The armor summoner will not be involved in the event

Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something and whispered in her sister's ear.

Alice looked at Arcaid in confusion, then nodded.

Alcade had good hearing and heard their conversation, which was probably similar to how Big Dad said there were new toys in his laboratory and asked in an inducing tone, "This big brother is my sister's subordinate, do you want to test his strength?"

A girl who looked about twelve years old and had a proud look on her face walked up to him and said, "Are you my sister's subordinate?"

"Yes."

"Very powerful?"

"Maybe."

"Then fight me!"

Arcaid almost took out the duel disk, but luckily there was no such thing here.

"I want to prove to my sister that I am the strongest!"

【331】What is interesting and what is boring to him

Because of the second lady of the Lu family's invitation to a duel, the three of them and a maid finally came to the vestibule they had passed before.

On the vast grassland, the two stood facing each other.

"Why did you come here?"

"Because there is no place in Lou Eltz Palace where I can give full play to my abilities."

The girl responded loudly.

A Protoss with a torrent of heat or wide-area attacks?

No need for armor then.

Without any special posture, he looked at Alice who was ready for battle, waiting for the order to start the duel.

"boom--"

The signal gun exploded, the ice-blue star light shone, and about ten ice swords condensed in the air.

The simple yet delicate shape of the ice sword, from the slim blade to the exquisite guard and hilt, demonstrates the girl's superb skills.

However, the man's idea was not to praise.

"Why make it so redundant? Wouldn't it be easier to smash it with a large block of ice or remove the hilt and make it into an ice blade? It can also increase the number and reduce the burden."

However, this pragmatic idea that would cause trouble for the opponent would be unnecessary before the battle was over, so he did not say it out loud.

There is no need to use the hidden blade, as such a sophisticated attack is only good looking but not practical.

A bunch of ice swords attacked him, and he grabbed two of them at random, then used dual wielding ice swords to shoot down the remaining attacks.

Alice was stunned, not expecting such a response. Although it was only for a few seconds, it was enough for Arcaid to take the opportunity to close the distance between them.

"Hyōka!"

Ice-blue flowers bloomed, blocking the girl's way.

Alcaide, who was about to stop, noticed that the opponent had made a defense, so he simply changed the slashing attack into a straight kick, shaking the ice flower that was fixed in the air by the star spirit technique.

The unexpected result made the girl, who could not be called a warrior, a little panicked, and as a result, the ice sword bypassed the ice flower and was placed on her shoulder.

"Okay, the winner is decided."

After making this announcement, he thrust his two ice swords into the ground and walked towards Illitia without looking back.

……

Alcaide had to admit that his actions that day were hasty.

Since there was no need to go out, Illitia had been working hard on paperwork, so theoretically she could be idle.

But it turned out that someone was challenging him to a duel every day under the pretext of attacking the First Princess.

Because this willful look gave him a sense of déjà vu, he asked her directly about her thoughts during afternoon tea.

"Isn't Tia your sister? Why did you attack her?"

"Because I directly invited you to a duel and you didn't want to! Anyway, you are a subordinate with a duty to protect your superior. You should solve the problem properly when your superior is in trouble. This is what a qualified subordinate does!"

"Don't ever look for a subordinate in the future. I always feel that person will be miserable."

Arcaid said so with sincere admonition.

"Humph! How is that possible? My elder sister has an excellent subordinate like you, I can't lose to her in this respect!"

Excellent means that I have been under your command for more than ten days, and the most I have done is to play with other people's sisters.

At present, Alcaide's mental age is three plus five years old. In fact, because he has basically not received a good moral education in the past five years, he only has some knowledge of the survival rules of this world society. His underlying thinking is still the same as when he was three years old.

Whether it's not using your real name when you go out to avoid getting into trouble, or telling half when you're with someone so you don't get taken advantage of by being too honest... these things are a bit beyond the scope of what an ordinary three-year-old can learn, but they are indeed what he has been taught since he was three years old.

Aside from his slightly cold and prudent self-interest that was not suitable for an ordinary three-year-old, Arcaid was still in a state where he preferred to play with boys of the same age rather than girls, or he could entertain himself with some machinery or heroes. The reason why the mechanical equipment sent by the Empire's troops to the battlefield was always dismantled was because he was looking for toys.

It is said that time flies when people do what they like, but time feels like a year when they do what they hate.

Alcade also began to get tired of playing house drinking games with Alice. Although the other party was improving rapidly, there was a more fundamental gap between the two if he wanted to beat him.

But experience has taught him that not everyone will follow his wishes, and that he should not bring personal feelings into work.

Therefore, even if he wanted to dismantle the machine or just have a good fight (to make up for quality with quantity), it was not appropriate for him to take the initiative.

So, he patiently repeated his meditation day after day.

"Hey - I wanted to ask you a while ago, what are you doing? Why are you whittling a wooden sword over and over again?"

I am learning Gai Nie.

Although he wanted to play with the joke like this, he had not yet watched the TV series "The Legend of Qin", so the correct answer was that he was meditating according to his memories in his dream.

There was a man who was born without thumbs on both hands. He longed to wield a sword like the people around him.

There is no need to fight any kind of enemy, just want to swing the sword.

But without his thumb, such behavior was still too difficult for him.

Friends and family had taught him combat techniques that would at least allow him to protect himself, and they had prepared for him a flywheel weapon that could inflict actual damage even without a thumb.

But that was not what he wanted.

What he wanted was his own art of fighting that was as graceful as a sword.

However, cases like his, who were born without a thumb, were too rare, and there was no weapon in the tribe that could satisfy his wish.

So he could only do the most basic homework.

Use the act of carving a wooden sword as a meditation, and use the wooden sword in your hand as the embodiment of your ideal.

He tried to learn the stretching, bending and entanglement techniques from the Wood Element Method that no one cared about, in an attempt to replace the fingers he was born missing.

After training to the point where he was as flexible as a normal person... no, even more flexible than that, he fought as a swordsman for the first time.

But the result made him realize that this was not the beauty he wanted.

From then on, the stretching and flexing method was no longer used as a substitute for the thumb.

This vague memory gives Alcaide something to do at the moment and also gives him hope for the future.

Regardless of whether the dreamer finally got what he expected, he finally got through a stage through his own efforts.

Then he should be able to wait.

No, that should be the inevitable result.

If Ilitia has something she desires, then she can't just put herself here as a mascot.

The innocent brain begins to think about not-so-innocent things for the sake of relieving boredom for the equally innocent children, and the subordinates who are still getting paid even though they have no work to do begin to think about the dirty minds of adults.

[332] Before the expedition

"expedition?"

"Yes. Specifically, I went to several cities and even small countries that declared neutrality to communicate with them and confirm that they did not have any hostile thoughts towards the Imperial Office."

"If you have what it takes, do you plan to go to war?"

"…If I say yes, then what are you going to do? Stop it, or join in?"

Alcaide gave her a strange look.

Since the first time he joined the battlefield, he was either accidentally involved or received a mission to rescue someone so he had to break in. The only few times he did so were to play with toys and be ambushed.

He cannot be called an unjust man, but in his opinion, the term "just man" has nothing to do with him. He quelled the war because he really could not stand the meaningless fighting between the armies of the two countries, and he did not kill anyone because of his values.

As a result, Ilitia seemed to regard him as a person with a very strong sense of justice.

Should we correct her misconception?

But it seems that there shouldn’t be overly deep psychological understanding between workers and bosses, right?

So in the end he didn't say what he really thought, but chose to say what he would do.

"Probably not. I still have to be responsible for your protection."

Ilitia breathed a sigh of relief, and her fleeting look of relief was not missed by Arcaid.

He noticed something vaguely.

Ilitia's mental state was not as normal as she had initially thought.

For a moment, the words of a man who had told him about his practical experience in PUAing mentally fragile women and his second brother who strictly forbade him to copy his experience flashed through Alcade's mind.

Realizing that this was not a good idea, he could only try to change the subject.

"So, where are we going?"

"It doesn't matter anymore."

"?"

"Let me confirm one last time. Is your choice just for me?"

"Yes."

You are my boss, the job was negotiated in advance, and the salary and benefits are already in place, so if not for you, who should I work for?

"So where to go isn't important now."

No, I think it's still somewhat important.

……

Ilitia had never felt so at ease.

She, who had never been favored by anyone, tried her best to show a strong attitude. Although in this country that valued the stars, most pure-bloods would only think that she was just wasting her strength and could only do it on some unimportant things. In essence, she was still an incompetent princess.

Therefore, there has never been, and there will never be, someone who sincerely says "for her".

She was really surprised when Alcade said without hesitation that he would also be responsible for her protection.

With her identity, she can come into contact with many powerful people, so Ilitia is very familiar with their mentality of generally acting for themselves or their families.

In her opinion, Arcaid, who could not gain any benefit from participating in the war between the two countries and defeated both sides again and again, should be doing it for his own justice. In other words, although the possibility of actual existence is very small, his motivation may indeed be that as an idealist, he hopes that the world will develop in the direction of his ideal.

As for the reason he gave earlier, which was that he "didn't want to be an unjust person", it was just to cover up his own idealism.

I just did it because I wanted to. What kind of childish mentality is that?

How many adults would act for reasons like seeing someone in trouble and helping them regardless of the risks simply because they want to help?

Ilitia didn't think she would ever meet a kind person who was so innocent that he seemed to exist only in stories.

What kind of environment allows such a person to grow to this point?

What kind of parents would give their child such values ​​and then let him go through a Shura field that is strong enough to have such strength?

That doesn't make sense.

So in her opinion, Arcaid was indeed "for her".

It is precisely because she is obviously better than everyone else, and because the reason she was rejected was that the star spirits whose strength was determined entirely by the luck at birth were too weak and useless, and she did not receive the treatment that others had, that she longed so much for her "subordinates" who were devoted to her.

Because in the Imperial Hall, Illitia might never have the chance to get another subordinate like her, so from now on she will attach great importance to Alcade.