274. The eight-year-old siblings (1)
The royal women’s elegant meeting has ended.
Lydia said she always took the initiative.
However, this time I had no choice but to speak extremely little.
“Everyone is so low-quality!! “It’s truly inferior!!”
The youngest princess walked down the corridors of the imperial palace alone, sighing.
She stopped on the terrace at the end of her hallway, as if trying to calm her agitated mind.
And then, she looked down on the capital alone from the high heavenly palace.
“Ha….”
This fall, a festival commemorating the founding of the country and the alliance with Samad is scheduled to be held.
The streets were already lined with excited couples.
Lydia looked down at their happy youth and sighed.
“How can they cut progress so barbarically…?” !”
She always thought of her veil as inferior to herself and wanted to take care of it herself.
After making her so dependent on him, she wanted to slowly share her love.
Her older sisters rushed straight to her crush.
I kept thinking of a fox who couldn’t help but harass these women’s violent bodies.
Then, Lydia closed her eyes and shook her head vigorously.
Thanks to this, the long braided twin tails on either side of her also swayed vigorously.
“There is no doubt that she shook that vulgar body like a prostitute!!”
Lydia cried out to herself as she stamped her feet.
However, with her light weight, even the sound of her footsteps did not make a loud noise.
“….”
Even though on the outside she was always teasing Veil and behaving in a nice way….
In fact, Lydia has no dating experience.
Of course, there were many applications for her arranged marriage.
However, most of the men who wanted her had strangely perverted tendencies.
She thought Bale was one of those guys at first, but he was different.
She was rather considerate of herself, and when her mission was over, she tended to disappear like a wild animal.
So, Lydia felt even more special in him.
However, the guy who was like that actually had a big affair with Irina and Leah first.
“No way…. Am I really not enough? .”
She had always thought she was the best, but for the first time, her doubts about herself arose.
Even though she was the youngest among the royal family, her performance was top-ranked and she was said to be elegant beyond her age.
The youngest princess sighed and leisurely walked down the stairs of her imperial palace in her dress.
As she came out toward the entrance of the imperial palace, several guards and a woman riding a horse caught her eye.
She was holding the reins of her black horse, which Lydia was planning to ride, as well as her own reins.
Lydia knew who she was, although her face was hard to see from the side because she was wearing her chador.
“You’re here, Lydia.”
Vanessa.
After the meeting in preparation for the festival, she was the third empress of the empire to tour the capital together.
“Yes, let’s go quickly.”
When Lydia came down the stairs, she again had her expression all set, like a charismatic royal.
And then, she confidently arrived in front of her horse, which was much bigger than her.
Some citizens glanced at Lydia, who looked noble at first glance.
As if responding to this, Lydia gently closed her eyes and stretched out her hand.
As if she was trying to ride alone on the saddle of a huge horse with a pose worthy of a monarch.
But, at that moment.
――――――.
The guards prepared cute stairs made of wood.
Then, as if she was used to it, Lydia confidently climbed the small stairs and climbed into the saddle, whining.
“….”
The citizens cleared their throats and turned their heads to see the princess like that.
Lydia, without even knowing it, took the reins of the black horse herself with a happy expression.
Except for the process of getting on the horse, the black horse and her black hair definitely went well together.
“As expected, I’m still not good at getting on a horse.”
“Being clumsy and disadvantaged are two different things, Mother.”
Lydia spoke confidently, placing her hands on both of her waist.
Vanessa seemed to like her daughter like that and smiled with kind eyes.
“Yes, I overcame it, so that’s it.”
The third empress is about one head taller than Lydia.
With her sensual eyes and beautiful body, she overflowed with grace even with her silk covering her face.
“It looks like this meeting ended early.”
“I came out first because the idiots were just talking nonsense.”
Lydia answered coldly with ruby-red eyes.
The mother, Vanessa, is watching the scene intently.
Her red eyes studied her daughter carefully, and then she gracefully half-closed them.
“Hmm-. “It looks like Irina and Leah said something that got on your nerves.”
As expected of a woman who has taken over the emperor, she immediately strikes a blow.
Lydia’s pigtails twitched at this.
“Now that I think about it, this time Leah took Bale with her to the southern diplomatic corps.”
Vanessa spoke in her relaxed voice and placed her finger on her own chin.
“It looks like we had a good time together.”
“How does your mother know that?”
Lydia asked with a cold expression. She holds the reins, but it is the guard accompanying her that guides her horse.
“A woman in love is always visible no matter how much she tries to hide it.”
Vanessa smiled and looked at her daughter.
Lydia twitched her eyes at her sensual gaze.
“Then, me too….”
“That’s right, my daughter shows off a lot too.”
Lydia blew air into both her cheeks at her mother’s words, which seemed to be teasing her.
With a sullen expression, she immediately refuted her words.
“I don’t mind, I can take down Veil at any time.”
Vanessa nodded her head with a satisfied look in her daughter’s confident eyes.
Then, she looked forward again and rode her horse together.
“hehehe…. Yes, Lydia. “Don’t be discouraged and act like you are now.”
The Empress spoke kindly, as if she had deliberately tried to bring out her daughter’s dignified appearance.
“Lydia, you are the daughter of the Conqueror and me who cannot be pushed around by those children.”
“Of course.”
The princess lowered the false reins and crossed her arms proudly alone.
However, she soon became anxious every time her horse moved, so she slowly lowered both hands again.
“Even so, I am thinking of offering to escort Bale during this festival period.”
“As expected, you planned in advance.”
Vanessa stared into her daughter’s intent eyes. She believed that if she had been born a boy, she would have become a famous monarch.
“Yes, the first time, you will be escorting the royal family members on my mother’s side for an inspection, and the second time, you will be alone with me.”
“Hmm-. But I heard that Veil hates troublesome things.”
Vanessa already knew Bale’s tendencies.
Lydia responded with sharp and seductive eyes like a small devil.
“Kuhuhuh…” . “I knew that would happen, so I sent her lunch box to her father and asked him to do it.”
“Oh my, you made a lunch box? “When did you learn to cook?”
Her mother looked surprised at the news that Lydia, who had only handled her state papers and her self-defense dagger her whole life, had picked up her ladle.
Then, the 3rd princess smiled and spoke confidently.
“It’s an aspiration to embrace her man. Thanks to her, her father immediately gave permission.”
Vanessa imagined her husband willingly giving her permission.
A scene that made her laugh to herself as she held her daughter’s lunch box in the air.
「Hey, Lord Mosian. My daughter prepared this scrambled egg dish for me!! hahahahaha!!!!”
“He too….”
Vanessa shook her head and smiled happily.
Hereupon Lydia added her own elaborate intentions to her mother.
“And there will be a harvest for Bale too. “We will give you a watermelon variety newly developed in the East.”
Melon Watermelon.
The highest quality fruits developed from melons and watermelons using advanced magic and farming techniques.
Vanessa nodded her head at the news.
Because her daughter was not acting solely thinking about her own desires.
I was satisfied that the position of her husband-to-be was also taken into consideration and an appropriate reward was given to him.
“Hmm-. Okay, so she wasn’t just whipping her man around.”
“If there is something to give, there must also be something to receive.”
Lydia pulled the Eastern Knights jacket draped over her shoulders.
Although she was only a little short, she was clearly charismatic as she rode a black horse and had flashing red eyes.
“This time, Leia takes the castle, but I will be the one to completely merge it.”
Her youngest princess smiled sweetly, putting one hand to her lips.
When seen from afar, she looked like the youngest member of the royal family aiming for her throne.
However, her expression soon turned into embarrassment.
When she took out her dainty bag of gold coins to give them to the guard who drove her horse instead.
Even though she tried as hard as she could with her fern-like hands, her tightly tied knot did not come off easily.
“Ugh… ….”
The guard glanced nervously at the princess to see if he should let her go.
However, she internally sighed in relief upon seeing Lydia’s confident appearance as she soon untied the knot herself.
“You had a lot of trouble.”
The man wearing her armor politely accepted the gold coin.
However, he soon looked at the condition of one of the two gold coins he received and tilted his head.
Of course, one was an ordinary imperial gold coin.
The other one was a completely different object that looked like a gold coin.
“When you collect 10 tokens, you get 1 free pizza… ?”
The man rode his horse again with a dumb expression on his face.
Well, even if he only received one gold coin, it was a lot more than his daily wage, so he took both.
Without even knowing it, Lydia tied her bag of gold coins again with a proud expression on her face.
Even though she gave her gold coins to the guards who helped her, she was a frugal person who collected coupons.
“Probably, horses will be the escort at this event as well, so Bale won’t have any trouble.”
Lydia knows very well what Bale likes.
She was confident that she could solve everything herself, so she was relaxed before making plans.
Her husband seems to be able to feed himself.
Vanessa laughed, as if she liked her daughter’s aspirations.
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“Okay, it’s the plan you made, so there shouldn’t be any problem. But….”
However, she glanced at Lydia to see if there was one thing that bothered her.
Sensing her gaze, the monarch of the East also turned to face her mother.
“There are twins among our royal family coming this time.”
“If we were twins, it would be Arden and Hannah… ?”
Lydia said she had no idea they would visit too, and she looked puzzled.
“Yes, I joined just now because I wanted to see you after a long time.”
The reason why Vanessa was concerned about them was simple.
The twin siblings really care about Lydia.
“If they knew that Veil was his reserve husband, they would be wary and try to test him. “I hope it’s not too harsh.”
These were three people she had been close with since childhood.
When Lydia encounters Beetle while walking, she makes a fuss and immediately carries him on her back. When she draws, she says she is a genius and displays her work at the royal museum….
“A-. I was young back then. “I’m sure her sisters and brothers are awkward now.”
Lydia waved her hand, saying it would be okay.
She chuckled, wondering who else would go out of their way to the monarch of a decent empire.
“That would be nice, but-. “I wonder if that boy will be able to survive those guys safely.”
Vanessa spoke in her usual sweet motherly voice.
Afterwards, she toured the capital with Lydia and ended the day by having dinner together at a pizzeria.
「――――――」
Next week came like that.
The empire was in full swing preparing for the festival.
A festival celebrating the anniversary of the alliance between the Samad Kingdom and the Empire, which will be held soon.
The scale of the event is expected to be significant as the founding of the nation also takes place around this time.
Of course, I was planning on leaving the group.
“I am a marquis. “It’s the best sword in the empire.”
Thinking like that, I curled up on the sofa and curled up.
However, in the letter from the emperor I received that night….
「Lord Veil, I would like you to serve as an escort for the inspection of the Samad royal family scheduled for today.」
「I will give you enough examples, so I would like to ask you a favor.」
There was something written that I couldn’t tell if it was a threat or a request.
Of course, I met the Samad royal family before and we had a good relationship and the reward was generous, so it was like honey.
‘But, every time I do something, something big happens and it feels burdensome….’
But what can we do?
In the past, it would have been an order, but now it has been changed to a request, which is a great achievement.
Satisfied with this, the cities east and west of the capital are leisurely preparing for the festival.
Arrived at Rubintsk.
“hehehe-. “Are you here, Mikhail?”
As expected, Lydia, who had arrived in front of the manor house, caught my eye.
She came dressed in a pretty Eastern-style gown to match the period of her event.
The black fur wrapped around her shoulders showed off her elegance.
“It’s a little late, Your Highness.”
I walked over to see the proud Lydia with her hands on her waist.
The closer I got, the more I noticed her petite stature, different from her fierce eyes.
But….
The closer she got to her, the more people standing next to her caught her eye.
Even the Grand Duke of Samad and his children, Tilda and Darhan, whom I met before.
Everyone was familiar because they had met at the previous meeting.
However, among them were two men and women with an overflowing presence.
Two handsome royals.
Her man shaved the side of her head and had a dragon tattoo, and her woman also had a knife mark over one of her eyes.
“You’re a veil. Mi.Ha.Il.?”
The two spoke to me at the same time to the point that it gave me goosebumps.
My thin eyes widened at that sight.
“Yes, but…” ?”
“Nice to meet you, we are the Arden siblings.”
I could feel the tremendous murderousness in their eyes.
Just like the barbarian tribes we fought with when we served on the northern front.
“I am the assault leader of the Kingdom of Samad, and this is…” .”
“He’s the assassination leader.”
Lydia cleared her throat at the sight of her cousins scaring Bale from the start.
And then, he peeked his face out from between the two people and shouted.
“Sister, it’s not an assassination group, it’s a sword dance group!!”
“No, for today, we are an assassination team.”
In particular, Arden Hanna, who said she was her older sister, looked at me with very wary eyes.
At this, I scratched the back of my head and tried to smile.
“Nice to meet you, everyone. “This is Bale Mikhail, who has been assigned to serve as your escort.”
The Arden siblings glanced at the Archduke and other relatives, as if they knew they would naturally be wary.
Because most of her maternal family loved Lydia very much.
However, their reaction was completely different from that of the siblings.
“Is our son-in-law here?”
“It’s been a while, brother-in-law.”
A generous old woman and a middle-aged man greet each other as if it is an established fact that they are already one family.
The energetic siblings could not help but be embarrassed by their appearance.
“What…?” .”
“How did that fox-looking guy roast and boil the elderly?” ?”
They blinked their eyes at the sight of the Archduke patting my shoulder.
However, he soon regained his cold expression.
“I don’t know what method they used, but it doesn’t work for us.”
“That’s right, I dare to find out your intention in coveting the cutie youngest.”
Lydia sighed deeply at that sight.
Then, she looked at the two people pitifully and said.
“It hasn’t changed, my sisters and brothers…”