Became the Escort Knight That the Princesses Were Obsessed With

52. Knights of Light (6)

“….”

The first princess, on the verge of defeat.

She was lost in her thoughts, covering her chapped lips with her hand.

Her appearance bathed in moonlight looks like an empress determined to save her country.

“Take it slow. “The dawn is still long.”

Her efforts reassured her.

I also can’t checkmate her right away because a lot of her pieces die.

If you keep pushing until the end, you will be able to win someday.

However, Leah’s pride will be hurt in the process.

She is a member of the royal family who is as proud as she is intelligent.

“I don’t have enough pieces, so I won’t be able to capture your king.”

As I spoke with a deep sigh, Leah glanced up at me.

And she asked with a somewhat relaxed expression.

“What do you usually do in times like this?”

“Well….”

She tilted her head, pretending to be embarrassed.

And then she smiled at the princess and spoke slyly.

“Usually it ends in a draw.”

She looks at my smile with suspicion.

She is definitely quick-witted.

“Are draws common in chess?”

“Of course-. “It comes up often in competitions.”

Leah pursed her lips tightly, as if she was displeased.

Then she finally nodded her head.

“Okay, let’s make it a draw.”

“Yes, it was a good match.”

I bowed my head and paid my respects to the princess.

However, the princess did not seem to be in a very good mood.

Chess is also a ‘strategy’ game.

She looks like she is having a hard time accepting the fact that she actually lost the battle for command.

“But… “What did you wish for if you beat me?”

Leia tilted her king back and forth with her fingers.

Then she immediately asked me with the cool eyes of an empress.

“Money? Wisdom? No, Yeongji decided to receive it from the Prime Minister….”

I faced her and looked at her calmly.

She should have told me the reason I came here a long time ago.

Clearing up clues to her arsonist. She must have figured it out a long time ago.

Leah steadied her voice.

She asked as she fiddled with the buttons of her own shirt.

“Perhaps it’s a path to success, such as rising social status?”

“If that were the case, I would have gone to the Knights of Gwangmyeong during the appointment ceremony.”

I answered with a grin.

“You can’t completely achieve success just by becoming a knight.”

Leah raised the corners of his mouth to match my smile.

Then he pushed her face in and pressed down on her bandage that was slightly loosened.

“Because there is a way to raise your status more clearly.”

Is it because we have become closer?

The princess’s faint body odor tickled the tip of her nose.

Her body, wearing only a dress shirt, got closer.

Her soft collarbone comes into view through the moonlight.

But, I only looked at her face.

The moment you lower your gaze here, the princess will notice.

Maybe she’s trying to take the initiative from me and lead me to make her own mistakes.

“I guess even you, the smart one, don’t know how to do that?”

“Yes… “Nothing in particular comes to mind.”

It feels like I’m being tested.

“What is a more certain way?”

Leah tilted her head in response to my persistent questions.

Then he gently closed his eyes and opened them strangely, answering.

“Well… “It’s probably better not to know.”

Leah picked up the king and queen at the same time and placed them in her storage box.

And she said, carelessly covering the chessboard over the love letters she had received from the archdukes.

“If you had offered that method as a reward, I would probably have died.”

“Yes… ?”

“No, it’s a joke. “I’ll stop talking about my personal life here.”

Leah shook her head and said it was no big deal.

And he himself first brought up the story about the arsonist that I had been looking forward to.

“The real reason you came to see me is because of the arson incident that occurred at Irina’s mansion, right?”

“As expected, you knew….”

“Yes, and one of the culprits in that incident was a wizard.”

She was probably watching the other princesses from afar as well.

Of course I knew that the fire that occurred in Irina’s mansion was magic.

“Yes, I came here because of that problem.”

I took out a piece of the clever man’s cloak that she had kept in her pocket.

And then he carefully placed it on the table where the chessboard had disappeared.

Leah looked down at the cloak calmly.

Her blue eyes filled with mana flashed eerily.

“He seems like a fairly high-level guy…. But it’s hard to find the culprit based on this alone.”

I responded by looking at her with serious eyes.

And then, remembering the wicked guy who attacked Irina, he told her in detail.

“I found out that you belong to the Magic Tower.”

“It’s called the Magic Tower… ?”

“Yes, most of the powerful wizards have been sent to the imperial court, so there will not be many talented people left in the Magic Tower.”

In her silence, I relayed her reasoning to her.

“He is probably one of the guys who is staying in the Magic Tower because he had an accident or has a physical problem.”

Leah gently closed her eyes.

She rested her chin on the back of her hand and listened to my reasoning as if listening to music.

“However, seeing as she moved quite quickly when I met her before, I don’t think she has a physical disability.”

I placed my fingers on my palm.

And with a stroke of pen in her notebook, I finally announced the specific culprit to the princess.

“A male wizard with considerable skill and agility who is a troublemaker and trapped in a magic tower.”

I picked up the bishop that was hiding on the floor.

Then he showed it to Leah and said.

“If this level of information is available, I think Leah, who studied abroad at the Magic Tower, is someone who would be familiar with this person.”

The princess finally opened her eyes.

And she responded with a light, cold expression.

“Okay, I think I pretty much know who it is.”

Leah tried to calmly get up from her chair.

However, maybe it was because I stayed up too long until dawn.

I stumbled and placed my hand on her armrest.

“Are you okay?”

I said, gently offering the princess’s back.

Then, I glanced at her, looking up at me.

Fortunately, Leah’s eyes did not degenerate like when she was suffering from the curse.

She stared at me with a rather clear and blue color.

“Can you just take me to bed? I’m a little tired….”

When I looked at him just now, he didn’t look particularly tired.

However, since it was an order, she slowly followed him to the bed.

“We have arrived, please take a seat.”

As Leah sat down on the bed, I tried to let go of her hand.

But for a moment, she wrapped her delicate fingers around my palm.

The touch sent a chill down her spine.

“Veil.”

“Yes, Her Royal Highness.”

The princess stared at me with her face illuminated by the moonlight.

Her blue eyes looked like a divine being.

“You’re smart, but you still lack a bit of tact, don’t you think?”

“Yes… ?”

‘Surely I did something wrong?’

He clearly maintained courtesy and kindly identified the guy who attacked Irina.

I brought you to bed….

“No. “If you knew that, you would have known a sure way to get ahead.”

Leah said she was sensitive and she let go of my hand.

She said calmly as she lay down on the bed.

“Thanks to you, I can sleep comfortably… “I’ll find that guy.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, it could be the same people who targeted me.”

“Thank you very much.”

She bowed her head in greeting.

However, she did not accept that greeting.

Instead, she turned her head towards her window and hid her face from me.

“Irina is lucky, she even received a lot of help from other knights.”

A word thrown out indifferently.

Only after hearing that one word did I realize why Leah suddenly became cold.

I seriously thought about clues to the arsonist.

He caught the warlock not for himself, but by chance while working for Irina.

I was very displeased with the fact that the starting point of all these incidents was Irina.

“Okay, go now.”

‘I shouldn’t do this…’ .’

According to the words of the Imperial Chancellor, all three princesses must be united into the same force.

However, the situation is extremely frustrating because the relationship between each other is so bad.

I thought deeply for a moment.

Then I decided to state that I do not only support Irina.

The princess turned her head and closed her eyes.

However, her platinum eyelids, which had been closed tightly, soon opened again.

“I understand, but Her Royal Highness….”

“What is it?”

Her indifferent expression reflected in the window.

A wealth of emotions bloomed again on that expression.

Because I have a new offer for her just for her.

“Would you like to play a game of chess with me next time?”

“….”

Leah made no reply.

So, I mustered up courage and said something vaguely.

“It’s because I’m happy to meet my rival after a long time.”

I have to become close to Leah somehow.

In this way, we will be able to reconcile Irina and Lydia and make their unity stronger.

“….”

However, the first princess did not respond to my suggestion.

But….

I heard a refreshing voice mocking me very subtly.

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“Veil, I feel this every time I see you… “It seems so amazing.”

Leah slowly turned her head towards me.

“Others were always busy shaking with fear when they saw me….”

And then he smiled brightly, sticking out his neat face from above the blanket.

“I think you see me as a childhood friend from back home.”

I smiled heartily at the princess’s blue gaze.

However, this time it was my turn to stop laughing.

“He’s relaxed, as if he’s known me well for a long time.”

For the first time in this life, someone who might suspect my return has appeared.

“I’m sorry if it seemed that way.”

I hurriedly lowered my head to hide the change in expression.

“No, I was bored with all the ministers who looked at me with the same eyes my whole life.”

Fortunately, Leah had no further doubts.

She raised the corners of her mouth, saying that she actually liked me.

“I hope you can maintain that kind of leisure in the future.”

I sighed inwardly in relief.

And then, just as I was about to leave carefully.

“Oh, and the next time you come to play chess…” .”

The princess accepted the chess offer long ago.

She warned me of something more.

“Don’t talk about other royal family members in front of me.”

A bloody word.

The moment I heard that one word, I realized.

‘This is an order.’

“I’m not particularly interested in those kids’ stories.”

“Yes, I understand…” .”

I barely escaped Leah’s mansion.

And I was finally able to breathe the cool night air.

“Ha….”

‘I succeeded in persuading him to a vague extent.’

It is not possible to unite all three princesses right away, but if we continue to increase the number of connections in this way….

In the end, there will be a reason to unite.

I nodded to myself with satisfaction.

And before leaving, I patrolled near Leah’s mansion one last time.

I arrived at the princess’s window where the black magic spell was buried.

Fortunately, the vicious fraud has completely disappeared.

‘Now Leah’s genetic disease won’t get worse….’

Thinking like that, she turned her head.

I eventually came across Leah’s window.

Her eyes caught the sight of the princess’s sleeping bed.

But….

Leah, who had obviously brought her to her bed, was nowhere to be seen.

Only the blanket that had been dug up was left.

‘What…? ?’

Thinking it was strange, I approached the window.

And while I was rolling my eyes looking for the princess’s silhouette.

Leah standing in front of the bookshelf caught her eye.

She was carefully observing her old books.

Her choice was….

It was ‘Basic 1 of Chess’.

The princess carefully held the book in her arms and sat down in her chair.

Then I took out the chessboard and started reading, reviewing the board I had left behind.

Like an imperial commander, she raised her monocle.

Soon, my eyes stopped on a certain phrase and my eyes froze in white.

Is it because I was left alone in the room?

The princess huffed with an angry expression that she had not shown to me.

Then, when she realized that I had intentionally created a draw, she covered her face with both hands.

However, it wasn’t just the facial expression that was surprising.

A sad voice that I had never shown to anyone before.

“aaah- I’m so annoyed….”

Leah muttered in a voice mixed with doctrine.

She was thought to be the Empress of Iron Blood, but she was a woman in her early 20s.