Chapter 158: Save me, Knight.

Chapter 158 -123: Save me, Knight.

It was as if a fissure had been pried open in Nancy Stuart’s closed-off heart, allowing a beam of light to shine in.

She looked at Lian Moria as if she had found the knight from the High Priest’s prophecy, the one who could save her. She slowly extended her hand and placed it on Lian’s.

“Save me, Knight.”

Although Lian followed the Knight’s Path, no one had ever called him that before.

Nancy Stuart’s appearance, on the verge of tears, was enough to break anyone’s heart, making them want to hold her in the palm of their hand and protect her from all hardship.

“Her Highness Princess, have you decided to make a deal with me?”

Lian asked rationally.

Nancy Stuart nodded slightly. “I am willing to offer everything I have in exchange for a chance at salvation.”

Annie and Dora were both stunned. Nancy Scalia was actually the last surviving member of the Stuart Kingdom.

Though they were young, they had heard of the once-glorious Stuart Kingdom. They knew the Holy Empire had spent a very long time crushing it, and its lands now belonged to the Empire.

“Nancy Stuart, I accept your deal.”

It was Lian’s first time interacting with a noblewoman as high-ranking as a princess, so he raised his Enzo’s Treasure Sword with a sense of ceremony. However, he didn’t make any unnecessary knightly declarations. He, Lian, could never become anyone’s knight. He was the Lord of Green Shade Territory, the fiancé of the Lord of Blue Moon Territory, and the grandson of Duke Moria, the Empire Prime Minister.

‘Well, none of those titles matter. What’s important is that he’s unwilling to be subordinate to anyone or pledge loyalty to anyone.’

‘Even if that person is a princess of a fallen kingdom whose beauty is enough to make one’s head spin.’

Annie and Dora watched Lian raise his Treasure Sword and rolled their eyes, not understanding what he was doing.

The two ladies had already reached a certain understanding on their journey. Coupled with Annie’s sharp tongue, Dora had quickly grown to like the maid, finding her exceptionally special.

Lian ignored the two ladies’ eye-rolling and said softly,

“I need to perform a Cleaning Entry on Nancy Stuart’s red entry first. Would you two please step aside?”

Hearing the two words “Cleaning Entry,” Dora’s eyes instantly lit up.

“Is it that ultimate pleasure that enters your body?”

Hearing Dora’s description, Annie couldn’t help but recall that feeling of both pain and pleasure.

A blush spread across her fair cheeks.

This gave Nancy Stuart the wrong impression, making her think that “Cleaning Entry” was a euphemism for some kind of erotic affair.

“Take me with you. I want to experience that pleasure again.”

Dora looked at Lian expectantly.

“Sorry, I can’t service two women at once, and besides, you don’t have any entries that need cleaning.”

Lian felt that Dora was a bit of a masochist and couldn’t indulge her unreasonable request, so he fobbed her off.

“Liar. You didn’t have such concerns when you laid your hands on me and my sister at the same time.”

Annie mercilessly exposed him.

‘Laid my hands on you? When did I ever lay my hands on you? I was clearly working on your entries!’

‘Annie, give me back my reputation!’

Lian felt a massive headache coming on. ‘Why did I bring Annie along? Why didn’t I wrap her mouth with bandages?’

Although Nancy Stuart showed no particular expression, her inner monologue was already quite rich.

‘As expected of someone from the Moria Clan. Just moments ago, he was pretending to resist my beauty, but in reality, he’s completely unable to resist a beautiful woman throwing herself at him. He even makes moves on the maid by his side.’

‘But he is, after all, the knight the High Priest said would save me from dire straits. I can’t seem too resistant.’

‘Fortunately, I possess what he values most. He will be loyal to me.’

Nancy Stuart was confident that her beauty and charm were second to none.

She believed that if Lian was truly the lecher that Annie and Dora made him out to be, he would never bring himself to betray her.

“What? You laid your hands on Annie and her sister at the same time! How exciting does that sound?”

Dora looked at Lian excitedly, but the thought of Catherine was like a bucket of cold water dumped on her, and she instantly sobered up.

“No, what you’re doing is wrong. Besides Catherine and me, you even have an ambiguous relationship with a maid.”

“Miss Dora, please don’t say things that cause misunderstandings. My relationship with the maid is completely pure.”

Lian defended himself.

“Yes, we just bathed together once.”

Annie added fuel to the fire.

“That wasn’t bathing together! You were the one who insisted on bathing me, but I washed myself the entire time. You just stood on the side, ogling my perfect body.”

Lian realized he seemed to be digging himself into a deeper hole.

Nancy Stuart’s expression had transformed from calm to fascinated.

Her eyebrows rose slightly, and her beautiful eyes shifted as if trying to see through all the disguises the man before her was trying to maintain.

“You two actually bathed together!!!”

Dora grew even more excited.

“Yes, and we’ve done many other pleasant things together. My sister and I were the first women by Lord Lian’s side, so there’s no need for you to be jealous.”

Annie’s mouth was like a sharp knife, trying to slash through everyone’s composure.

“Oh, and then there’s Miss Witch, Sophie, whom Lord Lian is especially fond of. She’s practically inseparable from Lord Lian—they come and go together and have been living in the same bedroom for a long time. It made my sister and I think that Lord Lian wouldn’t marry anyone but her.”

Lian was hit the hardest. He was glad he hadn’t brought Catherine along.

At the same time, he was grateful that Annie hadn’t said a word during his engagement ceremony with Catherine. Otherwise, Catherine’s opinion of him would have plummeted, and she would have thought she was marrying a colossal scumbag.