Chapter 284 – Day 42 – Minerva’s Loyalty
Minerva Lutetia wanted to get ahead.
It was a natural feeling for her because she was born into an aristocratic family, and she has been trying desperately to succeed somehow.
“Heh, everyone’s gone crazy. They say they’re going to war against the princess? There’s no way that’s possible…”
Even at social parties. Minerva, who had seen Venus deal with the demons at the Imperial Council, had no intention of joining Arthur’s plan from the beginning.
‘If I return to the palace quickly, even the princess won’t say much.’
It was absolutely not a normal situation for Minerva to be in the enemy camp, Britannia Empire.
There were definitely physical distance and political issues.
“Ha…”
She was the one who would do anything for her dreams, but she had no intention of following her orders her to go into the fire pit.
She thought for a moment that if she were Duke Arthur, she might be different, but her reality was just another greedy war.
It was impossible for Minerva to make her mark her in a war like this.
She didn’t have hundreds of soldiers like her other knight commanders, and she had no special knights except herself.
‘In the first place, there are no knights in our Bloody Rose Knights except for me… Haa…’
No noble entered the Knights of the Lutetia family, which had collapsed and collapsed, leaving only a small domain.
Her family has fallen to such an extent that she should be thankful for guarding the imperial palace.
Would such a fallen family have the strength to make great contributions in war? As luck would have it, the chance of winning a big prize was small unless the sleeping princess was tied up and thrown alive in front of Arthur.
‘Even if I set the ball that way…’
Minerva had seen the emperor with her own eyes many times because she lived and guarded the palace.
‘If you make a mistake against her princess, he will punish you, but she’s out of her mind her. It’s clear that Duke Arthur is out of his mind her…!’
Minerva, who didn’t want to even imagine what kind of punishment the emperor would punish her later, even if heaven’s luck arrested her princess, decided to get out of here.
She thought she was crazy from the start, so she tried to double spy at least, but not Duke Arthur. Numerous knights in Britannia did not even treat Minerva as her own.
“Haa… Half someday…”
Just as she was about to make her promise that she would flatten the noses of those who disrespected her, Minerva stopped her legs.
“Move everyone! Move! There’s a rat sneaking into this castle!”
“Find it now! You fools! There’s no way you’re in the bathroom!”
The voices of the captains of the knights were heard, and the knights waiting above began to run around with a clattering sound.
‘You idiots, you’re going to search wearing heavy armor like that? The rat that sneaks in just laughs at me.’
Minerva snorts him and moves her legs her.
She wanted to run away as soon as possible from Rondonium, which started to fill the sky with blue smoke and gave off strangely rotten me.
“Duke Arthur said that if you catch a rat, you will be awarded the estate?”
“Where is the land to be awarded in this narrow Britannia?”
“You fool, there will be a war in 3 days, and you will promise to give me the land like egg yolk to eat there first!”
Minerva’s hands her twitched at the voices of the knight commanders under her steps her.
“Well, what Duke Arthur promises, you’ll keep it with great spirit. Long live chivalry.”
“Khehehe, but how are you going to find the rat that sneaked into this castle? I’m the opposite. I can’t find it. Because I can’t find it. You’re making a promise like that.”
Minerva was clearly in their sights, but they exchanged conversation without hesitation.
Minerva wanted to throw a low kick at Koraji, who treated her as someone who had no self, but she held back and turned away.
‘Stupid bastards.’
Her circumstances were different from the other knights.
She was wearing light armor rather than heavy armor, and because she had lived her entire life in charge of guarding and security of the imperial palace, she could do better than anyone else when it came to catching rats.
‘Duke Arthur found the rat…’
After descending into the huge banquet hall and looking around, Minerva immediately checks her ceiling.
The banquet hall was really huge, but spying on the whole place was a different story.
If it was caught while peeping at the banquet hall from a wall or crack in the door, it would be easy to catch it.
‘If it’s a place where you can see what the landlord is doing without being caught easily… It’s easy to escape…’
Combining various clues, it was the ceiling.
“Hey, look at that. The military commander of the empire is looking at the ceiling.”
“Keuhehe, with big breasts. What is the military commander, isn’t it a nameless position now? Let’s get married quickly.”
Women who look like her Minerva disappear while imitating her.
But Minerva didn’t care and looked at every nook and cranny of the ceiling, and she finally noticed the iron bars.
The iron bars installed to ventilate her normally would have been visible, but they were camouflaged because of Titis’ magic of her.
‘Hmm… Is it a ventilation passage… It’s a typical place.’
Minerva quickly climbs her steps.
The banquet hall was built deep underground.
‘If you look at it from the bottom, it’s the ceiling, but if you look at it from the ground, there’s a high possibility that there’s a passage on the first basement floor, or on the ground. And…’
Minerva climbed the great stairs to the first floor of the castle, but she again began to look for a staircase that would lead her down to the basement.
‘Yes, here it is.’
She quickly found a small door for the attendants to use and opened it.
Finding a staircase that leads down to the first and second basement floors of the castle separately, rather than the path that leads directly to the banquet hall as she had hoped, Minerva moves her body quickly.
‘But even the knights aren’t stupid… If they had a little brain, they’d have come here at least once. Having no income…’
Thinking, Minerva pressed against the wall.
Thinking of the direction where the huge banquet hall is located, she imagines how the ventilation passages will be made.
Is it connected to the kitchen? Is it connected to the chimney?
She thought about many things, and Minerva finally found a hidden door next to the stairs going down from the second basement floor to the third floor.
It was blocked by huge cleaning tools and crates, but the hinges were intact and the door could be opened.
“Huh… Duke Arthur, let’s see if you can really grant me the land.”
With a little excitement, Minerva moved her body into the passageway where she felt the heat.
“… Jean! … Run… Done!”
‘Okay, that’s great.’
At the faint voice from far away, Minerva shut the door and drew the sword from her belt.
It’s not an enchanted sword, but Minerva is still the captain of the knights.
It had the power to subdue a petty thief or a rat or two lightly.
“Hmph! Crawled into Duke Arthur’s castle! You bastards, Britannia’s people had their livers sticking out, but otherwise…”
Minerva, who drew his sword and moved quickly to the corner where the sound came from, paused as she spoke her words.
“Ugh! Shit!!! Wasn’t there a trap like this earlier! Titis!”
“I’m sorry. Princess!”
A living gag was about to be stuffed into the witch’s mouth as she floundered on the floor covered with gooey cobwebs, her huge breasts bobbing.
I saw a maid with a familiar face who could not get up from her seat her because her maid’s uniform her was covered in oil.
“…The princess?”
The cobwebs and chains couldn’t wrap around her arms and legs her, so she fell to the ground, whining strangely, and the one piece she was wearing was burned out. Minerva’s face turned pale.
“Mi, Minerva! Ha, ha ha! Lady Luck is smiling at me! Welcome!”
“…How did Princess Venus come here? Did you get a letter like I did and come through the dimension door?”
“I-for now! Let’s talk about that later! Let me go!”
Her princess cried out and pointed her chin at her own body her, motionless like her worm bound in her web her.
“…Woe, Princess.”
Minerva’s voice was different from usual.
Could it be because of the huge fireball rolling in from afar? It wasn’t.
Her eyes were fixed on a small scroll embedded in the wall.
“Mi, Minerva! Minerva! What are you doing! Me, me…!”
The princess tried with all her might to untie her cobwebs and chains, but she could n’t use her power because of the bright red iron lump wrapped around her neck her.
To be precise, she felt the muscles all over her body her twitch when she tried to exert herself.
“…The princess.”
Minerva grabbed her scroll and unfolded it.
There, the well-made rune magic was elaborately engraved.
Just by giving her power her and tearing her scroll, she could instantly put the princess and her party her to sleep in front of her.
“………..”
Swallowing her saliva, Minerva reads the text at the bottom of her scroll.
『I will reward the person who captured the intruder alive using this scroll, in the name of Duke Arthur.』
Everyone would know that Minerva had captured her princess alive, because even her red seal her was inlaid.
“Wh-what…”
The princess knew the situation because she was not an idiot.
I heard knights running noisily in the distance, and I heard Duke Arthur shouting something noisily.
It was easy to see what Minerva was thinking about.
“Princess, it seems… It’s time for me to make a choice.”
Success or loyalty?
Minerva swallowed her dry saliva and clutched at her scroll her.
“That, you…”
The princess smiled bitterly.
“…Do what you want to do. Haha, don’t hold grudges! You’re here because you had complaints too.”
“Princess Venus…”
“Ha, wasn’t it me who always entrusted you with all the hard and troublesome tasks and didn’t give you a proper reward…’
Venus had no reason to reward Minerva. There is no such responsibility.
Minerva is a person who works under the Emperor. The Emperor has no intention of rising from his throne his, and his power his is so great that he does not need bodyguards.
If a reward is given, he must be given by the emperor. Nevertheless, when Venus said he was sorry, Minerva burst into a small laugh.
“The princess is so nice to people that sometimes it makes me feel stuffy.”
“Haha…”
“A ruler sometimes needs to be hard-hearted.”
Minerva bit her lip.
“Mi, Mr. Minerva! Don’t do it!”
Hedone screams in surprise, and Titis tries to somehow chant her magic her, but it’s not easy to say her words her because of the gag stuck to her mouth her.
“Hedone-sama, if you are the future empress, please let me know.”
Minerva threw her scroll from her hand her to the ground, drew her sword, and shattered the red chains around her princess’s neck her.
Thanks to this, the princess was able to move her limbs comfortably, and her spider webs and her handcuffs wrapped around her arms her could easily be broken.
“The fact that the loyalty of the Lutetia family cannot be bought with money!”
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“It will be safe from here. Princess, is Okche okay?”
Her jingle her, Minerva, who quickly became a flattering figure, put her hands on the shoulders of her princess with her lovely smile.
“I was able to live thanks to Minerva… Phew.”
The princess was able to enter a certain mansion after Minerva guided her and evaded the pursuit of Duke Arthur.
The mansion had not been maintained for a long time, so the dust was rolling around because it had not been cleaned, let alone the warmth of people.
“This mansion… Belongs to the Lutetia family…”
The princess is interested in Titis’ small murmur her.
“Oh, Titis seems to know about Minerva’s family.”
“Yeah, what…”
Minerva didn’t seem to want to talk much about her, but she was in front of the princess.
“My family originally had a manor in Britannia. It’s no wonder that there was a mansion like this in Londonium.”
“What is your mansion where I bathed last time?”
“How can I be in charge of the guard and security of the imperial palace if I live in this mansion? This is a reward bestowed by the emperor a long time ago.”
“Abama really did… Give you a small, ugly piece of land.”
The princess felt apologetic this time as well, but Minerva shook her head.
“No. Princess, it’s rather a big prize. Since a long time ago, our family tried to live in this mansion and maintain dignity, despite not owning any land in Britannia.”
“Um, since your parents died, this mansion has been unused.”
Minerva smiled and nodded her head.
‘Hmm, but I still remember living with her parents, so I could n’t sell the mansion.’
Thinking about this and that, the princess slapped Minerva’s waist.
“Princess, Titis is casting a spell to protect the mansion. I’m thinking of cleaning…”
The mansion was in no situation where the princess, Hedone, and even Minerva could use it.
The princess looked at Minerva, and she nodded her head with a very sorry expression.
“Minerva, if there’s an award you’d like to receive from me, tell me now. I’m not necessarily talking this time…”
Could there be a better prize than the mansion the emperor gave?
The princess still looked at Minerva with all her heart her.
“Then, Princess…”
Taking a small breath, Minerva held her princess’s hand strangely.
“Princess, I’m a bit older too, but until now… I’ve been busy with work…”
“Yes, yes, she had never heard of Minerva dating… Huh?”
“So, if it’s okay with the princess, then… So that she will recognize that I am the person she will serve faithfully forever… So that her heart her won’t be shaken like today.. .”
“Huhhh…?”
“My first experience…”
Minerva talked her way up there, blushed and slightly bowed her head.
“…Reasonable. But you have to use contraception. Perverted princess~”
After hearing what Hedone had to say, the princess’ face turned red for a moment, but she couldn’t help it.
“That, that kind of thing! Kind of! Ask me a favor while we’re alone!!!”
Asking her to tear her maiden in return for saving her life, the princess couldn’t help but think that Minerva had a really great personality.
