Chapter 116 – That’s how to seduce the hero, sister.
Chapter 114
The protagonists of today’s banquet, Elfriede and her sister Elena. Together with the two princesses, I took Celine and headed to the banquet hall.
Even though it was already past six o’clock, Elfriede seemed quite relaxed.
“But aren’t we a bit late?”
“It’s okay. I’m the main character of this banquet, so I have to be the last to enter. Elena can go in with me, so she can go in first, you and Saint Celine.”
“Oh, I see.”
Originally, the main character appears last, right?
“Abel, take a seat and I will go there later. How about having a drink together?”
“Oh, do you drink too?”
“The regular report meeting is a public and solemn event, so no alcohol is prepared, but this banquet is a celebration. After all, shouldn’t alcohol accompany a pleasant atmosphere?”
“That’s right.”
I’m sad when I run out of alcohol.
Overhearing our conversation, Elena and Celine shook their heads.
“I don’t know what alcohol tastes like.”
“Me too.”
“Does Celine drink too?”
“Looking at it like this, I am also a saint of the church. Temperance is one of the basic spirits required of church members.”
Clerics usually don’t like drinking. Celine seems to have been the same. I thought it was free to drink because it was an open church of Ludria, but it seems that’s not the case.
“Then you don’t know if the alcohol is weak or strong, right?”
“Because I only had one or two sips.”
“Is drinking itself forbidden?”
“No. Rather than drinking itself as a taboo, it is just to keep the spirit of moderation.”
Then it doesn’t matter if you drink it after all.
“You can drink the wine I give you.”
“…Are you going to make me drink?”
“Can I have a drink with you?”
I want to drink. Those were the words I spit out with that thought in mind.
But Celine doesn’t know if she’s taken it a little differently, or she’s just trying to make fun of me, but she has a meaningful smile on her face, she said.
“Huh, warrior. What are you trying to do by feeding me a drink?”
“…Yes?”
Celine deliberately exaggerated, wrapping her arms around her body.
“I’m not used to drinking, so what are you going to do with me when I’m drunk… Kyaaah, pervert!”
“Hey, don’t say anything strange!!”
When did I do that, you girl!
I was dumbfounded and asked Celine, and she laughed and talked.
“Of course, if you want to do that, I won’t refuse. It might be fun to taste me drunk, right?”
“Because you wouldn’t!?”
The real Celine sometimes makes my heart skip a beat. There must be a share of her Celine that is causing my image to deteriorate….
“…That’s how you do it.”
“…What are you talking about, Elena?”
“That’s the way to seduce the hero, sister.”
“What do you mean!?”
…I think I’m learning something strange next to me.
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Elfri de Bathory has a high reputation as a warrior, but she is also famous as the ‘eldest daughter of Duke Bathory’ within the Kingdom of Vesta.
Elfriede, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Bathory, the most influential person in the kingdom, had a considerable position in her kingdom, and her banquet hall was full of people who came to impress her on the pretext of celebrating her birthday.
“It’s been a while, Your Excellency, Duke Bathory.”
“Welcome, Marquis de Roberg.”
The nobles of Vesta Kingdom attended this banquet with their own goals. And here, the Marquis of Rohberg, who was visiting on behalf of the Marquis of Rohberg, was one of those people.
It was to secure the marriage between his son and Elena Bathory, the youngest princess of the Duke of Bathory. Judging from Duke Bathory’s positive actions so far, the marriage between the two would have been successful, but it was the marquise’s wife who wanted to make it firm.
The Marquis of Robertique beckoned to the attendant who had followed her. The attendant then took out a box containing a very finely crafted brooch.
“Here is a present for Princess Elfriede. His Excellency, please tell me separately later.”
“Thank you for caring so much. Her daughter will be delighted too.”
“Whoops, it’s okay. Aren’t we going to be in-laws soon? Of course you have to take care of this.”
The Marquis of Roberg said so, but the Duke of Bathory did not respond. The moment the Marquis was about to feel puzzled by the duke’s reaction, the duke said.
“…Ah, the letter hasn’t arrived yet.”
“Correspondence?”
“I should have sent a letter to the marquis, but… I should also tell my wife.”
“Yes?”
“I plan to cancel the engagement between Elena and Robert Youngsik.”
The Marquis of Roberg was a little taken aback. Did he suddenly cut off the marriage conversation so one-sidedly?
No matter how much the Marquis of Roberg was insignificant compared to the power of the Duke of Bathory, it was not polite to break the engagement so suddenly.
“No, all of a sudden? Wasn’t His Excellency also positive?”
“Yes. But things have changed.”
“Yes?”
“My daughter, Elena, has overcome her illness.”
“…Yes?”
What does that mean?
The duke’s youngest daughter, Elena Bathory, has suffered from a strange disease since she was born, and hasn’t she lived with it?
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That’s why she couldn’t go out of the mansion often, and she was her princess who was always confined to her mansion. To the extent that she was nicknamed ‘She is a princess in the corner of a room’, she had said it all. But then suddenly she said she was cured?
“What is that… I would understand if you said that our family doesn’t stand out. But are you lying?”
“False? Does your wife see me as someone who would lie?”
At the duke’s low voice, the Marquis of Roberg was taken aback. Could it be the truth?
“No… Didn’t she suffer from an incurable disease? But she suddenly said that she was cured, so I couldn’t believe it…”
“…Of course this is hard to believe. When I first heard it yesterday, of course I thought my daughter was lying.”
“…Yesterday?”
You suddenly got better yesterday?
“Yes, yesterday. A miracle happened exactly yesterday during the day.”
“…No, what the heck? Even the doctors gave up…”
“…Just coming over there.”
At the Duke’s words, the Marquis turned her head. Then she spotted someone and her eyes widened.
“He did a miracle for my daughter.”
“…Hero Abel?”
Abel, a handsome man with white hair and red eyes, who became famous for defeating an Agareth-class monster this time, was entering the banquet hall with his fellow saintess. Seeing the holy sword on her back even though she was wearing her tailcoat, Marquis Roberto recalled.
“…Did the Holy Sword of Order cure the disease?”
“From the circumstances, that appears to be the case. So, my daughter is no longer a sick princess who doesn’t know when she will die. So….”
The Duke swallowed his words. But the Marquis wasn’t an idiot who couldn’t understand that either.
‘Now, the son of the Roberg family and my daughter are not equal in value.’
That’s what it meant. The Marquis said, swallowing a wry smile inside her.
“…I got it right, sir.”
“As expected, I like the people of the Roberg family because they talk fast.”
The Marquis of Roberg said hello and withdrew, and the Duke, who was left alone, saw Abel and Celine entering the banquet hall.
“…I wish I could tie my feet here.”
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After Abel and Celine entered the banquet hall, the protagonist of the celebration finally appeared.
“Princess Elfriede and Elena are coming in together!”
People’s attention was focused on one place at the cry of the attendant who was guarding the banquet hall door. Same blonde hair and blue eyes. Then two beautiful women of similar appearance entered.
They look similar, but it’s easy to tell them apart. Because the one who was much taller and wore a red dress was Elfri Devatory, her sister and the main character of the party.
Even if she didn’t know how tall she was, the holy sword at her waist told her that she was Elfriede.
As Elfriede entered, several nobles in the banquet hall approached them.
“Princess Elfriede, congratulations on your 20th birthday.”
“A very happy birthday! I will look forward to many more activities in the future!”
Since Elfriede has a high status as a princess, most everyone congratulated her by calling her birthday “Birthday”. Elfriede responded with a smile to their congratulations.
“Thank you for gathering so many people. Please enjoy yourself.”
After greeting Elfriede, their attention immediately moved to Elena. That’s also true, because Elena, who usually misses banquets because of her illness, showed up unharmed.
“Princess Elena, are you feeling well? I wonder if you’re overdoing it…”
“It’s okay, Lady Descartes. My body is healthy now.”
“Yes?”
At Elena’s words, the eyes of the people flocking to Elfriede widened. It meant that Elena, who suffered from a rare disease, had been cured.
“Oh, did you find a cure?”
“I will keep that a secret. First of all, I am not the main character today, so please take care of her sister.”
“Oh, stop without me noticing.”
Elena drew her line and cut off her interest in herself, but people’s interest in her was not easily cut off by the news that she was well.
Elfriede said to Elena.
“Elena, go to Abel. I will follow you later.”
“…Can I?”
“Yes.”
Elfriede nodded her head thoughtlessly, then she hurriedly added her words.
“Don’t do anything weird.”
“…Yes, I understand.”
“Why do you hesitate to answer…”
“I’ll go~.”
Elena made her way through the crowd to her banquet hall. Then she walked over to Abel and Celine, who were perched in a corner.
“Hero, may I sit together?”
“Elena.”
Abel tilted his head slightly and asked.
“How did Elfriede come alone?”
“My sister is a bit busy because she has a lot of people to deal with. So I came first.”
“Really? Then please sit down.”
Abel got up from her seat and she kindly removed her chair. Seeing that, Elena smiled slightly.
“You have good manners, hero.”
“I learned to do it like this…”
Abel awkwardly scratched his cheek. Seeing Abel like that, Elena smiled lightly.
“You learned well.”
“Is that so?”
Seeing Elena nodding her head, Abel thought to herself.
‘As expected, Estelle taught me properly. Even if she’s a lame fool…’
“Hero, please tell me a funny story.”
“Yes?”
“I couldn’t go outside normally, so it was my dream to travel to various countries like the hero. Can you tell me the stories that happened while traveling?”
“…There is nothing that can’t be done. It might not be very fun.”
“Sounds like fun? Please come and hear me.”
“Um…”
Abel brought up a story. From the story of how she and Estelle left Daisy Village and went all the way to Thrace to train, to the story of how she subdued her latest nest.
Elena listened without losing her concentration even as she spoke at length. Far from losing her concentration, she rather listened, her eyes twinkling more as the story went by.
And Celine, who was next to her, did the same. Because she could hear what she was doing before she joined. Celine also listened to Abel’s story with a very interesting expression.
“…That’s about it. It’s a pity, but it hasn’t been that long since I went on a trip, so I don’t have much more to say.”
“It was fun enough. A lot has happened in just five months. You must have been pretty busy.”
“I was busy.”
As Abel was talking, someone tapped her shoulder with her finger.
“Who…Elfriede?”
“What kind of stories do you enjoy talking about?”
“I was talking about the things I went through while walking around. Elena wants to hear it.”
“My sister bothered me, but she was playing nice. Thanks.”
Elena asked Elfriede.
“I didn’t bother you, did you? Right, hero?”
“Yes, it didn’t bother me.”
“Look at that, sister.”
Elfriede laughed lightly at her sister’s cute retort.
“Whoops, yes. May I sit here too, Abel?”
“You originally meant to do that.”
Abel got up from her seat again and pulled out the chair for her. Elfriede nodded her head slightly at his consideration.
“Thank you.”
“No. By the way, have you already talked about it?”
“Well, roughly. I was tired from trying to listen to everything in the first place, so I listened in moderation.”
“…Can I?”
“It’s okay.”
Looking at Elfride with an expression asking if she’s okay, Abel rummaged through the inside pocket of her tailcoat as if he remembered something about her.
“Why not, Abel?”
“Wait a minute. Oh, here it is.”
Abel pulled out her little box from her bosom. And she held it out to Elfriede, she said.
“Happy birthday, Elfriede. This is a gift.”
“…….”
Elfriede blinked a couple of times looking at the gift Abel gave her, and then she met Abel’s. Seeing her eyes, Abel tilted her head.
“Ah, Abel. What is this…”
“Why? Couldn’t I have prepared a present for you?”
“Oh no, it’s not like that…”
A look of bewilderment was evident on Elfriede’s face. Looking to her side, Elena seemed a little taken aback.
“…You stupid hero.”
“…What are you talking about all of a sudden, Celine?”
Celine pursed her lips.
“…There is a separate gift presentation ceremony for birthday celebrations.”
“Oh, is that so?”
“However, giving gifts separately, especially between members of the opposite s*x, can only be interpreted that way.”
“…That way?”
Abel thought about it for a moment, then she freaked out to herself. And she saw Elfride. Her eyes asked if she was right.
Then Elfriede nodded her head and said.
“…This is something only between lovers, Abel.”