At that time, the number of Rhodia pools confirmed was certainly sufficient.
Later, I just had to buy it with the money my guardian had prepared.
If there are signs of a skin disease in earnest, we will check it and purchase it.
I felt a little better when I thought of the stupid nobles who would rush at me if they threw Rhodia grass at me, thinking of it as salvation.
'All for all the warlocks in the land.'
Cordelia was insidious on the inside, but on the outside, she smiled like an angel, and her surroundings shone like twinkles.
***
Rudnine's thick eyebrows twitched. He couldn't believe it, and his mouth hardened.
"...You don't owe the Princess at all?"
"Yes, there isn't. The debt relationship is also very clean, lan't it?"
Aide Ant raised his glasses as he checked the documents he had examined.
Ant is a great talent who is coveted everywhere.
In his head, he believed that he couldn't make a mistake, but somehow, Rudnine was uncomfortable.
In the morning light coming into the study, Rudnine tapped the desk a few times with his index finger.
'...Hmmm.'
A moan flows out of the temple.
Even though he tried not to look at it, he kept looking at it.
His eyes are drawn to a letter on his desk.
It was a reply from Yvonne yesterday rejecting his request for a date.
It is a polite but definite refusal letter stating that there is a prior commitment.
It was hard to understand why Yvonne was rejecting him so much.
Rudnine, who felt 'nervousness' for the first time in his life, was so frustrated that he almost died.
He finally pulled his head out and slowly sorted things out.
"So...? Were you serious? Did the Princess hate me for coming out to the confrontation, so she wanted to kick me out quickly!"
"Hmm... Maybe."
"Did she deliberately ask for a loan with the exact amount in mind? Was it all planned?"
"...Well, I can conclude that."
He couldn't think of any other reason, so Ant nodded and said,
Rudnine's pupils fluttered.
It was a shock.
He spent most of his life quietly in the estate of Iels.
However, he was tired of the marriage proposals and love letters that came to him before he became an adult.
Rudnine thinks it was from a very young age.
Even though he was only breathing, the women were attracted to him.
However, as the lord of the lels estate, and as a Duke, his duties were greater.
Rudnine, who was busy living as a knight guarding the northern gate, could not afford to share his heart deeply with anyone.
"Hah...!"
With a deep sigh, Rudnine took out a luxurious gilded paper bag from the drawer.
And he hurriedly tore up the tickets for the opera box seats that he had obtained with great difficulty.
If he wasn't going with Yvonne, it was just a piece of paper that didn't mean anything.
P'What does Yvonne like?'
First of all, it was clear that Yvonne didn't seem to care about his appearance at all.
He didn't know how to appeal.
The money of the Iels family? Wealth?
The other party is the Princess of the Duke of Argentkhoz, one of the wealthiest families in the Empire.
Rudnine shook his head.
Or his ability?
He is just a knight who wields a sword.
Yvonne was already an excellent mage, and she was a great talent who would become an archmage in the future.
"Wizards usually like wizards... Is that so? I think I'll be better if I learn magic."
Rudnine, a gentis of swords that may appear once in 100 years, was seriously considering learning magic.
The Iels family is a family that has believed in swords for generations.
In particular, his deceased father, who had engraved that belief in his bones, would jump up from the grave and cry out.
Moreover, he didn't even remember that Prince Adrian, the man Yvonne had a crush on, was a sword master.
However. Rudnine really didn't have time to spare.
He kept thinking of Yvonne cutely holding out her hands and asking for a loan at the confrontation place.
It was so cute that even when he closed his eyes, it shimmered like an afterimage in front of his eyes.
Rubbing his forehead, Rudnine regretted it.
'I should have written two billion gold on the check sooner... That way, I will have an excuse to meet over debts.'
It wasn't normal for him to try to weave a relationship abnormally.
But he couldn't help it.
He didn't know how to approach such a woman who was hitting such an iron wall
Ant watched Rudnine in agony, squinted his eyes, and asked
"Duke. Could it be that you have been dumped by Princess Argenthoz once, and are you still going to court her?"
"...It's dumped."
Rudnine glared at Ant silently.
But soon, he smoothed his lips with his hand with a sullen expression and asked carefully.
"Hmm. Perhaps you. Do you know how to change a woman's heart when it is dumped?"
Ant looked at his boss with a blank face, asking a serious question.
Rudnine's eyes were serious as he waited for his answer, so Ant hurriedly opened his mouth.
"Yes?! Are you serious? That evil woman... No, you didn't meet Princess Argenthoz just once. Why are you so obsessed?"
Rudnine was definitely different from usual.
He rubbed his palms against each other nervously and coughed.
"...Hmmm. Because I have to keep my promise to Duke Argenthoz...?"
"The debt of the previous Duke has already been settled. Yesterday, the Duke of Argenthoz also sent a personal letter, didn't he? It's all over now."
Ant confirmed the kill.
'It's all over...?'
Rudnine suddenly gasped and choked.
As the aide said, Duke Argenthoz said. "Thank you. Enough is enough," and enclosed the oath that Rudnine's father had given him before.
The debt was cleared.
But...
His doubts are not over yet.
So Rudnine said firmly.
"No, it's not over yet."
"...Yes? No way. Duke, have you ever had a crush on her?"
Rudnine couldn't answer Ant's question, just blinking.
He fell in love with her.
What kind of emotion is that?
He narrowed his brows and touched the tip of his chin two or three times with his fist before answering.
"I don't know. I won't give up until I figure out the identity of the bell."
Ant suddenly gave up trying to understand his superiors, ringing the bell.
Instead, he decided to pray that it was just a curiosity about an unusual woman called the evil woman.
However, Rudnine persistently demanded answers from Ant.
"Ant, I asked if you knew how to change the heart of a rejected woman."
Ant's sadness suddenly exploded.
"...I'm also a rotten and love eunuch in the territory of Iels, so why do you ask me?"
Until now, he couldn't even think of romance because he was taking care of his boss, who was addicted to workaholism.
Rudnine scanned Ant's gloomy face and clicked his tongue.
"Hmm. My aide was a love eunuch. I didn't expect you to be a love eunuch either."
Rudnine kept repeating eunuch seriously.
Ant got tired of it and poured out any advice.
"Stop! Well, I'll start from scratch to see what Princess Argenthoz likes."
"Yes, that's a good idea."
Rudnine nodded and agreed, stood up, and put on his jacket.
"I have to go out."
"Right now? Where are you going?"
"...Investigate."
Rudnine replied casually and strode out on his long legs.
Ant stared blankly at Rudnine's backside, which was very fast-moving, and came to his senses.
"No way. Are you going to investigate yourself?"
You want to move with that normal face, with a high status?
Ant was so ridiculous that his jaw dropped.
Although Ant is a love eunuch, he was sure about Rudnine's condition.
'You're hooked!'
He clicked his tongue.
The princess Yvonne Argenthoz, who bewitched the great Rudnine Duke of Iels, is now really curious.
An hour later.
'Here it is. I wonder if she stays at home.'
No matter how Ant, he would never have imagined that Rudnine would really go so far to Yvonne's mansion.
But Rudnine was hovering in front of the Argenthoz townhouse.
He hesitated, staring at the tall exterior walls of the huge mansion of the Argenthoz family, who were as wealthy as the Iels.
Rudnine, who realized that he was snooping, suddenly felt self-deprecating.
'...What the hell am I doing?'
He came out to investigate what Yvonne liked, but he came to the Argenthoz mansion without knowing it.
He missed her so much that his instincts moved like this.
'No matter how I looked at her, she didn't look like a malicious villain as rumored.'
He will never forget Yvonne's gaze on him.
Like a powerful Imprint that cannot be erased.
Is it because the wizard Yvonne cast a strange spell on me?
Rudnine rubbed his face roughly.
'Huh?'
Rudnine, who had been quietly hiding around the mansion, opened his eyes wide when he saw the carriage leaving the mansion.
'Yvonne?'
He moved quickly to see the figure he had glimpsed through the carriage window.
Apparently, Yvonne was in the carriage.
If you go in the direction of the carriage road, you will come to the Nasiel district.
"Immediately after passing through the Nasiel district, the Imperial Palace."
Rudnine's mind turned white.
She replied that she had a prior commitment and declined his request for a date.
Could it be that the "commitment" was a promise made to the Crown Prince?
'Are you going to meet the Crown Prince? Is it so forgettable? Even after such humiliation?'
Rudnine bit his lip.
He quickly followed Yvonne as if he were chasing a cheating lover.
Rudnine, whose physical strength is different from an ordinary person because he is a sword master, easily followed the carriage.
Unexpectedly, Yvonne's carriage slowly slowed down as it entered the Nasiel district.
'Oh... Wasn't he going to the imperial palace?'
Rudnine stopped with him when the carriage stopped altogether.
What am I doing now?
When Rudnine realized that he was not Yvonne's lover, but a man who had been dumped since he confronted her, he became disillusioned again.
'It's no different from a stalker. Committing a crime... I'm trash.'
With a heavy sigh, he tried to go back to the Iels' townhouse.
No, he decided to give up all his religious life and return to the estate of Iels today.
By the way.
'!!!'
He saw Yvonne getting off the carriage.
Yvonne's silver hair, which is prettier today, fluttered.
Rudnine, as hard as a stone statue, realized that Yvonne was staring in the direction of the Imperial Palace with a faint gaze.
Yvonne hadn't met the Crown Prince, but she still couldn't shake her regret for him.
'Again...?'
Rudnine clenched his fists, and the thick veins on the back of his hands sprang up even more fiercely.
"Crown prince, that bastard is a bad bastard, you innocent villain."
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