Chapter 37 - 037 : Gathering of three camp

"Arthur, i just want to ask, what happened to Subaru after you send him away?"

"Ofcourse i unfrozen him in other side, i teleport him to the residence so Rem will treat him if need"

Replied Arthur nonchalantly

"Why you need to froze him? I think just send him away is enough?"

"It's fine if he just said the first part, but when he said the last part, i need to give him a harsh treatment in front of everyone, it's to save him and also to not make anymore trouble for you"

"The last part... the knight?"

"Yeah, he said knight is nothing to him. And he said it exactly in front of the royal guard, who train from the time when they're child, they train in swordsmanship, horsemanship, etiquette, war strategy, etc. They spilled their blood to become their knight, they shed their tears when they lost their comrades in battlefield, and many other thing we didn't know" Arthur pauses for a moment before he continued "But when they do all of that and success became a knight, a brat who didn't know a thing about it said they're nothing to him, what they will feel? Do you need they will just let it slide? Do you think it will not hinder your career from this election?"

Emilia silent for a moment before she replied

"You're right, he will receive more harsh punishment for his actions if he still here, he is not bad child but his temper is have some problems"

"Oohh, that's very rude comment if it's coming out of your mouth " replied Arthur with wide eyes staring to Emilia

"What do you mean?! Are you said my temper is have problem too?!"

"No, you're the most benevolent one"

"Hmph! Also you promise me to said what you dkne out there without i know it"

"Hmm... I'm just do a miscellaneous job like trade business with Anastasia to scure fund for your campaign, discuss with Roswaal to give you a barren land near the Elior forest that now under your name, make a fondation for creating a great city there... i thought there is nothing i do outside other than this odd job."

Emilia buried her head in her ċhėst, she clenches her small hand on her thɨġh

"I'm sorry... I'm very incompetent... i let you do a lot of thing outside.. for me.. and i didn't even know it... I'm sorry"

"What are you talking about? You said it yourself, it's better to get a grateful word rather than an apologize, right? You must said you're very thankful to me, and even if you didn't know it, it's feel better when you said because you believe in me you didn't inquire about what I was doing outside, here, give me your best smile?"

Arthur lift up her face with his hand on her cheek and another hand is ċȧrėssing her head, when Emilia heard it, she is fell very happy inside and she give him a very beautiful and bright smile.

When the two of them play around there is another people who are coming to their way.

"Really you two is very close, aren't you?"

Anastasia coming with Julius and there is also another person there.

"I was told by Felix you want to met with me, but if you have already make an appointment with Anastasia then we can arrange it another time"

Crusch who come with Felix without any dissatisfaction at her voice, Arthur and Emilia stand up from their seat and greet the other four.

Arthur over his hand for handshake with Crusch

"It's my first time seeing the lioness of Lugunica, the war goddess, Crusch Karsten in a very close range"

"I feel very honor if someone who is on par with the current sword saint and said as the strongest in his lineage, is have that high opinion about me" a honest smile is appear on Crusch face "you're very famous now"

"Really...?" Arthur ask with surprise

"You're known as a 'white wraith' because how ypur movements speed is nearly can be said as teleport, or it was a teleport itself" the one who replied is not Crusch but Anastasia

"Ferri-chan also heard they're calling you white tiger, you're very docile to Emilia-sama but you're very brutal to her enemies, mew"

"Saying docile to a man is a bit inappropriate you know Ferri-chan..." Arthur shrug his shoulders

"Ehhh.. it's first time i see someone who want to adhere to Felix demand to call him ferri" this is really first time for Crusch to heard it, and she can't see anything like disgust or contempt from the way he speech and the way he presented himself.

"Arthur is good person, Crusch-sama. He even promise to give Ferri-chan a good design for dress!" Felix comment enthusiastically from the side

"I'm very thankful for your kindness to Felix"

"It's like what you said, his soul shine the brightest if he in this type of clothes so i just want to see it myself, alright we need to start the tslk about alliance but, we can't do it here, right?"

"Then how about we talk in my house?"

"Crusch house? It's rare opportunity so i agree, you and Emilia didn't have any objections right?"

"Why you are the one who fired up all off sudden, Anastasia?"

"For merchant maximizing every opportunity is a must" and with the proud declaration of Anastasia, the three candidates for the throne is changing place to the Karsten Household.

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The tea party is held in the garden of the Karsten household, the one who participate is Anastasia, Crusch, Emilia and Arthur. Julius and Felix can't participate because they have a work as a knight.

"Then, what we will discuss here? Honestly i was prefer we have a sake rather than tea" Anastasia feel slightly annoyed because Arthur decide to not use any alcohol in this gathering.

"Sake? May i know..What's that?" For Emilia this is her first time hear this name so she can't hold her curiosity and ask timidly to Anastasia

"You never heard it before? Seriously how long you're living alone? is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran, also can you not act like that? I don't want people think i bullied you or something" Anastasia didn't have a strong hatred to her like before and after have more conversations with Emilia she come to conclusions this girl is a bit of naive and airhead "really , if you're in Kararagi, you will become an easy target for scammers"

"All of the people in Kararagi is bad people?!"

"....just forget it.." Anastasia replied and rubbed her own forehead "the most important thing is, in case you have opportunity to visit Kararagi, you can't go anywhere alone without Arthur, i worried you will get scammed and force to become slave"

"Tha- Thank you for worrying me"

Replied Emilia with a smile blooming on her face

"Don't misunderstanding, i just worried Arthur will destroy a lot of thing in Kararagi, and there will be a loss for me because i have a lot of properties under my name there" Anastasia replied in hurried way and avert her face from Emilia.

"Well, i also wish we can share drink here, but doing it with tea cups is a bit weird" it seems Crusch is also have a same opinion with Anastasia

"I will not permit Emilia drink any liquor" Arthur replied and sip his tea slowly "it's also a good tea, and it's not good idea to talk something important with sake in your hand"

"Arthur, why i can't drink it?"

"Liquor is something made by fermenting something like grape, rice, etc. It can make your body warm if you just drink it a little but it can make you intoxicated , cloud your judgment, and sometimes for certain people it can make them very depend on this and it can also make your temper always unstable, so i will not permit you to drink any type of liquor" Arthur explains slowly so Emilia can understand the pros and cons of this

"Then i will listen to you, i promise you i will not drink something like that" Emilia nod and promise him

"It's really not like how lord and vassal do things... you're like her father or something " Anastasia make a joke about his overprotective attitude "and you, why you always hear what he said?"

"Because i believe in Arthur, and Arthur always think what is the best for me" Emilia smile brightly and answer with full of confidence, and Arthur just smile and put his hand on her head.

"Really very envious..." Anastasia feel like no matter what she said about how overprotective Arthur is, Emilia will believe it was how Arthur think the best outcome for her.

"Well, our relationship is not tense like how we first met so i would like to start the talk about our alliance to improve the economy and education for this kingdom" Arthur put down his cup and staring straight to Anastasia and Crusch, he narate how he made an agreement with Anastasia especially to Emilia and Crusch who didn't know the agreement between them.

"So you said with your agreement with Anastasia, you can make our economy have an improvement?" Crusch who heard about the agreement is asking what she is concerned about.

"Yes, with a lot of new commodity, we also need to make a necessity production line, and with that there will be many job opportunities for people who need it, ofcourse what i concern the most from my agreement with Anastasia is how much i can get money from it, because i need a lot of money for another project i started already"

Arthur replied with confidence and it's make Crusch silent and thinking about pros and cons.

"You're really spoiled her you know, Arthur? If you do everything, she will not have any experience about it" honestly Anastasia just slightly feel jealous so she just want to said it without deeper meaning

"Me, as a vassal of Emilia is the one who will do something Emilia can't do, and i will thinking and doing thing for her benefits, if the vassal is very dependable then the lord just need to believe in him and depend on him, like what Emilia doing now"

"Yes i believe in you, you will never do something that will harm me in any way, and i know, even if you put me in some dangerous situation that's for my own benefit and you will be there if something wrong. I believe in you so much, so i will not worry about anything you're going to do even if i didn't know about it"

"So you heard it" Arthur smile with confidence "i will do anything i can to help her, and Emilia will do anything i can't, so let's start our main topic now"