Chapter 48 – 05. Kingdom of Ulstro – Innocent Princess and the Pious Knight (17)

My heart is pounding. Breathing also hurts a little.

I couldn’t help it. Even if there are people spying on you, it’s actually close to being alone.

She exhaled deeply to calm her mind.

“Whoa…”

“Huh, don’t be too nervous. I just called you because I have a few questions for you.”

Mistaking it for nervousness, I heard the woman’s soft and relaxed tone. In a way, she was nervous. It was just for a different reason.

“…Yes.”

“Keep your head up.”

With the permission of the voice that followed the answer, she slowly raised her head.

A luxurious bed that could comfortably accommodate four or five people. At the end of it, I saw a woman sitting with her back leaning back, exuding a gentle spirit.

A face that looks like it was based on Marie’s face, mixed with parts of Mercedes, and added about 20 years of age to it. Even though they would be 40 next year, outwardly they could be trusted as daughters and sisters. Rather, she has her maturity and grace that her princesses do not have, and her beauty her stands out even more.

Beatrice de Ulstro.

The owner of Ulstro Kingdom in this country. Queen. She is one of his enemies his.

Valdez lowered her head as soon as her eyes met hers.

“Sir, excuse me.”

It was n’t because I was particularly shy or because I could n’t hide my expression of her. This was a suitable look to play a boy squire named Valdes.

“Oh, it’s okay. Were you embarrassed by any chance? That’s surprising. He said he was a flirt.”

“That’s not true.”

Embarrassingly, Beatrice was wearing a light white negligee. Her lower body of her was hidden by the blanket, but the negligee seemed to cover only her hips of her. Here, decorations such as soft lace and frills were hung here and there, further enhancing her elegance and charm her.

The problem was that this negligee was translucent, that is, see-through. Behind the white cloth, the queen’s immaculate skin was faintly visible. If the light from the magic lamp next to her had been stronger, it was clear that the inside of her would have been illuminated.

Chest part here. Unfortunately for him, the large chest, which the princesses do not resemble at all, could not be hidden with the negligee. Perhaps if her breasts her were smaller, her breasts her were supporting her negligee her so much that the fabric flowed down fleetingly, making it a sensual outfit.

‘The crazy bitch isn’t going anywhere.’

No matter how much this is the queen’s room her and the negligee is also used as her nightgown her, it was absurd that she invited a man over and dressed like that casually.

The reason was obvious.

Confidence that you can never harm yourself. It must have been her judgment of her, adding several situational factors, along with the Wang-specific troops hiding nearby.

‘I’m so annoyed that I want to attack you.’

Considering the aura of those who hide in her her, even her tolerable knights her would die before climbing into her bed if they harbored her disloyal feelings towards her, but she herself is capable of overpowering them all. There was

‘For now, I have to be patient. I haven’t used anything I prepared yet.’

“I-I’m sorry, but the reason you called me… “

Valdez played a trembling voice like someone who didn’t know anything.

“You surprised me from the first time I saw you at a martial arts competition. But…”

There was a chill in his soft, gentle voice.

“…You’ve surprised me again how long it’s been. You can’t help but seduce our daughter.”

“One thing wrong is that Mercy-sister seduced me first, not me.”

“Huh, Mercy sister. There’s nothing I can’t say in front of my mother, me.”

“We decided to take responsibility for the future, but if we can’t do this much, shouldn’t we?”

“Shouldn’t we at least say those words face-to-face?”

“Then, I will raise my face not to Her Highness her, but to my future mother-in-law her.”

He had been talking with his head lowered until now, but he raised his head again and looked straight into the face of the queen, no, Beatrice, the mother of the two daughters.

Originally, looking into the queen’s eyes for more than 3 seconds was considered disrespectful and arrogant, but Valdes did not look away even after 3 seconds. She now faces him because this was not her queen.

“Oh?”

Beatrice was taken aback by the unexpected reaction.

The boy who was shy just before had gone, and there was a man there with a look in his eyes that said he was not ashamed at all. I even secretly leaked the word ‘playboy’, but he didn’t know if he didn’t notice, or if he was even confident.

‘Still, with that expression, it seems more similar… No, this is not it.’

“Your mother-in-law. You’re just a commoner, so brazen. Aren’t you of mixed demon race? Are you sure you’re planning to mix the blood of the Ulstro royal family with that of the demon tribe? “

“If Ulstro’s blood is stronger than that of demons, wouldn’t it be a problem?”

The queen’s forehead her twitched.

She was very proud of her Woolstrow family. A situation she could never answer in the negative. But that would be an affirmation of Valdez.

“…It’s not that kind of problem.”

“The country’s situation? People’s perception? I know. The realistic barrier is big. But I am confident. I also told the Serenia Knight Commander that I will prove myself within a year.”

‘Is Serenia?’

It was a little surprising. She is the one who cares for Mercedes as much as herself. To the extent that she said that she would wait for her for a year.

What did Serenia see in him? Did she see the figure of the warrior Pedro like herself, or is there something else. Her heart softened her slightly when she heard the name of her close friend and loyalist her, the former escort driver.

“Okay. I’ll wait for a year or so, assuming I don’t get caught by others.”

After all, it is for her children that she holds her throne her. She was willing to accept any mate if her daughter she really wanted it.

She had already passed her throne unconditionally to her daughter her, as opposed to herself, through an amendment of her laws her.

But that wasn’t the only problem that was piled up.

“Then what about women?”

“Where does that matter?”

“…Yes?”

Her absurd answer her made her doubt her ears her.

“It’s a relationship that Mercy noona knows and acknowledges. Anyway, the next throne in Ulstro will be Mercedes-sama’s child, so there’s no problem with that. Rather, through me, I can tie the leash of various families and earn their loyalty. “

“…”

Apparently, I didn’t hear it wrong. At first glance, it seemed plausible to hear it without thinking.

Even the princess of the Marquess of Propylene could have endured a bit of scandal if she could gain their allegiance through her. If one or two more families with a moderate scale and strong power are included here, the absolute stability of the royal authority will come within sight.

However, it is also a false statement, and it is a story when the results are only good.

It wasn’t just this that bothered me.

“Mercy, you know…?”

“Yes, of course.”

“… Haha, what the hell is that child thinking… “

Beatrice sighed and held her forehead.

‘Wow.’

He exclaimed inwardly.

I just breathed out and raised his arms his, but the way his chest his was shaking was no joke. I could see it as I kept looking. At least twice the size of a Mercedes. It was estimated that it was probably similar to the Demon King. I’m sure it wasn’t like this even when I was young, but something was amazing.

‘Does it get bigger with age? It looks too bouncy to be called stretched.’

If she had had her breasts like that when she confessed, it seemed that she would have accepted Beatrice with a little bit of her crazy personality her in mind.

Of course, she can’t go back to that time, so I don’t know what she was like in reality, but her breasts were flowing with the magic to seduce men to that extent.

But maybe it’s because I looked too openly?

“Are you staring at my breasts right now? Even though you said you were your future mother-in-law?”

It seemed that she had caught her gaze on her.

“… I don’t think there is a man who does n’t have eyes for his beautiful breasts.”

“Hmm, huh…”

Beatrice was a little taken aback, but even in the midst of that, she felt a strange excitement.

With the exception of her hero her, Pedro, she has never felt the slightest interest in her love or romance her, but she is a woman too. She could n’t help but be happy to compliment the handsome teenage boy on how beautiful it was, even if it was her breasts her.

Especially if it’s a guy who looks like Pedro.

‘Somehow, the feeling of being praised by him… Come to think of it, I’ve never heard a compliment from Pedro besides the ostentatious compliments I got her when we first met her. Well… Oh no. It can’t be like this.’

Startled, she shook her head. I don’t know what will happen in a year, but now he is her daughter’s lover her.

“As expected, she’s a flirt. She talks really well.”

“I’ll take it as a compliment, but I mean it. You’re looking and looking like a married woman with two daughters.”

She hid her delight by suppressing the corners of her mouth that kept twitching.

“Hmmmm. There’s one more problem.”

“…It’s because of my past.”

“Did you notice?”

“I was thinking that I would get caught someday. That period came sooner than I thought.”

Valdez let out a voice with a calm tone, and the queen murmured. She wasn’t the reaction she expected. She knew, of course, that she would be surprised and bewildered and make her own excuses for her.

But what is that meaningful attitude?

“I think the word orphan was correct, but everything else was a lie. Only one record as a mercenary was true. Now, can you explain it?”

Beatrice raised her eyes sharply.

This was her final preparation for her. She was not prepared for more than this, because of course she didn’t think she would make it through. In the first place, no matter what excuses she heard, she was not thinking of watching.

Until she heard his story.

“When I first opened my eyes, I was in what used to be called the Third Fortress. That’s the first memory I can remember.”

He bluntly lied again. It was a story that I had been working hard on since yesterday.

The mercenary record had been prepared by him from a long time ago through spies, so of course it had to be real. There was no way that there would be any portraits or detailed information about only low-level mercenaries, so who would notice if their real identities were different?

And it worked very well.

“… Huh? The third, the fortress, … ?”

The queen’s expression hardened.

Third Fortress. I couldn’t have known That’s right, isn’t it the tomb of the warrior Pedro, which they personally destroyed?

Even while she was surprised, Valdez continued her words of her.

“All around me were the ruins of a broken castle. However, I had no memory, so I didn’t know where it was at the time. After that, I was able to get to the Kingdom of Ventorino, but there was too much discrimination against mixed demons there. It was only then that I knew.”

“…”

Ventorino’s kingdom was once destroyed by demons and the lineage of the entire dynasty was cut off. The level of hatred was bound to be different from that of Ulstro.

“So I moved to Ulstro and worked as a mercenary. Swordsmanship… I don’t remember learning much, but when I hold a sword, my body moves on its own.”

“… You woke up, what year was it?”

“I don’t know exactly, but I heard that it’s been 9 years since the hero died at the time.”

“Okay…”

It was exactly 10 years later that they returned there and found Pedro’s body his. In other words, Valdes had opened his eyes before then. The undiscovered part for them made sense.

“… I was afraid.”

“Are you afraid?”

“Perhaps I am one of the demons who attacked the hero, or the child of someone among them.”

“…… !!”

Come to think of it, it was.

The party of warriors who killed Pedro announced that the reason the 3rd fortress collapsed and the hero died was the work of the remnants of the demons who were still on the continent. It would be absurd for the demons, but since there was no interaction with each other, and there was no proper armistice agreement, they had no way to know, so it was decided that way.

If someone who knew nothing had lost their memory and opened their eyes there, it would not have been unreasonable to think like Valdes in front of them.

“That’s why I lied about my past. …I’m sorry.”

“… Wait. Let me clear up my thoughts for a moment.”

“…Yes.”

Valdez hung his head down, his shoulders drooping as if he had lost his temper. Even so, he watched her very closely.

‘The demon who attacked Pedro or his descendants his? Of course it can’t be.’

Because it doesn’t actually exist.

‘This, let’s think about it.’

Are his words true?

… I couldn’t tell.

The 3rd Fort is an abandoned place. That too 18 years ago. Fearing that someone might find out about the conspiracy of the warrior raid, everyone who participated in it left the place unattended.

The reason why a name cannot disturb the rest of a great warrior.

So, did n’t he erect a statue in the plaza of the capital to replace his tomb?

The same goes for what happened thereafter.

To find traces of the mixed demon race that crossed from Ventorino to Ulstro eight years ago. There were probably tens of thousands of mixed demons who had come over from there. He did not have a hometown, so he must have been smuggled in, but it was unknown how many years it would take to find clues.

‘If it’s true…?’

Then, assuming that his words are true, what is Valdes’ identity his?

She could only think of one.

‘Could it really be Pedro?’