On the other side, in the bathroom of the Temple of Justice's VIP guest room.
Emilia had a towel wrapped around her body. Although the little maid was only 1.6 meters tall, her figure was exquisite, and her small chest was quite large. After living a comfortable life with Laing for a few years, her skin, which had become rough due to poor nutrition and years of employment as a mercenary, had returned to its original tender and smooth color.
As Laing's maid, Emilia didn't really do all the dirty work. As the head maid, she was mainly responsible for management and scheduling, and also taking care of Laing's daily life. Dark Elf Olica, as the personal maid, was mainly responsible for taking care of Laing's daily life and managing and scheduling the castle's servants, forming a balance.
Emilia had always been quite confident in her figure.
Until she saw Suria's hot body.
Even as a woman, Emilia could feel how attractive and oppressive Suria's body was. After years of exercise and body shaping, the female knight with a proud figure was almost enough to make any woman feel ashamed.
At least the little maid first looked at Suria's body, then looked at her own, and the little maid's little face fell.
"What's wrong? Emilia? " The female knight, who was wrapped in a white bath towel, looked at the little maid curiously. "Is the water too hot? Or is it not used to soaking in the hot spring with me? "
"Oh, Sister Suria's figure is really good!" Emilia shook her head. She carefully immersed her body in the small bath and enjoyed the hot spring bath.
"Yes, I was born like this." Suria looked at her proud figure with some pride. The female knight was very confident in her figure, at least Laing could testify.
The two women soaked their bodies in the hot spring and enjoyed the scalding hot spring bath. Outside the room, the sound of rain and intermittent thunder was incessant, but the people in the room were happy and contented. Sulia's gaze landed on Amelia's body, and she looked around, seemingly wanting to say something but hesitating.
Emilia, with her delicate and sensitive heart, immediately sensed it. She looked up. "Sister Suria, you want to ask why I've been hiding my identity and staying by Laing's side, right? I think … this trip to the Empire, you and Laing must have known … or at least guessed my identity, right? "
"Why? Emilia? Or … Emmanuelle? " The female knight turned her head. The delicate skin on her swan-like neck was stained with water droplets. "I felt that your identity was unusual when I first met you, but since Leon didn't say anything, I didn't pay too much attention to it."
"The first time we met?"
"Yes, Emilia. Although you are Laing's maid, you rarely call Laing master. From the bottom of your heart, you believe that you are only Laing's vassal and not his possession, am I right?" Suria smiled. "When Laing took you in, he was already the Ladies' Chosen champion. Normally, a female mercenary who is qualified to be a Holy Grail Knight, the maid of the Ladies' Chosen champion, should feel honored and have no reason not to call him master. However, you always like to call him 'Mr. Laing', which means that deep down, you never think that your status is lower than his."
Emilia lowered her head and said nothing.
"Then, after you came to Brittany and Laing became a baron, he decided to send you to Winford Academy to study, so I began to observe you." Seeing that Amelia didn't say anything, the female knight continued, "Even though you always carefully protect yourself and don't reveal any flaws, it's only because of Leon's request that you have a natural sense of trust towards me. That's why I let you call me big sister, and you accepted it very easily. Even though this is Brittania and not the Empire across the mountain, but as the legitimate daughter of a duke and a marquess, in the strict aristocratic system, there are no more than thirty female nobles in this country who dare to directly call me big sister Sulia. This also shows that Amelia, you instinctively feel that your birth and status is not inferior to mine in the slightest, am I right?"
Emilia heaved a long sigh. The little maid seemed to have finally put down her burden. She raised her head and said gloomily, "Sister Suria, you grew up in the duke's court. You know best that it is very difficult to change the habit of receiving court education from the age of three. You are the duke's daughter, and I am the Kurfürst's daughter. Our identities are more or less equal. Why can't I call you sister? If I lower myself and bow to you, it will be the greatest insult to our family. I can't do that. I know that Laing, because he grew up in a rural place like Nord and was raised by a country bumpkin, and he is a knight who goes out to fight all year round, he doesn't know enough about the court, so he might not be able to see it. At most, he might have some guesses, but I can't hide it from you. "
"Then … Emmanuelle?" Seeing that Amelia had finally admitted her identity, Sulia first heaved a sigh of relief, but then her heart was filled with even greater doubts.
The countess decided to seize the opportunity of "honesty" and figure out the problem completely.
"You'd better call me Emilia, Sister Suria. I like my current name better." Emilia shook her head. She took off her usual disguise. The childishness of a girl was gradually gone. Vague darkness and laziness were flowing out of her mature and attractive face. The only thing that remained unchanged was her innocent face. "You must be wondering why I was Laing's maid for six years, right?"
"If you wanted to marry Laing, you had many opportunities to reveal your identity. If you wanted to conceal yourself completely, after Laing became the most dazzling hero of the Old World, you had many opportunities to leave him and live in seclusion. But you didn't. You were only a maid. If you really liked Laing, you had no reason to not do anything when the news of our engagement spread!" Suria asked, bewildered.
"When I was 15 years old and escaped from the Dragon Forest Orcs' encirclement, I immediately realized that I couldn't return to Nur. What awaited me was a spider's web of conspiracies. My family's elite troops and vassals were almost annihilated. If I returned to Nur, I would have no troops, no power, and no foundation. I would become a puppet and be forced to marry and have children." Amelia's voice became low and filled with intense resentment. "Nobles who are under the age of 20 are unable to govern the country. If the authority is not handed over to me, it means that I will never be able to control it. Even the Amethyst Academy's Supreme Mage Elspeth Von Drakken and Noor's Champion Theodore Bruckner who supported me, as well as the Noor Firearms Academy's few engineer families, could not change this rule. So I immediately put away all my jewelry and used the special technique that the court lady taught me to change my appearance."
Suria nodded silently.
"I knew that my supporters, my political enemies, and the ambitious schemers who wanted to seize the title of Kurfürst wouldn't give up looking for me. After evading two searches, I decided to take the Kurfürst's sacred sword, 'Fire of the West', and boarded a passenger ship to the Kingdom of Nords. The Kingdom of Nords was a vast but sparsely populated place. In that kingdom, which was one-third of the Empire's territory, there were only a few towns along the main roads. If I hid there, it would be extremely troublesome to find me. In the process of wandering, I began to learn how to speak the low Gothic language like a country bumpkin. I began to learn how to disguise myself as a mercenary who wasn't very good at fighting. After two years, I joined the Blood Axe Mercenary Group and became a very inconspicuous existence. Until … Councilwoman Teresa Trovic from the Garland Parliament needed some guards," Emilia continued.
Suria knew what happened next. Because of the female sorceress' overconfidence, the Blood Axe Mercenary Group suffered a great disaster and more than half of its members were killed or injured. Then, they were set up by the great alchemist of the Empire, Galt, and were forced into a desperate situation in Marlin Castle.
"Then … why Laing?" Suria continued to ask.
"Hehe … My idea was very simple. Excellent men can always be favored by women. I'm sure it's the same for you, Sister Suria." Emilia let out a mocking laugh. Her self-deprecating look made Suria feel sorry and a little scared. The female knight reached out her hand and hugged the little maid with her broad chest to make her feel better.
"I saw Laing win the championship on the city wall of Mjolden Haven with my own eyes. I saw Laing's feats in Marlin Castle, so I felt that this man could be used. He was very powerful and had a close relationship with the Grand Duke of Marlin Castle, Schultz. These were all things that I could use when I returned to Nur at the age of 20 to inherit the title of Duke of Nur, Grand Duke of Wesen, and Elector of Brescia. I also believed that as long as I offered a good enough price, it was an offer that Laing, who was very eager to be promoted, could not refuse." Emilia continued, "Staying by this man's side gave me a sense of security, and that was exactly what I needed when I was forced to come to Marlin Castle. I was worried that I would be exposed. So, taking the opportunity of the Church of the God of the Sea, I became Laing's maid. But … things did not develop smoothly. I soon found that, compared to me, there was someone … who wanted to control Laing more."
"My lady …" Suria said in a low voice.
"I did not expect that Laing had become the champion of the Knight of the Holy Grail and the Lady of the Lake. I have never seen a god appear at home every ten days or half a month." Emilia smiled bitterly and shook her head. "So, when the plan changed, I did not know what to do. I could only hide myself temporarily and concentrate on being his maid. I did not expect that concentrating on being a maid would make me really happy."
Suria sighed softly. The female knight knew too well about Laing's personal charm and heroic aura. It was needless to say how lethal it was for a seventeen-year-old girl who had just experienced her first awakening of love. Wasn't she also fascinated by it?
"Being Laing's maid was the happiest life of my life. Unconsciously, I gradually forgot about those plans and hatred. So what if he was a noble? So what if he was a Kurfürst? It was not as interesting as being a maid. I could watch Laing's daily life, tell me a few strange jokes from time to time, watch him secretly stare at my legs, and watch him come back victorious every time. That was my happiness. " Emilia patted the hot spring water with her hands and continued, "Laing seemed to have an unsolvable mystery. Every time I thought I understood him, he always surprised me. He grew so fast that it was beyond my imagination. I did not want to leave him again, not at all. So, when I learned that he was going to get engaged, although I was very unhappy, I endured it. When he held the wedding ceremony with you, although I was envious, I decided to give up revealing my identity. Sister Suria, you are very nice. You will not drive me away or bully me. That is enough for Emilia."
"Emilia …" The female knight hugged the little maid and whispered in her ear, "Even if you say so, I will not give up the position of the lady!"
"Sister Suria! You're so cunning! " Emilia blushed after hearing Suria's words. The little maid pouted and said, "I'm talking to you very seriously!"
The female knight and the little maid looked at each other, and there seemed to be a burnt smell of electric sparks in the air.
After looking at each other for a while, Suria nodded. The female knight sighed and said, "Emilia, what are you going to do next?"
"I don't know. I just want to be Laing's maid." Amelia was also very vexed, and a dark aura slowly appeared on the little maid's face. "Come to think of it, Leon is really a scumbag. After having the dark elves, two female courtiers, and that Lake Goddess Witch who doesn't leave her house all year round, he forgot about the little maid who has been following him since Marlin Castle. Hmph! Even that self-righteous and pretentious sorceress has already … I'm really … "
The little maid's complaints continued even after the two had finished soaking in the hot spring and returned to the room to rest.
"Laing doesn't know what you're thinking. Secondly … After our trip to the Empire, the Emperor clearly hinted at your identity. He doesn't know how to deal with you now, so he can only pretend that he doesn't know. But don't worry, I will …" Suria still wanted to say something, but there was a sound of footsteps outside the door.
The two women looked at each other and wisely stopped talking.
After soaking in the hot spring, Laing opened the door and came in. "Suria? Emilia? How does it feel to soak in the hot spring? "
"It's really good."
"That's good."
… …
A week later, when all the nobles of the Knight King's Kingdom were preparing to go to Bordero to attend Duke Bodrick's grand banquet, Matthew Bard, who was wearing black cursed armor in Muxilon, also got an invitation.
He got it from one of the nobles of the Duchy of Bereon.
"Really? Duke Bodrick of Bordero is going to hold a banquet to celebrate his eldest son's return from the Holy Grail Expedition? " Matthew Bard's blood-red eyes were full of interest. His handsome face gradually turned pale, but there was still a devilish grin on it. "The glory of Bordero?"
"In that case, let me add a stroke of scarlet paint to this banquet!"
"Black Grail Knights, get ready to go!"
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