Hearing Aldia’s words, Shien was quite surprised.
“I didn’t expect to have such a high evaluation in the eyes of the Royal Knights Commander.”
Shien looked at Aldia with a surprised expression.
“You deserve it.” Aldia said seriously. “Besides Princess Lucy, you’re the only young person who can take my sword unscathed. Before you and Princess Lucy appeared, the person who achieved this feat was thirty-three years old.”
This was why Aldia held Shien in such high regard.
“Originally, I thought that besides Princess Lucy, only the Valkyrie of the Empire could take my sword unscathed in their teens or twenties. The fact that you can do this proves that even if you’re not as good as those two, you’re not far behind.”
“And you’re also able to befriend Airi, one of the Six Demon Lords, and have connections with the Moon Demon, and even tame the black dragon of Atlus. I don’t think this is just luck.”
“Therefore, I’ve made a bold guess that perhaps you have true strength no less than Princess Lucy’s, even if she uses the Holy Sword and her Unique Skill.”
“Because I only felt the same threat from Her Highness.”
“Am I right?”
Aldia spoke at length, unlike his usual taciturn self.
This showed that Aldia truly valued Shien.
However, Shien wasn’t happy about this.
“Are you sure no one else besides me and Lucy can threaten you?” Shien finally said sarcastically, “Have you forgotten the power within your daughter, Commander?”
Aldia’s eyes instantly narrowed.
“…You’ve seen that?”
Aldia’s tone suddenly turned cold.
“I have.” Shien sneered. “What? Are you afraid of this getting out? Worried that others will know that your Elvenbein family has produced a ‘monster’?”
Aldia didn’t answer, just stared directly at Shien.
“It seems you’re more of a threat than I thought, actually surviving after seeing that.” Aldia said calmly. “Unfortunately, that’s a cursed power. I won’t acknowledge it.”
“So?” Shien sneered. “Because it’s a power you can’t acknowledge, you can pretend this daughter doesn’t exist?”
At this moment, Shien made up his mind.
If Aldia dared to say yes, he would attack without hesitation.
Although without unleashing the Holy Sword, Shien wasn’t entirely confident he could defeat this level ninety-eight strongest human, even if he couldn’t win, he would still make Aldia pay a heavy price.
Perhaps sensing Shien’s thoughts, Aldia was silent for a moment.
“I didn’t pretend she doesn’t exist.”
After a while, Aldia spoke.
“No matter what, she has the blood of my Elvenbein family flowing through her veins. She did in the past, she does now, and she always will.”
Leaving behind these puzzling words, Aldia turned around and continued to lead the way.
Shien frowned, staring at Aldia’s back, and only after his figure almost disappeared did he curl his lip.
“If there’s a chance, I’ll give you a good kicking and see if you can still maintain that poker face of yours.”
After saying that, Shien followed Aldia.
Shien didn’t notice that in a corner, a frail noble with two knight guards was watching him.
“Is that Viscount Buztout?”
Edel asked one of the knights beside him.
“Yes.” The knight glanced at Shien, then nodded and replied, “He’s the top candidate chosen by Princess Roselucia.”
“Is that so?” Edel looked at Shien again, his eyes filled with envy and jealousy. He whispered, “What a lucky guy, just a viscount.”
Edel was truly jealous.
Ever since he saw Lucy, Edel had been deeply infatuated with her.
She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life, surpassing even the holy goddesses and pure elves, making Edel, a womanizer by nature, unable to sleep at night, yearning for her.
Unfortunately, Lucy wasn’t someone a mere Duke’s son could touch. His attempts to pursue her had resulted in a painful price.
Even now, Edel still remembered that day, when he confessed his love to her in front of her bedroom, only to be ruthlessly beaten up.
As a Duke’s son, that was the only time Edel had been taught a lesson, and the only time his family, who usually acted arrogantly throughout the country, could only choose to smooth things over, even forcing him to apologize. It was a humiliating memory.
Because of that incident, Edel, who had always thought he could act recklessly and do as he pleased, was truly afraid.
Without his family’s support, without his father, the Duke, backing him, he was just a good-for-nothing who couldn’t do anything. He was naturally terrified and could only tuck his tail between his legs and run away.
But even so, Edel still couldn’t forget Lucy.
It was simply because she was too beautiful, so beautiful that even after being taught a lesson, the narrow-minded Edel couldn’t hate her.
After that, Edel even fell into a strange state for a while, finding no other woman appealing. Only Lia, his fiancée, Lucy’s older sister, could make his heart flutter.
After all, although not as beautiful as Lucy, who was known as the most beautiful woman in the human world, Lia was also a stunning princess, no less beautiful than the goddesses of the Divine Race or the elves of the Elven Race.
Therefore, Edel shamelessly returned to continue pursuing Lia, but because of his disgusting behavior, Lia completely loathed him.