“Little brat.” Lucy immediately rolled her eyes at that.
This is the only guy in existence who would dare to call the Dragon Demon of the Six Great Demon Lords by something like that.
It has to be said, that personage is not someone so easy to get along with.
Lucy herself had only gained a bit of understanding about Airi recently. She learned a lot of things that even history had never recorded.
For example, this Dragon Demon who looks like a little girl on the outside had once slain two Heroes in the past. She had also singlehandedly stopped two of the Three Great Goddesses. She was unbelievably active during the war a thousand years ago, nearly completely collapsing the battlefront of the gods and mortals and dealing crippling defeats to the gods and mortal forces.
If not for the fact that the strongest one of the Three Great Goddesses had managed to arrive just in time and forcibly crushed any further obstructions from the other Demon Lords while at the same time heavily injuring this Dragon Demon, thus forcing her to leave the front lines, that battle would not have ended in a major divine and mortal victory.
The breath of a dragon is known as something capable of breaking through all defenses, and this dragon king’s dragon breath is capable of even vaporizing the oceans. Before her, the great armies of gods and mortals would have no other fate beyond being burned alive.
When the Demon Lord was finally subjugated, this Dragon Demon was said to have been extremely enraged. It was to the point where she nearly went right back to the mortal world to turn the entire mortal world into an endless hell. Thankfully, the Moon Demon and the other Demon Lords were able to stop her. Otherwise, even if the mortal races weren’t completely destroyed, they would still definitely have taken crippling and irrecoverable losses.
Afterwards, this Dragon Demon completely went into seclusion within the demon world. She would sometimes sleep away whole centuries in a single nap, so she very rarely make appearances. There was even a period of time where there were rumors that she got sealed by the gods due to secretly attempting to get revenge against the mortals.
Therefore, among the Six Great Demon Lords, the Dragon Demon is the Demon Lord that the mortals and gods were terrified of the most next to the Poison Demon. In many fictional stories, she was depicted as a final boss type character who would be a threat to the world, who made children cry, and also made adults wail in sorrow.
Anyone else faced with such a terrifying great being would likely end up with their knees shaking uncontrollably, yet Shien actually dares to call her a little brat over and over. Nobody else could possibly do something like that.
Of course, the Kingdom would actually rather love to see something like this happen.
After all, Shien is a noble of the Kingdom in the end. A noble of the Kingdom forging good relations with the Dragon Demon is obviously a great blessing to the Kingdom.
Lucy could recently feel that, among the higher ups of the Kingdom, their appraisal of Shien was currently quickly rising.
Many nobles believe that they should improve their treatment of Shien in order to completely chain Shien to the Kingdom. At that point, the Kingdom would also end up with the Dragon Demon of the Six Great Demon Lords backing them up. With that, they’ll be able to gain a great deal of prestige and advantages against other nations.
Just from that alone, it was obvious that Shien’s status within the Kingdom will only rise higher and higher without dropping at all.
(When that guy becomes a marquis, then the royal family would probably need to properly consider his request even if he was to ask for my hand in marriage, right?)
When she thought that, Lucy’s mood turned relaxed before she immediately then got embarrased.
(Wait, why am I thinking about something like that?)
Who wants to marry that piece of shit anyways?
Lucy hurriedly shook her head in order to purge those thoughts from her mind.
Shien just looked at the princess before him do some rather strange things. He thus started turning worried in his mind.
(That girl didn’t suddenly turn stupid, did she?)
Turning stupid at such a young age. Such a shame.
Lucy had no idea what Shien was thinking though. Otherwise, she would definitely have let out a roar before letting him have a mouthful.
That said, after learning that Shien was planning to leave the Capital for the Stalim Ducal territory. Even if it was only temporary, Lucy was still a bit bummed out.
This means that, for the next little while, she won’t be able to see Shien anymore.
She will have to return to the life she had before. Her days filled with nothing but work and more work, and she wouldn’t even be able to expose her true self anymore. She won’t even be able to eat Lilet’s confections anymore.
That’s practically hell!
Aahhh! She doesn’t want to work! She wants to go out and play with him! (madly_rolling_around.jpg)
Isn’t unknown if Shien managed to hear the things that Lucy was thinking, but he ended up asking one question.
“If you’re that worried, then would you like to just come along with us?”
“Yes!”
Lucy replied practically on instinct.
However, then she started tearing up a moment later.
“But I can’t. Even if I can resolve the issues of work, I still won’t be able to leave the Capital. If the citizenry can’t see me show myself, then who knows what kind of mess they will end up causing?”
Lucy sighed and moaned.
“Doesn’t that mean that you can’t go anywhere other than the Capital then?” Shien spoke, surprised, “If work really restricts your freedoms that much, then you might as well just not do it anymore.”
“The lack of freedom is from being a princess, alright?” Lucy continued to sigh and moan, “The higher the status, the greater one’s effect on the rest of the world is, and thus, the less freedom one correspondingly have. If not for that, why do you think there are so many people to still go for a free profession like being an adventurer even after becoming a noble?”
“That’s true enough.” Shien did not refute her, but he did continue on, “In that case, you won’t be able to come, huh?”
“I-” Lucy started and stopped with a helpless look on her face.
This made Shien scratch his head a bit.
Sigh, if she’s going to look so pitiful, then he would have a hard time going off and leaving her be.
In that case then, how about, before he leaves-
Shien looked at Lucy and, after a moment, said the following.
“Would you like to spend the night over at my place then?”
The appearance of those words completely stunned Lucy.
Right afterwards, her heart started pounding like mad.
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