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"Shhh."
With her eyes closed, Xia Lulu raised a finger and placed it in front of her cherry lips, signaling Lucia not to disturb her.
It looked like Xia Lulu wasn't doing anything particularly important, she was just resting her eyes.
Lucia stood silently beside Xia Lulu, in a standard standing posture, waiting for her master to call her.
After a long time.
Xia Lulu slowly opened her silver eyes and whispered, "Lucia, how long have I slept?"
"About an hour, Your Majesty."
"Lucia, sorry to have kept you waiting."
"No, Your Majesty, this is my job."
"Lucia, you didn't disappoint me, did you?"
"Your Majesty, I have completed the relevant investigation on the past of the human swordsman Light. His experience is indeed very tortuous and unique."
Lucia explained in an orderly manner.
"The human swordsman was from the Rhineland. He lost his relatives at an early age and spent his childhood in an orphanage in the Rhineland. He was very popular in the orphanage. At that time, the heir of the Schubert family in the Rhineland met with an accident and fell into a coma. To be on the safe side, he was spotted in the orphanage because of his outstanding swordsmanship talent. So he was chosen by the Schuberts to be adopted and renamed Light Schubert and brought back to the Schubert family. For the sake of reputation, the Schubert family announced to the outside world that Light had Schubert's bloodline and was the legitimate heir, and concealed his past in the orphanage."
"and after?"
"Wright made continuous breakthroughs in the human race's swordsmanship, defeated many powerful enemies for the human race, and brought a lot of honor to the Schubert family. He became the human race's swordsman. Wright Schubert should have continued to be trained as the heir of the family, but during this period, a change that no one expected occurred. The original heir of the sleeping Schubert family unexpectedly woke up. This caused a big trouble in the Schubert family, and there were two more heirs all of a sudden."
"..."
"So, as you can see, the human swordsman took on a mission that was too bizarre for humans. He transformed into a dragon slayer to defeat you. The consequence was that he would die after being defeated by you. This is how I lurked in the Rhine Kingdom and investigated the secret."
Lucia finished her story.
After listening to this, Xia Lulu was basically moved.
It seems that he was not expected to return alive from the beginning, and was just a discarded pawn.
"What about the orphanage?" Xia Lulu was a little concerned.
"The orphanage is not in a good condition. Due to the Schubert family's concealment, even the people in the orphanage don't know that the child they once adopted is a human swordmaster. The Schubert family has long stopped providing assistance, and the orphanage is about to face bankruptcy."
"Lucia, in the name of the human swordsman, support the orphanage in secret. Provide financial support in a low-key manner and don't let the orphanage go bankrupt. If anyone dares to touch the orphanage, just kill them."
"...Yes, Your Majesty." Lucia was very surprised by this order.
"Lucia, you performed very well in this mission. What reward do you want?"
"I don't need it. It is my greatest honor to serve Her Majesty the Queen."
"You have what you want, and your eyes betray you."
Lucia was a little embarrassed and was silent for a moment. "...Your Majesty, please forgive my stupidity. I really can't understand why you would investigate an insignificant human being so much, and secretly support the orphanage in the name of the human sword master. Is there any important interest in this?"
Xia Lulu smiled slightly, "There is no benefit, just pure love."
"like?"
"Yes."
If your daughter wants to run away from home, at least she should have a place to go.
Xia Lulu thought.
……
night.
In Xia Yi's bedroom.
Sera tucked the little princess into bed and was about to blow out the candles to say goodbye.
"Good night, Princess, I wish you a sweet dream."
"Sera, don't leave yet, wait a minute..."
"Your Highness, are you afraid of the dark?"
“Huh? What did you say? Afraid of the dark? Are you kidding me? I’m not. I, I’m…”
Xia Yila pulled up the quilt to cover half of her face and defended herself guiltily.
"I have to go to class tomorrow. I thought Sera would feel lonely without seeing me all day, so I kept you here for a while!"
That's totally unconvincing, Princess.
Sera was tactful enough not to point it out, but just nodded.
"Then, Princess, I will stay for a while and put out the candles after you fall asleep."
"That's right, this is my good maid!"
Afterwards, Xia Yi chatted with Sera.
There was nothing special about the content of the conversation. Sera just told Xia Yi about her experiences.
As a little princess, Xia Yi stayed in the dragon clan's palace all year round and seldom went out. She was quite curious about the outside world.
But she never goes out, not even if she has the chance.
He is simply a pure homebody dragon.
……
“Huff…Huff…Huff…”
Xia Yi, who was originally sleepy, had a strange feeling in her heart. In a state of half-sleep and half-awake, she heard someone calling her, which woke her up.
"Sera...are you calling me...?"
She threw back the quilt and sat up on the bed, but she was alone in the bedroom. Sera had long disappeared, and the candle was still burning slowly.
Xia Yi frowned slightly, "Why did Sera leave without even blowing out the candles?"
She felt strange and called out twice, but Sera didn't respond.
Sera left her master without saying a word. This was the first time since Xia Yi met Sera. As an outstanding royal maid, Sera had almost never failed to perform her duties like this.
Xia Yi got out of bed, put on her slippers, and was a little worried, thinking that Sera might have met with an accident, so she looked around for her.
As she passed the mirror in the room, she froze.
The person reflected in the mirror was not himself, not the silver-haired dragon loli in pink pajamas, but a male swordsman in full-coverage armor.
The sword in the swordsman's hand was very familiar to Xia Yi. It was the sword of the sword master, the holy sword Guram.
Xia Yi opened her silver eyes wide in shock.
"The human race's sword master...?"
08 Farewell with joy!
It was clearly the first time Xia Yi saw this swordsman, but she thought the image was very familiar, and even immediately associated him with the human swordsman that Xia Lulu mentioned.
There is no mistake, this is the sword master of the human race!
She was so sure.
But why would the human race’s sword master appear in the dragon race’s palace?
This is totally impossible. It is impossible to break into the Dragon Palace easily. Humans can't even get past the guards at the gate.
Perhaps it was an instinctive reaction of the dragon clan. Xia Yi twisted his waist and hit the mirror with his big tail, sending the mirror flying.
"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"
Xia Yi felt something was wrong and rushed out of the room to look for Sera.
"Sierra!"
"Sierra!!"
"Come out quickly! Stop hiding from me!"
In the dark corridor, Xia Yi opened her mouth and called out to Sera.
But Sera didn't respond.
"Sierra, if you don't come out, I'm going to be angry. The consequences of my anger are very serious. I'm going to punish you...eat cream cake and fried chicken legs. I'll make you fat to death!"
Xia Yi shouted loudly.
In the empty corridor, there was only an echo.
The silent moonlight fell on the little princess, illuminating her long silver hair and aggrieved face.
"If Sera is missing, then find someone else!"
"Lucia!! Lucia!!"
"Mother! Mother!"
Xia Yi started running, shouting all the way. If it were any other time, she would have blown up the Dragon Palace long ago.
Only now, it's eerily quiet.
The guards who patrolled the palace at night had all disappeared. There was no sign of life at all, as if everyone in the palace had evaporated from the face of the earth. Only Xia Yi was left in this space.
She rushed to Xia Lulu's bedroom, broke open the door, but did not see her mother.
The same was true for other people's rooms, there was no one there.
"I, I... saw a ghost?!"
This was the first time Xia Yi encountered such a situation. She couldn't help but get scared and immediately entered the strongest defense state to protect herself.
I found a corner and squatted there, holding my head in my hands to defend myself.
A lot of time has passed, and still nothing has changed.
"Sure enough, even if I hide here, no one will come to find me?"
Xia Yi had no choice but to start thinking.