Chapter 35 – Elfriede and Levius (2)
Chapter 35
“What did you just say, Elfriede?”
“I said Abel was more like a warrior than you. Did I say something wrong?”
Elfriede had no intention of retracting her comments. In reality, Levius’ behavior was closer to that of a typical aristocrat than that of a hero.
However, Levius could not take that remark lightly. Especially since he regarded commoners as inferior to nobles.
“Are you saying that I am worse than a commoner, Elfriede?”
“Who said your skills weren’t good enough? My mindset is worse…”
“Isn’t that saying commoners are better than me!?”
“…So I have no choice but to evaluate you this way.”
Levius burst out laughing.
“I don’t know why you are so fond of commoners. Were you so offended that I had spoken ill of that commoner hero a little bit?”
“Isn’t it wrong to criticize fellow warriors? If I thought about whether I was wrong or if you were wrong, the answer would come out.”
Levius started not even managing his expression anymore. He clearly showed his annoyance with his facial expression and said to Elfriede.
“Ah~ yes. That commoner was quite handsome. Maybe that’s why? Elfriede, did you fall in love with that commoner?”
“…Let’s hear it, you’ve crossed the line. Even if you were invited as a distinguished guest to this banquet, would you insult me, the daughter of the Bathory family?”
“The insult is Elfriede, but you did it first. How dare you say that I’m worse than that commoner? What insult could be more insulting!?”
“Keep commoner, commoner… Abel is a warrior like us! There’s no reason for you to treat him that way!”
Levius and Elfriede’s voices were gradually rising. At first, the voice that could only be heard by Levius’ colleagues around him now grew loud enough that other people in the banquet hall could also notice the fight.
At that time, a woman in a light green priestly uniform behind Levius shouted.
“Stop it, you two!”
She was a saint who accompanied Levius and a saint of the Church of Ludria, Celine. Celine raised her voice in public and criticized the two fighting warriors.
“It’s the birthday party for Her Highness, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Vesta. Isn’t it a place where the two of you fight while raising your voice as if you were fighting in a public place like this!”
There was nothing wrong with that. So, Elfriede shut her mouth to Celine’s words, but Levius didn’t stop.
“…Celine, don’t disturb me.”
“Levius Hero should do that too. If this continues, it will be a nuisance to His Highness Sergio.”
“Celine, I told you not to disturb!”
Levius now yelled at Celine as well. His colleagues, Natalie and Sonia, couldn’t even think of stopping Levius even after seeing him. Looking at it, it seems that it was like this often.
Elfriede burst out laughing.
“Anhamuin itself.”
“What did you say? What are you saying to me like that…!”
Elfriede felt deep disappointment and anger at the attitude of ignoring even the words of her saintess who accompanied her. In her heart, she took off the glove of her own right hand and threw it at Levius.
“…What are you doing?”
“Can’t you see it? You’re such a proud nobleman, so of course you know what I mean.”
A duel. The hero, Elfriede, challenged the same hero, Levius, to a duel.
“Pick it up. I hope you won’t refuse I’ll rip that brain off and fix it.”
“… Ha.”
The atmosphere in the banquet hall, which was clearly cordial, quickly turned cold. Now other nobles were watching the conflict between Elfride and Levius, and when Elfride threw her glove, they were amazed and whispered among themselves.
“Stop, stop. What are you doing?”
In such a bloody atmosphere, there was one person who stopped Elfriede and Levius. He is the only man with the position and power to step forward, even when no one can step forward easily. He was Crown Prince Sergio.
“Princess Bathory, how are you rude to an honored guest?”
“I apologize, Your Highness. It’s just that I couldn’t stand to see the author insult the same hero and show a careless attitude.”
“…What does that mean? Did you insult the same hero?”
Levius refuted Elfriede’s words.
“Did I insult Hero Elfriede at first? I was referring to Hero Abel.”
“…Abel’s hero, are you referring to the new hero from the Mars Empire?”
“Yes, Your Highness. I just said that Abel’s hero is a commoner.”
At Levius’ absurd excuse, Elfriede burst into anger and said,
“Even lying is a good way to clear up. Did you think I didn’t know you were deliberately slandering Abel?”
“Stop it, Princess Bathory. Calm down.”
Prince Sergio realized just how things had turned out. The personality of Levius Grospel was well known to the Crown Prince. It was a fact known to all who knew that he was quite a careless character.
From noble mtl dot com.
‘It seems that Princess Bathory couldn’t stand the Levius hero intentionally talking badly about the same hero.’
If we had to ask for a right or wrong, we could point it out. Obviously, that would prove to be Levius’ fault, but Crown Prince Sergio didn’t want to do that.
No matter what Levius’ personality is, he is the hero representing the kingdom of Minerva. Elfriede is a warrior who represents the Kingdom of Vesta. If the conflict between the two intensifies, it was a problem that could develop into a conflict between countries.
‘I can’t do that.’
“Princess Bathory and Prince Grospel, both apologize to each other at this point. Regardless of right or wrong, isn’t it each other’s fault to raise our voices and fight against each other in a place like this?”
“…….”
“…….”
Elfriede and Levius looked at each other for a moment. And the two of them apologized without anyone saying anything, as if they had the same thoughts.
“I’m sorry.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Well, yes. Stop fighting and enjoy the banquet. Come on, the mood has calmed down. Play any exciting song!”
Can’t ignore the crown prince’s mediation, so they apologized to each other, but the two of them had already started to antagonize each other in their hearts.
Enraged Levius took his comrades and left without saying goodbye, and the remaining Elfriede sighed deeply. The sound of her words echoed in Elfriede’s head.
[Hey, are you okay? Why are you so angry that it’s not like you? Honestly, you already knew that Levius was like that.]
Luna was right. He knew very well that Levius usually did not look favorably on people other than nobles. Still, how did he put up with it then, but somehow Abel was weaving, so I couldn’t stand it.
Even Elfriede himself questioned that. Why?
She didn’t know that maybe she thought she wanted to be friends with Abel. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been so excited.
However, Elfriede, thinking that she would be teased if she told her true feelings, made a plausible excuse.
“… It seems she didn’t like to disrespect a true warrior. The fact that she is the same hero who does such a thing.”
[…Um, but isn’t it time to get used to it? There’s no way the guy who was chosen by him in the first place would be normal.]
“That’s true, but…”
Even Elfriede couldn’t refute what Luna said. A holy sword owned by Levius. That holy sword in the form of a dagger was a very strange holy sword among holy swords.
The most unlikely Holy Sword. The name of the holy sword was ‘Holy Sword of Joy’.
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“f*ck!”
With a click, the vase in the room broke. It was not accidentally dropped, it was broken because Levius threw it out of anger.
Levius has been in that state ever since he returned to his lodgings. He was expressing his anger at Elfride for treating him that way.
Seeing that appearance, Celine said restlessly.
“We have to stop the hero…”
“Stop it, Celine.”
It was Natalie and Sonia who dried Celine. They were Levius’ colleagues, and they were the ones who were in charge of archers and thieves respectively in the party. They gave Celine serious advice.
“You know very well now that Levius can’t stop once he starts like that. Stop giving up.”
“Right, then you’re the only one listening?”
Natalie and Sonia spoke worriedly about Celine. But Celine shook her head.
“…I’m fine. And the warrior shouldn’t be like that. You are a warrior who saves people.”
“…Whew, we must have stopped it.”
Celine stepped forward to stop Levius.
“Hero, this is not our house. It’s all from Vesta’s palace. Now stop and let go of your anger…”
“Celine, I told you to shut up!”
Natalie and Sonia were stunned by the sound that echoed through the room. Upon reaching their gaze, Celine turned her head to the side.
“I think my words are funny to you too, huh!? I’ve told you several times not to disturb you, but why do you keep interrupting, b*tch!!!”
Levius shouted loudly at Celine, who covered his cheek.
Celine was unfair. She herself just wanted Levius to behave a little more like a warrior. With that in mind, she stopped Levius, but the only thing that came back was this kind of treatment.
She knew that, as usual, however, she would stop at the level of listening to her words over her ear and passing them off. But she never thought she’d slap her in the face.
Her tears welled up. Even though she may not be a true saint herself, she is still a saint who represents the Church of Ludria and travels with the hero.
How can you ignore people like this? She didn’t want to be treated well, but she didn’t want to be treated like this.
“… Black!”
Celine grabbed my swollen red cheek and ran out of her room. Natalie and Sonia urgently called her Celine, but her Celine’s steps did not stop.
“…What should I do with him, Levius?”
“Leave it! I’ll figure it out and crawl Damn, this uninteresting and useless b*tch is messing around.”
“…Ah, let go of your anger~. You know that Celine said it because she was worried about you.”
As Natalie smiled broadly and comforted Levius, Levius slightly narrowed his brows.
“Natalie, don’t side with her in front of me.”
“…Ah, okay. Who said he sided with Celine?”
Leaving Natalie bewildered, Sonia crept up to Levius and she asked.
“Would you like to vent your anger? May I lend you my body?”
“…Yeah, that would be better. If I break it further, it will get in trouble.”
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“Hero, are you done with that~?”
“Wait a minute, I’ll just do this!”
It’s been a while since I’ve been sawing, so it’s not going well.
I was in the middle of helping rebuild the village. Among them, I was working on cutting logs with a saw, but Chloe came and told me to eat and continue, so I was going to finish this.
But the saintess sneaked up to her and handed me her rice ball.
“Open your mouth. I’ll put it in.”
“I was only going to do this, but…”
Still, I’m going to take it and eat it. When she opened her mouth, the saintess giggled.
“Pufu♡ He looks like a baby bird. Come on, I’ll give you my heart~♡”
“…Don’t you eat?”
“I’m joking♡”
I took one bite of the rice ball the saintess handed to me and ate it. And she asked her saintess again as she sawed.
“By the way, where is Dame going?”
“You can eat it all and talk. You look like an idiot, but when you say that, you look even more stupid♡”
“…I control him because he is a barber.”
Anyway, I need to learn to write. No time to learn After chewing her rice ball well and passing it over, she asked the saintess again.
“Where are we going now?”
“I’m going straight to Athens. If you arrive at the border and take a wagon right away, you can go in one day.”
“The royal capital is quite close to the border.”
“There is such a thing, and Minerva Kingdom has well developed roads. That’s why the wagon can make a high speed.”
“Ooh.”
Even in the past, there were countries with developed roads like the Roman Empire. It’s not a modern asphalt road, but if the road is paved, there won’t be any rattling.
“Then you won’t have to bang your head on the ceiling of the carriage.”
“I’m sure~♡ I was worried what would happen if the hero, whose intelligence is similar to that of a gorilla, becomes even more stupid♡”
…f*ck.
“Would you like more?”
“…It’s almost done. I’ll just do this and I’ll eat it.”
“…Hero, are you good at sawing?”
When I was living in my own room, I made a bookshelf by myself and did it all. It’s expensive to buy the finished product…
“I know how to do it.”
“Huh, that’s amazing. If you want to cut trees, you can cut them, but I’m not good at sawing.”
…You don’t need a saw. Isn’t it just a matter of slicing it with a s*x method?
“Have you tried it? Seeing you say you’re not good at it.”
“I went to relief work in the past, and I wanted to help for a while, but it didn’t work out.”
“I need a knack.”
After finishing sawing and taking off his gloves, he sat down next to the saintess. Then, the saintess, for some reason, trembled her body.
…Why are you like that?
“Can I eat all the rice balls?”
“…Everything belongs to the hero. You can eat it like a pig♡”
“It sounds delicious, grunt.”
When I jokingly responded, the saintess giggled. Are you having fun?
Holding one of her rice balls, she asked the saintess about her writings.
“Saintess, by the way, when are you going to teach me how to write?”
“…Can I teach you now? Take advantage of the time between interludes, just a little bit.”
“Oh, yes. That’s fine.”
The saintess picked up the twigs that were around her and scribbled letters on the dirt floor.
What are you writing? Seeing that she writes a few letters at a time, it looks like they are all words.
“Hero, do you know any words here?”
“I don’t know.”
“Then I will teach you step by step~♡ First of all, this word here is ‘fool’.”
“…Well, yes.”
I don’t know why the first word she taught me was stupid, but once she knew it, she did. A fool writes like that.
The saintess moved her twig and pointed to the next letter.
“Can you guess what this is?”
“Because I don’t know.”
“Pufu♡ This is the word ‘idiot’.”
“…Yes?”
…You crazy b*tch.
She asked me to teach the letters and what is she teaching me.
“Then what is this?”
Stupid. Idiot. These were words she often used when she teased me. The number of letters is the same as that of an idiot, and when I inferred that she is a word often used by saints, that is…
“…Was it?”
“Correct answer! You have the ability to learn, hero~♡”
“…You are teaching me right, right?”
“Teaching while showing familiar words is the most helpful in learning to write.”
Yes, it sounds familiar. Very used to it
…It’s because of you, b*tch!
“This is the word warrior, this is the word saint. Take a good look and remember it~♡”
“…Yes.”
The saintess pointed out each of her words and explained them to me one by one. Thanks to it, I learned how to use many words such as chimpanzee, gorilla, goldfish, and trash.
…Should I just learn from someone else?