Secretary of the Devil's Castle

Fatalia leaned on the seat, opened the curtain slightly and looked out the window, while Favna sat in front of her.

Favna suddenly asked, "Master, are you in good health?"

"No problem, the menstrual period has passed."

"Master, what I mean is... is it alright for you to come to the afternoon tea of ​​the Marchioness of Whittier hungry?"

"...It doesn't matter, Favna, anyway, the entire social circle of the empire knows that I am gluttonous, and no one will say anything even if I eat more at parties."

But that's just usually the case...

Favna thought about her master's horrible appetite, and the fact that she had just passed her menstrual period and was hungry for a long time, and couldn't help but worry about the next afternoon tea time.

That's right, Favna has just passed her second menstrual period through hunger therapy, and she is in a state where her stomach is bulging and her eyes are glowing green. It is worth mentioning that the succubus' menstrual period happens to be It's the succubus' birthday, so Fatalia is now ten years old according to calculations.

"Ma'am, Her Royal Highness has arrived."

Countess Whittier, with long black hair and extremely pale skin, heard the voice of the attendant, turned her head and looked towards the door, and saw the figures of Favna and Fatalia.

Although a year has passed, Favna's appearance still hasn't changed much. She has long black hair like a waterfall, curved upward horns that transition from pitch black to deep purple, a pair of bright amethyst-like eyes, and fair skin. She has a beautiful figure, but her face is pretty but as cold as ice, and that inorganic face will only soften a little when she looks at her master.

But Fatalia has changed a lot compared to a year ago: her slightly curly white hair that could only hang down to her shoulders can now hang down to her waist, which makes her look inexplicably furry, and she spontaneously explores The protruding brown horns are a bit cute, and the appearance is much more attractive than before, and the height has also increased a lot, and the petite body wrapped in the dark red dress has also begun to develop.

Mrs. Whittier stepped forward to greet Fatalia with some surprises, "Your Highness, it is a great honor for you to condescend to come here. Even this ordinary afternoon tea party is all because of you." And it has improved a lot.”

Fatalia replied with a very standard skirt-throwing ceremony, "You are serious, Mrs. Whittier, this tea party is already exciting, it is not because of my presence that makes it more colorful, but because it is already excellent. Attract me to visit."

"Then I would like to thank Her Royal Highness for your praise."

Mrs. Whittier's eyes were bent into crescent moons, obviously enjoying Fatalia's compliment, "Please sit down, Your Royal Highness, come and taste the dessert I ordered the chef to prepare specially for you."

"Thank you Mrs. Whittier for your kindness."

After a few polite words, Fatalia sat at the table.

As a guest, she naturally couldn't sit in the main seat, but as the most noble person at the tea party, it was impossible for Mrs. Whittier to arrange a second seat for Fatalia, so the guest of honor was hers.

Although Fatalia herself doesn't care about this little thing, after all, it's just an informal tea party, and the division of some rules of respect and inferiority is not so clear, but Mrs. Whittier can't easily ignore this matter, She had to express something to Fatalia, and this was not only for Fatalia herself, but also for other people who also came to the tea party.

Although the tea party was well arranged, it was actually just a small informal gathering. There were only a few people around the table, and they sat down at the table one by one, and Fatalia's eyes were those who had been on the table all the time. Desserts are free in the middle.

Mrs. Whittier finally took her seat, and she said with a gentle smile, "Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let's get started."

Chapter 54 Patty Sharp

"I heard that the daughter of Baron Gibson's family recently fell in love with a commoner."

"Oh, really? That's unfortunate."

"It is said that the youngest daughter in his family has been out of shape all day long. I guess there will be such a day. Compared with this, do you know what happened to Earl Madsen's house recently?"

"Ah, I know a little about this, their family..."

The tea parties of noble ladies are basically in a similar situation. They gossip about each family in groups of threes and twos. No matter what it is, it may become their talk after dinner. Compared with the interests that the men in their families often talk about, This group of ladies is more about deepening the communication with each other, so that the two families can have more in-depth exchanges in the future, and in the final analysis, it is also linked to the exchange of interests.

In a sense, the women of the nobles are also somewhat similar to tools. They use interpersonal relationships as weapons to fight for the interests of their respective families.

But of course, if there are people who are full of scheming, some of them will attend the tea party with sincerity, such as Miss Patty Sharp sitting in the corner, she is the only daughter of Eastern Viscount Unor Sharp, and she is currently in the Demon King City living in the residential area, is to study.

It is worth mentioning that this Patty Sharp is a hybrid of human and blood race. It just so happens that Countess Whittier is also a blood race, so Miss Patty was lucky enough to participate in this tea party, otherwise she would Connections and energy, it was impossible for Patty to enter their social circle.

Even though she was lucky enough to sit at the table, Patty Sharp still shrank, just shrunk her head and listened to other people's conversations, and occasionally echoed when someone asked, completely unable to blend in.

Fatalia, who was clearing the snacks on the table in a high-speed but very elegant manner, also noticed the out-of-fit Miss Patty. It happened that the snacks on the table near her had been emptied, so she rolled her eyes and jumped off. Chair, walked to Patty and got down, continued to clean up the snacks on the table.

"Ugh——Why did you come to sit here, Your Highness Princess?"

Patty was a little frightened, she said softly: "Will this be a bit impolite? Mrs. Whittier will be unhappy."

Fatalia kept talking, waved her hands indifferently, then put a piece of pudding in front of Patty, and said vaguely: "Don't worry, even if I overturn the table now, others will only think It was Mrs. Whittier who offended me something, and no one dared to find fault with me."

"This, this way..."

Patty was still trembling. Looking at her frightened look, Fatalia suddenly became curious: "I don't seem to have seen you before, and I haven't heard of you. What's your name? ? Is this the first time to participate in a similar tea party?"

"Ah, it is such a princess, it is indeed the first time for me to attend such a party."

Patty was taken aback, and quickly replied: "Well, my name is Patty, Patty Sharp, and my father is Unor Sharp, Viscount of the East."

"Sharp..."

Fatalia stuffed a piece of cake into her mouth, making sure that she had never heard of this name before, probably one of the ordinary border nobles, and this Miss Patty smelled a little different, as if Is it mixed race?

"Then Patty—is it okay for me to call you like that? You can also call me Fatalia directly, ah, you should know who I am?"

"Of course, Your Royal Highness! How could anyone not recognize you!"

Patty looked flattered, "However, Fatalia...Your Highness, is it really appropriate for me to call you that?"

Fatalia still had a cold face, "I agree, so I don't need to care about other people's opinions. By the way, how old are you?"

"Age? Go back to His Royal Highness Fatalia, who just celebrated her 14th birthday three months ago,"

"That's it, so small."

Patty, who had been shivering all this time, couldn't help shaking.

Your Highness, what are you saying here with a ten-year-old face?

At this time, the other noble ladies who were sitting on the side also interjected somewhat unwillingly: "Miss Patty came to the Demon King City to go to school alone, without a servant, and now she is still living in a bad house in the residential area. pitiful."

Hearing what someone said, Patty shrank her neck in embarrassment, but what she didn't expect was that Fatalia talked to her again, and this time Fatalia turned her head away Come over, look straight at Patty's face, "Oh, that's not bad, when did you come to Demon King City to study?"

"That...was two years ago, but this year I plan to transfer to the newly established... Xinghai Academy."

Xinghai Academy is the name proposed by Fatalia. It is the first step in trying to popularize knowledge. Although there is only one experimentally opened in the Demon King City, it is expected to become an academy throughout the entire Cairns Empire in the future. The name is also because Ender's wish is the sea of ​​stars. In fact, Fatalia once suggested that the school motto be written: Our journey is the sea of ​​stars.Unfortunately, according to an unknown elf mage, the proposal has been rejected.

As a newly opened academy, it obviously doesn't have enough reputation to be compared with the aristocratic academies that had been established in Demon King City long ago, so Fatalia didn't expect that Patty would choose to transfer to Xinghai Academy.

Before the other noble ladies reacted and laughed - after all, in their eyes, Patty had given up her noble status as a nobleman and chose to mingle with commoners, Fatalia said again: "Although this school It was proposed by my father, but no matter in terms of reputation and teaching strength, it can’t compare with Andy Women’s Academy and Devil’s City Noble Academy, right? Patty, why did you choose to go there?”

Glancing at the other noble ladies with some fear, Patty replied with some hesitation: "I originally went to Andy Women's College, and I have been there for two years, but... what I teach in the school is all Etiquette, history and culture, dealing with people, magic and martial arts and other related things, I don’t have that kind of talent, and learning these things is not very useful. I heard that Xinghai Academy teaches more basic and daily knowledge, so I want to go there to study, after all, I don't plan to be famous in the social circle, I just hope to help my father."

After saying this, Patty lowered her head and kept rubbing her fingers. The noble lady sitting on the other side of Fatalia whispered in her ear: "Miss Patty's mother is a human being. Died unexpectedly in an accident a few years ago."

Fatalia blinked her eyes, and looked at this young lady who was obviously the eldest lady of the Viscount's family, but still looked timid.

After thinking for a while, Fatalia patted Patty's shoulder lightly, "Okay, Patty, don't worry, Star Sea Academy teaches a lot of practical knowledge, if you are interested in something, You can also conduct special research, the teachers in the academy don’t hate students who like to ask questions, let’s say it’s the academy opened by the father, I still understand this situation.”

In fact, many frameworks were proposed by her.

Fatalia stuck out her tongue silently in her heart, but she still didn’t show any emotion on the surface—I have to say that it’s a bit weird to comfort people with a cold face. If someone who doesn’t know the truth sees it, I’m afraid they will think Fatalia is bullying Miss Patty.

It was obvious that Patty was the older side, but Fatalia completely overwhelmed her momentum—well, at least it seemed to be the older side.

The noble ladies around are not surprised. After all, unlike Patty, they have never been in contact with the social circle. They know Fatalia very well, and they know that Her Royal Highness can gain the upper hand no matter what the situation. Belonging to the dominance of the social circle, those who are more experienced and older than her can't overwhelm her in momentum.

Although Fatalia wanted to say that it was her knowledge as a modern person that allowed her to stay in danger, but in fact, she knew that it was her indifferent temperament and indifferent expression that contributed to her perfect appearance. Seventy percent of the power is given by the more outstanding talent of the high-level succubus, and the remaining ninety percent is given by the identity of the princess of the empire.

It has to be said that in this era, a good background can almost determine everything.

The Cairns Empire is relatively friendly. In the ancient countries that have stood for a long time on the mainland, the gap between classes may be much more serious.

Fatalia's indifferent comforting words reassured Patty a little. She smiled at Fatalia, "Thank you, Your Highness Fatalia, I understand."

"Okay, so Miss Patty, what do you want to study? It's to help your father, so it should be something like economics?"

"No, Your Highness Fatalia, what I really want to study is agriculture. After all, the food production in our area is not good, and the people in the area often don't have enough to eat, and my father is always worried about this matter..."

Compared with chatting with other noble ladies, Fatalia still prefers the plain Patty. They talked a lot, and they talked even more after all the desserts prepared by the chef were eaten. In the daily life of both parties, they even started to complain about the people and things they encountered.

"Let me tell you, my father, ever since my mother passed away due to an accident, has been talking about it, always talking about weird things that people can't understand. If there is no trouble in daily life, I I really wonder if my dad has been hit too hard...I'm worried about him."

Seeing Patty's sullen look, Fatalia patted her head old-fashionedly, "Don't worry, although this kind of thing may hit people hard, don't underestimate the resilience of parents, they often Stronger than the children imagined, even if it is for you, your father will definitely come out of the shadows."

"Thank you, Your Highness Fatalia, but it seems that I should go, maybe next time I will have a chance to invite you to our house—ah, am I a little too pushy?"

Seeing that it was time for the tea party to end, Patty stood up in a hurry and said this to Fatalia nervously, while Fatalia shook her head: "Don't worry, if you want If you invite me, then I will go, don't worry about status or something, I don't care about it anyway."

After thinking for a while, Patty asked with some anticipation: "His Royal Highness... What if I invite you to our house as a friend?"

Fatalia was taken aback for a moment, and then she couldn't help but soften her voice, "Yes, if you wish so, Patty."

Patty finally showed the brightest smile since she came here, and then bowed vigorously in a manner that made people wonder if she wanted to do a front flip, "Thank you, Your Highness Fatalia! Then I Farewell first!"

"Oh, good."

Seeing that Patty seemed to have recovered, Fatalia was a little startled, and then responded vaguely, looking at Patty's back in a daze.

Perhaps this appearance is her original character. The previous shrinking performances are just the illusion of being bound by the indifferent class concept since she came to the Demon King City for two years.

Seeing that everyone else left in twos and threes, Fatalia also stood up and followed Favna into her carriage. In front of the carriage sat a big man who was both a coachman and a guard, wearing a helmet Tan En, who concealed his identity as the Headless Horseman, could probably be called a disguise. When he saw that Fatalia and Favna got into the car, he drove forward, preparing to return to the Demon King City.

"Master, is there anything worth mentioning from this gathering?"

In the carriage, Favna asked, and Fatalia touched her chin and responded, "Probably there is, should it be called a friendship?"

Fatalia rarely makes friends, and she doesn't know what a friendship between friends should feel like, but she and that Patty Sharp are getting along pretty well now, which probably counts as friends .

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Fatalia looked at her exclusive maid in a strange way, "Favna, why do you feel that you are not in the right mood?"

"No such thing, master."

"Really? I don't believe it."

"...Please stop joking, master."

"Since you don't want to say...then forget it."

The carriage of the princess of the empire is moving fast on the bluestone road. A crow that looks better than its kind is chasing the sound of the carriage in the sky. The silent knight is driving the horse. He can already see the city of the Demon King. The castle stands at the end of the road.

(The 4k chapters look a little more comfortable than the 2k... right?)

(Bounty: 4/14)

(Arrears are still rising)

Chapter 55

After returning to the castle of the Demon King City, Fatalia accidentally found an unexpected figure.

"Father...? Why are you back?"

Seeing the tall figure sitting in the study reading a book, Fatalia was a little surprised, but Ender scratched his head helplessly, "Oh, did I go out too often? Is your own daughter wondering?"

Fatalia sighed and said, "Because I know how busy you are recently."

"That's true, but..."

Ender pointed to the desk piled with all kinds of documents, "Don't give in too much, my desk is almost full of your stuff, I don't know whether I should sit down."

"Ah, this."

Fatalia pinched her earlobe in embarrassment, "I'm not very good at... sorting things out, I'll pay attention."

"It doesn't matter, as long as you can find what you need - but it's better to learn how to organize things. If you need something to be helped by others, this big table is not easy to find."

Ender turned a page of the book and continued: "Let's not talk about this, Fatalia, how are you doing?"

"Where do you mean?"

Fatalia walked to the table and sat down, and then dug out the document she wanted from the pile of things, "If you mean the structure of magic, there is really no progress in that, after all It still depends on talent, I am just an ordinary person, and I only study it in my spare time. I should relax, and I should give up recently. Paperwork is suitable for me. I really don’t have this kind of creative work. What kind of talent, leave it to the group of professionals in the Academy."

"is it?"

Ender rubbed his chin and said: "But in my opinion, Fatalia, your thinking is still very broad, don't mention those purely theoretical things like calculus, those related to politics, institutional systems, ideology, society, etc. And so on, your thinking often surprises me."

"Broad-minded...?"

"Oh...that's really surprising, but is there no magic? It's hard to imagine what kind of world it is, but it's no wonder you value the importance of population so much. If both sides are civilians without magic, then Quantity is indeed the key to victory. But without magic, it is really hard to imagine that the mathematics of that world would be so advanced, even farther than what we have gone here."

Now Ender was really amazed. He didn't expect that Fatalia could obtain knowledge from the abyss, let alone that this knowledge came from another world, but what surprised him most was that there was an unidentified The world of magic, frankly speaking, he can't imagine how that world works at all, how do people living in that world overcome the dangers of nature without relying on magic?

Fatalia couldn't see Ender's surprise, she continued, "I think it is precisely because there is no magic in that world that other fields have developed more rapidly. If magic can open mountains and crack rocks, then it is difficult for ordinary people. Thinking of how to smash boulders without using magic, let alone try this kind of thing. After all, it would be good to let a mage do it. If magic can cure diseases, then many corresponding herbs will be ignored by people. After all, it is only a basic The problems that life magic can solve, if magic can move quickly, then people will not worry about how to get to the far side - in fact, they don't need to go that far. In the final analysis, magic brings many conveniences , but it also took away many possibilities of people. In the world without magic, people can only hope in other fields if they want to survive. Therefore, in fields other than magic participation, people in that world are far away. Much deeper than here."

"Oh, that's right, that's why."

Ender's eyes flickered. Obviously, what Fatalia said made him think. Now Fatalia noticed it. After all, the two obvious red lights are constantly adjusting the brightness, and anyone can Seeing it, she quickly added: "Father, don't think too much, there is no magic in that world, and our world has such convenient things, so there are many things that cannot be generalized, no matter what I propose My opinion or the knowledge of that world cannot be directly used without thinking, and the actual situation here must be considered. The only thing I can think of that can be used directly is mathematics, such as the ones I proposed. Regarding the idea of ​​the law and system, isn’t your father the king who has undergone many revisions and can hardly see the original appearance?”