Chapter 33 – 05. Kingdom of Ulstro – Innocent Princess and the Bleeding Knight (2)

‘But annoying is annoying.’

Ethylene’s sharp eyes stung him. Perhaps if he could kill with a glance, he would have killed many times.

No matter what happened, words and actions, each and every one of them got on my nerves.

“It would be best to ignore a man like that…!”

But I was too concerned. I couldn’t help but pay attention.

How did this happen?

It must have been after he got Mercedes’ attention in a martial arts competition.

A cold-hearted yet warm-hearted knight and country’s first princess, Mercedes.

She looked at Valdez, saying that she was not herself during the match. Even with her blushing face her. When she checked it out of the corner of her eye, she was astounded and nearly made her mistake. Fortunately, there was no problem because the opponent was weak, but it was a blemish in her life that she herself thought.

So she teased him with a venomous tongue in the finals.

Of course, his attitude wasn’t just because he was deprived of the princess’ attention to her and he almost made a mistake.

‘Huh, that kid who was your opponent. He’s a boy who looks just like Pedro.’

“…”

Her father her, Marquis Propylene, was at the stadium on the final day of the martial arts competition despite his busy schedule his. On his surprise visit his, she believed, she would hear her father’s compliments of his.

It wasn’t just a compliment, but something like how you’ve built up our family’s honor, or that our family has finally won a martial arts competition. He hoped for something of a higher dimension, but the first thing his father his spat out was about Valdes.

My father was a man without greed.

So he secretly regretted not winning the martial arts competition, but he did not express it to others. She won on behalf of her father because she knew it. Valdez’s words of her came before her own words of her.

Ethylene somehow made her feel sorry for herself as she was on the inside cussing about her boy her alone.

“… Am I being a bit naive?”

She pondered and came to a conclusion.

Not like that.

This is legitimate anger.

He is a man who is weaker than himself, of mixed demon race, and a commoner. Isn’t it strange that he gets the attention of the two people you admire the most when he’s nothing better than him by comparison?

He didn’t bully or bully him. He just expressed his feelings his honestly.

She doesn’t want Valdes to fall, on the contrary, she just wants to climb on top of him. It’s just that his father and Mercedes’ attention is directed to himself, not him. That was it.

“That’s right. I’m not bad.”

Ethylene, however, was oblivious.

She knew she was giving the boy more attention than she wanted.

And gradually the size is getting closer to what he is heading for Mercedes.

The procession of the princess’ party continued without incident.

In the first place, the Ulstro Kingdom was loved by the people, had good security, and had strong royal authority, and international relations were good, except for places that were always revealing their ambitions like the Dezac Empire. No one was foolish enough to touch a carriage bearing the royal emblem.

Same goes for monsters. After the war, numerous monsters were hunted and the by-products were sold to neighboring countries to finance the country. In order to nurture emerging knights, subjugation was conducted periodically, so even monsters were hard to see unless they were in remote places.

It was one of the reasons why the people especially liked the queen.

“I think we should camp here today.”

A bald knight knocked on the carriage and said.

He was one of the three vice-captains of the Pedro Knights, with the highest status excluding her princesses on this journey.

“Encampment?”

At her unexpected words her, Marie blinked her bright eyes and asked again.

“Yeah, it’s because I came back a bit in the middle…”

“Ah.”

“Marie? You can’t…”

Hehe.”

Apparently, they seemed to have returned a bit to meet Mercedes.

‘That’s right.’

Come to think of it, it was a bit odd. Even though both sides are on their way back to the capital, to meet at such good timing. It would have been impossible without intentionality.

“Okay. Then we’re going to camp tonight. I’m sorry about me.”

“No, Princess. … Everyone, prepare for camp!”

Even if I missed escort work, I couldn’t gossip about preparing for camp. There were only a few things that required strength anyway, and the rest was done by the chores.

Valdez helped with the work and subtly prepared a place for his sleeping bag close to the princesses. Even so, he was next to the other escorts and at some distance from them, but he was still able to overhear their conversation.

“Princess, I found a pond a little further away.”

“…Pond?”

“Yes.”

Marie’s eyes sparkled. You can use magic tools for bath water anyway, but it was more fun and full of romance to soak in the softwood than that. She was asking just in case, but she never thought it would be real.

“Sister, let’s go together!”

“Huh? Um… I’ll wait a bit.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Originally, I practice a little every evening.”

Mercedes, who was looking at her brother with a kind face, suddenly glanced at her Valdez and smiled.

“… With Bald.”

Marie couldn’t see her sister’s smile her, but she understood the direction of her gaze her and her nickname her, which she assumed was a nickname.

“Bal, de?”

“Yes. Bald.”

“…”

Deep blue eyes collided in the air. A strange atmosphere began to flow between the friendly sisters. It was the kind of air that only the two sisters, Ethylene escorting, and Valdez, who secretly overheard, could notice.

‘Isn’t this pretty interesting?’

Eavesdropping on the conversation pretending to take a break with his back turned, he was sure of his reasoning in the atmosphere of the two.

‘Marie seems to like me more than I thought.’

Indeed, Valdez was so focused on Mercedes that he forgot about Marie. She hadn’t seen her in over a month in the first place. However, from her shy attitude when we just met to what she is now, she looks like a girl with the man she likes in front of her.

‘We’ve only met two or three times now, did the enchantment magic work well? Or was there some other trigger?’

The information obtained by the intelligence unit was basically external. It’s probably because of the limitations of the demons that I can’t get any closer than that.

Thanks to this, there was little information about Marie’s personal fields of her, such as her personality and taste of her.

‘Come to think of it, Mercy also avoided talking about Marie.’

She thought it was because she was worried that he would take her interest in her and Marie in her.

Looking at the current atmosphere, she could only assume that she knew what kind of heart Marie had, even though she was her younger sister her.

“Bald, let’s go practice.”

“Ah, yes, Mr. Mercy.”

Valdez decided to add a little side.

She answered, calling her nickname her behind her, and she could see her mouth her twitch. She would have liked to smile broadly, but she held it back, as it would probably ruin the relationship between her sisters and her.

Marie stared blankly at the two heading to the other side of the pond before opening her mouth.

“……Let’s go.”

“… Yes, Princess.”

A total of three female knights accompanied us this time. Among them, Marie was often attached to Ethylene, who was of a similar age.

“…”

“…”

Heading to the pond, accompanied by her attendants, Marie didn’t say a word to her. Ethylene gritted her teeth at Marie’s droopy expression of her, seeing it for the first time.

‘Although Marie-sama told us a lot about that commoner… Could it be that she fell for that man this much… ? .’

Ethylene was by her side of her and had several conversations throughout her journey of her. Most of the conversations were one-sided from her side of her, but Ethylene couldn’t help but fall for the girl princess because of her sweet and cute charms of her, like her younger brother’s whining.

However, she was not aware of her love side of her, but now she was able to notice her heart of her. It was unimaginable that two princesses from one country would both be interested in the same man.

‘The man… I don’t like it anymore!’

Her mind, which had been idle for a moment during the day, was again filled with her anger at him.

“Sir Ethylene.”

“Yes, Princess.”

“… What is the relationship between you and Valdes… ?”

Cooling off in the pond, Marie spoke in a calm tone, but her voice was thick with melancholy no matter who she heard it.

“… Isn’t it just a friendly knight and servant?”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, … I’m sure it will.”

It was a lie of comfort for the princess. At the same time, it was also her wish her.

“Yes… I see… Right? …But if…”

She immersed herself more deeply, unable to follow her words. Most of her body was submerged, right down to her nose.

For some reason, it didn’t feel cold even though it must have been a cold pond. It wasn’t because it was hot. It felt colder and more subdued than pond water.

“Sigh…!”

Inhaling her breath through her nose her, Marie threw her head into the water with force. It wasn’t until her long, waist-length hair was thoroughly soaked in the pond that she emerged from the surface.

If the dive was just a few seconds longer, it wasn’t short enough for ethylene to rush in.

“… Puha!”

The impact of bouncing her body out of the water made her beautiful blonde hair flutter in the air and glisten.

“Are you okay?”

“Huh? Ah, yes. It’s okay.”

Marie responded with a bright smile to Ethylene’s concern for her, who felt like her older sister her somewhere.

It is a world where various magic and monsters live. Other unknown threats lurk. Her status her as a princess did not allow her body her to be immersed for a long time, even in a pond that would not even reach her waist if she stood up. I don’t know what pitfalls might lurk there.

Marie examined herself with her more refreshed expression. The water droplets on her body sparkled with the moonlight, creating a mysterious atmosphere.

‘Yes. After all, I’m not pushed.’

Compared to her older sister her, Mercedes, her height, breasts and hips are small. She was She, but she thought, if she was an objective beauty, she would never be pushed.

She herself had many other strengths.

Skin for example.

Trained through training, Mercedes has a slightly toned and slightly tanned skin. Compared to him, she herself was white and soft like white jade. This was her realization that she gained from touching and comparing herself several times.

Her face her is also a bit, but she herself is prettier. Mercedes is also famous for her beautiful appearance of her, but she even said that Marie inherited the appearance of the queen, who was once said to be the most beautiful woman in the kingdom.

Here, the coziness that comes from a small body and the cuteness created by living as the youngest. She couldn’t forget her aegyo her. Unlike her older sister her, who kept a wall with her charms her since she was young, she herself has been loved by countless nobles and servants with this alone.

‘What else could there be?’

While Marie came out of her pond and searched for her own advantages that set her apart from her Mercedes her, her maids eagerly cleaned her body her and put on her nightly make-up her.

“If you give up like this, you are not her mother’s daughter her.”

“Yes?”

“Hee hee, nothing.”

Her murmur was so small that even the maids nearby couldn’t hear it, but Ethylene, the knight, could understand it.

‘No way? No, what the hell is good about a commoner man of mixed demon race!’

She wondered if Marie hadn’t been a princess, she wouldn’t have drained and screamed.

“… I feel better, I think.”

“Yeah. It’s my main idea to get rid of negative things quickly and think positively.”

“Is that so.”

Ethylene thought she was on the one hand happy, but at the same time she was thinking about what she would do if she were to get the worst of it.

A love affair between two princesses, her sisters her, over a man. Wouldn’t it be talked about not only by the nobles but also by the people and abroad? She sincerely hoped it wouldn’t happen.

After finishing her bath, Marie headed back toward the campsite.

“You’ve worked hard. Gradually shift. Should I wash the ethylene hardness?”

“Ah yes.”

As she, too, was about to wash herself after taking turns as a close escort with another female sergeant, she noticed something strange.

“Um, Mercedes-sama…?”

“Huh? Ah, you haven’t come back yet.”

“You didn’t come back… Did you?”

Her eyes widened her. Her brown eyes were unusually dilated to such an extent that I wondered if she had reached their maximum size this year.

“Yeah. That’s probably why you missed the training.”

“Shouldn’t we go find it?”

Even though the princess is a servant, she is alone with a man. Still, others weren’t too concerned.

“Mercedes-sama said that no one should come because he is conducting top-secret training. There are rumors that he is restoring some kind of swordsmanship, isn’t that it?”

“…”

“Don’t worry too much. There are a lot of people who don’t like being with me because it’s a half demon race, but everyone here, except for the vice-captain, knows that he’s the strongest. Honestly, it’s funny that we’re worried about the princess. It’s work.”

It made sense.

No matter how close you are, spying on the secret training of a knight or wizard is the same as a felony. It is a secret known to all who know that Mercedes is committed to restoring a swordsmanship.

Moreover, her skills are not a concern either. Even so, Ethylene couldn’t shake her unexplained anxiety over her.

Mercedes’ strange face, which kept smiling at Valdez, came to mind. She is so foreign that it is hard to believe that she is Mercedes. The face of a woman who is neither a princess nor a knight.

“I, for a while… I’m going to pick some flowers.”

“Huh? Heheung, okay. Be careful.”

“Ugh…Yes.”

The senior female knight’s strange gaze was embarrassing, but she still couldn’t stand it.

Not a physiological phenomenon, but this anxiety.

So, determined to be punished if caught, she moved her steps in the direction the princess and boy were headed.

Very,

Fast.