251. Reward (2)
After the situation is over.
The knights of the princesses began to return from each district.
The expressions on their faces when they capture prisoners are triumphant.
Especially Lydia.
She proudly placed both hands on her waist, showing off her majesty even with her small stature.
“hehehe-. “Vail, do you know what we caught?”
The youngest princess points to a middle-aged male shaman who is obediently tied up.
He had his head down, as if he had already resigned himself.
“You caught the enemies I missed.”
“I personally commanded the knights for you who were hit by the sun.”
Lydia placed her hand on her own heart and spoke in her elegant voice.
“You did a great job.”
I laughed and praised her.
She smoothed out the princess’s wrinkled collar and expressed her gratitude for her secret efforts.
“Um… ?”
But suddenly, I felt like I could see something subtly through my shirt reflected in the light.
As if something inside was tightly attached to the body and made of dark material.
I thought it would be rude to dare look into the princess’s body, so I skipped over it for now.
Instead, he looked towards Leah, who had captured the young elf.
“As expected, Your Highness doesn’t seem to be having any difficulties.”
Leah wearing a white uniform with a jacket draped over her shoulders.
She picked up the teacup with noble hands and quietly closed her eyes, savoring the scent.
“They came to catch me on their own.”
After Leia drank her tea, she looked down at the elf boy with a relaxed expression.
“Ugh….”
Rize’s student stands blankly as if in great shock.
He seemed to have forgotten what had happened to him and just kept his head down.
‘As expected, you seem to have questioned properly….’
I was laughing while looking at the poor boy.
Suddenly, one of Leah’s headbands stuck in her back pocket caught her eye.
“Rabbit… ?”
As I mumbled without realizing it, Leah and Lydia approached me at the same time.
The two princesses looked up at me, their sharp eyes as thin as a crescent moon.
Then, she covered her lips with her finger and spoke softly.
“Aren’t the foxes’ main food sources of rabbits?”
“… !!”
The princesses left meaningful words to me and stepped back.
Irina and Mago, who defeated the southern secret unit that was infiltrating the empire, also approached.
“Veil, it’s okay… ? “You’re not hurt, right?”
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“Yes, I am safe.”
Irina approached me while Leah and Lydia retreated from her.
She looked around my body and neatly breathed her sigh of relief.
“Veil… !!”
The same goes for Margot.
She, wearing a long dress, ran to me and immediately held me in her arms.
“Margo, you came in person too.”
“I left with such a faint smile on my face, how could I not come!! “Do you know how worried I was?”
The pig-tailed witch buried her face in my arms.
I hugged her slowly.
“I’m sorry.”
Irina stared for a moment at Margot, who ran confidently even in front of them.
Then, she realized that her feelings were not just because she wanted to steal me, but because she had deep affection for me as her friend of over 10 years, and she quietly closed her eyes.
Afterwards, just as Leah and Lydia gave up their time and mine, she also stepped aside for a moment.
“I was going to come back right away, but it took a little longer.”
I gently stroked the top of Margot’s small head.
The assembled knights and princesses also looked on with satisfaction.
Except only three people.
“Uh….”
Rize has tied herself up in a bad way.
Sitting on her knees on the floor, she stared blankly at the imperial magnates who had gathered around me.
“Those children are definitely Leonhard’s children… ?”
A great shaman who was originally a half-elf and knew the lineage of others at once.
She blinked her eyes at the three princesses who seemed friendly to me.
Then, a great witch of unusual talent was held in my arms.
“What on earth is that guy?” ?”
Her eyelids fluttered as she saw this type of person for the first time in her life of over 100 years.
However, there was nothing Rize could do.
She was just contemplating herself, following my command, cupping her thighs that were about to explode.
Her disciples were also seated side by side, waiting for the time to be imprisoned.
“Somehow, everyone came together.”
I also waved at Bashu and Allen who were approaching from afar.
However, I suddenly felt like I was forgetting something.
“Ah….”
A person suddenly comes to mind.
I hurriedly headed to the collapsed store to find that person.
“….”
The crown prince sleeping soundly on the floor.
I grabbed him, who looked noble even when he was sleeping, and shook him slowly.
“Your Highness…. Are you okay?”
“Father….”
Surprisingly, the crown prince mumbles about his father, not his mother Rosanna.
I woke him up and slowly sat him down in the chair.
“Um…. Are you….”
“Yes, Your Highness. “This is Bale Mikhail.”
The crown prince looked displeased for a moment on the day he was brought down.
However, he sighed with a relieved expression as if he had soon achieved liberation.
“Can you explain how this happened…? ?”
“That’s what I wanted to ask….”
I stepped back and showed Leon the scene that had just unfolded.
Then, his eyes widened as he looked just like the emperor and Rosanna.
He was in the bustling capital city instead of the southern front where he should have been.
“This is…” .”
“Yes, it’s Cornell. “It is an emerging city located in the northwest of the capital.”
The princesses stared at their eldest son.
A bloody look in his eyes, as if telling him to quickly explain this situation.
At this, he let out a shallow sigh and lowered his head.
“According to the elf shaman, I heard that your majesty came here together to prepare a potion of elixir of life for your Majesty.”
“Hey… !”
Lize lowered her head, looking at me with murderous eyes.
“Okay… , Rize. “When I see you, I remember little by little.”
I followed his words and looked at the half-elf.
And then, he ordered in a cold voice.
“Tell me what happened.”
“Huh….”
Lize pursed her lips to avoid speaking.
However, the more he continued, the more his breathing became rough and his face began to turn red.
“Ha….”
Finally, she opened her mouth.
I slowly recited what happened with the crown prince.
“In fact, the Cold War systems of the Confederacy and the Leon Empire were on equal footing…. To the extent that we believe that even if we strike first, we can inflict damage….”
No matter how well Grand Duke Rosetta defended himself, it was difficult to stop a large-scale national coalition of shamans and various talented people on his own.
I guess he knew that well, so he sent Leon along with the Emperor.
“But then Crown Prince Leon came down and things took a turn from then on.”
Lize was embarrassed to see herself obediently reciting the truth.
However, her magic was overly effective.
“The guy who came down personally went around and inspected all the garrison’s points of improvement, and divided the troops appropriately to reinforce the defense….”
The princesses all frowned upon hearing that Leon had worked very diligently.
Then, I tried to smile and defend him.
“You probably can’t lie. “I cast a submission spell on her, but she got it back on me.”
Rize swallowed her saliva deeply.
And then, as if obeying the tightening sensation in her throat, she spoke again.
“The Confederacy viewed him as a very thorn in the side. So they sent me to get him off the front lines.”
The crown prince looked at Rize with cold eyes.
As the hypnosis wore off, his sharp eyes became fierce like those of a male lion.
“I just heard that the crown prince is making such an effort to be recognized by his father again…. I came across the elixir of life as bait….”
“After that, we went to the capital together under hypnosis. But isn’t it strange? “If it was hypnosis anyway, you could have kidnapped her to the South.”
While listening, Leah tilted her head and asked.
As expected from a strategist, he gave a cool-headed example of his brother’s life.
“That…” . Since the opponent has strong magical power, such blatant hypnosis will not work…. And, the elixir of immortality is also a real thing.”
The leap to extending lifespan is real.
Hearing those words, the crown prince’s eyes sparkled again.
“Is that true?”
“So you didn’t have to come all the way here to get the ingredients?”
Rize speaks unfairly.
When I looked down at her coldly, she glanced down and lowered her gaze.
“Then the southern front must have become dangerous now that the crown prince is away.”
I muttered in a serious voice.
At this, Rize urgently shook her head.
“That’s not it…. “I will deliver the life-extending medicine to the King of the South, and when he regains his health, I will begin provoking again.”
War provocation.
How can we have another bloody division in an era of peace?
“Why do you want to fight the empire?”
“I didn’t intend to fight. Because the King of the South simply intended to strengthen his position through his local provocations. Recently, infighting has occurred frequently in the coalition….”
Lise wanted to bite her lip as she talked about internal secrets.
“However, if a provocation were carried out on the front line where the crown prince was, a war could break out, so we tried to get him to leave.”
After understanding the whole truth, the princesses and I all looked at Leon.
He lowered his head with bitter eyes.
“I was lost when I realized that his father was actually devoted to his mother.”
His golden hair became blue in the moonlight.
The crown prince looked like he no longer had any regrets about life.
“Now there is no longer anything to hate or blame. “Until now, only the evil deeds caused by the misunderstanding between my mother and I remain.”
Leon held the rosary around his neck tightly in his hand.
And then, he muttered with a penitent heart.
“I was just trying to atone even a little bit…” .”
“….”
The princesses were silent for a moment upon seeing Leon’s true appearance.
The same goes for me too.
In a way, we looked with pity on the crown prince who lived a miserable life.
“….”
For a moment, there was silence in Cornell.
When all you hear is the sound of an owl coming from so far away.
The sound of the imperial army’s horses’ hooves coming from afar began to get closer.
Mossian and the Imperial Guard eventually arrived.
They got off their horses and approached the store, which was in shambles.
“I saw it and heard it…. It seems it was bigger than I thought… !!”
The Mosian I contacted in advance before arriving here.
His eyes widened when he saw that the crown prince, who was supposed to be on the southern front, was really here.
“Did His Highness Leon really betray you? ?”
The Prime Minister still seemed betrayed, perhaps believing that the Crown Prince had a shred of conscience.
The crown prince seemed to have nothing to say, so he just lowered his head and muttered.
“Okay…. You’re a traitor….”
But.
He immediately raised his face when he saw me answering for him.
“No, Prime Minister.”
Because I said something I never thought of.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince worked with me to apprehend this group of wicked elves.”
The Prime Minister and the princesses were shocked at those words.
“Is that really true, Marquis…? ?”
“Yes, Your Majesty did an excellent job defending the southern front, so the enemy country was concerned about this and sent a shaman.”
I told the Prime Minister the story as it was.
Then, Nobu’s expression gradually began to brighten.
Because there was no reason for me to reduce my activity and lie.
“The shaman elves lured the crown prince, who wanted to be forgiven by His Majesty, here under the pretext of making an elixir of life for him. Of course, he sensed the lie and captured them together with me.”
“That kind of thing…” .”
Nobu looked like he couldn’t believe it right now.
However, since there were a lot of people watching, I decided to organize the situation.
“I’ll move them to Cornell Prison first, because there are a lot of eyes watching here.”
“That’s right. “I will explain more slowly as I go.”
I looked at Rize coldly.
Then, Rize hurriedly got up from her seat.
Her disciples followed suit and boarded the carriage leisurely.
The commotion in the middle of the night ended with the remaining imperial knights recovering.
Prime Minister Mo Xian talked with the crown prince throughout the journey.
He was very pleased with Leon’s sincere attitude and shouted that he would report this news to His Majesty tomorrow.
Thanks to this, the crown prince also returned to the imperial palace with a somewhat calmed expression.
The princesses also returned to their respective palaces, and now only me and the elves in question were left in the prison.
「――――――」
Cornell’s Prison, Richmond.
The elves who entered the cold prison cell had their hands tied by chains hanging on the wall.
“Ha…. Why am I like this….”
It’s been a long time since I was revered in the South, but I can’t believe I’m kneeling and obeying these pale-faced young humans.
Lize huffed with a red face.
“Why is the floor so cold again…? !”
“It’s hard because it’s a stone floor.”
She was startled by my voice, like a learned fear.
Then, she looked up blankly at me, who had returned with a blanket.
“What, what…?” . Why are you here again? .”
“Why can’t I check if the prisoner I caught is okay?”
It is said that shamans practice strange magic.
That’s why I came down to check it out for myself.
“What is that blanket…?” ! No way… !”
The half-elf stared at me with fluctuating green eyes.
Her long ears fluttered as if she was excited.
“No way, whatever.”
I opened the iron door without much thought.
And then, the moment she extends her hand to her along with the blanket.
“Not yet!! “It’s my first time!!”
Unlike when she first saw Rize, she cried out in a sorrowful voice.
And then, her body curled up.
But.
“What… ? What’s the first….”
Contrary to what she thought, I didn’t do anything to Rize.
Just spread a blanket on the cold floor and step away.
“Yes… ?”
Rize had a mesmerized expression covering her pounding breasts.
Her long ears were still red and fluttering as she thought about something.
“Well, when you capture an elf, it’s usually like that…”
“What are you talking about? I came to tell you that in exchange for returning you, I will ban provocations.”
I said, looking pitifully at the elf who had no idea what knowledge she had accumulated so far.
100 year old virgin hehehe.