Chapter 76: The King Awaits

This place had many of the same knight ladies as the ones who protected us before. Maybe because this was the center of a country, it needed…

“Mm, yes~”

“You know what I’m thinking?”

“Roughly… There’s a squad of holy knights ahead. Go around from the side.”

“Oh.”

I listened to her and ran crouching along the fountain to the side. I was going too fast and didn’t watch where I was going…

“We’re almost… Ah ah ah ah ah! Dodge quickly…”

I just looked up.

“Huh? What do you… mean…?”

Thud!

I ran headfirst into an armored knight patrolling from the other side. With a “pff”, I sat on the ground clutching my head.

“Um, sorry, you are…?”

The voice of the knight in front of me was familiar.

“It’s fine!”

I jumped up like a rabbit, not even thinking about her body. My mind was in a total mess. Having seen a holy knight attack once, I instinctively wanted to run away.

I didn’t notice that the cross on my chest had slipped out from inside my uniform.

“Is that cross necklace on your chest a gift from the King?”

For some reason, she said this very decisively, something I never would have expected.

I turned around, straightened from my crouch, and stood up tall, but I still had to look up at her.

She raised her hand and took off her silver-white helmet. Her golden short hair had bandages wrapped around it, and blood seemed to be seeping through… Yes, it seemed like it. She was the knight sister from before. She blinked her blue eyes. On closer look, she looked more like someone the Young Master’s age, but it seemed like the ages and appearances of people in this world couldn’t be trusted.

“Are you the personal maid of Young Master Ashiya?”

“Y-yes…”

“What about your hair?” She pointed at my hair.

“This… I…”

Seeing that I was too embarrassed to speak, she didn’t continue this topic.

“The King is already waiting for you. The largest cream-white palace on the side, the King is there.”

‘Why doesn’t she call him “King”? Well, it seems the King secretly told the knights.’

I thanked the knight lady in front of me, turned, and ran toward that cream-white palace.

“The King is waiting for you~ Are you ready?”

I leaned against the double doors, placed both hands on the golden door handles, and let out a breath.

“Here I go!”

I pulled open the door. What came into view was a row of lit candles and the tall stands holding them, and rows of brown solid chairs. It looked like a church. On the last row of chairs, a golden-haired man turned his head.

“I didn’t expect that with a part of my magic given to you, you could actually enter the church! The consumption isn’t much either. You can try it more often in the future.”

Ashiya had said excitedly, but she stopped halfway: “If she knows you’re a vampire, why would she call you to this church where a vampire would lose her life? Be careful.”

“Mm.”

I closed the door and carefully approached the man.

“Hello, Miss Chuye.”

‘Miss… Though I can’t refute it, it still bothers me.’

“Hello…”

The man in front of me looked very young. I had heard from the Young Master that people here lived long lives, but was it this exaggerated! He looked more like a man in his twenties! He wore a gray “vintage” long coat. It might be “vintage” for me, since I come from another world, but everyone in this world dressed like this.

The man patted the chair next to him to signal me to sit.

I sat down cautiously.

“Um… Your Majesty… um… um…”

“I know. You’re not from this world. You’re a reincarnated person, right?”

“Eh? You know?”

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