episode_0110

And so the day of Mary’s birthday party arrived.

[Princess, happy birthday.]

[thank you. Count.]

The Count and his family from the Grand Duchy are giving gifts to Mary.

They are a collateral family of the Ryan family, so they can be considered my distant relatives.

[Princess. Hurry up and open your gift.]

With those words, Mary opened the gift wrapping paper…

A dagger appears.

[I bought some fallen cloud a few years ago and asked a dwarf to make it. Do you like it?]

Meteorological iron is iron collected from meteorites that fell from the sky.

Although it is a rare material, it has much better properties than the iron smelted here, so it is mainly used to make famous swords.

-Sleep…

At those words, Mary pulls out the dagger and examines it.

[I can feel the dwarf’s skill. thank you Count.]

And now it’s our turn.

After seeing the Count retreat, Theodora and I move forward.

“Happy birthday.”

“Happy birthday.”

As Theodora and I spoke, Mary smiled brightly and said,

“Thank you, brother, thank you, new sister.”

After the greeting was over, he winked at Mary and spoke.

“The gift was prepared outside. The child is a bit too big to bring it here.”

Mary says those words with a curious expression.

“Huh? Is the gift big?”

At those words, Theodora and I nod.

“There are also big ones…”

It’s fierce.

The horse’s temper is so bad that it can rub against Mary.

“Come out first.”

After saying that, Theodora and I leave the banquet hall.

[Hey! Heeing!]

[Ahh! What words are so powerful?!]

[Hold on tight!]

You can guess what the situation is from the noise.

“Oppa? What is that noise outside?”

“The sound of your gift running wild.”

Red Ahal Teke.

I don’t know if he’s a famous horse, but he has a dirty temperament.

If his personality is that fierce, it makes me think that Mary might not be able to ride it.

“I guess it’s a gift?”

Theodora nods at those words.

Soon, we arrived outside and saw three men holding the reins and a horse with red and soft golden fur fighting with each other.

“Huh? Is that Ahal Teke by any chance?!”

Theodora answers those words.

“Yes, but… I have a bad personality…”

Mary approaches the red Ahal Teke as if she hadn’t heard those words.

But the red Ahal Teke is wary of her.

-Purp!

“It’s okay. It’s okay, I won’t go through it.”

As we approached like that… the red Ahal Teke showed a gentle expression…

Let’s try biting Mary’s shoulder…

-puck!

-Hey!

Mary hits the horse’s jaw with her fist.

“Hehe…”

Soon the horse seemed to have come to its senses and raised its front paw and tried to kick, and I spoke urgently.

“Everyone, hold on tight to the reins!”

I was worried that Mary might get hurt.

-puck!

The red Ahal Teke’s front paw hits Mary’s torso, causing her to fall backwards.

“Aaaah!”

Theodora sees this and screams, but Mary gets up from her seat…

-puck!

-puck!

“This! Do you want to die now?! uh?! good! If you say it! Huh?!”

-Hey!

-puck!

“You don’t have to attack me! You fearless bastard!”

-puck!

Mary fighting a dog with a horse…

When the horse raised its front foot again, Mary held the horse’s left front foot…

-puck!

slap me in the face

“Where! dare! Are you trying to hit the owner?!”

-puck!

As I look at the red Ahal Teke being hit in a hesitant posture, I think to myself, Mary… is Mary.

Agrippa… Is this marriage really right? Aren’t you going to die after being beaten by Mary?

It was a large horse, so if it had been a beggar who had managed to hold on, he would have died.

How can you grab a horse’s legs and beat it so it can’t run away?

[Hey!]

The horse hesitates and tries to hit Mary with its remaining foot…

Even if you wave your front paw in an awkward posture, it is not very threatening.

Rather, it is surprising that he was able to lift the upper body of such a heavy-looking horse with one hand.

Soon… As soon as he let go of his front paw, the red Ahal Teke attacked Mary with murderous eyes.

“This is still happening?!”

Mary cruelly…grabs the skin of the horse’s neck as if grabbing a person’s collar and lifts it up.

Oh… it must hurt.

-Kek…Kek…

It hurts just to grab a person’s neck… but to squeeze that skin and lift it up. That devil.

“If you mess up one more time, you’ll die. Got it?”

I think about this as I look at Mary, who threatens her words with murderous eyes, and the red Ahal Teke who avoids her gaze.

Really… there is no such thing as a good man.

Let’s let go soon…

The horse’s eyes change.

Fear… Those are eyes imprinted with fear of predators.

“Right, right.”

And then he strokes the red mane of Akhal Teke.

“You’re nice.”

Perhaps because the red Ahal Teke was beaten, it no longer behaves ferociously.

After watching me calmly accept Mary’s touch, she looks at me and says.

“Oppa, new sister. Does this horse have a name?”

At Mary’s words, Theodora and I come to our senses and shake our heads.

“Really? Then from today your name will be Jans. There used to be a famous redhead named Jans. I named him after him, so what do you think? Do you like it?”

Jans.

This knight was once famous as the mad dog of the empire.

The name of a warrior who is said to have led dozens of knights to attack and drive out a large army of the Babalon Empire.

-Puruk…

Perhaps because he likes the name Jans, he meekly accepts Mary’s touch.

Oh my… I can’t believe I sparred with such a monster and survived…

Has Mary watched it so far? A thought passes through my mind.

“I don’t think my brother would have thought of such wonderful words… Thank you so much, my new sister.”

I paid the money?

I paid money at the auction house on behalf of Theodora, who had no money, but I didn’t say a word of thanks. This is why raising a younger sister is useless.

Theodora smiles awkwardly as she sees Mary thanking Theodora.

“Rice… It’s not a big deal.”

Theodora trembles, perhaps a little scared.

Actually, it’s strange that it’s not scary.

I saw that he was strong enough to lift a very heavy horse.

It’s strange that it’s not scary.

***

A few days passed like that.

“It’s been a while, Debian.”

A black-haired man.

The man who looks to be in his fifties is my maternal uncle, Leon Prindas, the king of the United Kingdom, a rival country to the empire.

The king is called Leon III.

“Yes. It seems like it’s been 10 years.”

I once came to Hams Port to see my mother and met her.

“Yes, you’ve grown a lot in the time we haven’t seen each other. And black hair that resembles Fulvia…”

I express my gratitude to my uncle for using his influence to save my life in the past.

“At that time. I heard that you worked hard to save me. It’s late, but thank you.”

When I bow my head and say thank you, my uncle waves both hands and says,

“No. Of course, it was the right thing to do to protect my nephew.”

The Emperor of the Empire and the King of the United Kingdom came forward and put pressure on me, so even that crazy Valorant had no choice but to save me.

For Valorant, the support of the United Kingdom would be essential if he were to fight against the Emperor of the Empire.

In fact, the United Kingdom supports anti-emperor nobles to keep the empire in check.

“Yes, I heard that they have taken over the empire. Not only did he correct Valorant’s accident, but he also wisely took over the empire. I think Fulvia would be proud to see you.”

I also chuckle as I see my uncle smiling softly.

“It’s thanks to my uncle that I was able to come this far.”

That’s not the only thing I owe to my uncle.

After I escaped from the prison tower, Valorant cut off the funds I was entitled to as heir to the Grand Duchy.

When my uncle found out about the situation, he disposed of my deceased mother’s property in the United Kingdom and gave it to me, so she could survive.

Thanks to that money, I was able to attend a military academy that was known to be expensive.

“Haha. It’s nice of you to say that. I hope that our kingdom and empire will avoid conflict in the future. That’s all I want. You know what I mean, right?”

The United Kingdom pioneered the New World and made a lot of money through trade centered on the New World and the Old World.

In other words… to put it simply, it is no different from saying not to invade the new continent and not to develop a navy.

“Haha. How can I not know your uncle’s feelings? Right now we cannot afford to raise our navy.”

Actually, considering the fight with Ioanes, the Navy is not needed that much.

Even after the war with Ioannes is over, for the time being, I have to train an army in case the demon worshipers are punished and the demon lord is resurrected, so I can’t even dream of going to the sea.

“Am, thank you for saying that. If you ever need anything, just let our ambassador know and I will help you as much as I can.”

I am so touched by those words that I bow my head and express my gratitude again.

“Thank you. Uncle. Since you treat me so well, both when I was young and now, I don’t know what to do.”

My uncle waves his hand at my words and says:

“Of course it has to be done.”

As he says that, he says it with sad eyes.

“Fulvia… How much that child cared for you. As a brother who couldn’t even protect his own sister, it’s something he had to do.”

Those words make me solemn.

“At that time. I should have prevented her from marrying that beastly Valorant… If I had, she wouldn’t have died so gruesomely…”

I understand that my mother’s marriage was an engagement arranged by the king of the former United Kingdom and my grandfather, the former Grand Duke.

From the perspective of leading the anti-emperor faction for generations, the support of the United Kingdom was very important, and from the perspective of the United Kingdom, which kept the empire in check, it was a mutually necessary relationship as it was at odds with the emperor and diverted the empire’s attention away from the New World.

And that…

Marriage between my mother and Valorant.

I understand that the marriage was arranged out of consideration for each other’s friendship.

Of course, when my grandfather was first alive, I heard that both he and Valorant were good to my mother.

But my grandfather passed away… and Valorant ascended to the throne. From then on, I hit and harassed my mother.

“Sorry.”

I bow my head and apologize, but he speaks as if he is not my maternal uncle.

“Is there something wrong with you? It’s all because he’s such a beast. I love you and all of Fulvia’s children. I feel like they are all like my children. So you don’t have to apologize like that.”

I feel deep gratitude for those words.

“Now, let’s give it a hug.”

While saying that, I hug my maternal uncle tightly, who opens his arms wide.

“You grew up well… You grew up well. Debian.”

-Pat… Pat…