The servants of the mansion, who had gathered at the doorway outside the drawing room and listened with bated breath to the sounds coming from inside, now began cheering on Ariete.
Eventually, the intent to kill began to dwell in Melara’s eyes. She picked up the fruit on the table and the fork she had brought to dip it in, and pounced on Crank.
Ariete, realizing what she was trying to do, grabbed her hand.
“Ah!”
Melara, who collapsed on the sofa, raised her head with a ferocious gaze and shouted.
“What has this b*tch done to my mother!”
“Please calm down! mother! What kind of ugliness are you!”
“If you don’t like old people, I’ll find someone with a smaller age difference, so quietly sacrifice yourself for the sake of the family! Like the other women in this family! Just like your sisters!”
Ariete closed her eyes tightly and let out a scream.
“aaa!! I can’t speak!! Zion! hear me! I want to show my body!”
At that moment, Shion’s outer armor plates, which she had known as armor until now, began to move. When Ms. Melara saw it, she opened her eyes wide in surprise.
“what… … ?”
Tattak! Clap! Kirik-!
The movable skeleton moved, deforming the armor plate and exoskeleton and loosening her body. The arms hanging from the widened shoulders moved in that state and lifted Ariete up.
At the elbow and below the knee, the limbs were amputated, revealing Ariete’s body, missing an arm and a leg.
Upon seeing that, Ms. Melara fainted.
“The Viscountess!”
“My lord!”
The head butler and maid, who had been staring at the amputated Ariete with their mouths wide open in amazement, suddenly came to their senses and ran to pick up Melara, who had collapsed on the sofa.
Ariete, clinging to Shion’s hand, looked down at her mother, who had fallen in that state, with a disgusted look on her face. However, tears were flowing from both eyes.
“I am no longer Eibek Ariete! My name is Zion Ariete!”
* * *
The situation was simply ended with the passing of Viscount Melara, the head of Viscount Ibeck’s family. Butler Ennak, who has served the family for a long time, heard the story instead.
He took a seat across the parlor and looked at Crank and Carrot.
“Then you two saved my young lady. thank you. Thank you.”
“I am not a person.”
When Carrot, who was comforting Ariete, looked at him, Ennach, who had a nice mustache, said with a smile.
“You are a decent person at the point of being a great help to our young lady. Miss Carrot.”
“Hooo! Miss Carrot! sheep!”
I was looking at Carrot, who was thrilled with her hands on her soft cheeks, as if she were cute, but the parlor door opened and a maid rushed in.
“The butler! The head of the household is awake!”
“How is it?”
“You are talking gibberish.”
“Bring me some soothing tea and let me relax. And let’s send invitations to the wives who will listen to our complaints. The one I wrote in advance will be in my room. I’m also preparing a wagon.”
The maid bowed her head and ran out again.
Ariete, who had calmed down a lot, opened her mouth in a bolmen voice.
“Still. If you live by only listening to sounds that are too good to hear, you will become a poor person, head butler.”
The butler smiled bitterly and said.
“It is because of the responsibility to protect the Viscount family. When the family head was alive, it was different from now.”
But Ariete, who was still keeping her mouth shut with a dissatisfied face, asked.
“What about Tinquet?”
“You went to school. It’s time for you to come back soon.”
“No, the story of marrying Count Muller.”
Deacon Ennark raised his clasped hands on his lap.
“It is true. But the Count is so old that I don’t know if he’ll live until then. Uh-huh, you put blasphemous words in your mouth.”
“Are you okay for the time being?”
Crank, who had been sitting still, opened his mouth.
“If you have been driven away by heavy responsibilities, how about relieving that burden? Like setting up an agent.”
“It’s not like I didn’t think about it, but Miss Tinquet is too young right now. Your wife is not that irresponsible.”
Everyone’s heads turned to Ariete. Ariete made an X with her hands and shook her head.
“hate. Living in a suffocating place is not to my liking. I wanted to become a soldier like my father. So I went to knight school.”
“What if now?”
Ariete smiled sadly at Carrot’s words.
“The Viscountess was vehemently against my becoming a soldier. That’s why I left home. And now I am too late to enter the military academy. Now I have no limbs,”
“Why did you go so far as to force your daughters to marry in the first place? After all, isn’t it because of money?”
Everyone looked at Carrot without answering. Crank turned the pitch.
“Butler, how is this family maintained?”
“With the legacy left by the previous family head and the help of the first lady… … . Oh, and, Miss Ariete.”
When Ariete raised her gaze, the butler put her hand on her chest and bowed her head.
“Thank you so much the other day. That was a huge help.”
“no. It was just an act of wanting to leave the mansion behind.”
Just because they were aristocrats, they didn’t just play and eat. I don’t know if some of them have a lot of wealth accumulated from their ancestors, but most of the families were involved in various businesses to maintain their families in addition to the support from the aristocratic house.
Because of that, there were families that prospered, and there were many families that collapsed. In the worst case, there were many cases of selling the family name and becoming ordinary citizens, and conversely, it was common for ordinary citizens to buy the family name with money and become nobles.
Carrot, who looked back at the two in turn, stabbed Crank in the waist.
“Are you thinking the same as me?”
Crank heard the pitch.
After all, it’s money. If there is only that, one-dimensional well-being will be guaranteed.
He put into his mouth what he had been thinking about for quite some time. It didn’t matter if I was ignored. The presentation of possibilities for improving the situation is important.
Imagination is a weapon, you must never stop thinking.
“I’d like to say something if you don’t mind even the foolish thoughts of a cunning adventurer.”
Crank’s proposal was something that Ariete would be delighted with.
“Adventurer’s patron?! training school?”
“yes. It is to create and sponsor an adventurer training office. There are so many threats lurking in this world that you have to build a wall and live. That’s why the job of an adventurer is always in demand.”
Carrot continued.
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“But it is. There are very few places that professionally train such adventurers. Usually, guilds apply or established adventurers take them along to inform them.”
“I was thinking all along. If there was such a place, I wondered if the number of colleagues in my memories would have decreased.”
“Great idea!”
Ariete, who had personally experienced various irrationality and difficulties while living an adventurer’s life, nodded with a bright face, but the butler showed a troubled face.
“But if you try and fail like that, we can’t afford to get back on our feet.”
“Butler, did you send someone here right now?”
Carrot said while tapping Ariete’s thighs, but the butler was still cautious. Ariete now crossed her arms and nodded.
“Right. Am I the first at the Ibeck Adventurer Training Academy?”
“CEO. Please take good care of me.”
“hmm! I will hire you as important officers of the academy.”
While Carrot laughed wahahahahaha, Crank muttered, leaning his large body on the sofa.
“Let’s not be hasty. This is just an uncertain story. It will be a decade or two from now for it to settle down properly. Business is a battle of attrition. In addition to a sufficient understanding of the related industry, it is necessary to have enough money to endure until it settles down. Otherwise, you perish.”
Krank looked around the antique drawing room and looked at the butler.
“It’s just a proposal from an unsophisticated and reckless adventurer. I also have no intention or will to do such a burdensome business. Just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach. Just keep one possibility in mind.”
But Ariete thought differently. With very dangerous eyes, she sat close to Crank’s side and said.
“I am positive about this.”
“But I have no money.”
“Can’t you earn it? I will try. With a little help from you… … !”
Crank’s pitch was turned. Nothing came to mind in the darkness in the long pierced eye sockets.
“Ariete. Do not try to burn as human firewood with hope. Calm down.”
“Didn’t you prepare a place to burn! I can’t sit still listening to such a wonderful plan!”
Crank, who seemed to have brought up the subject for no reason, looked at the butler.
“I think I can guess the personality of the former head of the family who passed away.”
The butler just laughed.
When it was time for Tinquet to return, Ariete decided to leave the mansion. The butler and the maids caught her, but Ariete was adamant.
“Right now, I haven’t achieved anything. I can’t show that child a picture of me losing my limbs while chasing my dreams.”
Pie approached the butler as he watched them return in the carriage.
“Did you find it?”
“Do you know their addresses? I would like to keep in touch by sending letters often. There, an adventurer named Crank and his automaton told us a good story.”
The butler turned his head and looked at the pie.
“You may have to look for it more often in the future.”
To go on that expedition again, Pi wanted to pass out.
Ariete glared at the crank as they headed towards the city in the carriage. Crank, who was looking at the scenery outside the window as if he was not interested in avoiding that gaze, soon turned his helmet and said.
“I have no taste.”
“You look like you’ve gained a lot of weight.”
Ariete smirked and suddenly joked, then changed her expression, raised her eyebrows, and shouted at the top of her voice.
“crank! marry me! Be my wife!”
Carrot, who had been looking out from the window, turned her head away with a frown on her face.
“huh? What, what kind of proposal is this out of the blue?”
Crank, who showed no reaction with his arms folded, stretched with a grandiose gesture, then put his arms on the window sill and opened his mouth with a languid voice.
“Isn’t your preference a pretty boy who stimulates protective instincts when younger?”
“I am not so stupid that I cannot distinguish between dreams and reality.”
Krank, who was looking out the window at the passing scenery of spring indifferently, spoke as if muttering.
“For some reason, my popularity is skyrocketing these days. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t show his bare face by wearing a helmet. you’re imagining it It’s like a sheep in a box.”
Ariete was sincere.
“I don’t care what your face looks like! be my wife! I will make you happy! And set up a training center together… … ! Ububoop!!?”
The carriage was narrow, so Crank could easily grab the face of Ariete, who was sitting across from him, when he stretched out his arm.
Ariete, who had been duck-mouthed for a long time after being caught, struggled, but Crank thrust a pitch into her face.
“Calm down, calm down. you are excited now I’ll be back to my senses tomorrow morning. Think about how your actions are different from that viscountess who tried to raise a family by marrying off her daughters.”
“radish! Mumumu!”
When I let go of my mouth, Ariete touched my cheek and said.
“Obviously, it is very different. i want me I want to make you mine and gain your power.”
Crank, eyebrows twitched, looked at Carrot now.
“Try it dry.”
“why? Good thing, crank finally! You are getting married!”
“My automaton isn’t helpful at times like this.”
Turning the pitch away from a grinning Carrot, Crank crossed his arms again and started looking out the window.
“Such marriage proposals are rejected. And you’re not my taste You look so ugly.”
Ariete, who has lived her life listening to beauty, was quite shocked by those words. Enraged, she pounced on Crank, causing the wagon to rock.
“You are the first to say such rude things to me! How the hell did you come to treat me like this! Take it off! Let’s see your face!”