This winter seemed especially long.
At least, that was how it felt to those living in the Royal Capital Yeluf.
Recently, temperatures around Royal Capital Yeluf had plunged sharply. The skies had turned gray, and cold snow had even begun to fall.
It seemed to foreshadow something. The atmosphere throughout Royal Capital Yeluf no longer displayed its usual luxury and prosperity, instead becoming somewhat bleak and desolate.
Pedestrians hurried along the streets without speaking, heads lowered as they gave off an air of tension.
Carriages raced one after another down the main roads, kicking up snow several feet high.
Fully armed knights patrolled the major streets in groups, their expressions stern and their gazes sharp, frightening passersby into quickly fleeing.
Recently, Royal Capital Yeluf had entered an unprecedented state of highest alert. It was as though an enemy nation were about to invade. Countless knights could even be seen faintly appearing and disappearing atop the city walls, making Royal Capital Yeluf at this moment more heavily guarded than Besare, the military city of Maypros Territory.
Under such circumstances, Franzer Villa welcomed this winter as well, its roof and courtyard piled high with thick snow.
Upon closer inspection, this villa, which had once been left in ruins after the attacks of the Black-Eyed Knight and the Magic Dolls, had now been repaired.
In one of the villa's rooms, Riezel woke from his sleep.
"Mm..."
"Mm..."
To Riezel's left and right, two soft moans reached his ears.
Riezel instinctively turned his head and immediately saw two faces as beautiful as goddesses.
Other than Liz and Eulalie, who else could they be?
The two women were still asleep and had not awakened just because Riezel had.
It could not be helped. One only had to look at their delicate shoulders exposed outside the