The Hero King, Reincarnate to Master the Art of War ~And Thus, I Became The Strongest Knight Disciple (♀) in The World~

need to go that far to keep on living…」

Both Leone and Liselotte smiled bitterly.
It was then——

「Miss Inglis~! Miss Rafinha~!」

Principal Miliera came running in while calling out their names.

「Principal?」 「What’s the matter?」 「A messenger came from the castle just a moment ago! He said that His Majesty the King had summoned both of you, Miss Inglis, Miss Rafinha!」 「Direct summon from His Majesty!?」 「To the castle!?」 「Yes.
I’m sorry for this, but please immediately head to the Royal Castle.」 「Ooooh! We did it, Glis!」 「Yeah, Rani! A godsend!」

Both Inglis and Rafinha’s eyes sparkled when they heard the news from Principal Miliera.
In short…

Castle → Summon → Gratitude for saving him back then → Feast!

Right, a feast! Both of them found hope in that possibility and jumped at it.

「Waah! I can’t wait~ The food at the castle was so delicious back then, right!」 「Yeah, they were! Let’s get going then.」 「I’ll call a carriage for you, then.
In that time, the two of you please get ready.」 「Yes, Principal.」

Inglis nodded, but…

「No, that’ll be slow! Our delicious food will get cold by then! Hey, Glis, let’s go with that!」 「That?」 「Yeah, that! If we go swoosh through the sky, we’ll be faster than a carriage!」 「Aah, that—— Hmm……are we allowed to……」 「We can right, Principal!? Going with our Star Princess!?」

That referred to Inglis and Rafinha’s personal Flygear.
The other day, in the battle over the Royal Castle, Inglis and Rafinha managed to snatch a single Flygear unit from the Highlanders.
They used it to rush over from the Royal Castle to the Knight Academy, but after the incident was over, the undamaged Flygear was allowed to remain in the personal possession of Inglis and Rafinha.

Flygears belonging to the Highland were of higher performance than what the Kingdom had, which was fine and all, but…

「Aah, you mean that.
I don’t see why not? It’s so girly and cute.」 「Thank you so much! I’ll go fetch it then! Wait there, Glis!」 「Y-, yeah……」

Not long later… a Flygear steered by Rafinha showed itself above Inglis and the others.
The whole thing was painted in overly bright pink.
Then, as though it was made to be as conspicuous as possible, there was a pair of sparkling, starry, maiden-like eyes drawn on the front hull.
While the rest of the body was painted with lots of sparkling decoration through and through.

It’s ours, so I’ll make it pretty! —explained Rafinha, so the whole unit was painted according to her preferences.
Pullum, her classmate in the Knight division, also helped with the paint job.

「Come on, let’s go, Glis! Get on, get on!」 「Y-, yeah……」

The innards of this Flygear unit was of high performance, and Inglis herself had made some modifications to it, so it had been improved, but still… Inglis was a bit hesitant to ride it, with just how feminine its outward appearance was.

She was a man at heart, so she’d rather have something more low-key and cool for her ride.
In fact, she’d even go with an all-black.

But, if Rafinha insisted, Inglis couldn’t say no.
Rafinha, who was like a granddaughter to her, had decided that the color of their toy should be pink.
What grandfather could disobey that?

「Okaay, here we go! Food on sight, fly we go!」 「……Well then, we’re off.」

The Star Princess, piloted by Rafinha, took off into the crimson-tinted sky.