Chapter 187 – 16. Waiting (2)

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

“Right?”

“And the second pregnancy… To Queen Catherine of Ventorino?”

“…”

It was a soft voice like the usual Beatrice, but for some reason Valdez felt like a cold sweat was dripping from his back. If he had been him in the past, he would have responded by picking her ears her and overhearing her, or asking her what to do, but he couldn’t do that now.

“It’s okay. I’m a woman with a big heart, right?”

Valdez’s gaze followed her hand her as it gently moved up to her chest her.

‘Certainly not only the heart….’

“And.”

Beatrice hugged him. It was a slightly different feeling from the hugs they had had a while ago. Blue eyes with a faint expression turned to his face her, and they drew closer, and then their lips parted.

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“You, forgave me. I committed an unforgivable sin… So, just being your woman and having your child makes me happy…”

“…”

Beatrice slightly lowered his knees and leaned against his chest her.

Valdez was in a strange mood. In fact, there were many times when he still couldn’t believe it. I can’t believe I’m going to have a relationship with this woman like that. To be precise, to forgive Beatrice and to dream of a future for her and her husband her. No, it was virtually the same as her husband and wife her.

After all, he had no intention of forgiving those who betrayed him in the first place. Then Beatrice revealed her pure love her and forgave her because her heart weakened her at the sight of her weeping her. She didn’t feel it, but she had no regrets.

To that extent, she admired her single-mindedness, and Beatrice was also beautiful. It was unavoidable for a man to be weak in front of a beautiful woman, especially for a man like himself who revealed women.

“It’s pretty.”

“Huh, that’s a compliment I haven’t heard in a while. Really… I feel good.”

“I’ll do it more often in the future.”

“Compliments are nice, but for me, whispering love…”

“Do you listen to it often?”

“There is that, but it’s a little different. Hearing it from someone you don’t really care about isn’t the same as hearing it from the man you love.”

The queen’s eyes curved bewitchingly.

It was an expression of the coexistence of a mature woman full of tolerance and the sensuality of a prodigal woman who seduces men. What about the hand Beatrice’s hand her naturally caressed his body her. It tickled the feeling of gently brushing through his fingertips of hers.

Valdez thought it was amazing how she had been single all this time. If she had such a lust, she would have been courted by countless men. Moreover, if he married Beatrice, even if he could not become king, he would not be given the position of state secretary.

She shakes them all off, and the woman who had been looking only at herself, Beatrice, whom she had hitherto been known to be dead. I couldn’t help myself trying to sneak up on the corner of her mouth her.

“Then?”

“The word beautiful… You’ve said it a lot in the past, right?”

“Well… That’s right.”

Among the nobility, one of the words used as greetings was complimenting one’s appearance of her. Especially for women. Valdez, as she was educated, complimented countless women that way, including her then-princess her.

“But I didn’t hear these words until the end. The words I wanted to hear the most.”

“Bess.”

“Yes?”

“…Love.”

“… Yes, I love you too♥”

He didn’t have the confidence to stop his twitching lips of her. Valdez, unable to show her strange expression, kissed the lovely woman who lifted her head and said he loved her.

“Haeung, um, suck, chump, chug….Jjook, jjok, jjok… Little bit.”

The two, who shared a kiss that was so intense that Mercedes and Marie would hate to see it, looked at each other with eyes seeing with desire in a state of separation for a moment. In the back of their hearts, both of them wanted to throw off their clothes and roll on the bed right away, but they decided to hold back for now.

Time was free, and there was still a lot to do. There was nothing wrong with waiting a little longer.

“Haa, for now… Let’s finish talking about what we’ve been talking about.”

“If it’s a story… A love story? Whoops.”

“Don’t play around.”

“Yes, yes.”

Beatrice moved away from him with a light gesture and sat back on the chair. Valdez also sat in another chair nearby. I think there used to be only one chair in the bedroom, but seeing that there were two, it seemed that he had obtained another in anticipation of his visit.

“For now, the next target is as I said before. Two warriors.”

“Are you planning on joining the party of warriors and killing them or corrupting them?

She, also a queen, noticed right away that she had been giving explanations to her princesses.

“That’s right. Originally, I was trying to get the title of Ulstro’s promising knight for that, but I thought it would be more comfortable this way.”

“It’s probably like that. Hmm, then what about the saintess?”

“Cloudy? Hmm, it would be nice if I could corrupt it and leave…”

“Is it because of the time?”

“Right.”

The event itself to recruit a party of warriors was highly likely to take place in the Holy Kingdom, even in the vicinity of the Vatican. It was an event that would become widely known throughout the continent, and it was an opportunity to increase the authority of the Goddess Church.

‘There’s no way humans will miss this opportunity with the Vatican’s medicine.’

Sometimes they seemed the least interested in the secular world, but they were as thorough as their desires. Of course, not everyone is like that, but it was because being born with divine power, proving one’s faith, and having a desire are all separate things.

There were high-ranking clergymen who were sincere but had little to no divine power, and on the other hand, there were also humans who were not very faithful but possessed excellent divine magic. Of course, it wasn’t completely unrelated. There were quite a few cases in which divine power increased according to religious beliefs.

“The event itself won’t be short, but there won’t be many opportunities to meet Cloudy.”

“Because a saintess is a busy human being.”

“That makes it even more of a headache.”

Even in the Kingdom of Ventorino, she was able to make frequent contact with Katarina and Clara thanks to the conditions met. Fortunately, there was a day when two of the most powerful people residing in the royal castle were away at the same time, and I was able to control their actions to some extent with the vulva.

But in the Holy See, that was impossible. Compared to the Kingdom of Ventorino, which had a rather low level of magic power, it was clear that the many priests in the Vatican would thoroughly block his secret activities of hers. For him, who inherited the blood of the demon tribe, although part of it, divine magic was a contradictory and tricky element in many ways.

“Perhaps even the vaginal magic doesn’t work…?”

“Probably so. And enchantment magic. It’s because it’s based on that of a succubus.”

“Um… But isn’t it true that there aren’t cases in which priests have been affected by demonic abilities?”

“That’s true, but it’s kind of tricky. We’ll have to weaken it tremendously first. It’s not that there’s no room for improvement, but the opponent is that saint.”

A woman appeared in their minds.

Saint Cloudy.

She was a small girl when she accompanied them. But from that time on, she was a very scary being. She wasn’t strong, nor was she smart. All young Claudy had was two.

Enormous divine power.

And a terrible obsession.

He assured that if he could express his obsession with a number, he would surpass Beatrice and Uelli, who loved Valdez and did all sorts of strange things. Naturally, the object of his obsession was the goddess.

It was manifested in piety as it was, and her saintess was implicitly famous as a fanatic since her childhood. Thanks to her, the more she knew her, the more she was rather reluctant to her Cloudy her. In a word, she secretly lived as an outcast among the warriors’ party. However, the person concerned was completely unaware of it.

“You don’t know about some weakness?

A subtle smile appeared on Valdes’ face at Beatrice’s question.

Seeing that smile, the queen knew there was already a plan. She took it for granted. Valdez was the one who made it one of his mottos that a battle must be won before it begins. There was no way she wouldn’t have prepared for the saintess, who could be the most intimidating factor.

“It’s not that we’re close, it’s that we matched it properly, but you probably know more than others.”

“What is it?”

Beatrice looked at him with curious eyes, but Valdez just laughed in silence.

She, too, was not very close with her saintess, so she had no sense of what he was up to. In contrast, Valdez was close to the entire party with an appearance close to the half-acting he showed during his time as his as a hero.

It’s ironic that the result was betrayal, but it was the hero Pedro who led them at the center of everything until the assassination plot began. That was an undeniable fact.

“I’ll let you know later. I’ve set up several of them, but I don’t know if they will work. It would be nice if the first strategy worked, but you never know? It’s a little too late to tell you now because you might just flutter and fail.”

“Okay. It’s sad, but I can’t help it if Seo-Bang is like that.”

“Okay. First of all, I’ll put aside the plan for revenge and ask you a few favors.”

“Please?”

“Yes.”

Valdes told Beatrice what he wanted.

The first was about Jurina, who returned with the delegation. Although she had come in the form of employment with Marie, there had been no title given to her yet. Still, one of the requirements of the Ventorino Guard was knighthood.

“Put him into the Knights of Pedro.”

“The Knights of Pedro? Yes, I will.”

Beatrice meekly accepted.

The Royal Guard, a military force that can be counted among the top 10 in the Kingdom of Ventorino. There, it was Jurina, who was serving as her unit commander. There’s no way I’m lacking in skills, and there might be a bit of a controversy about preferential treatment, but that was a problem to be solved by myself.

“What about the second?”

“Probably within a week or two the witch will come.”

The second request he brought out was about witches.

Originally, the archwitch had to come a little later. At that time, the Archwitch said that the next meeting was in two months. It hadn’t even been two months since then, and once the witch coven started, it didn’t end until all the agenda was over.

It was Valdez’s judgment that her meeting itself would be a week long, and adding the time she would come would require another month. Surprisingly, a few days before arriving in the capital, a call came through the master of the Archwitch.

The result of the alliance was consent.

And the Archwitch gave her details of her too, she said, and she came to him to get a reward for her efforts of her. Valdez told her to come not to where he was now, but to Ulstro’s capital, or more precisely, to the capital.

At that time, the time she said it would take was about two weeks. She said that it took a little while because she couldn’t leave her students alone, so they came together, so there were things to prepare. Still, she said a week or two, because when she reached the age of the Archwitch, she might have her own special means of transportation.

“A witch, that’s amazing…”

Beatrice looked at him with a genuinely surprised face.

I never thought I’d attract the whole witch clan, not just a few witches. This was a surprise enough for her, knowing how reluctant the witches were to come forward. It was amazing that she, the head of the witches, knew where the Archwitch lived, and it was amazing that she knew exactly what they wanted.

“I told you, I prepared a lot. There are a lot of preparations for preparation, so there are many things to do.”

“Still, you’re amazing. If everything the West has prepared is completed successfully… I think we could devour the continent with less damage than we thought.”

“Because I like to get everything safely.”

He was overconfident, but considering what he had shown so far, Beatrice thought it suited him well enough. Even from the point of view of the queen, not the woman in love, he thought it was a very wise choice to stick to Valdez.

“Whoops. So do you have any other favors?”

“Oh, and…”

Valdes said a couple more things he wanted, and Beatrice listened to everything he had to say.

Most of it wasn’t too difficult. And even if he didn’t, he wasn’t so hardhearted that he refused the favor of the one he loved. She was confident that she would gladly listen to him even if she asked her to slit the throats of some nobles.

“Yes, I understand. I’ll take care of everything.”

“Yeah, I’m begging you.”

They ended their conversation not as a man and woman in love, but as two leaders: the Demon Prince of the Demonic Spirit and the Queen of Ulstro. When Valdez glanced at his watch, it was already almost dinner time.

“Um, I’m sorry, but today…”

“You mean you’re having dinner with Serenia? It’s okay. That’s what I said, right?”

“Okay, thanks.”

He immediately turned his back, left the queen’s bedchamber, and headed for Serenia’s mansion.

And after that, the Queen’s small murmur was heard.

“What would be a good third name…”