ocean-life Case 24: Imperial family.
Case 24: Imperial family.
Case 24: Imperial family.
''First, allow me to introduce my children. Here is Jeremy, currently the Crown Prince.'' James begins, looking at the man in his early twenties, despite having short blazing red hair and orange eyes, he has an amicable impression, maybe because of his relaxed and friendly face.
''Nice to meet you, I'm Jeremy Alistaire Aragon.'' Jeremy smiles and nods his head.
''Next is William, the second prince.'' James moves his gaze to the somewhat fierce and arrogant-looking dude, he has the same features as his brother, but he also has an annoying grin on his face. Something tells me that I would not get along well with this dude.
''I'm Willaim Alistaire Aragon, it's a blessing to be able to meet such beautiful ladies here.'' And he's cheesy as well, crap.
''Lastly, this is the first princess, Christina Alistaire Aragon.'' He sets his gaze on a young woman with a confident expression, again, pretty much the same eye and hair colors as the others. She has a pair of earrings made from red gemstones, probably rubies, and another big one on her chest as well.
''My name is Christina Alistaire Aragon, I hope we can get along.'' Christina says, smiling brightly. This one seems good. Her eyes looking at me are kinda weird though.
Overall, they're all pretty-looking people, but I'm surprised by how they can give such different impressions when they all have the same features. Also, I don't like the Second Prince.
''Well, Christina is just here to observe and gain experience, so she won't participate in our negotiation this time.'' James adds.
Fair enough.
''My, we're the same here, Christina. We're here to learn as well, so don't mind us.'' I reply, smiling lightly.
Mom said that when you don't know how to deal with nobles, just make random bullshit comments and laugh everything off. Well, she didn't say the bullshit part, but that's the idea.
''Oh, then, do I have the honor to be your guide for a palace tour after this?'' Christina smiles even wider.
''I'll leave it to you then.'' I smile back. A tour is not a bad idea.
''I'm glad you guys are getting along well. Now, onto our main objective today.'' James turns to Julius.
''Right, what would you like to begin with, Your Majesty?'' Says Julius.
Well, they have been talking about trades for a while now, the gist of it is that we're importing things like grains, sugar, fabrics, leathers, etc.
And they want to buy fruits, tree saplings, wood, and of course, steel and/or weapons from us.
I'm just sitting here enjoying the tea that a maid bought earlier. Obviously.
''...Like we said before, to consolidate our position as a neutral country, we will not sell any steel or weapons to any party outside our own country during this period, I hope you can understand this, Your Majesty.'' Julius declares firmly.
''...I don't understand, as you already know, we don't plan to show any hostility towards your kingdom, in fact, we have never shown any.'' James frowns lightly.
This one is true, almost no country has openly declared war on our kingdom before. Mostly because we have a very high percentage of mana users, and we just have more experienced fighters. Our territory is not that big either, combined with other things, it's just not worth the effort if they are trying to invade us.
''In regards to that, I have a message from our king, Louis Everwood. He said that he has understood your ambition to unite all human countries into one, but in this situation where the demon forces are getting increasingly more formidable, he wants all of us to focus on fighting the demons first.''
''There's a high chance of a demon king appearing soon, Your Majesty. As you know, it is almost time.'' Julius states.
Well, the Empire just completed the invasion on Kaspia a year before, and now they want to unite all human countries, that's like, six more countries in total, and they think they can actually do all of that before the demon king claps our asses? What a joke.
''...''
The emperor leans back, holds his head, and closes his eyes, frowning.
'''' ... ''''
Turns out she also dislikes that dude.
''More than that, let's do a walk through our palace. It should be enough time before lunch.''
''Sure.'' I smile.
Let's go explore.
But why is she still holding my hand and not letting go... Can't you see my girlfriends frowning already, hey.
''Um, Christina?''
''Hm?''
I look at our hands intertwined together.
''Ah, sorry, I forgot.'' Christina releases my hand.
You usually don't forget that though...
Taking the opportunity, my girlfriends instantly grab both of my hands. Seeing that, Christina narrows her eyes a bit before she turns away and begins walking again.
What is this, is she interested in me?
''Let's go to the garden first.''
So we got a pretty thorough tour of the palace, because it was so big, I decided halfway to just fly all of us through the journey, Christina was surprised by this, and also she likes to fly, apparently.
There's a total of six big mansions besides the very tall one at the center. Three of them are for the royal children, one for the attendants, and two for guests, the Emperor lives in the main building, which is just the tall one.
There's no Empress, by the way, she died a decade ago for some reason. I'm not very interested.
The ball tonight will be hosted in the main building, I can already see a lot of cars going in from all directions already. Probably nobles.
But now, it's lunchtime. Christina invited us to eat at her mansion, we could not see any reason to refuse, so here we are.
''Mhmm...''
As expected of imperial chefs, they have very good skills, and they actually have Eastern food here as well, we got egg fried rice with chicken for lunch.
As I just finished the meal, Christina speaks up: ''We have ice cream here, do you guys want it for dessert?'' She says, smiling.
''Sure~ Thanks a lot.'' What a nice girl.
A little while later, a maid brings in a plastic box with eight cylinder popsicles and ice inside. So they have these kinds of ice creams as well, huh.
Let's see, I'll go for this vanilla-looking one first.
slurp slurp
I'm a fan of sucking rather than biting, biting doesn't get you much flavor.
As I'm giving the popsicle a blowjob, almost getting a drop on my boobs, I suddenly see Christina looking at me contently, her eyes curving up, her cheeks a bit rosy.
...No way that was her plan, right?