Chapter 186 – 16. Waiting (1)

[Waiting]

Arrived in the capital.

The envoy’s mission ended with that. Those who arrived at the royal castle were scattered to their respective places under the leadership of Mercedes. Except for some of the core personnel of the delegation, the rest were only those who assisted them. Today would be a day off, but they didn’t have to be together.

The report was the responsibility of Mercedes, who led the delegation, and the collection of contents had been completed before arriving in the capital. For this reason, nobles and bureaucrats also moved to their mansions or departments to report their return.

The envoys scattered and only four remained.

Valdez, Mercedes, Marie, and even Ethylene.

Aside from the two princesses, many people felt that Valdes and Ethylene were outright favoritism.

It was unavoidable. While traveling back and forth between the two kingdoms as an envoy, their actions made anyone wonder. And the cult of that was at the Marquis of Propylene. The two men and women who often hang out with the princesses, ahead of other nobles and bureaucrats, attracted the attention of the envoys.

Of course, there was no one to complain about.

The princess’s favor, maybe even the queen’s. Other than that, he was a disciple of Serenia and his achievements Her in the Kingdom of Ventorino. Valdes was no longer in a position to belittle as a commoner and a mixed demon race. The same goes for ethylene, which can be said to be the next head of the propylene family.

That’s how the four people were virtually inviolable territory.

“Then let’s go.”

The burden was entrusted to the servants of the royal castle.

The steps toward the throne room were light. Even though she was the queen, it was not a distant or difficult relationship for them. And there was no need to worry as the delegation did not produce much results.

The guards guarding the large door opened the door slowly, shouting out the four people’s position. I already knew about their return, but it was a formality.

Unexpectedly, there was no one in the audience room.

Only Beatrice was sitting alone on the throne at the end.

“…”

Still, I don’t know if there’s someone else somewhere I can’t see.

The Valdes entered her throne room, following the rules of an audience with her queen.

With each step she took, Beatrice, who seemed small, became more and more distinct. Of course, this distance doesn’t mean much to Valdes. He could see her exactly from any distance.

Because of this, as soon as she saw the queen, she recognized it right away.

That she is now shaking with tension. It was a slight trembling, but the reddened face and light sweat on her skin her spoke for Beatrice’s inner feelings her.

In the end, she couldn’t stand it, so she jumped up and ran at it.

“Seobang-sama—♥”

To the man I love, not to my daughters.

Beatrice hugged Valdes.

Beside her, her two daughters her and Ethylene made subtle expressions. Especially Mercedes and Marie. Still, the idea that in times like these, she should greet and hug her daughters her first grew in her head.

“Isn’t it too welcoming? You see the kids.”

“Whoops, what about watching the kids?”

It was a conversation like a couple having affectionate skinship in front of their young children.

“… Her Highness the Queen?

“It’s okay. All the servants have been bitten, so we’re the only ones here.”

“Even though…”

“Your daughters have been with Seo-Bang-nim all this time, right? Please yield to this mother for today.”

“…”

Mercedes let out a sigh when the conversation didn’t go through.

It wasn’t a huge mistake. How much she felt since her mother her, Beatrice, broke up. Even when she often contacted her for her report of her, she persistently sought out Valdez. Her Queen’s commitment to her was to her first love, which she found after 18 years, was extraordinary.

Even so, she didn’t have an unfair side. If she had been with me the whole time, it was only when she headed to Ben Torino and back again. She has even refrained from being with her Marie her. And in Ventorino, we didn’t see each other very often because we were busy.

“Sister, it’s easier if you give up.”

“Give up… Ugh.”

At the sight of her brother her patting her side her with her elbow and talking, Mercedes glanced at Ethylene behind her. She, too, has an awkward expression on her face on her, but she does n’t show any displeasure.

‘It seems that the work in the propylene estate was quite good.’

Mercedes and Marie took a break early that night. I didn’t think that Valdez would visit them because of the location and the words I heard from her marquis at dinner. And indeed, Valdez had a one-night stand with Ethylene.

Although I was quite surprised that Ethylene had visited Valdez’s room her. And the next morning her Ethylene expression Her was much better and brighter than before. I don’t know exactly what happened, but both thought it was fortunate in their own way.

Perhaps from her daughter’s happy face her, it was clear that Marquis Propylene hadn’t said much to Valdez. Even taking that into account, the ferocious gaze that wants to kill him at any moment is still good in his eyes.

“Anyway, I’ll greet you properly.”

“Yes?”

“Her her 1st Princess her, Mercedes Ulstro. In accordance with Her Highness her the Queen’s orders her, she carried out her envoy mission in the Kingdom of Ventorino and returned safely.”

Seeing the eldest daughter reporting her return while slightly leaning over, Beatrice smiled slightly as she moved away from Valdez. Even though she did n’t have to do it, she acted in an informal way, but when I saw her act her according to the procedure, I felt that her personality was fundamentally not going anywhere.

“Yes, you have worked hard. We will receive a detailed report at the royal meeting tomorrow.”

“All right.”

In fact, the report wasn’t all that necessary.

Anyway, the main purpose of this meeting was for Valdes to go to Ventorino Kingdom and buy time to stay there. All unofficial purposes were for him, and he took care of that part himself. And the superficial reason didn’t mean much, and the report on him had already been finished through the crystal ball.

Maybe that’s why, at least verbally, Mercedes, who had finished reporting the delegation’s return, approached Valdez and clung to his right arm.

“…?”

“Mercy? What are you doing?”

“Ah, anyway… I don’t think mother is the only one taking it all by herself.”

“Oh?”

Beatrice’s pupils widened.

The change in her ethylene was so great that she also vaguely noticed it. She just didn’t care because it didn’t matter much to her. However, it seemed that it was not only ethylene that had such a change.

Her younger sister her, Marie, also looked quite surprised. She, too, was surprised that her sister’s change of heart was so great that she openly resisted her mother her. To the point where she was impatient even to herself.

“As expected… She’s my daughter.”

“Yes?”

“In Mercy’s eyes, I can feel her strong tenacity that she cannot lose the man she loves.”

“I’m sorry…!”

At her mother’s words Her, Mercedes trembled.

“Honestly, I used to worry that he resembled him more than me, but I’m glad he did.”

“…”

For a moment, Mercedes is at a loss for what to say. Beatrice brought out the word “Man,” A word close to being banned by their family of her. Although it is an unspecified noun, it generally means one person depending on the context.

Unlike Beatrice and Marie in particular, Mercedes still has n’t fully shaken her father her. Unlike her wife her, who never loved her husband in the first place, and her youngest daughter her, who never saw her father her, her older daughter her clearly remembers her father’s love her for her. She was doing

Valdez, who had been quiet to prevent the atmosphere from becoming strange, opened her mouth.

“Is the report over? Then Beth. Let’s talk for a minute.”

“Maybe?”

Valdez greeted the three remaining in her throne room with a light wink, then headed to her bedroom with Beatrice. There was no better place for intimate conversation than the queen’s bedchamber.

Arriving in her bedroom, Beatrice hugged Valdes tightly once more. He didn’t stay still this time either, and he hugged her face to face. Because of their height, the faces of the two crossed over each other’s shoulders.

“I really… Missed you.”

“Yeah, me too.”

The two of them were able to fall apart after hugging each other for a long time.

“Haa, it’s been a long time since I’ve been in the middle of a long time… It seems like I’m getting energy…♡”

“No fuss.”

“No fuss! How long have we been waiting!”

“… I have to go see Serenia later.”

A bitter laugh escaped from the boy’s mouth.

For a moment, I questioned the word us. It wasn’t that he was neglecting her, but rather that she was being stabbed by her conscience of her.

“Please do. Serenia will be waiting eagerly after hearing the news that she has returned.

“This is literally the first time since I left the capital with Serenia.”

I made contact with Beatrice several times through the communication crystal ball for news of the hero or the progress of the work. Mercedes was in touch most of the time, and Valdez had a lot of things to do, so he couldn’t show his face properly, but he couldn’t even compare to Serenia.

“I’ll give you dinner tonight, so you can go.”

“OK got it.”

As soon as he finished Serenia’s story, Valdes brought out her business to her.

“Have you heard anything about the warriors?”

But the queen shook her head.

“No. Quiet.”

“Then, he must be in training for a while.”

Two warriors were summoned, and an oracle came down from the goddess.

Still, I couldn’t think of the fact that they were still quiet, except that their skills were lacking. As far as he knew, it had been decades since the last oracle came down, except for the oracle that had come down about 20 years ago and had chosen him as a hero.

In such a state, it was an oracle that foresaw the danger of the continent, not for a short time, but for a long time. If it was the Holy Kingdom and the Goddess Church, it would have been something that would have happened right away and let the whole continent know about the oracle. That alone was enough to put pressure on the dark side.

In fact, Valdes, who heard the news through Beatrice, had to completely revise his remaining plans.

“I think it’s like that. According to the spy planted in the Holy Kingdom, it rarely comes out of the Vatican.”

“Really? Hmm… Is it weaker than I thought? It might take longer if I do this…”

“It takes a long time? No way, are you aiming to recruit a party of warriors?”

Hearing Valdes’ murmur, Beatrice correctly guessed what he was aiming for.

That was also the case because Beatrice, hearing the news that a hero from Ulstro Kingdom had come out in the past, also looked into information related to the hero and listened to his news of her. And since she knew something about Valdez, this was something she noticed right away.

“Right.”

“Umm, it’s sure to be effective… But would you mind? If the heroes noticed…”

“That wouldn’t happen. If so, the goddess would have issued a more specific oracle. Or even if the goddess knew something, the oracle had limits. It was like that during the last war. It took about two years to find me because the oracle was ambiguous.”

“That’s right.”

She laughed at him and immediately agreed.

Thanks to this, the damage was so great that even the Dezac Empire, which had been watching, participated in the war. I don’t know if it’s unfortunate or fortunate, but because of that, the Dezac Empire consumed quite a bit of national power, and thanks to that, the interference didn’t get too severe.

“Still, it won’t take too long as this is the first time the goddess has openly informed that darkness has infiltrated the continent.”

“…Well, there’s nothing more terrifying than an invisible enemy. You don’t know how wide it has spread or how deeply rooted it is.”

“At most three or four months… Oh my?”

“Why all of a sudden?”

“Then… In the meantime, will you be free?”

Beatrice’s bewitching eyes shone.

It’s been almost three months since I met him, but it wasn’t that long that I actually stayed close. In the early days, he lived quietly as a servant of Mercedes, and later went to the Kingdom of Ben Torino as an envoy. Thanks to her her, as for her her, only her longing her was hot.

But all of a sudden, four months at the longest was guaranteed. In between, he could go somewhere else, but he couldn’t make a long trip because he didn’t know when news would come from the castle kingdom. They succeeded in tying the shackles to Valdés’ feet without making any announcement.

“Yeah, but… Beh, Beth?”

“Yes, West♥”

Valdez’s body his trembled involuntarily.

“I… Heard. The demon king, the royal wife, got pregnant, and the pregnancy ban was dropped?”

“Right?”

“And she was pregnant for the second time… To Queen Catarina of Ben Torino?”

“…”