novelraw Chapter 123
Chapter 123
123~ Ainomi's Heaven-Defying Request~
"Approved."
Nina: "???"
Had she heard wrong? Otherwise, how could she have obtained Glaze Nation's King's agreement so simply?
"Do you have any other requests?"
Consciousness gradually returning to reality, Nina discovered she wasn't in a dream. He'd actually truly agreed to ennoble her as a noble!!!
"Nothing more..."
"What about you?"
Gong shifted his gaze to Ainomi.
"That, that, I didn't really do anything along the way, so, so I don't need anything, right?"
She indeed felt she hadn't done anything along the way, but in this situation, not answering seemed inappropriate. A nation's ruler was directly asking what you wanted. At a time like this, saying you didn't want anything seemed to be not giving face...
Nina secretly pinched Ainomi's thigh.
Be sharp!
"Ah ah, that, that, I want to pinch Princess Mo's feet!"
Gong: "...?"
Nina: "..."
What kind of nonsense was this!?
Nina only felt she wanted to viciously give Ainomi a head flick. Saying in front of someone's father that you wanted to pinch his daughter's feet, wasn't this purely courting death? Moreover, it was in front of this Glaze Nation King who was rumored in the outside world to have the nickname "daughter doting fool"?
She only felt her life had already turned completely gray, with no possibility of recovery.
Gong also didn't know what to say. Ainomi's statement was really too heaven-defying...
"Ahem... For this you need to seek Mo's opinion. Change this to another request."
"Uh..."
Ainomi immediately felt enormous pressure. What she'd just said was already what her brain had tried its utmost to think of. She really couldn't think of what else she wanted.
Princess Mo's little feet were small and delicate, each toe also like jade pearls, as if they were the most beautiful precious gift bestowed by heaven to the world. Earlier on the journey, when the little Princess was resting and sleeping in the carriage, she'd already wanted to properly pinch them.
"Then..."
"Ainomi wants to learn offensive mid-tier magic. I don't know if Your Majesty can satisfy this?"
Nina used one hand to tightly cover Ainomi's little mouth that was about to blurt something out, while inquiring of Gong.
"This is no problem."
Gong quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead. Fortunately Nina had proposed a reasonably acceptable request, otherwise she might have heard an even more heaven-defying request than wanting to pinch his daughter's feet.
"You can have someone take you to the library that specifically stores magic books. Inside are stored most mid-tier magics. As I recall, there are quite a few offensive mid-tier magics in there. You can just go look."
"Many thanks, Your Majesty. Ainomi doesn't speak very well and has caused you trouble. I'm very sorry. Again, please allow me to apologize to you on Ainomi's behalf."
"It's fine, it's fine..."
...
After leaving the dining room, Nina clenched her fist and viciously delivered a critical hit to Ainomi's head.
"What kind of ghostly request did you just propose!? Do you think your life is too long? If you want to seek death, don't drag me along!"
"I, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!"
Ainomi instinctively crouched defensively and apologized while hugging her head.
A muscle reaction practiced after having her head struck by Nina too many times...
"Alright, first go to that magic library His Majesty Gong mentioned. You go properly learn magic for me! Don't slack off all day anymore, understand!?"
If she didn't force Ainomi to properly learn magic, she felt she might be angered to death some day.
She was clearly her cousin. Why was she such a silly appearance? She almost suspected whether Ainomi was her uncle's illegitimate child from outside!
Silly all day long, and her speech even stuttered a bit. Who knows, she might be sold off and still be there helping others count money!
Ainomi didn't dare refute Nina, dejectedly following behind Nina's rear.
As for Nina, on the road she asked about the magic library's location. After throwing Ainomi there, she went to find the little Princess. She wanted to find the little Princess to dissolve the contract signed between the two.
However, all the way until evening she couldn't find her. She'd even knocked on the door to the little Princess's bedchamber but hadn't found her.
This was really strange. Where had Princess Mo gone right now?
The scene shifted to the other side...
"Princess, please accept it... Eh eh eh, this won't do, this won't do! Princess!"
As a small food stall owner doing small business every day, he was currently suffering a headache because of his nation's Princess.
She clearly didn't need to pay him money at all. She could just take it directly. But why was Princess insisting on stuffing money at him? If it were normal payment that would be fine, but what was she giving him? It was a Gold Coin! A whole Gold Coin!
How would he dare accept this Gold Coin? This was a Gold Coin taken from the national treasury. One poor explanation and he'd have to go drink tea with the soldiers.
Originally Princess had bought a fried flatbread from him, but after patting herself discovered she didn't have loose change. Later she planned to write an IOU, telling him whenever he had time to go to the palace and casually find someone to show the IOU to get the money...
He'd immediately indicated he wouldn't collect money. As a result, Princess seemed to have misunderstood something and directly pulled out a Gold Coin to stuff at him...
"Ahem... Princess, is there a possibility that the money exchange isn't actually far from here?"
Hearing this, the little Princess turned her head to look at the Maid Xiao Xi, her gaze seeming to question "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
The Maid Xiao Xi helplessly shrugged.
She recently felt her family's Princess was getting increasingly stupid. She even suspected whether she'd received some kind of shock in Scarlet Phoenix Nation, causing her whole person to now be somewhat silly.
She wouldn't say it out loud, because if she did the little Princess would definitely write it down in her little notebook and get revenge later.
Don't look at how the little Princess had been maintaining her image outside up until now, doing everything very magnanimously and dignifiedly. But in reality, behind the scenes she was the type who'd get revenge for grievances that very night...
"Then you go help me exchange some. Just... break up three Gold Coins. How you break them up, you decide yourself."
The little Princess tossed out three Gold Coins that steadily landed in the Maid Xiao Xi's hands.
"Alright, then please wait here for me a moment, Princess."
After the Maid Xiao Xi left, the little Princess took a fancy to other snacks. For example, this fried flatbread...
"Boss, two portions of pan-fried flatbread."
"Coming right up, please wait a moment, Princess."
After the Maid Xiao Xi broke up the money and returned, she saw her family's Princess holding a portion of flatbread in her hand, raising it before her face and asking:
"Xiao Xi, pan-fried flatbread, eat or not eat?"
Yu Xi: "..."
After the two paid the money, they left.
This kind of scene was also considered commonplace within Glaze City. Their Princess appeared on the streets wandering around from time to time, then every time she came out she'd play for a while, buying some things to eat...
Perhaps in other nations it seemed strange, but in their view, this was a manifestation of their Princess caring about the common people...