Solo Swordmaster

Chapter 375

#375. That’s really cool.

It’s definitely a smile on her face.

The voice is cold and sharp like an ice thorn, cutting into the heart and making it frost.

“Isn’t it funny?”

in such a frozen space.

Li Qingyu raised the teacup.

And while tasting the fragrant black tea Rose had made, he quietly continued.

“The noblest knight has become a traitor who abandoned his friendship and even sold his country.”

“….”

“Well, that must be love.”

To reform even villains and to destroy even lofty heroes.

That’s why love is great.

After saying it as if I was admiring it.

Li Qingyu chuckled.

“Now then, shall we go back to the story?”

“…What are you talking about?”

“The story of a knight who betrayed his friend and kidnapped the princess.”

The novel isn’t over yet.

Li Qingyu said with a chuckle, then put down the teacup and continued talking.

“The news that the knight kidnapped the princess reached the battlefield.”

“The rivals who started a war to steal the princess and suddenly became like dogs chasing chickens were outraged.”

“To the extent of chasing a knight who escaped to a distant island country.”

Like reading a fairy tale to a child.

Or like introducing a book to a friend.

With a smile on his face, with no malicious intent whatsoever.

“The knight fought as best he could, but in the end he was captured and put to a terrible death.”

“But then an unexpected person appeared and saved the knight.”

“The prince betrayed by the knight.”

“A knight blinded by love may have betrayed the prince, but the prince still considered the knight a friend.”

Friendship is just as great a feeling as love.

muttering admiration.

Li Qingyu continued.

“It was only then that the knight realized how big of a mistake he had been in betraying the prince and regretted it.”

“So, to free the princess and return the favor, I swore to be loyal to the prince until death.”

“Thanks to the help of such a knight, the prince was finally able to defeat the other competitors and marry the princess.”

After defeating the King of the Desert.

Subdue the Grand Duke of the North.

Sealing the demon lord with the blessing of the princess.

A girl who happily talks about the adventures of a prince and a knight princess.

“The prince was connected with the princess like that, and the knight served the princess as a lady and stayed by her side for the rest of her life.”

“So the three of them lived happily ever after.”

“A great happy ending, right?”

It’s soggy for a fairy tale.

Too vivid to be fiction.

At the end of seeing Li Qingyu with a stiff face, smiling at the end of a story like a plan.

Rose quietly opened her mouth.

“…Yes, that’s a very interesting story.”

“Yes? I especially like the friendship between the prince and the knight.”

Although Rose’s face was hard enough to mistakenly believe that she had heard the obituary of an acquaintance.

Actually, Li Qingyu did not lose his smile.

“To throw away everything and even give up the love you wanted to get and give your allegiance is something you can’t do without true friendship, right?”

“….”

“I want to be that kind of friend with you too.”

“….”

“A true friend that even the most precious companion can trust and entrust.”

a little shy

with anticipation.

Li Qingyu smiled brightly.

That smile looks so happy that it feels like a girl making friends for the first time.

“…so.”

But Rose didn’t laugh.

I just looked at her with eyes as dark as the abyss.

“If I don’t obey you like a dog for the rest of my life, as that knight did, will I be torn to pieces?”

“I can’t believe it.”

He said he only talked about novels, but he didn’t know why he had such a terrible misunderstanding.

Li Qingyu denied it.

But Rose saw.

Up until now, she had made all sorts of expressions of laughter, shyness, and surprise like an innocent girl.

That her obsidian-like eyes, which had sunk deeply and dimly, had never wavered.

So it was.

Rose was not surprised by the words that followed.

“Of course, Rose, I would be happy if you could be that kind of friend.”

“…”

Threats too.

deal too.

not even a request.

At first glance, it sounds like you really want to get to know each other.

So Rose closed her eyes when she heard those words that made her imagine what would happen if she didn’t ‘become close’.

I didn’t think I could pretend I didn’t know.

I just wished I could.

But the reality was cruel.

Li Qingyu had already realized her betrayal and was trying to repay her by taking everything.

I couldn’t blame him for being cold.

You were the one who was wrong in the first place.

Betraying the Seven Dragons and leaving Li Qingyu’s favor.

I knew from the time I chose a man instead that this would happen one day.

Dalgrak.

It was for this reason that Rose raised the teacup.

In order to keep his promise to Li Qingyu, he deliberately dropped by Count Sea Serpent’s family and brought his own tea leaves.

At the end of staring at the teacup in which the clear and transparent black tea that was brewed and brewed by hand was dripping.

she snapped her wrists.

Chow!

right after that.

Hot tea is poured over.

The beautiful clothes were drenched.

Tea as red as blood dripped down the hem of his clothes.

“…rose?”

“Such a mistake.”

Maybe because it was so unexpected?

When Li Qingyu blinked his eyes.

Rose murmured softly.

And, unlike the person who poured black tea on his clothes, he smiled lightly.

“I think I will get burned at this rate, so I need to take off my clothes.”

There’s no way she’d get burned by tea.

Muttering calmly as if it were natural, Rose untied her tea-soaked uniform.

Squeak.

long coat flowing down

The sturdy outerwear is peeling off.

The shirt worn underneath is disheveled.

The moment Rose’s skin was revealed through the loosely untied shirt.

“…”

The expression disappeared from Li Qingyu’s face as she watched her actions.

White and clean like a white jade.

No, red marks on the skin that should have been clean.

As expected of a princess with the blood of a dragon, even the wounds from the battle had already disappeared without a trace.

The traces of someone still clearly lingering on how deeply they were engraved caught Li Qingyu’s gaze.

Even such traces were not alone.

between the beautiful breastbones.

Round shoulders and a shapely belly.

With sunken collarbones and slender arms.

It’s as if they left evidence of who it belonged to.

The fierce traces engraved on every corner of the body were exposed intact through the thin shirt that was soaked and clinging to the body.

Rose slowly raised her hand.

“Li Qingyu in that novel just now.”

“….”

“Do you really think that the knight who kidnapped the princess left her alone until the prince came?”

He slides his finger over the marks of the ‘male’ engraved on his body, revealing the marks more clearly.

Rose laughed.

“If I were that knight, I would have somehow seduced the princess during the kidnapping.”

Unlike his usual pale smile.

Deeper and clearer than ever.

so beautiful

sweet laugh.

“In that way, he must have coveted the princess’s body from head to toe, leaving traces of himself and eventually making her fall for himself.”

“…”

“To borrow your words, Li Qingyu, yes. Like a bastard that has been in heat and clings to it.”

It would have been easy for me to become a ‘beast’ since I had abandoned my self, my friends, and my pride.

assert with conviction.

Rose continued.

“Even if he was torn to pieces by the others who coveted the princess because of that, the knight would not have regretted it.”

“…why?”

“At least the princess would have been sad for the knight she loved.”

“…”

“And another one.”

Looking straight at the black-haired girl whose expression had disappeared.

she said with a smile.

“The ecstatic time spent monopolizing the princess for three days and nights must have been worth risking his life for.”

“…In the novels I read, the knight took the princess for more than three days.”

“If so, it would be even more so.”

If the price of taking the world’s most perfect and hot body as desired is death, it’s rather cheap.

You say it as if it were natural.

Rose suddenly added a word.

“When you think about it that way, the ending of the novel that Li Qingyu said makes sense.”

“You understand?”

“yes. In the sense that the knight served the princess as a lady and stayed by her side for the rest of her life.”

“…”

“Li Qingyu, as you know, originally, in aristocratic society, a knight serving a lady meant a legitimate affair partner.”

A time when marriage was politics.

The nobility, who had no choice but to marry according to politics, longed for true love.

Therefore, court romance (Fin’amor), which is chivalrous love, was created by acquiescing to making lovers.

It is a relationship that became the beginning of the word called romance now.

Rose pointed out with a smile.

Li Qingyu asked without a smile.

“…Does that mean that even if the princess married the prince, it would have been the knight she truly loved?”

“The prince who was supposed to marry for the sake of the country, and the knight who loved himself by abandoning even the country. It is clear which of the two the princess was attracted to.”

“…”

“It would be even more so if it was the prince who provoked the monster to attack the princess’ country in order to marry the princess.”

Even if she married a prince, it was only a formality.

with true love.

secretly kiss your lips

tummy tuck all night

Asserting that the person the princess had a hot time with must have been a knight.

Rose slid her long, slender fingers along the trail that had been carved into the deepest part of her abdomen.

“In that sense, the novel definitely has a happy ending.”

The prince gets the kingdom.

The princess achieves happiness.

The knight has a hot tryst.

Saying that, the three of them could have been happy for a long time.

Rose smiled.

“Li Qingyu If what you want is a friend like that knight, yes. I think I can be happy too.”

With a clean, innocent and pretty face.

However, at the end of silently watching Rose with a smile that could not be said to be pure or pitiful.

Li Qingyu said quietly.

“It’s nice to hear that, but I don’t know if the prince forgave the knight even though he knew the truth.”

“I’m sure he would have forgiven you.”

“Why?”

“If you killed the knight, the prince would be resentful of the princess for the rest of his life.”

“…”

“There might be a reason why the prince absolutely needed the power of that knight.”

either for the country.

Whether you really want a princess.

or for any other purpose.

Rose was sure that any prince who tried to get his hands on the princess by any means would surely do so.

because I remembered

When he first noticed Limon’s dragon psionic and came to question him.

Li Qingyu’s answer that he hid the truth to protect the Seven Dragons and above all for him.

Of course, she is the Black Dragon Princess.

She was a girl who was a lie.

However, if there was even a little sincerity in those words…

“Even if the knight whispered love to the princess right in front of his eyes and coveted her body, he would gladly allow it.”

No matter what.

Li Qingyu cannot reveal the truth.

If it is known that Rose, who was neutral, betrayed everyone, the Seven Dragons will immediately fall into a state of infighting.

“…How far has that article gotten so filthy?”

“To the very bottom of the deep sea.”

Maybe it was because he didn’t know that Rose, who was no one else, would risk his own life and even the existence of the Seven Dragons to make such a threat.

He replied with a smile to Li Qingyu, who looked at him coldly.

Rose added a word.

“But the reason I do this is not just because I am corrupted.”

“Then why?”

“Because I can’t trust you, Li Qingyu.”

Throwing out even a metaphor.

Throw away the vain pretense.

Rose looked at Li Qingyu with cold eyes that even lost her mask-like smile.

“I can’t understand why you’re obsessed with uniting the Seven Dragons, even giving up monopolizing him.”

“…”

“So I’ll tell you in advance.”

He had no intention of cooperating with Li Qingyu from the beginning.

Because it was the existence of the Black Dragon Princess who never knew when she would betray her trust.

So, Rose declared.

“If you betray the Sword Master, I will kill you.”

If it’s one-on-one, the Seven Dragons are the strongest.

The princess, who could become the best assassin if she gave up her fairness, declared to the girl she thought of as her friend for the first time in her life.

And slowly got up.

“Instead, if you do your best for him until the end and he hopes for you too…”

Through the collar of his secretly open shirt, the red mark on his chest was clearly visible.

Bend only the upper body deeply.

At a distance where each breath can reach.

Rose whispered in Li Qingyu’s ear.

“I can lend him to you from time to time.”

No matter how arranged a marriage is, it is too pitiful to become a well-known bride and not even give birth to the groom’s eggs.

So I said that I would allow this much.

Rose laughed again.

“Because we are friends.”

Like the Blue Dragon Princess.

A benevolent and kind smile.

However, what was contained in those blue eyes was a low level of pleasure.

Like a beast that bites off a competitor’s leash after fighting to get the male it wants, the face of a female is vulgar and covered with immorality and monopoly.

“I hope you will consider my proposal, Li Qingyu.”

Phaging.

“…”

The secret whisper ended.

For a moment, I want to stare blankly at the empty seat of Rose, who has disappeared without a trace beyond the space, leaving behind her coat and uniform.

Li Qingyu swallowed the remaining black tea.

Then, after setting down the empty teacup, he reached under the table and pulled out something.

with a wonderful prince.

with a beautiful princess.

A cover featuring a dignified knight.

It’s like preparing a present for someone.

At the end of staring at a novel called ‘The Princess’s Happy Ending’, which is even tied with a blue ribbon.

rattle.

Li Qingyu threw the book he was holding into the trash.

Then, getting up from his seat, he murmured in a low voice.

“Friendship is so wonderful.”

Is it admiration?

Is it regret

Or is it a laugh?

After even Li Qingyu left the room with an unknown self-talk.

Two things remained in the empty drawing room.

There was only black tea left intact in the teapot, even though it had already cooled down, and a book with a fine ribbon still attached to it, even though it had been thrown away in the trash.