Chapter 166: A Letter To King Ford
"Dem... ah!"
His fingers relentlessly stimulated me up and took me to the height of pleasures several times before I could not keep up anymore. My eyelids grew heavy and I could not keep my eyes open anymore. Before I knew it, I had already gone into the world of deep slumber.
In the morning, I woke up hearing Perita's voice. "The nerve of that woman! No matter who she is, how dare she talk like that about our queen?!!"
"... Perita? What's wrong?" I mumbled, sitting up.
"I told you not to yell, yet you did and woke Her Highness up!" Ruby snapped at her. "Just calm down, seriously!"
"Are you alright, Your Highness? Are you feeling better?" Ruby asked me, changing her tone completely.
"Hmm... I don't remember saying that I was not feeling better. I had a good night's sleep..."
'That guy! Now I know why he did that, that sly wolf! He pleasured me so I would fall asleep faster even if I did not want to! I won't let him get me the next time! Really? That guy really is something!'
"By the way, why were you yelling, Perita?" I asked.
"It's nothing important, Your Highness," Ruby said. "At least, Your Highness does not need to concern yourself with it."
"But I want to know," I said. "Tell me, Perita."
"The Queen of Mazazine, that woman- I heard her talking to King Ford. She was saying that Your Highness does not deserve to be the queen of Querencia because Your Highness is a human," Perita said angrily. "How dare she?! I wanted to step up, but then King Ford stopped her. He said that it is very rude of her to talk like that about another queen who is of the same rank as her.
And he also said that no matter what the queen's species is, she is still a queen. I think I can respect King Ford a bit more than normal now."
'King Ford again... What is this guy thinking? Of course, he knows that the news will reach my ears.'
"First of all, Perita, the Queen of Mazazine is a queen. No matter what she does, until she confronts me directly, you have no right to confront her about something," I said. "Remember your position. You are a knight. You are not to behave as you please. So, make sure to remember this and not act on a whim just because you feel like it.
Make sure I don't have to repeat myself."
"My apologies, Your Highness. I will not do it again," Perita said. "Please forgive me this time."
"As long as you are truly sorry and remember not to even think of doing anything like this again, you are forgiven."
"I will not, Your Highness. Thank you for forgiving me," she bowed.
"Alright, raise your head."
I knew that something like this would happen. Not everyone would accept a human between them, let alone a queen who was a human. Since I had always predicted this kind of thing, it did not bother me much.
But I did not think King Ford would defend me publicly. He was making me more curious as to what he was planning. Words traveled very fast, especially when it came to anything to do with the Royals. And King Ford was surely aware of it. He knew that I would hear about this.
But what bothered me was the fact that if he defended me to show that he was on our side and truly wanted to be on friendly terms, or because he felt like it.
If I somehow let it slip that I knew about the incident, it would mean that I needed to thank him privately. He might have done it for that as well, to make an opportunity to meet me privately.
"Perita, you said you heard them talking. But did they see you?"
"I was returning after practicing with the commander of Ataraxia. And we were just a few feet away from them. They surely saw us."
Then I had no choice but to thank him. Everyone knew that Perita was my personal knight. If King Ford saw Perita there, he knew that I had found out about it. And if I did not thank him even now and pretended not to know, it would be the same as disrespecting him.
'Seriously, so troublesome! These rules of the Royals... Ugh!'
"Ruby, grab me a parchment and a quill," I said.
Ruby handed me parchment and a quill. After a lot of practicing, I now knew how to write with quills. For someone like me who was accustomed to using pens only, it was pretty hard to learn to use quills. But I got used to it.
I wrote a letter, keeping the parchment on the bedside table, and handed it to Ruby. "Put it in an envelope and seal it with my Royal stamp."
Both the king and queen of a kingdom had their personal Royal seals that they used for personal purposes. And there was another seal that was called the Alpha seal which was used for the matters involved with the kingdom, not personal. It could be used by both the king and queen, but on both of their agreements and there needed to be evidence that both of them agreed to it.
It was perhaps the second or third time that I was using my Royal seal. Since I did not interact with others much, I did not need to use it.
"Now, give that envelope to Perita," I said. "And, Perita, give it to King Ford. What I mean is, hand it to him yourself."