Chapter 109 – Ah, Abel, what does that mean?
Chapter 107
The moment Elfriede entered the drawing room, the only thing that caught her eye was Abel, her only close friend, and Celine, a saintess of the Church of Ludria who clung to him.
[Yaya, what are they doing!? Why are you clinging to me like that?]
Luna questioned, but Elfriede couldn’t figure out why Celine was so attached to Abel. Then, suddenly, I remembered a story I had spilled before.
Rumors that Abel is a playboy. Recalling the rumor, Elfriede looked at Abel with an unbelievable look.
However, Abel, the person in charge of her, was tilting her head.
“Elfriede? Why are you like that?”
“Abel, that…why is Saint Celine acting like that?”
“Yes?…Ah, Celine. I want you to let go of your arm.”
“That’s too much.”
“What is too much? Of course.”
Looking at Abel, who added that she was meeting someone, Elfriede was confused. What do you mean?
Celine openly did what could only be seen as an act of love, and Abel passed over her behavior very naturally.
No matter how ignorant Elfriede was about male-female relationships, she couldn’t help but notice the relationship between the two.
“Oh, by the way, Elfriede. You look so beautiful today.”
Abel noticed Elfride’s carefully groomed appearance and praised her, but her ears didn’t even hear that kind of praise. It was because he was only interested in the relationship between him and Saint Celine.
“Ah, Abel… I’m asking just in case, what kind of relationship do you have with Saint Celine…?”
“Yes?…Ah, Saint Celine? I’m dating.”
“…What?”
[What?! No, what the hell happened between the two months?]
Elfriede looked very surprised. Seeing her like that, Abel tilted her head.
“Why is that?”
“…Ah, no…”
It wasn’t strange. Since before, there were often cases where the hero and the saint were connected. She’s also the one closest to me. So there was nothing strange about it.
It must have been, but Elfriede was getting complicated in her thoughts. Why she felt this way, she didn’t know.
Elfriede pushed her complicated thoughts to one side of her and went to her seat clearing her throat. For she had to greet her guest as the party that invited him.
Seeing Elfriede quietly sitting in her seat, Abel said.
“How have you been?”
“Yes, yes. How are you? Abel, what about you?”
“Hey, how have you been? I almost died, but luckily I overcame the crisis.”
“…I heard that you subjugated an Agareth-class monster.”
“Oh, did you hear that? Because I really just caught it. Of course, our saintess did most of it, but…”
Elfriede nodded her head.
“I see. But even so, it doesn’t change the fact that you showed great performance. She heard that she even captured the Queen of the North who reigned in the Glacier Mountains.”
“Ah, that’s what the saintess is…”
“It is not good to be too modest, Abel.”
Elfriede laughed at Abel’s modesty, but Estelle actually caught the North Queen. Although Abel had a lot of involvement in subjugating Agares-class monsters.
“Aren’t you busy preparing for the banquet by the way? I think we might be holding on too much.”
That was Celine’s words. It was clearly meant to be considerate of Elfriede, but for some reason it felt different. Feeling as if he was holding himself in check, Elfriede said while slightly closing her eyelids.
“It’s okay. The preparations for the banquet are almost complete. And like this, the guests I invited came, and I couldn’t help but greet them.”
“…Is that so?”
“Yes. So don’t worry, Saint Celine.”
Elfriede asked Abel.
“By the way, where is Saint Estelle? Where did she go?”
“Oh, no. The saintess is staying at an inn.”
“Hmm?”
Why? Abel explained to Elfriede, who looked at him with an expression of
“There are circumstances… hahahaha.”
“…Is that so?”
Seeing Abel, who didn’t seem to want to elaborate, Elfriede passed lightly. Because without Estelle, she was rather good for Elfriede. Without Estelle, she had a chance to be more comfortable with Abel.
“The banquet is in two days, so you can spend comfortably until then. I want you to think of it as if it were my home.”
“Thank you, Elfriede.”
“…That, by the way…”
“Yes?”
Elfriede unconsciously twisted the ends of her hair with her fingers. She looked at Abel and said.
“Is it really pretty? The way I look now…”
“Oh, yes. You’re always pretty, but you’re even prettier now. Did you wear makeup too?”
“Yes, yes. Right now, I have to greet you as Princess Bathory rather than as the hero Elfriede… So I paid more attention.”
“Aha.”
Seeing Elfride add the reason why she didn’t have to tell me like an excuse, Luna said something.
[Why are you talking nonsense?]
“…….”
When Abel praised Elfride’s appearance, Celine, who was next to her, looked at Abel with a slightly dissatisfied look.
“Hero.”
“Yes?”
“How am I today?”
“Celine…She’s pretty as usual.”
“Really? Do you think the hero looks pretty even without me dressing up?”
“Of course.”
Of course Celine knew how Abel would react. Even so, the reason she asked the question was purely to keep one person in check.
That’s Elfride Bathory. To keep her in check, she appeared in a way that her woman, Celine, would naturally admire her even if she saw it.
There was no way that Elfriede would not notice her obvious intentions. Elfriede narrowed her brow slightly and said.
“By the way… When did you become such a relationship with Saint Celine, Abel? I heard at first glance, but there were rumors that you were a prostitute. Did you show affection in front of others like you do now?”
“…Yes?”
“I only heard about it. According to the lady who brought up her story, it seems that such a rumor has arisen in the Apollo kingdom.”
“…Hmm.”
Abel cleared her throat, wondering if something had stung her, and she delayed answering. As she brought up her story to Abel, she was subtly trying to get Celine to pay attention to her, but Abel couldn’t answer properly.
Seeing that, Elfriede somehow felt bad.
“…Abel, if you are a hero, you should refrain from such an appearance.”
“…It wasn’t an act of love…Just something that could be misunderstood.”
“Misunderstanding?”
“…Hmmm.”
Abel cleared her throat a couple of times, as if trying to gloss over her words. Seeing that figure, Elfriede narrowed her brows. She let out a sigh, realizing that Abel had no intention of saying more.
Why is he in such a bad mood…I don’t know why, but Elfriede, who was in a bad mood, raised a question.
“By the way, if Saint Celine became a lover, what happened to Saint Estelle? She doesn’t think he was able to cut the gap between the two of them…”
Estelle was the one who kept Elfride from even trying to befriend Abel. Would she let Abel go out with another woman? She was talking nonsense.
“Oh, that’s fine. I got permission.”
“…Um?”
Permission? That Saint Estelle allowed the two of you to have a relationship? She was even more shocking than Abel’s dating Celine.
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“Because she decided to always choose the saintess first. I got permission for that.”
“…?”
For a moment, Elfriede couldn’t understand. First…?
After hearing that, Luna started to make a fuss about her.
[Ah, no. Then, did you lay your hand on the two saints!?]
One word from Luna resonated in her head made Elfriede agitated. She denied Luna’s words inwardly and asked Abel in a timid voice.
“Oh, Abel, what do you mean by that?”
“Yes?…Oh, I didn’t tell you.”
Abel said hehehehe with an idiotic laugh.
“Saint Estelle is her first girlfriend. Saint Celine here has become her second girlfriend.”
“Hero, when you say that, I’m like a concubine.”
“You know I don’t mean that. It’s just the timing.”
“As expected, I shouldn’t have helped Saint Estelle. I should have been the first.”
“Ha ha…”
While Abel and Celine were having such a conversation, Elfriede was staring blankly at Abel.
No, I had no choice but to do so. What did Abel say now?
Elfriede, who had barely come to his senses, asked Abel to confirm.
“…What, what did you say, Abel?”
“Yes?”
“Saint Estelle is her first girlfriend, and Saint Celine is her second girlfriend!?”
“Uh…Yes. It happened. Anyway, polygamy is practiced in my hometown, so there is no legal problem, and Estelle and Celine agreed, so…”
Elfriede realized why Abel was rumored to be a prostitute, and her arms trembled.
“…Elfriede?”
“Yeah, that’s right. It would be very… Something to celebrate.”
“Ah, thank you…”
Abel looked at Elfriede as she thanked her.
‘But why does her arm keep shaking?’
By the time Abel felt something uneasy about her, Elfriede’s tremors stopped.
“Then you must be very happy these days, Abel.”
“Yeah, that’s right. I think she is undeservedly loved.”
“I see, I see.”
And suddenly, Elfriede smiled brightly. She’s clearly smiling, but Abel’s smile gives off something terrifying.
‘Why, why is this?’
Abel, who couldn’t understand why Elfriede was doing this, was taken aback. Elfriede still had a bizarre smile on her face and she said to Abel.
“Abel, by the way, if she had subdued an Agareth-class monster, her skills would have improved a lot. Yes?”
“…Isn’t it?”
Why are you bringing up that story all of a sudden? Abel, who had such doubts, was startled when he heard Elfriede’s continued words.
“Then would you like to spat with me?”
“…Yes? But Elfriede. As it stands now…”
“It’s okay. After all, you just need to change clothes.”
Elfriede was still smiling.
“Will you do it?”