Chapter 519 - Highly Capable Pawns (1/2)

Anger, s.h.i.+vering, and cold sweat! She was on the verge of becoming a queen, but a single test put her in dire straits.

… Living under someone else’s roof.

And she was underestimated.

When would she be able to truly have her own power, truly stand up and be able to confront other powers head-on, and not be afraid of them?

With this regret, Stephanie looked at Roland with some annoyance, but she could not say anything.

Because what Roland said was the truth. She was just so upset; why did Roland target her so much and treat Andonara so well?

Would it kill him to say some kind words to her?

He wasn’t gentlemanly at all.

Roland ignored her, finished his breakfast, and then said, “I’m leaving first. Andonara, stay here to protect the First Princess.”

“Okay.” Andonara nodded, and then said grudgingly, “Come back early, not once every month or two like you used to.”

Roland promised, and even went over to Andonara and gave her a gentle hug, saying, “Don’t worry, as soon as I’m free, I’ll use teleportation to come back and see you, okay?” Andonara was so happy with Roland’s reply that she looked like a delighted little girl who got a birthday present. Stephanie felt that she had received an inexplicable mental blow.

Her mouth was bitter as if it had been stuffed with something.

Then Roland left, and Andonara smiled at Stephanie and said, “I’ll take you to meet some new friends and have afternoon tea. Don’t say you’re the First Princess, it won’t be good if my friends get scared.”

Afternoon tea!

Although quite worried about the situation in Fareins, Stephanie unconsciously had something to look forward to when she heard that she could have afternoon tea with new friends.

But then she immediately noticed that something was wrong.

She was obviously worried about the situation in Fareins and taking advantage of this time in safety to plan what she should do when she returned to Fareins, how she should develop her power, how she should deal with the problems from her father’s side, what her first new government should be after becoming queen, and so on… These were the problems she should be considering.

Now all she could think about was having afternoon tea with other people.

When did I become like this?

In just these past few days?

Something didn’t seem right about this.

Stephanie sunk into deep thought.

Why had she changed so?

Another problem surfaced.

At that moment, a bewildered Beatrice came down from upstairs, led by a maidservant.

She looked at Stephanie and Andonara, and her confused expression finally changed to one of delight.

“Wonderful, you are both here, First Princess and Lady Andonara.” Beatrice almost cried. “I thought I had been brought home as a slave girl by some n.o.bleman.”

Beatrice’s const.i.tution was relatively poor and she had been in a coma until now. Andonara invited her to sit down, asked the maidservant to serve her breakfast, and then said, “This is Roland’s manor, so you will live here until you find another man. Of course, you can find a man outside, but you are not allowed to bring a man back to the manor, understand?”

Beatrice was about to eat her breakfast when she said, “Lady Andonara, I am Master Roland’s woman now, and I will not betray him.”

Andonara frowned. She didn’t know what to make of this woman anymore.

When Roland left just now, he didn’t say what this woman’s ident.i.ty was.

But based on Andonara’s understanding of Roland, this woman was definitely not a lover Roland had found.

Then she would treat her as a more distinguished guest for now.

“We’ll talk about that later.” Andonara smiled. “We’re going to meet some friends to have afternoon tea with us later, you should come along too.”

Beatrice knew that Andonara was Roland’s woman, and as his lover, it was necessary to have a good relations.h.i.+p with his lady. She agreed immediately. “All right, Lady Andonara.”

Meanwhile, Roland had teleported to the capital of Fareins and then arrived at the entrance of the Moonlight Stone Tavern.

Before he even entered, he heard a voice from behind him. “Mr. Roland, you seem to have stood us up.”

Roland turned back and saw the dwarf with a big red beard standing less than two meters away from him.

In this position, with the other party being a Rogue, if they didn’t make a sound and attacked directly, Roland would be killed.

In the game, players didn’t fear death.

But what if he wasn’t a player and couldn’t come back from the dead?

It seemed that when he was outside, he had to keep his Magic s.h.i.+eld half-activated at all times.

These thoughts spun in Roland’s mind, then he said, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to stand you up, but the First Princess was attacked last night, and we spent a lot of time trying to move her to a safe place. See… I rushed over here after it was over.”

In reality, last night, Roland had been playing a game of in and out hide-and-seek with Vivian. He had so much fun that he forgot about it and only remembered it when he was having breakfast in the morning.