Chapter 347: Putting Out a Wyvern at the Banquet

"How thick."

Lily said it glad.

"So thick it seems ready to stick in the throat."

She told me her impression while licking, sticky.

"It is stuck thick on Lily’s face and hair too."

"I know. A waste, but let us put on ’Purification’. Now, now, please change quickly."

Even though I had let it out, my son still pointed up, embodying I can still do it! Lily housed it in new underwear. See, you can do it if you try. Just now you only wanted to play, yes?

"Is Agnes all right?"

"She is all right, surely. Even if she saw a scene like that, who do you think she can tell? If she talks about such a thing to people she will be thought a slovenly girl. And Lady Agnes is surely a virgin, so a scene like that would be the first she has seen, and she will not think of telling anyone. Please do not mind it too much."

Lily said it as if it were nothing, but I wonder if that is how it is. This kind of place may be a difference between men and women.

"However much it is Lady Agnes, she will not proclaim it. At most she will tell her mother, surely."

Told that I started to feel at ease somehow. But if she told her mother, what happens? I started to worry a little. She would tell that mother, you know?

I changed quickly, Lily refreshed too, and we faced the banquet. From the attendants, knights and above attend, so on Her Majesty’s side only Anouk is beside her, and Dee and the others stand some way off. From the Eisleben tribe side many young ladies of age have come out. Only, from my view of course they are all older. But for the knights the young ladies are full of charm, and even the knight who glared at me in the day is talking with a cute young lady with his nose stretched.

No young ladies speak to me in particular, so I only eat. And I become a stain on the wall. At a time like this "Stealth" and "Concealment" are convenient, I think.

In the middle of the room the clan chief and Agnes, her mother, and Her Majesty seem to be talking about the events from the royal capital to Eisleben tribe territory. I can hear it in pieces. Of course even Agnes does not seem to have told the talk of Her Majesty being taken. Even that careless person minds herself properly, I thought, impressed.

Then at last the talk of clearing out wyverns came out. Agnes searched for me. Who can see me? While everyone looked around, Her Majesty and Agnes’s mother stared at me. Her Majesty aside, that mother finding me is something. Maybe the ladies of a certain age who gather around me are all people skilled in that kind of ability?

"Lord Robbie, please come here."

Called by Her Majesty I go to her side like a dog lured by bait. I only just let it out, and still my son flutters at Her Majesty in a dress. Her Majesty in a banquet dress with the chest open gabba is alluring. The valley of the chest is emphasized, and skin without a single stain is dazzling. Agnes should be far younger than Her Majesty, and there are tan marks, and some roughness of the skin can be seen. Further her mother I think is about the same age as Her Majesty, and compared with Her Majesty of course age can be felt. Compared with women of about the same age I think she is young, but wrinkles of skin and face... no. Let us stop comparing. But... I want to put a hand into Her Majesty’s chest! I want to bury my face!

"Lord Robbie, the Clan Chief desires to see the wyvern Lady Agnes dropped. Could you put it out?"

Her Majesty said it somehow alluring. Is she drunk? Even so I do not think this is my imagination. That aside,

"Understood. But here is bad, yes? The body length was close to twenty feet I think, and the moment I put it out blood will flow and dirty the floor. Where shall I put it out?"

When I said that the clan chief said,

"Then let us have it put out in the courtyard. I want to see my granddaughter’s war result, and I want to show it to the clan as well."

He said it proud. We were taken to the courtyard as we were. The surroundings were lit,

"Now put it out."

I was told, so,

"Yes!"

together with a shout I put the wyvern out.

"Oooh!!" "Kyaa!?"

A wyvern corpse that appeared all at once from nothing. Surprise and screams, the surroundings wrapped in excitement. Arrows still stuck all over the wyvern’s body, overflowing with a sense of presence as if it had just been dropped. Enough atmosphere that it might sit up, muku, as it is.

Even the clan chief stared at the wyvern.

"Hoh! This is amazing! Agnes dropped this? Something else! The pride of the clan!!"

"As expected of Lady Agnes! Going to the royal capital she polished her arm a step further!"

"With this the Eisleben tribe’s future is bright too!"

"After that she only has to make an heir."

and so on Agnes was hugely praised. Mosley and Esalidge, was it, the two guards helped too, yes? But not one word touches that. At a time like this is it normal that it is unified into the master’s war result?

"In fact..."

Her Majesty seemed about to say an extra thing, so I poked Her Majesty’s hand. Then Her Majesty stayed silent, looked at my face, and smiled. Hm? Her Majesty cannot fail to read the air, so was she about to say something different? My overthinking?

The Eisleben tribe people were high looking at the wyvern. Agnes looked glad too.

"Is Robbie all right? Robbie dropped wyverns too, yes?"

Her Majesty asked low.

"It is fine. The wyverns I dropped were all eaten by the griffin, and if I say something about myself poorly and they decide I am Agnes’s husband it will be a problem. Right now they are high on Agnes’s merit, so putting water on it oddly would not be good."

At my reply Her Majesty laughed in secret.

"That is so too. Shall we wait until Agnes says the griffin talk?"

It should have been a secret talk between Her Majesty and me, and somehow Agnes’s mother is looking this way. A meaningful smile is frightening...

Then,

"Lord Marie, thank you for considering Agnes."

the mother said, so I pretended not to know.

"No. What about?"

"I have heard from Agnes. Lord Marie took wyverns as well, yes? But you did not boast of the merit and stood Agnes here. In Agnes’s place I thank you deeply."

She looked at my face from the front and said it with a serious gaze. Told that far it is not something to hide.

"No. I have left nothing in form, and even if I show off something here no one will be glad. So this is fine."

"How humble! How should I thank you? Agnes said she wants to take Lord Marie as a husband, and I too met Lord Marie and thought I want Lord Marie’s blood poured into the Eisleben tribe no matter what... Lord Marie is a foreign ambassador, yes? Such a person cannot become a member of the Eisleben tribe, yes? A shame. A great shame. A good chance to put new excellent blood into the Eisleben tribe."

Agnes’s mother looking as if she is thinking something.

"It is not thanks, but if you have some wish please say it. While you are here Her Majesty’s guard will be done by our clan, so Lord Marie may rest. Please say any wish."

The mother said it with heat. Nnn. I have pooled a little and want to let it out? Could you introduce a young woman with no aftermath? I cannot say a thing like that with Her Majesty beside me. Unnya. Even if she were not here I should not say it.

The reply I thought out and put out was this.

"In the royal capital I learned the bow from Lady Agnes. If possible, could I be taught the sword? In the Eisleben tribe I think there is also a person called a master of the sword. Could you introduce a good teacher?"

"A master of the sword? Then I have an idea. I will consult Father later and answer even tomorrow morning. Ufufu."

The mother laughed somehow meaningful, but she heard my wish for form, so I have to thank her.

"Thank you. Please."

"Yes. Leave it to me."

In the end my hand was taken by the mother and shaken, bunbun. Her Majesty’s face stayed smiling and froze... Have I been liked by a mature woman here too? No. I must not raise a flag in a place like this.