My Art Style is Unique 73

Title: Blonde Father, Black-Haired Child?

A group of knights whose strength was comparable to high-class adventurers approached Eris, Yunyun, and Iris.

“Y-you... excuse me, what business do you have?” Yunyun was the first to ask, remembering the major incident just yesterday where two leaders of the Devil King’s army had attacked the Crimson Demon Village with many monsters, and now suddenly a group of uninvited guests had arrived. It was only natural for ordinary people to be wary like Yunyun.

“Your Highness Princess Iris!”

However, the entire group of knights didn’t answer, or rather only one female knight with a rather strange helmet lunged towards Iris!

“Cla-Claire!? Why are you here!?” Seeing the figure attacking, Iris let out a confused sound as if recognizing the person.

“Of course, for Her Highness Princess Iris! Come here, let me see if there are any injuries on your body?”

Claire acted like a worried old mother, not even caring about the strange gazes of the people around them and directly checked Iris’s body, making Iris’s face slightly flushed.

Then, a tight hug occurred!

“O-ouch! My bad! Your Highness Princess Iris! This is my impudence! Please let go, my ribs are almost broken!”

Iris’s arm strength was indeed not as great as Ethan’s, but she was on par with someone who could sumo wrestle a bear. Even without exerting her full strength, she could hug Claire until she screamed in pain.

At that moment, a voice suddenly sounded, making all the knights wary...

“New faces, huh?”

Wearing casual black clothes, Ethan walked closer without paying attention to anyone else, his cold gaze sweeping over all the knights present one by one, then said with a disdainful tone, “Aren’t you the guys I recently left sprawled on the ground? How about it? Want to try again?”

*SWISH!*

Almost simultaneously, the knights, provoked by their emotions, drew their knightly swords, the tips pointing directly at Ethan.

A tense and chilling atmosphere began to spread...

In response to this, the first person to react wasn’t Iris, but Claire!

“Don’t be insolent! The person in front of you is the new ruler of Axel, and also a powerful adventurer who has defeated many of the Devil King’s Generals, everyone lower your weapons!”

A higher rank suppressed the others, especially since Claire’s rank was much higher than these knights. So, a second after she spoke, the knights could only reluctantly sheathe their swords.

This actually made Ethan raise his eyebrows with interest. He initially thought the opposing side planned to forcibly bring Iris back, but it seemed the matter wasn’t that simple...

However, now that he thought about it, if the opposing side really wanted to forcibly bring Iris back, they wouldn’t have waited until today after so long. Perhaps after these knights were defeated by Ethan, their superiors secretly allowed Iris to leave on her own, so Ethan’s life since then had remained peaceful.

But if that was the case, what happened that they had to come in such a hurry now?

“Hah~, please forgive us, due to many things happening in the kingdom lately, they are a bit emotional, please understand, Ethan-sama...”

Claire walked closer to Ethan and lowered her head in greeting, making Ethan even more interested.

“It seems, you specifically investigated me?”

It should be noted that the spread of news in this other world was very slow. Let alone others, just take Sylvia from before, just because Kazuma carelessly pretended to be Ethan, she immediately misidentified the person. It wasn’t because Sylvia was stupid, but because the spread of news was too slow, even detailed information about Ethan couldn’t be obtained.

This situation also applied to the kingdom, it could even be said that Ethan’s real face had to be drawn on parchment before it could be described. One could imagine how slow the spread of news was in this world!

Even though Ethan was a powerful adventurer who had defeated the Devil King’s Generals, it should have been impossible for the opposing side to recognize him directly, let alone be this respectful.

“That’s right, sir is a famous figure in our kingdom now! Not only have you defeated Dullahan Verdia and the Mobile Fortress Destroyer, but you have also defeated the masked devil Vanir who broke into the royal palace, and now you have defeated two of the Devil King’s Generals, moreover one of them was the Evil God who made His Majesty the King and the Prince suffer...”

The evil god being referred to was of course Wolbach. According to Claire’s explanation, supposedly Wolbach on the battlefield recently had beaten the King and the Prince badly, even forcing them to retreat from the front lines.

And this incident was the reason Claire and the others came here looking for Iris.

“After His Majesty the King and the Prince retreated from the front lines, they temporarily returned to the royal palace to recuperate, but...” Reaching this point, even Claire felt a bit embarrassed.

And it wasn’t just her, after hearing the next words, even Ethan, Eris, and Yunyun wore strange expressions.

Simply put, Iris’s father, the king of this kingdom, was a father who loved his daughter very much.

Having been thoroughly beaten by Wolbach, he chose to temporarily return to the royal palace with the intention of finding his beloved daughter to replenish his “daughter energy.” However, upon returning, he didn’t even find a single strand of Iris’s hair. Then, after asking, he learned that his beloved daughter had actually run away from the royal palace!

Initially, the king wanted to immediately bring a large army to make trouble for Ethan, but the prince, after learning of the king’s strange idea of loving his daughter so much, immediately came himself to stop the king. After all, the threat of the Devil King’s army still loomed, how could he ignore the safety of the entire kingdom just because of a momentary impulse!?

Then, he painstakingly persuaded the king until his mouth foamed, just to prevent the king from taking an army to search for his daughter!

As a result, the king had long disliked this prince, and even planned to use this incident to show his power, preparing to drag this prince directly to the gallows and execute him on the spot, with the reason being...

“It must be because I’ve been spending my time with you, you illegitimate child, lately, causing my beloved little daughter Iris to feel lonely and leave the kingdom! So, as long as you are eliminated! My beloved Iris will definitely return!”

This reason...

Everyone present maintained strange expressions on their faces, only Iris sighed, looking a little tired and helpless.

“Father has always been like that...”

This kingdom with such a strange king hasn’t been destroyed by the Devil King’s army yet, it’s truly strange, isn’t it?

Oh, by the way, the prince who supposedly had ancestral symptoms not only didn’t have the blonde hair passed down through generations of the royal family and nobles, but also had black hair like the transmigrated hero candidates.

Blonde father, black-haired child, no wonder he would be beheaded by his own father!