Chapter 437 – 437. Royal Banquet (1)
The entrance to the palace where the carriage arrived was very cluttered.
The number of soldiers guarding the entrance was more than usual, and the soldiers were busy inspecting and leading the position of the nobles who had gathered in the palace to attend the banquet.
Since all of them had a high status, the checkpoints were carried out carefully and thoroughly one by one, so the soldiers had to move very quickly.
After getting off the carriage, Eunhyun slowly reached out her hand into the carriage.
“Come on, get off. Ma’am.”
“… Don’t say things like that out of the blue.”
When I playfully stretched out my hand to escort Eleanor, Eleanor smiled bitterly and grabbed Eunhyun’s hand and came out of the carriage.
After having a good time in the carriage, Eleanor, who was trying to put on her messy makeup and dress again, showed an unnatural trembling at every step she took.
“Are you okay?”
“… Will you watch it if I say it’s not okay?”
“No.”
When she promptly refused with a smile, Eleanor narrowed her eyes and glared at Eun-hyeon.
“You… It’s really mean.”
Eleanor placed her arms around Eun-hyeon, who escorted her, and leaned against him.
“Are you okay. Me too… Because I am enjoying this.”
“It’s a pervert.”
“You made me this way.”
Eleanor responded to Eunhyun’s mischievous joke.
In the eyes of the people around them, the two couples whispering and laughing in small voices were no different from a lovebird couple who were very affectionate towards each other.
Soon after, she was escorted by Eunhyun and reached the soldiers at the entrance of the palace. Eleanor immediately took out the insignia of the Duke of Armitas and presented them to her soldiers.
“This is Eleanor Armitas, who is scheduled to attend this banquet. May I come in?”
“No, of course.”
The soldiers were mesmerized by Eleanor’s beauty, and nodded absently at her, paving the way for Eleanor and her Eunhyeon.
In fact, among the soldiers guarding the palace, the face of Eleanor, the daughter of the duke, was very familiar.
It was also communicated to the guards that the purpose of this banquet was to praise the brave men who led the campaign to wipe out the alien race of vampires to victory.
In that operation, Eleanor, who led her operation to victory without any damage by using enormous divinity that no one could touch, was also given an order to treat her with utmost respect more than others.
“I, I will guide you.”
A guard immediately volunteered to guide us.
It was Eleanor’s irresistible selfishness as a man who was enthralled by her beauty and offered herself as her guide.
But Eleanor shook her head and politely declined the guard’s favor.
“Are you okay.”
For Eleanor, her palace is a familiar place that her father, Abros, has often visited.
Not only did she not need any guidance from her, but she had already decided on a man to escort her.
“I already have a husband. I am grateful for the favor, but it is a bit burdensome.”
“Ah, sin, sorry!”
The guard was startled and hurriedly bowed his head to apologize.
What the hell did she say to a woman who was not alone and attended a banquet with her husband?
Light seemed to pour from Eleanor’s body to such an extent that she forgot all of that and thought that she wanted to accompany her even for a while.
“Mo, only life… !”
The soldier, who was deprived of her reason to believe that this was the real thing of a woman called the next saint, begged for his life in a hurry.
It was because she recalled how a fellow soldier who had previously behaved similarly insolently had been dismissed from the palace guard post by a nobleman who felt bad about the situation.
“It’s okay because you apologized. You are… What do you think?”
“If Eleanor wants to do it, then do it. I’m fine.”
In response to Eleanor’s question, Eun-hyeon readily nodded her head and forgave the guard who knelt down and apologized.
“Ahhh… Thank you saintess…”
“…”
Eleanor was a little taken aback by the name her guard called her with relief.
Although she was nominated as the next saintess to succeed Agies, it was very burdensome for her to be called such a grandiose.
Agies told Eleanor that she had no role or duties to perform as a saint, and that she could live as she pleased, but whenever she heard such words, she felt burdened.
If the Temple of Vesta demanded something from Eleanor or showed signs of harassing her, Eun-hyeon would not stand still, and Anies was already blocking her such movements, acting as a great shield.
Still, it was very burdensome because it seemed that there would be roles and responsibilities that were not there to praise myself like that.
“Song.”
“Huh.”
Eleanor left the guard behind and hurriedly urged her Eunhyeon to enter the palace.
“She is a saint.”
“…”
Eunhyun smiled and whispered in Eleanor’s ear as they were walking together in her palace.
“What would that guard think if he knew what we did in the wagon and what you look like now?”
With a mischievous look on her face, as if she had landed a good deal, she stirred up Eleanor’s shame.
“Too… Don’t make fun of me. As you bullied…”
“Huh. Sorry.”
When Eleanor blushed and hit her small chest, Eun-hyeon obediently nodded her head and apologized.
It was Riod, the commander of the Artia Knights who entered first, to find the two who arrived at the central hall of the palace where the banquet that had begun was in full swing.
“Have you come?”
“Hello.”
“Hmm.”
As soon as he saw himself, he was greeted by Gunneon Eleanor, and Riod briefly nodded his head.
“You are late.”
“I didn’t think it was that late.”
Eunhyun smiled and shrugged her shoulders.
“Rather, didn’t you come too early?”
“It’s on my side, because more than half of the Templars had to participate.”
As the number of people who had to move was large, the knights of Riod and Artia came to the palace early and completed the entry procedures.
Eunhyun took a quick glance at the members of Artia enjoying the banquet.
As each seat was a seat, not all were armed with armor and weapons, but each member was enjoying the banquet wearing banquet clothes.
“I think the Marquis will regret not being able to come with you.”
Eleanor asked, looking at Riod, who was wearing a similarly neat tuxedo banquet dress.
“It’s not like that.”
Riod shook his head with a wry smile, contrary to his usual sullen face.
“I think it’s rather fortunate for me.”
Theresia felt very sorry for not being able to attend the grand celebration of her husband’s victory, but Riod responded that she was okay.
This kind of event, crowded with many people and accompanied by alcohol, is not a place for pregnant women to voluntarily attend.
“Eunhyeon. Miss Eleanor. You are here.”
She belatedly approached the three people Eira was talking with and greeted Eunhyeon and Eleanor.
“Hello.”
“…”
And when Eira followed her and found Cha Hanseong greeting the two of her like her, Liode’s eyes narrowed.
Knowing the circumstances of Liod, who had recently become strangely wary of Cha Han-sung’s presence, Eun-hyeon held her breath and endured laughter before accepting Aira and Cha Han-sung’s greetings.
“Okay.”
Eventually, he exchanged greetings with Cha Han-seong, who was behind Eira, with a wink.
I don’t know the details of the inside story, but Cha Han-seong had some inner affinity for Eun-hyeon, a man with Earth’s memories.
It is because Cha Han-seong firmly believed that a certain bond was formed between the two people who shared the secret of the earth, which they could not confide to anyone after being reincarnated on this continent.
“If I had told Ayra that she was attending, she might have followed Erin as well. Too bad.”
“Because I know that Erin is uncomfortable with a place like this.”
While Eleanor and Ayra were talking and passing the time, Eunhyeon and Riod also started talking.
In the case of Cha Han-seong, it was difficult to join the conversation between the two women, and even more so, he couldn’t participate in the conversation between Riode and Eun-hyeon, so he said goodbye and left.
After staring at Cha Hanseong as he turned his back and left, Eunhyeon asked Riod.
“That person. Do you have a special relationship with Eira?”
“… Why are you asking that?”
“He has the face of a father who is wary of fearing that his child, whom he raised with great difficulty, will be taken away. You now.”
The father’s face shown by a friend who was always blunt and showed the dignity of a knight commander in public was very fresh.
Lyod, who had a sullen expression on his face as if he didn’t like something, didn’t answer Eunhyun’s question.
However, it was as if Eunhyeon had already heard the answer from his expression.
“What do you not like? Is it because of your status?”
I’m not just talking about the relationship between an aristocratic woman and a commoner.
At first glance, Cha Han-seong had a similarity to Eun-hyeon.
He is not a citizen of the kingdom of Pernias, and he is a foreigner who was not born here.
Eun-hyeon thought that Riod might be worried that her daughter might be played by an unknown man of unknown origin, but Riod denied it.
“No.”
“Then?”
“Ayra said so. In this battle with the vampires, they saw my swordsmanship and reproduced it.”
“Is that person?”
“Okay.”
“… Hmm.”
Eunhyeon looked carefully at the back of Cha Hanseong, who had moved away, and observed.
Although Riod was the most gifted swordsman he had ever seen, Riod did not achieve his present strength only with that talent.
The weight of the time accumulated over a long period of time through steady repetition and succession of training is like a solid tower that even Eun-hyeon cannot easily overstep.
He knew that he had a special ability, but he didn’t think that he could replicate Riod’s swordsmanship with just that.
It is clear that he, too, must have made a lot of effort to refer to his excellent samples as a stepping stone for growth.
Seeing his obsession and passion, Riod accepted Cha Han-seong as a member of Artia.
“Eira asked her to formally guide him to learn my swordsmanship.”
“That…”
What it means to teach Olivion swordsmanship to an outsider who is not even a member of the family, let alone Eirana or her younger brother, Elyon.
There was no way that the intelligent Ayra couldn’t understand the meaning.
Eunhyun glanced at Eira, who was chatting with Eleanor, and asked Riod in a small voice.
“… Are you serious?”
“… I do not know.”
“So? What are you going to do?”
“For now… I said I would think about it, but withheld the answer… This is what Eira strongly insisted on.”
Moreover, she insisted because Eira was displeased with the fact that her father’s swordsmanship, Cha Han-seong, was so terribly crude.
Riod knew Eira’s admirable mind that she couldn’t tolerate that her father’s Olivion swordsmanship, which was her pride, was only this good.
Therefore, she could not refuse to teach Cha Han-seong the Olivion swordsmanship at once.
“If Eira wishes…”
Though she thought there was nothing she couldn’t teach her, she tried to follow her over and over again.
The words didn’t come out until the very end.
The image of her, Cha Han-seong, who would be spending time with Eira, began to appear in her mind.
It is also vividly pictured in her mind of Cha Han-seong training her swordsmanship with her aira in her own marquis’ mansion.
For a moment, Leo’s annoyance rose.
“No. Also this…”
“Sleep, calm down. It’s a pleasant place. Don’t frown, let’s put this on hold for now and think about it later.”
Soothing Riod, who was rushing to a conclusion, Eun-hyeon handed him a bottle of wine.
