Chapter 115: Using the Queen as a bargaining chip

【"Delicious! Delicious! This is delicious, and that is delicious too!! Wow, are there really so many delicacies in the human world?"】

【Inside the Wang Gong at the center of the Dragonof Kingdom.】

【Natsu sat alone at the dining table, with rare delicacies he had never seen before laid out in front of him.】

【Various high-quality ingredients, after being cooked by famous chefs in the Dragonof Kingdom, all had excellent flavors, allowing Natsu, who had never seen the world, to eat dozens of pounds!】

【And so, by now, empty plates taller than Natsu himself were already piled up beside him.】

【But even so, a continuous stream of food was still being cooked in the kitchen.】

【There was no help for it; Natsu was indeed extremely hungry now.】

【After agreeing with Irene earlier that she would keep him well-fed, Natsu had been looking forward to it until now.】

【And the facts proved that the feast he had looked forward to for so long did not disappoint.】

【Beside the dining table, the maid sent to serve Natsu twitched her mouth as she watched Natsu at this moment.】

【Fish bones, grease, meat scraps, and the like were flying everywhere.】

【To be honest, they had almost never seen anyone who could eat so much.】

【"I find it hard to imagine how such a small body can hold so much food?"】

【A maid dressed in a bunny-girl outfit blinked her eyes and whispered to her companion beside her in disbelief.】

【"Actually, if you look closely, it's not that small; he can only be considered a minor, and his height looks to be about 1.5 meters, so it's understandable since he's still in a growth phase."】

【The other maid replied.】

【Indeed, although Natsu was only about ten years old now, his height had already reached about 1.5 meters due to years of exercise, and he didn't look like a ten-year-old child at all.】

【More like a teenager of fourteen or fifteen who had not yet reached adulthood.】

【And he was a powerful teenager, so it was understandable that he ate a lot during his growth stage.】

But only Lucy outside the Sky Screen knew this deeply.

What growth stage? Natsu could always eat that much, okay?

To this day, Lucy could still recall the first time she met Natsu and Happy.

At that time, these two guys were like starving ghosts reincarnated.

Eating crazily, one meal cost almost half of her savings at the time.

It had made Lucy's heart ache for several days back then.

Natsu: "Hehe, eating a lot gives me strength!"

Lucy: "That's way too much! You'd better shut up; looking at you makes me angry!"

【"By the way!"】

【Abruptly, Natsu, who was eating, stopped his movements and asked the maid beside him.】

【"Where is your Queen? Why haven't I seen her since I entered the city?"】

【The maids naturally knew that Natsu was asking about Queen Irene.】

【So one maid stepped up and bowed slightly.】

【She said: "Due to major national affairs, Queen Irene and the guardian beast, Lord Belserion, convened the high command of the kingdom upon their return to discuss how to counter the evil dragon race."】

【As she spoke, the maid looked at the huge pendulum clock behind her and said.】

【"Calculating the time, this meeting should have been going on for more than three hours."】

【"More than three hours?"】

【Natsu bit into a whole ham, nodded gently, and as if thinking of something else, immediately asked.】

【"By the way, you should be very familiar with this kingdom, right?"】

【After all, he was a newcomer, and although everyone here had been friendly to him so far, letting his guard down was not Natsu's style.】

【He still maintained a high level of vigilance against these strangers and intended to understand this kingdom thoroughly.】

【If nothing went wrong, Natsu would need to stay here for a while longer.】

【To consolidate the new insights he had gained during the previous battle with the dragons.】

【Therefore, for the sake of safety, Natsu had to thoroughly understand this kingdom, including the crises the kingdom was currently facing, and so on...】

【And for all this, asking a local might yield the most authentic evaluation.】

【Of course, Natsu would not be stupid enough to believe everything the other party said; Natsu had his own ability to judge right from wrong.】

【"I am a newcomer and don't know too much, so please tell me."】

【"No, no, since Lord Natsu wants to know, I will naturally tell you everything I know." The maid waved her hands hurriedly.】

【Then she paused, organized her language, and spoke slowly.】

【"If we talk about our kingdom, the most worth mentioning is our Queen."】

【"Irene?" Natsu nodded gently.】

【"Yes, Queen Irene." A trace of pride flashed across the maid's face!】

【"She is a... perfect Queen who combines beauty, wisdom, talent, and kindness!"】

August: "Ho, Irene, it seems your prestige among your people was very high at that time!"

Ajeel: "Indeed, the pride in that maid's eyes cannot be hidden; they loved you dearly."

Brandish: "After all, it is Lady Irene; I don't think it's strange that she could achieve this."

Irene: "Perhaps... but it's a pity that they betrayed me later."

"Led by that man, the entire kingdom viewed me as an omen of disaster..."

Irene's tone was very low.

It also made everyone in the world channel feel vaguely that something unspeakable must have happened at that time.

But although countless people wanted to know what exactly happened.

Irene did not mention this matter again, as if she were unwilling to recall it.

Therefore, everyone could only forcibly suppress their curiosity.

Turning to look at the Sky Screen, perhaps there would be an answer there.

【At this moment, just as the maid was telling Natsu about the history of the kingdom in a continuous stream.】 ===== CHAPTER 116 =====