[Now then, it is our third topic, but I consider this to be the most important one.]
What could he be talking about? I have no clue what topic could be more important than the two right now though… The king continues his speech with an awfully serious face.
[I have judged that I would like to take Mio-san in to be my legal wife. Jin-dono, could you not release her from slavery for me?]
[Huh?]
With an awfully serious face, the king babbles something I could not make sense of at all. This guy, what is he saying? Seeing my bewildered face, the king continues to talk even more.
[In other words, I have fallen in love with Mio-san. Mio-san, who frantically tried to rescue me when I resigned myself to death after I was stabbed by the Hero, was surely an angel.]
Apparently he’s serious. Passion is filled in the king’s eyes looking at Mio.
Mio who was called on was also flabbergasted. No, Mio is cute, sure, but I have a problem with her being called an angel. If you’re calling someone that, then Dora would be definitely more of an angel. She has white wings too…
[O-Otousama! What are you saying all of a sudden!?]
Cattleya shouts. Seeing that the surrounding retainers are surprised as well, I guess he hasn’t talked about it with anybody. Well, a middle aged man near his forties can’t possibly tell anybody he wanted to marry the 8 year old Mio…
[In the first place, do you understand what sort of time it is now!? There is also the matter of oniisama and the Hero! This isn’t the time to say something like that is it!?]
Cattleya’s right about that, it’s the worst timing. He didn’t have to bring it up now.
[Julius’s death is very sad and I have no intentions of forgiving the Hero. However, this and that are different subjects. There is no such rule that you cannot love a person in difficult times, and you could also think of this as overcoming difficult times through love for the very reason that it is difficult!]
King declares it strongly with a serious face, but what he said makes him a perverted idiot.
[My previous wife died five years ago. And have my retainers not been saying it would be better to usher in a new queen? This should be the right moment.]
A portion of the retainers turned away their faces. Must be the people who has been encouraging a second marriage.
[Of course, I am not saying immediately. I have decided that when the matters of Julius and the Hero have settled down, I will officially announce my fiancée and once Mio-san comes to age we will formally accept her as the queen.]
Even though I didn’t ask for such paintings of the future…
Come to think of it, how is Mio thinking about this? I’ve decided to ask her with telepathy.