“Do you want to be a queen too?”
Cloud spoke more absurdly to Laurenne, who was bewildered by the sudden sound.
Laurenne to him.
“What is this bastard talking about?”
He furrowed his brow.
“Uh-huh, it’s bittersweet when noble blood speaks vulgar swear words!”
“Shut up!!”
Tight!
Laurenne slammed her forehead against Cloud’s.
“Ouch. why hit”
“It’s because you’re joking around again!”
Looking at Cloud rubbing her forehead with a frown, Laurenne sighed.
‘I’m an asshole who expected me.’
I knew he was this kind of man. Laurenne grunted in disappointment. Noticing that there was no playfulness on Cloud’s face, he hardened his expression.
“I really mean it.”
“No matter how playful I am, I’ll even play around with something like this.”
“…the queen. I’m thinking of taking out even the queen seat of your kingdom.”
“What do you mean, why impeach our queen, who is doing well, so you have to eat in your kingdom?”
“Kalita Kingdom Ha, what did you say?”
Laurenne snorted in surprise.
“Because our kingdom has a Lorian brother”
“It’s okay if you let it go.”
“You are really crazy. I don’t feel the need to talk to you anymore. Move.”
Laurenne tried to push Cloud away. When he lifted his hips once, her body collapsed with a moan of ‘Hibb’.
“Where are you going, I’m not done yet.”
Cloud started moving his back again.
“You..!”
Lauren glared at him fiercely. Yes, nothing had changed, and when she realized that, she sighed and brushed her bangs up.
“If you like.. huh.. do it. You bastard child… Whoops!”
– Jjook… Chuk, Chureup… Ha ha…
As their lips parted, the annoyance that had filled her face suddenly disappeared. A bright, relaxed expression took its place.
“I didn’t feel anything when I saw our queen during the day, so it’s cool. I want to be like that too. Such ambition.”
He said while kissing briefly.
“Ju-woop… Chu-up… Haha… It’s still that sound.
“If you don’t have ambition, it would be better to make it. I haven’t felt anything while watching Lorian these days.”
“…”
Late Lorian.
A magical word to keep Lauren’s mouth shut.
Thinking of him who had changed significantly from the past, Laurenne became a little gloomy.
“If you go on like this, you will be thrown away after being used politically.”
As a princess, if you used it politically, getting married to a powerful family would be all you had to do.
he added the backstory.
Cloud said it was nothing, but Laurenne’s expression became serious.
She didn’t want to get married, as if she was being sold to a man she didn’t know.
As for which woman wouldn’t, she was particularly reluctant with strong self-esteem.
Laurenne’s eyes gleamed with anxiety.
“…Your brother can’t do that.”
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One of Lauren’s favorite brothers is Lorian. That is why I have followed him since childhood and tried to be helpful to him. It is common sense that a person named older brother would throw away such a wonderful little sister-
“There’s nothing that can’t be done, and I don’t even know that he brought the army all the way to lupus. He’s crazy about power.”
Her positive self-suggestions were shattered by his sarcastic remarks.
“Oh, no. My brother is not that kind of person…”
Contrary to what she said, Laurenne bites her lips as she gets eaten by anxiety.
Cloud whispered in her ear.
“Leave it. If it gets worse in the future, it gets worse, and it won’t get better.”
The first floor of a luxury inn where Lorian’s party stayed.
In a round table and chair arrangement, Lorian and his subordinate nobles were seated, and their escort knights stood behind each noble’s back.
“Are you saying that the queen refused, even though they took food as an excuse?”
Lorian nodded at Kalion’s words.
“That’s right.”
“I guess it’s because she was crowned without a foundation, she’s a queen with no sense of reality. How many people will starve if we cut off our food supply?”
The Lorian side took control of the lupus food stream as planned. It would be safe to say that more than half, if not all, of this city depended on their food.
If they stop supplying food, there will be a huge food shortage in the city.
In spite of such circumstances, the attitude of the queen with her guts was not understood by Lorian and his subordinate nobles.
Someone said in the midst of an absurd voice.
“If that side comes out so arrogant, there is no need for this side to look after the situation any longer, so we will immediately stop the food supply.”
Don’t play with the guts over there, let’s let the river go.
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Others also nodded in agreement with that opinion.
“I think so too. At the same time, let’s spread the rumor among citizens that the food shortage is all caused by an incompetent queen.”
“That’s good. If the wrath of the citizens is directed at the Queen, then it is good for us to have a cause. It would be fine to lead the army as it is and bring down the queen. In the name of bringing down the incompetent queen. The current lupus force will not even be able to resist.”
As one nobleman laughed at Lupus, the other nobles burst into laughter.
Lorian smiled bitterly and shook his head.
“If you move the army, you can get to your destination quickly, but it is not good for others. And if you move so blatantly, the hero, Cloud, will not stand still. Haven’t you all seen the unusual belief of the citizens toward him?”
The laughter disappeared among the nobles.
The sight I saw that day was unusual.
Callion said in an awkward silence.
“Do you really need to bring in the army?”
“What are you talking about?”
“I mean, do we need to do it ourselves? When there is a food shortage, it is not the citizens who suffer the damage, so they make themselves stand up. We just have a little bit of encouragement and support.”
“Ah, you mean to make an uprising. That’s a good idea. If it is the will of the people, even the hero Cloud will have a hard time coming forward.”
“There is also an excuse for us to rule ‘for a while’ so that lupus does not fall into chaos.”
“haha! That’s great! However, the cause is too sweet, so I have to prepare well so that the flies do not stick to it.”
“Of course. I can’t give you a dog because it’s porridge.”
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Once the thread of work was established, it flowed easily like water from then on. A friendly atmosphere filled with laughter continued in the temporary conference room.
– Tickle.
Until the inn door swung open and a man came in.
All eyes in the conference room turned to the door.
Recognizing the person who entered the inn, he erased his laughter.
“Cloud, why are you here?”
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On behalf of all the nobles, Lorian asked.
“Looking at the gathering, it looks like you are busy. sorry. I came in inevitably because I had something to tell you.”
Cloud entered the inn even though he didn’t allow entry. He took a suitable chair and sat across from Lorian. Cloud’s party members lined up behind him.
“…what is this going to do?”
“You said I have something to tell you. Neria, turn around.”
Neria nodded and placed the parchments one by one in front of the nobles.
“There’s a lot of verbose writing, but it’s not a big deal. As I said before, it’s a contract to pay the toll. You just have to sign it.”
“Weren’t we supposed to discuss that matter later?”
“I thought the discussion would be too long. We are also busy with many things, but we can’t keep holding on to that.”
“…”
Lorian tapped the table with his index finger, then looked away from the parchment. The nobles who looked at him began to read the contents of the parchment.
“100 million gold..”
I was shocked to see the heinous amount.
A nobleman carefully raised his hand.
“Isn’t it 30 million gold that the kingdom originally requested, but for some reason it suddenly jumped to 100 million gold…”
“You read roughly, but don’t just look at the numbers, read them carefully. It explains why the toll has gone up.”
“Attempted assassination of the queen…”
Another nobleman muttered in a trembling voice.
The eyes on the parchment turned to Cloud again.
What does this mean?
to explain
Those eyes were saying that.
There were eyes that could be a bit burdensome, but Cloud accepted it with a smile.
“Unfortunately, there was an assassination attempt on the Queen. Fortunately, the assassination ended in an attempt and the culprit was caught. He was tortured and dug up, and he confessed before he died.”
Lorian sent it.
Cloud said, leaning back in his chair.
The nobles, who could not stand it, exploded.
“What nonsense is that! Why do we do that!”
“you’re right. Instead of praising our service to lupus, are you accusing us of sin! Is this really the way of a warrior!”
They were nobles who did not want to be photographed by Cloud, and acted quietly on their own.
However, this case crossed the line.
It was better to just get caught by Cloud than to cover up the absurd crime of trying to assassinate the queen.
“How do I know what you think? Anyway, our broad-minded Queen has decided to cover up your assassination attempt. Still, I can’t pass it on because I have royal face, so I’m on the side that pays a little more tolls. So I think 70 million gold is a fine.”
Cloud reacted harshly to the protests of such nobles.
At that attitude, the nobles became even more outraged.
70 million gold is a huge amount even if it is shared by several people.
The amount of money that, if done wrong, could cause the family to stumble.
can’t afford it
In the end, the nobles went beyond protest and began to take offense.
“Could you take responsibility for your current actions? It’s not a kid’s joke, it’s like this…”
“Are you kidding me?”
his cold words.
Silence drifted through the conference room as if it had been noisy until now.
It is different from what Lorian had seen in the past.
If he seized the nobility with his charisma, Cloud was like sticking a knife to his neck.
“Are you kidding me, bastards?”
Cloud looked around the crowd and asked softly, but no one made eye contact with him. If he thought he would meet him, he turned his head to avoid it.
If you answer me, you die.
The sharp bite that crushed them was warning them so much.
“…I honestly don’t believe that’s what I thought. It’s because you brought the army with you who didn’t have time to play around. It’s because you created a situation where one of them had to die. No, Lorian.”
Inorganic eyes turned to Lorian.
Lorian, who was facing it, also had a cold expression without much change.
“It’s not wrong. But the way is cheap. If you continue to come out like this, I will cut off the food supply for Lupus.”
As if it wasn’t even worth talking to, Lorian stood up from the table and cut off the conversation unilaterally.
“Don’t forget. We are the ones holding the hilt. Not you.”
Leaving a mocking warning.
Lorian went up the stairs with his party members as it was.
“…”
Cloud looked at Lorian’s back and remained silent.
The nobles, who had only been paying attention, judged that the momentum had leaned toward Lorian and began to stand up one by one.
“Hey, what are you doing…”
“It’s blackmail to do it as a hero…”
Without forgetting to say a single word, he headed for the stairs that Lorian had climbed.
-chin.
Neria blocked the front of such nobles with the tip of her sword on the floor.
The sword was also pulled out of the scabbard.
The nobles who felt threatened by him stopped.
“…Lord Neria. What are you doing?”
Callion Oller, who knows Neria at least, asked. But she stood still and did not answer the question.
Callion sighed.
“Pass by.”
He took a step back.
Neria grabbed Callion’s neck and threw her to the floor.
“Cuckoo..!”
“Confucius!”
Callion’s two escort knights reflexively stretched out their hands toward the hilt.
– Spatula.
The hand that was heading towards the sword was cut off. Two hands fell to the floor.
Looking at the hands that were cut off in an instant and fell to the floor, the nobles and escort knights alike hardened their complexion.
“I don’t know where he’s going, but you guys should sign and go”
The pen is mightier than the sword.
In most cases it is.
In most cases.