302 – Chaser (1)
Urgo caught a horse from somewhere. Since it was a horse with a halter and a saddle, I wondered if it had an owner, but Urgo said that he brought the horse that was running around in the meadow.
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Urgo ripped off the horseshoes of the horses he had brought in and then began to trim his overgrown hooves with an axe.
“The horse is in very bad condition.”
“Hmm. But I think it will be okay if you take good care of it.”
Fortunately, Sena recovered fine. However, compared to the depth of her wounds, she may have used too little of her top grace, and it did not completely heal, and a faint scar remained.
Sena looked here and there on the horse that Ur Go had brought, and then began to brush her.
Chester, who was fishing with Rex in the river with an improvised fishing rod, turned his attention to the crackling sound coming from next to him.
“Dad, it broke again.”
“Really? Do you want to take it as your dad’s for now?”
“Yes.”
Rex, who had properly demonstrated his powers for the first time in his life while fighting a demon knight, had been having difficulty controlling his powers since that day.
As for the fishing rod, Rex himself tried to hold it lightly and gently, but the fishing rod broke.
In the past, fishing was a hobby, but recently, fishing has also been used to practice Rex’s strength control.
While Chester went to make a new fishing rod, a fish took the bait.
“Wow!”
Although Rex was startled, he worked hard to control the fishing rod so as not to put too much force on his hands.
Fortunately, I succeeded in catching a fish without breaking the fishing rod.
“Wow! Mom! Look at this!”
“Huh? Wow, that’s a big fish.”
“Yes!”
The fish Rex caught was as big as the river.
The place where the party was currently staying was a river leading to a lake near the duke’s family’s villa.
When the northern barbarians gathered a huge force and moved south, Raynald stopped them, and was granted this territory for his achievements.
There wasn’t much there other than a large flower field and a lake, but thanks to the lake’s beautiful scenery, it was a place where other nobles often came to visit during outdoor parties.
Sometimes Monia also wanted to have tea time, and whenever she did, she ordered the tea time place to be moved to her lake to make Chester lose his temper.
We need to find a carriage to go to the lake, arrange for a high-quality carriage befitting the duke’s family if there is no carriage at the mansion, urgently bring out horses, urgently gather knights to escort, and prepare a tea time in advance, so separate carriages. I prepared one and hurriedly sent the employees who were going to prepare for tea time first…….
As Monia looked at her fish, her cheeks blushed slightly out of embarrassment, perhaps because she was reminded of those times. She did a lot of things for which she was sorry. Really.
“We have a villa near here, so let’s go there and rest tomorrow.”
“Oh! “This is my first time entering a proper noble house.”
Lorwan was looking forward to entering the duke’s family villa.
“In Tongdan?”
“Yes, I stayed in a mansion, but wouldn’t it be a big difference from a mansion built in my own country?”
Lorwan brought up a story about a nobleman’s mansion that he had heard about through rumors.
“Is there really a secret kennel in the basement where they keep scary monsters as pets?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“There is a rumor that the noble mansion is guarded not only by visible soldiers but also by loyal ghosts who have served the family for a long time…….”
“Where are the ghosts in the world?”
“There are devils, but aren’t there also ghosts?”
People in the world think of noble mansions as some kind of alien magic world or a special world in another dimension, but noble mansions are just big houses.
For Monia, a wooden house made of bamboo on a wandering island was much more comfortable than a noble house.
It didn’t matter if there wasn’t a soft bed.
I just liked the fact that no matter where I looked in the small house, I could immediately see the person I loved.
I liked it because we could feel strongly that we were together in the house we created together.
Monia stroked the rope still tied to her wrists. A considerable amount of time had passed, but as a result of her careful care to prevent Monia from rotting, the rope was still attached to Monia’s wrist.
After fiddling with the rope for a moment, Monia pressed the fish Rex had caught onto a stone covered with leaves.
“Rex, how should I cook the fish?”
“I want to show off to my dad when he comes!”
“Really? “Then shall we leave it alone until then?”
“Yes!”
After a while, Chester, who had brought several twigs, was amazed at the fish Rex had caught.
“Oh, the big one?”
“That’s right!”
After finishing showing off the fish to Chester, Rex started eating the fish.
Chester laughed at that, took out a black knife made from a fragment of the demon knight’s armor, and began trimming the tree branch.
After trimming the branches appropriately, attach a thin string to the end and attach a fishing hook made from a tree branch to the end of the string.
If you sharpen the part of a tree branch with a moderately bent end and sharpen it with a knife, it could be used as a substitute for a fishing hook.
Chester and Rex went fishing again, and Lorwan, who had been asking Monia about various things, joined them and started fishing together.
And at that time, Urgo and Senna, who had finished taking care of her horse, came to visit Monia.
“Oh. “When did Lorwan go there?”
“She said she would try to catch a bigger one.”
Monia pointed to the fish that Rex gave to Ant before eating. Ant was eating the fish while wagging her tail vigorously.
“The fish is big.”
As Senna watched Ant eat the fish, she began using fragments of her armor to create a spear for herself.
After a while, everyone sat together and had dinner as usual.
Monia was on duty today, so everyone ate happily.
* * *
The Duke family’s villa was a huge three-story wooden mansion. Because the beautiful scenery was already spread out, nothing was touched except for the mansion, except for paving the way for carriages to come and go.
There was a wide field of colorful flowers, and if you looked from the mansion to the other side, a lake so clear and clear that you could see the water was spread out wide.
In the last few years, boats with broken strings were floating around the lake, probably because it had not been properly managed, like ducks swimming on one side.
The villa was also not in good condition. The window was broken, and there were spider webs everywhere.
“Hmm. “The door is stiff.”
The hinges were creaky and the door could not be opened properly. Urgo kicked the huge door, and the hinges were torn off by Urgo’s kick, causing the door to open.
The inside of the mansion was also full of dust.
“Cough! “Cough!”
“Ugh! Smell. “It’s bad.”
“Let’s open all the windows first.”
Chester and his group walked around the mansion and opened the windows.
As sunlight and wind enter, dust begins to fall out.
“Oh, should I just stay outside?”
“You said you wanted to sleep at the mansion. “So I came here on purpose.”
As Lorwan grumbled, Monia glanced at him.
“I know. “I didn’t know the condition was this serious.”
“Wouldn’t this have been natural if it had been left unattended during the war?”
Urgo and Rex decided to go around the rooms and quickly clean out only the rooms they would be using.
Enter the room, open the window, and swing the shield roughly to create wind.
The dust accumulated in the room was immediately blown outside by the strong wind, and after that, Sena and Monia cleaned the room in detail.
While walking around the mansion cleaning, Monia found a room and entered it.
“Is this the room used by the occupants?”
It appeared to be a guest’s room, as it was located in a remote area of the mansion where guests rarely entered, with statues used to hide the door from the guests’ view.
After going inside, Monia found some of the items in the room, and she took them quietly.
“Hmm.”
While everyone was cleaning the mansion, Chester cleaned his kitchen. Next he went into the pantry on one side of the kitchen.
“Is this cheese? Hmm.”
After discovering the large block of cheese, Chester went down the passage inside the food warehouse and also found alcohol piled up in the liquor storage room.
As I came up with a few bottles of alcohol, my eyes met with Monia, who had entered the kitchen. Chester said, holding up a large block of cheese and a drink and shaking it.
“Monia. Shall we have fondue for dinner tonight?”
“Fondue? “Good!”
That evening, the group gathered outside the mansion to make fondue and eat it. Among preserved foods, such as severely dried bread or beef jerky, those that are difficult to eat due to old storage organs are usually taken out, boiled in alcohol, and dipped in melted cheese.
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After drinking a lot of alcohol, disposing of the accumulated food, and having fun, we went to our respective rooms to sleep.
However.
“Chester, do you want to see this?”
There was only one place where the hot night continued without trying to sleep.
“Monia, that is.”
“hehehehe.”
Monia, who had secretly washed and put on the maid uniform she found in her mansion, grabbed the skirt of her maid uniform and then lowered her head and said.
“Master, how may I serve you tonight?”