Chapter 316
"You're the only person in the world who works a princess to the bone like this, Master."
"If you think about it, every emperor has worked you to the bone as well. They did, and they still are, aren't they?"
"...Alice doesn’t."
"Oh?"
It was the dead of night.
Winter hadn’t fully ended, and the air was still chilly, but we hadn't lit any lamps.
Even a small light source could be seen from a great distance at night. The military rations from my old world were designed to be prepared without fire precisely to prevent starving soldiers from revealing their position and getting their entire unit wiped out.
At least it wasn’t full winter anymore. And this region was relatively southern, so it wasn’t freezing to the point of death.
Just enough to be annoying.
And, of course, I was the one dragged into the Sword Saint’s plan of hunting down suspected enemies before they could act.
Claire and Leo had wanted to help, but they were still members of other noble houses.
If they had °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° officially joined the Grace Family’s knights, they might have been able to assist us naturally, but they were still inexperienced children with much to learn.