Princess' personal painter

"Holy spell?"

Gina was startled for a moment, but she remembered a vague dream again.He remembered what the white-haired girl had said to him.

——Destiny...?

"Remember you said... I used to be a member of the Holy See?"

Yaniweier asked curiously: "Can the master use the sacred spell now?"

"Well, this body doesn't seem to work."

I don't know when, Gina accepted the fact that "I used to be another person" in her heart, and subconsciously used the term "this body".However, when she met the vampire girl looking at her chest curiously, her mood became more subtle.

"Hey, where are you looking?"

Yaniweier whispered: "Master's new body is indeed very similar to her... I understand."

"Hey, what exactly do you understand?"

During the conversation between the two, Vera Salisbury, who was lying on the side, woke up at the right time. She sat up, looked at Gina and Yaniweier blankly for a while, and then suddenly remembered something, and was a little flustered He asked calmly, "I remember being attacked by a monster just now, that...clothes, clothes?"

"Because the master is too shy, we put it on for you."

Yaniweier blinked her playful eyes.

She looked at Yaniweier in surprise for a while. As the president of the Mercenary Association, Vera quickly regained her composure and asked with a wry smile, "You guys saved me, right? So... the real body has been discovered ?"

"If you keep it a secret for you, what good is it?"

"Huh?" Vera's thinking didn't catch up all of a sudden.

Yaniweier inspected Vera for a while, then said: "Looking at it now, it's much more pleasing to the eye than when I pretended to be a man... It's better to say that this level of camouflage can be seen by anyone with a little experience. , only a dull guy like the master can't see it."

Vera said in a low voice: "Because of family reasons, I have to act as a man, please forgive me." After a pause, she continued, "Although I don't know what happened just now, I am very grateful to you two for helping me."

"Just now I suggested to the master whether I should turn you into a family member, but I was rejected." Yaniweier narrowed her eyes, "Although it is easy, but since it is a life-saving grace, how about a promise? I don't mind adding another one to the harem."

thump.

Gina tapped the vampire girl on the forehead, and complained angrily: "Don't always think about strange things!"

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Chapter 38 Tooth Station

In the midsummer of [-] in the Qinglun calendar, after a terrible rainstorm, the Skaros Peninsula fell into a hot state again.

Gina and Yaniweier followed the mercenary association and spent three days passing through deep dense forests and narrow valleys, escaped from the pursuit of the blood race, and arrived at the Tus region at the junction of the two countries.

The majestic mountains traverse the peninsula, and there is a highland in the middle overlooking the highlands in the plains of the Foga Kingdom, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.In this barren highland, refugees from various countries gathered together, and over time, an area similar to an autonomous dominion was formed, with a population of about [-], who were only superficially loyal to the Foga Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, when the mercenary association and hundreds of refugees gathered arrived, they were warmly welcomed by the local residents.Gina noticed that this enthusiasm was mainly directed at Vera and Michelle.

"Michelle and I were adopted by our adoptive father and grew up here."

As if remembering something, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of Vera's mouth.

In the welcoming team, a middle-aged man dressed as a knight stepped forward and saluted Vera, saying: "Help the poor, heal the sick and weak, defend the faithful, and the glory will be on me... Young master, Your Excellency the deputy head, please lead us to reproduce the glory of the Knights."

Vera was obviously taken aback, and just shook her head and said: "I'm not the acting captain, we'll talk about this later." After a pause, Vera turned her gaze to Gina who was following her, and said, "David, what You are my benefactor, and I want to ask you for some information."

Gina spat out a few key words word by word: "Gordo the Monitor, the girl who is the key, the rainbow bridge at the end of the frozen ocean..."

Hearing this, the knight called David showed a look of astonishment.

"What do you know?" Gina stared at David.

"I have never heard of the first two. As for the 'Rainbow Bridge at the End of the Frozen Ocean', I may know a thing or two, but..." After speaking, David looked at Vera, "Young master, please follow me come together."

……

Due to the fact that the land is not easy to grow crops and the location is remote, the materials in Tusi resident are quite scarce, and the residents live a poor life.But in comparison, Gina noticed that there seemed to be a primitive martial custom here. Almost everyone, regardless of gender, wore leather armor and carried weapons.

Even children, with wooden knives and wooden swords on their backs, chased and played on the school grounds on the grounds of competitions.

Noticing Gina's puzzled look, David explained: "Although we are nominally subordinate to King Foga, we are not recognized by the nobles in the kingdom, so we are often harassed...We are outsiders."

"Outsiders?"

Gina pondered for a while, then shook her head: "I'm not interested in your affairs, please tell me the information quickly."

"The rainbow bridge at the end of the ice ocean... This matter is actually closely related to the initial establishment of the station, so we need to start from the beginning." As he spoke, David turned his head and looked at Vera eagerly, "And, just so Some things need to be decided by the young master."

"I'll decide?" Vera asked puzzled.

"Three years ago, the late head of the group suddenly ordered you to go to Rilada to take charge of the Mercenary Association branch... I always thought that it was just the head of the group hoping that the young master would have more experience, not giving up on the cultivation of the young master. It's just I didn’t expect that what happened later would confirm my thoughts in that way.”

As if being poked at a sore spot, Vera's face darkened slightly, without saying a word.

Even Michelle, who was following beside her, puffed up her cheeks and stared at David.

The atmosphere here was a little stiff for a while, David saw this, and then changed his introduction: "The Tusi resident was established about 30 years ago. At that time, the Aragon Kingdom in the southern continent launched a civil war for unification with the support of the Holy See. Many people who believed in the old religion Many people were afraid of being persecuted by the Holy See, and fled... Since almost the entire Western Continent country is under the influence of the Holy See, many people traveled across the ocean, after many twists and turns, and took advantage of the civil strife caused by the fallen princess of the Foga Kingdom. It’s here—this is what everyone thinks.”

Yaniweier, who was walking behind Gina, froze when she heard the expression "The Fall of the Princess of Foga Kingdom", and simply closed her eyes.

Vera's face softened a little, and she asked aloud, "Is there any inside story here?"

David nodded: "After hearing the bad news the year before last, I sorted out the relics left by the leader in Tus, and found a diary among them, which was written by the leader when he was young. I have no intention of peeping into the privacy of the leader. , but thinking of how long he stayed here and how he cared about this land later, I was afraid of missing some important information... so I read that diary without authorization."

"30 years ago, when my adoptive father was a teenager..."

David slowly narrated: "The head of the regiment wrote in his diary that after receiving the mission, he and the soldiers at that time used the merchant ship as a cover to secretly rescue those homeless people. At that time, the ship was planning to detour through the inland sea. Danya, took the opportunity to go to the headquarters of Povis. However, there was a blizzard on the way, the ship was seriously damaged, and deviated from the course, heading straight to the depths of the ice ocean...Because there were many refugees on board, supplies and food The reserve was seriously insufficient, and everyone was desperate for a while, and fell into a desperate situation, thinking that they would be buried in the vast ice ocean."

Michelle asked, "How did your lord get rescued?"

"The following content is very fragmented, and the content is also very cryptic. I can only repeat the original text to you as much as possible." At the end of the ice ocean, the rainbow bridge traverses the sky, and a white-haired witch came to me. pointed out the right path, and when we came back to our senses, we found that Adilian's harbor was ahead',"But, except for me, everyone only remembered the part of the disaster, but they didn't remember that there was such a benefactor who guided We escaped the embrace of death', 'In order to repay her, I persuaded everyone to come to the place she said, to cultivate and help this land to restore life', 'To save the gods she believed in...just, why must If it's a woman? That's the only point I'm puzzled about. She said that a woman means recovery and vitality'... These are the key points I've written down, and the rest, please let the young master read it for himself."

"A diary..."

Vera pursed her lips, and whispered to herself: "The reason why the adoptive father has always only planned to train female heirs... What is it?"

While speaking, several people followed David to a room.A lot of dust has accumulated on the door, and it seems that no one has lived in it for a long time.

Since just now, Gina, who has been in a daze, stared blankly at the emblems of seagulls and giant waves by the wall, and some kind of strange emotion surged from the bottom of her heart.Although she couldn't think of anything about the emblem, she already remembered the name that the emblem represented.

"You are... members of the Kuroshio Knights."

Chapter 39 The Abandoned Candidate

Kuroshio Knights?

Gina wanted to recall related things, but found that her mind was blank, and an inexplicable sense of sadness welled up in her heart.

I felt that the vampire girl beside her quietly pulled her sleeves, leaned closer and whispered: "If you want to know the origin of the master and the knight order, I can tell you later."

"Ah."

Gina nodded, and when she came back to her senses, she saw Vera and the others looking over with puzzled expressions.Among them, David's eyes flashed with vigilance: "The history and activities of the Knights are not an absolute secret... It's just that, about this resident, please don't tell the two ladies."

"Don't worry, maybe we will become allies." This sentence was answered by Yaniweier.

Gina's strange behavior was not investigated.Next, everyone followed David into the room. The room was full of dust. It seemed that no one had been there for a long time, but the furnishings basically remained the same.I saw David open a locked drawer, take out the diary and open it.

The name of the owner of the diary is written on the title page——

Yannis Ken.

……

She always felt that her life was bestowed by her adoptive father.

Vera Salisbury, the name was given by her adoptive father.Before being adopted, she was a child born in an orphanage, and she didn't even deserve a last name.

That orphanage was controlled by the Holy See. While giving many homeless children a way out, it was actually doing something similar to human trafficking.Families suffering from hunger and cold choose to send "excess" children to orphanages in exchange for half a month's rations, and those nobles who need servants or coolies spend a lot of money to buy their children , Enrich the gate.

Vera still remembered that there would often be bustards or noble stewards looking for beautiful half-grown girls, some would be bought directly, and some would be taken away for a few days before being sent back to the orphanage.Occasionally, when she woke up in the middle of the night, she would hear the girls sobbing, and she would involuntarily wonder what had happened to them.

Having spent her childhood in such an environment, she has a sharper sense of smell than others.

At the age of 11, she was told that a distinguished guest would visit and a girl would be picked out.Out of fear of the unknown, she quietly cut off her long hair the night before and put on boy's clothes in an attempt to get away with it.

However, even if she deliberately stood in the corner, the merchant's sharp gaze saw through her and bought her away.

"Why do you dress up as a boy?" Yannis asked her.

Facing the businessman's unfathomable smile, she was terrified and plucked up the courage to give a side-by-side answer: "The girls here are all 'commodities', and only boys have the possibility of becoming superior! Mr. , is that so?"

"That's a good answer. You will survive as a 'male' from now on."

Since then, she has entered another completely different life.

She got the unisex name "Vera Salisbury", came to the free trade city of Danya by boat, put on a suit, learned the etiquette of men's conversation, participated in noble society, and learned the history of various professions Military lessons... Probably due to her young age, her female identity has not been seen through.

During those three years, there was even a baron who fell in love with her and the Chamber of Commerce she represented, and tried to get his daughter to make a marriage contract with her... Of course, this proposal was declined by Yannis.

Yannis tells Vera that she should be on a higher stage.

At the age of 14, Yannis arranged a special assessment for Vera, the content of which was to win the favor of the daughter of a big businessman in Danya and fight for the interests of the chamber of commerce.Through repeated offensives, the daughter of the great businessman was almost fascinated by her during that time, but Vera carelessly let the other party discover her real body, which led to the opposite result and failed the assessment.

Although Yannis didn't accuse her, his attitude towards her was obviously a lot colder, and he sent her to the Tus resident on the Skaros Peninsula on the grounds that "maybe more experience is needed".