Chapter 278 – Day 41 – Rondonium, the Capital of the Duchy of Britannia
“It’s a shame, but…”
Hearing Hedone’s simple question, the princess held her wet body her with her two hands and let out a sigh as she trembled.
“I don’t know what the Duchy of Britannia has done recently.”
“It’s not the princess’s fault. It’s quite difficult to hear from someone who intentionally hides information.”
Ceres cared for her, but the princess was not in a good mood.
“Oh… This is the first time I’ve seen such blue smoke in my life.”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen it either. I could have learned it at the academy, but…”
Now that she couldn’t remember her, the princess shook her head from side to side.
Hedone and Venus were dirty from the filthy water running down the sewers, and shivering from the cold winter weather.
Ceres was trying to find a place to wash and rest the two of them, but it wasn’t easy.
“Do all the houses around you look strange? The first floor all look like single rooms.”
“That’s… Ha, it’s because the standard for paying taxes is the size of the room built on the ground. In the ecliptic, the law was changed a long time ago, so you can’t build a house this way.
The princess shook her head from side to side as she looked at the strangely shaped house that reminded her of mushrooms.
“There are no windows at all. Even the windows that do have them are nailed up with boards…”
“That’s because of taxes.”
“There are no fences.”
“That’s after tax. It was a common thing in the past Empire.”
Hedone was a little dumbfounded, but looking at the houses around her, it seemed like she wasn’t lying.
At least one window was barred and black curtains were drawn, so Rondonium, the capital of the Duchy of Britannia, felt like a dead city.
“There, there! Pretty girls!”
“I must have come from afar~? It’s cold and I feel like I need to wash my body! Don’t go anywhere and come here! I have great older brothers!”
Whoops! The women who were talking in the corner of the alley, even whistling, were wearing very revealing dresses.
Her breastbones were all visible, but her nipples were barely visible, and her clothes were purposely tightened around her waist with a corset so that her figure could not be judged, and her skirt was spread wide as wide as her shoulder width, which was very strange.
“They can’t…”
“Whore… Hmm! I can’t think of a good word right now. Anyway, they must be such women.”
Hedone nodded her head, looked at the prostitutes a few times, and smiled bitterly.
“It really is like a maze. Princess.”
“Really… Cough, that’s a problem. It’s hard to breathe because of this strange smoke.”
The princess frowned and covered her nose with her hand, but it didn’t have much effect.
It was difficult to see the surroundings clearly because all the buildings around them were built unnecessarily high.
Except for the huge clock tower in the distance, there didn’t seem to be a single building that could tell the direction.
“Oh! Ceres! There! Look there!”
It was unlikely, but the goddess of luck smiled at the princess.
“Ah, it’s fortunate. There is an inn. Hedone-sama, Princess. It seems that the nobles in the Duchy of Britannia won’t cooperate tonight…”
Haha! What are you talking about? If you borrow the power of the nobles here, won’t rumors spread in an instant? Since you got the runestone from Arisa, at most three of you should act secretly together!”
“Haona, if you’re Duke Arthur’s mother…”
“It’ll be fine. Mr. Ceres. Rather, how many nobles in this duchy would be able to arrange a meeting with Duke Arthur’s mother? Even if there were, they would be cooperative with Arthur.”
Ceres listened to them and nodded his head in agreement.
She first heads for an inn with her blindfolded maiden pictured on her sign her.
When I grabbed the wooden door and opened it, I heard a squealing sound from the hinges.
“Do you have a room that can sleep 3 people?”
“Oops. Of course I will. I’ll prepare it for you, so wait.”
The man who was washing dishes at the bar spoke with a small smile and then went up the stairs.
“Whew… The inn is quite spacious… Has anyone ever died?”
Looking at the little whispering princess, Hedone nodded her head in agreement.
“There are customers, but they all have dark expressions… Look over there. There’s a knight wearing the princess’s armor, but she’s drunk and sleeping.”
At the place Hedone pointed out, there was indeed a knight wearing a red insignia who was drunk and sleeping with his head on the table and snoring.
In addition, I saw customers sitting at the table, but I saw them ordering the cheapest beer and drinking with a sigh without a snack.
‘I’ve known since the blue smoke filled the sky, but that doesn’t make sense…’
The princess looked around her and sat down with her hips pressed against hers.
“Would you like to order?”
The woman who appeared in sloppy clothes had a pretty decent face.
“I’m planning to wash my body as soon as the room is ready, so it’s going to be difficult to order right away.”
“Ah yes.”
The woman had a disappointed expression on her face, but the princess was not blind.
He deliberately caresses the bag of gold coins that make a jingling sound and makes eye contact with the woman.
“Academy’s grand tour… Hehe, I’m on my graduation trip, but why did it end up like this?”
“Grand Tour…? Oh my God, you really are a nobleman. What should I do…”
The woman snorted at her hum her and rubbed her face her with her palms and a hand warmer, and she smiled as wide a smile as she could.
She was so cute that the princess wanted to take out her gold coin and put it in her breastbone her, but she didn’t because Ceres was watching her.
“Haha, don’t be too hard on yourself. It’s been a while since I’ve been here, and I just don’t want to be embarrassed by being rude.”
The princess deliberately took out her gold coin and shook it, and the waitress swallowed her saliva and slightly bowed her waist.
“It looks like you’re really on your graduation trip. It’s been about a year since the Duchy of Britannia became like this.”
“Il.. Ilnyeun…?”
Damn, why didn’t I hear about this?
The princess pursed her lips, but it could not be helped.
‘As expected, it can’t be helped that the farther away from the ecliptic the imperial palace is, the less information can be obtained.’
The distance that took more than a month to lightly exchange letters created a truly unavoidable gap in information.
“Yes, after Duke Arthur said he would make a kingdom for humans, it got worse as many knights from the territory gathered. Blue smoke would appear from time to time in the past, but not to this extent…”
“Did you declare that you would create a kingdom?”
“No. It’s a rumor. It’s a rumor! Suddenly, a lot of knights gathered and even the beggars living under the bridge knew about it.”
At the whisper of the waitress, the princess looks at Ceres.
“The possibility of this being a rumor seems small.”
“Hmm, that’s what I think. It would be better if I could see those countless articles with my own two eyes…”
It was unexpected, but the Duchy of Britannia had really been gathering knights for a long time and preparing for war.
‘Abama… Did you really see this with your own two eyes and let it go just because you were weeding it out?’
How many people will die in a war?
How many knights and nobles would die from each other’s spears and swords.
It was terrifying to imagine, but because the number of noisy nobles was dwindling, Emperor Jupiter left his civil war in the bud.
“Has anything strange happened today?”
“Well, well. There are fewer knights than usual. Sometimes they’re so crowded that they fill the inn.”
The expression on the face of the waitress who was talking was not very good.
“Half of you don’t want me to come, half of you want me to come?”
“Oh my God, do you even know how to read my mind?”
When the waitress played her in a small way, the princess burst into a snort at her.
It would be too much if I didn’t give gold coins at this point. The princess lifted her gold coin and placed it in the palm of her waitress.
“Do you know anything about Duke Arthur’s mother?”
“That-“
The waitress flinches at her as she tries to speak.
“..Why do you do that?”
“Town…”
With her awkward expression of her, she really wanted to answer the princess’s question, but her lips of her were so dry that she couldn’t even breathe.
“That, stop! Anyone who sees it will think I’m bullying you!”
Haha.
The waitress covered her breasts with her hands and let out her breath.
“Do you know how to write?”
“Water, of course.”
“Then could you write it down on a piece of paper here?”
Hedone said something, and the waitress nodded her head and brought her pencil.
“So…”
She grabbed her pencil, really wanting to give her answer, but she couldn’t write.
She broke into a cold sweat and let out painful breaths, and twitched her fingers but did nothing, then let her breath out awkwardly.
“I’m sorry.”
“Hmm, don’t be sorry.”
The princess also patted the waitress on the buttocks to see if she could understand the situation, and waved her hand as a sign that it was okay to go.
“Princess, I think you know a little bit about what that blue smoke is.”
“Yes, I think I know it. I don’t know the principle, but… It must be something similar to the barrier the Oracle placed in the academy. Arthur’s mother. It seems to have a function to seal her mouth so that she doesn’t speak about her identity.”
“Yes, and…”
Hedone, swallowing her saliva, looks at her princess with her own eyes.
“I knew.”
“What do you mean?”
“I had taken a test in Hollympus to memorize the family tree and names of nobles who would be useful to the princess in the future… I knew what kind of person Duke Arthur was and what kind of person his mother was.”
She spoke in the past tense, and the princess could tell what Hedone wanted to say.
“… She must be saying she doesn’t want to be checkmate…”
“It seems so. Princess. You seem to have expected something like this as if it were natural. It seems that the power of the blue smoke is not limited to that…”
Ceres looked anxiously at the nailed window.
“Yes, at least that much, the magical power that makes up the barrier won’t be visible through that kind of fog.”
After talking seriously, the princess raised her hands up and stretched her arms.
“First of all, let’s wash the room as soon as it’s ready! I can’t concentrate on the story because my rotten body vibrates!”
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“Hedone-sama, please come inside.”
“Alone by myself…”
“The bathroom is very small, so it will be difficult to wash alone.”
Ceres, speaking in a calm voice, eventually went inside with Hedone in a small bathroom.
Ceres had put all the dirty clothes of the two girls in the laundry basket and put them away, and also prepared clothes for the princess to change into.
‘Sometimes it’s really worth being called a superman.’
The princess, wearing the light dress prepared by Ceres, raised her arms and sniffed her armpits, or checked the smell on the back of her hand her.
She no longer stinks because of where she got it and because of the perfume Ceres prepared for her.
‘It’s a pity that the bathroom is so small that only one person can wash at a time. Hmm…’
The princess snorted and put her face out the door, swallowing her saliva, thinking that Ceres and Hedone would never come out soon.
‘Hmm..! Although I, the princess of the Empire, did not fall for the temptations of her cheap prostitutes…!’
The princess swallowed her saliva and glanced at Ceres and Hedone, but eventually couldn’t stand it and left her notes with a pencil.
“Don’t go out for a while! Don’t wait too long and go to bed early!”
She was a princess who arbitrarily wrote things down, but she couldn’t help it.
‘This is all to dig up the secret information of the Duchy of Britannia. Hmmm! There are no words as open as those exchanged in bed.”
Rationalizing her her self, the princess went down to her first floor and waved her hand at the waitress who was eagerly wiping her beer glass.
“Oh my God, are you having any trouble? I’m sorry.”
“Haha, there’s also a bathroom, so it’s not uncomfortable, and it’s very comfortable to live in. It’s not like that, so don’t worry.”
The princess smiled and approached her innkeeper.
“Is there a shop around here that can do something like this?”
“Yes?”
The waitress is startled when the princess makes her gestures of making her circle with her fingers her and poking with her index finger, but she uhhh, scratches her cheek.
“I’m not feeling well today…”
Haha! If I could, I’d like to hug you, but I also have a situation right now. Isn’t there such a thing in the Principality of Britannia? Hmm, as expected, it’s a country so clean that it’s called the Knights Country.”
“Ahh.. The knights are looking for more women. See the back door over there? Open the door and you’ll find out right away.”
The waitress immediately started swearing at the knights, and the princess winked and opened her back door and left.
“Ho, really, there’s a distance that you can understand just by looking at it.”
If you walk the exquisitely crafted path between the buildings, there are stairs that lead you down to the basement.
Of course, there were several women standing near the stairs, starting with dresses and almost naked, and most of them did not even pay attention to the appearance of the princess in her one-piece dress.
‘I wouldn’t be able to get any information by hugging such vulgar girls, hmm… Let’s see… That would be nice.’
After she descends into the basement, the princess examines her shiny signboards her, and then heads to the place where ‘Witch’s Rest’ is written.
There stood beautiful women, recognizable from afar.
Her waist her was well-cut, her breasts were large, and she was wearing a dress that felt more elegant than vulgar.
‘Ah, I really wanted to go to a place like this during my academy days…’
The princess swallowed her saliva and immediately headed for the entrance of her shop.
“I don’t accept the new lady.”
Naturally, the princess was stopped.
But who is she? According to her boldness of her, she is a princess who has no one to follow in the empire.
“I have money in my pocket, but is there any woman I can live with?”
“Just because you talk like a man doesn’t mean you can’t buy us. Go back. There aren’t any women who spank you…”
The woman, who had been speaking as softly as possible, was surprised when her princess grabbed her hand her right away, and she was even more surprised the moment the hand her felt her crotch her.
“…Go inside. Customer. I didn’t know you. You’re so beautiful…”
Anyway, wouldn’t Arisa’s identity be hidden because of the runestone she made?
That’s how the princess was able to fulfill her small wish her from her academy days.
