"Well, I could have just stabbed Your Majesty if I had been Ober's spy, right?"
"I hope you didn't fall down deliberately to prove it."
"Anyway I'm innocent. Can you believe me, please?"
"… Let me try."
"That's an ambiguous answer. I hope you won't tell me later that you said you would try to believe."
"It's you who are not believing me."
"Okay. It's up to you. By the way, can you let me know who the owner of the messenger bird is?"
Although she looked careless, she eventually brought the conversation back to the main topic. Thinking that she was more persistent than he thought, Eckart opened his mouth slowly.
"Curtis von Knight."
It seemed like she heard it somewhere, but it was a strange name.
"Your Excellency," Jed said.
While she was recollecting each of the names she knew, Jed stepped forward with a displeased look.
Eckart raised his hand slightly to stop him and explained kindly.
"Right now he is the chief knight of the Astolf Knights."