CHAPTER 1148: CHAPTER 849: SO, I WILL WAIT FOR HIM

Time passed day by day like this.

The Kingdom of Jinas began to stabilize due to Saint Nidor’s accession to the throne, and even underwent a certain degree of reform.

Almost immediately after becoming king, Saint Nidor started working, seemingly having long harbored dissatisfaction with many of the kingdom’s previous systems, now making sweeping changes.

For this reason, many nobles are said to have been affected both positively and negatively, but at least it had nothing to do with the commoners, nor with Reiger and Yuri.

Perhaps out of consideration for Reiger, since coming to power, Saint Nidor rarely summoned Yuri, the chief court magician, granting her a great degree of freedom. Unless necessary, he seemed disinclined to command Yuri at will like the former king Hemulinp did.

Yuri also enjoyed the leisure, and with the kingdom’s support, recruited many highly skilled knights from the kingdom’s knight order, rapidly restoring the strength of the Franel family’s knight order.

The Franel family was also one of the few nobles not affected by Saint Nidor’s reforms, as if Saint Nidor had truly forgotten the existence of Yuri, the strategic level magician and chief court magician.

Under such circumstances, just over half a month later, Reiger finally received the mental connection with the summon item flying toward the Tistis Kingdom.

It had already reached the border of the Tistis Kingdom.

Since that was the case—

"Time to set off."

Reiger made this decision.

...

On this day, the snow that had fallen for nearly a month stopped, but the sky was still a dull gray, evidently not ready to clear up.

In the courtyard of the Franel estate, on a patch of land where the snow had been cleared away, everyone gathered together.

Reiger, Liz, Yuloli, and Lilith stood on one side, accompanied by Leo and Evie, now free, making a total of six people ready to depart.

In front of the group of six, Yuri stood with many members of the Franel family to see them off.

Marilyn, the close maid, was naturally present, along with Ai En and Ian.

Mistis and Isu, the sister and brother, were also home for once, just in time for Reiger’s departure, also coming to bid farewell.

It’s worth mentioning that Anlisa, Yuri’s sister and secretary officer of the Laitais family head, was surprisingly present.

Of course, this young lady didn’t come specifically to see off Reiger; she just happened to be there.

The new king had just ascended, and the Laitais family had many things to finish before they could leave. Thus, Isis, the Laitais family head, would not be leaving the royal capital anytime soon and would temporarily reside there.

Though Anlisa is Isis’s secretary officer, Isis occasionally gives her time off.

While on break, Anlisa usually comes to stay temporarily at the Franel family, clearly wanting to spend time with her siblings.

Today just happened to coincide with Anlisa staying at the Franel family, so she came by to see off Reiger and the others.

Meanwhile, Luna, the maid who always stayed by Liz’s side and refused to return to the royal palace, was also present.

However, she clearly couldn’t accompany Liz on the journey, now holding onto Liz with teary eyes like someone about to be abandoned.

"You must take care of yourself, Your Highness."

"I know, don’t worry about me, Luna."

"How can I not worry...?! If I’m not there... won’t Your Highness be continuously bullied by that bad person!"

"No, he won’t, Luna!"

"Why don’t you let me come along? I won’t be a bother, Your Highness!"

"But Luna, you’re just a regular person, and I heard Tistis Kingdom has perpetual winter snow, and we’re going even further beyond. With your constitution, you wouldn’t be able to keep up..."

"Your Highness finds me annoying!"

"I, I don’t! Please don’t cry?"

"...Remember, you can’t stay in the same room with that bad person at night again, okay? And don’t let him do whatever he wants without fighting back? If it’s like last time when I caught you using that... boohoo...!"

"Stop, Luna!"

As Luna spoke more and more carelessly, Liz blushed red and covered her mouth.

This made Leo and Evie, standing behind Liz, look at Reiger with anger, as if they wanted to tear him to pieces.

It was only in the past half month that they learned their princess had been utterly devoured by someone, leaving not even a bone.

This nearly made the two of them go berserk at the time; if they could beat Reiger, they would certainly challenge him to a death duel.

Since then, the two had basically stuck by Liz’s side, wishing they could stay glued to her 24/7, preventing Liz from leaving their sight to avoid the noble ancient royal bloodline being defiled again.

To this, Reiger seemed oblivious, letting them follow Liz during the day, even happy to see such strong protective forces beside Liz.

But at night...

"[Time Stasis]."

Recently, during the nights, Leo and Evie’s memories have consistently been like this, only hearing such incantations before their eyes brightened, and then it was dawn...

Thus, now the two, like Luna, mostly appeared as if they wanted to devour Reiger; the depth of their resentment almost led people to suspect Reiger of messing with their daughter...

Fortunately, Reiger had basically become accustomed to these people’s resentment towards him, so he ignored them both now and before.