I came back, returned to the royal capital, and stood in the library of the palace with my feet on the floor without the slightest dust, and I felt like I had returned home. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Kaye looked at Elirita with a confused look in her eyes, eleven years ago she had read a book with Sophia, who was still a princess, but in the blink of an eye, eleven years had passed.

"You're thinking about other women. ”

What a sharp intuition!

"You know. ”

"Really, you're so honest, it's rude to be with women and think about other women, so let's cover it up somewhat. ”

"I'm sorry. ”

Irita was a little uncomfortable, a little curious about who the woman Kaye was thinking about, but she never asked, because if she did, it would feel like she was not as attractive as the other person.

With a deep exhale, gathering her thoughts, Ileta got up and took Kaye's hand.

"Kay Yiqing accompanied me to the backyard. ”

The maid lowered her head, Her Royal Highness the noble princess and the noble knight were so close, this was not what she should see more than a maid. Kaye originally wanted to say that he took the initiative to take the man's hand, which was not what a lady should do, but he was happy to see Irita and could only let it go.

The backyard wasn't far away, and a few minutes later Kaye and Ilita were in the backyard. On the way, curious guards and knights cast ambiguous glances at Kaye and Irita, but after being glared at by Victor and the captain of the guard, they immediately withdrew their gaze.

"Are you idle? It looks like you're going to have to double up on training. ”

The strict knight commander's words made the knights scream, but after seeing Victor's angry gaze, he immediately expressed his willingness to double his training.

There was a river deep in the backyard of the palace, and there was a boat by the river, and Ileta happily pulled Kaye into the boat. The water in the river is very clear, and the surface of the river is reflected by the sun's rays.

"Kayyiqing, do you remember? When I was a child, you used to accompany me in this river. ”

Her Royal Highness, the half-elf princess, pulled Kaye to sit on the boat, and the moment she sat down, she had the illusion of returning to the past. When Ileta was a little girl, Kaye often accompanied her in this boat on the river and played with the little girl's Ileta.

A smile crossed Kaye's face as he recalled memories of the past. Looking at Ilita is like looking at my former self, the king's father, the queen's mother, Ileta may be her own reflection.

Kaye and Ileta sat in the boat, and slowly moved forward as Kaye slid the oars. Ileta looked at Kaye's handsome face that could captivate countless women, and leaned against Kaye with a red face. A faint scent came into the nose, a perfume mixed with the girl's body fragrance.

"Perfume is really popular. ”

He was sliding the oars and muttering to himself. After Kaye left the palace, he went to the "Charming Goblin", of course, not to drink, Kaye remembered that Gulan's dagger was destroyed, and since he returned to the royal capital, he went to help Gulan get a hand.

Kaye happened to know a very skilled dwarven blacksmith in the royal capital, but the dwarven blacksmith had to give them gold coins to make weapons, and he had to give them wine.

In front of a shop in a busy downtown area, a wooden sign with a hammer pattern hangs in front of the two-story building, and it is a blacksmith shop that is hung in front of the door. The owner of the blacksmith is a middle-aged dwarf, muscular and red-nosed like the other dwarves, and not tall compared to humans.

The name of the dwarven boss is Kenny, and he is a dwarven blacksmith whom Kaye knows. The dwarves are best at crafting weapons, and their craft at crafting weapons is much better than that of humans, although many human blacksmiths refuse to admit it, but it is true.

The sound of thumping iron came from the blacksmith shop, and Kaye walked into the blacksmith shop to the fire, and Kenny, who had been striking iron, stopped what he was doing.

"It's you, Lord Kaye. ”

Kenny lowered the hammer and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Kaye took out the two bottles of ale he had bought from the spatial ring and handed them to Kenny, took the ale, Kenny uncorked one of the ales, smelled the aroma of the ale, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Praise you, generous Lord Kaye, dwarves love ale. ”

Unceremoniously drank the open ale until he was done, and then casually threw away the bottle in his hand. If other nobles were present, they would definitely scold Kenny for being vulgar, but Kaye has been a mercenary for decades, and even more vulgar mercenaries don't know how many they have seen, not to mention that the dwarves are like this, and Kaye doesn't feel strange.

"I need one dagger, no, two, the best you can build. ”

Since they have already asked Kenny, then just let him build two, Gulan's dagger can be shattered by his own fist, it is really not too good quality, so let's change them all.

"Yes, but I need time, and I can't go away now, my dear Lord Kaye you must give me ten more bottles, no, twenty bottles of ale, yes, twenty bottles of ale at least, dwarves need ale for iron, just as hungry need to eat. ”

"Dear Kenny, that's fine. ”

Ale wine is much cheaper than red wine, and twenty bottles don't cost much. Kaye pulls out two pieces of golden metal from the spatial ring in his left hand and hands them to Kenny as he looks at him with surprise on his face.

"Oh, Orehagang, what did you get?"

"I used to be a mercenary when my employer gave it to me. ”

"Praise be to God the Father, this is Orehagon, it's a good thing, it's a very good metal to make weapons out of. ”

Holding the two pieces of metal in his hand, Kenny looks at them as if he were looking at his beloved lover.

"Dear Kenny, how much gold do I need to pay you for the two daggers?"

"Thirteen hundred gold coins, that's for the sake of the noodles you gave me Oriha just made for me. ”

1,300 gold coins is almost equivalent to Kaye's salary for three years, which is indeed not cheap, and ordinary thieves are definitely not willing to spend so many gold coins to build such an expensive dagger.

"You are a noble lord and a worthy "hero", I will not deceive anyone who deceives you, the price is really reasonable. ”

"I'm going to buy you ale, how much does the deposit have to pay you?"

"No, you can be trusted. ”

With all that to say, Kaye turned and left the blacksmith's shop. Looking up at the sky, it's getting late, so let's go buy the ale first, and then go back to the grocery store.

By the time I got back to the grocery store, it was already nightfall. The table in the restaurant was served with food for dinner, and of course, Sophia did not forget to prepare the fish that Guran liked to eat. Before the meal, Kaye asked Gulan about going to the mercenary union, but the answer he received was: "After a day's drinking, listening to the mercenaries of the union brag." ”

Gu Lan has seen all the tasks of the mercenary union, but none of the tasks Gu Lan wants to take, finding things, finding people, cleaning, taking care of children, collecting herbs, what kind of jokes, these tasks are done by novice mercenaries, and he is not a weak newcomer, and accepting this kind of task is simply a waste of time. To accept this time-wasting task, it is better to hunt monsters and exercise your strength.

If this kind of time-wasting task pays well, Gulan is not impossible to accept, but the pay for this kind of task is pitiful, and the reward for cleaning is even a few copper coins.

Sophia also asked a few words, because they also lived together, and Sophia felt that they should take proper care of each other.

Kaye took a wooden spoon and drank the broth in the wooden bowl, the broth tasted better than before, and Sophia's cooking skills improved. She is very good at housework, she is beautiful and gentle, and she is very polite to others, she is really a good girl.

Sophia is a good girl, but she's just too weak, which is one of the reasons why Kaye cares about her. She was supposed to stay in the palatial castle, enjoying the service of the maids and receiving the allegiance of the loyal knights, but the fall of the country made her lose her royal status.

How cruel fate was, but even this cruel fate made her meet her, and Kaye was glad that she had left Sophia behind. Sophie is weak, too gentle and kind, the mercenary lives a day where there may be no tomorrow, and the mercenary is not suitable for Sophia.

In his decades of mercenary career, Kaye has seen too many mercenaries die, too many mercenaries who are still laughing and drinking loudly in the tavern today, and died in the mission the next day, and too many mercenaries have died at the hands of monsters, or died in wars in which they were hired by lords. Just like the equivalent exchange of an alchemist, the equivalent exchange of a mercenary is the exchange of precious lives for gold.

"Sophia, your cooking skills have improved. ”

Kaye's praise made the girl blush, but she couldn't tell it if she didn't look closely because of the candlelight.

"Let's go shopping tomorrow after breakfast. ”

"You and me, really?"

"Isn't it convenient?"

The blonde girl shook her head, indicating that she was very happy. Gulan looked at Kaye and then at Sophia, and felt that he had no room to interject, so he continued to eat his favorite fish. And Guran could see the joy in Sophia's eyes that couldn't be hidden, and while eating the fish, he muttered in his heart that women were really troublesome, but it was so happy to go out for a walk, it was really an incomprehensible creature.

Women are troublesome and superfluous creatures, and Kaye is truly commendable for her courage to be so patient with women.

PS: I have time tonight for the second shift, well, the first one.