26.Rage

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“Are the knights who will participate ready?”

 

 

A woman with red hair.

The most beautiful of all the women… no, people, that Yu-eun and Yu-na had met on this continent.

 

How should I put it, you could say her very aura was different?

It was a similar feeling to when I first saw Isonia.

 

 

 

“…Of course, Your Highness.”

The princess who was said to be staying in the Viscounty of Amar and the Barony of Reizen for two days each.

She seemed to take Larnar’s defeat as a foregone conclusion.

 

She didn’t openly show it, but when she looked at Larnar, her eyes occasionally reflected pity or sorrow.

 

“I’ll be here until tomorrow, so please give me the list by then.”

 

She clearly said yes to the question of whether preparations were complete, but she deliberately gives him time until tomorrow.

She must have thought that he couldn’t find anyone and was somehow trying to grasp at straws to buy time.

 

 

Larnar also read that sign, but didn’t show it.

 

 

“Yes, Your Highness.”

“But who are these people? Are they people who should be here?”

 

The princess turned her head and examined Yu-eun and Yu-na while holding her teacup.

 

The woman with long black hair was very beautiful.

Beautiful enough to not be inferior even when compared to herself, or perhaps even be overshadowed.

 

But her aura was somewhat ambiguous.

Her skin, body condition, and clothes were all of very high quality, but she didn’t have the manners or etiquette that someone in a high position would have.

 

 

Of course, Yu-na was born into the upper class of modern Earth and has her own etiquette, but of course, Earth’s etiquette is meaningless here.

 

The princess, who had no way of knowing that, tilted her head.

 

 

 

The man was the same.

 

His face was very handsome. The girlish look didn’t quite match her taste, but there are always people in any era who break through differences in taste with overwhelming beauty. Like Yu-na, Yu-eun was also that type. He had a face that made women want to be next to him for no reason.

 

 

However, compared to the woman next to him, his almost non-existent manners, vulgar smile, and frivolous expression significantly detracted from his score.

 

 

If she were just an ordinary woman or a young lady from a mediocre noble family, she might have gaped and coveted Yu-eun.

But she is a woman of the royal family.

 

 

She was sensitive to the aura that people possessed, and in that respect, Yu-eun was a failure.

 

 

 

 

When she evaluated them like this, she wondered if they were people who could be in front of her along with Larnar, who was a baron.

 

“Ah… these people are…”

 

 

While Larnar was hesitating, Yu-eun gulped down the tea in front of him and picked up the last cookie on his personal plate.

 

 

“Uhm… I ate it all.”

“Have mine.”

Yu-na, who was next to him, slid her plate, which she had barely touched, over to him.

Yu-eun thanked her and quickly took it and started eating the cookies.

 

Until the maid behind him came and poured tea, he ate almost 10 of them, making a crunchy sound.

 

 

“…?”

 

 

The princess stared at Yu-eun with disbelief.

The teacup she was holding was also trembling.

 

 

 

What the hell? Who is this man?

It wouldn’t matter if she didn’t know. But knowing full well that she was a princess, he was acting like he was in a commoner’s home.

 

 

The woman next to him was the same.

Why would she give her personal plate to someone else?

 

Because she didn’t eat the cookies? Because the man next to her ate them all? Is that why she gave it to him?

 

 

That seemed to be the reason, but this was the most absurd thing she had ever seen since she was born.

 

 

If you just sit still, the maids will refill the refreshments as much as you want.

Didn’t they actually pour more tea?

 

In the first place, this is not a meal. Refreshments are just an additional element to accompany the conversation. If you want to eat cookies that much, you can take a bunch and eat them when you’re alone. No one will say anything.

 

 

 

To be crunching on cookies like that in front of the princess, at this very important meeting where they’re discussing whether or not the territory will be lost, and even taking the other person’s cookies to eat.

 

Leaving aside manners, he seems to have no concept.

Someone is about to be sold as a concubine to a bald old man, but he’s focusing on cookies and smacking his lips.

 

 

‘Even if I give him the benefit of the doubt, he’s a nouveau riche… or… a successful mercenary? Is that it?’

 

 

Tok.

 

 

She put down her teacup.

For some reason, she felt unpleasant, and her pity for Larnar deepened.

 

 

How desperate must he be to have such people sitting in this place?

How short of people must he be to have called these people?

 

 

She decided to talk to the lord separately later and tried to get up.

She didn’t want to associate with such rude people anymore.

 

 

However.

 

 

“But what’s the princess’s name? Did you say it earlier?”

“…Excuse me?”

 

In a half-sitting position, about to take her butt off the chair, she paused.

 

 

‘Speaking… informally…?’

 

 

She denied the thought that came to her mind for a moment.

 

Nah.

No matter how you look at it, speaking informally to a princess.

She must have misheard.

 

She tried to get up again, comforting herself like that, but

 

 

“How old are you? About 21? I don’t think there’s much difference between us.”

“….”

 

 

She heard his voice again.

 

 

Clearly speaking informally.

Unquestionable lack of manners.

 

 

In this absurd situation, not only she but also the knights guarding her from behind and even the baron, the lord of this territory, were stunned with their mouths wide open.

 

 

 

“What are you doing? How rude.”

 

 

Ssak!

 

 

The woman next to him hit his thigh.

 

One of the knights, who came to his senses at the sound – as expected, the hot-tempered one – muttered in a low voice.

 

 

“I will cut him down.”

 

This time, even the princess couldn’t afford to stop him. She was too surprised.

And even if she wasn’t, she wouldn’t have stopped him.

 

Sswing!

 

 

A trajectory that started from above and struck Yu-eun’s crown so that others wouldn’t get hurt if he swung it wrong.

The sword that arrived right above his head in an instant seemed about to split his head like cutting soft tofu.

 

 

But who is Yu-eun?

He’s a human who can’t be scratched by swords.

 

And even if he doesn’t do anything separately, Yu-na is right next to him.

Cutting him in half is just a dream.

 

In fact, the knight’s sword was blocked by Yu-na.

It wouldn’t matter if she left him alone, but her hand went up reflexively.

 

“…!”

 

 

She didn’t block it with a weapon like a sword, but with the back of her hand in an awkward pose as if she was about to stroke his head.

Of course, not a single scratch was made, and rather, the blade of the sword, which was protected by Ki, was broken.

 

 

“You… blocked my sword…? With the back of your hand?”

“Even if this guy has no concept and it would be better for all of humanity if he disappeared, it’s too much to cut him down just because he spoke informally.”

“Ehehe… Yu-na-ssi, I’m so touched that you saved me~.”

When Yu-na glared at the knight slightly, Yu-eun smiled and buried his face in Yu-na’s chest.

 

 

“Kyaa! What are you doing! In this situation!”

 

 

She was slapped on the back, but he still didn’t fall off.

How cheap and undignified.

 

 

The princess suddenly came to her senses and got up from her seat.

 

 

“Put it away.”

 

She said coldly and turned her body.

 

 

“Baron Reizen, let’s talk in detail later, just the two of us.”

“Ah… yes.”

“And when this is over, it would be good to cut ties with such low-class people. Especially that man.”

 

 

The princess glared at Yu-eun.

And then she smiled.

 

 

“Is he from a male brothel? Why is he so low-class?”

 

She left those words and moved her steps.

Yu-na belatedly got up and shouted behind her.

 

 

“Hey!!”

“?”

 

She’s been quiet lately, but she’s a woman with a temper who openly swore and spoke informally to the police chief, who is much older than her. Of course, under the assumption that the other party provoked her first.

Now, the princess’s side clearly provoked her first.

Moreover, she insulted her husband by calling him a male prostitute.

 

She had no reason to hold back.

She wasn’t that kind of woman either.

 

 

When the princess turned around with a question mark, she ran quickly, stepping on the table.

 

 

“Who are you calling a male prostitute?”

 

 

By the time the princess’s eyes met Yu-na’s, she was already in a full swing ready position after jumping.

As the princess’s eyes widened, Yu-na’s palm, which was swung in a large arc, slapped the princess’s right cheek as it was.

 

The princess herself was a fairly well-trained knight, but she couldn’t withstand the shock that resonated to her frontal lobe the moment she was hit, and she fell to the floor.

 

 

“Did that bitch just go crazy.”

 

 

The princess, who was slapped for the first time in her life, looked up at Yu-na with a dazed face.

Yu-na glared down at her, panting.

 

 

 

Of course, when you think about it, Yu-eun is worse than a male prostitute.

No, without even comparing the quality or class, he’s just a piece of trash. Yu-na is also aware of that, so if she had cursed him in that way, she might have agreed.

 

 

But anyway, he’s her husband.

The princess’s words, “Is he from a male brothel?” were just words that ignored Yu-eun and her from the root, along with the previous words “low-class” and “low-grade.”

 

Perhaps the most insignificant man the princess can imagine is a male prostitute. That’s why she said those words.

So she had no choice but to slap her in retaliation.

 

Princess or whatever, for her, a modern person, that kind of thing was just a meaningless shell.

 

 

“…Heh?”

 

 

Larnar, who witnessed the scene, felt his vision darken and sat down with a shuddering chill running through his body.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s over…

This territory is over…