Chapter 24 – 04. Kingdom of Ulstro – Princess Knight (6)

Her sister Marie said with a serious face.

“Sister, is it possible that your mother is also interested in Valdez?”

She was so dumbfounded that for a moment she held back what she wanted to say, ‘Did you know that now?’

She was such a cunning and cunning child when she went out and dealing with the nobles, but I could n’t understand how she could act so ignorantly and childishly towards her family her.

Normally, even this aspect would have been cute, but now her planting her wasn’t so good.

“… I think so too.”

She herself was her sister her, though. I sympathized with her with her smile as much as possible and her kind tone of her.

“Isn’t it? No matter how much I think about it, it feels exactly like that?”

Haha…”

Mercedes only smiled awkwardly at her sister’s appearance as if she had figured out something great.

“Sister.”

“Yes.”

“How’s Valdez?”

The answer was half a beat too late for such a straightforward question.

“… What? If it’s about that kid, it’s just as I reported to her mother her.”

“No, there are other things. Things I like…”

“I’m not sure about that either.”

Slightly harsh speech. But she couldn’t help it. You’re arguing so openly.

“I see… Ah! Shall I tell Serenia-san to assign Valdez to my escort duty?”

“No!”

Unexpectedly, at Marie’s cunning her, Mercedes jumped up from her seat, banging her pen on her desk as she signed her papers. She herself, as well as her Marie her, flinched in surprise at her violent reaction that jumped out of her involuntarily.

“That, ah, me, sorry.”

“Oh, no… I was surprised. But why not?”

“… That, Valdes is my servant. A servant must not take on a separate mission from the knights who accompany him. And this time, we have a mission to do together.”

After calming her excitement, she calmly gave her explanation.

The former was a natural fact within the Knights, and the latter had not yet been told, but he believed that Valdes would gladly allow it.

“Ah…. It’s a pity. It can’t be helped.”

After answering that, Marie propped her small chin on her table and gave a long, muffled sound, lost in thought.

“… Why don’t you just go find it?”

As for Mercedes herself, it was best for Marie not to pay attention to him, but she didn’t want to just ignore him being such a nuisance in her office her.

It was strange that she hadn’t visited him until now, even though Marie would have some free time.

“However!”

At her words, Marie raised her head and shouted.

“I want to meet you romantically for the first time! Like being assigned to an escort mission by chance! Saving me from danger!”

“…”

At that bewildered answer, Mercedes was at a loss for words.

I knew her brother her was into romance novels, but I never thought he would. Just in case, she was fortunate to have Amy outside. Marie probably would n’t have said this while she was in her room her, but she did, just in case.

“Ha ha, yes. Do as you please.”

“Think of your sister too!”

“I’m sorry, I don’t know about these things…”

“Huh? But…”

Marie’s gaze moved to the corner of Mercedes’ desk.

“!!”

“Isn’t that a novel too?”

“Oh, no, that, that’s…”

There was a book lying there. The front cover was covered on the floor, so the title was not visible from Marie’s side of her. She wanted to quickly reach out and hide the book, but doing so would only lead to more suspicion.

“Yes?”

“That, that… Is not my, my book.”

“Huh? Then? Whose book is it?”

“My, one of my squire gave me a book to read. Oh, I haven’t read it yet. I’m too busy.”

It was a lie.

No matter how busy I was, I never had time to read a novel. But she couldn’t bear to tell her brother why she couldn’t read that book. She’s 22 years old and how can she tell her sister that the book is too hot to read.

Had she known it would be like this, she would have just tucked it deep in a drawer instead of putting it on the desk, feeling full of regret. She wondered how she would become immune if she put it in a conspicuous place, but it seemed to her that if others caught her before that, she would want to put her head her in a drawer instead of a book.

“Hmm, is that so?”

“Gee, it’s real.”

Actually, that part was true. It was Amy who gave me the book.

Cheerfully, she recommended the novel to Mercedes. She was a Mercedes who had recently realized her love her and had become concerned about the relationship between men and women, so she pretended not to win and received the book. I thought that if it was a novel that people like, it would be of some help.

In fact, Amy had never read this book. It was Glett who gave Amy the book, and Glett said it was through Valdez’s orders her to deliver as many erotic novels as possible, but something she could never know.

“What’s the title?”

Fortunately, Marie did not walk up to check on her.

“…Later. I’ll let you know if I read it later and find it interesting.”

“Huh. Okay.”

Mercedes let out a sigh of relief inside her.

‘Why did Amy give me this book….’

She had never read that common romance novel. However, it is a sensual novel that goes beyond all stages. However, Mercedes could not bear resentment even if she blamed Amy for recommending her book her with a bright smile.

“Ah, I want to meet Valdez too.”

Marie turned her attention back to her book and started playing Valdés.

And it subtly made her feel better.

The current discomfort of Mercedes was due to Marie’s interest in her in Valdez. She admitted that her heart was her for him was her love, but she didn’t know what to do if her brother got her in the way.

If possible, she wanted to finish the job before Marie had a proper confrontation with Valdez. She only had her heart her, of course, but she didn’t have the courage to put it into action.

Still, the overwhelming advantage she has in the current situation is herself. Marie couldn’t even say hello to Valdez, and her mother’s attention her wasn’t as of the opposite sex.

“Hehe.”

A hum came naturally.

Click.

“Yes?”

Suddenly, the door opened. There was only one person who entered her office as a princess without knocking.

“Captain?”

“Miss Serenia!”

“Oh, you were here too.”

It was Serenia Barnstead.

She was smiling, her orange hair flowing down to her shoulders. A little bit of dust sitting on the armor she was wearing seemed to be her way back from her training ground.

“What are you doing?”

“Are you here to see me?”

“They both have business.”

Serenia held out her palm to Mercedes, asking her to wait a moment, and told her story her to her Marie.

“My 2nd princess, you just visited the knights, so I called an escort to depart in the afternoon.”

“Ah. Is that so?”

“Would you like to meet me?”

“Like.”

Marie’s positive answer was met by the captain of the knights, who nodded her head and asked her to wait outside for a moment.

The words behind her were not the princess’s demeanor her, but her call her to be Marie, which was spoken in the capacity of her close aunt her, so Marie readily accepted it as well. There were other knights waiting outside anyway, so there was no problem.

After letting her go, Serenia approached her desk her in Mercedes. Even though this is her private office her, she seems to have come as her knight commander, so Mercedes got up from her seat and greeted her.

“Are you here for a mission?”

“Yes, we’re leaving in three days, but they haven’t reported the number of people yet.”

He was talking about the mission he had proposed to Elsa this morning.

“I’m sorry. I will go with Valdes, the servant.”

“Hoo?”

“…”

Mercedes’ face turned red. Serenia was the only one she knew she liked boys. Of course she didn’t know what to do with this reaction.

“Uh, I don’t know what you’re thinking, but it’s not like that.”

“You know what I was thinking?”

“…”

She hastily tried to make her excuses her, but she had no chin for Serenia. She sighed as she thought it would be useless to say anything to her if she let go of her pretense.

“Whoa, I haven’t told Valdes yet, but he’ll probably be the most helpful.”

“Well, that’s true. It’s an important mission.”

“Yes.”

Right. This was an important mission.

That’s why she secretly left with only one servant.

“By the way, it will take a few days. Is it okay if I go alone with a man?”

“… I trust him.”

“Mmm.”

Worried about Mercedes, she thought of approaching Valdez, but Serenia clicked her tongue inside her as if she said it had been a few days. However, it took the content of the mission her to ask her to change the seed she would take here.

“If you’ve decided that, there’s nothing we can do about it. Prepare well.”

“All right.”

“Then I’m done… Huh?”

Serenia looked up at her desk her. One book above it, to be exact.

‘… Ah, Goddess.’

I wasn’t a devout Goddess, but I felt like I wanted to find a goddess right now. After all, it seemed right to put that book in the back of the drawer.

“Hmm, do you read these books too?”

Unlike the princess, the knight leader immediately reached out and checked the cover of the book.

A retired knight and male pupil.

I turned over the bookshelf to see what it was about, so I checked only the front part. She seemed to be talking about a female knight who retired at a young age and went down to her countryside and took a village boy as her apprentice her. Serenia thought maybe the story was about raising her apprentice into a hero.

“The book you’re reading… Looks pretty interesting. May I take it?”

“Yes? Ah, that, yes, go, take it…”

Mercedes was flustered and uttered gibberish before turning the book over. She panicked, wondering if she’d read her dirty parts of her.

She came to her senses later and regretted it, but she believed that if it was Serenia anyway, she would get tired of it and return it without reading a few pages.

“I’ll read it right away and return it. By the way… Do you burn incense?”

“Incense… You mean? No.”

“Then is it perfume? Hmm, something smells good… Ah. This is it.”

Serenia, who looked around her room and smelled her her, held one of her pockets her gently lying in the corner of her room her in her hand her.

“Is it a sachet?”

“I think so… But it’s strange. I’m seeing it for the first time. Not mine… The servants always get permission before putting things in my room.”

“Really? Then I’ll take this. It’s a scent I like strangely.”

“Oh, yes.”

Her mind was occupied with the book, not paying attention to the sachet. He just wanted Serenia to get tired of it and return the book.

“Then I’m done.”

“Ah, yes. Go carefully.”

The two tricks Valdez had done were unintentionally canceled due to Serenia.

Mercedes paced her room, fidgeting.

“Ha…”

Eventually this time has come.

She desperately tried not to think about it, but by the time she was eating dinner, she didn’t know how much her mind her was drowsy.

Especially when she was attending her bath, her heart was pounding because she was so hot that Elsa and Amy might find out about something. She luckily went unnoticed, but she was afraid that if she continued to receive massages, she would heat up as the hour approached, like a well-trained dog.

‘No, it can’t be.’

She herself is now getting a massage to loosen up the muscles in her body her and help her blood circulate.

After she gets two or three, she doesn’t need more.

… She believed so.

Smart.

“It’s me, Mercedes-sama.”

She jumped at the sudden knock and shuddered. She quickly told him to come in. She found out that a male servant entered the female knight’s room late in the evening, and there was nothing good about it. Especially if that female knight is a princess.

“Is there anyone in the hallway…?”

“In the hallway? Uh…”

I was almost started by Valdez’s inability to answer the question right away.

“I’m kidding. No one was there.”

“Ah… That, is that so?”

The smile on his face was very cute. For some reason I felt like I was seeing his sister his Marie.

‘… Maria, I’m sorry.’

Although it was her only massage her, Mercedes apologized to her sister her that popped up in her mind her. It seemed to ease her mind a little.

“Is there any…”

She spoke up about her mission to be hers three days later.

I was busy with work today, so this was the first time I saw his face. He will see in almost a day. Maybe that’s why I was a little happy when I saw Valdez. Even though I wanted to see him more often, the movement with him didn’t fit, as if he was avoiding himself.

“I’m fine! …But will you be okay with me?”

“Of course. I heard you’re stronger than an ordinary knight, and thanks to your life as a mercenary, you’re also strong against travel arrangements and homelessness?”

She deliberately left out one. It was never intentional.

However, when she brought up the story that only two men and women were together, she seemed to have no excuse for him.

“Umm, okay. Then… Shall we begin?”

At the boy’s words, Mercedes slowly lay down on the bed.

“Yes… ♡”