ALL NOVEL chapter 13
13 – The Reaper of Jeremiah Kingdom
“Yes. Lucia. Won’t you join my warrior party?”
“No.. How can I have a party like that…”
“Your topic… If it wasn’t for Lucia today, I wouldn’t have been able to save those people over there?”
I pointed my hand outside the barracks and told Lucia her words, and she replied with a look on her face, still in disbelief.
“I… What did I do… Everything was done by the hero… What…”
“I didn’t do anything.. It helped me a lot today. Than the warrior party before.. That’s why I’m requesting it like this. Lucia. Won’t you join our warrior party?”
I asked Lucia once again, she pondered something, and then she slowly began to open her mouth.
“If you go to a party…”
“Yes.”
“Can I be with you every day?”
“Um… What.. Right? Do I have to go catch the Demon King?”
“How long?”
“If it’s not a special occasion, we should be together until we defeat the demon king, right?”
“…..”
Lucia doesn’t say anything again…
Couldn’t it be… Is it uncomfortable being with me?
“Then I will do it!”
“Thank you Lucia. If you come to the party, there will be many benefits. Even if you earn a lifetime, you will not be able to touch the salary and severance pay, and even that honor…”
“I’m fine without it. I just need to be next to the hero.”
“Ugh… Huh? That… What…”
Although I knew exactly what you meant, I asked Lucia to check again, but Lucia didn’t even try to make eye contact with her as her face turned red.
After that, I tried to leave the barracks to meet Jack and Jenny, but the barracks were already crowded with people looking to meet me,
No matter how many knights and soldiers opened the road, there was no way to break through to the inn.
In the end, Lucia decided to go to the inn and get Jack and Jenny…
“Ji… Really… Carl… Is that warrior?”
The reactions of Jack and Jenny, brought by Lucia, were as mouth-watering as I expected.
“I’m sorry I lied to you all this time. Jack, Jenny.”
“Ah.. No.. I don’t even have anything to be sorry for… Somehow… He’s strong for a B-class..”
“Ah.. Did you?”
Fortunately they weren’t too upset about my cheating,
I was saying goodbye with a sad heart, as if I had become attached to them even for a short period of time.
“I’ve had a hard time. A sword… No, a warrior.”
“Just do it normally.”
“Uh.. Yes. Carl.. Thanks to you, I was able to easily request a party, but where do I go now to find a party leader like you..”
“What thanks to me. You guys fought well enough.”
“Oh? What about Lucia? What will Lucia do now?”
Jack talked to Lucia, who was standing still next to me, wondering if he was worried about the party after I was gone.
“Ah… Jack, I think Lucia will have to move with me from now on.”
“What!? Then will Lucia become a warrior party?”
“Yes.”
“Hey! Congratulations! Lucia!”
At Jack’s congratulations, Lucia bowed her head, feeling ashamed as if she wasn’t used to it.
“I hope~ Lucia joins the warrior party~”
Jenny saw Lucia as the object of her envy, but…
After that, I closed my private activities due to the invasion of the Horon Kingdom by the demon king army, and returned to the Kingdom of Argen with Lucia.
Hearing of my quick return and my success in the Kingdom of Horon, Edwin came to the gates to welcome me.
“Kalos!! I heard the news!! I heard you played a big role in Horon Kingdom!?”
“Edwin, can’t you see this place?”
“Huh? Ah!! Is this beautiful woman here Lucia, the rumored new hero party member?”
Surprised by Edwin’s strong welcome, Lucia said nothing and went forward to greet Edwin.
“Ah.. Hello. My name is Lucia.”
“Hello? I am Edwin, a friend of Carlos and the King of Argen Kingdom. Maybe it’s because she’s an elf… She’s dazzled by her beauty.”
“Um… I’m a half elf…”
“Ah.. Yes… I’m sorry… I couldn’t tell the difference well…”
“No. It’s okay.”
I saw a familiar woman in a white dress running to the castle gate after Edwin…
“Hero!!!”
Princess Clara, despite the dissuades of her surrounding ladies-in-waiting, was running towards her with flowing blonde hair and a long dress.
“Hero!! I’m glad you got there safely. How long have I been watching…”
Clara stopped talking as she looked at Lucia, who was clinging to me and staring at her, and then she blurted out her words.
“Ah! Lucia, hello. This is Edwin’s younger sister, the princess, Princess Clara.”
“Ah.. Hello. My name is Lucia.”
At Lucia’s polite greeting, Clara loosened her glare, smiled again, and she accepted her greeting.
“Hello? My name is Clara. I’ve known the hero for a long time, and we’re a little special.”
“Ah… Yes…”
A special relationship?
At her Clara’s words, I looked at her and tried to ask her what she meant, but…
“Not everyone is like this, come inside. I prepared the lamb steak you like because the warrior said he was coming.”
Suddenly, he came to my side, crossed his arms, and dragged me into the palace.
She sent an unspoken sign to Edwin to ask why Clara was doing this, but as if he couldn’t figure it out, she shook her shoulders and answered her instead.
Lucia, who was watching me being dragged by Clara from behind, hesitated at her unfamiliarity, and Edwin was following us as her escort.
“Look… Your Majesty…”
“Yes. Miss Lucia.”
“Ah.. Over there.. If you feel free to call me Lucia…”
“Yes. Lucia. Why?”
“If you can speak comfortably…”
“Ha ha ha ha. Okay. Lucia. But why? Do you have anything to ask?”
“Yeah… Hey… What’s the relationship between the hero and the princess…?”
Edwin looked straight ahead at Lucia’s question, then suddenly she smiled and looked at Lucia.
“No relationship. Should I call it a one-sided love relationship?”
“Who is who?”
“My brother loves Carlos”
“Ah.. Yes…”
After hearing Edwin’s words, Lucia wondered what made her feel better, and then she smiled and walked a little faster,
Edwin smiled as if something funny had happened when he saw her and Lucia’s behavior.
When we arrived at the restaurant,
I don’t know how I knew that time, the long table was already full of food,
The ladies-in-waiting were still going in and out of the door to see if there was still more food left for me.
“Eat a lot. Warrior. These are the special foods I requested from the lady-in-waiting. Lucia-sama, eat a lot too.”
“Yes…”
Thanks to Edwin not being married yet, Clara, who even plays the role of her queen, takes care of all her palace affairs.
On special days like today or when diplomatic guests came, Edwin helped Edwin well enough to take care of changing the design of the garden or the interior of the party hall, as well as the meal menu and room assignments.
“Hero, try this too. It is said that it is very good for men’s energy, but I specially obtained it because the hero was coming.”
“Ah.. Yes…”
The bowl that Clara held out in front of me…
It’s a food I know well.
I heard that aristocratic wives couldn’t afford to buy freshwater fish with spices that are good for men’s stamina…
“Ah! Edwin, how is the empire now? I heard that the Demon King’s army invaded there too?”
“Don’t say anything. I keep getting pushed back on a losing streak. Moreover, they say there are no Four Heavenly Kings over there…”
It was not an exaggeration to say that the Imperial army defending was more problematic than the invading Demon King’s army to keep being pushed back in battle even though there were no Four Heavenly Kings.
Where is the Eritre Empire?
Three years ago, wasn’t it an empire that was called the hegemon of the continent and dominated the world with military, diplomatic, political, and economic power?
That place…
The fact that you are losing a series of battles against the Demon Kings without the Four Heavenly Kings,
It didn’t work for them, but it was a good thing for me.
“Maybe that’s why, requests for warrior support keep coming in from the empire.”
“Huh…”
Of course you asked for support even though you knew I wouldn’t go…
When I thought of that, I laughed without knowing it, and I couldn’t stop it and spit it out.
“Apart from the empire, do you know how many times the kingdom of Jeremiah has only sent envoys?”
“In the Kingdom of Jeremiah?”
“Yes. As the Imperial Army failed to stop the invasion of the Demon King Army, the frontline was already right in front of Jeremiah’s kingdom… Right now, the border there is no different from a frontline.”
Lydia…
Lydia, a former princess and magician of the Eritre Empire, is now the queen of the Jeremiah Kingdom.
Lydia, who was born between her emperor and a commoner, is a woman who uses me to build a career in her warrior party and even launders her own identity before marrying the king of the kingdom of Jeremiah.
How funny is it that he even sent a messenger to ask me for support?
“Hero! Never give support! Everyone in the northern part of the continent is already united around the hero, so don’t worry about what happens to the countries in the western part of the continent.”
Clara, not listening to Edwin, jumped up from her seat and got angry instead of me.
Seeing her like that, she was both proud and grateful.
“hahahaha, thank you. Princess.”
“Hero, can you just call me Clara now?”
“Ah… That’s…”
“You call your brother, who is the king, by name, but only to me every day, ‘Princess. Say ‘Princess’… And call me Clara too.”
I’m Edwin… When I was a prince.
Since Clara knew that she was a princess in the first place and met her, she was reluctant to speak casually easily.
Also, because of that, from the point of view of the nobles of the kingdom of Argen, they could see me even more disrespectfully for speaking carelessly to their king and princess.
“That’s…”
It was when I was hesitant about Clara’s difficult request.
Jumping.
A knight opened the door and came in, approached Edwin and whispered quietly in his ear…
“The queen has arrived as an envoy from the kingdom of Jeremiah!?”
A queen as an envoy to the kingdom of Jeremiah?
If you are a queen…
Are you saying Lydia is here?