Reborn as the Princess' Knight (GL)

Chapter 73: A spar with the Hero (II).

Kein's POV

"The holy sword is now mine, contracted and all. Not even the church's preaches would be able to take my rights to the weapon." I take the holy sword out of my [Storage Ring] and show it to Avery who has been really looking forward to seeing it.

Its lightweight, sharp straight blade, golden cross-guard and by its pommel inside of it is an expensive looking gem. Truly its appearance would give off the quality of a holy sword.

"That's basically stealing, which I'm pretty sure the light goddess wouldn't want one of her believers doing." I tell Rose who looks a little conflicted at first seeing that her heart and beliefs are often tied to the church.

"Can I hold it?! I promise to not drop it and stuff!" (Avery) asks and I did what she told and gave her the holy sword, while it rested a few seconds in her hands slowly the appearance changed.

"Huh?!" she says looking so shocked, placing her hand over the sword and chanting [Scan]. It appears that it became a normal sword with normal stats that you can easily buy in a middle end blacksmith shop. "The stats are just... Normal now? I guess your story about it turning into a normal weapon when you don't have it is true."

She frowns holding it by the silver hilt and tries giving it a quick swing inside the room. "I don't feel any holy power in this now. Just a boring old sword that you can find anywhere."

"I told you, I found this at some random dungeon exploration for an assignment we had at the knight academy." I told Avery who was still swinging the sword in her hands. "And stop swinging that sword around! Even if it's not a holy weapon it could still hurt someone!" I yell at her and she puts the sword down into the small table in front.

Especially me, if that sword dare slips by her hands and into my direction. Cuts and such are not an easy thing to heal with magic.

I have to rely on ointment and other natural remedies.

"You're quite right then, this must be a special sword. Choosing you as the owner despite taking affinity in dark magic is truly peculiar. I've heard holy weapons are more keen for people who have light magic." (Rose) stares at me, going up and down trying to understand how such a weapon has gotten attached to me. "So it ponders me truly, how can you be able to possess such a thing?"

"I dated someone with light magic. Would that explain it? I mean dating a light princess, perhaps some of your magic got into me." I leaned in closer to tease the princess and I could see her lips curving into a smile before she pushed my body away from her trying not to look so happy.

"Flattering, dear." She coughs a little covering her faint blush in her cheeks.

"But- clearly the sword chose you for having the light guarding you... somewhere within you? Outside of you perhaps?" (Rose) continues and I didn't even think that some light protection would be with me.

Considering that I didn't meet any light deity when I was being into Kein's body. No one gave me the same speech as Avery and I doubt the light goddess would take interest in me now. I didn't have a mission or order to follow.

"And you call me overpowered." (Avery) snickers a little in my direction, pointing a finger at me. "You have a cursed sword and a holy sword! And look at you having a light princess as a lover! Don't you think you're living the best life over here?" She assumes such a thing.

Rose hearing her name being put onto the things making my life the best she looks away looking bashful. That was rather cute but-

If you've only met my Aunt, Avery.

You would be thrilled to be enjoying imagining punching her pompous prickly ass to a pulp.

"Before all this, I would say I had a pretty rough set of months coming through the world. Trying to learn everything from the world through books might I add that the kingdom is pretty biased." I recall the old books that I've read regarding demons and how... oddly hateful they are towards them.

"My old family- well Kein's old family was horrible and so are the servants."

Aunt Haren was not an enjoyable person to have around the house, locking me inside a broom closet full of broken shards that I didn't even dare clean up for I feared she'll be breaking another bottle to fill the room with it.

My Uncle who is her husband, hell I've never seen him come out of his study. The only times that he did was when it was time for dinner and I've been assigned to clean up the dishes before he runs back to his cave.

Lucas... don't even get me started on Lucas, recently hearing from Lenard that this bitch dare have the balls to force my favorite cousin to come out just because of a photo he took.

He even gave me horrible memories in the knight academy, for two years straight he made sure to make my time there a living hell.

Lenard was the only good thing that came out of that hell hole. He gave me support when I needed it, he never stopped trying to keep in touch with me and he occasionally sends me yuri books he ordered from [Sprivanto].

I take the holy sword from the table and store it back to my [Storage Ring].

"Well everything is well now. I have my own place to call home, friends I consider family and treasures that can't be replaced so easily." I sneakily have my hand go over to Rose's before I hold it tightly in a lover's hold. "I've had my shares of struggles before getting here, for a person that got transported to another world I'm doing fine on my own."

Avery stares at our hands being tangled together and pouts.

"Bragging about your love life is unfair, but- you guys are too cute." She stands up from the couch walking over into the balcony, taking some of the mana potions in her hand and opening the door.

"Though I'm bored! Wanna fight and test out if potions work on you now?" she shows the glistening liquid inside the glass bottles and I was hoping that she would forget about the sparring.

"You want to go out using the balcony door?" (Rose) asks and Avery raises an eyebrow at her words.

"Please princess, I'm pretty sure when it comes to royals like you who have to sneak out to meet with their commoner girlfriend you have to at least escape out of your room using a balcony at least once?" (Avery) sassily places a hand over her waist and waits for the princess to answer back to defend herself but Rose looks away not meeting her eye.

She really did that?!

"Wait, you actually escaped out of your room using one of the castle balconies? Just to meet me?" I point to myself simply shocked on knowing and a little happy that she was willing to escape through a balcony just to get to me.

"Once... or twice, yes." (Rose) answers with an embarrassed expression and it felt like she was lying.

​ "Something tells me your girlfriend here is lying." (Avery) crosses her arms and stares at Rose as if she's clearly being suspicious.

Rose bites her lips and I was actually excited to know how many times she tried to get out of her room in the castle using the balcony door just to visit me because I mean... Isn't that actually a little sweet?

Living the romance of forbidden love is exciting.

"Fine... If you must know I have used the balcony door a lot on escaping to get to the city that I've lost count."

Avery smiles feeling that she's won.

"So come on let's go out to the balcony door! More exciting that way! Have you ever seen how anime main characters use this kind of exit?!" she's already by the edge of the balcony getting ready to jump out.

"Avery, we're literally on the third floor of my estate!"

I shake my head at her suggestion to come down using the balcony. If I'm going to battle her out just to test if these potions work on me I might as well use the front door like a normal person would. "No, thanks. I'll take the door and you should too. If any of my servants see you jumping down there I might have some random rumor that I pushed you off next."

"Are your servants extreme gossipers? They ruin my fun." (Avery) complains following us to the door. I opened it feeling that our talk about the plans to venture out into the demon lands were over and now we're just going out to test some things.

"If you only know how much they gossip, but I can't fire them for such a silly reason. Gossips don't harm someone, all in the fun. In my country I've actually lived gossiping with your neighbors as one of their favorite pastimes." I tell her about the stories of my home, we would call these women that love to spread rumors around 'Marites' and they truly like getting ahead of the news out of everyone.

It's part of our culture, it's especially exciting for them if the news were something dirty they've got to talk about.

Girl being pregnant? Who's the father?

This very successful cousin is actually gay?

The couple next door is getting a divorce?

Oh will they talk about it for hours.

"Well in my country talking behind someone's back could get you a lawsuit on the ready." (Avery) tells me casually and I was slightly speechless actually seeing how different we were on how we view things due to our old earth culture.

I'm not going to lie... Is this how it is in America during Avery's time?

I'm rather scared. I feel our America in my time was different… they certainly didn't have that!