Chapter 278 - The War Saintess and the Quirky Princess 2

Unlike with Lucia, Karen was asking Serilla with eyes full of l.u.s.t. Although Lucia was beautiful in her own right, but Karen could instinctively feel that this lady in front of her was a 'woman' in a different sense.

She felt the same vibe exude from Lucia earlier, but Serilla was exuding a more womanly air than her. As her breathing grew heavy and her gaze turning more and more l.u.s.tful, Fatima and Quinn each grabbed onto one of her ears and pulled her away from the confused girl who was at a loss at what to do.

It was only until Lucia whispered something into her ear that Serilla immediately understood what Karen was implying earlier.

Karen was a little despondent after being pulled away from Serilla, in all honesty, she wanted to devour the beautiful woman right in front of her, but with the butler's piercing glare and her friend's chilling gaze, Karen knew that if she were to act up, things would not end well.

After being stared at so l.u.s.tfully by a person, Serilla only chuckled and couldn't help but lament.

'If only darling looked at me like that~'

"Well, if these two friends are going to be traveling with us, I guess we should get going, yes?" Serilla stated gently.

Her words helped dispel the chilling and awkward atmosphere looming in the air. Quinn only cleared his throat before he began moving to the wagon's driver seat.

"Ah, Quinn, I have a task for you," Lucia said as she stopped the butler.

"Yes, Madam?"

"Well, since we're going to head back to the neutral territory from here, I need someone to continue ahead towards the capital and look for information about Cel's family."

Quinn immediately nodded his head in understanding. He was just about to agree, but immediately turned a menacing glare towards Karen before saying, "Will you be okay by yourself Madam?"

Lucia only smiled and turned to look at Serilla who was now conversing amiably with their 2 guests. "Don't worry, we can manage."

"Alright, Madam, I'll get it done swiftly and return to your side."

"I'll give you 3 days to look around the capital, if by then you still can't find any information about Cel's family, immediately come back to regroup with us."

"Yes, Madam," Quinn replied as he bowed down before disappearing from the wagon in the next instant.

His sudden disappearance startled Fatima and Karen, but Serilla had overheard Lucia and Quinn's exchange so she quickly reassured the two that everything was fine.

"So...you did have business in the capital other than enlisting your mercenary company," Fatima said as she looked a little bit regretful.

"Don't worry about that. Our butler will naturally take care of things." Serilla replied.

"Seri, I'll be manning the wagon, so please entertain our guests."

"Mhm."

Lucia sat down on the driver's seat and immediately steered Sleipnir back towards Ahnor. The plan was to only rest up for a day before they immediately set off for the neutral territory and regroup with the frontline army being led by the 1st and 2nd Prince.

"I heard that you're engaged to the 3rd Prince, Fatima, where is he? Is he not traveling with you?" Serilla asked as she began making conversation with Fatima and Karen.

"He's already waiting for us at the border. We'll meet up with him and together, we make our way to the main army."

"I see."

"Nevermind about us, let's talk more about you!" Karen interjected.

Serilla merely chuckled at Karen's pushy behavior. She gently smiled and asked, "Wait a moment, let me get some snacks and refreshments from our kitchen."

Once Serilla came back with a few plates of snacks and drinks that Lucia had created for the party, Fatima couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity from them.

'...Chocolate cookies, potato ch.i.p.s—wait isn't that pizza?! Also, isn't this soda?!'

Fatima felt a little overwhelmed when she saw all those familiar foods and drinks from her world. When she picked up a few ch.i.p.s and bit down on a slice of pizza and took a sip of the soda Serilla poured out for her, Fatima nearly burst out into tears at all the nostalgic tastes.

The one thing the earthlings in her kingdom regretted was that they hadn't found a way to replicate the foods of their past world because of the limitation in their understanding of their current world's plants and animals.

Everything in the kingdom was moving along a good track, but only the food and beverage area was still in a deadlock.

Monster meat and the native plants and vegetables were good and all, but it was slowly growing bland as time passed by. Being in an isolated area, the kingdom didn't have much access to the widespread of ingredients outside of their lands.

Things only made a turn for the better after the kingdom was formally acknowledged as a power of the continent, but trade relations were still only ongoing with the Regulus Kingdom so the items they could get were still limited.

Seeing Fatima, a grown woman with a clear cold disposition, suddenly tear up after ingesting the snacks Serilla had prepared, she couldn't help but grow worried and astonished.

"I'm sure Lulu had just made these yesterday... could they be spoilt already?!"

"D-don't mind me Serilla," Fatima said as she cleared away the tears welling up in her eyes. "It's just, this food is a little nostalgic so I couldn't help but tear up, ahahaha~"

"O-oh..."

Karen who was on the side was stuffing her face, but elegantly befitting that of a Princess. However, even she was shocked when she saw her friend suddenly tear up out of nowhere.

After gulping down the snacks in her mouth, she immediately asked worriedly, "A-Are you sure you're okay, Ima?"

"Don't worry I'm fine. Like I said, the taste was just so nostalgic that I was reminded of things," Fatima replied as she smiled brightly before she began putting more of the snacks into her mouth.

Serilla smiled when she saw her guests enjoying the hospitality, but Karen was shocked to the core when she saw the bright and wide smile Fatima had let out earlier. Karen was sure that even her brother has never seen this fiancée of his smile so brightly.

Karen was about to say something, but seeing that her friend was slowly clearing away the table of snacks, she threw her thoughts to the back of her head and exclaimed, "Hey, no fair!"

"Don't worry, there's still more," Serilla laughingly replied.

"Anyway Serilla, can we get back to what I was asking you earlier? Tell us about yourself, about your party!" Karen urged. She didn't have any ulterior motives when she asked this. She was just purely curious about this beautiful woman that she had set her eyes on.

"About our party? Hmmm...well, all I can say is that our party is not much of a party. It's more like a family~"

"Family? Tell me more!"

Seeing her pure curiosity, Serilla didn't mind divulging some things about their family.

"Well, first of all, you should know that in our party, I'm the second wife, while Lucia is the first wife."

"Eh?"

"What?"

Serilla raised her hand and showed off her wedding ring as she bashfully said, "Lucia and I are sisters tied together by our marriage to our husband."

"NOOOOOOOO!!!" Karen wailed aloud in frustration.

"K-Karen?!"

"?"

"What's wrong?!" Lucia shouted from the front.

Serilla didn't expect Karen to suddenly burst out like that. She suddenly saw the girl tear up and Fatima was holding her head in exasperation as she hugged her in consolation.

"I-I...I thought that...that you were unmarried..."

"Oh? What made you think that?"

"W-Well..."

"Ufufufu~ our husband is just that great, actually I was the third wheel in my sister's relationship one time, but our husband was able to acknowledge me before we eventually got married."

Fatima was still a little unused to the ethics of this world despite having spent almost 6 years in it. Seeing that Lucia and Serilla had no disputes amongst each other, she couldn't help but inquire.

"Is your married life going good for you both? I mean, you two sisters don't get into fights over your husband and stuff?"

"Hm? Oh no~ Lulu and I already have an understanding. We've been friends for a while so our relationship between us has been good. We do argue sometimes, but it's never related to our husband."

"I see...can you tell me a little about your husband? He seems to be quite the capable man since he's able to tie down 2 women of your ability."

Karen, who was exasperated since she heard that Serilla was already a married woman, wouldn't stand for it. She didn't want to hear about the person who had 'stolen' away the two beauties she had just met. "Who cares about that Casanova! Grr...I still can't accept that he's stolen away two beauties from me!"

"Karen, these two were never yours to begin with..."

"I don't care!"

Serilla only laughed at the two girls' banter. This wasn't the first time that Cecil had acquired a love rival, but it was the first time that he acquired a love rival that was of the same s.e.x as his wives, so it was amusing in Serilla's eyes.

The group, alongside their knight escort, quickly made their way towards the border. They had rested up at Ahnor for only a day before departing early the next morning.

It took them a little over a week to arrive back at the neutral territory border.