Chapter 75 – Preparation – Part 2
“Please, what kind of request?”
Triana Müller.
Surely she is the daughter of Tyrus Müller, the heir of the Müller family, and the eldest son, Tirson Müller, is the woman who received a breeding order that seems to come out of a 19-karat gold work?
Looking at Chloe, Chloe frowned at her and said.
“I will do anything. Instead, they say they want Müller’s land back someday.”
“Haha.”
The liver is also large.
Did you say that to the Franz family, who are famous for their strength, and say that there is no going back anyway?
In any case, considering the prospect, I would have to bow my head right now.
“What about your father?”
“Of course he refused, but in return, he said he allowed me to work for Leo-sama from now on.”
Looks like you liked it quite a bit.
My father would hate it when a guy with no ability talks, and if a guy he likes wants to die with honor, he’s a killer.
Are you saying that once you work under me and then reap the credit, you will return the land someday?
But that won’t be easy.
What the hell do you have to do to build a ball to the extent of giving a piece of land the size of the Muller estate?
But. If you want your land back, Franz only has room to bow your head. There was a cause, and it was this side that raised the army first and swallowed the land. The capital was also sufficiently oiled with the Bohring family. At least there is no justification for Brahms to intervene in this side’s affairs.
The only way for her to regain the Müller family’s land is to receive it as a reward or go to war again. Neither is likely.
“… When my father comes, I will listen to the details again. Anything else?”
“We have confirmed that most of the nobles who stayed in the castle have returned, but a significant number of them are staying in hotels in the city.”
“Uhm. It must be because of Baheun.”
I don’t know the details, but I don’t think that the nobles who have roughly confirmed that there is something will return so easily.
I figured out that the guys who might be under someone were staying in a hotel in the city.
“I can’t help it.”
“Yeah. And here.”
I have no idea or way to control that. Leave it alone as it only makes rumors worse. If there is, it doesn’t matter.
After roughly passing it, Chloe pulled out a letter from her bosom.
Correspondence made of luxurious materials. The seal stamped there…
“It’s Barheun’s seal.”
“Yeah.”
Is it finally time to come?
* * *
“Yes. I received a letter saying it would arrive soon.”
She nodded at Princess Amelia’s words.
Groups from Baheun are formally invited to the kingdom and are allowed to stay on this land.
It must have cost quite a bit. However, the princess’ expression was not so dark.
“It is rare to come this deeply into the kingdom of Baheun. We need to gather quite a bit of information, starting with the geography of our surroundings.”
Haha. Can you tell me?”
“Well. There will be no problem.”
Although it is.
Food.
“May I ask about Duke Shanerrier of the Red Shark who is visiting this time?”
A duke of a country is that country. In particular, if there is a big problem with the royal family, it is a position that can be replaced. If the power is strong enough to be completely independent. It is a burden even for Brahms Kingdom to have such a duke come here.
In particular, the Duke of Earthlane, a brown mole who came to the now-departed coming-of-age ceremony, opened in a hurry. Even if it was Franz, there was a reason why he came despite his second son’s coming-of-age ceremony.
“Well. Okay. First of all, not a bad person. A typical seaman. It’s exciting and manly.”
“Like. Indeed.”
“It’s to the point where problems arise because we prefer actual armed fights to useless political fights.”
“… Good people?”
“People are good.”
That’s not very comforting.
Still, I won’t have an accident in another country.
“I understand for now. Anyway, it’s time to go back.”
“…”
It seems like a very long time has passed.
Although it is not long ago. Considering what happened in between, it seemed like quite a few things had happened.
It’s just that Princess Amelia doesn’t like it, so she looks at me sternly.
“Is it that good?”
“Please. But will this be the last one? I will definitely meet you someday.”
“Is that so?”
The corner of her mouth went up as she shyly lowered her head slightly to avoid her gaze.
Well, I don’t know when that will happen, but at least the bond created on this occasion won’t easily disappear. Even if I don’t want to, my father won’t let me go. That’s why other nobles around me also reacted sensitively.
“I wish you all the best in the future. Princess Amelia.”
“… Well. Please take care of me, Leoric Franz.”
When their eyes met, Princess Amelia seemed to smile very little.
* * *
“The red blood has been extracted.”
“Are you faster than I thought?”
Zeke, whom he hadn’t seen in a long time, appeared.
… No, we met occasionally and talked about work.
Anyway, Zeke’s face I saw today was pretty emaciated and looked tired.
“Actually, it’s hard to say for sure. It’s hard to find unless you express it. From now on, I will continue to check on you.”
“That’s right.”
That’s what point organizations are like.
In particular, if the purpose of the organization was gathered around political ideology, they would be persistent like cockroaches. Because those kind of people risk their lives to move according to their beliefs rather than profit. But such people are few and far between.
“In fact, they said they found it, but after actually checking it, they are not exactly nobles rather than members of the red blood, but they are just those who mainly spread complaints about magical power holders. There are a little bit of them in every territory.”
“Hmm.”
It is not that there is no such discord.
The supremacy of magical power holders is a characteristic of this world and is unavoidable.
We know that such crimes happen.
Of course it’s a felony
“However, it seems that there were no traces of such activities in the original Franz estate.”
“I guess so.”
In a good way, it should be called a centralized system.
Since most of the direct or collateral branches of the Franz family, including his father, take care of most of the work, there is no opportunity for corruption to occur in the middle, and the father’s charisma is too strong for the family to do such a thing. At least, there is nothing to disparage his father’s ability. The fact that the Franz family is making a name for themselves like now is not without reason because of their father.
“Anyway, I took this opportunity to clean up the adventurers and the back alleys once.”
“Yes. Good work.”
Few nobles feel a sense of crisis about red blood, but since it is a sensitive issue, it seems that Zeke suffered a little.
Now that work was over, I could see that he was putting on a relaxed expression.
But I’m sorry.
He-I’m going to Müller with me, and I’ll have to look for red blood again there. Seeing his tired face made me feel a little sad.
“Then I’ll be leaving.”
“Yeah, um. Good work.”
But since I don’t want to do it, I have to leave it to this guy again.
* * *
After cleaning up the rest of the nobles, taking care of the things that had been postponed during the coming-of-age ceremony, checking some of the things that were ordered, and preparing to greet the person coming from Baheun. It’s another busy day, but it’s better than before.
Since there is nothing urgent, I like the taste of having people under me do things and watching them leisurely.
Still, most things will be sorted out until my father comes.
“Leo. Here is the car.”
“Um, thanks, Neria.”
I drank the tea that Neria poured me.
The tea I drank quietly while watching the garden on the terrace after a long time was sweet and seemed to relieve my body’s fatigue.
A time of quiet rest.
My soul seemed to be healed.
-Saaaaa.
…
“Yes?”
Something.
Something is strange.
What is this, the salty magic that I felt somewhere.
“Oh my goodness. What is that?”
Neria also made a sound close to talking to herself as if she saw something strange.
Neria’s words made her mouth twitch.
No…
No wait.
What did Princess Amelia say?
A typical sea person? Cheerful and manly?
“No, crazy.”
Sky far away
I saw something red that felt like a small dot approaching little by little.
Before you notice it from that point of view, there is a magical power that you can feel from that point.
It’s the first time I’ve felt magic, but I roughly noticed it.
“Princely? Aren’t you ignorant? Some madman had such magic in a foreign territory…”
Of course, I understand that he suppressed his mana. The magic I felt was so calm that it was hard to believe that it was the magic that would sustain such a huge thing even at a distance.
But who would use magic like that in a foreign country…
No.
“Magic power, isn’t it?”
The red dot in the far sky is getting closer and bigger.
Red scales, huge eyes. Tingling gills. Waving fins. A huge fish was flying through the sky as if swimming in the clouds.
At first, it seemed to be a being made of magic, but it wasn’t. That’s a real creature… A live fish I noticed they were slowly getting closer. That’s a shark It is also a red shark that swims in the sky with a body similar in size to a huge castle wall.
“But such a huge shark.”
Is it a creature that actually exists? A shark with magical powers? Do they have a way to breed those monsters?
A number of thoughts came to my mind, but I sighed when I heard the sound of the people in the territory being noisy. First of all, I should read the territories and greet them.
First of all, going around openly like that would mean that there was permission from the country, but that’s the case anyway. I wish I knew how surprised I was when I was greeted. Of course, that’s because it’s fast, but…
[Excuse me!]
Just as I was about to stand up and go out to greet them, a huge shark stopped at the wall outside the city and opened its mouth to make a huge sound.
[Bahun’s Red Shark! I’m a Sharine from the Charinaire family!]
… Could that be what the shark is talking about?
