The situation was not easy, Almeria was standing with her hands on the table, I was sitting slightly behind, and my hand rested on her gorgeous ass. That's how, under the influence of chance, I found myself in an awkward situation. I didn't feel ashamed, but it would be difficult to explain in such a way that not only would not worsen her attitude towards me, but it would also be difficult to get closer. With the effect of the title [Sociopath] I can say that it is natural for a general to help his king in this. This will give me the opportunity to paw her at any time, but will I be satisfied only with her body? Definitely not! I need everything—body, mind and heart! Then we act differently, I will express sincere feelings.
- I'm sorry, Almeria… In contrast to the whore Olivia, I was struck by your temperament and did it unconsciously.
- If you say that you did it unconsciously, then why did you squeeze your hand?
- Because now that I realized what happened, I realized one thing — I like you. I like your loyal character, your honesty and nobility, your kindness to ordinary people and intransigence to evil, and of course I like your appearance! All of you!
-Your Majesty, I am very grateful, but I cannot accept your feelings. We have an age difference of 15 years, I am not beautiful enough and my body is covered with scars, and you are already engaged to Lady Aldrich…
I inadvertently looked into the [Relationships] tab, and saw the changes there.
[Almeria Guern] – your loyal general, respect 9/10, loyalty 10/10, romantic love 4/10.(It used to be [Almeria Guern] – your loyal general, respect 10/10, loyalty 10/10, romantic love 2/10.)
I received 2 points of romantic love in exchange for 1 point of respect. Well, it's understandable, after the execution of criminals and my speech there, she thought that I was a highly noble person, but now I was groping her ass. I returned to the conversation, withdrawing my hands and holding them up, as if I were surrendering.
- Almeria, I do not plan to adhere to monogamy in a relationship, your appearance fits perfectly into my tastes, and scars do not matter. And about age, it's generally funny! You and I are not ordinary people, the age difference will matter less and less as we become stronger…
By the way, as for time, in the world of "Airial", the year does not last 365 days on most planets, which is logical, these are not the worlds of the heroes of Issekai, where the planet is a thousand times larger than earth, the star system is completely different, and there are 24 hours in the day, and the year lasts 365 days. Although there are conventions here, it was difficult for the authors to come up with new months for each of the planets, so the difference of days in a year with the Earth is always a multiple of 12 and they either add the same number of days to each of the months, or subtract. On this particular planet, there were 377 days a year, and 378 in a leap year, in short, each month was a day longer, but the day here lasted 26 hours.
- Your Majesty, I'm not the best option anyway…
- Almeria, I chose you not because I want an ideal, but because I like you the way you are. But I won't go overboard and push you too hard. Just remember that if you want happiness and a family, then I am always happy for you and I will not treat you worse than others ... Understand? If yes, then let's continue!
She wanted to add something on the topic, but eventually refrained from doing so and returned to the criminals.
After we discussed the plan for tomorrow's raid, I went to the casemates of the palace, where I was waiting for a "date" with Kyle. When I went downstairs, I met Ridd, my butler's apprentice. Ridd was a young guy about 20 years old, with a very ordinary face, short brown hair, and brown eyes, his whole appearance was unremarkable, but for a killer it's even good. Now, however, his appearance was very interesting, a black three-piece suit just like Alex's, not a spot on all his clothes, but his palms were soaked with bright red blood. This view confused me for a while, but I put aside unnecessary thoughts.
-Ridd, have you talked to Kyle?
- Yes, Your Majesty!
I heard the most ordinary voice in response.
-Did he say anything?
- No, even when I burned his heels and tortured him with rats, he didn't say anything important, just cursed and howled, but he didn't give anything away. Excuse me.
- It's okay, even Alex thought that Kyle wouldn't say anything under torture! You did a good job, I'll talk to him for a while.
Ridd took me to one of the cells, where a blue-haired man was sitting on the floor, his whole body was covered in blood, but there were no wounds or burns on his heels, well, it's understandable that in order to split him I had to use medicinal potions bought from visiting merchants.
Now Kyle was sitting chained to a post, his head hanging in front — apparently he was either asleep or unconscious.
I entered the cage and tapped my foot on the bars, there was a ringing of metal and Kyle woke up.
- Well, Kyle, do you like the conditions?
- F*ck you…
He spoke indistinctly, but it is also clear that a level 0 healing potion cannot restore teeth. I kicked him in the liver, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
- Kyle, did you know that I really trusted and respected you? And you just betrayed me…
There was only silence in response.
- Kyle, let's be blunt, you have no right to the lands of the kingdom of Jorgen! Your ancestors have lost power, and it's pointless to try to get everything back! And we don't even smell of blood feud, it wasn't my ancestors who broke yours, and I certainly have nothing to do with it!
- This land should have gone to me…
Kyle whispered faintly, what an idiot!
- Kyle, your ancestors were not the first on this earth in the same way! And now let's assume that you really would be a king, and the descendants of those who ruled this territory before the Diamond dynasty would come to you and demand the land back! Would you just give them away just because once, some ancestor of someone there ruled here?
Kyle didn't answer, but he was clearly puzzled. I confused him so quickly, either because of the effect of the title, or because Kyle is an idiot. But this is only on hand.
- And now let's assume that you didn't even know that they were descendants of the former owners of the territory, but you, even without knowing about their identity, helped them settle on their land, recognized their talents and even made them your direct subordinates. And suddenly you find out that they are plotting against you, using the help of another state. How will you feel? How will you treat them? What kind of people are capable of this? These are people completely devoid of honor and self-esteem! Kyle, you're a knight! Me and my father
they trusted you, and he even treated you like a nephew or something. Make the right choice, clear your honor, conscience and dignity as, not like a knight, but as a man! Do not succumb to the voice of the Evil One that whispers greedy thoughts to you, but act right and be faithful to those who were really there, and not to foreigners who have no right to interfere in the affairs of this territory, in the territory where your ancestors valiantly fought with the Holy Empire! Make the right choice and I will forgive you!
The speech turned out even better than I had planned, I even somehow brought in Kyle's "valiant" ancestors. And the title was doing its job, and I could see tears and remorse on the face of this pathetic middle-aged man. I understood the mechanics of the title [Sociopath] better and better, the best way was not to brainwash directly, but to push a person into thoughts that are beneficial to you, apparently then the person does not even doubt what you said, and firmly believes that he thought of it himself.