Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?
Chapter 205 - 3: Azure Album

Chapter 205: Chapter 3: Azure Album

"Yes, just as the name of your Mercenary Group," Hood said, "It’s adapted from a famous dark Northern fairy tale."

"What’s the story about?" Mia asked as she flipped through it, "Is it interesting?"

"Knight Solomon, Mage Christina, and Priest Melinda, who grew up as childhood friends, set out to save their homeland and the kingdom by defeating the Evil Dragon," Hood explained.

"That sounds kinda interesting," Mia said, continuing to read.

A few minutes later, she suddenly looked up and asked Hood:

"Do both female leads, Christina and Melinda, like the male lead, Knight Solomon?"

"Yes," Hood, staring at his own comic book and not looking up, said, "It’s like the season of the ’White Album’ again."

Mia: ??

"That’s too much!" After reading for another half-hour, Mia slammed the comic book down, complaining loudly, "Wasn’t Christina the first to fall for Solomon? Why does Melinda have to compete with her!"

"No way!" Hood exclaimed, jumping from the carriage, "Get it straight! It was Solomon who first fell for Melinda! What’s wrong with Melinda? Under Solomon’s relentless pursuit, Melinda finally accepted Solomon’s feelings!!"

"That’s not right!" Mia argued excitedly, "Look carefully, okay? In Chapter 62, Solomon confesses his feelings to Melinda, but due to a verbal misunderstanding, Solomon thought Melinda had rejected him, so he ran to the riverbank to clean his Long Spear, and that’s when Christina confessed to him!"

"So clearly Christina came first! Melinda is just a homewrecker!"

"Bullshit!" Hood was equally furious, "Even if there was a misunderstanding, it was Solomon’s misunderstanding. Melinda thought she had made herself clear! She also loved Solomon! But Christina, knowing Solomon liked Melinda, deliberately took advantage of his misunderstanding after being rejected, isn’t that typical Green Tea Bitch behavior?"

"Say that again!" Mia was livid.

"I’ll say it as many times as you want!" Hood shouted, his neck stiff, "Christina, the Green Tea Bitch!"

"What are they doing?" In the distance, Eleanor, who was reading ’Song of Roland’, looked up and watched Hood and Mia still arguing, and asked in confusion.

"They seem to be arguing over a comic book plot," Nora casually responded, squatting down while holding her skirt, looking at the wildflowers growing out of the weeds by the field.

"Comic books?" Eleanor said in surprise, "Aren’t those for kids?"

"They’re all kids, aren’t they?" Nora said with a smile.

"Oh." Eleanor finally realized and said with a wry smile, "I always treat Mia as a comrade of my age, but I forget she’s still a minor."

She put down her ’Song of Roland’ and handed it to Nora, saying, "Sitting here is too boring, I’m going to go for a walk."

Meanwhile, the argument between Hood and Mia continued.

"You tell me that again!"

"I’ll tell you as many times as you want! Green Tea Bitch, Christina!"

"I’m telling you! Don’t think I..."

"Green Tea Bitch, Christina!"

With a clang sound, Mia drew her Longsword, the cold light from it causing Hood’s legs to tremble.

"Sister, calm down," Hood immediately kneeled to the ground, grabbing her sword scabbard, "There must be some misunderstanding here."

"I’ve been saying it’s a misunderstanding," Mia said, outraged. "Since it was a misunderstanding, Solomon cannot be considered to have confessed successfully! There’s no problem with Christina confessing to him, right?"

"Right, right, right." Hood thought to himself that she was correct, but could she please put down the sword first?

"And then!" Mia still not appeased, continued, "Knowing that Christina and Solomon were already together, Melinda still tried to seduce Solomon, causing him to waver in the end. Doesn’t this powerfully prove that Melinda is the other woman?"

"Well... that’s not exactly right," Hood insisted, holding onto his own beliefs in the face of right and wrong. "Melinda was also misunderstanding; she thought Solomon had understood her implicit meaning, plus Melinda didn’t know about Christina’s confession."

"Tell me! Isn’t Melinda the other woman?" Mia threatened, gesturing to place a longsword at his neck.

Tears streamed down Hood’s face. Couldn’t they just talk without resorting to violence?

"Melinda is the other woman! Say it!" Mia threatened him.

"You might as well kill me!" Hood wailed, as he could never betray his beliefs.

"Thus, isn’t the real scumbag here Solomon?" a voice came from atop the carriage.

Both looked up and saw Miel sitting cross-legged on the roof of the carriage, playing with a wild sparrow.

"Clearly liking Melinda, yet accepting Christina’s confession, and upon realizing the misunderstanding, still wavering and unsure of which side to choose. Isn’t Solomon himself the cause of the conflict?"

Miel seriously said, gently stroking the little sparrow’s head.

Both stared at her, dumbfounded.

"You’ve known about this all along," Mia said. "Solomon is really a scumbag, but the real issue is how pitiful Christina is!"

"The real pitiful one is Melinda, you know?" Hood argued. "After Solomon married the Empire Princess, she returned to the Holy Hall alone to become the beloved Holy Daughter, and she never loved anyone else her entire life!"

Mia stared blankly at him.

"Did you just spoil it for me?" she said incredulously.

"Sigh." Even Hood realized his slip-up and quickly waved his hands, "It was an accident... can you just pretend you didn’t hear it?"

"What’s the final outcome of the story?" Mia asked expressionlessly.

"Umm," Hood hesitated, before finally speaking.

"After defeating the Evil Dragon and pulling out The Azure Longsword, the group disbanded."

"Solomon returned to the Empire, as per his agreement with the Emperor, to marry the Princess. Heartbroken, Christina embarked on a journey overseas seeking the legendary Mage Island, and from then on, she vanished without a trace."

"Melinda returned to the Holy Hall and became the nation’s beloved Holy Daughter, remaining unmarried until her death."

Mia fell silent for a while, then threw the comic to Hood and stood up.

"What the heck!" she grumbled discontentedly. "The most scummy male protagonist ends up being the happiest among them all? Such a crappy story."

Mia walked toward the girls in the distance, while Hood carefully collected the comics and holed up inside the carriage.

On top of the carriage, Miel returned to her reverie, continuing to play with the sparrow in her hand, and muttered to herself:

"Any author who writes such a stupid story must have something wrong with their brain."