Blood tax

Chapter 397

After leaving the scene, Griffith returned to the Lamor Mansion.According to the schedule, he would accompany Sonia to the town of Bremi to prepare for the winter senate meeting, and then wait for the opportunity to take action.

In last night's battle, Griffith had obtained two emblems, counting the one held by Galadia, it is likely to be in the forefront among the chosen ones.After gaining the first-hand advantage, they have the initiative to choose their own position to meet the challenge, or form an alliance with others, and are not in a hurry to take risky actions.

Griffith returned to the Earl's Mansion and went straight to his attic, preparing to take a nap before leaving.

Mr. Ashford, the butler of the Earl's Mansion, was waiting for him at the gate with a gentle smile in his black tuxedo.Sonia's personal maid, Anna, was also standing beside the housekeeper.

"Good morning, Mr. Knight," Ashford bowed slightly to him, "Has the survey work at the scene been completed?"

Anna also raised her skirt at the same time and curtseyed.

"Yes, Mr. Ashford. Good morning, Miss Anna."

Griffith answered briefly.He fought, moved and searched in the middle of the night, and was wounded, the coagulated blood still stuck to his body, cold and uncomfortable, and hungry and sleepy.

"Very good," the butler turned his head and said to Anna, "I'll leave the rest to you. Excuse me, Mr. Knight, I wish you a good mood today."

Anna asked with the reserved and good-looking poker face that a personal maid should have, as she did in her daily work: "So, Mr. Knight, do you want to eat first? Take a bath first? Or..."

Hey, Anna, you play this with me too?Griffith, with a tired and dull expression, couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

Anna deliberately paused, and waited for the knight's silly smile to stop before she finished speaking: "Or let me take you to your new room?"

Are you kidding me, girl... Griffith swallowed his smile back: "Room? What room?"

"Please come with me." Anna turned around and led the knight into the room.

"Arranged a new room for me?" Griffith, whose brain was half-beating, finally reacted.

"Yes, there is a suite with a separate bathroom, double bed, bookshelf, wardrobe, desk and sofa," Anna walked in front, her back straightened, and she said without looking back, "a room of the same standard as Knight Woods can You can freely enter and exit the South Garden and the training room, if you have family members who need to be accommodated or other needs, please let me know."

The great knight Wood Woods was the earl's chief guard and the commander of the troops directly under the Lamor family. Griffith rarely met him, but he was quite clear about his status.

He walked slowly, looking at Anna's back unconsciously from behind. The chic black maid skirt was just below her knees, and the white cotton socks and small leather shoes were refreshing and simple. A white apron was tied around her slender waist. The shoulder-length hair is tied with a beautiful braid on the left tip of the hair, which does not hinder work.It would be even better if the owner of this figure and clothes didn't usually look at people with cold and critical blue eyes.

"Please come in," Anna took Griffith to an annex in the Earl's Mansion, and opened the door for him, "Please wash and change your clothes. Breakfast is at 07:30, and I will eat with Miss Sonia."

"Oh, don't bother~" Griffith subconsciously thought that he could go to the kitchen on the basement floor to eat, the fried eggs and honey there were quite delicious.

At this moment, he seemed to see Anna glaring at him.Before the knight could react, Anna pushed him from behind and pushed him into the bathroom of the room.

"Hurry up, I haven't eaten breakfast yet~" Anna said, and began to take off Griffith's breastplate and clothes. "The bath water is almost cold."

"Don't bother you, I can, ouch!"

The maid pulled the shoulder straps of the breastplate and pinned it to Griffith's wound just cut by the prince, and he cried out in pain.

"I'm sorry," Anna apologized in a low voice, her hands became more gentle, "Why do you have so many scars, did you go to assassinate the orc chief last night, and then shouted 'clan alliance is trash' to get beaten like this ?”

"Please don't comment on a man's scars like this." Griffith looked at himself, as if there were still many wounds that hadn't healed, "I can't take a bath like this, so I'll take a bath outside."

"Then you sit on this chair, and I'll help you." Anna moved a chair and forced the knight to sit down with his back facing her.

Griffith only left a towel around his waist, letting the maid wipe the blood off his body uncomfortably.When he thought that Anna was Sonia's personal maid, he felt even more inappropriate.

Before he could seriously express his refusal, Anna whispered in his ear: "You should get used to it."

"Ok?"

"You are no longer the little sergeant who came back from the front line." Anna put down the blood-stained towel, took out some ointment and applied it near the wound, "Extraordinary knight, heir of the ancient De Ravenel family, officer of the Imperial Guard You can't go into the servants' dining room and bathroom, and you can't dispose of sundries by yourself. You should have asked the Earl to change your room earlier."

"Wow."

Griffith grunted and listened to Anna's lesson.

"This is not a trivial matter that can be avoided by not forgetting the original intention. You have done inappropriate things in such a capacity, and you have no trouble getting along with the servants of the Earl's Mansion, and you have not advocated your treatment to the Earl and guests in the living room and dinner. , is to put you in the same position as us. So, what is the relationship between Gilles de Ess assault squad leader who is your subordinate and the servants here? Miss Sonia's guests and friends saw her knight What's the deal with eating honey in the basement kitchen?"

These words kept Griffith silent.

Anna continued:

"Nobles, you must be dignified. This is not your business alone. Those who are attached to you and need your protection and support are watching you, hoping that you will bring them more benefits; if you are weak, let Why do these people support you if they lose face or lose their interests?"

"Thank you, Anna, I will pay attention." Griffith replied, seriously reviewing some of his behaviors in his heart.

"Well, it's good if you can listen to it. It's a matter of course to claim your rights. You're not welcome at all," Anna wiped off the water on his body, and slowly slid her fingers over the scar left by someone who didn't know when, her chin lightened. Leaning lightly on Griffith's shoulder, blowing a gust of warm and moist wind to his earlobe, "Including me~"

……

Sonia felt her heart beating like a war drum.

Her knight was sitting opposite her, looking out the window nervously and vigilantly.

It may be that sitting in the carriage made him uncomfortable. Griffith has always accompanied me on horseback.It's so cute, it's like hugging a big dog, and it still wants to escape...

Sonia couldn't help laughing in her heart for a while.Waking up in the winter morning was really a challenge. She got up in a daze, dressed, had breakfast, boarded the carriage, and started the day's schedule.It was rare for Griffith to sit in the carriage with her, and Fiona and Lana were not there either. The small enclosed space made the countess happy and nervous.

This situation seems to be quite rare.Leaving the Earl's Mansion, the carriage passed through several streets, and two thoughts kept fighting in Sonia's head. At one moment, she looked forward to it, and at the other moment, she felt scared.

"My hands are a bit cold!" Sonia shook her hand towards her knight.

"I'll adjust the heater." Griffith immediately leaned over, adjusted the heater under the seat, and then sat back in his seat. "It will be fine soon."

"..."

Sonia widened her big blue eyes and raised her hands to look at him, wishing to travel through time and space and throw the guy who invented the stove into the sea.

"My hands are so cold!" Seeing the knight's bewildered face, the countess protested loudly, "Not only are my hands cold, but my body is also cold!"

The tip of the small nose also twitched slightly at the same time, as if the air was really cold.

Griffith hurried over and sat down beside Sonia.The tall and straight figure, the broad shoulders, and the thick woolen cloak squeezed the countess into a corner.

"Isn't that better?"

"Well," the countess replied softly, staring at the pair of big hands on her knees beside her, as if observing an enemy who was about to fight to the death.

The knight didn't wear gloves. According to him, it wasn't cold.People with a strength of 28 points are already monsters than monsters. They can break open the iron tongs with bare hands and knock over brown bears. According to Anna, those hands alone are so hot that they can fry eggs!

Sonia's heart beat faster and faster, and her mind went blank from time to time.Griffith was talking about his visit to the Arcane Council today, and Sonia was almost too tortured by herself to speak.

Actually, if you think about it carefully, it’s not a big deal. I’ve done it a few times during the prom and while exploring the ruins~
No, no, if you do this now, the meaning behind it is completely different!

Sonia wanted to try the action that she had discussed with Anna several times, but she backed down at the last second.

In the extreme entanglement, anything else seemed to the countess preferable.More than once she even wished the carriage would overturn and throw the world's most hated Griffith out!

This repeated tossing exhausted Sonia, and even her voice changed.

The carriage approached the city wall and would arrive outside the city in a while, Sonia still didn't dare to do anything.Finally, she got angry and said to herself: "When I pass through the city gate, I will do what I have promised myself for the past few days, or I will find a cliff and jump off!"

As soon as this thought came up, the top of my head was dark.The carriage was passing through the dark corridor under the city gate, and every bump of the wheels made the Countess tremble.

Seeing that the exit of the city gate is about to arrive.Sonia closed her eyes and grabbed Griffith's left hand.

The knight was taken aback.At the first moment, he thought that he had been attacked unknowingly. After all, he had just attacked a senior girl last night and witnessed a big battle. He was so guilty that he subconsciously grabbed Hanguang from his waist and condemned him.

Sonia found that the grasping hand retracted.She didn't quite understand what she was doing, and grabbed Griffith's left hand again.

Her mind was blank, she couldn't think about anything, she couldn't care about anything, her only thought was——

"Anna is right, this hand is really warm!"

The knight's hands were strong and fiery.Sonia gripped it tightly with all her might.The hand made one last effort to free it, but finally took Sonia's hand.

(End of this chapter)