The Max Level Hero Strikes Back!

her head in confusion.

-Oh no… Your mouth is the problem…

‘Well, it’s true! What do you want me to do about it? She said that she didn’t get in trouble because she gave some sort of excuse.’

Davey smiled awkwardly at Lucia and quickly added, “Ah, I meant someone else.
Don’t worry about it.”

“Right? There’s no way the first saintess would hide during worship!”

Davey thought that Lucia had her head in the sand, but he said nothing.

-You are often quite impulsive when it comes to matters about the heroes of the Hall.

‘Hm, I don’t know.’ Davey had given it some thought, but he had no reason to hold onto it if Lucia was going to let it go with a misunderstanding.

Fed up with Lucia, who seemed like she was going to continue worshiping Saintess Daphne, Lucia’s partner quickly pulled her arm.
He said apologetically, “Ahaha, sorry.
You can’t stop her once she gets started.
We’re going somewhere else.
Come with me!”

“Kyah!! You should act with more elegance as a Holy Knight of the same religious order as the first saintess…”

“It is Goddess Freyja that I serve, not Saintess Daphne.”

Seeing Davey and the others go pale, Lucia’s partner grabbed her by the back of her neck.
It was done with such familiarity that it looked like a common occurrence.

“Lucia’s partner always has a hard time just from being her partner alone.”

“Yeah.”

‘They say that there are no friends between opposite genders… Is this what double standards are?’

It probably didn’t mean that there were literally two standards…

-Double standards?

‘It means that [It’s romantic when I do it, but it’s an affair if others do the same].’

It probably meant that it was a common occurrence, since they were talking about it familiarly.

“Um, Lincy? The atmosphere of the knight order is a little disorderly…” Illyna, who looked like she was deep in thought, asked quietly.

“Ah, you’re talking about when you first came here with Davey, right? Well, it’s true that it’s rare for the Teachers to be that tense because of an outsider.
Both Sio and the Teachers were acting over the top.
You know that guy likes to take the lead.”

“Um… I don’t know if I should explain this…”

The twin sisters were hesitating about what to say and couldn’t speak their minds easily.
That was when…

“It seems that someone disturbed Shandra, the transcendental being.” A pretty girl with red-orange-hair, who had only been watching from afar, slowly approached them and answered with a charming smile.

“Alyssa Patrick…” Illyna seemed like she was a little tired upon realizing who it was.

“Long time no see, Your Highness.”

“Don’t call me that here.”

Alyssa giggled elegantly like she was satisfied, then opened her mouth again.
“The headquarters are thinking that there is a spy in the knight order creating conflict.
Thanks to that, the atmosphere is in the gutters.
Moreover, many knight members either died or were injured from an evil beast attack.”

“Alyssa! That should be kept a secret from trainees!”

“Oh, is it?” Alyssa smiled without being flustered and glanced at Davey.
“But isn’t it funny that Lady Illyna and Sir Davey are the only ones who don’t know about this when you know about it as well? Isn’t that right, Prince Davey?”

Davey smiled.
“Is that right?”

“Hehehe, I didn’t know that even Prince Davey would come here.”

“You know of me?”

“Oh, of course, since I am part of the Roaming Knights as well.
Almost everyone in the east continent has heard of your name.” Alyssa spoke softly as she put on a pretty smile and walked toward Davey.
She paled in comparison to Illyna’s beauty, but she was still stunning; it was just that the person she was being compared to was unbelievably beautiful.
However, Davey felt a slight familiarity from her.
It wasn’t a negative one, but it was difficult to describe in words.

“Well, is there something you want to tell me?” Davey asked Alyssa.

Alyssa then took a deep breath while staring at Davey silently, then confidently gave something to him from her chest pocket.
“Please write something for me! It would be nice if it was my name…”

“What?”

Although it was for a moment, Davey was dumbfounded by Alyssa, who shouted with a flushed face, “I’m a fan! You are my idol, Prince Davey!”

* * *

It seemed that Alyssa Patrick was from a small noble family from the Pallan Empire, which was Illyna’s kingdom.

“The Patrick family, where Alyssa is from, is a part of the conservatives.
So, she said that she grew up learning the etiquette of a woman and hearing that she had to act like a woman,” Illyna explained.

“What does that have to do with me being her idol?” Davey asked.

“Well, most people know that you used to be a weak and powerless prince in the Rowane Kingdom who would just be swept up in the kingdom’s events.
But you are hugely successful in your business after becoming independent, and you are now developing the territory at a fast rate,” Illyna explained.
With a smile, she added, “Your name is quite well-known in the central continent, too.”

Davey nodded uninterestedly at Illyna’s explanation while sitting at the table and shaking his leg.
He muttered, “Maybe I should add a new function.”

“You’re going to add something again?”

“It’s greed, really.
It would be nice if it’s detachable like custom parts.”

-If your dream is an electric chainsaw, I’m leaning toward a drill.

Davey’s eyes sparkled as he thought hard about the Megatron after hearing Perserque’s ideas.
“A drill… Oh, that’s nice.”

“A drill? What is that?” Illyna asked with worry, feeling anxious after hearing Davey’s words.

However, Davey just told Illyna to watch without saying more.