Daily News: Insect Girls' Heavy Dependence

As expected.

After a series of wails, the blond-haired man fell into the lake.

He struggled on the surface of the lake for a while, then quickly sank underwater...

The commotion on this side of the city wall naturally attracted the attention of the guys at the bridgehead.

But the representatives they sent were treated this way.

They didn't show any anger.

Instead, there was a burst of gloating laughter...

The captain of the guard came to report again:

"Lord City Lord... they would like to send another representative. What do you think...?"

"Granted."

Richard wanted to see what tricks these people were up to.

I also wanted to find something to do.

It was just too cold that night, enough to freeze Kiel into a tiny, hard shell...

"Hiss...bring me some hot soup..."

Richard's neck is no longer crooked; the Thunder Demon Worm is quite effective, and his wound was almost completely healed by the time he left the Duke's mansion.

However, healing wounds also consumes energy. Yesterday, besides breakfast, I only drank some painkillers from Goldwell...

I haven't even had a sip of hot soup yet.

Another blond-haired guy was hung up...

Richard instantly lost his appetite.

The new blond guy was clearly much smarter.

After being hoisted onto the city wall, he immediately raised both arms high and knelt on one knee.

In the aristocratic etiquette of the Kingdom of Kiel, this signifies submission. It is a subordinate's way of indicating to a superior that they harbor no aggression.

Even though Richard wasn't afraid of his sneak attack...

Until the blond-haired man used the corner of his eye...

A glimpse of Richard's black hair and face:

So it was this guy? No wonder he was welcomed into the city after killing someone at the gate. He really is that bitch Yekaterin's lover...!

Although the blond-haired man was cursing in his heart, he was full of flattery on his lips.

"My lord! Please grant me my request. I will exchange all my possessions for the opportunity to enter the city and hide."

Richard sensed something fishy in his words.

"You? Are you alone?"

"Yes, sir! I am not with those men. I am Lord John's thirteenth son, the others are Lord John's... and John..."

"Tsk..."

Richard had absolutely no interest in his background.

In his opinion, all these foreign names are pretty much the same.

This clever blond man realized that Richard couldn't tell the difference.

I don't want to be thrown into the cold lake.

He quickly got straight to the point.

"My lord! My lord! I am willing to be captured by you and hand over all my Dio coins, just to be allowed into the city."

Why are you so determined to go to the city?

This piqued Richard's interest: If he wanted to avoid the insectoid attacks, why not just run away? Why did he have to pay a price to enter the city?

Seeing that Richard wasn't interested in Dior coins, the blond-haired guy could only try to appeal to his emotions...

"My lord, I am Yekaterin's cousin..."

Huang Mao thought that revealing his identity would make Richard treat him better.

After all, in Huang Mao's view:

Richard also has black hair, and by all accounts, he looks like a lover that Yekaterin kept according to her own preferences.

Since he and Yekaterin had that kind of relationship, I'm practically his cousin...

"Another cousin?" Richard frowned... his expression was unfriendly.

"My lord! We are all Catherine's cousins..."

The clever blond-haired guy suddenly hesitated to speak: Could it be that the guy who was thrown down just now did it because he used his cousin's identity as a trump card?

Richard winked at the Storm Rider beside him.

"Thump—!"

The blond-haired boy fell into the lake...

It wasn't that the blond guy had guts and didn't scream; rather, he fainted from fright in mid-air.

Richard was now very puzzled.

The order was given to the captain of the guard:

"Bring me another representative up here..."

"...Right, pick the smart one!"

Another blond-haired guy was hoisted up.

He hasn't shown any sign of submission yet.

"Are you Yekaterin's cousin?" Richard asked directly.

The third blond-haired man finally got a clear look at Richard's face: How come it's this black-haired guy? No wonder... they really are adulterers!

"Yes, sir, I am her cousin."

"What is your purpose in coming to the city?"

"It's to avoid attacks from insectoid beasts..."

Puff-!

……

……

"What is your purpose in coming to the city?"

Richard asked the question.

He sized up the fourth, seemingly smarter, blond-haired man.

The blond-haired man quickly adopted aristocratic manners and said, "My lord... we've come to reclaim Stormwind..."

"How do we take it back?" Richard asked, feigning ignorance.

The fourth blond-haired man also realized that Richard and Yekaterin had a close relationship.

Moreover, in his personal opinion, Richard's demeanor was not that of a black-haired commoner, but rather that of an aristocrat...

He dared not deceive the black-haired nobleman!

"...marriage alliance..."

"It's somewhat ridiculous."

"But I have an assignment from my lord father... and Miss Yekaterin... has also agreed..."

! ! ?

Richard was somewhat annoyed:

"You're spouting nonsense just to get into the city? Aren't you afraid I'll throw you off?"

Huang Mao hurriedly pulled out a letter...

"Bring up a few more blondies!" Richard ordered the captain of the guard.

……

Richard found several letters on the blond-haired man who had just been hoisted up!

"Tsk...!"

Richard has confirmed:

The blond-haired men who remained outside the city were all descendants of different branches of the August family.

In other words, all of Catherine's cousins ​​wanted to inherit the dukedom through marriage with her...

And their elders all received Yekaterin's reply... a letter agreeing to the marriage?

Richard looked at the letters in his hand...

I suddenly found myself laughing at myself:

What's wrong with me? Why am I caring about such trivial things...?

The telepathic sea snail worm: "Stop playing around!"

Richard put on the audio conch shell again, just like he would on headphones.

With his other hand, he picked up a bowl of hot soup.

I took a big gulp...

Yekalin's somewhat displeased tone was transmitted via telepathic sea snail:

"What are you doing? Are you playing around?"

"Interrogate, Huang, Mao!"

Richard spoke slowly and deliberately, his tone dripping with irritation. He chewed the meat in his mouth in large bites, as if that would suppress some of his inexplicable anger…

This was the first time Yekaterin had ever heard Richard speak in such a tone.

After a moment of silence...

Yekalin's voice came again:

"Are you bothered by your cousins?"

"Shouldn't I be asking you that? Are your cousins ​​here to marry you?"

He blurted it out...

Richard himself was somewhat surprised; he didn't understand why he would say such a thing.

But he still did what he wanted to do.

Glug... He swallowed the chunk of meat.

Puff-!

Thump... Thump... Thump...!

One by one, the blond-haired men were kicked off the city wall by him.

……

"Pfft... How many did you throw?"

That was the ninth one!

"Good job! I was just worried you'd mess things up... just throw a few away..."

Richard paused, taken aback.

A slight smile curved at the corners of his lips.

For some reason, hearing Yekaterin say that made him feel inexplicably better...