Resurrected Immortal 257

Chapter 257 – 257. The Core of the Past (5)

“Ah… ! I’m tired!”

“Uh… ?”

Erin was taken aback by Yuria’s behavior of throwing her body on top of her military cot as soon as she entered the most luxurious princess’s barracks among the kingdom’s expedition corps.

“… Princess.”

“Why! There is no one anymore!”

As soon as she entered the barracks, Yuria’s demeanor changed 180 degrees, and the female knight who was acting as her escort who came in after her started nagging her.
Yuria frowned and shouted at the woman’s nagging, which she had heard many times, but the woman who lived here sighed and looked at her Erin.

“Isn’t that child still there?”

“That kid is fine. Because I am on the side of Master and that man.”

The ‘teacher’ and ‘that man’ mentioned by Yuria meant Illyana and Eunhyeon.

“… Are they them?”

“Eww…”

Here Saga looked at Erin with her curious eyes, and she lowered her gaze slightly as Erin felt slightly burdened by her observant gaze.

“Seria. Tell them to prepare a meal right away.”

“All right.”

The heroine called Seria nodded calmly and left her barracks.
When only two people remained in the barracks, Erin and Yuria, an awkward atmosphere prevailed.

“What are you looking at?”

YuRia asked, feeling puzzled by Erin’s glance at her as she noticed her little by little.

“Ah, that’s… What is the impression of the princess… It felt very different from the first time…”

The first time she opened her face with Yuria at Eunhyeon’s house, and recalled the appearance of Yuria when she went on an expedition together and received training from her Eunhyeon.
And the appearance of her before, in front of her former adventurers and knights, and the appearance of her now, with no one around her and only Erin, gave Erin a great sense of difference.
It’s almost as if she threw off her mask, which she desperately wore and didn’t reveal her true feelings.

“Ha… That’s because there is an appearance that needs to be shown externally.”

“What we have to show…”

YuRia let out a sigh.

“First of all, I am also a princess… Even if you do that in front of the people, especially in front of other nobles, you must never look funny.”

So, she always wears a mask.

“Rather, it’s you or Master’s side, or… I feel comfortable when I am dealing with that man.”

In the case of Eunhyeon and Illyana, she doesn’t want anything from her as a princess.
That’s why she doesn’t have to show her dignity and attitude as a princess, but the couple is one of the few human relationships that YuRia can feel comfortable with.
However, Erin took Yuria’s words in a different way.

“Stop, please…”

“Huh?”

“Princess, by any chance Hyuni… ?”

“… What kind of imagination are you fantasizing about right now?”

Could it be that he is imagining, ‘Could it be that he has Eun-hyeon in his heart?’?
Yuria had such a bad expression on her face that she wondered if she would have to punish the girl who was self-confident and spreading absurd delusions by blaspheming her royal family.

“Am I that man? Ha, don’t even let that horrible imagination out of her mouth. No, don’t even imagine.”

“Uh, uh… ? Do you hate it that much?”

Erin, on the contrary, was taken aback by the blatantly violent reaction.
For some reason, while feeling her sense of security, seeing that she completely denies the man she has feelings for, the girl’s heart is very complicated.

“Hyeoni… He is a very nice person…”

Erin put on a sullen expression at Yuria’s reaction, her blatant dislike of the man who was her own hero.

“… It doesn’t mean that the guy is a bad person. Only…”

“Just?”

“I can’t see it with reason.”

The relationship between Yuria and Eunhyeon is a complex relationship full of elements that cannot be disclosed to the outside world.
Between them, there is no love affair, no friendship, no deep feelings.
To put it bluntly, the relationship of being a collaborator who secretly shares the common ground of ‘Earth’ was more suitable.

“Everyone has different tastes. Do you see what I mean?”

“Uh, uh… Yes.”

She didn’t understand everything, but at least Erin was able to get a clear answer that Yuria didn’t have the same feelings for her Eunhyeon.

“By the way, why was the princess here?”

“Huh? Ah, it’s because the Mograf region sent a request for support directly to the royal family. I decided to send an army from Pernin to support Mograf.”

If Mograf’s iron walls were breached, the damage to nearby villages and spreading to the Fernias Kingdom would inevitably increase as time passed.
It was a natural decision for the royal family to send an army to support Mograf.

“But there is no need for the princess to step forward in this fight…”

“I have to move, because I can organize and send dispatches on a larger scale.”

In fact, after Yuria expressed her intention to participate in her support campaign, the size of the army sent to assist Mo Graf increased by about 1.5 times.

“As a bonus, I was able to take out the knights of Krasir in the name of having to escort me. In order to send even one more soldier, I had no choice but to step out myself.”

“Ah…”

“Besides, I also wanted to make some merit with this expedition and help my younger brother to be crowned prince. Well, I don’t want to have an arranged marriage, so I have a ulterior motive to raise my value. Tired in many ways ha…”

“You look very tired…”

Yuria sighed and pinched her forehead, forcing her to bloom. There was a hint of annoyance from fatigue on her face.

“I mean… Being a princess, there are not just one or two things to be concerned about… Oh, the Knights of Artia also went out together, do you want to say hello to Marquis Olivion?”

“Are you the Marquis’ Artia?”

Come to think of it, there’s no way Artia won’t be involved in the demon subjugation expedition.
Erin thought of many faces, including Riod, Artia’s knights who had been kind to her, and Eira, but she shook her head.

“No. Everyone must be busy. I wouldn’t know if I had visited you in Pernin, but I don’t want to interrupt your break time by visiting you in this situation.”

“Hmm? Okay. What if you are?”

YuRia nodded her head slightly.

“I brought you a meal.”

By the time the conversation was over, the soldiers who had followed Seria into the barracks put soup and bread on her table and left the barracks, greeting the princess.

“Eat.”

“Ah… Yes. Thank you for this food.”

“What else is this time?”

As Erin put on her mysterious expression once again, Yuria asked.

“Ah, that… I thought that there was nothing special about it…”

“Huh?”

“I don’t mean that, bo, ugly or anything like that! Since it’s a royal meal, I imagined that there would be a lot of dazzling dishes filling the table. But it’s more monotonous than I thought…”

Yuria, who understood Erin’s words, smiled.

“That’s a table that can only be set at the court, but it’s impossible to make such dishes in a field like this with poor cooking facilities, and it’s just a waste of food on a long-distance expedition. Besides, I don’t eat that much.”

“Ah, that’s what I heard. Still, I knew that the royal family’s expedition would be different…”

She was amazed that she was eating a simplified meal that was no different from a normal adventurer.

“… Erin, I’ll get to the main topic soon.”

“Yes?”

Erin, who was soaking bread in soup and putting it in her mouth, looked up at YuRia’s words.

“Are you thinking of joining Krasir?”

“Coke! Coke!”

At the sudden suggestion of the princess, Erin, who had almost spit out the bread she passed down her throat, coughed out her cough.
Erin, who hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand and put on her dumbfounded expression, looked at Yuria with a look that made her wonder if she had heard it right.
Judging by the look on her face, she realized that she hadn’t heard anything wrong and that her face was sincere.

“Ha, but I…”

“Don’t worry about your status or the entrance exam. I’ll get you through right away.”

“No. That’s a complete excess of authority… ?”

“What about the act of exceeding authority? It’s a tactic that other nobles are already using. Erin, I have a question for you. Just now, do you think that the knights you defeated really joined the best knights who protect the royal family with legitimate skills and grades?”

“No. That’s not it.”

Erin’s first impression after subduing Villad’s group was “At least this much?”
Erin, who received hard training from Eunhyun every day and gained experience through sparring with the knights of Armitas, won a landslide victory by showing off the difference in her overwhelming strength.
Comparing the new knights of Eunhyeon and Villard’s party was as overwhelming as comparing dragons and goblins from legends, but even taking that into account, it ended up being too bland, so I wondered, ‘Is this country really okay?’ Enough to think.

“Whoops.”

Apparently liking Erin’s prompt reply, Yuria’s escort knight, Seria, who was standing next to her, covered her mouth with her hand and gave a small smile.
YuRia also smiled slightly, as if she liked Erin’s honest answer.

“That’s right. It’s the same as if you came in through your parents’ connections, family connections, or power. Now, the internal affairs of the Knights are as messed up as the political scene in this country, to the point where the entrance exam is overshadowed.”

Even though the inside is rotting away, she is obsessed with the external title of ‘Krasir’s Knights’, honor, and struggles to obtain it even if it is cheating.
Even though it doesn’t mean that her own abilities are increasing, her obsession with power and honor is one of the few ways she can prove that she is special.

“Really… It wouldn’t have gotten to this point if Marquis Olivion had actively intervened in the kingdom’s politics… Ah, is this not an easy problem considering the conflict between the current queen and the marquis…”

Yuria, who was muttering softly and saying things that Erin couldn’t understand, soon looked at Erin again.

“Anyway, I want you to come to Krasir and escort me under my belt. Lets think. You’re saying you’ll have a big belly called a princess?”

“But I have the skills to do that…”

“Are you humble? Or do you not know your worth?”

“Yes?”

“Hmm… Is it the one you don’t know? Seria, what do you think?”

Seria, who had been listening to her conversation while keeping her silence, opened her mouth to Yuria’s question.

“It is difficult to accurately evaluate just by defeating the three new knights, but at least it seems to be at a level that will go up to the middle and above among the members. At least, it’s a much better skill than the new knights who joined this time.”

“Uh… Go, thank you.”

Hearing Seria’s praise, Erin lowered her head with a puzzled look on her face.

“But no matter how good she is, getting this kid to join the Knights is a whole different matter. The biggest problem is… Perhaps the captain will not accept it.”

“Ah… That gentleman, too, right? It’s really annoying.”

Krasir’s leader, Walter, was not on the side of Yuria’s mother, Helena Houbi, but on the side of Queen Diane.
Above all, there was no way he would accept Erin, Eun-hyeon’s disciple, into the Knights, as he was entangled in a minor evil relationship with Eun-hyeon.

“Yeah… I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can accept the princess’ proposal. Sorry.”

“Huh? May I ask why?”

“That is… I have a separate goal now.”

“… If you’re looking to get back your brother’s honor and the title of nobility you gave up, I can help.”

“No. It’s not like that. Brother’s problem… I’m showing hope little by little, but I have a wish that is just as desperate as that.”

“Huh. Wish?”

“Yes.”

Seeing the determined girl’s face, Yuria asked with a hint of interest in her.

“You mean to claim the honor of becoming one of the best knights in the kingdom, and that’s a wish that can’t be fulfilled even with my help?”

“… Yes.”

Erin smiled bitterly and nodded her head.

“If you become a knight who has to serve someone… There is only one person I want to serve.”