NOVEL NEXT Book 13: Chapter 4: Part2
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Part 2
While Lexia, the first princess of the Kingdom of Arcelia, is somehow singing and dancing as an ‘idol’ in a different world called Earth──.
“Sigh…”
Arnold, the king of the Kingdom of Arcelia and Lexia’s father, was sighing heavily in his office.
Seeing this, Owen, the knight captain who had been Lexia’s escort, held his head up.
“Haahh…”
“…Your Majesty.”
“Haaaaah…”
“Your Majesty! Please stop sighing, for goodness sake!”
Finally, unable to bear it any longer, Owen shouted so, but Arnold didn’t seem to mind it and leaned on his elbow.
“Shut up. Can’t you understand the trouble I’m going through?”
“It’s an exaggeration to say it’s trouble… It’s just that Lexia-sama went to study abroad, isn’t it?”
“That’s the problem, isn’t it?”
Arnold had been sighing earlier because he was thinking about his daughter Lexia, who was currently studying on Earth with Yuuya.
“What are you talking about? It was originally decided that Lexia-sama would study abroad, wasn’t it? It’s just that the place of study has changed…”
“It never occurred to me that the place she was going to study was in a different world!”
“That may be true, but…”
“Besides… living under the same roof with a man… Nugaaaaah! After all, it’s no good! Bring Lexia back now, Owen!”
“There’s no way I can do that!”
Arnold was going on a rampage as he said that, but Owen was trying his best to quiet him down.
“In the first place, you need Yuuya-dono’s power to go to the other world, you know? The house of this Yuuya-dono is in the middle of the Great Devil’s Nest… and cannot be reached so easily.”
“Why is he living in such a dangerous place?”
“…Well, I wonder?”
Yuuya was given the house of the sage in the Great Devil’s Nest by chance, and it was not that he had planned to live there from the beginning.
But to the two people who did not know such circumstances, they saw him as an oddity who had deliberately chosen a dangerous place to live.
“B-but, with Yuuya-dono’s ability, living in that place must be no problem, right?”
“That may be so, but Lexia is different! Besides, if anything should happen between them…!”
“That would be a good thing, wouldn’t it? We can establish a solid connection with Yuuya-dono.”
“Nuh-uh…”
Arnold couldn’t say anything back to Owen’s words.
This is because Arnold also understands Yuuya’s superior ability, and if such a connection between Yuuya and Lexia is established, it will be possible to welcome Yuuya’s power and his blood into the royal family.
That is why, from the king’s point of view, he would welcome the tie between Lexia and Yuuya.
But…
“I know that… I know that, but…! It’s painful; it’s painfuuulllll!”
“Sigh… it’s so bothersome…”
“Did you say it’s bothersome?”
“No?”
Owen lets out a sly lie.
The reason why Owen was able to be so open with the king was because he and Arnold had an old relationship, and they were the only two of them in the room.
“First of all, I don’t think Yuuya-dono is the kind of person who would do such a thing.”
“…That’s also true.”
Arnold recalled Yuuya’s personality and suddenly became calm.
“But a different world… I had heard stories about it, but I never thought my daughter would go there…”
“That’s right… because of the saint summoned by the Regal Kingdom, the existence of the other world itself was known, but I was surprised that Yuuya-dono was also a person from that world.”
“Well, yes. However, it is also understandable. Yuuya-dono’s potential is truly on par with those of the heroes and saints of history. If Yuuya-dono was not residing in this world but in another world, it might have been Yuuya-dono who was summoned in place of the Saint of the Regal Kingdom.”
“Indeed…”
When Arnold spoke up to that point, his expression was somewhat serious, and Owen tilted his head.
“Your Majesty, is there something wrong?”
“No… it is good that the Saint of the Regal Kingdom and Yuuya-dono are friendly to us, but not all people from other worlds are like that. And if all the people of the other world possess power like Yuuya-dono, I wonder if we can compete with them…”
“That’s…”
Owen’s expression hardened as he imagined what Arnold was talking about.
Owen understands Yuuya’s ability more than Arnold because he was saved by Yuuya at the Great Devil’s Nest.
Owen believed that Yuuya’s ability was comparable to or even better than the strongest force in this world, the Holy.
There are still countless people with such abilities in the other world, and if they were to try to invade the world Arnold and the others live in… there would no longer be any way to beat them.
“Sigh… I guess Lexia’s study abroad was a godsend in terms of finding out about that…”
“T-that’s true. By all means, if Lexia-sama can bring back even a little bit of information and technology from the other world… I would like her to deepen her relationship with Yuuya-dono if possible, so that she can always get help from Yuuya-dono in case something happens to her.”
“That’s not alloweeedddd!”
“This flow again?”
Owen was not expecting a denial, and he was a little annoyed.
“That’s a different thing from this!”
“What’s different about it? Isn’t it good if it is Yuuya-dono? Who could be more wonderful?”
“Yes, Yuuya-dono is a wonderful man! He has solved our problems with Rhaegar and is a very humble and nice young man to talk to! …Huh, isn’t that good…?”
“That’s what I’m telling you…”
Once again, thinking back on Yuuya’s personality, Arnold was astonished that he couldn’t find anything in particular that he could deny him.
But he quickly shook his head.
“N-no, that’s not good! I won’t accept it! Lexia… Lexia’s boyfriend… I won’t admit that Lexia has a boyfriend!”
“Sight… I don’t know when you’ll ever be able to let go of your child.”
As Arnold stormed off, Owen let out a deep sigh.
Arnold then noticed something.
“Huh! I just don’t know. Could it be that Lexia and Yuuya-dono are already together?”
“No, I don’t think so.”
“How can you be so sure? Lexia is so cute! A man would want to go out with her!”
“It doesn’t sound like that’s the case with Yuuya-dono…”
“You mean to tell me that Lexia isn’t cute?”
“What a hassle!”
Owen couldn’t help but retort at Arnold’s exasperated response.
But Arnold’s outburst did not stop.
“T-that’s right! Now that Lexia’s not here, isn’t this a rare situation when we can check whether there’s a shadow of a man in her room?”
Owen couldn’t believe his ears at the words that came out of Arnold’s mouth.
“Huh? Yo-Your Majesty, if I may ask… Are you suggesting that we check out Lexia-sama’s room?”
Arnold had already begun to move, despite the fact that Owen’s cheeks tightened.
“Owen! We’re heading to Lexia’s room right now!”
“No, no, no, no! You can’t just go to Lexia-sama’s room without permission… Lexia-sama won’t be happy about it!”
“Eii, shut up, shut up! If it weren’t for a time like this, I wouldn’t be able to check on my daughter’s situation!”
“Please don’t say such a pathetic thing so openly! Ah, are you really going to investigate? You’re going to get in trouble for sure!”
Owen followed Arnold’s lead.
“Sigh… Like this, once he decides, he’ll just push forward… He’s really just like Lexia-sama…”
“What did you say?”
“No, nothing… Just, are you sure you want to do this?”
“You’re such a pain in the ass. When I say I’ll look into it, I look into it.”
“She will hate you, you know?”
“Fuggghhhh!”
Owen’s words struck deep into Arnold’s heart.
The reason was that Lexia’s treatment of Arnold was becoming cruder and cruder these days.
If she really hated him here, Arnold was not confident that he could recover.
But…
“But… still, there are things I need to know as a parent…!”
“It’s definitely not normal…”
No longer moved by what was said any longer, Arnold finally stepped into Lexia’s room.
Upon entering, he found a somewhat cute atmosphere, and although nothing fancy was placed there, Lexia’s tastes were evident in the little furnishings.
The room was always cleaned by the maids, and the air was clean, but there was only one thing that gave off an odd vibe.
“Wh… what is this?”
It was a painting depicting Yuuya.
Moreover, it is unusually large.
The Yuuya painted on such a large canvas was a cool and dynamic figure in armor, taking on monsters.
However, it was somewhat shoujo manga style and uselessly sparkling…
To Arnold, who was surprised at the unexpected painting, Owen clapped his hands as if remembering.
“Oh, come to think of it… Lexia-sama invited a famous painter to draw something for her before. I didn’t know what she had him paint at that time… but I didn’t realize the painting was of Yuuya-dono…”
In fact, when Lexia first met Yuuya, she could not forget the image of Yuuya and went to the trouble of calling in a painter and having him draw a picture of Yuuya based on her own memory.
The artist who painted the picture was a well-known artist in the Kingdom of Arcelia, but Lexia was relentless in her demands.
“It’s not bad at all! Yuuya-sama is much cooler!”
“It’s just not powerful enough… Can’t you draw it more like this, like a zubaass, like that?”
“It’s just a little bit! It’s not shiny enough! Can you make it shinier?”
It is very difficult for even the most talented painter to paint according to Lexia’s abstract requests without a subject.
As a result, the invited painter, who had prided himself on his solid skills, had his heart broken.
When Arnold heard Owen’s words, he was stunned and muttered.
“I-I didn’t know Lexia had such feelings for Yuuya-dono…”
“Well, it was a chance encounter, you know. Besides, Yuuya-dono is actually a good man.”
“…What are the chances of Lexia and Yuuya-dono getting together?”
“Hmm… I can’t say anything… Lexia-sama is passionate, just like Your Majesty, but Yuuya-dono is quite reserved. But I don’t think we can say that there isn’t a complete connection.”
“I see…”
Arnold, aware of his daughter’s strong feelings, staggered back to his room.
“I enjoy watching my daughter grow up… but this kind of thing is hard…”
“The happiness of the child is more important than the heart of the parent.”
“That’s true…”
Arnold thought of Lexia, who was studying abroad.
The Kingdom of Arcelia was peaceful today as well.
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