Chapter 18: Arriving at the Royal Capital
In the end, the Duke of Tobbs did not wake up the Guards cavalry he had brought from the Loonster Plains to pursue the possible escape routes of the Princes of Juventus and Koende overnight. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 After Duke Tobbs and Valberia left the king's chamber that night, Princess Tifia and her attendant Miss Rana stayed with the sleeping King Bagh for a while, and then asked Rana to take her to the office to prepare a letter for Orlan before returning to her bedroom and falling asleep.
Princess Tifia slept from twelve o'clock in the evening to four in the morning, and once her long-established biological clock was disturbed, she could only rely on the alchemy potions refined by several alchemy professional instructors in the Royal Wizarding Academy.
Thus the king of Violet stood all night in the pouring rain, and the next day the rising sun rose from the eastern coast as usual.
Under the city of Perades, the caravan that had been delayed for half a day due to heavy rain finally arrived at the outer gate of the royal capital from Orlan, and the merchants' carriages were inspected by the soldiers guarding the city and entered the city one by one.
Finn took Lilith's hand and waited until the carriage stopped at the door of a merchants' guild in the royal capital, and then got off with Countess Calea, the air after the rain was exceptionally fresh in the early morning sun, the young paladin looked up at the blue sky as clear as water, the white-feathered owl demon pet Pol fluttered his wings and fell back into the black hair of the warlock girl, and the two big round eyes looked around curiously, like a country child seeing the bustling street market for the first time.
After entering the royal capital, Finn wanted to meet Princess Tifia earlier, but Countess Callea soon received a short letter from the palace of Kepesh in the royal capital, informing Finn and the Countess that the princess had a more important matter to take care of at the moment, and that the appointment was postponed until the next evening.
Although Finn had never met Princess Tifia in his life, he knew that Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Violet Kingdom was a workaholic who was crazy about squeezing his rest time, and every minute of the timetable was filled up by her a day or two in advance.
As a result, although he felt a little regretful because he couldn't see Princess Tifia for the first time, Fein could also understand Princess Tiphia's notice of postponing the appointment time, after all, the party who was unexpectedly late was on his side.
"So, let's find a place to settle down first." He thought to himself.
Later, as Countess Callea entered the palace to present an exploration report of the underground ruins to her de jure lord, Duke Thobes, Fein took Lilith to the inn in the royal capital called "Native Customs", where he had agreed to meet Arroyo and his party again on the shore of the lake outside Hurenger.
As the political center of the Violet Kingdom, Perades was even larger and more prosperous than Orlan on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Lawrence River, and the Kepesh Palace in the center of the city was a magnificent sight to watch, with shop houses and civic guild buildings in almost every block of the city, and the inn called "Cosmopolitan" was just one of many places to stay in the royal capital, so the rooms in the hotel were not always full.
Finn and Lilith found and walked into the inn on the side of a street, and without much effort he was able to rent the key to a room from the innkeeper standing behind the counter on the first floor.
Speaking of room keys, Finn was going to rent two rooms in the inn for a little more money, considering Lilith's presence.
However, there is nothing wrong with the young man's thoughts, but Lilith's brain circuit is obviously different from that of ordinary girls, this black-haired girl who lacks a lot of common sense in life heard that Fein planned to let her take her owl demon pet Pol to live in a room alone, and immediately gently tugged at the corner of Finn's clothes and asked him in a flat tone: "Finn, don't you like me?" ”
The innkeeper and Finn turned their heads to look at her with confused faces, and the young paladin said in his heart, Miss Lilith, didn't I tell you that the word "like" can't be used casually on people?
He was sure that Lilith must have mistaken the meaning of the word liking again, and then he smiled a little embarrassedly and comforted her, "How so? ”
Unexpectedly, the black-haired girl, who knows whether it was natural or black-bellied, immediately picked up a past incident and retorted to him: "But when we were in Dawn City, didn't we sleep together?" ”
When the words fell, she tilted her head innocently, and the stupid white fat owl demon pet above her head tilted her head with her.
As soon as she said something ambiguous, the strangers who were standing at the counter chatting casually looked at Finn and her with curiosity or disdain, and Finn felt as if a neat row of black lines had slipped on his forehead, and then he made up a few reasons to prevaricate the subject, and asked for only one room from the innkeeper as Lilith had expected.
That's it, after lunch, in a room on the second floor of the hotel.
"Oh...... That is, when the object of liking is an object, it means that someone values the value of that item. Lilith sat on the edge of the bed, her dark eyes quietly staring at Finn, who was sitting in a chair across from her, and she bit her finger with a slightly realized expression and concluded, "And when the object of affection is a person, it means that the person has a potential love for the person he likes, but this potential love is still a little bit hot from real love. ”
"That's pretty much what it means." Finn exhaled with his hands in his hands, and sighed in his heart that he had finally popularized this obviously easy to understand common sense to Lilith, "Besides, we stayed together on the night we stayed in Aurora City, not together. The words sleep and live also represent completely different meanings, and in the future, don't say that you have slept with anyone, otherwise you will be regarded as a ...... Forehead... ......"
"What will it be taken for?"
"It would be treated as... Yes...... It's going to be a monster. ”
Finn frowned helplessly and scratched his hair for a long time, and complained frantically in his heart that I had traveled all the way from Orlan to Perades and did not come to teach children a general knowledge lesson, and then finally held back this clumsy answer ten seconds later.
He thought that although the word monster was completely inaccurate in describing the truth he wanted to tell Lilith, it should not be too wrong for Lilith's limited comprehension, right?
After a blink of an eye, Lilith stared in a daze, her mind seemingly accepting Finn's answer to herself.
Then, she immediately opened her eyes curiously, looked at Finn who just wanted to rest and breathe a sigh of relief, and asked, "Then, Finn, do you think I'm a monster?" (To be continued.) )