Hugo cast a cold glance at the knights, gritting his teeth in annoyance.
Among those praising the beneficial and tasty nature of their consumption, even Edin, the captain of the knights whom Hugo could never trust, was included.
It made sense when he thought about it. After all, he was the leader of these lunatics.
‘The difference between being noisily insane and quietly insane, I suppose.’
Hugo moved menacingly, as if he was about to scold them on the spot, coming close to the knights. But, at the moment, the knights were too engrossed in listening to the travel stories from the Empire of Harubenta, told by the young lady they had seen after several days.
They were curious about what happened to the snake she caught, if anyone dared to bother her, and, most importantly, if anyone had been audacious enough to flirt with her.
There was a mountain of questions to ask and answers to hear. The knights were all gathered around Evelia.
“Did the young lady eat the snake?”
“No, it was given as a gift to the emperor of the Harubenta Empire! It would have been better if she caught a few more to give to Eshat and Adniel.”
“Oh, how glorious!”
“She is brave and has a noble character!”
That our young lady defeated a snake and offered it as a gift to the emperor of another empire…
Their eyes were rounded in surprise as they gazed upon the precious young lady with a gleeful feeling, they failed to notice the intimidating aura that would have been apparent to them under normal circumstances.
That’s why it happened.
In response to Hugo’s fierce interrogation from behind, they casually replied,
“…Do you like snake soup?”
“Ah, snake soup is great, my lord. Talking about it makes me crave it.”
Alex, who had been jesting in front of Evelia, confessed while licking his lips.
“How about snake liquor?”
“Uhuh the taste of snake liquor drunk on the battlefield at night is so good it could bring back the dead.”
As Herold mimicked drinking by making a ‘clink’ sound, Evelia also followed and made a ‘clink’ sound.
“Clink. Snake liquor clink.”
‘…Isn’t there a spell that erases only part of the memory. Maybe a young dragon could do it.’
Never in his life had Hugo wished for magic as much as he did now.
He wanted to erase the useless babbling about snakes from the head of his daughter, which should have been a garden of flowers.
Simultaneously, his already overflowing anger shot through the roof.
Seeing these guys really…
“…To the training ground.”
“Eh?!”
“Now?!”
At this time? We want to play more with the young lady?
Expressions of strong distaste were clearly displayed on the faces of the knights.
“All of you have been babbling so much that now Eve is going on about snake liquor and snake soup and snakes…! Assemble.”
“Uh.”
The faces of the knights turned the color of dirt. They knew this scolding was coming someday.
They knew they would get scolded if they were caught by the lord, but whenever the young lady ran up to them and asked for a fun story, they couldn’t help but tell everything without a filter.
The snake babbling was just one of them.
They never intended to teach these things to our precious young lady, it was just a story that happened to come out while they were telling her in detail about the things that happened on the battlefield.
The young lady went “Bahem?”, tilting her head, twinkling her eyes, her cute reactions just made the story of the snakes take up 80 minutes out of the 100 minutes of war stories.
So the knights felt quite wronged.
‘We should explain the whole story to the lord and object.’
Just as they turned their gaze from the twinkling face of the young lady to the lord.
‘The lord’s face looks like he is about to behead an enemy commander.’
Only then did they feel a sense of crisis that this could be their last day alive.
The instinct to survive kicked in, and the grieving knights quickly switched gears.
‘This is not a situation that can be resolved by explaining.’
‘Sell out the comrades.’
‘Sell them out to live.’
The knights who had been quietly making eye contact shouted in unison.
“The snake babbling was the captain!”
“The snake soup and snake liquor are Alex and Herold!”
“We don’t know about it!”
“We even tried to stop them!”
“No… You all clearly talked about various snakes to attract the young lady’s attention….”
“That’s right! You, you even said that snake soup tastes good with two spoonfuls of pepper!”
Alex, Herold, and Edin glanced resentfully at their comrades, but none of the knights meeting their gaze felt any guilt.
Forget about camaraderie.
The camaraderie of the Artina Knights, which claimed to die together on the battlefield, crumbled like sand in the face of the lord’s punishment.
The sight naturally incensed Hugo further. His neatly tied cravat unraveled due to his irritated gestures.
“Responsibility. Everyone. Gather.”
“Ah, no, my lord……”
He tried to defend himself further, but…
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
