Daily News: Insect Girls' Heavy Dependence

Time flies by when someone is engrossed in reading.

The wood in the fireplace had burned out, but the tranquil atmosphere and the setting sun outside the window did not make Richard feel cold.

Without letting the maid outside the door add anything... Sally couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep on the sofa.

Richard did not notice the awakening of the noblewoman in the inner room.

Yekaterin approached softly, rubbing her sleepy eyes: "What are you looking at?"

"Knight's Literature... This should be a biography or something. Can you tell me which knight in history this is? He's drawn so coolly, this knight must have been very strong."

Richard pointed to a knight in black armor in the book and asked a question.

Yekalin leaned closer and saw clearly what book Richard was holding. Only then did she look at the man with a strange expression.

However, she didn't intend to reveal the truth, but instead made a serious yet amusing joke:

"This one, oh, he's called the Shadow Knight... one of the original twelve fourth-tier fully-formed knights of the Kingdom of Gil. He was the strongest among them..."

Yekarin made up stories that were half true and half false.

When she woke up, she truly didn't understand. How could Richard have mistaken this romance novel for a historical biography...?

Richard, on the other hand, clearly took Yekaterin's words seriously.

His eyes gleamed with longing, and his voice was filled with undisguised envy:

"So he really is a fourth-tier fully evolved being... No wonder he's so handsome... such a strong human... By the way, what happened to this knight later?"

Seeing that this idiot still didn't realize he was teasing him.

Yekaterin could only suppress her laughter… She really couldn’t think of how to continue making things up, so she could only tell the official history circulating in the Kingdom of Kiel:

"The twelve knights overthrew the rule of the previous dynasty. Among them, Knight Dio became king, the founder of the present-day Kingdom of Gil, and the origin of the name Dio coin..."

"Some knights became high-ranking nobles, including the four grand dukes of the Kingdom of Kiel. My ancestor was one of them..."

"Some knights chose to devote themselves to the goddess for life, joining the Church of the Goddess of Life. They rarely appeared in secular society..."

"Some knights ventured far beyond the walls to explore and establish connections with other nations..."

"As for the Shadow Knights you're concerned about..."

Yekaterin finally finished crafting the ending.

"He lived happily ever after with a noblewoman, and no one knows where he went. But everyone says they were very happy... and they even built a... large and prosperous family..."

By the end, Yekalin's face was flushed with a warm blush...

The tranquility of a warm winter sunset.

The residual heat in the furnace,

Mixed with the girl's slightly disheveled long hair after waking up, and her burning heartbeat...

Looking at the Duchess before him, this beautiful scene captivated him for a moment.

Unfortunately, he failed to catch the unspoken meaning in the girl's eyes.

"Do you know the name of this family? We must pay them a visit when we go inside the walls!"

Yekaterin: ...

"I don't know, don't ask me..."

Since Yekaterin didn't want to talk about it, Richard certainly wouldn't force her. He was simply even more curious about the mysterious Shadow Knights family.

Yekalin rubbed her forehead, accepting this less-than-romantic reality.

"Walk!"

She grabbed Richard's arm.

"Where to?" Richard threw the book on the sofa.

"Let's go investigate Night Tide Fortress!"

"Aren't you going to eat?"

"I'm not in the mood!"

……

Yekaterin led him to the fountain square.

Richard looked around and saw the streets that used to be filled with the smell of sulfur and the clanging of metal.

There's actually a festive atmosphere here...

Those colorful little flags were painted with the August family's crest, featuring a hurricane pattern.

Flags were strung together and hung on the high-rise buildings on both sides of the street.

Some children were running around in the city, carrying "lanterns" made of insect jade.

In the very center of the square, numerous bonfires and mountains of supplies had already been laid out. The Duke's men were distributing meat and Dior coins to the citizens…

Richard then remembered!

There is indeed a custom in this world similar to the Lunar New Year: it is called "Advent Day".

Let's set aside for now why the name of this festival is so strange.

Richard only knew that on this day, the nobles would be unusually generous, opening their private treasuries to share the fruits of their labor with the common people...

"Would you like to know the origin of Advent?"

Yekaterin never had a connection with my dream insects, did she? How could she know what I was thinking...?

Yekaterin didn't care whether Richard answered her or not; she still had so much to say to this fool.

"Legend has it that among the Twelve Knights, King Dio was the second son of the Goddess of Life... It was because of his arrival that the world came into being with the five types of Papal Demonic Insects..."

"He personally tamed the demonic insects representing the five elements: earth, storm, fire, frost, and lightning. And because of King Dio's boundless loyalty, faith, sacrifice, steadfastness, and madness towards the goddess..."

"The earth element enabled people to build giant walls; the wind element dispelled centuries of dark clouds; the fire element illuminated the night; the water element nourished crops; the lightning element judged heretics..."

Richard couldn't help but interrupt Yekaterin:

"It sounds like a children's bedtime story."

"Of course..." Yekaterin smiled. "Would you like to hear the truth of history?"

This really excited Richard!

He glanced around, making sure his maids and the citizens were at a safe distance. They shouldn't be able to hear his and Yekaterin's whispers.

This prompted Yekaterin to continue recounting historical secrets...

The duchess tiptoed, trying to whisper in his ear... Richard, sensing the situation, bent down...

Her gentle breath moistened his ears and stirred his heartstrings.

"Huff...huff...Actually, the so-called original twelve knights were all guardian knights of the goddess...The goddess of life truly exists!"

Richard: !!!

The Muggle was not given time to continue being shocked.

"Knight Dio, together with eleven other knights, overthrew the rule of the Goddess of Life... However, they later regretted it and thus supported the establishment of a new Church of the Goddess of Life..."

"I know you must have many questions, but I don't know what happened to the goddess either... This is all the secret I know. This is a part of the historical truth that only the heirs to the August family title can know."

Richard was still reeling from learning the damned truth of history.

But he still cautiously glanced around, preparing to transform into the Fourteen-Winged Killer Knight...

Kill anyone who might overhear this secret!

Fortunately, the maids and citizens witnessed the young master and young lady's intimate behavior.

They wisely refrained from getting closer to look...