The Sun King's Evidence

Ryan's feelings about Sylvia are actually quite complicated.

On the one hand, Sulia's maid has always been difficult to deal with. She often confronts him, and often criticizes some of his practices and things that are not in line with noble etiquette, which makes Ryan feel a little headache.

On the other hand, what Sylvia did was not unreasonable. What Ryan did was indeed inconsistent with aristocratic etiquette. Sylvia's criticism of him was justified, and she did not dominate her power. When Ryan After she came back, she did hand over all her power very readily.

So this chick is having trouble with herself! This is Ryan's perception, that is, she is not maliciously opposing herself, but is just expressing her dissatisfaction through this method.

So where does Sylvia’s core dissatisfaction lie?

Ryan felt that he had too many female courtiers and maids, which caused the maid's dissatisfaction.

"What's wrong, Sylvia, what's going on with you?" Ryan felt that something was obviously wrong with Sylvia, but she just didn't want to say it. The Duke himself approached the maid in small steps and squatted down: "What's wrong? ?”

"Don't, don't come here~" Sylvia's face was red. She seemed to be trying her best to endure something. Seeing Ryan approaching, her face couldn't help but panic. She wanted to move but felt weak all over. She could only He kept trying to stop him: "Don't come over!"

"What's going on?" Ryan became even more worried. He walked closer quickly, held Sylvia's wrist rather domineeringly, stretched out a hand and put it on her forehead: "You have a good face. It's red, but I don't have a fever."

"Well!" Sylvia struggled hard. The maid wanted to push Ryan away with her hands, but Ryan's body was as strong as a dwarf-reinforced city wall and could not be pushed at all: "You, let me go. You guy, don’t do this!”

"Then tell me, what's going on? Are you feeling unwell?" Ryan found that Sylvia did not have a fever, nor was she unconscious or corrupted, but her face was very red, so he pulled the head maid away. When I got up, I found that Sylvia was still a little unsteady: "What happened? Do you want me to ask the Lake God Prophet or the doctor from Saliya Hospital to take a look at you?"

"No, I'm really fine." Sylvia's face turned redder, and she shook her head desperately: "I'm just a little tired."

"You won't tell me?" Ryan smiled maliciously. He held the head maid's wrist: "If you don't tell me, I will..."

Today's head maid is wearing a standard black and white maid uniform and a knight's sword. However, it is slightly different from the dark elves. The dark elves always look quite coquettish in this maid uniform, while Sylvia wears She still looked very heroic and serious in her maid uniform. Even her beautiful legs under the maid skirt were wearing slightly thick white velvet stockings, paired with standard black leather shoes with a slight heel. She blushed, purple There was some helplessness and anger in his eyes: "My Lord Duke, please respect yourself!"

"Self-respect?" Ryan knew how stubborn Sulia's maid was. He thought for a moment and felt that forcing too much might be counterproductive, so he let go of Sylvia and complained: "You are Su Leah’s maid, Sylvia, do you want me to respect myself?”

"Hmm~" Sylvia also felt that there was something wrong with what she said. As Sulia's dowry, she should have been Ryan's possession. It was wrong from any angle to let him respect himself.

But thinking of this, the head maid felt an unknown fire rising in her heart. She snorted, bit her lip, then lowered her hands in front of her and reluctantly stood up: "Okay, we have wasted a lot of time... I …”

Before she finished speaking, Sylvia squatted down again: "Hmm~"

Ryan sighed softly and clapped his hands: "Come here!"

"Yes! My Duke, what are your orders?" Immediately in the castle, a maid walked up quickly. This maid, who was only fifteen or sixteen years old, was extremely happy when she saw Ryan taking the initiative to give orders: "Please give me orders."

"Go and tell Count Dulin and Count Larot that I have something to do tonight and the meeting will be rescheduled to tomorrow night." Ryan said lightly: "Go now."

"Wait!" Sylvia said quickly: "I'm fine. The meeting in the evening is a big deal. Don't delay the meeting because of me."

"This..." The maid hesitated because when Ryan was away, due to Sulia's pregnancy, everything in the entire castle was actually managed by Sylvia. At this time, she faced different orders from the Duke and the head maid. , she didn't know what to do.

But Ryan's prestige was unmatched after all. The maid finally bowed to Ryan to express her understanding, and then left quickly. No matter how Sylvia shouted, it was useless.

"Okay, can you tell me now what's going on?" Ryan walked to Sylvia again and squatted down. The Duke smiled and said: "Because of you, the evening meeting has been cancelled, dear Sylvia." Via, do you still want to cancel tomorrow’s meeting because of your resistance?”

"...This is not the same thing!" The head maid looked at Ryan with resentful eyes.

"Now, this is the same thing. Sylvia, my head maid, your refusal to cooperate really bothers me. It really bothers me." Ryan smiled and said: "If the maids are as uncooperative as you, as a Duke, I How to get work done?”

"No, not here." Sylvia's face turned green and white for a while. She finally gave in. The head maid whispered: "Change another place."

"Okay." Ryan picked up Sylvia.

A few minutes later, the guest room on the third floor of the castle.

Ryan put Sylvia on the sofa chair, and then the Duke sat opposite her and said with a smile: "Now, can you say it?"

"Yes... it was your personal dark elf maid who did it!" Sylvia leaned weakly on the sofa chair, trying to sit up straight. The maid blushed and said in a hateful voice: "She is right I moved my hands and feet!"

"Why? Olika promised me that she wouldn't cause trouble. Did you provoke her? Sylvia, I need you to tell me the truth." Ryan still felt a little strange after hearing this, and he immediately asked : "Otherwise I can't help you."

As if remembering something unbearable, the maid pretended to blush even more. She gritted her teeth and said, "I just entered her place."

"You entered the Pale Courtyard?!" Ryan understood immediately, and the Duke immediately asked: "Isn't it because it is the place where Orika makes potions and conducts magic experiments, so no one is allowed to enter without invitation? ?”

"So what? This is a critical moment. How can I allow a restricted area in the castle that cannot guarantee safety?" Sylvia twisted her body uncomfortably, and she tried hard to continue: "Two days ago , I finally found a chance to go in, but the dark elf actually discovered my intention..."

Sylvia slowly told Ryan what happened.

Sylvia was discovered by Olika immediately after entering the Pale Courtyard. The dark elf was of course dissatisfied with someone breaking into her territory regardless of the ban. Ryan's personal maid and the head maid immediately had a duel in the Pale Courtyard. .

"Did you lose?" Ryan was a little funny. As the master, he knew the strength level of the dark elves best.

"I was no match for her...she defeated me and tied me to the shelf." Sylvia was very embarrassed when she said those humiliating words, but she still finished: "She said, she said if it was... Someone broke into her courtyard, and she was sure to cut off his limbs to make an experiment, but she couldn't do that to me, so she...she took out a pink potion and applied it to some parts of my... He smeared it and put a curse on it, then let me go, and I... became what I am now."

"Okay, I understand. I will tell Orica about this, but Sylvia, you must also pay attention. Orica established the Pale Courtyard with my permission. She can't be so self-righteous next time. "Ryan frowned slightly, thinking that both parties were wrong in this matter. Sylvia should not have broken into the Pale Courtyard without Olika's permission, but Olika should not have used lynching: "But What are you going to do now? Let Orika help you prepare the antidote?"

"No...the dark elf said that there is only one way to cure this medicine."

"You want to do something like that?" Ryan frowned, what is this?

"No, it's not what you think. You just need to..." The head maid shook her head vigorously, and then she told the dark elf's trick on how to temporarily undo the effects of the medicine and Orica's curse.

It was indeed a vicious trick. After hearing this, Ryan knew what the dark elf had in mind.

It is true that only Ryan can help with this.

"Oh well."

…………I am the dividing line between evil little tricks……

Twenty minutes later, inside the castle, the Lady's Garden.

Ryan walked in the garden with his hands behind his back. Sylvia in maid uniform was blushing and following behind with some unsteady steps. From time to time, she thought of the previous things in her mind, and every time she thought about it, she felt like her brain was tingling. Smoke can cause you to faint at any time.

"Feeling better? Sylvia?" Ryan looked at the midsummer night sky and listened to the cicadas in the garden. The expression on the Duke's face was a bit painful.

It was such a special way to detoxify and break the curse. He really didn't know whether to praise the dark elf for her fantastic ideas or criticize her for her randomness.

"Much better, thank you, Mr. Ryan." Sylvia blushed: "I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble and delaying the evening meeting."

"Nothing, by the way, can I call you Sylvie? Just like Sulia called you?" The muscles on Ryan's face twitched slightly, and he said casually.

The Duke felt that it was time that he should figure things out.

"If you insist." Sylvia lowered her head. After what happened just now, she felt that she had no face to look at Ryan.

"I always feel that you... seem to hate me, Sylvie." Ryan smiled bitterly. He and Sylvia have known each other for many years. It has been almost ten years since he arrived in the Knight Kingdom. Sylvie Ya has also grown from a fifteen-year-old girl to a twenty-five-year-old woman, but the only thing that remains unchanged is her attitude: "It's been the same for all these years."

"...I have never hated you, Mr. Ryan. You are the embodiment of chivalrous virtues. Your strength, glory, and wisdom have saved this country in times of crisis. You have proven your strength time and time again. You are flawless, I have nothing but respect and admiration for you." Sylvia immediately rejected Ryan's point of view, and she added anxiously: "I swear to you, madam!"

"Then you think I'm not worthy of your lady?" Ryan knew that Sylvia wouldn't lie, so he continued to ask.

"Is there a better marriage partner than you in this kingdom?" Sylvia denied Ryan's point of view. The head maid shook her head repeatedly: "I will not lie to myself. Your marriage with the lady is successful and happy. , even I can’t find anything wrong with you, the young lady is the future queen, you are indeed very nice to her, I have no problem with it.”

"Um...then you think I have many women besides Lidya Su? That's why you don't like me?" Ryan was a little embarrassed. He was really sorry for Lidya Su in this regard, so he made a promise to Lidya Su before the marriage. , there will be no more people, the female knight also agreed.

"... His Excellency, Duke Francois, has twice as many female courtiers as you. As a Duke, you only have two female courtiers, Lady Teresa and Lady Veronica. This number is the smallest among the Dukes. Yes, of course I feel sorry for the lady, but I also know that there is nothing I can do about it. I have never hated you because of this matter." Sylvia still denied: "As for the maid, even more so, what happened to you The only ones who have had a relationship from beginning to end are Ms. Emilia and that dark elf, right?”

So why do you dislike me? ! Ryan cursed in his heart, thinking that he must understand this matter today, and then resolve the misunderstanding, and everything will be happy for his family.

The hot night wind of midsummer blew through the garden, swaying back and forth in the sea of ​​purple and gold flowers. Normally, the flowering season of iris is May, which has long passed by this time, but both the Lake Fairy and Sulia like iris, so Under the divine power of the goddess, the irises in the garden of the Duke's castle bloom for several months.

Gorgeous, bright and free, it also symbolizes love. Ryan felt the faint fragrance of flowers. He thought about it and asked: "So, is it because of my policy? You don't like me establishing the old guard and promoting serfs. Introducing dwarven technology?”

"No, I agree with Mr. Lane's point of view, and I also think this country needs to change." Sylvia still denied.

"???" Ryan was really confused now. After thinking for a long time, he felt that there was no other reason.

Ryan's identity is no longer what it used to be. As the most powerful man in Britannia, if he continues to ask questions one after another, he will lose his value and appear frivolous. The chosen champion of the Fairy in the Lake thought to himself that he should think about it again and think about it. Please ask again.

Silence fell in the garden.

"..." Seeing that Ryan stopped asking, the head maid showed a look of concern on her face. She thought for a while, then gritted her teeth and whispered: "I have never been dissatisfied with you before, Mr. Ryan, if I say so, That also started three years ago.”

three years ago? Ryan thought to himself, wasn't that the time when he and Lidya Su were getting married?

But Sylvia also said that she didn’t think Lidya Su was not worthy of her, nor did she think she was sorry for Lidya Su because she had many women.

So the question comes back again, why was Sylvia dissatisfied with herself three years ago?

Ryan thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure out why.

"I didn't expect that His Excellency Ryan Malcador, who is always famous in the old world for his iron will, excellent internal affairs ability, superb army command ability and outstanding personal bravery, would actually be unable to understand such a trivial matter." Sylvia's Her tone became cold again, and she turned to leave: "Okay, it's time for me to go back."

"Wait a minute!" Ryan thought that I was going to figure out the problem today: "Sylvie, don't rush back. This is a rare opportunity. Come hang out with me! We can go to the Holy Grail Praise Bar in the center of Jean Town for a drink. One cup.”

"...Is this a formal invitation? Or an order?" The head maid said in a firm tone: "Can I refuse?"

"This is my sincere invitation. I find that we really rarely have time to spend alone together." Ryan said sincerely: "I think we need to communicate."

"...I'll go back and change clothes." The head maid finally relented.

"Ok, I will wait for you."

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