No, look, Mr. Yenica (4)
“Lucy Meryl.”
It was about a week before school started when the unseen Princess Penny invited Lucy to her private room.
“Now slowly… You have to go back to school… ”
The imperial palace of Chloel soaring high in the center of the royal capital Chloeron.
It consists of a total of 11 palaces and 21 annexes centered on the central spire, and when you look down from the sky, you feel as if a huge village is located in the capital.
Among them, the Rose Palace, located to the northeast of the spire, was mainly used as a residence for the royal family.
The marble building that sits neatly on the outermost part of the Rose Palace, the reception room of the building built exclusively for Princess Fenia… Lucy Meryl sat there, drowsy.
Some people will be astonished to see them lying on their backs and lying on their backs.
This is the Rose Palace, which is the most refined appearance in the royal family, and is the private reception room for Princess Fenia.
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Most of the high-ranking ministers of the Imperial Palace were also looking down here, but Lucy Meryl was just lying on the sofa with sleepy eyes.
At first, everyone who watched was startled, but as Lucy Meiril stayed in the Imperial Castle for a long time, everyone got used to it.
Originally this kind of person
Rather than looking at the surroundings, he is a person who makes the people around him fit him.
He was a man with the power and ability to do that.
“… ”
Lucy looked at Princess Fenia sitting opposite her with blank eyes.
Speaking of the Fenian Princess, I feel like I’m sitting on a negotiating table with the fate of the imperial family.
By the way, while attending Sylvania with Lucy Merrill, they were somewhat old-fashioned.
At the imperial level, there was a wish that such a Penny princess would persuade Lucy to send her back.
“It’s been a few days since the chaos at the imperial meeting.”
“… is it. … Time is fast… ”
An imperial meeting to discuss the treatment of the Roth Taylor family.
Selaha’s opinion that the Ros Taylor family should be slaughtered, and their representatives Tanya and Ed should be brought to the imperial court and held accountable.
Fenia’s opinion is that the talents of the Roth Taylor family should be placed on standby for the time being, and that Ed Roth Taylor should be left alone since Tanya and Lucy are their agents.
It was Persica’s opinion that Ed Roth Taylor should be detained until the end of the situation after the Roth Taylor family was stripped of the title of duke, and only those with practical abilities were hired and left.
Sellaha, who is hostile to Roth Taylor, Fenia, who is friendly, and Persica, who is relatively neutral, are in conflict. It was at that moment when Lucy broke into the center of the conference hall.
With all the entrances sealed off with high light magic and elemental magic, she sat down at the conference table in front of the emperor and looked down at people with cold eyes. She was threateningly emitting huge magical powers, and made Princess Fenia stunned.
To say that he was a hero who cast out Mevula himself and saved the lives of dozens of high-ranking nobles… An overly gruesome sight.
She didn’t like the flow of the meeting towards arresting Ed Roth Taylor.
Thus, Lucy committed a crime that would not be strange even if he was sentenced to death, but somehow got over it. It was because the work he had accumulated at the Roth Taylor mansion was enormous.
It wouldn’t be easy to offset all that huge ball, but she was a girl who did it for sure.
“Actually, I… It doesn’t matter if I don’t graduate… ”
The only reason Lucy Meryl is attending Sylvania is because of Glockt Elderbane’s will.
It was said that it was to deal with the Sylvania crisis that was to come, but in fact, Gloct also wanted Lucy to be a little more grown-up while enjoying school life.
That didn’t happen though.
“still… You’ve been going for two years. Shouldn’t I be graduating even if it’s a waste of my time?”
“Hmm… ”
“Don’t you want to go back to that hut camp soon? The imperial environment should be comfortable, but anyway, Lucy, you spent the longest time there.”
Lucy shook her head and listened to Fenia’s story. Come to think of it, it’s been a while since I’ve seen Ed Roth Taylor’s face.
In fact, there were so many things I had done that I had forgotten about, but somehow I had to return to Aken Island someday.
“I have to go back to Aken Island as school starts this time, so let’s go together as soon as possible. It will be more comfortable to go back to school by riding on a well-equipped imperial carriage.”
At Penia’s words, Lucy had no reason not to nod her head.
When I came to the imperial family, I rode Selaha’s carriage, but when I returned to Aken Island, I had to ride an uncomfortable private carriage.
If you are going to travel long distances, it is better to take a comfortable royal carriage.
“then… Is that so… ”
Lucy spoke as if tossing it lightly.
Princess Fenia heard that, and nodded her head while looking at the user next to her. The servant often went out on foot as it was, and reported the news to a group of servants waiting outside.
― The Archmage is said to be returning to school!
– finally! You’re finally dead!
– hurray! hurray!
― We are finally going back to our daily life!
– Princess Penia! Princess Fenia did what she did!
Because of Lucy, who makes a riot in Selah’s realm whenever he has a chance, the workers who suffered the most hurrahed.
The sound made it all the way to Princess Penia’s reception room, but Lucy didn’t even show any signs of paying attention, and was just clinging to the sofa languidly.
Fenia took a deep breath and was relieved to feel that she had finally solved one thing.
Anyway, get to the imperial court as soon as possible… It did manage to rectify the power of Penia that was shaking to some extent.
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Most of them went to Princess Sellaha, but the tailors and middle managers, especially those of the Roth Taylor family, whose positions were close to their feet, felt like they were all attached to Princess Fenia.
Even so, it would be difficult to face the power of Princess Selaha head-on… Right now, Princess Phenia’s power was not at a dangerous level.
“but… ”
The question that comes to mind is whether continuing to attend Sylvania Academy is the right choice.
The reason Princess Fenia attended Sylvania in the first place was because she had no meaning for the emperor.
However, if she starts to confront Princess Selaha head-on, aiming for the imperial power becomes an inevitable target.
If that happens, staying away from the imperial family and staying on Aken Island will act as a huge weakness.
Nevertheless, Princess Fenia decided to head to Aken Island for now.
First of all, I had to take Lucy to Arken Island, and I also wanted to meet Ed Roth Taylor to check on her condition.
“perhaps… This could be my last semester in Sylvania.”
A sudden thought occurred to Princess Fenia, and she had a strange feeling.
– finally! You’re finally dead!
– hurray! hurray!
― We are finally going back to our daily life!
From outside the window, the voices of the users calling for hurray could be heard.
“Ed Roth Taylor.”
Among the private offices located in the Rose Palace, there is, of course, that of Princess Persica.
In the office of the second princess Persica, there are so many books that I wonder if this is okay. The floor and walls were almost invisible.
The girl, who was sitting among the piles of books, was stroking her chin and thinking deeply.
Since Prince Lindon abdicated the throne, there were no significant variables in the competition for the imperial family.
However, if you watch Princess Fenia and Princess Selaha fighting over the agenda of Ed Roth Taylor’s new recruit… He seems to be holding a key that only Persica doesn’t know.
This is not a good thing. There must be a reason why the other two emperors are so obsessed with him.
Even Lucy Meirill, who was the number one contributor to the resolution of the situation, is openly defending him, so no matter how you look at it, he is an unusual man. It is a variable that should not be taken lightly.
It seemed that I needed to know more about the man. Being left behind alone doesn’t fit Persica’s temper.
However, it is very difficult to meet him in person. He seems to be living on Aken Island, which is located on the southwestern tip of the continent, so the physical distance is too far.
Originally, it was not unheard of to use the princess’s authority to summon him, but at this point, whether or not to appear in the imperial court has become a political issue. It is not easy to do so alone.
If so, you have no choice but to go directly to Aken Island, but it is too politically obvious that the Princess Persica goes to Aken Island all of a sudden.
Selaha and Fenia would stand up and watch Persica, and there was a high possibility that Ed Roth-Taylor would also be on the alert.
Princess Fenia, she was originally a student in Sylvania, so it is not strange to return to Aken Island, but Persica is an outsider.
“Right now… There would be no reason to force a seat.”
Persica fell into anguish, swiping all kinds of history books to the side of the pile.
A former heir to the Roth Taylor family, and a man who was once famous for being a fool, but recently his reputation has started to rebound.
However, since they had never met in person, Persica felt Ed Roth Taylor’s existence as a mysterious backbone hidden under a veil.
Anyway, I think we need to be conscious of his existence. Either way, it seems like it will influence this competition for the emperor.
As such, Ed Roth-Taylor was slowly emerging as a figure occupying a central point of contention between the three princesses.
*“Are you expanding your camp?”
“First of all, I want to make it a little more plausible. Most of the work will be done by myself, but there are definitely some parts that require a hand.”
“Hmm… ”
The next day, Lortel, who returned, had a different impression than expected. It’s not a dramatic change, though.
The fox-like eyes and slender impression are still there, and the reddish-brown hair tied down to one side feels slightly longer than before.
Is it because I’m consciously growing my hair, or the hair flowing down the back is getting richer… It was a feeling of being warmer than the previous impression that was neat.
As a merchant who uses even impressions as a weapon, I thought that this was also a change with a certain intention.
“Of course, I’m not saying you want to do it for free. This time, as I took the senior position as a student, I had a lot of tuition left over. I plan to invest that money in the camp.”
I thought it wouldn’t be polite to tell Lortel, who had just returned, to talk about this kind of business, but I feel like Lortel prefers to talk about money like this. Heaven is such a girl.
“Well, anyway, you can use the procuring supplies for the remaining wagon seats. It’s not like we’re going to build a big building, and it doesn’t cost a lot of money because the construction of a small hut like this can be completed quickly.”
Lortel’s personal belongings brought by the company’s employees were piled up near the bonfire.
The wooden house Lortel built is not that big to be called a villa for the wealthy. This is because Lortel is well aware that building a large house alone makes it feel like it is floating.
The villa of Lortel, which stood neatly according to the size of the camp, had been removed by Bell Maia just yesterday.
I took a sneak peek inside, but the room was a little bigger than my hut and there were some neat furniture in it.
It wasn’t very luxurious, but it felt like it had everything it had.
“If you are going to expand to a two-story scale… Do you plan on putting your own studio on the second floor as well?”
“You are definitely sharp.”
“Am I going to put my room in the house while I’m building it?”
“… ”
When I didn’t bother answering, Lortel smiled bewitchingly.
“Because you’re not joking. Anyway, it was such a small cost. You can hang it up in the store.”
“No, take the money.”
“yes?”
After thinking a few times, I finally handed Lortel a leather wallet with gold coins.
“Oh my, I didn’t know you could pay so coolly. Wasn’t it a warning to save everything that could be saved?”
“I feel like I owe you only, so I’m going to do everything I can, basically.”
Lortel looked at me with a puzzled expression for a moment, not knowing that I would come out this way.
Of course, after a while, he quickly corrected his expression and smiled as if he knew what I was thinking.
“If the favor continues, it feels like a right. If you don’t be vigilant about such things, it’s just an instant that people become ignorant.”
“Oh, you’re right, but… I do not know.”
Next, Lortel smiled brightly and said that she thought she could have made such an expression.
“I’m not taking any money.”
“… ?”
“Doesn’t it seem like you’re drawing a line because of a business relationship? People who are close to each other usually borrow a few bucks and don’t use the loans for what they received.”
“Those words come out of your mouth… ?”
Isn’t it a demon that cleanly calculates even a single penny of gold and chases after it to the end of hell?
In fact, I heard that the recovery rate of Lortel’s bonds sown in the living quarters exceeds 90%. In other words, unless it is an unavoidable circumstance or a natural disaster, we will accept everything.
“receive.”
“It’s okay, that kind of money.”
“Take it.”
“I won’t take it.”
So for a while there was a fight between each other. I feel like something has changed.
Isn’t it Lortel who should always be in a position to ask for money?
She even hears the anecdote that she returned after receiving even a penny from the Sylvanian Bachelor’s during the delivery negotiations… It was so strange that they didn’t want to receive money so consistently.
“Ed-senpai… The world is not all about money… ”
“What do you mean?”
“The heart is more beautiful than money. How are you trying to evaluate people’s favor with money? It’s not a good habit to put a price on everything in the world.”
Unfortunately, putting a price on everything in the world was Lortel’s specialty.
“To be honest, I want to leave it as a debt of my heart to Ed-senpai.”
“What else does that mean?”
“If I treat you so favorably, open my wallet coolly, and don’t receive any money… Ed sunbaenim remains in debt in your heart, right?”
Lortel beyond the bonfire has been repeating complicated tricks and secret drugs in Old Deck during vacation.
Looking more like a fox, I almost gasped and bit my tongue.
“That’s more valuable to me, so it’s the habit of people living in Sangdo to invest in more valuable things.”
“… What happened in Old Deck?”
“… ”
Without looking back, he pierced from the core.
Indeed, no matter how proficient in the art of speech, I did not expect that it would come in with such a deep puncture… He seemed speechless for a moment.
Lortel, who had been sitting over the bonfire, stiffened for a moment, then smiled leisurely again.
“That kind of surprise is not good, senior.”
“I’m just asking.”
“I do not know. If it had happened, it was there, and if it wasn’t, it wasn’t. It’s a normal thing for me.”
Lortel gently lowered his robe hat. Only then did Lortel’s hair come into view.
The hair that gently flows down the back of the neck becomes even richer… It made Lortel look more mature.
“While I was away, people called my entourage filled their back pockets.”
“Are you saying you’ve been betrayed?”
“Actually, it’s a bit like using the dramatic expression of betrayal. Originally, this floor is full of people who want to get their share and run away if they sell one eye. The same goes for everyone I thought of as my close confidant.”
Lortel raised one hand and rubbed her thumb and index finger while continuing the conversation.
“No matter where you are, it always explodes if you leave a seat for a long time. Embezzlement, information leakage, damage to goods, double spying… I went back to the Old Deck after a long time, and the company was quite open… It’s just been corrected in many ways.”
“Is that why you were offended? Your employees hit you behind you?”
“Please. Do I look like someone who would be offended by all of this?”
Clearly, there is no hidden melancholy in Lortel’s smile.
However, that’s not good, it’s liberated.
I was used to being betrayed and bullied, and I just thought it was normal.
“Everyone is just trying to eat a little more and live. I used to do that a lot before I settled down.”
“… ”
“It’s only been a long time since I went back to Old Deck and saw such a scenery… I have a feeling that I have become a very harmful person. At least this Aken Island… What can I say, it has a unique romance.”
The scenery of students gathering at the Sylvania Academy to get their studies… It certainly makes people harmful and makes the poison disappear.
In the meantime, it’s really not easy to keep the poison steady. People are more influenced by their environment than they think.
“I told you, Ed. we are kin After coming back after a long time and seeing your face, that fact became the cud again… I guess I became sentimental for a while.”
“Have you changed emotionally? In what way?”
“I do not know. just… ”
There Lortel slightly blurred the tail. Do you not know what to express?
No, it felt a little different than that.
The reason Lortel is strangely hesitant is that he remains reluctant to expose his weaknesses without adding or subtracting.
Because I’ve lived in a world where it’s common sense to take advantage of exposed weaknesses.
However, was that rejection only temporary?
Seeing my face, he wrapped his arms around his knees and spoke as if he was helping himself.
“Because there is a strange desire to give and receive unconditional favors.”
A cold-blooded person who is desperate to steal anyone’s money or even a single penny of gold.
It was a rather harsh evaluation for a girl, but the eyes of people in the living quarters who looked at Lortel were always like that.
However, I shake my head in an attempt to receive even a penny less of my money. If we were to find out the reason for the gap, after all, it was also related to Lortel’s lonely life.
“Well, it’s not the first time I’m talking about it… There is no reason to be so shy.”
“You act like that and you get caught.”
“Who are you? me? Are you senior?”
Lortel shook her head and pointed at her, then started to laugh and giggle. No matter how refreshingly he smiled, he even felt like a completely different person from his previous appearance.
“Ahaha, ahh. Don’t worry, old man. Because I keep the line I have to keep. You don’t have to worry about that.”
“Actually, I don’t even want to do that. I intend to receive a favor as a favor.”
At least from my point of view, there wasn’t much confidence I could instill in Lortel. Just do what you have to do.
“Anyway, I have to pay for it. This is a matter of mine before yours.”
“Senior is also very stubborn in this area. Well, I can get a few pennies.”
Lortel smiled softly and spoke without change.
“How about if you catch some hogu though?”
“What?”
“Even if you get caught in the same way, the difference between knowing and being caught is bigger than you think.”
Lortel had an expression on her face as if she had brushed it off, so it was difficult for me to respond positively.
“I’ll catch you even if you know it, so for the time being, you’re going to have to speak up.”
“… ”
“I must confess, there is only one person like you around me. At least, it’s been a long time since I’ve been so sincere.”
Lortel closed her eyes and felt the breeze of the forest.
Something seemed comfortable, so it was a little disturbing.
“It feels good to be back on Aken Island. It’s a much cleaner and more comfortable place than the old deck.”
For a while, Lortel enjoyed the free air of Aken Island to the fullest.
“By the way, once the construction of the hut begins, there is no place to sleep right away.”
Bell Maia, who had roughly finished the work of the Ophelis Hall, packed Lortel’s luggage and arranged it inside the villa.
Lortel is accustomed to calling a user. He was just sitting near the bonfire, warming himself.
The cool autumn wind was blowing through Lortel’s reddish hair.
“It is so. We will have to find a solution.”
“Why are you looking for it from afar? There is my cottage right next door.”
“It is no joke. It really is like sleeping on the street.”
“Oh… .”
Lortel supported her chin and then smiled bewitchingly.
“It’s not a joke.”
“… ”
Although Lortel’s villa is not huge, it is quite spacious for Lortel alone.
That said, there’s no way I’m going to live together whenever I want, and there’s no way I can push it in.
“Even so, don’t be upset. Hmm… ”
“Why are you throwing out such a hook-hook comment from a while ago?”
“I just wanted to see seniors panicking for once. If you hit it like this and go in, you’re going to be speechless, right?”
“In the first place, what would you think if I really wanted to go and live?”
“You don’t even want to do that, do you?”
“What if there is?”
Lortel laughed softly and took off her clothes.
But, let’s just keep watching… Immediately, he trembled.
“… 👌👌👌👌 ”
“… ”
“Gee, really… ?”
As for the subject of attacking from time to time, there is always a human with a thin defensive wall. It is characteristic of people who are good at pulling and inexperienced at pushing.
Anyway, I have no desire to do so, but if I imagine that I will go to Lortel’s villa and spend a few days, I feel a strange sense of reality again.
I took a deep breath and lowered my head again, and Lortel calmly fanned my face and regained composure. The judgment of the situation is over.
Lortel let out a sigh as if it was ridiculous, and then took a moment to catch up with her breathing.
And the moment you want to say more…
― shudder
Lortel and I are facing each other with a bonfire in between.
Next to him another girl came and took a seat.
She was a girl who had been stuck in a cave-like hut all day, hitting the wall or hitting her pillow.
Perhaps he was finally resurrected, and he barely managed to get himself back and sat down by the bonfire.
“… ”
Although more than a day has passed since the major accident, the cheeks are full of redness as if it has not yet calmed down.
Still, maybe he heard Lortel’s conversation from inside the hut, or he came out with a heavy body and sat there wiggling his fingers somehow.
Could it be that Lortel and I can’t be left alone? It was an outing where even such a clear expression of will was felt.
As for me, I was also worried about Jenica’s body condition, which had become a mess from rolling in bed all day… Even more concerned about Jenica’s mental health, her cheeks blushing like a bomb about to explode.
So, without even saying anything first… There was only an awkward silence for a while.
“… .”
Yenikawa crouching and blushing, and me choosing a horse.
Lortel, who was watching the scene from the other side of the bonfire… only then responded.
“what.”
I couldn’t tell if he was talking to himself or who he was talking to.
“The atmosphere… Come on… ??”