I'm Your Friend Too

Fang Li and Emilia were walking slowly along the main road leading to the city gates of the royal city.

During the entire time, neither of them spoke.

Fang Li was waiting for Emilia to speak.

Emilia, was desperately trying to figure out what to say to Fang Li.

This resulted in the emergence of this silence.

Fang Li is the kind of person who doesn't care about anything.

As long as he feels comfortable, Fang Li wouldn't find it annoying even if he remained silent all day.

However, Emilia had a lot to say to Fang Li.

But because she had so much to say, Emilia didn't know what to say first.

Therefore, a silent atmosphere permeated the space between the two, making their footsteps clearly audible.

Perhaps sensing that things couldn't continue like this, Emilia could only awkwardly speak up.

"To be honest, I really didn't expect you to become Royal Guard Knight."

This was indeed Emilia's true thought.

Although she didn't know much about Fang Li's background, Emilia knew at least that Fang Li was definitely not a famous nobleman.

However, most of the members of the Royal Guard Knights were prominent figures from noble families.

Reinhard, for example, was Knight Among Knights, born into a family of Sword Saint.

This is not because the kingdom favors the nobles, but because, like the Sword Saint family, which has a blessing passed down through generations, many noble children of noble blood are also blessed by nature, possessing a certain blessing or talent from birth.

As a result, most of the members of the Royal Guard Knights were naturally from noble families, or even all of them.

Fang Li was able to join the Royal Guard Knights as a commoner of unknown origin for two reasons. First, the Earl Roswaal personally acknowledged his status as Emilia's knight, one of the candidates for the throne. Second, he made the dragon appear before all the high-ranking officials of the kingdom, achieving this miracle. Only then did he become Royal Guard Knight after being recognized by Marcos, the Grand Master of the Royal Guard Knights.

Otherwise, putting everything else aside, how could a title that increases all attributes by 30 points and has the additional effect of Knight's Sword be obtained so easily?

Everything has a cause and effect.

"I hadn't expected this either," Fang Li Emilia, adding, "You also think it's not right for me, right?"

"No, that's not true." Emilia shook her head and said quite seriously, "I think it suits you very well."

Because it was you who protected me in the audience hall.

Faced with the wickedness of human nature.

Thinking about this, Emilia seemed to finally calm herself down.

Their footsteps quietly came to a halt.

Noticing that Emilia had stopped, Fang Li also stopped and turned around to face Emilia amidst the whistling of his clothes.

At the same time, Emilia's gaze also fell upon them.

Fang Li immediately went to greet him.

In this situation, their dark eyes and purplish-red eyes locked in a deep gaze.

All the words, though unspoken, were revealed silently.

Emilia then spoke.

"Thank you," Emilia said with some guilt. "And, I'm sorry."

The former refers to Fang Li standing up for him.

For Emilia suffers from rejection and disgust, the thing she desires most is fairness.

A fair perspective.

A fair evaluation.

Fair and just remarks.

Treat them fairly.

These were things Emilia had longed for but could never obtain.

But today, Fang Li helped Emilia obtain these things she had always dreamed of.

So Emilia said thank you to the Fang Li.

As for the apology, that's for the Cavaliers incident.

"Wasn't that something Roswaal decided on his own initiative?"

Emilia clenched one hand tightly in front of her, her gaze fixed on Fang Li, filled with apology.

"I knew nothing about this. If I had known, I would have stopped it."

After all, the last thing Emilia wanted to see was Fang Li getting involved in her affairs.

Especially the path of the Royal Selection, which is an extremely demanding one for a silver-haired Half-Elf.

Just look at the behavior of those high-ranking officials and dignitaries before.

If Fang Li hadn't stood up for Fang Li, who knows how many hurtful things these people would have said, how many obstacles they would have put in Emilia, and how much of Emilia's chance of ascending the throne would have been lost.

"As a result, not only did I drag you into this, but I also made you stand up for me." Emilia said with a somewhat somber expression, "It's all my fault, I'm really sorry."

After he finished speaking, silence returned to this space once more.

Fang Li listened quietly to Emilia's words until Emilia finished speaking, at Fang Li sighed.

"You really are the type of person who easily suffers losses."

This is the evaluation given.

"Huh?" Emilia was stunned.

"Isn't that right?" Fang Li curled his lip and said, "You'd rather suffer so much hardship and harsh words than ask others for help. The current outcome is clearly a happy one for everyone, yet you insist on apologizing for mistakes that weren't your fault. Isn't that a loss for you?"

"But... but I really dragged you into this," Emilia quickly said. "You didn't want to get involved in the Royal Selection, did you?"

Therefore, this is by no means a happy ending for everyone.

However, before Emilia could finish her sentence, Emilia cut Fang Li off.

"I think you've got it wrong," Fang Li said. "From beginning to end, I never said I didn't want to get involved in the Royal Selection. It was you who didn't want to involve me, so I just went along with you and didn't want to go against your wishes."

One sentence Emilia speechless.

That's right.

Fang Li never said that he did not want to get involved in Royal Selection's affairs.

Each time Emilia Fang Li Royal Selection, Fang Li seemed to have seen through Emilia's thoughts in advance and withdrew directly.

Then, Fang Li's explanation was as follows.

"Anyway, you wouldn't want this to happen, would you?"

In other words, Fang Li simply didn't want to go against Emilia's wishes and act on his own.

Since Emilia doesn't want her to get involved in the Royal Selection, then she has no reason to get involved.

This has always been Fang Li's idea.

"If you had asked me for help from the beginning, I probably would have intervened much earlier."

Fang Li smiled at Emilia and said this.

"After all, even if I weren't a knight, I'm still your friend."

Upon hearing these words, Emilia's hand, which was raised in front of her, tightened slowly, and tears began to well up in her purple eyes.