Chapter 84 (1/2)

The Queen’s Marriage

“So you’re Maal’s groom!”

“Y-yes!”

Due to being glared at by Ria’s Dragon Eyes, the cat beastkin solidified completely.

It was a beastkin with gray tiger stripes origination from his neck. It appeared he was a year older than Maal.

And his name was Niko.

They were at Maal’s new house.

Even if it was called a new house, since it was previously used by a family that was moved to another village, it was just a deserted house.

It was completely cleaned out and had the minimum required furnis.h.i.+ngs. Maal seemed to have prepared it all with money she’d received from Ria.

“Hmph, if you’re a man, you should have built a new house yourself.”

Ria was saying mean stuff, but she knew that herself.

At any rate, her hug pillow that she loved more than a little sister was being taken away by some other man.

“Well whatever, let’s hear how you two fell in love.”

She sat down on a chair with a thump. Since it was for a beastkin to use, it was a bit small.

Though she’d said she wanted to know how they fell in love, they were childhood friends to start with.

The boy was still young when Maal had encountered the slave hunters and wasn’t able to do anything.

However, he gained experience in that following year during his travels out to find Maal’s whereabouts.

There were various things that happened during his journeys, but they’ll be left out.

Hearing Ria’s most repeated propaganda of releasing beastkin during the war against Cordova, he joined in. It looked as though he’d earned himself a few achievements in attacking their supply lines.

During all that, he appeared to have found Maal after searching for so long.

When he returned to the village after the war with Maal, he learned that she came back after being released from slavery.

Worried that something else might happen, he immediately proposed to her.

Getting her consent, they held a wedding and now there they were.

Ria really wanted to see Maal in her bridal outfit, but beastkin didn’t particularly wear bridal outfits; they would simply dress up a bit and hold a party, announcing to everyone that they’d gotten married.

Even when she’d asked Irina—who had partic.i.p.ated in it—about what happened, she only really remembered that the food was luxurious.

“I see. Got it.”

Ria’s Dragon Eyes vanished, finally releasing Niko.

“It’s unfortunate that I wasn’t able to make it, but there’s no fixing that now. However, please come to mine.”

“Eeh!? Ria-chan’s getting married!?”

Maal was surprised, but that much was natural as she hadn’t been filled in on the details yeah.

“Yeah, Carla and s.h.i.+zuna are already my wives, and Fio talked to her parents.”

“Huh?”

Niko’s reaction was natural, too.

Ria gave them a brief explanation. About ryuujin. About how they were both genders. And that two of them were already pregnant.

“Heeh, congratulations.”

“So there’s a race like that…”

The couple had that sort of reaction.

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Once she had them promise to come to hers, Ria and the rest returned to Manesh.

It’d turn into another doc.u.ment h.e.l.l, but they had to prepare for another reception.

It was simple for Ria since she’d be wearing men’s clothing, but Carla and s.h.i.+zuna each had to prepare dresses. In particular, Carla had to pick a dress that didn’t constrict her abdomen, so she decided to pick a style that had lace for decoration.

“You two are pretty~”

It was a place where not many humans would be allowed to enter, but since Irina wasn’t a human anyways, she basically had a free pa.s.s to anywhere she wanted to go.

Moving about here and there in the huge castle with her clinking orichalc.u.m armor, she’d come upon the two trying on clothes.

“D-does it suit me?”

s.h.i.+zuna didn’t feel like she was enough. Even if she could be called a beauty, Carla was overwhelmingly beautiful. Even so, she asked since she knew that Irina wouldn’t lie.

“Un, super pretty~”

Since Irina said that, s.h.i.+zuna was a bit happy.

The time from the announcement to the date of was just a single month.

The fact that Carla and s.h.i.+zuna were already pregnant was taken into account for the date, so all of the n.o.bles had to do some major restructuring of their schedules to make the event.

Thanks to that, it was even more difficult for Guinevere who was responsible for coordinating it, but her duties matched her hobbies, so she willingly performed her work.

There was only a single other person with an even harder job.

That person was none of than Ria.

Were ryuujin hermaphrodites or as.e.xual? At any rate, since they’d made it public that she could have children even with another woman, there were many, many female candidates sent over.

The first thing done to the army of women wearing beautiful dresses, armed with fas.h.i.+onable hairstyles, and wearing just the right amount of makeup was… they were handed wooden swords.

“And so, please swing the swords one thousand times. If you are unable, Her Majesty is not interested.”

With Fio, a knight, saying that, the majority of the young women dispersed in low spirits.

Even so, there were uncharacteristically muscular, brave woman among them who were among the knight orders, but once they were interviewed by Carla, most of them also fled in dejection.

How were they supposed to compete against such a beauty?

But even among those, some made their way past the walls of muscle and beauty.

“To start with, why do you want to be my wife?”

At this point, it was practically the same thing as a presidential interview. Some of the people interviewed had the disposition of only loving women in the first place and were introduced to others that were the same as them… even though it wasn’t a matchmaking place.

“Ria, wouldn’t it be better to just make an inner palace already?” [1]

Guinevere made the proposal with a laugh, but Ria wasn’t fine with just any girl.

s.h.i.+zuna was amazing cute when teased despite being strong-willed and she’d felt destined to be with Carla from the get-go. Fo fio, she wanted to answer her pure feelings with goodwill.

“Let’s finish with the Millennium first. If we make it through that, maybe we’ll do a harem or something.”

Ria muttered. The most important thing was the battle where the destiny of mankind was on the line, she didn’t have the time to have more wives.

“The first in line for the throne is Guinevere’s son, so even if they give me more wives, wouldn’t it just be for me? No matter how you look at it, how many women would be happy being married to a woman?”

Guinevere’s son, s.h.i.+nji, was already announced as being Ria’s adopted son. She’d already said countless times that he’d eventually be inheriting the throne with Guinevere acting as the regent.

But even so, there were many n.o.bles sending their daughters to be Ria’s wife.

“Well, rather than being married to some strange man, they want to be married to a woman who is beautiful, dignified, and moreover can have children with them. Isn’t that natural for a woman to want?”

When she’d asked Guinevere because she was in the same room handling government affairs, that was the response she received.