Chapter 43: Special Edition: Widow, Fell Victim 1
The morning sun shines in the clear blue sky and a fresh breeze blows through the trees.
The air was telling Lou that another good day had begun.
With these thoughts in mind, Lou took its daily morning walk.
Lou walks around the palace garden within a 500-meter radius from Keith's room and returns.
It is a cat's territorial instinct.
Lou had been doing that routine as long as it was not raining.
Walking along the same path as usual.
However, the cat noticed a different atmosphere than usual.
There was a sense of urgency and tension in the air from within the palace.
"Funya?"
Tilting its head, Lou returned to the room and called out to its master, who was lying on his bed in his underwear, reading a book.
"Master, master."
Keith, without taking his eyes off the book.
"What is it, worthless cat."
"There's a ruckus in the palace, nyaa. What's going on, nyaa?"
At Lou's words, Keith put the book down on his chest.
"What, you didn't know? There's a banquet today."
"Nyaa."
The banquet is a big party held once a year at Seimrad.
The main purpose is to invite guests from various countries and deepen their friendship among them.
Even King Mashua, who does not like such events, holds this one on a grand scale once a year.
For this reason, preparations for meals, the preparation of the hall, and security procedures for the guests must begin several months in advance.
Especially this year, it was even more extensive than usual because of Naia's performance.
The real show is finally coming.
No wonder the air was tense.
In the midst of all this, Keith, who was lying sloppily on the bed in his underwear, was told.
"...Master's not doing anything, nyaa?"
"Me? What am I supposed to do? The princess has her own singing teacher, and the palace is perfect in terms of magic defense. There is nothing to do."
Yes, that's right.
The court mages are consultants when there are problems or matters involving magic, and he is clearly a hindrance at this dinner party.
If he wandered around, he would be told to go away.
At best, he just needed to remember the seating order and the progress of the dinner party. So, he had no choice but to stay in his room.
"Good for you, nyaa."
"I think so too."
Keith said and started reading again.
It felt like he had been doing that for almost a week.
Naia was going to perform, so she would practice singing and learn etiquette for the next few days.
Aisha has been meeting with the soldiers to go over security procedures and guarding until dawn.
So he hasn't seen them for almost a week.
Keith has no choice but to watch Aisha's videos and jerk off, but he is longing for some body warmth.
"I want to fuck her tight pussy while hugging the princess's loli body...... I want to fuck Aisha's pussy while sucking her big breasts."
As usual, he turned the pages of an erotic book while thinking such a disgusting thing.
...
One of the soldiers came to the room in the afternoon.
He said that it was time for the mage to seat at the dinner party.
It was only natural, since he was from the country that would be welcoming the guests.
Keith agreed, took a bath, shaved his beard, and changed into an outfit that had been tailor-made for the occasion.
The outfit is a Seimrad-style adaptation of the uniform of the [Spirit of Dawn], to which he belonged, and everything from the fabric to the threads is first-rate.
By the way, the color is black. This was the one thing he could not give up.
Putting it on and brushing his hair.
"Master! You look like a low-level evil leader, nyaa!! This can't be right!! This isn't how you look like, nyaa!!"
Lou said as he left the room, Keith vowed to make Lou his next stringed instrument.
He walked down the corridor to the venue absentmindedly.
When he arrived, everything was already ready inside.
As he was thinking about where his seat was, a voice called out from behind.
"Keith-sama!!"
When he turned around, he saw Naia running to Keith with a big smile on her face.
She was about to hug him, but because of the makeup she was wearing, Naia tried her best to restrain herself.
She looked like a pretty flower in her dress, and the light makeup made her face look just a little bit more mature.
"You look even more beautiful today."
Naia was beaming with delight at such compliments.
"Keith-sama looks great too! It's cool!!"
That was what Keith said.
However, he wondered what he could do with her tiara, long gloves, and dress to make her look erotic.
When he was thinking about that.
"Sing... I'm sure I'll be able to sing well! So... please listen, okay?"
"Yes, of course."
Naia tried to take Keith's hand as he nodded.
"Naia-sama! Please get ready!!"
Aisha, who had been watching the two with a scowl, interrupted them.
When stopped, Naia muttered to Aisha, "Meany".
"Please watch me! Without fail, okay!?"
While saying so, Aisha pulled her away.
Keith, who smiled bitterly when he saw Aisha's pouty face, was amused by her unusual, formal knight attire.
"I like that one too......"
That seems to be all he can think about.
Soon after, guests from various countries arrived at the palace one after another.
The races were varied, ranging not only from elves to sub-dragons, to fishmen, to beastmen, to dwarves.
Mashua, Mia, and Naia welcomed them all.
Keith was amazed at the king as he watched from a distance.
Among the guests were some famous people that Keith knew, and when he saw Mashua chatting with them in a friendly manner, he thought to himself that the king of a small country could not be underestimated.
As the guests arrived one after the other, he suddenly heard a commotion and saw Naia embracing a small elven girl in joy and excitement.
Behind her came a woman, also an elf, who was chatting with Mia in a friendly manner. When Keith saw that.
"Who is that ..."
Keith muttered to himself.
"It's Roana-sama and Erne-sama."
A voice suddenly came from behind him and he shouted, "Whoa!". He screamed.
He turned around with his heart pounding.
"B-Berna-san."
Dressed in her maid's uniform, Berna stood with her usual expressionless face.
"Sorry I startled you. I apologize."
"N-no, it's fine... By the way, Roana-sama and Erne-sama is?"
"Roana-sama is the queen's sister, and Erne-sama is her daughter."
"Hee..."
That being said, looking at them again, Roana and Erne certainly looked a lot like Mia and Naia.
They have translucent white skin and platinum hair.
But what makes Roana different from the other two is that she has large breasts for her slender body.
Watching Roana exchange words with Mia and Naia with a soft smile.
"Berna-san, um."
He turned around to look at her.
"Whoa! She's not there!"
There was already no one there.
It was like a ninja, moving without letting her presence known.
Thinking of that, Keith turned his gaze back again.
...
When all the guests had arrived and the courtiers were seated, King Mashua gave a speech.
Keith was lulled to sleep by the sound like that of a principal's speech, but he endured it and ate his food after the toast was given.
The original purpose of the dinner party, which is to deepen relationships, does not concern a human being, let alone a court mage.
Therefore, he continued to eat and drink while the guests were enjoying their conversation.
After a while, the sound of the court musicians' instruments stopped and Naia stood up, looking embarrassed.
Naia's song would now begin as Mashua introduced her.
Naia took a deep breath and looked for Keith with her eyes.
The black mage sitting at the end of the table was gently watching over the princess.
At least that's how it seemed to Naia.
Naia felt her courage rising and sang a song as she spun softly.
As usual, as she had practiced, she did not mind the stares of others. Because Keith had trained her.
So, for the sake of his beloved Keith, her father, and mother, Naia sang.
While singing along the way, she would invoke the sylphs and put mana on the song.
Then, the sound of the song made the Sylphs start to dance happily.
A success. It was a success!
The sylphs danced more happily when Naia's singing voice became more joyful.
The guests, who had thought it was just a singing performance as before, were surprised.
Naia, who could not use magic, had called the sylphs to dance.
The appearance was unmistakably that of an elf.
When the song was over and the spirits went away, Naia bowed her head and the place was filled with thunderous applause.
Mashua ran up to Naia and patted her on the head, while Mia and Roana sat next to each other and shed tears.
Even Aisha was happy, tears in her eyes.
Keith was sleeping because he drank too much.
...
Keith woke up when the dinner party was over and it was time to escort the guests to the guest house.
Waking up to the sound of people moving about, Keith downed the remaining liquor in his glass and went back to his room.
Naia seemed to have gone to see the guests off and was unable to meet him.
He returned to his room, took a bath, and relaxed his body, which was stiff because he had fallen asleep in an uncomfortable position.
When he got out of the bath, Lou was fast asleep.
Keith lay down on the bed to sleep, and as he lay there groggily, he was awakened by a knock at the door.
He looked at the clock and saw that three hours had passed since he had returned to his room.
Did Aisha come?
He thought so, but he knew that Aisha would never come to Keith's room on her own unless it was something serious. So he asked.
"Who is it?"
He called out.
"I apologize for coming so late at night."
He heard a woman's voice. But he didn't recognize the voice.
Suspicious, he put on his clothes and opened the door to find an elven woman he had never seen before standing there.
She was dressed in a maid's uniform, but it was of a slightly different design from that worn by the maids who were working in the palace.
"Um……"
The elf bowed her head.
"I am a servant of Roana-sama, and my master insists on speaking with the mage."
"With me?"
"Yes. I know it's a bit late at night, but she wants to see you. How about it? Will you accompany me?"
Roana wants to see me?
Several question marks popped into his head.
To Roana, Keith was nothing more than a mage in the employ of her relatives.
What does she want with a human mage she has never even spoken to?
The situation was so confusing that he was starting to get a little scared.
But he couldn't say no to her.
"C-can you give me a minute?"
Keith, who was always a bit scared, put all the small magic tools he could use in his bag, and also his magic staff.
"Thank you for waiting."
With that, he headed for Roana's room with the maid.
She was assigned a room in the palace, not in the guest house.
When they arrived there, the maid knocked on the door, and a voice came from inside, saying, "Come in".
The voice was gentle and calm.
When he entered the room, he found Roana sitting in a chair drinking a cup of tea, dressed in casual clothes.
Once again, she was a beautiful elf.
She was only five or six years older than Keith in appearance, but being Mia's older sister meant that she was at least 300 years old.
She looked slender, but her breasts were large.
It was hard not to look at her.
Roana smiled at Keith and said.
"I'm sorry for calling you late at night. I really wanted to talk to the mage."
"No, that's okay."
"I don't think I would be able to talk to you during the daytime with Erne around."
Certainly, she was a lively girl when she was with Naia.
"Where is this Erne-sama?"
"She said she was going to sleep with Naia."
Roana smiled at him bitterly.
Keith was urged to sit down and sat down on the chair in front of Roana.
Roana had the maid brew Keith's tea.
"Fiel, I'm sorry, but could you give us a minute?"
She said to her maid, Fiel, with an apologetic look on her face. Then Fiel bowed and left the room.
They were left alone.
What? What's going to happen?
No matter how many times he thought about it, he couldn't come up with the right answer.
He was suddenly summoned to a situation where he was alone with a person with whom he had no connection, and all that came out was cold sweat.
That's why he stared at Roana.
At first, he was thinking of saying, "Why did you call me here?", But then he was struck by Roana's beauty.
There was an adult beauty that was different from Naia's childlike, dainty impression of a young girl.
"What's wrong? Is something on my face..."
"S-sorry. I was just admiring your beauty."
Roana looked at him for a moment, then giggled and said, "You're good".
The expression on her face was really cute.
Keith took a sip of his tea.
"So, what did you want to talk about?"
"I wanted to thank you. I heard that you helped Naia to use magic, mage. Thank you so much."
Roana bowed her head.
"No, I did what is natural for a court mage."
"No, it made Naia happy...... and not only Naia, but Mia and King Mashua as well, look so happy...... all thanks to you, mage."
Keith did not feel bad when he was told that much.
"Naia is always talking about you, mage, at dinner, and after the dinner party. She keeps telling us how great you are. Erne was so jealous.
Roana remembering it, smiled happily.
Keith is relieved from the bottom of his heart that the princess didn't say anything strange.
Roana looked really happy.
"I couldn't have a lot of kids... and I thought of Naia as my own daughter, and that's still the case when Erne was born. So really..."
Her hand grabbed Keith's.
"Thank you, mage."
He looked straight into her beautiful eyes and was a little embarrassed.
Keith slowly removed his hand and.
"If I am able to repay even a small favor to the king who made a human like me as a court mage, then that is enough for me."
And doing those things to the princess and her escort knight, it would balance out.
But of course, Roana didn't know that.
"You're really a wonderful person, as Naia said."
"No, no, that's."
Keith sipped his tea and searched for the right words.
"B-by the way, Roana-sama's husband is......."
When she heard that, Roana's cheerful face seemed to fade for the first time.
Did I ask a bad question? Keith thought to himself.
"My husband passed away. Ten years ago."
"I-I'm sorry."
"It's okay. It's my fault for still dragging it out after ten years."
Roana smiled bitterly, and Keith wondered whether it was better to ask more about this or to find something else to talk about.
"Um...... was it an accident or something?"
He decided to ask.
"No, it was from old age."
"Old age!?... Ah, he's a very old husband, huh."
Roana looks 35 or 36 years old in human age.
The average life expectancy for a half-elf is in the late 300s or 400s.
The average lifespan of a noble elf is 800 years, and a normal elf is 600 years old, so she must have married an elf nearly twice her age. But.
"My husband is younger than me, you know."
Roana said, as though she was reminiscing.
"Younger?"
"My husband was a human, just like the mage."
"Eh!?"
Keith was surprised.
He had never heard of a noble elf marrying a human.
"My husband is a merchant who came to this town to buy magic stones and happened to meet me. He asked me to marry him the same day we met. At the time I kept saying I would never get married, but the next thing I knew......"
Then Roana looked sad and lowered her eyes.
"He said he would always protect me...... and that he would never leave me alone, but then he easily became old and died......."
Keith can hear her sniffling.
Keith couldn't say anything, as he was deep in thought.
Roana looked up, her eyes welling up with tears, but her face was bright.
"But he left me the store, and he gave me the treasure called Erne. I am grateful."
Her face was beautiful as she said that cheerfully.
Goosebumps.
Keith thought as he looked at her face.
An elf who loved a man of the same race as him.
And living a good life with her only daughter.
A widow elf with a slender and lovely body, who hid her sorrows inside and tries her best to live for the man she loved.
What can he do for her?
Isn't it to comfort her? (In a sexual sense).
Keith decided to do so.
Thank you for the chapter, bastard Keith strikes again!
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