Chapter 118 – 11. Kingdom of Ventorino – Seed of Discord (1)
[Kingdom of Ventorino – Seed of Discord]
Shamefully known as the best designer in the capital of Ventorino.
She was nervous now. It was probably the most tense moment of her life. It was because the four women who appeared at her store without warning were too unusual. Still, two of them would occasionally invite her, or visit her in person.
The problem was the other two.
“Wow! Katarina-sama, you look really good!”
“Oh. Huhu, so?”
“Yes! The gorgeous golden dress goes well with Katarina-sama’s elegant white hair! Right, sister?”
“Ah, yes. That’s true. I don’t know much about fashion, but even in my eyes, Katarina-sama is really beautiful.”
“Huh, huhuhu. Everyone seems to be giving undeserved compliments, but I’m still happy.”
Two princesses and sisters famous for their beauty from the kingdom of Ulstro next door, Mercedes Ulstro and Marie Ulstro. They came with the mother and daughter of the Ventorino royal family.
A situation where as many as four of the five women of the highest rank in the two kingdoms visited. If I wasn’t nervous here, I would be disqualified as a designer who handles women’s clothing. Seizing this opportunity, her eyes flashed with the idea of setting up a branch in the fashion powerhouse Ulstro Kingdom.
“Queen. How about this outfit? Speaking of this dress…”
Boo Lu took a dress of hers to Katarina and worked hard on her business her, and she was fortunate to be able to please the queen again this time.
‘Whoa. By the way, I have to do business with the princess and the sisters….’
She let out a sigh of relief inwardly and looked away slightly.
I thought that Queen Katarina and Princess Clara were also beautiful, but is it really a country of beauties? With Princess Woolstraw and her sister her next to her, the mother and daughter’s appearance looked a little faded according to today. But thanks to her cold eyes her, she was able to find a dress that would suit her mother and daughter her.
The front of the shop was very busy, probably because the others were also looking for the beauty of the princesses. Although the royal bodyguards were blocking the entrance, it seemed that even they would never be safe if that many people stormed in at once.
‘Well, that’s not going to happen.’
After staring out her door for a moment, she looked back at her princess sister her. They had to be coaxed into setting up the Wool Straw branch, but instead of looking at her clothes her, the two women were busy praising the queen.
It wasn’t just shame that was perplexing in his heart.
‘This is a little burdensome…?’
Queen Katarina, who was being praised by them, also began to feel her burden.
In the past few days, Mercedes and Marie have become very friendly, and I liked it at first, but now I’m starting to wonder if that’s too much.
But she was taking it positively.
She has n’t been told yet, but she says that Marie intends to marry her son her, Alfonso, and that she’s trying to impress her future mother-in-law her. Her older sister her, Mercedes, must also be helping her younger sister to have a smooth marriage.
‘I’m worried about what I’ll do if I get closer to her daughter-in-law than her daughter-in-law her, whooping.’
Another reason Katarina was delighted with their friendliness her was her daughter her Clara.
Her daughter her, who resembled her personality her perfectly, never acted aegyo even to her parents her, the king and queen. She wasn’t even friendly enough. So it couldn’t be helped that Katarina took a liking to them both subtly.
Moreover, thanks to the girls bringing Clara with them, I was able to go out with her daughter for the first time in a while, if not just the two of us.
After Clara had her fiancé her, she fell in love with him and went out with her on a date whenever he could. Thanks to her, she hadn’t been out with her daughter, her privately in the past few years, and now she’s out with her.
Even if she is full of her lust for power, she is her mother her first. It was a pleasure to travel with her daughter.
“Mother, how about this? Will my boyfriend like it?”
Even though the daughter was busy looking at what she would wear on her next date.
“Yes, it suits you very well.”
“Isn’t it? Ah, I can already see Lloyd’s handsome face smiling brightly!”
“…I see.”
I feel sad when I see my daughter so happy, but at the same time I also thought that she was fortunate.
Although the two are dying of love, they were not engaged for love, but for political reasons. It was clear from the fact that the opponent was the heir of the strongest family among the nobility, excluding her parents’ family.
Even for a strong kingship, their help is needed.
However, when the arranged marriage was arranged, I had minor concerns. What if, by chance, her daughter her, Clara, had an unhappy married life to her? She was the queen and at the same time her mother her, so I couldn’t help but worry about her.
However, marrying her princess to attract the Antifeol duchy is a double-edged sword. If something goes wrong, the king may pass to a collateral branch rather than a direct one of Alfonso.
‘To prevent that…’
The marriage of Alfonso and Marie is absolutely necessary.
This was the reason why Catherine insisted strongly on the marriage alliance.
‘But, well, I’m glad it seems to be going well.’
When she was so happy, she suddenly heard a commotion outside her store. Katarina’s brow her furrowed, freed from her naturally agreeable delusions of her.
“What’s going on?”
“Ah, sorry. It looks like my squire has come.”
Mercedes lightly apologized.
“Strain?”
The three seed knights of Mercedes that she had recently seen came to mind in the queen’s mind her. But I couldn’t figure out why it was noisy outside.
“Hmm, even so…”
“That, it’s not the three that Katarina-sama thinks of.”
“Yes? Were there more seeds?”
“There is one male attendant. I could not enter the royal castle due to circumstances. So I tried to see his face while he came out for a while. It seems that he came a little earlier.”
“I couldn’t enter the royal castle… Aha.”
Katarina is deeply involved in all sorts of big and small matters in the kingdom. Thanks to that, I quickly realized what she was talking about.
A half-blood demon with dark red hair.
She didn’t care much at the time, but she suddenly became curious. Still, seeing that he called it like this, it must have been that Mercedes was paying attention to some extent.
She seemed to know why she called him when the four of them dared to go out. It was clear that she had called because he thought he might be able to bring the seed to the royal castle.
The intention was clear.
‘Whoa, that’s cute.’
“Do you care about that seed?”
“Yes? That… Yes, I’m on the side of cherishing it.”
“Oh?”
Mercedes seemed to be taken back for a moment, but she immediately smiled and affirmed.
The queen began to take more interest in the half-race demons. For what reason do they care about the male seed of mixed demon race? Since I’m a male seed, I had all sorts of thoughts in my head.
“I’m really curious about what kind of child Princess Mercedes cares for.”
“There are many advantages, but the most outstanding among them is the swordsmanship.”
“Fence…”
‘What is it, was it just generous as an ordinary article….’
I thought there must be something more fun.
My interest has cooled. As Katarina was trying to hide her feelings of regret and try to switch to another topic, her words froze her body her. She was speechless for a moment as she heard quite shocking words.
“He is a very talented friend. He is now in his mid-teens, and his swordsmanship skills are similar to mine.
“… Are your skills similar? Earl Bernstein’s apprentice?”
“Yes.”
“…”
The interest, which had waned for a while, was revived.
He was an absurd talent to be treated with contempt for simply being of mixed demon race.
Even Mercedes was famous as a genius knight who reached a considerable level in his early twenties. She must have had a considerable influence on her as a princess, but she was still a great level for a knight of a generation that had not gone through war.
A swordsman capable of competing on par with such a Mercedes. And that too, in his mid-teens, much younger than Mercedes.
Here, he is a disciple of Count Serenia Bernstein, who is famous for being one of the best knights on the continent. If so, it was clear that his talent was not simply guaranteed, but at a level that he could dream of becoming a sword master in the future.
“That’s interesting. Can you call the boy inside?”
“Of course.”
Mercedes nodded his head and walked out of the store. Thanks to her appearance her, the noise outside of her has increased. It was only natural that the majority of her crowd were there to show off her her and Marie her her.
After a short while, the door opened and two men and a woman came inside.
“…Ah…?”
The moment she saw them, Katarina realized.
At first, the reason the outside was noisy wasn’t because of the appearance of mixed demons.
Her dark red hair is so handsome that it is not noticeable.
That must be it, she was sure. No, I had to. Otherwise, I couldn’t comprehend this violently beating heart, the other invisible gaze, or the fragrant body odor that I suddenly sensed.
“…”
The boy, Valdez, came up to her with her radiant smile and knelt down on one knee with her polite gesture of hers.
“Nice to meet you, Queen Katarina. Greetings to the mistress of the humble half-breed Valdesga Kingdom.”
“…… Ah yes. That, yes.”
Katarina was so flustered that, a beat later, she replied with her own honorifics. Due to her personality her, who immediately spoke to the princesses of the country next to her, it was impossible for her to show respect to those of a lower status than herself.
But the queen didn’t even notice that.
“You are as beautiful as I have heard. It is an honor to meet you.”
“Me, me too… Nice to meet you. Yes… No, me too, bar, nice to meet you.”
She was taken aback and spoke again later, but her face her was already turning red. She didn’t know if it was because she was embarrassed by the honorifics she said to her, or if she was because the boy said she was beautiful.
‘Haha, why am I doing this? How old am I… Besides, that child is of mixed demon race! Also, my husband….’
Katarina, who had been thinking that far, suddenly stopped.
‘Why me… Did she think of her husband last? ?’
Contrary to rumors and deeds, she still loved her husband despite the affair.
It was just that her husband cheated on her first her, and she still often cheated on her too, as her revenge her for seeing other women.
The reason for this was that Katarina did n’t know how to flirt with a guy, and she did n’t know how to express her love her either. She’s good at grasping her man’s desires and using them, but on the contrary, she does n’t know how to show her own heart her and approach him.
Thanks to this, Marc thought that Katarina only regarded him as her political partner her, and this was where the couple’s discord arose.
‘Why? Why the hell am i….’
“Queen?”
“… Ah yes. No, … Yes, yes. What, what happened?”
“No. It’s just that the queen doesn’t feel comfortable somewhere, so she called just in case.”
“That’s right. Well, me, I’m fine.”
“I see. I’m glad the queen is okay.”
“Yeah, yes.”
Feeling that it would be dangerous for her to continue talking to him, Katarina turned her body towards her daughter her. She felt like she would fall for him with all her heart her. That was something she didn’t want for her.
Her own infidelity was her her own her, and when her husband was dating another woman, she had to use it to arouse his jealousy her. Because of this, she has never had intense skinship with her cheating partner of her, and she has never had a deep relationship.
But to her regret her, her sky her didn’t help her.
“Wow, he’s so handsome.”
“Uh, huh?”
“That mixed-race boy. I think I’ve never seen a man better-looking than Lloyd.”
“…”
All in all, her daughter brought up a topic that Katarina wanted to avoid. Here, she can suddenly try to change the subject, or to plant the idea that it is strange to avoid her body. So the queen had no choice but to accept her daughter’s words her.
“That’s right. It’s definitely a rare… Beauty.”
“At that level, it’s worth saving even if your swordsmanship isn’t great, right? It’s a pity that you’re of mixed blood.”
“…”
“Mother?”
“…Yeah, yes. Really, that’s right… I see. From looks to swordsmanship…”
Clara tilted her head at the strange reaction of her mother her, the queen.
Catarina thought that her daughter might notice something if she reacted strangely, but unfortunately her daughter her wasn’t quite so. Her head her belongs to the intelligent side, but it was because her noble status made her not pay attention to those around her.
Thanks to this, Clara, with a little filial piety, guessed that her mother her was not feeling well.
Mate.
“Now, your mother seems a bit tired, but it would be better to go back to the royal castle today.”
Clara, who caught the attention of the people around her by clapping her hands, spoke, and Katarina nodded her head in agreement with her daughter her.
The people in the store came out at once, leaving behind the regretful shame.
In addition to this, a considerable number of processes, including the Royal Guard, headed for the castle, and stopped once.
The cause was Mercedes and Valdes.
“I have a few things to talk to my squire, so please go back first.”
“Sister, does it take long?”
“Yeah, I think it will take a while.”
“…”
The two of them turned their backs and walked away. No, I was going to move it.
“Pause for a moment.”
“Katarina-sama? Why is that?”
“… That story, we can just go to the castle together.”
“However…”
“If it’s an identity guarantee problem… I’ll… Solve it.”
“!!”
At the queen’s words, not only Clara, but also her ladies-in-waiting and her bodyguards her were shocked. It’s not long, but it was the first time in the history of the kingdom anyway.
“…”
While everyone was surprised to see Katarina, only Valdes smiled quietly behind Mercedes.
Very quietly
