True King's Ecstasy

Sariya didn't know why Daphnia asked such a weird question but it was almost like she knew something a mother shouldn't know.

"Damn it, does she know I'm attracted to her son? She must be really angry," Sariya started to build her own imagination thinking about how she would react if an old man started flirting with her dear daughter.

"I need to talk with her and apologies, she must be creeped out by me," For a moment, she forgot how abnormal Velian's and Daphnia's relationship is because of her panic.

"That was a great dinner, Sariya,"

"Thank you for entertaining us,"

Everyone got up while giving compliments to Sariya, but just like Velian she didn't take them to herself, instead, she introduced her new staff which helped her to accomplish all these things.

They were so happy to be recognized like that, and it was rather apparent by how wholesome their smile was.

Someone appreciating their hard work like that was something, they experience for the first time so their loyalty quickly skyrocketed to both Sariya and Velian.

"Sariya, where's Elda? I thought she will be with us when we are taking dinner," on their way to the bedrooms, Velian questioned because he expected Elda to stick by his side the moment he appeared.

"I don't know what I'm going to do with that girl," Sariya said with a tired look.

"She's not acting like a noble daughter at all,"

Velian wondered what this was about, but when he heard Sariya's next words, he couldn't help but say that was very Elda-like.

She had been helping the newly established orphanage without even caring about day and night.

"That's so like her, but if she decided to be a nun, it would be problematic," Daphnia said.

"She won't, don't worry about that, besides she loves Ve-" Sariya quickly closed her mouth like, it wasn't something she was supposed to say and looked at others, only to see her words go unheard by them.

"When are you going to leave? I know it's not a polite question to ask, but I need to know," Sariya wanted to give a big farewell party for her and her land's future king.

"No fixed date, but we might need to because the empire is getting ready for something,"

Velian didn't want to lose Pete after all this time, he wanted to behead both Andriya and Pete at the same time, since it will be the only way that her sister can quench her thirst for revenge.

It was a rather long walk along the hallway, but in the end, they were given separate luxury rooms, but it didn't stop Daphnia and Lyra from sneaking into Velian's bed.

Even if they are in a stranger's place, they couldn't sleep separately because of how used they are to each other's company.

"I hope Delviny is doing ok," Velian muttered before going to sleep, to which Daphnia just reacted with a nod and they went to sleep.

On the next day, first thing Velian did was visit the town and sightseeing. On his way, he greeted many people but since he was in disguise, nobody managed to identify him.

It didn't take him a long time to approach the orphanage where Elda is supposed to be working, thanks to guidance from the normal civilians.

"Don't run, I have to go back so please don't make a mess," As soon as he arrive at the gate, he heard the voice he was dying to hear.

"Looks like they are giving her a hard time," Thinking about how to deal with this situation, he approached the door and knocked on it hoping Elda would answer but unlike what he thought, a boy who was no older than five years old opened it with a confused look.

"Who are you, old man?" Velian felt a crack in his heart when he heard the word 'old man' but he cursed his disguise for making him look like that.

"Can I meet miss Elda? I'm a friend of hers," I politely asked.

"Sister Elda is busy, she has no time," It was rather apparent that these kids didn't want to let her go so, Velian had to take things into his own hands.

"If you call sister Elda right now, I will buy you candy, not a normal candy but something special,"

Lucky for Velian, the kid fell for the oldest trick in the book, but the most dangerous one.

"I should ask Elda to teach them not to take anything from strangers," He didn't want to see unsavoury things in his kingdom, so he decided to improve the education as well.

"Hmm~ maybe, I should start a school with Elda as the principal,"

He formed several lands on his mind on his way to meet Elda. But when he approached her, he saw the funniest thing he had seen.

Elda looked like she didn't sleep for months with all the sleeping bags under her eyes. Kids were trying to pull her both sides with so much effort that she had actually given up leaving the building.

"Big sister, don't go, don't leave us,"

Velian observed how she was really loved by all these kids.

'She will be a great mother one day'

With those thoughts in his mind, he slowly approached her and quickly gave a greeting like a stranger.

"Big sister, this old man said he knows you, I brought him here," Seeing my figure Elda jumped from her chair with a cautious look, but when I removed my disguise her eyes shot out of her eye pockets.

"Veli!" Dragging all the kids, that was hanging on her, she hugged him rather tightly showing her affection.

"Elda, you should get some sleep, take good care of your body," Patting her head, Velian muttered under curious gazes of all the kids but all the girls in the room had the same expression like they were star-struck.

"It's a hero!" Quickly they forgot about Elda and started to swarm around Velian hoping they would get to touch their idol.

"Big sister, what is your relationship with our hero?" As soon as they realised, their normal sister wasn't that normal, they couldn't keep their curious gazes to themselves as everyone started to question her.

Else hesitated to answer, but Velian quickly interfered and gave an answer that shocked Elda.

"I'm her boyfriend,"