1068 And I'm satisfied.

"Valentine's Day...?"

Roderick, the Knight Commander who returned his words as if they had been poked by falsehood, put his strength on his shoulders.

Pride and Leon visited the Knights' Exercise Hall before it was time to finish the tea party with Val and change the Knights of the Guards.Roderick and Deputy Commander Clark, who rushed to the pride of a sudden carriage visit, and Arthur and Eric, who were about to head for the King's Residence, were also able to join them.

"This year's Valentine's Day... I kind of missed it.I would appreciate it if you would accept it now. "

First, give Roderick and Clark one by one.

They have been sending chocolate to Pride since the Knights ambush.Thank you, and I handed Eric and Arthur one by one, following on from the two people I received deeply.

I didn't think they'd give me Valentine's Chocolate today, but they were tough before they took it.It is a surprise from pride, but more than that, the surrounding gaze is hot and painful.

Normally, at the end of his tenure as a Kintetsu Knight, he was handed back home.Roderick and Clark are almost always delivered by Servitor or Kintetsu Knight.However, this time, both as an apology and revenge for Valentine's delay, Pride wanted to give it directly to the person he could give it to.

As a result, Arthur and Eric put each box close to their pockets to protect them from hidden chocolate.If Pride leaves or keeps switching, I think we need to leave him in his room before that happens.

"This treat was made by me and Tiara.Please keep it a secret from your mother. "

"Giggle! I'll leave it in my room right now!!"

"I'm sorry, I'll be right back before the shift..."

Excuse me! "said Arthur and Eric, whose spine grew stiff this time in response to relentless pride bomb remarks.

There are still a lot of knights in the exercise, but they have been witnessed by several people.

Fortunately, most of the witnesses are recruits now.After the knights gathered, they decided to retreat quickly, convinced that it was dangerous to escape and defend their goods.If any more knights find out, the safety of Honmaru will be tough.

Roderick exhaled a long and deep sigh at the two men who were in a hurry and followed them with a gaze to target them.Next door, Clark snorts his throat and laughs.

The next day in Valentine's Day, though, I think their early withdrawal was right.Soon it will be time to move on to the next exercise.That way, more than twice as many Knights of the battalion will be gathered.

While Pride blinked to Arthur and Eric, who suddenly disappeared, the number of knights who heard the noise grew steadily.

"By the way, I also brought it to Lieutenant Harrison... are you in the exercise today?"

"Oh! Please wait a moment"

Clark looks in one direction and then claps his hands at the pride of giving it to them while they're going back and forth.

Unlike Arthur and his colleagues who left the exercise for the Melee mission, Harrison is overseeing the 8th Company exercise.

Even if you tap your hand in a light tone while just looking back in the direction of the training hall where the 8th Company is located, it won't sound that loud.But at the same time, Clark himself said, "Give Harrison a message!Master Pride wants you!"and soon afterwards,

Did you really hear Clark's voice, or did you get a message from the recruits who heard Clark's life?Harrison rushes through the exercise hall with fast feet before Arthur and the others return home.

As soon as the wind blows, Harrison stands upright next to Clark with his high speed feet, naturally stirring up the crowd.

Thank you for waiting.The words were faint to Harrison, and Pride turned his chin a little bit, but he quickly regained it.I gave him the last package again, pretending to be calm and making a smile.

Unlike Eric and the others, this is the first time this year I've given Valentine's Chocolate to him, who has recently become the Knight of the Guards.

"Lieutenant Harrison, this is late, but it's Valentine's Chocolate from me and Tiara.Enjoy it when you're free. "

Next, explain that it was a revenge that could not be given at the time it should have been given, and that it was handmade.

Harrison looked at Pride's story and took a package with both hands, but he remained silent.When you're done, just say "Thank you", but tilt your neck over and over again to see strange things.

I wondered if Harrison was too weak for sweets and pride, and I began to sweat afterwards.Instead of trying to see the contents of the package beyond your gaze, just keep your head down.

Clark finally raised his hand to the supplement laughing, "I'm sorry," to the pride of struggling with the few words of Harrison.When Pride nodded to Clark for permission to speak, Harrison only grew again with his mouth shut.Clark puts his hand on Harrison's shoulder and asks him with a calm voice.

"Harrison, do you know Valentine?"

"I don't know."

"It's a tradition to give chocolate to a close man from a woman on February 14th.... do you know chocolate? "

"I don't know."

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Not just pride, but the columns behind it and Alan.And the knights around them were astonished, and there were voices and voices.

If you don't know Valentine's Day, you're still convinced.I don't think Harrison is interested in every ceremony or festival.But everyone knows about chocolate.

It is only the same taste as liquor, but at the same time it is a confectionery that has been known to the market as liquor.

Some knights seriously doubted whether there were people they didn't know, even though they had never spoken to.Lined up with Roderick who exhaled for a long time, Clark just kept laughing.For him, who was Harrison's educator, that reminded him that he had never eaten chocolate before.

"Simply put, it's one of the sweet and bitter sweets, it's delicious.I'm sorry, Pride, but it's rare for a Knights meal.... "

Mimicking Clark, who lowered his head with a smile, Harrison lowered his head even deeper without expressing himself.

But Pride is still in shock.All I can hear is a dull voice.She didn't think there were people who didn't know that chocolate existed.I even have a strange sense of responsibility as to whether the chocolate confectionery I eat for the first time in my life is a cake made by amateurs themselves.

I'm not even interested in Harrison's ceremony, but I don't even hear of Valentine's Day.Once a year, I knew that Alan and Arthur were being chased around by the Knights, but when I talked about Valentine and Chocolate with the Knights, I wasn't interested in Harrison at all.And for him, who grew up in the lower classes, his preferences were unrelated.The food itself is not familiar to Harrison, who basically doesn't even try to eat from himself unless he attends a Knights meal.

"Well, if it doesn't suit your mouth, you don't have to..."

"No, thank you."

Harrison turned down the pride of humility.

I have no idea what chocolate is, but it is sweet and bitter.And Clark said it was "delicious", and I was confident that if it was handmade by a pride other than others, I could eat it even if it was solidified with mud.

Clark also thinks Harrison, who doesn't care about food but doesn't like it or dislike it, will eat it delicious without a problem.

It was good... while returning it, my familiar voice jumped in to the pride that naturally suppressed my chest with both hands.

Arthur and the others. Arthur and Eric, who had just left chocolate in front of the Knights Hall, had already gathered so many knights that they couldn't see Pride at first glance.

"Excuse me," said Arthur and Eric, lined up in the front row, finally breathing and lowering their heads to pride.I said thank you again for the chocolate.

"Ah, thank you very much...Wow, I'm so glad. I'll let you taste it properly later. "

"Thank you for your concern every year. It's a real honor."

Is it because you've been running with all your might, or because you've caught the attention of the knights, or because you've confronted the fact that it's handmade sweets?The two of them couldn't get out of their faces even when they were ready to breathe, but the thanks only stretched out tightly.

Thank goodness, and Pride stroked his chest down to thank them, and then smiled back.As soon as I heard that it was made by Tiara like sugar confectionery, they hurried to store it carefully. I think they will eat it carefully even when they eat it.

"... Captain. Eric Gilchrist. Where have you been without Her Highness the First Princess?"

Arthur and Eric get shoulders up and down at the same time as the voice comes into the conversation between the three without any preconceptions.

The two realized at the same time whether he was also in the Lord of the pale voice.Turning his gaze towards the voice, there was a person standing there who was not there before he left.Arthur and Eric took a half-step together as they glanced at him with their hands at the package he would have received from Pride.

When Arthur squeezed out his voice and said, "I... left the candy I got...", Harrison was convinced after comparing his package with Arthur and Pride.

If this was just to keep them waiting late, I wondered if they should be slashed, but if they were coming back from the Kintetsu mission to leave what they had received from Pride, there was no choice.

Arthur and Eric exhaled relieved when they returned the word.At some point, my right hand grew ready to hold the sword.

"I heard the Knights rarely serve chocolate... so maybe Arthur and Lieutenant Eric don't eat much either?"

Nature and pride call into question Harrison's least developed topic.

Harrison, who was unaware of Chocolate's existence, is a rare case, but I wonder if the two people who live in the same Knights Hall will have the same chance to eat it.Chocolate was one of the synonyms for easy confectionery in the previous life, but there are different circumstances in this world.

Eric and Arthur, who spent a moment wondering why Pride's words had become such a topic, immediately heeded the thought of responding.

"I prefer to eat sometimes.But the sweets from Pride and the others... are special, so I will cherish them. "

As he scratched his cheeks with his fingertips, Eric smiled, still worried about the knights' eyes and closing the word "handmade".

Originally a commoner, Eric liked sweets in general, as did his younger brothers.Having experienced all the events of the year in a personal way, he certainly had experience of knowing and enjoying Valentine.It's an event that I no longer care about since I became a Knight in the Corps, but once a year, I look forward to receiving it from Pride.While not hurting, but eating sparingly over time was also a temporal healing after Valentine's Day.

I was grateful for the best Valentine's Day ever, such as when I first got it from Pride.Moreover, if it is handmade this time, it will really be a waste to eat.On the contrary, I think it will take time to open the packaging.

At least I'm going to fold that package carefully.

"Me!... since I can get it from Pride, I don't usually eat chocolate, but it's supposed to be from Pride and the others... it's delicious!"

Arthur didn't buy it himself, but Eric gave me chocolate as well.

But in his subjectivity, everything is righteous.I also had a relationship with my mother's small restaurant, and I often received it from customers, neighborhood friends, and parents.But I don't think any chocolate can be changed into something I got from Pride.

I've never forgiven a knight senpai for giving me a sip every year.Arthur will probably take care of the chores and requests immediately, but it is only firm.Either run away in the exercise of your abilities or refuse to do something stubbornly "absolutely no good".

Arthur had received chocolate from Pride before joining the Knights, but he hesitated to eat it every time to think about when to eat it.

Sometimes I wondered whether I should eat it on that day, and whether I would reward myself if I had any kind of training or a good relationship with my father.Once, on Tiara's proposal, Stale was taken directly from Pride to her mouth, and she really died.Because I wiped the chocolate around my mouth with pride.

Moreover, unlike ordinary eating spills, the pride finger traced his mouth over the fine handkerchief many times because it could not be easily removed.I still think of it now and my head is about to boil.

"Thank you. I wish you were happy."

The pride of laughing behind my mouth naturally warmed my chest when it seemed that they liked to receive chocolate every year.

Especially this time amateur handmade confectionery.I'm sorry to make people who don't like chocolate hate it.If I can, I would like the person who gave it to eat it deliciously.This time, it is extra because the revenge is also handmade.

Angel Tiara, who preached the inverse cheat curse of the cooking you helped me cook last night, Lotte and Marie, the servants and cooks who secretly prepared the ingredients and the kitchen.

"I've asked Captain Alan to taste it many times.I'm sure men also like the flavour. "

... the knights' time stopped for a few seconds with a smiling smile on their chest.

Only Alan, who stops behind, scratches his head and laughs.The columns next to him also stuck a glimpse of "I didn't hear you" in the boulder.This is the moment that has attracted more attention than pride.

Both Eric and Arthur cannot heal with their jaws off.Why would Captain Alan be so suspicious, but I certainly didn't see Alan anywhere on the field last night, and I don't think he invited me for a drink.He is usually training somewhere in the drill hall or drinking with knights.

Alan, and Roderick looked a little surprised, and Pride returned with a bright voice.

"Captain Alan has been telling me that he will actively cooperate in cooking... so we secretly asked him to help us last night.Until I got to a satisfactory taste, I went out with the taste many times. "

No one but Clark can laugh now for the pride of laughing like a blooming flower.

The pride of making chocolate confectionery this time was decided with Tiara, but I also wanted a tasting role because I definitely wanted to make it suitable for revenge.Unlike previous lifestyle creative cuisine, it is a chocolate brownie that cannot be deceived by adrib.Furthermore, it was Alan who came up with Pride and Tiara who wanted to ask the same man as the one who gave them the taste.

It was naturally a pleasure to interview Arthur's captain and deputy captain who thought that he would come forward to help me whenever the subject of cooking came up from one of the promotion celebrations.

It was a pride of the knight to say that eating a lot of sweets in the middle of the night was close to torture on a diet, but from Alan it was the difference between drinking alcohol or eating confectionery.Besides, if you can eat handmade pride many times, there is no reason not to jump.

As a result, a stunning distribution of brownies was completed that was also favorable for men's tongues.

Pride, who looks up at Alan as he keeps saying thank you, doesn't realize that he dropped more than handmade confectionery.

"Oh, that was really helpful. If you have any more opportunities, I will help you as a watcher and a taster!!"

"Really? Thank you very much."

Remembering the feeling of your body burning in the hot gaze of the knights, Alan still dignified.

Enjoying the pleasant smile from Pride from the front, my hands were finally placed heavily on my shoulders. It is a column.

I wonder if they should be surprised or preached whether they truly boarded the royal palace as pride tasters without even knowing it."Alan... you are a man," he said slightly lower, and Alan feels danger from the surroundings.

While returning the cold sweat to Pride, he gently distanced himself from the knights behind his feet.

"Ah... well, it's time for a change of pace, so I'm going to the next exercise!Eric Arthur, please don't do this later. "

Hold back your flipping voice, scratch your neck back, and say, "Excuse me!"Alan, who thanked Pride and Roderick, ran away in a glance.

The column shouted, but it was also crushed by the voices of other knights.Wait, Cora, Alan, you always stop, and the knights that followed you, screaming at this runaway bastard, chase him with a group.Only the front row of knights who could not easily run away from the front of the First Princess, including Arthur, were left behind.

The columns don't have the energy to run with their heads on too many things.Because it's about Alan, I'm already convinced that I'm going to run away somehow.

The anger from the knights simply means running away and envying, but more than that, it means "give me chocolate."If you enjoyed Pride's chocolate so many times last night, I will chase Alan with the will to share it with you.As Harrison twisted his neck and Clark chuckled and laughed, Arthur and Eric couldn't move their jaws.

Roderick thought quietly that while there were a lot of knights in the team, if there were knights who could catch up with Alan's feet with their special abilities, they could still fight.He exhaled a deep sigh to the extent that it would not be a duel, and turned to a pride that no one was aware of.

"Dear Pride... I am afraid that in the future, please keep it confidential except for yourself when you are entrusting me with the role of taster."

She said that she would be spared the bloodshed over the role of the First Princess.Pride nodded honestly to Roderick.

Trying to be careful not to be found out except by Alan next year, while thinking about further reflection.

……

"Ah, Mr. Jack, may I help you?"

At the end of Pride's studies returning from the Knights' Exercise Stadium, a nearby escort was summoned in the hallway to sit in a temporary break from her side, protected by the Knights of the Kimikaze.

As a junior guard, he is a pride jack in the castle, but of course he has time to rest.Having handed over to the other guards, Jack, who was heading to the guards' wing, looked back on his body with a familiar thin voice.

Lotte, who had just returned from the waiting room with tea for pride, walked in glancing at the people in the hallway.She has the same main use as Jack as a maid of honor, but there is no time for them to put aside their pride and use their dialect as servants.Unlike Marie, the same maid, Jack has a completely different job.

Standing in front of Jack early enough not to cool the tea, she notices how quickly he can hear her whispering.

"This morning, about the sweets from Pride and Tiara-sama....."

Unexpectedly, Jack shook his shoulders to Lotte, who spoke with his eyes down without looking up at him.

Before I became a guard. More than anyone in the Knights of Kintetsu... Pride and Tiara have been giving him candy as one of the men close to him for decades.Now Jack thinks of them as his family, but even if they were admired by the people and received from two strange-aged women, he never thought of anything at all.Every year, the maid Marie, Lotte and his fellow guards allow Jack to smile, but the silent man doesn't just say it, but on the other hand, the pleasure is slight.

Me too, okay?

My chest jumped to an unexpected word that I was asked quickly.

Jack chewed in his mouth on top of Lotte, who thought he had finally raised his eyes.She looked back at her with her spine stretched as if she were holding a spear on her back.

"To be honest, Tiara-sama gave me a little permission last night to use the pantry and the kitchen..."

Last night, Lotte, one of the faces who worked with Pride and the others to make Valentine's Chocolate, secretly got permission from Tiara to "use it if you want" when they finished everything and went back to the room.

If it's a simple cooking area, it's in the building where the maids live.However, the fully equipped kitchen was a luxurious place for the maids.

"I was able to make it with very good ingredients this year."

Like Pride, she was one of those who missed Valentine's this year before and after the recapture.

After her masters went into bed, she stayed up a little bit longer than usual.I couldn't let Marie, the same maid, help me with all this.

"I haven't tasted anything but this, but I'm sure it suits Jack's mouth."

The sweetness stays the same and the alcohol is a mild chocolate cheesecake.Lotte keeps talking so fast, Jack gradually gets faster to the pulse.

It's a handmade treat because it's Lotte who already knows Jack's preferences better than anyone.Jack makes his chest hot by adding more facts to what he gets.

Lotte laughs as she nods instead of opening her mouth and continues to give back her gavel.

"I think it's delicious. But I'm not here right now."

Cut the words and look around the hallway.

There are guards and maids in the hallway where the royal residence and the princess's room are located.It is unacceptable to keep your voice down for a long time.Originally, it would have been nice to sneak over when there was a gap, but the maid's job is not so elegant that she can carry the sweets safely.Now, all I could do was tell you if there were any confectionery.

Lotte, with her toes up and her heels up, whispered at the end with her hands in his ears at the earliest mouth.

"Tonight, just have tea and wait."

Hmm. Jack nodded deepest today, with his mouth tightly shut and only one sound could be returned.

Lotte smiled and turned her back on Jack as if nothing had happened to him.Make sure the tea is not cold by preheating and disappear into the pride room without a wink.

Jack also knows that for Lotte, the maid in charge of the service, he likes tea that can be brewed for himself best.

Two sugars in a matching cup.