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Ch 5 : Invitation from the palace
The time was a month after the public execution of the Izolte Baron, it was a fine spring day. Fioria had departed towards the capital.
There was an invitation from the current king in reign, Vincent.
It seems he requested a more in depth explanation regarding the incident with the Izolte kingdom.
(I see, Vii became a king.)
What Fioria remembered was the Vincent from 20 years ago. He was 7 back then, and was a charming beautiful young lad. Wise, mature and he was considerate towards Fioria.
'I will definitely become the king. Become king, and steal you away from Oswald. Become mine, Fioria'
His passionate advances were not just once or twice. Further, to Fioria then, Vincent was a 10 year gap young lad. Normally, his fickle words would be just be ignored.
'What a great aspiration you have, Vincent. You are brimming and is quite to my liking."
That Fioria di Florence would not have corresponded normally.
As she has a bad habit of just loving people who lives their life seriously.
"However, I am Oswald-sama's fiancée. If you are trying to take the throne, I will not hesitate to bring you down. … If you really desire me, hop back up and bring me down."
As she patted Vincent's black hair and spurted out words to stirhim up.
"Can you win over me?"
"I will. I will win and obtain you, wait for it."
20 years had passed by after that conversation at the castle's garden. Now Vincent has become king. It's quite amusing to wonder what kind of person he had grown up to be.
"… Oh?"
Fioria came back from her thoughts due to the decrease of speed of the carriage she is currently riding on. Eventually, the carriage came to a stop.
"My apologies, Fiorisama. There seems to be trouble up ahead."
The guard knight then promptly reported.
There seems to be a group of adventurers ahead struggling to fight off a horde of monsters.
"We are trying to avoid the conflict and is currently in search of a detour, please hold on for a moment."
"There is no need. Move ahead."
"However, Fiorisama, if there is anything that might happen.."
"Protecting just oneself is out the way a noble should be. Would you please convey my words to the other knights? Move ahead and aid the adventurers."
"as you wish…"
However after, the carriage still did not move an inch. For the guards did not understood Fioria and was in turmoil. They treated her words to aid the adventurers as 'absurd orders from the selfish noble lady' and ignored it.
"How boring had the servants added to our house become."
During the days with Fioria, the Florence knights were known to be man-eating fiends in the battlefields. Though the members back then had mostly retired and now the knights had become 'normal'.
"When we get back from the capital, all of you are getting trained from scratch."
As she noted a memo in her mind, she came down from the carriage.
"May I inquire where are you going to?", asked the butler, Lex who was standing outside. He had been on standby all the while for any needs.
"Just over there for a quick hunt. Please explain to the knights for me, Lex."
"… Could you bring me along with you?"
"If you have become stronger then I might consider, do your best."
Fioria initiated her flying magic and went towards the battlefield.
A prairie located at the foot of a mountain, there the adventurers are fighting off the monsters.
Heard to be a horde of monsters, in fact it was actually just one. But the size of it was unusual. Its size almost rivals a medium sized fortress.
It was a huge, huge, slime.
"A fusion of a mass of slimes, a herald of spring."
Winter has passed and when spring comes, the smiles are delighted and start to increase in numbers. They keep adding and adding, and eventually fuses into one. It might be an effect to balance the ecosystem.
The huge slime is in fact, a menace to humans since physical attacks don't work and magic will be absorbed.
"Oh my, they are doing their all."
Beneath her was a group of adventurers desperately struggling.
It was a group of 3 men, and is not doing well.
They are unable to defeat the slime and should retreat soon.
"There is a city nearby, we cannot let the slime go through, one of us should go call for reinforcements and the 3 of us will hold it back."
Thus is what Fioria heard from the adventurer by using her wind magic. She then grasp the situation.
Wonderful. Though they know they are unmatchable but they are giving their all to stand up to it, even knowing that they might die but it is a cheap price to pay for the safety of the city.
Fioria does not dislike these king of people, they are able to grow, it is a waste to let them lay waste here.
"Divine"
Hence they deserve better.
A beam of light then fell from the skies, and obliterated the slime within moments.
Fioria then landed with a composed look.
"Thanks, that helped us."
A man who seemed like the leader approaches as he saw Fioria.
"You can use such great magic! It's incredible how you defeated that humong-slime with just a spell"
Humongslime. What a weird and cute notation. Fioria then laughed due to it.
"Name's Alan, as you can see I'm an adventurer. Though I'm still D rank."
"I'm.. well you could call me Fioria. I commend your courage. If you keep having the will to fight off adversities then you will one day reach the peak. I look forward to seeing that happen."
Alan and his party will then be known in the future to be the highest ranked adventurers- the S ranks-. They will always remind their juniors of one thing.
To not forget of your will to never give up. If you can do that, then the Golden Godess will definitely bless you, or so.
After saying her farewells with Alan and co, Fioria then head back to the carriage.
Though she is able to reach the capital with her flying magic in a swift, she decides not to. When a noble moves by carriage, so does the economy. Thus the lives of the citizens will improve and is by no means a useless act.
The carriage then reached the capital of Tristanna a few days later.
"This place… It did not change much."
Tristanna as a city had reached a point of completion. With many historical buildings standing, it is difficult to reconstruct the city. Thus, it seems to have reached stagnation.
Fioria firstly headed towards the Florence villa.
Her first day is spent on resting, and the next to tour around.
Even so, it was not for leisure, but mainly to collect information.
Within them, there was one rumor that caught her interest.
It was regarding the son of the Captain of the Knights, Kenneth who was once Annerose's follower.
After leaking information of the Tristan kingdom, he is supposed to be in imprisonment.
However he was able to escape from the authorities, went in hiding, and aided Annerose's escape from the Tristan kingdom. And is currently living as a thief, though the credibility is doubted.
"… It seems there is a need to have a talk with him."
And so Fioria muttered, as if she found a prey.
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She is like a counterstop leveled character fighting off mobs in a fantasy world game =w=
I really do hope the romance goes better later on.. Else i don’t think i can go on..
Regards,
shirori