Their world doesn't need gods.

Chapter 286 Erica's Domineering Request

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—Alfred—

"That innocent goddess is worried that if her scumbag father and bad friends can't kill me, she will start to consider hurting you or Emilia to create an opportunity to kill me."

Alfred shrugged and continued.

"Emilia was still young at that time, and I didn't want those guys to realize that she was the daughter of the Dragon God. So I accepted the goddess's suggestion and asked her to arrange for someone to assassinate me in a way that would not endanger you two as much as possible."

"What on earth is that?! Those guys clearly took advantage of you, but they even did this without permission..."

After listening to Alfred's story, Erica clenched her fists in anger.

"Well, if I had continued to live, they would not have been able to recover the power they had borrowed from me. For those gods, it was like getting rid of the Dragon God and having me as a threat."

Alfred himself answered nonchalantly.

After reincarnating many times and dealing with these gods many times, Alfred has become more open-minded about many things.

Moreover, not all gods are annoying.

At least, Alfred doesn't hate Noah and the others.

"You accepted it too easily, didn't you?! And do you know how hard Emilia and I had to live because of your idiot death?!"

Erica leaned her face forward and stared at Alfred with her big, tearful eyes.

"I'm really sorry about this... Anastasia said she would help take care of you two, but it seems she didn't do it. I'll settle the score with her next time we meet."

Although Alfred seriously intended to take revenge on Anastasia as punishment for not keeping his promise.

But he had no intention of blaming Anastasiya.

It’s not that Alfred is too saintly, but he also knows that even as a high and mighty goddess, Anastasia has her fair share of difficulties.

Because he understood Anastasiya's situation, he was too embarrassed to blame her too much.

At most, we could pull out that goddess that day and ask her to personally apologize to Erica and Emilia.

Moreover, the compensation Anastacia gave to Alfred was indeed quite sincere. Anastacia allowed Alfred to borrow her power at will without any permission.

And before Alfred agreed, she had no way to take back the power she had lent out.

It felt like Anastasia had written Alfred a blank check, allowing him to use her name to do whatever he wanted, and all the responsibilities would be borne by her, the goddess.

Although, with Alfred's current human body, he is unable to exert too much exaggerated power.

This goddess also set a precedent. Other goddesses such as Noa also began to lend their powers in order to get closer to Alfred and be responsible for Alfred's reincarnation after his death.

Thanks to this, as long as Alfred makes good preparations in advance and combines his powers reasonably, he now has the power to fight even if he encounters middle or lower-level gods.

As for the higher-level gods, there is no way to deal with them now, and we can only ask Emilia and Christina to solve it.

"Settle the score with that goddess? Do you mean to rub her huge butt?"

Erica questioned suspiciously.

“No, that’s not it~!”

(Though maybe that’s a good thing?)

Alfred said this with a different meaning, but Erica saw through it.

She pressed her body against Alfred and kissed him forcefully again.

"Because my figure is not very good this time, I need to let you deeply understand the charm of petite women. In the future, stop staring at other women's breasts. Do you hear me?"

Erica made a declaration, as if intending to turn Alfred into a lolita fan who likes petite girls.

"Then yours will do~"

"Not yet. After all, I am the princess. If you look at me carelessly, something bad will happen."

Erica, who had always been good at attack but weak in defense, turned her head away in embarrassment when Alfred teased her, and spoke in a shy tone.

Her cute face flushed, and Alfred couldn't help but extend his hand.

"Pfft, clearly she was so proactive in her previous life."

Alfred stroked Erica's cheek and chuckled.

"That, that's all because of you! That scumbag wanted to marry your engaged sister to you in order to keep you in the country.

It's clear that she and her fiancé got along very well and they truly loved each other. They were separated by someone like you, isn't it a bit too pitiful?!"

Erica retorted excitedly.

"I am also a princess. A political marriage is only a matter of time. Anyway, I don't have anyone I like, so it doesn't matter if I marry someone like you... Actually, it doesn't matter... "

Erica seemed to be tongue-tied and her speech was incoherent.

"Hey, Al, I need your help. If it's you, there will be no problem, so can I ask you to help me protect my mother and Sister Siliya?"

Erica changed the subject and asked Alfred.

Erica's mother in her previous life was poisoned to death, and her sister was ambushed and executed on false charges of treason.

Erica was not able to save even her sister's child in time.

Alfred also knew that Erica felt deeply guilty and remorseful towards her mother and sister in her previous life.

She didn't want her mother, Queen Rosalind II, and her cousin, the Seventh Princess Silya, to be in any danger.

"What are you talking about now? I am helping you do this. I will not let Charles succeed in usurping the throne and endanger the troublesome Queen and Her Highness Siliya."

Alfred placed his hand on Erica's head and stroked it gently twice.

Although the hair color is completely different from the previous life, Erica's hair quality is very similar.

It is so soft and silky that you can't help but want to keep rubbing it like petting a cat.

"When the time comes, I'll have to trouble you to help me clean up the mess when I disappear from Duke Opold's house."

"Then I'll leave it to you. To be honest, there is still a considerable gap between Charles and I in terms of combat power. Although Charles is very timid, the Duke of Leopold Philip behind him is very radical.

If Philip really chooses to start a war regardless of the consequences, I am not sure I can win even with the help of the Duke of Christiana. But if you are here... I don't have to be afraid of anything."

Erica seemed to be relieved and leaned her head on Alfred with peace of mind.

But she suddenly seemed to have thought of something and her face turned stern.

"By the way, why did you suddenly say you wanted to wipe out the Duke of Opold's family? If you wanted to avenge Rosemary and the Lindbergh family, you should have wiped out the Duke of Opold's family long ago."

Erica puffed up her cheeks angrily and questioned Alfred.

"Could it be... that you made some incredible promise to some girl just to flirt with her?"

Her intuition was still as terrifying as in her previous life, and Erica easily guessed the truth of the matter.

"Ahahaha... It's not what you think. I just asked someone for help. As a reward, I have to do a small favor for her."

"You are playing dumb. And it's a small favor. I'm glad you can say it."

Erica gave up on pursuing the matter and sighed helplessly.

"If you were a little more loyal, you would be perfect. But you are popular with weird women. Ah, I am not one of these weird women."

"What I mean is, Erica, you don't welcome me?"

"Don't read too much into me, you idiot. It's getting late now, and I have to get back to the banquet hall. Forget about today, you have to attend the banquet tomorrow as well!"

Erica ordered, pointing at Alfred.

"Why should I be present?"

"I won't tell you now, but you have to show up!"

The next day, Alfred attended the last day's dinner of the Holy Fire Festival as requested by Erica.

Tomorrow morning, Erica and the others will leave Ilia and return to the imperial palace in the capital. Maybe she wants to take this opportunity to announce something and needs me to be there.

Alfred speculated.

"Hey, Al, how about my dress?"

Liliana came over excitedly and turned around to show Alfred her dress.

Today's party is different from yesterday's, as it also includes a dance portion of a formal banquet for the nobility.

Liliana seemed to be showing off her dress, but in fact she was hinting that Alfred would invite her to dance later.

At the imperial nobles' ball, there are many rules for inviting nobles of the opposite sex to dance.

For example, a man inviting an unmarried woman to dance and an unmarried woman inviting a man are two completely different concepts.

After all, Liliana was the daughter of Duke Christiana. Even if she wanted to dance with Alfred, she couldn't do anything inappropriate in public and affect her family's reputation.

Aristocratic society and the like are really troublesome.

Alfred couldn't help but complain in his mind.

He held out his hand to Liliana, inviting her.

"Very beautiful, Lily, can you dance with me later?"

"Hehe~ Of course there is no problem. But Sister Rose didn't come to the party today."

Liliana said somewhat disappointedly.

Rose seemed to be too tired recently, and she was resting in the dormitory today because of a cold. Cheryl and Michelle stayed in the dormitory to take care of her.

"Yeah. Hopefully Rose will feel better tomorrow."

Alfred also felt a little regretful.

Rose's cold can actually be cured immediately through Wendy's magic.

But for some reason, Rose refused Wendy's treatment and just said that she just needed to rest for a while.

It seemed that Rose had no intention of attending the party today, and Alfred did not force her to go against her wishes.

"Hey, Al, if Sister Rose and I were together, who would you most like to dance with first?"

Liliana moved closer to Alfred, a cunning look on her cute face.

"Of course it's Rose~"

Alfred smiled and teased back.

"Woo~ you idiot."

Liliana hit Alfred lightly with her fist, then swayed to his side and linked her arms.

"Since you value Sister Rose's words so much, you must find time to make up for this dance later. I think Sister Rose is actually looking forward to dancing with you, Al."

Liliana demanded seriously.

Her relationship with Rose is still as good as ever, and it's even a bit orangey.

Alfred had the same idea as her and planned to find an opportunity to dance with Rose later to make up for the regret that Rose could not attend the party this time.

"Don't worry, I will."

As the party began, the orchestra played a melody announcing the start of the first song of the dance.

Alfred took Liliana's hand and stepped onto the dance floor together.

Both of them had learned social dancing of the imperial nobility since childhood, so there was nothing to say about their dancing skills.

But as soon as the two left the dance floor, they were blocked by someone.

"Ah~ It seems that you and Lily are enjoying dancing very much, Al."

Erica brought Siliya and Liliana's sister Violet over and said sourly.

Violet, the ultimate sister-con, looked at Alfred and Liliana holding hands with a complicated expression, and finally just sighed helplessly.

She seemed to have anticipated that the two of them would end up in this kind of relationship sooner or later.

“Since Sister Violet was protecting me, I haven’t had the chance to have a good chat with you, Lily. Today is our last day in Illya, so why don’t you have a good chat?

You two sisters haven't seen each other for a long time, so you must have a lot to talk about, right?"

Erica suggested with a sweet smile.

She probably called Violet over to get rid of Liliana.

As expected of a princess who had been active in the palace and aristocratic social circles in her previous life, Erica easily took control of the situation with just a few words, without giving the other three women any chance to react.

Although Liliana still wanted to stay with Alfred, she did miss her sister Violet.

She also guessed that Erica might have something on her mind and wanted to talk to Alfred alone, so she reluctantly gave the two of them space.

Before leaving, Liliana signaled Alfred with her eyes, "Don't do anything strange to the two princesses. If you dare, I will never let you go tonight." That look was a bit scary.