NOVEL NEXT chapter 82
82 – Declaration of War
After that happened with Clara,
I didn’t have the courage to face Edwin, so I spent most of my time outside the palace.
That didn’t mean I wasn’t taking responsibility for Clara or anything like that.
On the day of the incident, after revealing his intention to reject Clara, the opposite happened at night…
Even with two mouths, he had nothing to say.
Besides, now that things have happened with Clara, I don’t know what to do with my relationship with Kir…
“Hero?”
“Huh!?”
“What do you think?”
“Uh… Yes… No…”
A refugee camp to escape Edwin and Kir…
Since she returned to the kingdom of Arjen, Lucia has been visiting the refugee camp here every day to provide medical service.
In the name of Lucia’s bodyguard, he had escaped the palace and was wasting time like this.
“You’ve been a little strange lately.”
“Huh? Why me?”
“It’s like the fact that you follow me like this every day, and when you come out you just sit there blankly like now… Is there something wrong with you?”
“Ah… No… What happened… Just… I have a lot to think about…”
“What are you doing? If it’s that difficult… I can advise you…”
“……”
I want to grab someone and talk to them…
Of course, that person must be Lucia…
I couldn’t even speak.
“Ah… No… Nothing happened…”
“…..”
Even when I said this, Lucia just stared at me as I walked out of the tent, as if she was suspicious of even my answer.
After coming out of the tent, refugee tents were spread out on the vast outskirts of the capital.
The refugees who were waiting their turn in front of the medical tent met me and bowed their heads as if to thank me for saving them in the past.
“Hero!”
Kir appeared in front of me as I was about to move while greeting each refugee…
“Where the hell have you been? Do you know how much I found?”
“Uh… Uh… I was following Lucia…”
“What? You’ve been following only Lucia lately… Have you been cheating on me?”
“Ah… No.”
Kir was looking at me with a meaningful face, but I had to avoid meeting Kir’s eyes.
“Suspicious…”
“What is suspicious…”
As I averted my eyes to another place, Kir came over and blocked my vision, then opened his ax eye and glared at me.
“By the way… Kirer, why are you here?”
“Huh? Ah! Edwin is looking for you.”
“Edwin?”
Did Clara say something?
Couldn’t you have gone to Edwin and argued about when the wedding would be held?
No…
No…
No matter how much Clara wants to marry me, she doesn’t think about it.
Maybe I had everything ready when I came to my room that night.
“Yes. I heard Clara is with everyone, so we can talk?”
“…..”
As soon as he heard Kir’s words, he felt as if something crashed into his chest, and he began to get more and more nervous.
“Did you buy something?”
“Huh? Sa… Accident…?”
“Why are you making such a frightened face?”
“Ah.. No.. Kir. Let’s go. First.”
I want to ask Kir to save me because such and such things have happened in my heart…
Somehow that day, she thought she would rather kill me if I talked about her until the day she was with Clara, so I pushed her away and headed for her palace.
*
Lucia still needs to be treated, so she decided to stay at the refugee camp, and she returned to Kirman’s palace with me.
And…
When I went to the office where Edwin was waiting for me, Clara, who had arrived earlier, greeted me with a smile.
“Hero! If you follow Lucia, she will say that she is going~ I’ve been looking for it for a while.”
“Ugh… Yeah…”
When I answered Clara in short words without realizing it, Edwin, who was sitting at her desk in her office, glared at me with his eyes wide open.
“Ah.. Yes..”
As soon as he responded with an honorific, as usual, Edwin’s eyes returned to the papers.
“Hero~ You decided to talk more comfortably now~”
“Ah… No. Princess…”
I noticed Clara and sent it with the meaning that she couldn’t say that now, but
Clara was asking me again with her face as if she didn’t know what she was thinking.
“Are you here?”
“Yeah…”
Edwin got up from his chair and came over to the sofa where we were sitting, bringing what appeared to be a letter with him.
“You seem busy these days? You can’t even see your face in the palace.”
“Ah… Kinda… Something like that happened…”
“Look at this.”
A letter from Edwin to me…
I don’t know what it was about at a glance, but I only knew who sent it after looking at the seal stamped at the bottom of the letter.
The sentence of the great temple…
It was only then that I realized why Edwin’s expression was not good, and I began to read the contents of the letter.
“The contents mean that if they continue to surround you and spin around you, the demon army will attack us first… Should I say it is a kind of declaration of war?”
As I slowly read the contents of the letter, Edwin summarized the contents of the letter next to me.
“Right now, the Demon King’s army is holding out like that, and the number is gradually increasing… To think they’re going to attack us… Tsk tsk… I think I have a lot of feelings for you.”
The contents inside make me read the letter again even after reading it once…
The contents were absurd enough to make me wonder if he had sent a letter like this unless he was insane.
“It must be because a new hero has appeared.”
“What are you going to do with a new unproven hero in the first place? A hero without a holy sword will fight the demon king well.”
“I think there is something…”
There seems to be a reason for believing in a hero who has not been verified and does not have a holy sword…
There was no way to know the reason.
“Once all the Dark Elves have been sent to the Eritre Empire, they will come with some news soon.”
Kir, who was sitting and drinking tea leisurely before he knew it, said something. Me and Edwin put down the letter they were holding and drank a cup of tea.
As she said, even if we say this here, there is no specific answer.
You will be able to determine the authenticity of the contents of that letter.
“Are you okay? Edwin?”
“Well… We are fully prepared, and other northern kingdoms, including the Fjord Empire, have already decided not to accept new heroes, so there is nothing to worry about. If there’s a problem….”
“If there is…?”
“You are the problem.”
“Me?”
Edwin put down the teacup he was drinking from and glared at me with changed eyes as he spoke.
I forgot about the things I was worried about while worrying about the letter from the Great Temple.
“How dare you touch my sister and avoid her?”
“Uh… that… that…”
I felt like my heart was tightening and I felt like I was going to have trouble breathing, so I kept some distance from Edwin and took a deep breath.
Rather, if I was more flustered here, the situation could have been more complicated for no reason, so I opened my mouth again as calmly as possible.
“Those things about Clara… I’ll take care of them somehow…”
“To be responsible means to have a wedding, right?”
“Ugh… Yeah…”
Edwin softened a little when he said that I would take responsibility.
However, instead of Edwin, who had softened a little, someone else was showing excitement…
“Hero, what are you talking about…? Are you touching…? And what are you responsible for?”
“…..”
Kir, who had been listening to Edwin’s conversation with me, stepped forward and turned his head without realizing it, avoiding Kir’s gaze.
“It’s literally. Kir. I also slept with the hero like you.”
“Unbelievable…”
Perhaps he was quite shocked by Clara’s words, and Kir is greatly agitated…
When she made a face like that, who doesn’t even get surprised by her normal events, I started to feel sorry for her.
I spoke cautiously to explain and apologize to Kir.
“Hey… Kir… I’m sorry. Even if I have ten mouths, it’s not like I don’t have anything to say…”
“…. I am first.”
“Huh?”
“Am I right first?”
“What is that…”
Kir suddenly came up to me with a serious face, pushed his face in, and was saying something incomprehensible…
It didn’t take me long to understand that.
“I fell in love with you first, the hero, and I slept first, so I’m right, right?”
“Ugh… Yeah…”
“Then I am the main wife and Clara is the concubine?”
“That’s…”
“Why? No?”
“…..”
I was about to say yes, but I couldn’t speak properly because of Clara standing next to her staring at me.
“No. Why? The one who got to know the hero first was me, Kirr, before you? Isn’t that where I’ve been?”
“I just found out about that, didn’t we just start dating? I confessed to the hero first and slept with him first, so I am the main wife.”
“If it comes to confessions, that’s the case, but the thing I liked was before Kiru! When I was chasing the warrior for a long time. Kir what did you do It’s when you’re trying to kill the hero, but he’s trying to assassinate you.”
“I did it because I loved you enough to want to kill you!”
“Stop pushing yourself!”
Kir’s Clara’s quarrel didn’t seem to stop, and I was caught in the middle without a chance to stop it, and before I knew it, I stepped back.
Edwin could not stop the fight between the two women, who were fighting more brutally than the men.
“I’m sorry. Edwin…”
“Whoa, whoa…”
“I should have been a little more careful… but… I didn’t know…”
“All right. It’s already happened… I won’t say much as long as you take responsibility. Anyway, it was what my brother wanted.”
I was relieved by Edwin’s reaction, who wasn’t as angry as I thought, while I was looking at Kir and Clara, who were still fighting.
“I don’t care if I’m your main wife or a concubine, but please don’t bring tears to my sister’s eyes. Please. Carlos.”
Somehow, Edwin speaks with a slightly bitter face…
After the former king and queen left for a vacation home,
Edwin’s expression was complicated and subtle, perhaps because he thought that Clara, whom he cherished sometimes like her younger brother and sometimes like her daughter, would soon get married.