I Became a Retired Warrior Who Suffered NTR in the Novel

79 – Confession

After the meal, we moved to a small party that only we could enjoy.

I mean, it’s a party hall, so I just prepared a room for drinking separately.

“So? When are you going to get married?”

Following the restaurant, everyone’s eyes were on Edwin here…

Even if we didn’t bother to pay attention, Edwin couldn’t help but feel ashamed, and Princess Cecilia clinging to Edwin was annoying.

“Uh… First of all, it’s a marriage between countries… You need to get permission…”

“I got permission. Edwin.”

“….. There are many things to prepare…”

“All preparations are being done by the Empire, so there is no need to worry.”

“…..”

Princess Cecilia, who speaks after every word Edwin says…

“I knew this would happen and I was preparing in advance.”

Edwin couldn’t say anything more about Cecilia’s unexpected preparation.

My party members and I were just admiring Cecilia’s momentum.

Of all the people gathered here, Clara is the only one staring at me with a disapproving face.

I personally am in favor of the two of them doing well, so I did not sympathize with Clara.

Edwin is also managing the kingdom well in his own way, but honestly, it was true that the queen had a lot of vacancy, both diplomatically and to take care of household chores within the kingdom.

Although she says that her younger sister, Clara, is doing it … There is a big difference between what the princess can do and what her queen can do.

And if it’s Cecilia…

In the Fjord Empire and neighboring kingdoms, she was trustworthy because she was doing everything that men did, even for a normal princess, to the extent that she was nicknamed the Empress of the North.

In addition, due to the marriage of the two, the Empire and the Kingdom of Argen can actually form a marriage alliance,

It couldn’t have been the moment when the strongest alliance was born on this continent.

“Shouldn’t the hero choose an opponent rather than us?”

Cecilia, who was holding Edwin’s hand tightly, looked around me and said…

Kir and Lucia were on my left, and Clara and Irene on my right were pulling each other by their arms, not letting go.

“From my point of view, I wouldn’t wish for anything more if Irene was chosen, but… maybe… it would be difficult, right?”

“Woe… Princess!”

Irene screamed loudly as soon as Cecilia finished her words, but she covered her mouth with her hand and laughed as if it was funny.

As the rest of her party, including Clara, glared at her, Clara turned her head away, blushing at the end.

“From my point of view, the dark elf lady over there looks the most powerful.

With every word Cecilia said, the people next to me split into people who were blushing, angry, and smiling contentedly.

As expected, the one I cared about the most was Kir…

Anyway, I felt a little different from the other party members, perhaps because I was with him when I was having the hardest time.

“Hero…”

“Yes? Princess.”

“No way… Because I slept with Kiru-sama over there…”

Clara, who saved my right arm from Irene, was asking me with her sparkling eyes…

I was afraid I would cry if I said something wrong here, so I couldn’t say anything.

“Brother! Let me marry you too!”

“Clara? What marriage?”

“I want to marry the hero too!”

“…..”

A momentary silence fell in the room due to Clara’s sudden bombshell remark, and Edwin, who barely came to his senses, just stared at me as if asking me to answer instead.

“Because I won’t say much about my brother getting married to the princess, and I’ll admit it! Oppa, please acknowledge that I and the hero are married!”

“Clara.. Anyways.. I should ask about Carlos first.”

“Yes. Warrior! Will you marry me too? Yes?”

The ball exchanged between Edwin and Clara passed over to me before I knew it, but Kir and Lucia’s resentment was directed at her.

“Princess… That’s… My subject, marrying the princess is a little bit…”

“What is the theme, warrior? If it’s the hero who saved the continent, wouldn’t he, of course, be able to marry me, a member of the royal family?”

As Clara said, if you are a hero…

Of course, the qualifications to marry not only nobles but also royalty and saints were granted.

But… Before I became a hero, I was a commoner in terms of rank…. Before that, Clara was the younger brother of her friend Edwin.

Still in my head, when I first met Edwin, the young Clara I saw with her eyes shimmered, and when I thought of them as lovers, something didn’t work out.

“I’m sorry. Princess…”

“Hero, why? Is it because of Kir and Lucia? If that’s the reason, I’m fine with taking her as a concubine. In that respect, I am generous!”

“That’s not it… The princess still has a strong image of me as her friend’s younger sister rather than being seen as a woman…”

Of course, Clara was at an age suitable for marriage considering that she is a royal family, and judging from her appearance, she was so beautiful that she was called one of the three most beautiful women in Arjen.

In addition, she has a lively personality and is popular with the people, making her the best wife for the royal family…

Seeing me rejecting her confession, she was a woman who was too much for me to the point of saying that she was crazy.

“Black…”

Covering her mouth with both her hands, Clara tried her best not to let out the sound of her crying.

There were already tears under her eyes.

And…

Jumping!!

I ran outside and there was no time for me to follow.

“I’ll go.”

Cecilia got up from her seat and followed Clara outside.

The drinking party, which started with a smile, turned into a gloomy atmosphere before I knew it, and the fact that even Kir’s smile disappeared from her face seemed to show the atmosphere of this place.

“Ah! Yes. While the party went to the Principality of Alsmeyer, another envoy came from the Elven Kingdom.”

“A god of death…?”

As I asked back, Edwin seemed to tell me who the main character of the Shinigami was when he turned his gaze to Lucia.

“Me… Me…?”

“Yes. I came because I wanted to invite Lucia once again.”

“That… so?”

“For starters, since Lucia isn’t here, I couldn’t hear her answer, but… I spoke instead. Even if she was there anyway, she would have turned it down.”

“Yes…”

At Edwin’s words, Lucia let out a sigh, it seemed to me that it was sweeping away her heart.

“And, I heard that Iluen escaped from prison?”

“What!?”

From the words of Marquis Runiel, who came as an envoy to the Elf Kingdom before we left, Iluen was imprisoned.

But she escaped in just a few days…

“You know what’s funnier?”

“??”

“Just a few hours before the prison break, the priests came as messengers from the Great Temple, and they brought a request to add Iluen to the new hero’s party, and on the day Iluen escaped, the priests also disappeared. ..”

Edwin relayed what he had heard from Marquis Runiel, who visited again as an envoy from the Elven Kingdom.

The words were twisted around, but no matter who saw it, all I could hear was that Illuen’s escape from prison was intended by the Great War.

“And there was a request for cooperation from the Great War.”

“What request for cooperation?”

“Stop supporting the undressed warrior who violated the goddess’ revelation.”

This is… Well, a request for cooperation…

A message like a threat to stop recognizing me as a warrior…

“So you know what I said?”

“What?”

“We, the Kingdom of Argen, do not recognize new warriors, and will fight war if the existing ones are harmed…”

I’m grateful for Edwin’s actions, where he responded to the threat of Daeshinjeon with threats, not anywhere else…

From the standpoint of the country, his reckless behavior could never be seen as a good move.

Even though it’s been weakened by the war with the demon king’s army… Still, it’s a great war that still has many believers on the continent, and

As long as the Eritre Empire stood behind them, they were by no means a weak opponent.

“And soon the Fjord Empire will make the same statement.”

At Edwin’s last words, all my worries disappeared,

It reminded me of Cecilia who had just gone out with Clara.

If she…

I was in a position where I could fully control the position of the Fjord Empire.

In other words, it has been said that the threat sent back to the Great War is closer to Cecilia’s work than Edwin’s,

It was said that Edwin, who felt less pressure, also joined.

“If the Northern Allied Forces are established soon, the Great War will not be able to do anything anymore. Most of the kingdoms wishing to join so far are the northern countries of the continent…”

Certainly, if the Northern Allied Forces are established and the number of members increases, the Great War will no longer be able to recklessly deal with us…

In a good way, there is a point that you are no longer subject to the interference of the Eritre Empire, but

If you think of it in a bad way, there was a high possibility that our warrior party would be swayed by the northern allied forces in the future.

If this was Cecilia’s idea…

It’s starting to scare her.

To the point where I feel fortunate to have met as an ally rather than an enemy..

“Kalos.”

“Huh?”

“Is my sister really that bad? Well… As an older brother, my younger brother… Is a tomboy and still looks like he’s at an age where he’d be fooling around… But as a royal family, he’s at the right age for marriage…”

“……”

“Rather than being taken by someone else you don’t trust, I thought it wouldn’t be bad to take you, who is still in good condition…”

Edwin must have been upset that Clara went outside in tears earlier.

It seemed that he spoke out to convince me.