Chapter 152 – 152. The Roxfield Engagement (1)
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The Earldom of Roxfield was a territory located on the western border of the kingdom of Valois.
Cities located in the western part of the kingdom developed in the form of concentrating on commerce and industry over time, but the Earldom of Roxfield maintained a form that insisted on martial arts while adhering to the traditions of the past.
Ferocious stubborn ones,
Some people said so in the steadfastness of the Roxfield family, who adhered to tradition.
“Are you here, Your Excellency?”
When the owner of the county who had won several battles returned, an elderly gentleman who appeared to be a butler handed over a wet towel and asked how he was doing.
Troyd nodded his head.
While wiping his face and nape with a damp towel, he asked the butler about the situation in the Earldom of Loxfield.
The butler replied to him.
“Your wife and the Countess are all right.”
“I’m glad.”
Troyd nodded and handed the wet towel back to the butler.
He moved his steps briskly.
Then, the knights of the Roxfield family followed, making a metallic sound.
How many steps did you take? A woman with her dark hair curled up to her waist emerged with a hurried gait accompanied by her attendants.
“I’m sorry, Lloyd. You should have come to meet me earlier.”
“It’s okay, Dianna.”
To the woman’s apology, Troyd stiffly nodded her head in response.
Black hair and black eyes.
Dianna, with a noble beauty and a graceful smile like a deer that lives in Yeongsan (靈山), was the wife of the Countess of the Roxfield family, that is, Troyd, and the mother of one of her daughters and three sons.
Dianna Roxfield, wearing her apricot-colored mermaid dress, smiled brightly as if consoling the hard work of her husband and her men who must have fought fiercely on the battlefield.
‘I will continue to give my life for the Countess!’
‘But the Count is in his 50s, but why does the Countess still look like she is in her 20s?’
‘Is His Excellency the only one who has been hit by the storms of time?’
The family knights whispered inwardly, comparing the appearances of Troyd and Dianna.
Even though she knew it was disrespectful to her lord, she muttered, ‘I will look like father and daughter when I get older.’
“What about the children?”
“First of all, I led the sick horses and returned first, the rest will probably return in three days.”
“I hope you come back soon.”
When told that her sons were all right, Dianna let out a sigh of relief and nodded to her.
And after that,
She asked Troyd the question she always asks.
“Lloyd, did you hear about Allen… ?”
With a sad expression on her face, Dianna inquired after her daughter, who was away in a far country.
I believe she will be okay.
However, her impatience and fear of not knowing the end, which squeezed her heart, could not be tolerated.
Are you eating well?
Could she have been enticed by a bad person?
Since she had no way to clearly locate her or inquire after her, her concern for her daughter grew day by day.
“As long as you are with Lord Gilead, I trust you will be all right. No news is good news, so believe it and wait.”
What Troyd said to reassure her wife, it seems to have sounded different to Dianna.
Anger flashed across the countess’s face.
“Lloyd, aren’t you worried about your daughter? How can you be so insensitive!”
“Of course I am concerned. How could I not be worried When the war ends, I plan to send a call to the Liberia Elves.”
“When Lord Gilead was taken away, he was so active that he personally offered to pay a large ransom, but when Allen was taken away, nothing was done!”
“Allen didn’t go on his own…. I just respected Allen’s will.”
“Stop talking nonsense, do you think I don’t know your plans?!”
“…….”
“If anything goes wrong with Allen…. Lloyd, I will never be alone.”
Troyd looked sullen at his wife’s cold bruise. Her face was full of gaps, completely different from her usual stern appearance.
‘They seem to be fighting a lot these days.’
‘Of course I’m on your side.’
The family knights, who were watching the couple’s world in real time, looked embarrassed.
While there were knights who felt pitiful for the Count, there were also knights who thought there was something wrong with the Count’s conduct, which was so naive that the people around him felt frustrated.
“Alexin.”
“Yes, Your Excellency.”
“Order the horses that have returned to the county to rest, and tell the guards to strengthen their vigilance. There must be someone among the rebels who would have pursued our rear.”
“All right!”
The knights following Troyd’s order dispersed.
Then Troyd went to the bedroom with the butler while waiting on the ladies-in-waiting.
Cheek curl chuck.
Tried to open the doorknob.
But it didn’t open. It looked like it was probably locked from the inside.
“…….”
After standing there for a few seconds, Troyd turned his head to the butler and opened his mouth.
“Take me to another room.”
“All right.”
Troyd, who had been beaten in front of his subordinates and was deprived of even the influence of the bedroom, headed to another room that he was more familiar with than the bedroom.
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She was a countess who had declared that she would never come out of her bedroom for the time being, but a sudden good news sent her out of the bedroom in a hurry.
“Lady Allen has returned to the Earldom with Lord Gilead!”
It was news that made the countess, who was lying in bed with a gloomy expression, jump up.
My daughter is back!
She was genuinely happy to hear that her daughter, who had made her cry every night, had returned safely.
She dressed herself up as if she were running in her bare feet and headed for her daughter, who had returned to her family home. As if everyone had heard the news, the ladies-in-waiting and knights of the Roxfield family were busy preparing to greet her lady.
“Mom!”
Returning to the family after several months, the blue-haired female sage opened her arms and smiled broadly.
The Countess also responded with a smile.
She likewise mercilessly hit her daughter’s back with the palm of her hand as she smiled broadly.
“This girl is speechless! You follow Sir Gilead’s backside without telling your mother?!”
Match! Damn!
It was a crackling sound coming from my back.
The young Countess of Roxfield, Dianna is said to have made a name for herself as a wizard with extraordinary abilities.
Mana pooled in her palm.
He hit her palm like a blunt weapon, hitting Allen’s skin, which would bounce off her spear. There was nothing he could do about the attack, which was like a heavy blunt weapon. Every time his fingers struck, Allen let out a heartfelt scream.
“Ouch! Aww! All, again… I was trying to come back!”
“I didn’t even leave a town to drink, I even crossed the border!”
“M-I’m sorry… ! No, sorry! Aww!”
Yushin, who arrived at the Roxfield family together, muttered, “It’s a pity,” Seeing Allen beaten mercilessly by her mother.
And she had infinite respect for the only person in the world who could tame a mad dog.
“Hey, come on. You’ve been acting ugly for a while, Lord Gilead.”
“No, it’s fine.”
After answering Diana’s words, Yushin bowed her head and greeted her politely.
“Have you had a good time? Countess of Roxfield.”
“As you can see, I am unharmed. Sir Gilead, thank you for taking care of Allen.”
The bastard who seduced my daughter.
Diana greeted Yushin with a broad smile while hiding her uncomfortable feelings.
Isn’t that the person who will become the son-in-law in the future?
It looked like a swallow who had seduced her daughter, but since she was her future son-in-law, she decided not to show it.
“But the person in the back….”
Diana, who was so happy to be reunited with her daughter that she had tears in her eyes, turned her attention to the person behind her restoration.
She was wearing a hood.
The figure, presumed to be male, was dressed sloppy enough to feel sorry for.
Yushin opened her mouth.
“He is the second prince.”
“Yes, the second prince… Are you?”
“We met on the way, as if we were meant to be.”
At Diana’s question, Yushin turned her body and showed her second prince, Alphonse.
Alphonse took off his hood at that.
Diana covered her mouth with her hands as if she was quite shocked at the sight of the two princes, who were covered in dirty dust and mud all over her body.
“Hey, nice to meet you…. Countess.”
Alphonse made a somewhat awkward expression and opened his mouth in a slurred tone.
After being demoted to a commoner,
Every time she wandered the streets, she was greeted with only swear words like “Beggar,” “Beggar arch,” And “Bumble beggar,” So she put on a shy expression in front of the countess.
“But how about Sir Gilead….”
“Ooh, we met by chance. Thanks to you, I was able to come all the way here while avoiding the violent gangsters.”
In response to Diana’s question, Alphonse followed Yushin’s notice and acted according to the prearranged scenario.
Yushin put forward the condition that he would lead Alphonse safely to the elven country of Liberia, and Alphonse wanted to get out of the kingdom with the crown prince and princess who used him as an outcast as quickly as possible, so he tolerated the insulting violence and words and actions he suffered from Yushin and Allen.
‘The Roxfield family, who are loyal to the royal family, will follow their older brother who will succeed their father in the future. If I tell the truth to Earl Roxfield, I’ll be able to get out of the predicament right away, but if I continue to stay in the kingdom, I’m sure my brother will kill me someday.’
Running away from the kingdom of Valois as soon as possible is the way to survive.
Alphonse, who judged that, willingly cooperated with Yushin to defect to the Elf country of Liberia.
“Sir Gilead!”
Troyd came along with the knights at a quick pace.
Sending Yushin a warm welcome.
On the other hand, to her daughter, whom she had reunited with after several months, she had a hard expression on her face, and she only replaced it with a formal greeting.
“Allen, I’m glad you’re safe.”
“… Yes.”
“Your brothers will return to the family in three days.”
“…….”
Allen turned her head away without even responding to Troyd’s words.
The father-daughter relationship was very cold.
Troyd also ended her family reunion with a silent nod of her head, as if she hadn’t expected it from her daughter.
“The second prince has arrived.”
Diana said.
At that, Troyd put on a surprised expression and hurriedly lowered her head to Alphonse, who was covering her forehead.
“I’m sorry I didn’t recognize you before. I don’t know the details, but I’ll take you inside first. And I will order her maids to prepare food and clothing.”
“Oh, thank you….”
Alphonse seemed somewhat surprised by his hospitality, perhaps thinking that the Earl of Roxfield might shut him out of the door, having been demoted to a commoner.
I looked into Yushin’s eyes.
Then she followed the Roxfield family butler into the mansion.
Troyd, who ordered the butler to guide and serve the 2nd prince, came to Yushin to see if he had something to say. After entrusting her daughter to her wife, Troyd led Yushin to her drawing room located inside her mansion.
“Thank you for taking care of my poor daughter. Thank you, Lord Gilead.”
“I should rather be grateful.”
In response to Troyd’s thank you, Yoo Shin was polite as well, conveying her thanks.
After talking about her situation for a while, she
Troyd asked Yushin about how she subdued the Demon King of Heatwave.
She said, “I heard that you subdued Savnak, the demon lord of the heat wave. I never thought you were the famous demon lord slayer of the Holy Empire… , If I had known the truth in advance, I would have made him my son-in-law right away.”
“I kept it a secret so that no one would find out except for a few officials in the Holy Empire. Because I didn’t know when Agareth’s followers and legions would do harm.”
“Hmm, I guess.”
Troyd nodded her head as if he understood Yushin’s words.
She nodded silently several times.
Troyd, who had repeated serious thoughts while frowning as if contemplating, opened his mouth again.
“Sir Gilead.”
“Yes.”
“If Kyung is okay… , How about promising to marry our Roxfield family on this occasion?”
What,
To ask a guest who came to the mansion to get married.
Is it a traditional joke of the Roxfield family?
However, it was difficult to find even a hint of joke in Troyd’s face, which was armed with bluntness.
