Chapter 229 - Who Doesn“t Have Any Hidden Trump Cards? (1/2)

Roland already knew what Kaka had sent to cause his death.

His own derivative spell.

Roland didn’t think it was his fault, and he didn’t think that Kaka’s death was in any way related to him. He didn’t do anything wrong by giving something to a friend—what could be wrong with helping a friend? The only people at fault were the evildoers who were greedy and wanted to take other people’s property or gain from their ruin.

He simply felt that it was his miscalculation for not considering that the headquarters’ chairman would get greedy about this derivative magic.

After all, the Bard family was a big family in the capital. It was this notion that gave him the false impression that Kaka wouldn’t suffer the same fate as Aldo, who had his achievements stolen from him. There should be a difference between people with and without a background.

But neither he nor Kaka had any idea that the Bards were being surrounded in those days.

And Kaka had come up with something really good that had directly incited the greed of the headquarters’ chairman.

Roland sat staring in his chair. Andonara was in no hurry, watching him quietly.

After a long while, Roland stood up, his expression returned to normal and smiling faintly. “Your Highness, if you want to leave, now is the best time. Would you like to leave with me? I’ll have my own companions escort you to safety.”

“Of course I would.” Andonara stood up.

She knew very well that she would probably be disposed of tomorrow. A woman of common origin with a tarnished reputation and with an atonement scroll used on her by someone else—there was no way the royal family would let her stay.

What was the point of struggling if she was eventually going to die?

Looking at Andonara, who stood up wearing this highly visible dress, Roland frowned slightly. “Your Highness, won’t you change your clothes? If you walked down the street in that dress, we’d probably have to fight a bunch of men every hundred meters we walked.”

Andonara covered her mouth and chuckled. She tugged at her dress without a care in the world to make it even more transparent. Then she narrowed her eyes, her eyebrows resembling those of a smirking fox. “You cute little Mr. Mage, are you really not going to use the powers of the atonement scroll? It’s a rare opportunity, and there’s still time anyway.”

She smiled lightly, like a demon fox coming out of the moonlight.

Roland took a deep breath, then shook his head slowly.

Andonara fit his aesthetics perfectly, not to mention being pretty and with a good figure. Her talent was on par with Vivian’s.

Under normal circ.u.mstances, Roland wasn’t sure he wouldn’t have been tempted.

But right now, he really didn’t have much interest.

“Change your clothes.” Roland averted his eyes from her body.

“So you’re a little gentleman.” Andonara laughed softly and turned around to enter the room.

Then she began to change her clothes in front of Roland.

In fact, with the silk she wore, she may as well have been wearing nothing at all, and Roland had seen everything he should and shouldn’t have seen. This was why she simply and boldly put on her leather armor, pinned her long sword to her waist, and then finally bunched up her long hair, forming a long and beautiful ponytail.

“Whew, this outfit is still one that suits me.”

Andonara then slowly walked up to Roland. “All right, take me away.”

Roland grimaced at the sound of that… It sounded like they were eloping.

But he just tsked, then turned around and went downstairs.

The queen was a Warrior, as many people knew.

And the queen was actually pretty strong.