ALL NOVEL chapter 15
15 – New Warrior Party
“I… I thought the hero might need a car… I asked the lady-in-waiting to make it for me.”
She sat down on her couch and started pouring tea into the teacup she had brought, and the strong scent of lavender pierced her nostrils.
“Lavender tea?”
“Yes. I think you might need this car tonight.”
“Thank you. Lucia.”
When Lucia poured lavender tea into my cup, whether it was the scent or Lucia’s bright smile, her thoughts about Lydia disappeared and it seemed to calm her mind.
“What were you looking at? Warrior?”
“The application form for the warrior party Edwin mentioned earlier.”
“Ah…”
“Mmm! Right! Shall we watch it together?”
“Yes?”
“Since Lucia is also a warrior party now, we should look for the next member together.”
“I… I saw… what do I know? You know better than me…”
“No. Rather than deciding on my own, I think it would be better to watch together and listen to your thoughts, Lucia.”
After I said this, Lucia, who was sitting across from me, came over to me and she started looking at the application form for the warrior party together.
“This application was recommended by the princess of the Fjord Empire that Edwin mentioned earlier…”
“So what?”
“Edwin says to take a look, but somehow I’m a bit reluctant…”
“Why?”
“It seems to have a purpose. Rather than simply coming in to defeat the Demon King, it seems like he has a different plan.”
She listened to me and Lucia took her application form which she was holding in my hand and she began to read it slowly.
“If you think about it that way… I came here for a different purpose.”
After reading her application form, Lucia put her documents on the table again, and it seemed that she was spitting out words involuntarily, like her testimony…
“Another purpose? What is that?”
“That’s…”
She was taken aback by my question, and as if it was an important secret, her face turned red and she turned her head away.
Smart
She was about to ask Lucia about what she had just said, but Edwin came in with a knock, so she couldn’t ask any more.
“Oh? Didn’t I interrupt the two of you?”
Edwin sees me and Lucia sitting side by side on the same sofa and asks just in case.
“No! Something like that I was looking at the applications you mentioned.”
“Ah… Is that so?”
After hearing my excuse(?), Edwin approached and sat across from the sofa where Lucia and I were sitting.
As if she had waited, Lucia poured lavender tea into an extra cup and handed it to him.
“Oh! Thank you. Lucia.”
“What? When did you start talking?”
“Huh? From before?”
I felt a little shaken when I saw someone other than me talking to Lucia, but I couldn’t bear to express it at Edwin’s words that followed.
“As expected, we were right.”
“What?”
“Lydia, that b*tch. I was here to ask for help.”
“…..”
“Do you know what that b*tch is talking about?”
“What?”
“You are pregnant. What do you do after driving a nail through someone else’s chest? Now that she is pregnant, she needs your support to pass the kingdom on to her unborn child.”
I tried to feel a little better thanks to Edwin’s harsh curse words, but I couldn’t help but frown again at his words.
“I laughed so hard when I was told not to hate my children even if I hate myself.. Seriously…”
“And what else did you say?”
“I want you to renew your contract with their kingdom. I will pay you several times the penalty.”
“….”
I had to doubt my ears even as I listened to Edwin.
Please let me renew the contract instead of paying for the support request?
That means renewing the contract,
Whether the Kingdom of Argen is destroyed by the Demon King’s army or not, I’m saying that you should hand over me, the warrior, in exchange for a few pennies.
I don’t know what Edwin might have said because he was a nice person, but if he were like a lot of normal kings, it wouldn’t have been enough to declare war on the spot.
In the case of other kingdoms, in order not to offend the kingdom of Argen, who has signed a contract with me, I am flattering them with all kinds of gifts.
It is no exaggeration to say that Lydia was insane.
“So what did you say?”
“What can I say.. I came here after cursing.”
I don’t think he really cursed at Edwin’s personality, and he probably just blew a fact…
“By the way, did you see the application for the person I was talking about?”
“Who did Princess Cecilia recommend?”
“Yes.”
As Edwin found her application on the table, I handed it to Edwin that I was looking at with Lucia.
“You were just watching.”
“Yes.”
“Cold-blooded Irene. She is the grand duchess of Alsmeyer, and a famous woman here in the northern part of the continent.”
The Duchy of Alsmeyer.
It is a country located at the northernmost part of the continent, and is famous for being a country where the snow does not melt all year round.
The original name of this place was Alsmeyer Kingdom, but it was changed to a duchy after falling into a vassal state in the war with the Fjord Empire.
“So famous?”
“Of course. The Fjord Empire is engaged in a sea battle with another country, but it entered the battle with only one battleship.”
“Who is the enemy?”
“The enemy has 130 ships. However, the result was a great victory for the Fjord Empire with only one battleship.”
“How?”
“At that time, Princess Irene was riding on that one battleship, and she froze the entire surrounding sea. She accompanied 130 enemy ships.”
I couldn’t believe it when I heard Edwin’s words.
No matter how strong the ice crystal is, to freeze the sea, which is not ordinary river water, but salt water…
“With that opportunity, she is now the Grand Duchess of the Principality of Alsmeyer, and has been appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Army of the Fjord Empire, so her reputation should grow.”
“But for a woman like that to join the warriors’ party… What is the Fjord Empire up to?”
“First, spying on our kingdom. Second, check the warrior’s strategy. Third, simply to help the hero.”
Among the examples Edwin said, the most realistic were the first and second, and the least realistic was… The third.
“What do you think of Lucia?”
“I…”
“Yes.”
“If he is that strong, wouldn’t it be of great help to the warrior?”
“I don’t think so.”
“Then I am unconditionally in favor.”
“…..”
Edwin was looking at Lucia and smiling, and I did little restraint so that the pervert wouldn’t cling to Lucia.
“Then you decided on Irene?”
“Well… Believe me first.”
“Okay. I will send a reply to the Fjord Empire right away tomorrow, so take a good rest knowing that.”
Once my permission was granted, Edwin happily went outside with the application form.
While drinking the lavender tea that was still left in the cup, I looked over the other applications just in case.
The next day,
I overslept looking through the applications for the warrior party until late at night before I even finished my travels the previous day, so I ran into Lucia while heading to a restaurant..
“Huh? Did Lucia wake up early?”
“Yes? Ah yes.”
“Where are you going?”
“I’m going to visit the herbalist outside the palace.”
“A herbalist? Isn’t there a herbal medicine room in the palace?”
“There are, but I can’t find anything, so I’m going to go outside.”
Lydia’s medical knowledge is better than I thought, but she’s not hurt by me, so I’ve never been treated by her, but
I have seen her a few times treating some injured people on her travels with all sorts of medicines in her bag.
“It’s dangerous to go alone. Come out with me.”
“Yes? It’s okay if I go alone…”
“Since Lucia is also a warrior party, you don’t know when or when you will be attacked by the demon army. So she should always be with you.”
In the past, I also went out alone to play, and at a restaurant I accidentally entered, I remember suffering for several days because Kir, the leader of the Assassin of the Demon Lords, poisoned the food.
I couldn’t bear to let Lucia go alone.
“Hero! I want to go too!!”
Just when I came, Clara ran to the back and cut me into the middle of Lucia, and she took my arm.
“Yes? Even the princess?”
“Yes!! I want to go to the market too! Let’s have a meal together with the hero!”
“Still, it must be dangerous outside the palace…”
“What does it matter? The hero is by your side!”
As the princess Clara intervened, the three of us prepared to leave the castle,
Me and Lucia just put on our usual clothes, so we got ready quickly…
“Lucia, how long has it been?”
“Two hours.”
No matter how long I waited in front of the palace, Clara never thought to come out.
“Should we just go back?”
“But.. I decided to wait…”
I just wanted to go out with Lucia first and see things first, but Lucia couldn’t bear it, so she was staring at the entrance that hadn’t been seen yet.
Knock!
“Hero! Sorry! You waited a long time!?”
Clara appeared wearing a dress worn by ordinary nobles instead of the dress she usually wore in the palace.
No matter how much she prepared for her makeup, her face was all the same color, perhaps because she had put on pure white makeup and all the precious metals were in the same set.
“Originally beauties take a long time to prepare.”
After waiting for 2 hours, I was showing a little annoyed face, and Clara clung to me while showing off her aegyo as if she was sorry.
Speaking of beauty…
Lucia is also a formidable beauty…
After listening to Clara, let’s look at Lucia’s face next to her,
Clara, who was smiling at me, glared at her Lucia and was on her guard.
“I don’t think we have much time to look around.. Shall we go out now?”
After saying that, I opened the door of the royal carriage that had been waiting with us for two hours, put Clara and Lucia in it, and left as soon as I got on.
“Hero? Where are you going to stop by?”
“I’m going to stop by the herbalist with Lucia first, and then stop by the smithy for a while.”
“What next?”
“It is still…”
Damn it!
When I was talking to Clara for a while…
Not long after the carriage passed through the gate, it suddenly came to a halt and stopped.
Clara almost fell over, but she was not injured because I held her in my hand.
“What are you doing now?”
It sounds like a knight escorting a carriage outside is shouting…
“Kalos… No, let me meet the hero!!”
“You shouldn’t do this here.”
Somewhere, a familiar voice…
“Kalos!! It’s me!! Lydia!! It’s okay if it’s a while! Let’s talk to me for a second! Huh?”
Lydia…?