Chapter 408 – My Name Is Leica (4)
“What is your name?”
“Hey, it’s Leica.”
Laika was sitting in her chair, hugging her warm fur coat. The Grand Duke of the North was feeling a bit embarrassed about the beastman their servant had brought. She had asked to bring the most famous prisoner these days, Lionel Millar of the Lionel family, because the two rebellious attendants had picked up another prisoner from somewhere.
“Does the Archduke know Lucius-sama too?”
Besides, this prisoner claimed that she was the wife of Peta Lucius. Laika was delighted to see the picture of Peta Lucius hanging in the middle of Emilia’s office her. Emilia nodded her head once, then she said.
“Okay. He is someone I love very much. You came to me the other day and told me you loved me the most in the world.”
“Is that so? Still, I will be the first among the beasts.”
Laika replied with her bright face her. Emilia thought that she was a very wild girl. Her rucksack her was still clutched tightly in her hand her, and when she asked what she was, she replied that it was a gift for Peta Lucius. Even if she wanted to see her, she stubbornly refused, so Emilia moved her topic back to her work her.
“Okay. Miss Leica. Did you hear the story from the two attendants who left earlier?”
“Yes. Model… I heard you do that.”
“Does she know what a model is?”
“This is the person standing in front of the painter. I read it in a book.”
“Smart. Right. You will become a public relations model for our Nancy Foundation, extorting money from beast lovers at random.”
“Take the money? Are you doing something bad?”
Emilia shook her head. As she runs the Emilia She-Nancy Foundation, she has never been infidelity on her part of her.
“All of the money coming into the Nancy Foundation, except for a small amount of foundation operating expenses, is used to support underprivileged children and children in the North, as well as war orphans from the last war.”
“Well… Do you mean spend it in a good place?”
“Yes. Okay.”
“If you spend it on something good, I’m good too. My love also likes it when I do good things. So, what should I do? I have to go to Aunt Mila’s wedding soon, so I can only help a little.”
Even as Laika spoke, she became depressed at the thought of Aunt Mila in the capital and Lucius waiting for her at the Peta estate. On her sullen face her, along with the regret of not being able to help Emilia, who is doing a good job. She had a longing for Peta Lucius, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time.
Emilia smiled at her kind heart her and said,
“Do not worry. Miss Leica. The invitation came today, but the wedding date is a month away. It won’t take too long to help, so please cooperate.”
“If it’s over soon, can I meet my love right away?”
“For now, I’ll meet the lady Mila you’re talking about first, and then she’ll get a carriage to Peta Manor and send it to you. Shall we get straight to the point?”
She took out the contract she had prepared. She originally intended to have Mila sign it, so the name Mila was written on her tight contract her. Emilia erased Mila’s name from the contract and replaced it with Laika’s. Then she handed out the contract and asked.
“Miss Laika. Can you read?”
“Yes Yes! I know! I learned to read!”
“Incredible. I heard that prisoners have a high illiteracy rate.”
In fact, there are many cases where prisoners are ignorant of letters, so there were some merchants who tried to sell goods to them or make absurd contracts to take away goods. Laika had also seen a few scammers who cheated like that and were later caught and executed in the middle of the plain. But Emilia was a different type of person from those swindlers.
The contract she gave her was full of very tight legal language from the first line. Laika struggled to read the contract, frowning her eyes. As Emilia rang her bell, her solicitor her, who was working in her secretary’s office at the end of her hallway, hurried over to her and stood in front of her. Emilia pointed her finger at her Leica as she filled out her papers again.
“Make sure to properly inform Ms. Laika what rights the contract you have to write now gives you, what benefits you have, how you will pay your modeling fee, and what you must complete.”
“Yes. All right.”
Laika nodded intently at Emilia as she filled out her papers and listened to her judge’s explanation of her. The contents of the contract were simple compared to the complicated writing. The story was that Leica would serve as a model for the Nancy Foundation, and for the next three years, the Nancy Foundation would make money from the paintings of Leica.
“The model fee is 2 gold.”
Model fees were set on the basis of what the continent paid for high-end models, and Leica had no idea how large that amount was. As she tilted her head and gave a bland response, the judge tipped off.
“This is the amount of money you can eat by piling up a mountain of meat.”
“Sah, a mountain… !”
When Laika heard that, she seemed a little motivated. With her eyes twinkling, she was staring at Emilia. Emilia tightened her fur coat and stood up from her seat, she said.
“Now then, shall we go straight to work? After all, if we want to go to a wedding, we also have to dress up beautifully.”
“Good!”
Laika was exploding with her enthusiasm for her.
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“… Archduke. What is this?”
“It’s a promotional item for the Nancy Foundation.”
“…Strange.”
A corner of the snowy mountain. Laika was shaking the object in her hand like a yo-yo, her face frowning, contrary to her eager expression her at first. In front of her is a magician filming her model’s pose with a simple motion picture sphere, and next to her is a painter who draws the figure of Leica along with the surrounding landscape. A promotional image utilizing her Leica her was to be created based on her drawings her and visual spheres they were drawing.
However, the goods from the Nancy Foundation didn’t seem to be accepted very pleasantly by Laika. She was staring at the goatee panties in her hand her, with a very uneasy look on her face her. Emilia spoke in a calm tone.
“It is very warm to wear. If you are curious about how it feels, you can try it on.”
“…I don’t really want to wear it. I already have a tail, so I don’t know why they make me wear a tailed panties. Do you really advertise with this?”
“Yes. I’m planning to sell Nancy Foundation products with promotional phrases such as [Goat pants that even beasts fall in love with] And [If you wear them, you’ll turn into a goat, not a dog]…”
“No! I don’t want to sell my face for such a thing! My darling can’t lift his face when he sees it! Other products! I want to advertise another product!”
Laika was startled and objected to the promotional phrase Emilia had evoked as an example of her. Both the magician and the painter looked at Emilia with eyes as if that wasn’t the case. As they looked at her in unison, Emilia clicked her tongue as she spoke to the attendant.
“Valet. Bring something else. A Nancy doll would be nice.”
“Dolls are good. If it’s a doll, I can hug you as hard as I can. I like that goat.”
When Emilia was told that she liked goats, Emilia was taken aback, but she thought it would be wrong to force prisoners to be vegetarian, so she decided not to say anything. The attendant ran towards the castle at high speed. Emilia sat down on her floor waiting for the attendant to return. From the other side of the mountain range, heavily armed explorers were coming, carrying loads of books. Emilia, who was resting on her chin, looked at them and waved her hand.
Explorers came running to Emilia with books and ancient documents.
“What is this?”
“Didn’t the Grand Duke ask you to explore the mountains last time?”
“Yes. Yes.”
“I found a large cave on the side of the nest where the demons were.”
“It’s a big cave. Was there such a place before?”
“I do not know. It seems to have been used until recently, but a large number of female corpses were found inside. They are all rotten, so their identities are unknown, and I think we will have to mobilize soldiers to investigate further. “
Emilia narrowed her eyes. Hearing her words about her corpses, both painters and wizards stiffened their bodies. Even Leica, who had not yet grasped the situation, could understand that the story was serious.
“It is terrible. Go down now and send the soldiers up. If you say it’s my order, the knight commander will organize and send it on its own.”
“All right.”
The explorer nodded her head at attention, then started dragging the books down again. Emilia stood next to the explorer and began to open the books in the cart. She then frowned and said to him,
“What is this? This is unpleasant.”
“These are the books I found in the cave. I even brought some fairly old documents… Do you know how to read?”
“There is also a document written in an archaic language used in the north. The contents… How to make your penis bigger… What?”
Emilia, who was reading her text her, looked at the explorer with her absurd face her. Thinking it was a coincidence, she pulled out another book and read it.
“Premature ejaculation solution. The secret of the man who bowed his head to rise again. The secret of a strong and lasting man. Gymnastics to increase stamina. If you do this, you too can grow…”
Laika began rummaging through her stack of books. It was because she also wanted to read the book. Emilia sternly dismissed her actions her. As she pushed herself away, she protested that it was Laika.
“I want to read books too! I wonder what it is!”
“It’s not really worth reading.”
She picked up the book and tossed it away, speaking forcefully to the explorer. A cruel human being who would do such a thing could not have been anything other than a murderer.
“It’s not an ordinary pervert to murder women and pile up papers agonizing over one’s virility in a cave. Search the inside of the cave thoroughly and make sure to find the culprit.”
“Yes!”
And an attendant was coming up from the direction of the castle carrying a doll. The explorer and the attendant passed by, and the attendant lifted the white goat doll up. Laika smiled broadly at the doll, which was cuter than she thought, and jumped in her place. She liked dolls.
Emilia turned to the wizard and said.
“Prepare to shoot.”
“Yes! All right!”
