Chapter 274


    <strong>CHAPTER 274 – THE QUEEN’S SCHEME</strong>


    At night in my bedroom . Rica was looking up to the ceiling wearing just a single piece of silk clothing .


    Even within the darkness, her eyes looked clear and sparkling .


    Those eyes of hers made me interested a bit .


    「What’s the matter, are you thinking of something?」


    「I was remembering the past」


    「The past?」


    「Before I met Kakeru」


    Rica suddenly smiled .


    I remembered different eyes .


    Rica’s eyes when we just met, her eyes that looked lifeless when she was being controlled like a puppet by the eunuchs .


    「Why so suddenly?」


    「I can’t remember it」


    「Un?」


    「You know, right now . I have so many things to think of every day . I feel like it’s even too much . But I would suddenly think, what was I thinking back then」


    「Hmm」


    「And then, I realized I couldn’t remember anything . Although I can remember what happened back then, I can’t remember what I was thinking at all」


    「Would you want to remember it?」


    I got on top of Rica who was lying on her back, looking into her eyes .


    If, if Rica wants to remember, then……


    「……fufu」


    She stared straight back to my eyes and gently smiled .


    「What’s funny?」


    「Kakeru is always like that . If I answered yes here, you would probably do that for me . No matter how difficult it would be, no matter what obstacles are waiting for you」


    「Of course」


    Rica is a good woman, my woman .


    If Rica wishes so, then I’ll grant it whatever it is .


    「Fufu」


    「What’s up with you, really」


    「That was probably why, it turned out like this」


    「Un?」


    「Kakeru is only doing what he wants . You would find good women and make love with them . You would love them because they would be good women and continuously love good women as they improve」


    「Well yeah」


    「That Kakeru, makes the women around him captivated wilfully . It is not because Kakeru is cool, nor because he would do something for us . That way of living makes us captivated」


    「Is it such a big deal?」


    「Being captivated, it brings us joy」


    「Hmm」


    「It even makes us want to help you」


    「The noble title……no, about Melissa huh」


    Rica’s smile deepened .


    Rica’s an intelligent woman . She probably knows that the reason I’m helping Caroline in the first ce is for Melissa .


    The Solon Church’s pope is about to die and there are movements to support the next pope . Naturally, as a queen, Rica would’ve known it .


    And she probably somewhat knows that Melissa is refusing to be the pope .


    It is easy for Rica to imagine that I would do something for Melissa, so she probably lent a hand somewhere .


    「I’ll tell Kakeru one thing」


    「What is it?」


    「There is a person in Cmba named Sybil Crass . At her own expense, she would open schools in small viges, and she herself is teaching lessons in there」


    「He?」


    「But that person is currently in a tight spot . As a result of using her own wealth to do that, she is living an impoverished life enough to make herself fall into malnutrition . On top of that, she being harassed by some people that think that education is only for nobles . After saying this much, you should know what to do」


    Rica smiled at me .


    「It’s the best person to show God’s mercy huh」


    I also grinned and raised the corner of my mouth, smiling back at her .


    「That sounds something like if she were someone from the church, after she dies from deprivation, she would be a saint in the stories」


    「Yes」


    「If I use Caroline to help her, then her reputation will rise」


    Rica silently smiled .


    That’s why it makes you want to help .


    Within the silence, I felt like I was told the same line from earlier .


    「Thank you」


    I kissed Rica then got out of the bed, started to wear my clothes .


    「You’re going already?」


    「Yeah, I heard something good, so I’ll be acting quickly」


    I wore my clothes, took Eleanor, and took out my Warp Feather .


    After giving Rica onest kiss, I warped to Ainon to make use of the information I got .


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    Rica, left in the room alone after Kakeru left .


    Enveloped by the remaining warmth and scent by her most beloved, she fell once again to the bed .


    Laying on her back, she looked up at the ceiling .


    Her eyes that shone even within the darkness was filled by loving kindness that did not show earlier .


    「It makes us want to help you」


    Rica repeated the same words .


    Sybil Crass .


    A person who thinks of the kingdom a hundred yearster . A person who is burning with the ideal that themoners must be given tomoners .


    And a person who, for that ideal, would be willing to sacrifice her own self .


    That kind of……woman . A woman that Kakeru would like .


    Rica Cmba .


    She is known as a queen who possesses a harem, and as such, called the Master of the Rose Garden .


    Within Rica’s consciousness, the Rose Garden does not only exist within her pce, but extends throughout thends of the Cmba Kingdom .


    Rica whopletely believes that being captivated by Kakeru is happiness schemed for Sybil and Kakeru’s encounter .


    「I should prepare some more」


    By adding intricate details, she was thinking of elerating Caroline and Kakeru’s rtionship .


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