Although there was some commotion, Ariete calmed down the next day. Rather, it came to the point of being ashamed and blowing a blanket kick.
puck puck!
Ariete kicked off the blanket in the inn room, holding her head with both hands and screaming silently. Lotte, who had been sitting quietly in a chair and watching it, looked at Venus.
“That is to regret your actions.”
“Is that so? Could it be that you are dissatisfied with the blanket’s performance? In my experience, humans tend to take their anger out on inferior objects.”
The discussion between the two automatons ended with the appearance of Carrot. After coming in to wake her up, Carrot widened her eyes when she saw Ariete rolling on the floor wrapped in a blanket.
“What, why? calm down.”
“Carrot! What the hell did I say yesterday! How should I look at him!”
Ariete whined as she rushed to her knees and hugged Carrot. Carrot, who stroked his hair, said.
“are you okay. Because the owner is a generous person. You can tell just by looking at them running around in their underwear, right?”
“I don’t think that’s a bit, to be honest. Aren’t you ashamed?”
Ariete and Carrot giggled at each other.
“It’s okay, don’t worry. Just be a little shameless and treat it like you normally would.”
“Um, yes, I got it. Are you going back today?”
When she got up, Carrot looked up and said.
“No, they say there’s a place to stop by.”
“where?”
“The place where the long-term demon king is.”
Viscount Boyd’s mansion was in South Lisnet. It’s inside the wall, so there are no monsters, so it doesn’t matter if you walk, but due to time constraints, we decided to use the regularly operated bus.
Crank muttered as he sat with his arms crossed in the rattling carriage.
“You said you would listen to anything.”
“huh? Are you going to believe that word now? Isn’t that too vague? It’s not some kind of dragon that grants wishes.”
There weren’t many people in the car, so Ariete didn’t lower her voice. Crank continued as he looked at the scenery outside the window.
“You have more eyes to see people and situations than I thought.”
Ariete burst into tears and raised her fist.
puck puck!
“me too! once! have a party! leading! He was a leader!”
Carrot, who came back from playing with the children in the front seat, came back with a string in both hands and said, holding it out.
“So what are your plans?”
When Ariete saw the string of carrots stretched out in front of her eyes, she remembered her childhood memories and began to weave them with her own hands.
Crank looked at him curiously and continued.
“I thought about it the whole night last night, but I need various kinds of support to set up a training center. It’s not something that only adventurers can do. So, for the time being, build your reputation.”
“Fame?”
Ariete, who was knitting with her hand made of steel gloves, raised her head. Crank nodded.
“Yeah, even if things go well and a training center is built with real support, I won’t leave the position to an insignificant adventurer. You have to raise your value so that you can fit in there.”
Crank, with his arms untied, began to effortlessly move the thread hanging from Ariete’s hand, then spread it out.
A neat rectangle was created.
“You have to build your reputation by creating your own party. When it got to the point where no one knew you.”
“Are you proposing an adventurer training center to the city lord or the country and drawing support? Because of me, my family will naturally have an assortment.”
“About that.”
Ariete’s face brightened. Carrot, who had moved the string from Crank’s hand, intervened.
“Then what do we get?”
We, Carrot, were looking at the crank. Ariete felt an unknown sadness and tried to say something, but the crank was faster.
“If Ariete really sets up a training school or is appointed as an instructor there, I would like to use that line to run an automaton rental business. It lends veteran automatons to novice adventurers for a certain period of time.”
Carrot’s eyes became the size of a bell.
“Ook! nice! I can guarantee the master’s safety and idyllic days! Ariete!”
Ariete, who had been sitting with a sullen expression, raised her head. Carrot stuck her face in.
“We’ll push your back! It becomes a simultaneous investment for our future.”
our future. we… … .
“Uh, um. Does that include me?”
Carrot held out a heart-shaped string to her.
“of course. Are we family?”
Ariete, who went through a sudden change of emotions, eventually burst into tears. Covering her face with her steel-gloved hands and bowing her head, she embraced Carrot’s petite body.
“Huh… ! Thank God for sending you to me… … .”
“Ariete! snot! snot!”
The wagon ran excitedly and arrived at the southern gate of Riznet.
Upon arriving at Viscount Boyd’s mansion, the party couldn’t hide their surprise. Carrot brought up a forgotten question.
“But did we really come here to make a wish?”
“I don’t know if it’s just a joke, but since you said that when playing chess with you, your influence and money will rot and overflow, I thought I’d sprinkle some rice cakes on that influential person in advance. Get some food and return the book.”
“ah! That’s right, I forgot the book.”
Ariete shook her head.
“Nonsense is the monopoly of nobles, so be careful.”
“Still, if you go around here and go, even if you get kicked out of the door, it won’t hurt you. The garden is really pretty.”
As Carrot said, the garden of Viscount Boyd’s mansion was a specialty of South Lisnet.
Ariete knew this place too.
“It’s a place I’ve been to several times with my classmates when I was in knight school. This must have been his mansion. I didn’t know.”
The garden, which is visible through the fence made of iron bars on purpose so that people can see inside, is filled with colorful flower beds and trees, reminiscent of a well-decorated park or botanical garden.
After informing the guard at the main gate of the mansion of the purpose of the visit, he asked for an invitation.
“An invitation?”
“You must have received a business card. You can give it to me.”
Carrot rummaged through her pocket and held out a small business card. The guard who received it entered the guard post, came out again, and opened the door.
Guided by the maid automaton, they went inside while touring the garden, and were able to meet Viscount Boyd surprisingly easily.
Sitting on the couch in the parlor, he greeted them, still smoking.
“Did you finally come here because you missed this body? cluck! welcome friends,”
“hello! I came to get some food. Not me, but our masters,”
Viscount Boyd, who smoked a cigarette in the ashtray, smiled happily.
“I tend to keep my word. Guests eating together are always welcome. Carrot, how about a game of chess after dinner?”
“great! If I drive the Viscount down, will he grant my wish?”
At those words, Viscount Boyd smiled happily and nodded.
“Carrot?”
“oh! Old coat boy!”
Upon hearing the news, Alcott and Maid Louise greeted each other and entered the drawing room. Carrot, who also ran to Dodo, held hands with Olcott and danced round and round.
Asked Alcott, who was spinning round and round with a laugh wahahahaha.
“You came to return the book?”
“Yeah, I forgot and took it with me.”
Having returned the book, Alcott held it out again and said,
From noble mtl dot com
“Uh, hey, sign me here. Show off to your friends.”
“Phahahaha! sign?”
Carrot was amused. Alcott brought a fine fountain pen and held it out to Carrot. Carrot looked curiously at the expensive pen and then wrote his name with it.
“Me too?”
Including Crank, Ariete and Automaton Lotte and Venus were also listed. Alcott smiled brightly and held up the autographed children’s book.
“It’s done!”
“What is this?”
Alcott, now hugging the book, smiled.
“It’s fashionable at school. It is common for children’s books and capital adventurers with the characters’ autographs. There are very few things from famous local adventurers.”
One of the servants approached Viscount Boyd, who was watching Alcott and Carrot chatting happily, and announced that the meal was ready.
“Eggplant, it looks like our chef did a good job for the guests.”
And here, in the dining room, when Viscount Boyd saw the crank who didn’t take off his helmet, he asked why, and when he heard that it was because of a curse, he was intrigued, but he didn’t ask any more. This is because he opened the lower part of his helmet to reveal only his mouth and began to show off his eating power befitting his size.
“You ate more than usual, are you okay?”
“It was a bit overwhelming because there were so many things I was seeing for the first time. Well, full. I would like you to tell the chef.”
Krank, slumped in a happy boar-like pose, gave a thumbs up to the maid who was clearing out the empty dishes.
After a while, everyone in the kitchen smiled happily after receiving the highest praise from the customer who finished the meal.
“hehehehe, shall we try it now?”
“Oh ha ha! I practiced a lot.”
As soon as the meal was over, she saw the two of them sitting in front of the checkerboard, and the maid Louise, who was preparing tea, noticed the all coat sneaking in and narrowed her eyes.
“homework.”
“Ugh. Joe, can’t we just look at it for a bit?”
“It’s not possible. See it after you’re done.”
“Aww… … !”
Louise lifted her coat and tucked it under her armpit and left the drawing room. The car was prepared by the automaton maid instead.
“Wow, the maid unnie’s strength is also good.”
“General.”
“Uhhhhh!?”
After a while of giving and receiving, Viscount Moon Boyd smoked again and opened his mouth.
“So, are you really here just to eat?”
“no.”
Carrot glared at the chess board, read the numbers, and moved the chess piece. And I took a look.
“I’m here to meet a chess fairy who says that if you win, your wish will be granted.”
Boyd, wearing round red glasses, began to chuckle. He said, easily picking up the chess piece and pushing it aside.
“Yes, I am a lonely and forlorn chess fairy. Shall we listen to what kind of wind our friends have?”
Crank, who was watching from the side, lifted the pitch with his eyes shining.
Upon hearing the story, Viscount Boyd put on a bewildered face, then burst into laughter.
“Clack! A training center for beginner adventurers?”
Moving his chess piece, he raises his head.
“So what can I do? Is it money?”
“no. Please designate it as a national project so that it can be operated with subsidies. And you can sneak in the Viscount Ibeck family to run the business. The actual business of the family will be taken care of here by Aybek Ariete.”
Ariete kept her mouth shut because she had heard the words beforehand. But those eyes were shining.
It was a crank that came with the intention of just sprinkling some rice cakes without high expectations, so he continued his conversation leisurely.
“It is a national business. To be honest, I think it’s difficult right now. However, I think it would be nice if at least a little bit of interest from related organizations.”
“It’s novel to think of friends wearing weird things on their heads. What’s the real reason you’re doing this? We might be in the same boat, but don’t hide your back. I hate being stabbed in the back.”
A prudent crank, but here to his credit, he’s been honest about everything. In addition to my usual thoughts on the activities and training of adventurers, everything from yesterday’s Ariete mansion,
While listening to the story while looking at the chess board, his red eyes turned to Ariete.
“Hey, you have a seal.”
“yes. I think so too these days.”
Even among those who are sensitive to fashion, there were quite a few people who wore colored glasses for coolness, but those red colored glasses showed a sense of bizarreness beyond individuality.
Under the dim lighting, it looked like red eyes.
So strangely, Ariete became nervous at his gaze.
“It would be easier to break the curse on this guy’s head. In fact, I am a wizard working in the royal castle.”
Hearing that, Carrot made a fuss.
“Hoooh?! So, isn’t this at my disadvantage? Aren’t you looking into my heart right now?”
“Hey boy. Do you know what’s so great about magic? It’s almost impossible to read thoughts. Recoil is no joke.”
Carrot asked again, intending to shake his concentration with a barrage of questions.
“If you’re a wizard, why were you just being attacked the other day?”
“So, everyone has fantasies about magicians. Man, wizards are people too. They say that it takes time to come to your senses when you get a big shock, so how many people will stay sane when the carriage overturns? General.”
“Oohhh!”
Carrot, whose plan failed, screamed while holding her head.