Chapter 20 – 04. Kingdom of Ulstro – Princess Knight (2)

“Well, it could be. Originally, love is a funny thing.”

Before I knew it, even Serenia had a bitter face.

“… Ah! I’m sorry.”

Belatedly reminded of her family situation her, Mercedes apologized in embarrassment.

“Hey, is it weird that you’re saying that here?”

“Swing…”

But Serenia laughed it off as if it was nothing. In a way, she could feel that she was an elder, but the reality was different.

It was no small matter, but she did not want to gain her sympathy or consolation by this. I had just recently heard that rumors about their couple were circulating secretly. Annoyance seemed to well up in my head, but I desperately endured it.

“Haha, it’s a couple’s problem anyway. Don’t worry too much. Rather than that, talk about yourself.”

I told her what I wanted to say to her her gossip favorite socialites her.

She felt a little remorse, but the naive Mercedes was slow to notice this. Thanks to her, she seemed to loosen her mind a little bit.

“That, so…”

After a moment of hesitation, Mercedes began to unravel her story of her.

She first sparred with Valdez, promised to restore the warrior’s swordsmanship together, met together for that, moved their bodies together, and finally to what happened in the Planx estate.

It was not much to say in a shy and shy manner.

“Her…”

It was a sweetness that Serenia, a married woman who was already married, could not handle.

“Mercy, you really…”

“Yes?”

“… No, nothing.”

No matter how much it is first love, I thought this was a little too much. I wondered what made her this way, but nothing came to mind of her.

‘By the way….’

While she exclaimed at Mercedes ‘freshness her, on the other hand, uneasiness bloomed in her heart her.

It wasn’t because Valdes was of mixed demon race. She is also a person who has been through war, and she hates demons. However, she was not a closed person to the extent that she thought that she was tied up with mixed races for no reason.

The problem is that he is a mercenary.

Although the warrior Pedro was from a mercenary, and the number of mercenaries who became knights increased through martial arts competitions, the perception of mercenaries was still not that good.

The culprit that made it so was the mercenaries who were involved.

‘I can’t help but worry.’

She’s like a daughter, and she’s the country’s next queen.

Particularly worrying was the sexual aspect.

It was Mercedes who only had her sexual knowledge as her literal knowledge. She is a boy compared to him, but if he was a mercenary, there is a good chance that he has also tried prostitution.

The majority of mercenaries relieve stress through violence, alcohol, gambling, and prostitution.

An orphan who would not have been properly educated adds a tough job as a mercenary? It was ranked third in the percentage of criminals caught by the guards.

I was worried that Mercedes would be adversely affected by Valdez.

‘… I’ll have to try approaching it.’

In fact, she had little interest in Valdez.

He said that he had high expectations and that he was a good newcomer, but that was just a formal expression to cheer him up. At least she was curious about the swordsmanship influenced by the warrior Pedro, but that was all.

There’s no chance he’ll become a government official anyway, but he’s still his first love his, so I wanted it to remain as a good memory for Mercedes.

“That… What should I do?”

Serenia, who had properly organized her thoughts of her, cheered her up with her smile again.

“Don’t push yourself too hard and approach it little by little like now. And have confidence. You are the daughter of our queen, who was called the most beautiful woman in Ulstro. From your appearance to your body, personality, swordsmanship, and status. There’s nothing missing. Besides that Listening to what happened in Gaplanks… That boy will be interested in you too.”

“Okay?”

Mercedes’ face her brightened up with just a little cheer and hope.

“Huh, cheer up. Then I think it’s time for other reporters to come soon… Now go back and rest.”

“Yes! Let’s go back now.”

Returning to her public tone at once, she gave an angular salute and left the room.

As she returned to her office, she reflected on her advice from the captain.

“Little by little… Little by little… Approach….”

She said thank you, but she didn’t quite understand what it meant to approach her little by little.

Are you just behaving normally?

As I was walking in such agony, I almost bumped into someone at the moment.

“Oh, sorry… Valdes?”

“Ah, Mr. Mercedes!”

Her eyes widened her.

It was Valdes.

She blushed for no reason because she was thinking about how to approach him until just now.

“Yes, yes. What’s going on?”

“I was just looking for Mercedes-sama.”

“…Me?”

My heart pounded.

“Muh. What happened?”

“Do you have time?”

“Hour…?!”

Maybe it’s a date request? The beating of his beating heart her grew louder and louder.

“Yes. It seems that during this time of training, I realized something about restoring swordsmanship.”

“Ah.”

I was started by the sudden drop in my heart rate.

It is the restoration of the warrior’s swordsmanship that he so longed for. If you do well, you may be one step closer to it. Still feel like this

In my heart, confusion and pounding were fighting, beating and beating.

“Yes… Ah, there is time. Let’s go to the training ground.”

“Yes.”

Valdez went with her to her exclusive training ground her. All the servants knew that she would restore her warrior swordsmanship, so it did n’t matter if she was seen.

But something unexpected happened.

“Yes?”

For some reason, there was no one in the dedicated training room. She has Amy working in the office, but it was surprising that the other two could not be seen.

“Elza and Glette went to exercise.”

“I see…”

Valdes, holding a sword, headed towards the center of the training ground.

“Actually, Pedro’s swordsmanship is said to be the warrior’s swordsmanship, but I wondered if it was his fighting skill.”

“Warcraft?”

“Yes, isn’t the name Pedro swordsmanship given by the warrior in the first place?

The maiden who was her first love her returned to her knightly face her before she knew it.

“Hmm…”

It was an interesting hypothesis.

As he said, the basis of the swordsmanship used by the warrior Pedro was the experience he had accumulated in his life as a mercenary.

And there was no way there was a sword that was tailored to the mercenaries. Just wield a weapon to live at first, and then to kill enemies.

“It’s fun. So?”

“It’s probably fighting, but swordsmanship will be the main thing, and the rest will be secondary. But without these, it would be incomplete. In fact, thinking about it carefully, Master taught me how to move my body.”

Valdez said that and moved his body to his. It was the feet, to be exact.

The movement of the foot that paints a dazzling yet simple picture.

What that meant, Mercedes understood right away.

“This….”

That’s the answer.

I instinctively felt that way.

The people who learned from the warrior countless times came to mind. The swordsmanship they showed. Commonalities were seen.

“Wow, that’s great.”

It was amazing. What he hadn’t figured out no matter how many years he had taken, this boy only noticed when he was less than a month old.

“Ahaha. I was lucky. I’ve been with Master for a long time, and again…”

The boy’s face turned red.

“… I wanted to help Mercedes-sama.”

“…”

His breath was tight and choked.

To think that a boy with such talent should be discriminated against just because he is of mixed demon race.

And he could truly understand.

I like this boy no I love you

“…Thank you.”

I expressed my gratitude with all my heart. I wanted to hug him tightly and show him in action, but I didn’t have the courage to do so.

“Then let’s try it!”

“Ah, yes.”

Mercedes caught his agitated mind her. For now, the swordsmanship restoration comes first. He thought so, and he shared opinions with Valdez and put flesh on Pedro’s swordsmanship.

Perhaps because of the fire, the two spent a long time in the training ground.

Normally, it would have been completed within an hour or two at most, but this time it was different.

Eventually, when the sun went down and Amy came to find Mercedes, their time was over.

“Whoa, whoa, good job.”

“Merse, ha, Death-sama, ha, worked hard.”

Rather than simply performing swordsmanship, she moved her body violently and sweated a lot to find the answer. Moreover, several hours had passed since dinner. It was even weirder not to get tired.

“Driver! I’m preparing the bath water!”

“Okay.”

Amy left to prepare for Mercedes’ service, leaving only the two of them at the training ground again.

“Huh, then I’ll go. Get some rest.”

“Uh… That, me, Mercedes-sama… ?”

“Yes?”

Suddenly, her Valdes caught her trying to leave.

He had been concentrating on restoring swordsmanship for a long time, so now Mercedes had only a review of what happened today.

“Could I…”

He intervened in the middle of her imagination of her.

“Can I give you a massage?”

“…Massage?”

In her mind her, she was practicing Pedro’s sword, but before she knew it, she was getting a massage from Valdez.

“Oh, a massage?”

“Actually, I’m good at massage. I improved by doing it to my master every day, and everyone was happy even when I was a mercenary.”

“That’s right?”

Massage.

I was looking forward to it a little, but I still felt rejected. To get a massage, it would have to be done on her bare skin of her, but it was clear that her heart of her would n’t be able to withstand it.

When Mercedes hesitated, Valdez struck the follow-up.

“Yeah, I guess that’s a bit like that, right? Elzana Glatte likes it. So she tried to do it for Mercedes-sama too…”

“Huh? The other kids got it?”

Massage? For men too?

“Oh, yes. Amy also said that it hurts a little, but it’s cool.”

“Um…”

I received other seeds as well. She couldn’t help but stir her heart.

“I-I don’t have any intention of sleeping my whole body. Just the shoulders and legs…”

“Uh?”

Her cheeks her turned red.

That was true.

The massage was just a work that loosened the muscles and helped blood circulation. You do not need to massage every corner of your body, you can massage only the parts that are used a lot during training.

“Ah, uh, ok. Then… I’ll ask you after I take a bath.”

I thought about getting a massage now, but Amy and Elza were already preparing the bath water. And I didn’t want to make him touch his sweaty body her. We’re sweating each other now, so after a while we’ll smell the sweat too.

“Yes! Hehe, then I’ll see you in about an hour and a half!”

“…Okay.”

Cooling her flushed face, Mercedes headed to her own room.

Valdes also went back to his room her, took her clothes her, and headed for the bath. He wanted to deal with it simply with magic, but he still has to appear in the bathtub from time to time to avoid suspicion.

And the time was free too. An hour and a half was enough to take a leisurely bath and prepare.

“Let’s see…”

Returning to his room his, he pondered over how to attack Mercedes.

In fact, massage was something I hadn’t even thought about.

Then, thanks to Elsa giving him her massage, he remembered. Certainly, if it is a massage, only the two of you will be together unless it is a special case, and it is easy to touch the body.

Then, it would be much easier to use enchantment magic.

“I won’t be able to capture it this time anyway… But I’ll have to make it periodically find my massage.”

I threw myself onto the bed and lay down.

Because the bath was finished in 30 minutes, there was still an hour left.

“… Ah, in case you don’t know… “

Valdes jumped up and went to Glette’s room.

She had been in the gym as he ordered and had returned to her room.

He told Glett that if anyone was going to enter Mercedes’ room after an hour, he would give him a signal to buy himself some time. She was startled, but she nodded her head obediently, thinking that it was Valdés too.

“Okay, … Did you come just to say that?”

“No way.”

“Haa… Um!”

The boy wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her on the lips.

This was the second reason he came here.

It was to prevent her from getting an erection while massaging Mercedes just in case. He had already put a soundproofing spell on her room since he returned from Planck’s estate.

Soon, her room was filled with groans of delight.