A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

The author has something to say: Sorry, it’s the end of the year and I’m really busy.

Working overtime almost every day...

The small courtyard that was bustling just now became extremely quiet at this moment, and the crisp laughter of the beautiful maids also suddenly stopped.

Everyone's eyes are focused on one person, and the emotions in everyone's eyes are different.

The bard who was being stared at by everyone blushed with a handsome face, gritted his teeth, and denied without hesitation what Caihos just said.

However, as soon as his fierce denial came out, everyone understood it instantly.

Oh~~~

It turns out to be true~~~

Seeing everyone's eyes and the maids covering their mouths and snickering, Shulos became even more anxious.

"Don't listen to that guy's nonsense!"

He was so anxious that he was sweating.

"How could I still-"

Those two words were stuck in his throat and he could only raise his hand to point at someone angrily.

"This guy is obviously jealous when he sees all these beautiful ladies staying around me, so he slanders me like this!"

"To be honest... of all the people here, he is the one least likely to be jealous of you."

The little fat guy Tal on the side took a moment to interrupt in a low voice.

"This is the knight of the blazing sun who has been rumored all over the world. There are women all over the world who love him. His lovers can be found wherever he goes."

As soon as the little fat man finished speaking, the female officer, who was looking at Shulos with raised eyebrows in surprise, cast a cold glance at a certain knight who showed mercy to women and could be said to be the public enemy of women.

The blond knight, who was used to being treated coldly by the female officer, still sat calmly by the tablecloth with a faint smile on his handsome face, holding the wine glass in his hand and taking another sip.

"Humph, I'm not necessarily inferior to him."

Shulos snorted, raised his hand, and ran his long fingers through his forehead.

He smiled proudly, and the raised corners of his lips made his face even more handsome, making people unable to take their eyes away.

"Everywhere I have walked, the appearance and singing voice given to me by the goddess Avdmir have allowed me to capture the hearts of countless beautiful ladies."

Caijos took another sip of wine and said, "But you're still a virgin."

Garlan: "..."

Tapti: “…………”

Tarr: "...How pitiful."

The fingers that were stroking his hair were still in front of his forehead, and the handsome bard's proud smile was already frozen at the corners of his lips.

"How did you get it?"

To everyone's surprise, it was Heimos who was sitting beside him who asked this question.

"Oh, it's very simple. You see, he was talking and laughing happily with the maids, but his hands and feet were placed on his body in a polite way, and he didn't touch any women... In fact, one of the maids accidentally came closer. , he will avoid them without leaving a trace and will not come into contact with them.”

Caijos said bluntly, "This is obviously one of the reactions of a virgin when he gets along with a woman, but he does it in a more disguised way so that no one can see it."

Garlan was stunned for a moment.

"If you say so..."

He looked at the sullen Shulos in surprise and said, "No wonder I dressed up as... uh..."

Reacting at the critical moment, Garlan swallowed the word 'women's clothing'.

"No matter how much you said you were happy, you always kept a distance from me. You behaved and didn't touch me. Later, until I was...after that, you started to touch me at will."

Garlan spoke vaguely, as if those in Tarr who didn't know could not understand it at all, but for the two people who knew that Garlan had escaped disguised as a woman...

Heimos, who had just asked casually out of boredom, turned his eyes and became extremely unkind when he landed on someone.

Then the bard, who was stared at by the dangerously narrowed golden-red eyes, suddenly felt his heart tremble for no reason.

However, at this moment, Shulos, who had completely stripped off his "romantic and passionate" fake skin, was no longer in the mood to care about his premonition of danger. He stood there with his face flushed from suppressing it and his lips moving up and down. But he couldn't make a sound, like a magpie whose throat was strangled.

Kayhos sat there with a charming smile on his handsome face, but he continued to kill without mercy.

"According to what you said, although you have captured the hearts of many beautiful ladies, you have still kept your virginity until now. You must want to dedicate it to a woman who can make you fall in love? But..."

Thinking of the information that Prince Gallan had inadvertently revealed in his words, he smiled and stabbed the bard again who dared to verbally tease the prince or even use his hands and feet.

"Look, you are already twenty-six or seven years old. Haven't you met a woman who has fallen for you yet?"

He sighed with emotion, "If you continue like this, your virginity will break through the age of thirty. Ah, I have traveled across the mainland for so many years and I have never seen a thirty-year-old virgin."

A virgin in her late thirties.

Also a bard.

A bard with a handsome face, who habitually talks sweetly to women, making many women fall in love with him. He is nearly thirty years old, and he is still a virgin.

One hit kill.

It was as if the sound of a bard's heart breaking could be heard in the air.

At this moment, the eyes of everyone looking at Shulos were no longer surprised, but sympathetic.

However, this kind of sympathetic look was more cruel to Shulos. It would be better to stab him directly with a knife.

However, just when Kehos was about to chase Shulos away in pursuit of victory, someone spoke up to help.

"Kayhos..."

It was the young prince who spoke.

"yes?"

"I don't think being faithful to your future partner, both mentally and physically, is something to be ridiculed about."

Garlan stared at Kehos and said with an expressionless expression.

"Your Highness..."

Kayhos's heart skipped a beat.

Oops.

I was not paying attention and just went to poke the bard's knife, but I forgot that His Highness should be the same...

"Everyone has different choices. I'm not saying that your behavior is wrong, but that is not the reason for you to ridicule people who choose differently from you."

The young man said in a deep voice with a serious expression.

"For me, I have more admiration for people who remain faithful to their partners, both physically and spiritually."

Garlan was unhappy.

He was very unhappy.

At first, he was just a little surprised. After all, Shulos looked like a romantic guy who played with flowers, but it turned out that this person who looked very romantic was actually a virgin... The contrast was so great that he was temporarily stunned. Didn't come back to reality.

But what Kehos said next made him very dissatisfied.

What happened to the virgin?

Don’t virgins have human rights?

The little prince, who had been a virgin for six lifetimes, thought angrily.

"Well, Prince, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to ridicule those who are loyal to their partners. What I actually meant was..."

"Okay, no need to say more."

Interrupting Caihos's words and shaking his head to express that I don't want to hear it, Garlan said, "That's it for today."

The one-eyed knight who accidentally crushed the thunder of Garlan, the sixth virgin, was driven away by his prince.

It seemed like they were winning, but actually they were losing miserably.

Seeing that the prince looked like he was angry, the others also left wisely, including the maids, but when they left, they all looked at Shulos with smiling eyes.

Of course, it's not ridicule, but more curiosity and doubt, and even loving eyes.

When there were only a few people left in the small courtyard, Garlan couldn't help but ask Shulos.

"You're really weird. You're obviously not that kind of person, so why do you have to pretend to be like that? Don't you feel awkward?"

"Because my master said..."

Shulos, who was stabbed one after another, replied weakly.

"Huh? Your master?"

Shulos held his head and groaned feebly.

"My master has always said that a bard who is not romantic is definitely not a qualified bard!"

His master, who was also a bard, taught him this.

Therefore, in order to become an excellent bard, he has been going against his nature and trying hard to play the role of a vagabond——

Garlan: "..."

...Although it is a fallacy, if you think about it carefully, it seems...it seems that there is really some truth in it, which is irrefutable.

He sighed: "Forget it, don't think too much, I will tell them not to tell this matter. You go to eat first, we will talk later."

Shulos turned his grief and anger into appetite.

Garlan stood there, pursed his lips, still feeling a little unhappy.

At this time, Heimos, who had been standing not far away, came towards him and seemed to be planning to leave.

However, when he passed by Garlan, he suddenly reached out and put his hand on Garlan's shoulder.

He leaned forward slightly, lowered his head, put his face close to Garlan's ear, and spoke in a very soft voice that only the two of them could hear.

"I will be faithful to my partner...including physically."

ah?

Suddenly and inexplicably Heimos said this in his ear, Garlan looked at Heimos with a confused look on his face.

"...Virgin...I am."

Heimos had a rare look of embarrassment on his face when he mumbled these words. As soon as he finished speaking in a low voice, he immediately straightened up, coughed a few times, and then hurried away from here.

Garlan was left alone, looking confused.

What?

Is this guy Heimos still a virgin?

This is very unscientific——

…………Um?

No...wait, something seems wrong.

…………

……………………

...You are a virgin, tell me why! It’s none of my business! I don’t want to know at all, okay!