Chapter 52: A date (1/2)

Sol was somewhat ashamed. In his nearly fifteen years of life, the moments he really spent time outside of the tower while albeit rare were quite numerous as he regularly visited the church and also visited the coliseum when he was younger.

But the moment he truly spent exploring this city? Never once.

He generally was in a carriage extremely protected or directly used the gate for his movement. As such, even though he was the one who initiated that date, the one giving the direction was Lilith.

Lilith wasn't some introverted queen who thought she was too high to step to the commoner level. At least, before becoming a queen, she spent much of her time as an adventurer and explored many parts of this city or the world.

Sol had some experience dating in his past life, but this experience couldn't be completely used here. Still, it was enough to not become an embarrassment.

They mutually decided to omit the shopping part. All their clothes were tailor suited and created with the greatest silk and by the best tailors, the same went for accessories and weapons.

What was left was sightseeing, they quietly walked together, hand in hand, through different parts of the center zone, and admired the different views the city had to offer.

During all those moments Lilith would tell him an anecdote and he would with a smile, his eyes filled with interest as he silently urged her to continue.

In her eighteen years and 204 months of her life, since  the truth was that all women were eternally eighteen no matter what their age, it was the first time that Lilith felt such a giddy feeling in her chest.

The way Sol was acting really made her happy. Has a man ever treated her like she was the only one who really mattered in his eyes? Never.

All those who came close to her always had clearly impure motives. She would never let anyone that could threaten the takeover by Sol in the future.

”The city seems really peaceful.”

They were now seated on a bench in a park. The shade of the trees in the surrounding protected against the sun and even without that, the currently mild weather gave a pleasant wind that calmed the mind.

Currently, the two of them were holding little boxes filled with ice cream. It was a creation of Venus, the bloodthirsty Queen, daughter of Pluto 0the peaceful and granddaughter of Jupiter the Conqueror.

Sol sometimes wondered what kind of title he would receive once he became a king.

”Indeed. The capital city is really peaceful.”

Lilith agreed with a bitter smile. She hesitated a little before finally closing her mouth. There were so many things she wished to explain about the current situation of the kingdom but now wasn't the time. It was a date, her first date, no way in hell she would let anyone ruin it.

”So from what I know, it seemed that each king or queen brought new technology or knowledge or power once they took the throne or during their years before it?”

Hearing this, Lilith tilted her head.

”Indeed, and you aren't any different. Though the ideas you had, for now, are more about fashion, like your father.”

Sol remembered the clothing design of the maid as well as their underwear and swimsuits and coughed lightly.

”For example, the first king brought totally new tactics of war, he even wrote a book called the art of war, his most popular sentence was, if you know your enemy and know yourself, you need not to fear the result of a hundred battles.”

”*Cough* *Cough* Seriously? How come I never heard that?”

”It isn't something particularly circulated, even more so since he lost so horribly before dying. His son, the peaceful king, was a politician of renown, he completely changed the dry and clumsy political system of Lustburg, who at that time was still a fledgling kingdom who was surrounded by enemies. As for Venus, she developed many types of sweets such as ice cream, chocolate and so. This boosted incredibly our economy.”

Cold sweat gathered on Sol back.

'Were all the previous kings and queens originally from my world?'

One or two times could be called a coincidence, but 9 times? That was pushing it.

He shivered at the thought of his future son being in reality the reincarnation of some 40 years old Otaku dude or worse! His daughter–being the reincarnation of some 40 years old Otaku dude.

'Seems like I really need to discuss with the goddesses later.'

Discarding those disturbing and, seeing as he was himself reincarnated, rather hypocritical thoughts, he put back his attention to Lilith.

So far the date seemed to go well, he had managed to see more of this world, who was weirdly more developed than it thought thanks to what was known as magitek.

Magitek was a form of using magic by imbuing the effects of a spell in a device. It wasn't anyone could do without years upon years of research. In this kingdom, the only one specializing in magitek were witches, making the Walpurgisnacht one of the richest organizations in the whole world, their only concurrent being the dwarves and the angels.

Monopoly was truly a scary thing.

”Well, let's continue our date.”

They decided to leave the central zone and walk toward the South zone.

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The capital of Lustburg was divided into five zones.

The central zone was where the tower of Babel and the church were placed.

As for the South zone? It was the 'territory' of the Milaris family, under the Duchess Milaris.

Her true name was Arachne Milaris. She was more known as the crazy black widow.

The Milaris family was without a doubt the richest one after the royal family and the church. The simple reason for that was that the Milaris duchy was full of mines, rivers, and forests. Basically, it was the duchy with the most natural resources and was also connected to Wratharis and southern pride.

This sadly also meant that her duchy was the first line of defense in times of war against those two countries. You could say that this was both the best and worst territory.