jigtt and not another seat.

At this table were the four knights, including Baron Planck, the Baroness, Jigt, and Mercedes, and himself. Except for the three people who were the owners of the estate, he was the only one who was not a knight, but a servant.

Thanks to that, it was embarrassing to see other servants eating at other tables.

Fortunately, Mercedes-sama and the other articles passed without any criticism, but apart from that, this seat was uncomfortable.

Especially Jigt, who is talking right next to him right now.

I’m sure he wasn’t such a talkative guy before, but how did he become like this?

“Are you very tired?”

Jigtt was concerned if he heard him sigh. It was something he had heard in the hallway.

“Huh? Ah, yes. A little like that.”

“When you’re tired, a glass of wine is the best.”

Zitte pours red wine. I didn’t particularly like what he did, but I liked the smell of his drink his.

“Haha, I never thought the day would come when we could drink together like this. It’s amazing.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

He answered casually, but suddenly he wondered if he had been too concerned about it.

So he thought about it for a while and thought about what would be a good topic to talk about.

However, he hadn’t been in touch for a while, so he didn’t have anything that came to mind.

“Umm… Come to think of it, what about your fiancée?”

“…Uh?”

What?

Jigt’s face hardened. She could n’t even manage her expression her, as if she did n’t know how to bring this up.

“You can’t…”

“Ah, that’s… Write it down, a little bit happened.”

“Wow…”

I was dumbfounded and no words came out.

As far as she knew, Jigt’s fiancée was a nobleman. And betrothals between nobles are not so easily broken.

Basically, nobles value promises and honors. Among them, one of the most important promises is engagement. So it was not even a marriage, but it often took several months just to decide on an engagement.

In fact, this was one of the things that made her feel most betrayed by Jigt.

She must have had quite a bit of time before the engagement was decided, but she never said a word about it to herself. Thanks to that, she had to throw her first love her, who had been growing little by little, to the floor.

It wouldn’t be easy to break it for ordinary reasons, but what the hell is going on?

“What the hell have you done?”

“Why are you assuming that I am the cause?”

“Isn’t that so?”

“… No, that’s true, but… Ey!”

Jikt, who was muffled by her words, seemed to have swallowed her words along with the drink in her hand her.

“Haa… Wait? Then you can’t believe the dress I was talking about earlier…”

Come to think of it, it was a strange thing. Jigt is her only child of her. And her baroness’ body type is very different from her own.

But why did she say that she had a dress that suited her?

“Oh, that’s not it! Yes, I set it up as a gift when you become a knight!”

“… But I’m giving you a gift like that right now.”

It seemed that she would fall to her remaining affection for her.

It’s too lame as an excuse.

If what he said was true, I felt bad.

Doesn’t the fact that you’re trying to give the gift you were meant to give if you become a knight mean that you either can’t become a knight, or that you think it’ll take a long time to become a knight ? The childhood friend in front of me couldn’t even remember that.

“That’s it…”

Jigt was saying something, but she turned her head away and ignored him.

‘Ah.’

Coincidentally, in the direction she turned her head, she saw Valdez having a meal with Elsa and Amy.

‘… Originally, I should have been over there too.’

Wouldn’t that have been a lot more enjoyable?

Looking at Valdes’ face his reminded me of what had happened in front of his room.

“Don’t you understand? It’s what it looks like.”

‘What did it mean?’

It’s just as you see it when you’re hugging her shoulders. No matter who thought, it seemed that they could not be seen among the same species. Rather….

‘My, what am I thinking!’

It seemed that the spirits of the alcohol he drank earlier were rising.

“Glette? Are you looking at him again?”

Her words got on her nerves, and she jerked her head back to glaring at Jigt.

“… Again? And what do you have to do with me seeing Valdes?”

“…I’ll be honest. That’s right, I broke the engagement. Actually, I broke the engagement because I kept thinking of you.”

“What?”

What kind of bullshit is this all of a sudden? However, Jigtt’s expression was infinitely serious to say it was a lie.

“It’s true. I always missed you, even when I was with my fiancee.”

“Laugh…”

My head is confused.

Without saying anything, she gulped down the wine from the glass.

“Is that Glette?”

“…I’m sorry. I’m getting drunk, so I’ll get up first.”

The choice she made her own was avoidance.

With her blushing face in evidence, she apologized to the others at the table and hurried away.

I wanted to quickly get away from the banquet hall. No matter how stupid Jigt is, he’s the heir to the family, but he can’t stand up alone in a position like that.

So I went to her garden and felt the cold air and calmed her down.

“Whoa…”

The breath from her mouth she smelled like wine.

“Is it real? But…”

Do you have feelings for him? She thought calmly and the answer was no. But Jigtt has a tenacious personality.

And the marriage of aristocrats wasn’t just about feelings. She was n’t sure what she would do if her Jikt her continued to cling to her and contact her family her directly.

Her head her was complicated, so he came to mind.

‘Miss you….’

Surprisingly, I heard the voice I wanted to hear.

“Glette?”

I thought it was hallucinations for a moment, but it wasn’t.

“… Valdes?”

It was Valdes.

I want to see his face and hear his voice his. But just like this, it appears in front of you. His heart his started pounding.

It was an ideal heartbeat when I was hugged by him.

“What are you doing here?”

“… Valdes.”

“Yes.”

Is it because of drunkenness? Even thinking to myself, the words came out that started me.

“Can you pretend to be my lover?”