Now, the inside of the mansion was busy with the shuffling of the servants. Nina looked down at Jean, lying on the floor, and he turned to look at her.
His dark green eyes had a playful smile on them.
“If you don’t know what to do, just poke it.”
“Poke?”
“Well, wouldn’t you fall for it if someone you like poked you?”
Nina made a face that didn’t understand where would it be easy, and Jean looked at the sky with a refreshed heart. As autumn approached, the sky was so blue that it made the eyes ache.
“If you can’t figure it out, shall I speak for you?”
At Jean’s words, Nina looked at him with a dumbfounded face and burst into laughter.
“Nonsense.”
“Right?”
Jean laughed out loud. Nina reached out her hand, and he took it. Without difficulty, she pulled him up all the way.
The servant approached in a timely manner and asked.
“If your practice is over, shall I prepare water for washing?”
“Yes. Is Miss Fiona, awake?”
“Yes, she’s washing now.”
“Gosh.”
She had to hurry up and prepare for it, Nina took a quick step while looking back.
“I’ll take your advice, thanks.”
“Yes.”
Jean crossed his arms and smiled, as he saw Nina disappearing along with her hurried gait, his smile faded from his lips.
“Oh, really.”
He scratched his head
Maybe it’s because he feels strangely sad, like a feeling of losing a cherished little sister. But she needs him and he needs her.
There was no room for a third party to enter.
While lightly pressing the back of his head and wondering if he should watch the knights practice, the butler approached.
“Vice-Commander, Your Majesty the Duke is calling.”
“Huh? Now?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. I’ll wash up and go.”
“Then, I will pass it to his Grace.”
Jean hurriedly washed up in the bathroom and changed his clothes. With water dripping from his hair, he hurriedly stood in front of Adrian.
The wet hair was neat, and he asked Adrian, hoping it would be the same as usual.
“Did you call me?”
Adrian lightly nodded his head and Jean made an awkward expression. He had just had a conversation with Nina about them, so he was embarrassed in front of Adrian.
Even though he probably wasn’t listening to the whole conversation.
“I found the place where another spirit fragment fell. So-.”
“I’m going.”
Jean took a step forward and growled.
“Leave it to me.”
At Jean’s words, Adrian smiled.
“Let’s together.”
“What?”
“Let’s go together, I can’t let Jean go alone. I didn’t send Nina alone either.”
“That-.”
Jean took a deep breath, wondering what to say.
“All right.”
“Thanks.”
“I can’t take responsibility for the nagging that will follow.”
Either from the Commander or the General Manager.
Adrian laughed at Jean’s words.
“It’s all right.”
────── •❆• ──────
Arriving in front of the tent at dawn, people had already gathered. Volunteers were already busy setting up tents, organizing supplies such as medicines and bandages, and dividing patients.
“Miss Fiona, Miss Nana!”
When the two arrived, everyone greeted them with a wide smile. Some have reported a shortage of materials.
‘I’m glad Adrian made a lot of money.’
The Duchy’s wealth grew year after year, without decreasing a little.
At first, Nina was delighted to be rich even with 2,000 large gold coins, but this year, when they converted the profits already earned into the Duke’s family into money, it was about 100,000 large gold coins.
To Nina, it was an incomprehensible amount, so large that her eyes popped out. So taking care of a place like this was nothing to Adrian.
“But why is the number of patients not decreasing? We’ve already treated them quite well, haven’t we?”
Nina tilted her head and asked, and the man next to her, carrying herbs, lowered his voice.
“Rumors have spread, and it seems that people are coming from outside the Castle walls as well.”
“Out of the Castle?”
“Yes, recently, Bellac attacks have gotten worse and people have flocked to the big cities that have a barrier. They can’t get inside, but seems like they are living outside the Castle walls…”
“It means the damage is severe over there, too.”
Nina let out a deep sigh and the man waved his hand.
“Keep it a secret from Miss Fiona. If she ever finds out, she will leave immediately-.”
“What are you keeping secret?”
Fiona asked, approaching. Nina said “later.” and sent away the helpless man with a wink.
Fiona shook the basket.
“Let’s eat lunch before continuing.”
“Wow!”
The two sat next to each other with their hips pressed against each other. Just as Nina was about to put a sandwich with duck meat in her mouth, a loud trumpet was heard.
“!!”
Realizing the situation, Nina started putting the sandwiches in her mouth in a hurry. Before the ill-timed person comes to talk, she had to fill her stomach first.
Fiona who raised her head in surprise, made a quirky face when she saw Nina’s bulging cheeks.
“Miss Nana, do you have to……”
I have to eat to gain strength!
Nina wanted to say that, but she couldn’t because her mouth was full of sandwiches.
“Who is in charge here!!”
The knight who made a loud entrance blew the trumpet and shouted. Nina got up from her seat and stepped forward.
She glanced at the flag, seeing as it was a coat of arms that Nina did not know, it was not an important peerage to memorize. The atmosphere was heavy with several armed knights riding their horses and filling the alleys.
“Are you in charge of this place?”
When the representative asked, Nina raised her finger.
Wait a minute, I’ll finish this.
His face turned red at Nina’s gesture. How dare a lowly person beckon to him?
Nina swallowed the sandwich and opened her mouth.
“I not the owner, but I am in charge of the guests. What business are you here for?”
“Shut up and bring the person in charge! I am Laverto, the knight of Viscount Kata, the Black Wolf, who inherited the blood of the Brave wolf, Count Osris! I am not in a position to mix words with a lowly person like yourself.”
Nina slowly recounted the modifier in her head and spoke without realizing it.
“So you’re just a knight, aren’t you? Why is the introduction so long?”
Nina tilted her head to the side.
Are these people slow with their ears? If they knew who was sponsoring this place, they wouldn’t be yelling like that, would they?
Adrian did not openly support the place such as hanging his flag on the tent. He was just spreading rumors.
‘Well, even nobles are not all aristocrats.’
There are poor aristocrats, and there are aristocrats with slow skills in newsgathering. Perhaps he came from such a family.
At Nina’s words, the man’s face turned red.
As mentioned, knights were the most popular occupation in the Ebensel Empire. Commoners naturally bow their heads in front of them and look at them with longing. There are also many popular knights, and their stories, as well as reproductions of paintings and used jewelry, were sold.
In the case of ‘Nina La Dell’, the most famous knight at present, the portrait was sold as an amulet to pray for safety from Bellac.
As a result, jealousy and a sense of inferiority prevailed among the knights.
There were many knights bouncing around and showing off, and for knights who got famous, they would say, “They just got lucky,” “It’s because of the face,” and “I don’t like their skills.”
Laverto was one of those knights.
So, Nina’s remarks, ‘just a knight’, stabbed and stimulated his sense of inferiority. Laverto pressed it once and held it in because he received an order from his master.
“Call your boss right now. Otherwise, I will subdue you by force.”
At that moment, a small laugh leaked out from the quiet surroundings. Then the sound of laughter drastically increased.
“W-what is it!”
Laverto and the other knights’ faces hardened. The commoners, and even the poor, dared to ridicule themselves.
It was an intolerable humiliation.
“I can’t help but give out punishment!!”
He drew his sword.
“Let us not leave a single one of those who ridiculed us alive!”
At the same time as his cry, the knights pulled out their spears. Nina clenched and straightened her fist and took a step forward.
“Wait a minute.”
Then Fiona stopped Nina and stepped forward.
Now, the inside of the mansion was busy with the shuffling of the servants. Nina looked down at Jean, lying on the floor, and he turned to look at her.
His dark green eyes had a playful smile on them.
“If you don’t know what to do, just poke it.”
“Poke?”
“Well, wouldn’t you fall for it if someone you like poked you?”
Nina made a face that didn’t understand where would it be easy, and Jean looked at the sky with a refreshed heart. As autumn approached, the sky was so blue that it made the eyes ache.
“If you can’t figure it out, shall I speak for you?”
At Jean’s words, Nina looked at him with a dumbfounded face and burst into laughter.
“Nonsense.”
“Right?”
Jean laughed out loud. Nina reached out her hand, and he took it. Without difficulty, she pulled him up all the way.
The servant approached in a timely manner and asked.
“If your practice is over, shall I prepare water for washing?”
“Yes. Is Miss Fiona, awake?”
“Yes, she’s washing now.”
“Gosh.”
She had to hurry up and prepare for it, Nina took a quick step while looking back.
“I’ll take your advice, thanks.”
“Yes.”
Jean crossed his arms and smiled, as he saw Nina disappearing along with her hurried gait, his smile faded from his lips.
“Oh, really.”
He scratched his head
Maybe it’s because he feels strangely sad, like a feeling of losing a cherished little sister. But she needs him and he needs her.
There was no room for a third party to enter.
While lightly pressing the back of his head and wondering if he should watch the knights practice, the butler approached.
“Vice-Commander, Your Majesty the Duke is calling.”
“Huh? Now?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. I’ll wash up and go.”
“Then, I will pass it to his Grace.”
Jean hurriedly washed up in the bathroom and changed his clothes. With water dripping from his hair, he hurriedly stood in front of Adrian.
The wet hair was neat, and he asked Adrian, hoping it would be the same as usual.
“Did you call me?”
Adrian lightly nodded his head and Jean made an awkward expression. He had just had a conversation with Nina about them, so he was embarrassed in front of Adrian.
Even though he probably wasn’t listening to the whole conversation.
“I found the place where another spirit fragment fell. So-.”
“I’m going.”
Jean took a step forward and growled.
“Leave it to me.”
At Jean’s words, Adrian smiled.
“Let’s together.”
“What?”
“Let’s go together, I can’t let Jean go alone. I didn’t send Nina alone either.”
“That-.”
Jean took a deep breath, wondering what to say.
“All right.”
“Thanks.”
“I can’t take responsibility for the nagging that will follow.”
Either from the Commander or the General Manager.
Adrian laughed at Jean’s words.
“It’s all right.”
────── •❆• ──────
Arriving in front of the tent at dawn, people had already gathered. Volunteers were already busy setting up tents, organizing supplies such as medicines and bandages, and dividing patients.
“Miss Fiona, Miss Nana!”
When the two arrived, everyone greeted them with a wide smile. Some have reported a shortage of materials.
‘I’m glad Adrian made a lot of money.’
The Duchy’s wealth grew year after year, without decreasing a little.
At first, Nina was delighted to be rich even with 2,000 large gold coins, but this year, when they converted the profits already earned into the Duke’s family into money, it was about 100,000 large gold coins.
To Nina, it was an incomprehensible amount, so large that her eyes popped out. So taking care of a place like this was nothing to Adrian.
“But why is the number of patients not decreasing? We’ve already treated them quite well, haven’t we?”
Nina tilted her head and asked, and the man next to her, carrying herbs, lowered his voice.
“Rumors have spread, and it seems that people are coming from outside the Castle walls as well.”
“Out of the Castle?”
“Yes, recently, Bellac attacks have gotten worse and people have flocked to the big cities that have a barrier. They can’t get inside, but seems like they are living outside the Castle walls…”
“It means the damage is severe over there, too.”
Nina let out a deep sigh and the man waved his hand.
“Keep it a secret from Miss Fiona. If she ever finds out, she will leave immediately-.”
“What are you keeping secret?”
Fiona asked, approaching. Nina said “later.” and sent away the helpless man with a wink.
Fiona shook the basket.
“Let’s eat lunch before continuing.”
“Wow!”
The two sat next to each other with their hips pressed against each other. Just as Nina was about to put a sandwich with duck meat in her mouth, a loud trumpet was heard.
“!!”
Realizing the situation, Nina started putting the sandwiches in her mouth in a hurry. Before the ill-timed person comes to talk, she had to fill her stomach first.
Fiona who raised her head in surprise, made a quirky face when she saw Nina’s bulging cheeks.
“Miss Nana, do you have to……”
I have to eat to gain strength!
Nina wanted to say that, but she couldn’t because her mouth was full of sandwiches.
“Who is in charge here!!”
The knight who made a loud entrance blew the trumpet and shouted. Nina got up from her seat and stepped forward.
She glanced at the flag, seeing as it was a coat of arms that Nina did not know, it was not an important peerage to memorize. The atmosphere was heavy with several armed knights riding their horses and filling the alleys.
“Are you in charge of this place?”
When the representative asked, Nina raised her finger.
Wait a minute, I’ll finish this.
His face turned red at Nina’s gesture. How dare a lowly person beckon to him?
Nina swallowed the sandwich and opened her mouth.
“I not the owner, but I am in charge of the guests. What business are you here for?”
“Shut up and bring the person in charge! I am Laverto, the knight of Viscount Kata, the Black Wolf, who inherited the blood of the Brave wolf, Count Osris! I am not in a position to mix words with a lowly person like yourself.”
Nina slowly recounted the modifier in her head and spoke without realizing it.
“So you’re just a knight, aren’t you? Why is the introduction so long?”
Nina tilted her head to the side.
Are these people slow with their ears? If they knew who was sponsoring this place, they wouldn’t be yelling like that, would they?
Adrian did not openly support the place such as hanging his flag on the tent. He was just spreading rumors.
‘Well, even nobles are not all aristocrats.’
There are poor aristocrats, and there are aristocrats with slow skills in newsgathering. Perhaps he came from such a family.
At Nina’s words, the man’s face turned red.
As mentioned, knights were the most popular occupation in the Ebensel Empire. Commoners naturally bow their heads in front of them and look at them with longing. There are also many popular knights, and their stories, as well as reproductions of paintings and used jewelry, were sold.
In the case of ‘Nina La Dell’, the most famous knight at present, the portrait was sold as an amulet to pray for safety from Bellac.
As a result, jealousy and a sense of inferiority prevailed among the knights.
There were many knights bouncing around and showing off, and for knights who got famous, they would say, “They just got lucky,” “It’s because of the face,” and “I don’t like their skills.”
Laverto was one of those knights.
So, Nina’s remarks, ‘just a knight’, stabbed and stimulated his sense of inferiority. Laverto pressed it once and held it in because he received an order from his master.
“Call your boss right now. Otherwise, I will subdue you by force.”
At that moment, a small laugh leaked out from the quiet surroundings. Then the sound of laughter drastically increased.
“W-what is it!”
Laverto and the other knights’ faces hardened. The commoners, and even the poor, dared to ridicule themselves.
It was an intolerable humiliation.
“I can’t help but give out punishment!!”
He drew his sword.
“Let us not leave a single one of those who ridiculed us alive!”
At the same time as his cry, the knights pulled out their spears. Nina clenched and straightened her fist and took a step forward.
“Wait a minute.”
Then Fiona stopped Nina and stepped forward.
