I saw Letsy fidgeting as she looked at me with a guilty conscience.
Sir Hael came close to her with a rotten look on his face.
He sighed with a look like he had no choice but to follow the rhythm of his master and said:
“That’s correct. This person is the shadow knight of Emperor Scarlet of the Quizen Empire. She came out of the imperial palace today as she was entrusted with an important mission. We apologize for surprising you, Lady Evanror.”
“Uh…. I see. No, I’m sorry. Before that, uh, is your shin okay?”
“……”
Hael was silent for a moment. His eyes rolled up to look at the sky, then slowly headed towards the floor.
“It’s very fine. Even though I look like this, I am Her Majesty’s glorious bodyguard. Th-that was just like kicking a cotton ball. Haha.”
“That’s a relief. Phew. I was a little worried earlier when I saw that you couldn’t easily get up.”
“Ha. Ha. I guess you saw it wrong. I got up very easily.”
Oh, I saw wrong? That’s a relief.
Phew. I nearly disposed of the Emperor’s bodyguard.
I let out a sigh of relief and scowled at Dazar who was looking at me with an uncomfortable expression.
He listened to our conversation with a snort, then stood in front of Letsy… no the Emperor and said.
“Miss Shadow Night. Please tell your master to stop just going out.”
“What?”
“She should just sit quietly on the throne, why is she deliberately sending out bait? Tsk.”
“You have foreknown that as well, right?”
Letsy, who flew into a rage for a moment, eventually calmed down and spoke softly in a slightly subdued voice.
“Their movements are unusual. Maybe the Order’s words are right.”
“……”
“Maybe Ruben really showed up.”
I took a few steps back thinking: ‘Doesn’t this sound like something I shouldn’t hear?’, but stopped when I heard the word that came out of Letsy’s mouth.
‘Ruben.’
She just said Ruben, right?
“If so, there is no way I wouldn’t know.”
“…..Right. That’s definitely true. Since you are a Shiaster.”
They said that if Ruben shows up. There is no way Dazar wouldn’t know about it.
What is the relationship between Dazar and Ruben?
As I was about to listen more, Letsy glanced at me as if she noticed, and spoke in a quieter voice.
“All kinds of strange things are happening on the continent. The sudden increase in assassins, and the same goes for the food problem that you are in charge of. They may try to interfere with what you are doing.”
“Please tell her that she doesn’t have to worry about that.”
“Okay. Then we’ll find out who is behind these people through interrogation. It’s the ‘Rift Day’ soon, right? If there is anything out of the ordinary, please report it immediately.”
“Mhm Mhm.”
Dazar nodded as if he understood, to which Letsy added:
“And please cooperate with the other transcendentalists.”
Dazar frowned.
* * *
After parting ways with Letsy, we caught a passing carriage and headed to the palace.
Letsy, who looked at me with a bright face and asked me to go back to the palace with her, made a sour face at Dazar, who was caught between us. (I couldn’t see clearly because she was covered by the yellow wrapping cloth, but I guessed because of her pursed lips.)
In the end, we split up without being able to do anything.
‘I’ll send you a letter and I entreat you to reply, Celia.’
Letsy spoke with a slightly trembling voice, as if she was shy, and quickly disappeared with Sir Hael.
‘Oh, nunim. Please speak nicely about us to our lord. Hehe.’
The Black Hawk that were standing in the background looked at me and scratched their heads before disappearing
I don’t know what nice things they are asking me to say.
As Leon left, he gave me a piece of candy. He said it was a bribe. I threw that bribe to the earthworm that was crawling on the floor earlier.
Then I…..
“We can stop by somewhere for a moment, right?”
“What? Where”
After letting me get on the carriage first, Dazar, who climbed in behind me, tilted his head.
Inside the carriage, which had the seal of the Duke of Shiaster painted on the door, I boldly pointed somewhere in the distance.
“We must prepare to defeat those who threaten the safety of the world.”
“…..What?”
Dazar, who was across from me, face suddenly hardened. That hard-as-a-rock mouth and cold eyes were quite fierce.
No, I was just joking, why are you so serious?
Making people feel awkward.
“I’m talking about the big bad who prevents us from getting healthy rice. I’m talking about the terrible vermin guys.”
Dazar’s face relaxed as I quickly added those words. He smiled and muttered as if dumbfounded:
“You’re very talented at surprising people.”
“Thank you for the compliment.”
Why are you looking at me so dumbfoundedly?
It is true that if rice farming, which was supposed to solve the food shortage, fails due to pests, the world’s safety will be at risk.
“That thing called vermin will stop the rice plants from growing?”
“Yes. But there are no pesticides here.”
“Pesticides?”
That’s right.
The reason I want to go to the store with the incredibly terrifying name ‘Give Me 3 Seconds, and I’ll Poison You.’ There was nothing that could be called a pesticide here.
‘I think it is because of this problem that the food shortage occurred.’
Dazar seemed very curious about what that thing called pesticide is.
“It’s something.”
It was a hassle to explain everything step by step, so I ignored it and quickly headed to the alley where the store was located.
I erased his cold face from my mind.
‘When he also has a lot to hide. Well, I don’t need to explain.’
When I carefully asked him earlier what Ruben was that Letsy was talking about, he closed his mouth like a clam and didn’t say anything.
No, he did say one thing.
‘It’s not good to eavesdrop on what others are saying.’
I guess you didn’t think about how you said it out loud for everyone to hear.
At first glance, it seemed like there was some reason for coming to the imperial palace. Who on earth is Ruben that makes him react like that?
I crossed my arms with a sullen expression on my face and looked out the window.
It was about thirty minutes later that we arrived at a dark alley.
Arriving at this place after wandering here and there through alleys, it was very gloomy, as expected of a store with a scary name.
“Then, I’ll be back.”
“….Can you go alone?”
To the point where I can understand why Dazar asks such an odd question.
“Don’t tell me, are you worried about me right now?”
“How could I be? Ah, now that I think about it, I am worried. About the hooligan who won’t recognize your iron legs and will rush at you.”
“……”
“If that happens it’ll be a bother, so I’ll join….”
“That’s ok.”
I slammed the carriage door shut and walked briskly.
I thought I heard a thump as if Dazar, who had slightly stuck his head out, forehead had been hit by the carriage door, but I figured I was mistaken, and walked eagerly to find the store.
“Anybody home?”
When I opened the dark wooden door covered in cobwebs and entered the store, it was quite well organized despite its appearance.
Although it did still have a gloomy appearance as there were things like the tails of unknown animals and dried skins hanging there.
I frowned slightly at the smell of medicine that passed by the tip of my nose.
‘There is a customer?’
The customer who came before me was standing in front of the messy desk that looked like a checkout counter. His entire body was wrapped tightly in a robe, so his outer appearance was not visible.
The pitch-black robe went well with the gloomy atmosphere of the store.
‘It looks like the owner is preparing items.’
A sound like something was being scraped was coming from inside the small door next to the cash register.
If there was a customer standing waiting for their item together with that sound, then there was no doubt that they were preparing that customer’s item.
‘Mm.’
What I wanted was a poison that would eliminate vermin, but would not affect the plants as much as possible, and would not harm humans if they consumed the plants.
Because the conditions were quite difficult, a conversation with the owner was necessary.
‘Let’s wait for now.’
Since the owner didn’t show up, I decided to wait and look around the store.
There were many interesting things inside the store.
Such as the thorn-like feathers of the thorny eagle.
Or mushrooms that look like a finger.
‘Wow. What’s this?’
Then my eyes widened as I looked at what was inside the round glass bottle.
‘A cyclops eye?’
It was a large eye that looked like it was alive.
Yuck. My stomach felt a little bit upset, so I looked away.
‘Oh my. I think the eye just moved?!’
Surely, just now, the pupil constricted and dilated as if focusing to look at me.
As I took a step back in surprise, something bumped into my back.
“Oh, I apologize.”
“…..”
It was the back of the customer who arrived before me.
Then he turned around with a clatter.
‘Oh?’
I wondered what that noise was; it was the sound of a staff hitting the floor, which I couldn’t see well before because a robe covered it.
The staff, which seemed to match the black robe, had a large obsidian embedded in it and looked expensive even at first glance.
“Are you okay?”
While focusing my attention on the staff, I heard a soft voice from above.
“Oh, yes. I am okay. I apologize.”
I bowed my head and then looked up at the man.
Then, I was surprised.
‘Wow. Handsome.’
Before I knew it such a thought passed by, as there was an incredibly handsome man in front of me.
