Chapter 73 – Reunion With Lloyd (3)
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While the funerals of dead members of the royal family were simple, banquets commemorating the births of saints were held in splendor. Right now, they are only starring in Hwangseong, but the festival period will probably continue from next month. There was nothing like a festival to comfort citizens tired from a long war.
Victory Celebration Festival, Adult Birthday Celebration, Emperor’s Birthday Festival. If they were prepared to hold a festival, it would have been enough to hold the festival on a random day and attach a cause to it.
At the banquet, the emperor did not show his face. It is also a sign of dissatisfaction with the simple funeral of the royal family.
If the death of the imperial family was announced shortly after the war ended, it was clear that public sentiment, which had been dormant at best, would become dizzy again. So, everyone would have agreed to the simple funeral of the imperial family. As the emperor himself had calculated the death of the imperial family, there was no way he would be dissatisfied with it. But even so, the emperor had to express his dissatisfaction. It is a tug of war between the emperor and priesthood.
While the funerals of the royal family were simply held, if there was a precedent in which the birthday celebrations of saints were held splendidly, it could cause a dispute not only right now but also in the future, so this kind of gesture had to be taken. Perhaps the emperor will only show his face on the last day of the festival scheduled for next month.
“Parties are beautiful.”
There were many people approaching Sophia and Carl. Sophia still had to use her wheelchair, but thanks to her prosthetic arms and legs, she didn’t get too much attention. As the fact of Sophia’s injury was not widely known even to the lower nobles, there was nothing good about it being known.
Sophia’s prosthetic arm and leg are covered with gloves and a dress, respectively. She responded with a smile to the nobleman whom Sophia had greeted her with. “Iknow, right. I hope it will comfort the tired minds and bodies of the citizens.” Sophia was a lowly person, so she never treated her coldly.
However, Carl did not take good care of such small puppets. Even though Carl was not a man who couldn’t control his expression, the displeasure was evident on his face, and the people around him didn’t stay around long, except for the first polite greeting. Before long, the person who called Carl to the banquet hall appeared and greeted him.
“It’s been a while Carl. Sophia. How have you been?”
Lloyd shoved her face with her archwitch, Circe. She was a uniform wearing the insignia of the Imperial Knights. Maya also quietly mingled beside her. Maya met her eyes and handed her a greeting. An exclamation erupts from the surroundings. The heroes who killed the Demon King are gathered in one place.
“We got along well with each other. Why?”
“Oh my god. It’s sweet… Sophia. Really?”
As Carl grimaced and scratched his insides, Lloyd asked Sophia with a slightly stiff face. Sophia blushed in embarrassment and evaded her answer. “Hey, that’s a bit much to say.” A lot of people are a lot, but as the time I spent with Carl passed through my head, I felt ashamed of myself. Sophia twisted her body slightly. Her thighs tightened and her inner thighs tightened. She was a physiological phenomenon.
“It’s like that. Kinda surprising Sophia didn’t like knives very much. Is it nice to be with Carl? It’s not like I have to save you or anything like that, right?”
“No! How good the knife is!”
“Can I trust you, Carl?”
“What do you think of me?”
A strange current flowed. It was clear to her that Lloyd was provoking Carl. Carl thought it was a good thing he brought Osott with him. Perhaps by now Osot is holding talks with the guild leaders of several other crime guilds as Cal’s agent. Excluding those who couldn’t believe it yet, he gathered only those who could be called his henchmen.
Lloyd took Carl and Sophia and led them to a separate room. “Are you going to a secret place?” Carl touched Sophia’s shoulder and smiled sinisterly. Lloyd’s gaze glared at the knife’s hand. Looking at it now, it’s a dress that exposes her shoulders. Isn’t the exposure too much? She wasn’t dressed for a church saint.
Judging from the fact that the other nobles were staring at Sofia earlier, the only thing I could see was that Carl Reben had purposely dressed her like that. To show off that her Sophia is in her own hands. Lloyd was heartbroken. It was a pity that Sophia, whom she had a special affection for as her first mate, was wrapped in the hands of such a vicious man.
Carl whispers something in her ear. The contents are as follows. I want to fuck you right now, but I’ll wait until dinner. If you want to hide it, you can hide it, but it’s not good to say it all audible. Lloyd glared at her knife. Sophia flinches. Her face is slightly red.
Sophia was only ashamed to engage in such displays of affection in front of others, but in Lloyd’s eyes it was the struggle of an innocent girl eager to escape the clutches of her sword. Even though she was a warrior, she didn’t have the ability to look at everything objectively. Since he is also a human being, it is difficult to treat people without personal feelings.
“He took Sophia. Knife.”
“Sophia wanted it.”
“Really Sophia?”
“Ah yes!”
“… “
Maya and Circe were having a conversation that only they knew. What about the new magic, there was talk of having to adjust the concentration of mana, but there were restrictions on formulas and whatnot. Wizards are a fucking boring breed.
After entering the room, the atmosphere gradually relaxed as the glasses were mixed. It is to share the story of killing the demon king. As he got drunk, Lloyd’s words broke the conversation.
“Then are you two lovers?”
“Lloyd!”
“Ah… Isn’t it like that?”
“Um, that’s it.”
Sophia unexpectedly looked into Carl’s eyes. Carl smiled heartily at Sophia. It was only when Carl nodded that Sophia answered. “Yes, we are dating.” A lively laugh spread as white as snow that had just fallen.
Lloyd forced a smile on her face. That awkward laugh was so clumsy that anyone could see it, so Carl struggled to resist the urge to be sarcastic. “I see.” The voice is subdued. Circe put on a bitter expression and took Maya for a walk. Lloyd took a few breaths, then she said.
“I liked Sophia too.”
“That’s rude, Lloyd! I replied that I am a lover now!”
“I’m serious. Sophia, I love you. From the first adventure-!”
“Can’t you see me, Lloyd? Huh?”
Carl and Sophia both reacted furiously, and Lloyd shut her mouth. The sword’s momentum was unusual. Dense, thick, and obnoxious momentum. Soon, Lloyd’s tidy spirit rose up and she removed the sword’s momentum, but she couldn’t get rid of the grin that covered her mouth. “Don’t cross the line, Lloyd.” Carl’s hand ran through Sophia’s hair.
Honestly, it’s absurd. I knew Lloyd would do a few tricks to get Sofia back, but she was a sudden love confession like this. She didn’t expect this much. She was at best, I thought she’d come to tell me that she needed Sophia for church work, or to fill her part for her birthday.
“Lloyd. Say no more. I mean it.”
Sophia said painedly. Sophia also didn’t have a bad impression of Lloyd. Even if Lloyd didn’t like her reaction to her after her arms and legs had recently been cut off, she had been her ally for years, life and death.
In addition, Lloyd was a colleague who started the adventure together. Lloyd as a hero, she herself as a saint. However, she already has a lover for Sophia. As long as Lloyd as her friend remains as her friend, she is finished.
“Why!”
Suddenly, Carl looked at Lloyd’s glass. Laughter leaked out. It is poured only with strong alcoholic beverages. Carl and Sophia stopped getting moderately drunk because they chose to drink light alcohol even for their schedules, but Lloyd was properly drunk. She just didn’t show up very well. Carl frowned, thinking of Maya belatedly. Play pranks
“Fuck!”
Sophia looked at Lloyd with her bewildered face. Her Lloyd’s eyes were bloodshot red. Ahhh! Lloyd’s shouts fill her room. Carl put his hand on Sophia’s waist. It was an act to stimulate Lloyd and at the same time to reassure Sophia.
“Why can’t I! Me too, I said I like you Sophia. You. You liked me too! Huh? No?”
“Not at all.”
“Lloyd. It’s a little ugly.”
“Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Why can’t I do it when I’m being hugged by a criminal like that!”
The warrior is not the emperor’s sword. After all, it is the sword of the church. I wondered why Lloyd was on the emperor’s side and wagging her tail. She usually thought she was this way, given the idiotiness that Lloyd had shown her, but she was dumbfounded because she actually fit in.
Carl stared blankly at Lloyd. I thought it would be comfortable to live like that. I live by chopping roughly and eating whatever they give me, then if I don’t like something, I cut it again.
It wasn’t that Lloyd’s position was incomprehensible either. Perhaps Lloyd had many things stored inside her. The hero was Lloyd, but the real leader of the party was always Carl Leben. While the hero knew nothing but sharpening his sword, Carl Leben did all sorts of things, such as getting weapons, supplying food, procuring food, assassinating important people, dismantling traps, and rescuing Sophia from threats. Not a crowd
Even nobles paid more respect to the sword than to the warrior. Behind that, it was because he cared about the background Carl had, but Lloyd didn’t care about that calculation. He only cared about outward appearances.
“Sick.”
Those were the words that came out of my heart. I didn’t have to put up with it, so I spit it out. Lloyd’s eyes widened. He was Lloyd, who even pretended to draw his sword, but he did not draw it because he still had a handful of reason left. “Then Sophia. You have a knife… Are you going to get married?”
Said Lloyd in a melancholy voice. Sophia was already upset, but she seemed to feel sorry for Lloyd and gave her answer. “If Carl proposes.” It was a light complaint about Carl, who handed over her necklace but never talked about marriage. Carl recognized the meaning and smiled awkwardly, while Lloyd seemed to have found a ray of hope in her.
“If Carl doesn’t propose, do I have a chance?”
Around this time, Sophia’s face was worth seeing. Unaware that Sophia was looking at him with her contemptuous gaze, Lloyd gulped down her glass with her loose face.
“That, that, the Goddess is a melee… “
“A real asshole.”
Carl giggled. Lloyd cleared her throat as if she was embarrassed. Sophia’s complexion was hardened as well. It was because he could guess Lloyd’s intention of asking her about her virginity before marriage by putting her goddess in her mouth. Did you sleep The question of asking is rudeness that requires a knife even if it is a family member.
Sophia’s complexion did not know how to relax. It was only when her knife struck that she calmed down slightly. It seemed that Lloyd was drunk and didn’t even look at Sophia’s complexion, whether it was because she was drunk or because she was an idiot. The knife tickled Sophia’s side. It was a gesture under her table, so Lloyd didn’t notice. “Do not do that.” Sophia also gave her Carl an unkind look.
“Right. Right Lloyd.”
Lloyd looked at her sword with her gaze. Carl was also quite angry with Lloyd. I thought she still had remnants of fighting together for years, but seeing her like this made me want to kill her. Even so, considering her ability to fight an all-out war with the demon king, she had a lot of room to lose if she fought right away. Even if she takes Sophia or Circe hostage, she doesn’t know.
But she wasn’t without a way to avenge her lightly on Lloyd. Carl put the wine in his mouth. Then, with her hand on Sophia’s waist, she gently brushed her body to draw her attention. As Sophia looked at herself, her other hand pointed a knife at her wine-soaked mouth. Lloyd looked at the two blankly. “What are you doing?” To that stupid question, Carl responded with action.
“Town!”
Sophia’s soft lips touch, and the contents of her knife’s mouth slide into Sophia’s mouth. Sophia’s pupils widen slightly. The knife’s tongue, which had been pushed along with the wine, invaded Sophia’s mouth. Lips and lips intertwined. Tongue and tongue touch. Lloyd watched the scene with her eyes wide open.
“Uh? Ah?”
It was an asshole-like, stupid voice.
