Chapter 12 – Requesting Urgent Assistance
The princess and I were obviously far apart, but reading the note felt like we were having a conversation right in front of our eyes.
When was the last time you exchanged private letters with someone outside of work?
Obviously, most of the contents written in the note were trivial and ordinary contents such as a light greeting or a story about the weather.
For some reason, looking at them made my heart tickle a little.
Like that, I was in the middle of reading almost all the notes.
It is not possible to make ‘Liz’ carry a letter back and forth every time, so the part that will use special means to contact her from now on stood out.
Of course, it doesn’t really matter which way you use it, but shouldn’t you at least tell me what it is.
“Special means?”
It even added that it was okay to look forward to it, so I casually muttered that, and Sir Elizabeth, who was standing in front of me, nodded as if she understood.
“Ah. That probably means that I will send away the white eagle owl, the princess’s pet. Its name is ‘Snow.’ He’s a very smart guy.”
“Indeed.”
Seeing that the female knight with an extremely blunt expression even emphasized that she was smart, I was definitely looking forward to it.
Pigeons are widely accepted postmen everywhere in the empire, but I have never heard of birds of prey delivering letters. It may have gone through special training.
[I’m going to give you a grace period for the time being because my schedule is busy, but you’ll have to be ready to come running whenever I call. The sin of daring to confuse the heart of the imperial princess. I still have a long way to go to be forgiven]
“Haha…”
The note, which contained quite a lot of information despite its small size, was now finished with a cute threat that felt a bit friendly.
Is this how it feels when you receive a love letter that you have only heard about? He hadn’t reached that level of relationship with the princess yet, but he definitely felt that way.
Although I was also very pleased with the glory beyond my expectations. At the same time, it was also a bit bittersweet.
It would be great if the behavior of the princess in front of me was as normal as half of the note I sent.
“Have you read it? You may keep the note privately, or dispose of it for security purposes. If you do not need it, please give it to me. The main office will make sure to destroy it.”
“No, I will have it.”
I folded the note carefully and kept it in my arms.
If you think about it, it’s a personal letter that I’ve received from a woman for the first time in my life. Isn’t it a bit of a waste to throw it away?
“…Okay. However, please be very careful not to lose it. Although it is an unofficial contact, you should treat it the same as a top-secret document.”
“Don’t worry.”
On the one hand, I was a little relieved that this was the first step toward a normal relationship between men and women.
Anyway, I’ve already come too far to avoid the princess approaching me. Because she had to take on her responsibilities as a man.
Even though it is a family that sent me to the battlefield as if half abandoned, I felt grateful for the first time that I inherited a lineage that was not very Korean.
Even though he dared to hear numerous insults saying he did not even know the subject. At least, he wasn’t in a position that deserved immediate execution just for hanging out with the princess.
But the difficulty of my life will be very, very rough in the future. It is safe to say that a new war has to be waged in order to overcome the gap in high status.
Still, the princess’s perverted sexual orientation would have to be resolved somehow. In fact, the other obstacles are trivial compared to the troublesome problem.
Really what if, worst case.
If a rumor spreads that the golden jade of the imperial family, which grew like a flower in a greenhouse, was in fact a pervert, who would be responsible for it?
Who would think that the pure princess was corrupt?
Externally, the ‘charitable and pure’ princess would naturally think that someone had influenced her, rather than thinking that she had fallen into shady pleasures on her own.
And, the prime suspect that will overwhelm it all is…
— Creepy!
‘It must be me.’
It was so horrifying that just imagining it gave me goosebumps.
Eliminating her ominous thoughts as much as possible from her head, she said calmly to Sir Elizabeth, who began to look at me strangely.
“Excuse me, I have a little something to think about. Then let’s move on to the story. What specific experiences do you want to learn from me?”
“Ah. That’s…”
I began seriously coordinating the training schedule and details of the training with Sir Elizabeth.
However, as we talked, I thought that it would be too wasteful to leave them alone to receive education when the imperial guards had been dispatched.
“Sir Elizabeth. Of course, experience in combat is important, but in terms of her attitude and ability as a knight, isn’t there a place that can follow the Imperial Guard in the Empire?”
With some purpose in mind, I deliberately brought her out as if to give her a little space, but the person living here in front of her just casually nodded her head.
“That’s right. It’s a place where people who are considered to be the most excellent as individuals gather.”
It seems like he’s accepting the plain truth.
In that appearance, there was pride as a true elite, not arrogance.
“Then could you give my men a little instruction? It doesn’t matter in any way. Lectures or sparring.”
“Hmm. We came here to receive practical experience from the captain. Teaching the members of the Black Lion Knights is not part of the instructions given…”
She was Sir Elizabeth, who began to worry for a long time with a stiff appearance, befitting a commander from the imperial guard who boasted of strict discipline.
“If that’s the case, I don’t think there’s any problem. If other knights can become even better through our efforts, it will lead to an increase in the defense power of the entire empire.”
In the end, a positive answer came.
To be honest, I wondered if it was a little too much to ask only of the Ten Commander, but as the commander of the dispatched unit, it seemed that he could exercise that level of discretion.
“Thank you. What a good judgment indeed.”
“However, the knowledge that can be passed on is limited. Please keep that fact in mind.”
Even Sir Elizabeth had only the title of Captain of the Ten, but he felt a refined momentum that would allow him to compete with the Captain of the 1st Centurion of the Black Lion Knights.
She, the one she saw earlier, and the subordinates under her command also seemed so excellent that it was hard to believe that each of them were average knights.
If you receive direct teaching from such people and receive a large or small influence, it will be a new stimulus to the members of the Black Lion Knights, who were clumsy in many ways.
It was indeed a great harvest.
* * *
A week had already passed since she received the note from the princess.
In the meantime, two letters had been exchanged between her and me, and now I’m a little used to the white eagle owls that suddenly fly into the window in the middle of the night.
In the first letter, one replies mixed with scolding, asking why the writing is so hard as a report. In the letter I received yesterday, I made a minor complaint that the sentences were not fluent.
Also, I had to put a lot of thought into writing a reply that would satisfy the princess who always sent me long letters.
It didn’t feel too bad or bothersome.
Of course, it would have been nice if our secret correspondence had only flowed in such a romantic and wholesome direction.
‘Please, Princess… ‘
The problem was that almost half the length of the letter was occupied by lewd and vulgar contents that I was afraid to even explain, as if I was being molested in writing.
At least, the most polite sentence is at this level.
‘Every time I think of a piece of scar on your face, my baby room trembles once. Even now as I write this letter, my skin is moist…’
…Is that really a sentence I can utter in my mind? I didn’t even want to know the meaning of the mysterious word ‘Agabang’.
In addition, the descriptions were so unnecessarily vivid that the mental pain was multiplied.
Even though I had already begged him to refrain from it once, he didn’t listen at all, which made my head hurt.
‘On the contrary, it got worse…’
At this point, I am really afraid of the moment when I will meet her in person.
That’s enough with just a few lines of text. What would happen if we met face to face?
That the princess of the empire was a human who ate so much, she really never dreamed of it until she met her in person.
“Huh!”
At the personal training ground, I worked harder than usual to purify my polluted mind.
Now, I exercised my authority as the Knight Commander and newly incorporated it into my official routine. Physical training time.
It was the result of reducing the needless mana training time and mental training time little by little. The existing schedule should have been so inefficient.
Of course, mana seniority is important, but if it exceeds a certain amount of time, it’s just time to sit still and be lazy.
Mental education? Why do knights whose loyalty has already been proven by being appointed need something like that?
It would have been better to have it drastically tweaked than to have to waste time following a routine in an outdated manual that hadn’t changed in decades.
Master says What matters to a knight is strength and mental strength.
Also, isn’t there a saying that pure mana dwells in a strong body? Even for a superman, constant physical training was essential.
Of course, it wasn’t that there weren’t voices of dissatisfaction with the sudden change, but everyone became quiet when he said that he had survived like this on the battlefield.
With the accompaniment of the friendly conversation from the central training ground, I worked hard to polish my body. What could be a more fulfilling day than this.
“Stand upright, Sir Hassan! What the hell is your posture! How on earth did you get your appointment when you can move like that?”
“Oops! I’ll make it right!”
“Isn’t that the only voice?!”
“Sorry Sorry!”
Also, it seemed that the awkwardness between the dispatched imperial bodyguards and the Black Lion Knights had gone away, so I felt satisfied.
It was when we were having such a peaceful afternoon.
“Captain!”
A familiar voice looking for me outside the training ground.
It sounded very urgent, so I immediately opened the door, and the sub-captain appeared in front of me in a sweaty training suit.
Her bare skin was exposed in places through the wet, semi-transparent fabric.
The admirable gorge created by a pair of huge peaks of a scale that cannot be hidden even though they are pressed down by the tight training underwear, and the firm abs engraved with 11 characters are really amazing…
‘No, this isn’t it.’
I had to do my best not to be conscious of the stimulating sight and the fragrant smell of the vice-captain.
Come to think of it, I was also taking off my top, so her gaze also stayed on my upper body and was constantly trembling, creating a very embarrassing situation for each other.
It’s not a weak body, but it must be uncomfortable to see because there are so many scars. I felt sorry for the vice-captain.
-Gulp!
In addition, the sound of the vice-captain swallowing saliva could be heard all the way here, perhaps because his throat was very dry from the rush.
The important thing was not that.
“What’s going on, vice-captain?”
“Sup… Ah! It’s a big deal. An urgent request for assistance has come in from the 2nd Centurion, which has just been dispatched to Bartok’s territory.”
A request for support instead of the long-awaited report on the completion of the operation. That’s an emergency too.
Even if something goes wrong, it seems to have gone wrong for a while.
