Chapter 467 – Knights of the Blood Cross (4)
Baron Demeter Ashram’s allegiance was twisted and twisted. Thanks to that, it was difficult for him to give a good evaluation, but there was a category of work that Marey could understand.
“No, I understand Demeter’s mind. Just… He’s way too coercive, so I think he couldn’t solve it with good words because he was angry. I think Baron Ashram moved for Philia. I don’t know if that’s right.”
“Thank you… Back to the story, Julia Pahu is a talented person. However, isn’t she not sure how far that ability goes? Because others don’t know about the limits of one’s ability until they experience it themselves. If you’re like me, I’ll keep going up. Then, when the limit approaches, I think I will slowly upload it by letting them accumulate experience from then on. Seeing that he commanded a corps wonderfully during the Northern Orc’s uprising last month, even the chief of staff is capable~ This is my evaluation. Originally, people cannot be sure until they try it.”
“Labella… No, how do you rate her mother?”
Philia let out a small pained sound.
“What a man. She thought that she was a person with the ability to fit the role of Prime Minister…”
“I did… ?”
Philia stared at Marey.
“The evaluation has changed a bit these days. Hmm… Should we talk about this?”
“Are the ratings bad?”
Philia seemed perplexed. Normally, she would have smiled lightly and talked casually, but her hesitant attitude made Marei unknowingly nervous.
“To be honest… Should I say she was a little disappointed.”
“Why?”
“Marey, because of you.”
Philia let out a sigh of her own. She told her story before her Marey could ask.
“Rabella de Parwen, witch of the Inspection Bureau, an emotionless demon. Notorious to hear, but to people like me, he was an ideal person. But after you appeared, the evaluation was a little different.”
“Is it because of me?”
“Yeah, it’s because I have a lot of favoritism towards you. I never imagined that he would make such a face. I thought she was a person similar to the female emperor, but in front of her son, she becomes a stupid mother who laughs and laughs… Administrative skills and resourcefulness are still amazing, but I think… The formula for being perfect has disappeared.”
Marey drooped her shoulders as if in her guilt.
“How pretty did you do at home to melt Ravella de Parwen?”
“That, well…”
In response to Marey’s reaction, Philia cuts the thick steak again to make it easier to eat. The numb boy was worried that Philia might have noticed her and Ravella’s ‘real’ relationship, but Philia just didn’t care.
Of course, she wasn’t quick enough to notice that, so the boy just changed the subject.
“Kh, what do Ksacru professors think?”
“Hmm… By the way. Marey.”
“Yes, four!?”
Philia’s eyes were squinting, she was looking at the boy.
“Why do you keep talking about other people? You’re trying to get a little jealous.”
“Is that so… Sorry.”
“It’s a joke, a joke. If you are so serious and apologize… Hmmmm… Did you say Sister Ksakr? You must be curious about the professors. Well, both of them aren’t bad either. One is too meek and the other is too aggressive, so it’s hard to give them full marks.”
Marei wondered if she could continue asking here, or if she should keep an eye on Philia, so she lightly nodded her head and checked her mood.
“Illien Ksacru… Hmm. He’s a great wizard If you listen to Ycher, he is a person with an unrivaled ability unlike his cute personality, but he seems difficult to deal with because he tends to do only what he wants to do.”
“Uh, do you even know Professor Itcher?”
“Didn’t I tell you last time? Didn’t you… ? Count Valentine. Her title comes from the principality. Well, as she became a principality, she was demoted and was an earl, but.”
Icher was from the principality. For a moment.
“I heard that Professor Itcher grew up with Professor Ksakroo?”
“Oh, I remember hearing that too. Well, even though I grew up in Elvenheim, I’m a Dark Elf. I couldn’t help but notice that I was still there. The old king… Her uncle fell in love with him and invited him to be a court mage.”
“A court mage?”
“Well, I was only listening to it. Well, the former king was also a horny person like this. Well, while trying to flirt, a war broke out and the king died, and so on. That’s why the bastard who was second in the line of succession has now become the king.”
Icher noona was a court mage. She heard some interesting information.
“Well, let’s get to the point… Idrien Ksacru… Hmm. It’s hard to give her a good grade. Because her personality is so bad… I don’t think I’m trying to be friendly with others, and I’m easy to deal with, but difficult to use. They say he became nice because he got a lover these days. Well. I don’t know because I’ve never seen it change. Acknowledge your abilities It’s to the extent that I know that once you take on a project, starting with the completion rate, you paranoidally perfect it.”
“Ahaha… Professor Idrien always says that she has a bad personality…”
“Because it was really great. When I was a freshman, was I crazy to see a guy immediately kick me out for being late for no reason? It made me question it.”
It seemed that the more Idrien sold her, the more dangerous stories she heard. She has been hearing a lot of good things lately… Come to think of it, if she had threatened her by saying that she smelled of Illien when we first met her, it seemed that she would be enough to spread notoriety to other children.
“You talk in much more detail than last time.”
“Than she did in the principality? Well, this is because a lot of my personal opinion goes into it. Now that you know a lot about them, you can talk as you please. Hmm… Was it Professor Nagisa? A swordsmanship teacher? The answer is the same as back then… He was a famous swordsman, but I’m not sure. Is all that is left now is Lee Ha-woon?”
“Yes… !”
Marey nodded her head with her strange anticipation.
“Lee Ha-woon… He’s just an idiot.”
“Yes?”
Marey asked in disbelief at Philia’s words.
“Le Ha-woon knows better than Isher. He was my tutor.”
“…A tutor?”
Philia nodded her head. Seeing her frown, she didn’t seem to have good feelings for Lee Ha-woon.
“Later… Let’s talk later.”
Philia let out a long sigh.
“When I try to talk about him, I don’t think she has anything nice to say. It wouldn’t be such a good option to criticize others on a good day like today. It’s a famous wine in the south, would you like to drink it?”
“I’m OK.”
It’s a child. Said Philia, as if taking her medicine, but she said that it was not fun to see Marey scratching her cheek, and the meal time ended by slowly savoring a glass of her wine.
***
Marey enlists Philia’s help to recheck her notes, and she goes through them with her in her mansion’s library.
“All of this in just that amount of time… ? The writing speed is amazing. It’s at a level that I can read, but it seems like I just wrote down all of Demeter’s words… ?”
“Yes, that… I just happened to…”
Philia blew a small whistle. At first, she held out a wad of paper and tried to do something, but when she saw that it was a dense handwriting, she was involuntarily amazed.
“If there is anything you need while writing the dissertation, ask me and give me a few books. I even wrote about Demeter stuttering…”
Philia smiled lightly, as if she had collapsed.
“Helpful resources…”
The mansion’s library luxuriously occupied half of one floor.
“There are so many useless books out there. Just because you have a lot of books doesn’t mean you have a high level of learning. It’s hard to find it because I’m collecting clutter in my greed to fill the bookshelf.”
“How many books do you have… ?”
“200,000 to 300,000 books? They said they would fill in the blanks, but most of them were transcribed from the Royal Library in their home country… Mostly useless The only person managing it is a dispatched wizard who comes once a month from the Romanian Royal Library. Well, it’s at the level of managing books so that they don’t get damaged. It has no meaning.”
“Is this a place you created because you were worried that the books would get lost in an accident?”
“I hope that was the intention, but there are already transcribed books for preservation all over the kingdom. It’s just a waste of money.”
Philia took out a book from her bookshelf and fluttered casually. It was a language she had never seen before. But she was strangely used to it. No, to know
“Understanding… Of the Basar culture… ?”
“I can read… ?”
Philia looked back at her Marey in surprise.
“Uh, that… Yes.”
“Then what about this?”
“A biography of Basar the Great?”
Oh… A small exclamation escaped Philia’s mouth.
“What, when did you study? Huh?”
“I-I will… ?”
She never studied. No, I never learned. But she knew. Even though it was a language she had never seen before, she knew it. Marey looked at her unfamiliar letters again. It was a letter she had never seen in her life. No, it seemed that she had seen an unreasonable letter in the principality’s constitution.
“I didn’t even know how to read at the time of the founding… Well, it’s funny that Gukseo can’t speak the language, but that’s true. I don’t mind if you lend me the application form while telling me to work harder.”
Philia seemed strangely delighted. She seemed to have a strange misunderstanding, but she didn’t feel the need to correct it. She walked slowly, following Philia’s back. The white nape of her neck, visible through her swaying, silvery purple hair, was very erotic.
“If you look at what Demeter said… Here, ‘The Decline of the Empire and the Situation of the Continent’ and ‘Understanding of the Knights of the Blood Cross’ are also good. ‘Analysis of the Knights of the Blood Cross’ is also necessary… Continental influence… I was here, where are you?”
Philia pulled up the three-tier footrest next to her bookshelf and stood up, but she couldn’t reach the top of the eight-tier bookshelf.
“Ugh… Can’t reach It’s a little lacking.”
He lifted her heels and reached for her hand, but seeing her barely close, Marei followed her up to her little ladder-like base, grabbed her Philia’s armpit, and gently lifted her up.
“Oh?! Oh!? What are you doing… !”
“Can’t you reach it like this?”
“You… ! Ugh…”
Philia let out her pain, then she sighed softly and took out her book.
It was a book written as ‘Basic understanding of blood magic.’
“Did you talk! It’s really rude to grab a lady’s body without saying anything!”
“I’m sorry…”
At the sight of an angry Philia holding a bunch of books in her arms, Marei bowed her head as if she had committed her crime. No, it was accurate to say that she bowed her head because she sinned.
“Really… Because you lack caring. Minus ten points!”
“Yes!? Ten points?”
Philia firmly nodded her head.
“It’s a penalty point.”
“Ugh, sorry…”
“Really… If you do something wrong, you should be punished.”
“It’s a punishment… ?”
Philia looked around her and said that. Looking around for her speechless Marey, she twirled the side of her head, clutching her books in one hand.
“Ten points are height, kisses…”
Marei couldn’t help but smile lightly at the sight of Philia looking at her with her face blushing.
“Ooh, stop laughing! Really… As usual, you dozed off first…”
Seeing her cute vampire princess figure, Marei gently ran her Philia down the back of her neck and touched her forehead.
“Were you lonely? Huh? Leah?”
“Naughty…”
Her tiny body was hunched over, avoiding her gaze.
