“무엇을 원하십니까?”

Hayden still looked at Lu’s face, pale and drained. After fainting yesterday morning and waking up briefly at night only to fall asleep again, half her face had become pale overnight.

It was clear that she had moved past shock and into anger, judging by how she was eating combatively with that face. Of course, she hadn’t forgotten to courteously respond to Hayden’s nonsense in the midst of it all.

“Meet the parents first.”

He stared at the horizon as he put on his gloves. The elastic leather enveloped his large hands without a gap. But he had already fully sensed that Lu was flinching. She disliked it.

He had to attach conditions to this woman to begrudgingly do something good for me. This included taking care of meals and body, and also meeting parents, all of it.

Knowing that Lu really wanted to meet her parents, he had personally pushed her back. Even attaching a plausible reason.

“You have to have Bevil Hill to take revenge. Besides, no one can stop parents who have lived with the intent to meet their children.”

Then Icar came growling from behind, and the Imperials who were watching the horizon with him started to move slowly.

“Prepare to attack!”

“Eat everything there, general. I’ll check when I come back.”

Lu opened her eyes wide, wondering if he was referring to the large basket next to her. Before she could even reply, Hayden mounted Icar and swiftly flew upwards.

The sight of the Imperials collectively rising into the sky after the emperor was magnificent. Through the writhing mana like the warm haze of spring or the blazing heat of summer, the monstrous forms of the monsters began to appear.

“Attack!”

A white light shot out from Icar with a crashing sound. The monsters, unable to even reach the small agricultural land near the fortress they had labored to build, met death as soon as they were created.

With that degree of force, wouldn’t Carlos also be killable? The moment a goal appeared after 4 years, everything seemed to be a means to that goal.

‘……That should be over soon.’

Putting the remaining sandwich piece into her mouth and brushing off her hands, Lu picked up the coffee cup and raised her head again.

“……Huh?”

She opened her eyes wide, and the Imperial members who had stayed around her and hadn’t participated in the monster subjugation were all shaken as well.

The Imperials that had gathered towards the point where the monsters were being created spread widely across the horizon. They appeared to be moving back a lot, as if to avoid something.

‘Something’s gone wrong.’

Lu hurriedly drank her coffee and leaned forward. The widely spread Imperial members started to take a defensive stance, not an attacking one.

This might take a while this morning.

Then there was a noise from behind. To be exact, the sound of many horses coming in and stopping. With a neighing sound, Lu looked back.

“Where is His Majesty the Emperor?”

The woman who got out of the carriage, leading five knights, looked around twenty years old.

She looked ordinary, but her highheeled boots were new, and her shaggy coat was a luxury item that no one but nobles could wear.

“Identify yourself first.”

Of course, this place was Belfort, where the Emperor was stationed, and the Imperials guarded every crossroad.

That young lady must have had to reveal her identity at least five times to get this far.

“I am Charlotte Mulemu, the daughter of Baron Gronby. I have brought food for His Majesty the Emperor and the Imperials.”

Oh no. Lu immediately realized that the young lady had made a considerable mistake.

Food was already overflowing in Belfort, enough to forcibly feed General Kaleta, and now was not a leisurely time to welcome such minor visitors.

“Leave it and go.”

“Ah, the food is already placed outside. However…….”
“Turn back. Do you not know that you must not appear before His Majesty the Emperor without any permission?”

Local nobles must somehow take advantage of times like this. That’s how they get a chance to advance to the center.

But opportunity is seized by the prepared. The face of Lady Gronby, who had come recklessly all the way here, turned red. Moreover, another entourage surrounding a larger carriage arrived behind her.

“Oh.”

Riga, rummaging through the basket for cheese, watched this fascinating spectacle.

From the carriage, carrying as many as twenty knights, before the knight could even open the door, a small child rolled out and shouted sharply,

“Go back at once, Lady Gronby!”

Wow. Riga looked at the tremendous child scolding Lady Gronby.

Was the child about ten years old? The child, wearing a much more simple yet luxurious coat than Lady Gronby, spoke with wideopen green eyes, twittering,

“Bringing goods to His Majesty the Emperor’s garrison is done in Plachet. And His Majesty the Emperor is very busy!”

It was true, but the problem was that the child was too cute to have authority. Behind the child, an even smaller child was slowly coming down from the carriage, supported by a knight.