This knight is too perfect

Chapter 62: Hypocritical Nobles

"Is this Adrian, known as the Emerald City? It is indeed completely different from the town of Thorns."

Rhine looked at the strange big city in front of him, his eyes full of surprise.

The port city of Gain Adrian is indeed much more prosperous than the town of Thorn.

Clean and tidy cobblestone streets, a gorgeous fountain with statues in the middle of the street, relief decorations everywhere on the walls of the surrounding houses...

All of this made Rhine, who had just entered Adrian, feel the "wealth" of this city at the first moment.

After all, other cities don't have it, and won't spend so much money to create the so-called "city appearance".

This is an "artistic" act that only a city will be in the mood to do when it is wealthy enough.

However, Rhine's attention was not attracted by the prosperity of this city for too long.

Because he found it was on the other side of the gorgeous street in front of him.

A group of skinny beggar children in tattered clothes were hiding timidly in the corner of the alley, looking at the passers-by with envious eyes.

In response, the 'gentlemen' and 'ladies' passing by would occasionally be kind enough to hand them a coin or two.

But more people looked at each other with disgust and stayed away from the beggar children.

He seemed to be afraid that his expensive clothes would be soiled by these guys.

"Okay, Rhine, stop looking. You will have plenty of time to enjoy this rich city in the future. There is no need to rush."

"Right now, you need to come with me and settle down the mansion where Princess Lilisha will stay for the next period of time."

"Although Her Highness Lilitha doesn't care much about these things, Her Highness's residence represents the reputation of Arcade to a certain extent, so we must not compromise."

Hearing Jet's reminder from the carriage, Rhine immediately withdrew his gaze and followed the carriage driven by Jet towards a wealthy area in Adrian.

Not long after Rhine and others left, a soldier who had been on the city wall immediately left his position and passed on the information he had obtained.

As Jet parked the carriage in front of a mansion in the wealthy area of ​​Adrian, Rhine looked at the large manor in front of him that covered an astonishing area and was lavishly decorated. He asked Jet in surprise, "Mr. Jet, is this entire manor owned by Her Highness Lilitha?"

Hearing this, Jet, who had misunderstood, replied as a matter of course: "Yes, although this manor is not only a little small, but also has no noble background at all, it is barely qualified as your highness's temporary residence."

Barely, barely qualified?
Rhine's mouth twitched as he looked at the stone road in front of him, which was hundreds of meters long from the gate to the main house.

It's really hard to associate this place with the so-called 'small'.

It can only be said that poverty limits Rhine's imagination.

"Okay, Rhine, for the next period of time, Miss Grievance will have to stay here temporarily."

"After all, you want to obtain the legal right to inherit the title of Baron Thorn, which is not an easy thing to do, especially when Earl Randy's attitude is unclear."

"So I estimate that we will have to stay here for at least half a year. I just hope that it won't affect Miss Lilitha's entrance ceremony."

After saying that, the servants in the manor had already opened the gate of the manor and began to welcome Jet and others in.

In the next half day, Rhine deeply understood what "luxury" meant, and also understood how difficult it was to be a good member of the royal family.

Because not long after arriving at the mansion called 'Silver Moon Manor', Rhine was arranged by Jet to use his knight's protection that could 'distinguish the true from the false' to search for the 'insider' who might have been planted in this manor.

And the result did not disappoint Jeter.

Among the dozens of servants in Silver Moon Manor today, more than half lied when faced with questions specifically asked by Jet.

However, Jet did not expose these things in person. Instead, he took Rhine and handed the list of liars to Lilitha, who was already sitting in the study reading a book.

"Your Highness, this is the list of people who are suspected of having ulterior motives at the moment."

Hearing this, Lilisa immediately put down the book in her hand, picked up the list, looked at it for a moment, and closed her eyes.

Soon, Lilysa made a decision.

She stretched out her hand, which was as white as mutton fat, from under her luxurious black dress and picked up the pen on the desk.

Start ticking off that list.

Soon, Lilysa handed the new list to Jeter and instructed: "Find a reason to ask those people I circled out, and arrange for some servants who can pass the Rhine test to come back in."

"Yes."

Jet took the new list and quickly walked out of the study with Rhine.

Before summoning the servants in the manor, Jet handed the list in his hand to Rhine.

"Look, can you understand the purpose of your Highness's actions?"

Rhine took the list and after looking at it for a while, he understood what basis Lilitha used to decide whether these people should stay or go.

"Your Highness needs to leave some spies behind to reassure those with ulterior motives."

"But in some important positions, His Highness does not want other people's eyes and ears to be there, so he made such a list."

"clever."

Jet nodded in approval, and praised Rhine without reservation. "Rhine, you are not only a natural knight, but also a natural noble. You should know that many nobles of your age or even older than you may not understand the purpose of your Highness's action in such a short time."

"I originally thought it would take you a long time to adapt to the complicated and boring rules among the nobles."

"But now it seems that I underestimated you."

"Let's go. After we take care of these, we have to prepare to face a group of guys whose noses are more sensitive than dogs."

"After all, they will not miss this great opportunity to get in touch with Her Highness Lilitha."

And everything happened just as Jet said, not long after they sent back the spies who were planted in the manor by people with ulterior motives.

The first visitor to Silver Moon Manor appeared.

"Good afternoon, Master Remi."

In front of the Silver Moon Manor mansion, Jet greeted the tall and strong Remi who got off the carriage politely.

In response, Remi, who had just gotten off the carriage, immediately laughed heartily and said, "Good afternoon, Butler Jeter. I have heard of your great name a long time ago."

"After all, Garrett's Wolf King has been a legendary figure among demon hunters for a long time."

"I didn't expect that this legendary figure would actually appear in front of me. I feel really honored."

lie.

Rhine looked at Remi who was constantly praising Jet in front of him and immediately realized that he was lying.

And this Remi seems to have the same style as his teacher Fergus.

But Rhine knew very well that this was different from his teacher's cheerful and cheerful personality.

The cheerfulness of Master Remi is the result of deliberate disguise.

However, Rhine did not point these out, instead he just stood there silently.

At the same time, although Remi also noticed Rhine's existence, he didn't even have the thought of pretending with Rhine and simply chose to ignore him.

It seemed that in his eyes, Rhine, as Lilitha's guardian knight, was just a small figure who was not worth his attention.

Remi, who ignored Rhine, clapped his hands immediately after talking to Jet.

Soon, the servants he brought with him began to carry boxes of things down from the carriage at the back.

"Butler Jeter, these are the specialties that belong only to your Akkad that I specially ordered my men to collect after hearing about your Highness's arrival."

"I think with these things, even if Her Highness Lilitha now lives in Adrian, thousands of miles away from Akkad, she can still feel the warmth from her hometown here."

Faced with the 'gift' carefully prepared by Remi.

Jeter responded politely, "Master Remi, thank you for your trouble. I think His Highness will be very satisfied with your preparations when he sees these gifts after waking up."

"Hahaha! That really couldn't be better."

After a brief greeting, Remi finally told the real purpose of his visit.

"Butler Jeter, my father, Count Randy, and I both attach great importance to Her Highness Lilitha's visit."

"So we have specially set up a grand dinner in our Emerald Manor at 8 o'clock tomorrow night to welcome Her Highness. Please pass this invitation to Her Highness and tell her that my Emerald Manor and I are looking forward to her arrival."

Hearing this, Jet took the invitation and nodded, saying, "Okay, I will convey your and your father's sincerity to His Highness."

"I believe His Highness will not refuse your kindness and will visit as scheduled."

Looking at Jet who had already accepted the invitation, Remi made a few simple polite remarks and then tactfully left Silver Moon Manor.

After all, Jet had just hinted to the other party in his words that Lilitha didn't want to see anyone at the moment.

Then he naturally wouldn't embarrass himself here.

After Remi and his convoy left, Jet looked at the back of the carriage with a sneer on his face, and asked Rhine beside him: "How is it, Rhine, what did you understand?"

"hypocritical."

Rhine gave his answer without hesitation.

"Yes, it's hypocritical, but that's what nobility is. Even if you want to eat the other person up, you have to pretend to be open with him on the surface."

"That's why I don't like to have too much contact with these guys, it's too much trouble."

"Okay, Rhine, we should go back and prepare. After all, tomorrow's dinner is just an ordinary banquet for Her Highness Lilisha, but for you, I think it's a little different."

"After all, this is your first meeting with Count Randy, and this first impression is very important."

PS: Sorry, Fat Tiger is not in good shape today, so I can only update here for now.

I adjusted my state of mind and tried to write some drafts so that I could update on time without having to stay up late to write.

(End of this chapter)