9 The second meetup

That night, it is the first time seeing middle age man wailing and hugging each other around. I stop them before they force me to join them. Eliza apparently someone that all of them admired. When I asked they replied;

"Of course, we look up to her!" Jason looked at me as he shouts as if I am stupid not to do so.

"She was the one and only person of the royalty that goes to the frontline to protect the citizens of Gwendal!" The scout followed up

"S-She protected me during the Light campaign against the wraith skeletons." The archer was embarrassed and told Raul while blushing.

Surprisingly the magician was indifferent. Hmm? It seems he is muttering something. As I got close to him, I heard him saying…

"Boobs… Her boobs are huge. Her boobs are huge."

Another person with a fetish has been found. Oh, speaking of fetish!

"Jason is Eli… The princess neck looks favorable to you?"

I was forced to stop my words when all of them turn their head while glaring at me at the same time. Jason ignored my questions and continued touching the figure engrave on the blade. Eliza is like a god to them. I am currently talking with her believers.

Now imagine if she announces that I am a criminal, it won't take her a few seconds to get my head to roll.

I didn't expect a chuunibyou like her to have so many followers. Is that her way of competing with her brothers to force her father to make her the very first queen of the kingdom. She seems to have abandoned the choice of interacting with the rest of the nobles.

Oh, wait, if this continues, I might be accused of joining her faction.

"Do you guys have a picture of the rest of the nobles? There are 5 of them am I right?"

All of them had a blank look on their face. Priceless.

"We don't, they rarely come out from the north gate, so we sometimes even forget who our king is."

"You are telling me that if the king to walk pass by you without wearing some wealthy clothing, you won't recognize him?"

"Why are you restructuring the sentence? Isn't the same thing as me telling you that I forgot the face of my king?" Jason blurted his thoughts

"Fine my bad… Anyway, is there a way to find out how they look like?"

"Nope."

"I go and find the princess then."

"Y-You going to find the princess!?"

"Well considering you guys are obviously a devoted follower of the princess, imagine those devoted followers seeing that I can only carve the princess figure but not the rest of the Royalty."

"A-A bloodbath is going to happen." The scout was fast enough to capture the very image that I do not want to happen.

"If that happens, the fault will lie on me, and worse I could be executed for causing panic and civil war might arise."

"Wow, wow, calm down will ya? How did you get so smart and talkative suddenly?"

"When it involves my life…"

"I don't see you this panic when your relationship status has been announced?"

"I don't get you?"

What is Emelia got to do with this situation?

"… Not smart anymore huh? You see here, the princess is in charge and has the most power over the military on the western border. The general that you fall in love was raised and recruited by her. Your alliance with the princess has long already been decided after the news that you have a relationship with the general."

"Yeah, so no one is going to blame you for only carving the figure of the Princess. There might be a bloodbath, but no one is going to blame you for that. The other royalty might kill you though. Hahahaha"

"Then I should consult with her first before I do anything that might worsen the relationship between her and her family."

"How kind of you, not sure that you will get see her though."

"General Anderson is my lover, don't you remember?"

"Ah, I almost forgot about your relationship with him."

~

The next morning, I spent fifty copper coins to ask one of the coachmen to give me two trips to the western border of the Gwendal kingdom.

I don't mind spending this much as I considered myself to be a generous person, never mind, I was too lazy to walk there. The coachman was talkative enough that I spent my time listening to him babble away about his life as a soldier. Probably he sees how young I am and would like to go to the western border.

He might be thinking that I am a recruit that would like to try out to become a soldier. He stopped his service after his wife got pregnant. If he told me his knee got shot by an arrow, I would have sworn at him. He said that he was one of those veterans that had gotten general Anderson to respect him.

It could be that he is that old and Emelia as a kind person didn't have the heart to disappoint them. He also likes the princess. He wishes he could make the princess and his son marry each other. Well, the princess is probably finding a suitor right now, you should tell your son to go for it.

She is becoming old anyway, and the older she gets, the worse her conditions will be. A royalty that is aiming for the throne should have someone by her side.

It seems the carriage was not allowed entry, and the coachman was forced to wait. I relay my thanks to him and quickly get inside and accomplish my goal for today as soon as possible so that he does not need to wait on me.

The guards recognize and happily let me in the castle wall after telling me that I should take care of general Anderson, he is also a human after all. Too much build up is not healthy for a young man. I was speechless, a build up huh?

After that, a soldier was generous enough to accompany me and led me to where the princess is currently. There was a slight commotion after the princess was told that I had come to meet up with her.

It seems that I wasn't invited, did she hate me because I manage to capture Anderson heart before her? A few minutes later, the soldier came out from the room beaten up to a pulp. He told me that I could get inside now while crying.

I didn't want to ask. I kept my composure and went inside the room. At the same time, all of the soldier wearing golden armor started coming out of the room by marching slowly. A few of them were muttering to themselves loud enough that I could hear.

"So that weak looking guy is his lover huh?"

"He isn't that handsome, the hero that was summoned looks cooler to me."

Wait? What!? There's a hero summoned already?

The princess was looking at me, smiling. No, her face is twitching. She is going to show her true colors huh.

"My, oh my. Why did Raul come here?"

"I can't? I would like to request permission to be able to see my dear Anderson anytime I want."

The princess suddenly punches the table. Her fist had gone through the table while she is still smiling at me. She got anger issues huh. She took out her delicate hand. What? How could her hand be that strong but look so fragile from here? There isn't any injury at all.

"Tell me, Raul, what's your power?"

"I don't have one. I am trying a few things though. I hope I find my power soon."

Without hesitating, I manage to act naturally and shrug my shoulders

"Ahah… So, what's your true intention for coming here?"

"To request your permission whether I could be a craftsman and gain income by selling through the use of your popularity."

"Why are you asking my permission to be… What do you mean by the use of my popularity? How are you going to do that?"

"You see back in my world. My job is to engrave things on an item or accessory to get enough money to eat. This item in front of you is the result of one of the productions that I did."

I took out one of the many boards that I made and put it on the table to let her see. Her face slowly reddens, and she started glaring at me. Of course, it's embarrassing to her. It's a figure of her doing that weird pose.

She managed to calm herself down, damn, Emelia should learn from this girl.

"….. Fifty percent."

"Sorry what?"

"Pass me fifty percent of the profit you gain to me. I will allow you to sell this."

"Thirty percent, I need a lot of money to get the materials. Hiring mercenary is one of them."

"Forty-five percent. I will pay the mercenary instead, and you focus on making this as much as possible."

"Forty percent. I would need to hire people to protect me as you wouldn't want someone from the royalty side to kidnapped me, right?"

"…. Sure."

"Done, thank you for your request princess."

"…Okay…"

"Well, then I need you to do me a favor."

"A favor? Continue, I'm listening."

"I need you to do some pose so that I can engrave it to the board."

"...….."

"Princess?"

"Forty-five percent."

Er, what!? Are we back in square one? This princess sure is greedy, the addition of five percent for her to do some basic posing.

"Fine. We are done now?"

"Possibly, you are dismissed."

"Alright, I go tell the coachman to go first then. After I meet up with Anderson, I'll meet up with you again to do your posing."

"Sure… Eh, what did you say?"

"Posing? You agreed, didn't you?"

"…..!!!"

Her face started to become bright red again. This princess can sure be cute too. She is muttering to herself.

"Alright, I take my leave first, see you later."

As I walked out of the room. I heard shouting from her.

"W-WWWAit!! My heart is not ready yet."

I simply walked off, that's my revenge for taking five percent from me you b*tch.