Watashi Ga Betsu No Sekai De Umarekawatta
16-8: Invitation to Breakfast Meeting
"Grandfather asks if you want to have breakfast with him…"
After greeting each other, Sera san cut straight into her core…
It would have been a tempting invitation if the other party was a young woman, but since it was an old man and the authority of a nation at the time, “sapan” might have meant more like a meeting…
Well, the Duke might invite me for breakfast to ask me to come under his wing…
We are not only the explorers holding the Mithril Plate, but there is a problem of Lina and Tiane defeating the first seat of the Shiga Eight Sword, so the chances are high…
"I am honored, but is it alright for a low-level noble like me to be called to breakfast with the Duke together…?"
I can't imagine the carefree Nobles of the Capital of Duchy driving me away, but not all of them think positively of me…
The people from the Marquis Lloyd and Earl Haku faction might be fine, but the people from the Earl Bobi faction who were related to the Wings of Liberty seemed to be holding a grudge…
"It's okay, you know…"
"Because the same Ane has approved the Secilia san…"
"I feel honored…"
By the same Ane, he was talking about Ringrande, the bodyguard of Hero Hayato, right…?
I don't remember doing anything that would make him agree to me, but maybe, he did it because I won against Hero Hayato…?
Besides I can't refuse it, I told Sera san that I will attend Duke's dinner meeting and make Toruma and Karina who have been treated like air until now to join in the conversation, tell each other the situation…
"Then, you said that Head Miko dono is not feeling well…?"
"Not because she fell ill, however, she didn't look energetic…"
"He rarely came out of the inner consecration room, let alone the temple…"
I wonder what happened…?
Did he receive a new oracle or something…?
"Nothing, the only new oracle about the destruction of the demon lord that just appeared in the Labyrinth City…"
Come to think of it, this is imminent for Hero Hayato's call time…
I have to ask what happened to the demon lord that was prophesied to appear in the Weasel Empire…
Only five of them are left, right…?
Please appear at once in the world…
I will visit him once the affairs in the Royal Capital are over…
Toruma then talks about a strange thing, perhaps to change the flow of the conversation…
"According to my brother, Secilia dono is also popular in the Labyrinth City…"
What's up with 'Also'…
Since when I was popular…
No, I think I'm quite popular with young men and nobles…
"Men and young people seem to like me a long time ago…"
"Well, oh, Secilia san…"
Sera san gracefully laughed at me who replied jokingly, but Miss Karina reacted doubtfully…
"It's not just men…"
Miss Karina muttered, it was a very slow voice…
Many Nobles submitted marriage or engagement proposals to me, but that was all I refused, and there were even cases where princes from other continents proposed marriage to me…
Am I that popular…
"However, I heard that you are close to some foreign princess and a noble daughter of your age…?"
Toruma who could not read the mood, always expressed such remarks while ignoring Miss Karina's mood…
Even Sera san was waiting for my answer with a serious face…
With the princess, what does Princess Noja mean, Mitia…?
A noble daughter of the same age, I think it's Zena san or Baronet Dyukeli's daughter…?
"The two were just acquaintances I knew from a small incident…"
"We have no special relationship…"
When I confirmed so, the girls let out a sigh of relief…
Miss Karina has met the girls before, so she should have known about our relationship…
"What, that's all…"
"Since Secilia dono is young, why don't you become famous as a seducer in high society…"
"Toruma Oji-sama…!"
Sera san and Miss Karina reprimanded Toruma's disrespectful remarks…
He is as usual presumptuous and his words cannot be controlled, do I have to eliminate him from this fiction…?
Don't, there will come a time when you do something more interesting…
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna do what you say…
He's not the narrator but he's the…
Although we often exchange letters, talking like this complements the subtle nuances that cannot be conveyed by mail…
While Sera san told me the state of everyone in the Capital Duchy orphanage, I also told him about the Labyrinth City orphanage and training school for explorers…
I told her my activities in the Labyrinth City were as simple as possible…
He also told me the condition of the sealionkin children that Nana cared for, I will tell Nana later…
However, Miss Karina is shy with strangers as always…
Although he could speak normally with me and Toruma, he only replied with short words like “Ya”, or “It was true”, when Sera spoke to him, the conversation could not continue…
It's like he's meant for Sera…
Since Toruma followed up with, “Karina was embarrassed by strangers as usual, ya” when it happened, Sera didn't seem offended…
After we told each other about our circumstances, Toruma asked about the incident at the airship…
As requested, I told him about the details of the attack on Duke Bishtal, instead I asked about the suspicions towards Marquis Lloyd…
It seems that Marquis Lloyd gladly agreed to be introverted and proved his innocence…
I was happy that his suspicions had been cleared, but in the end, I couldn't get him to go to jail now…
And then, I understood that Toruma was going to talk about Miss Karina's confession match right before we left the Labyrinth City, but I stopped her from talking about other people's mistakes, especially in front of Sera san…
When the two disappeared, Miss Karina asked a puzzling question…
"Se Secilia, do you want to bring Sera the same as your partner…?"
"No, Sera san is my friend…"
"First, Miko can't get married unless she's back to secular life, you know…?
"Secondly, I'm not interested in him and I'll just think of him as a friend and that's nothing less and nothing more…"
An Oracle Miko like Sera may not be allowed to return to secular life…
"B-so..."
He let out a sigh beside me…
Maybe, she really fell in love with me…?
Of course, she was in love with me, even though we were fellow women…
This isn't good…
"Other than that…"
The flow of the conversation was just right, I guess I'll say it…
"The person I love is in a distant foreign country…"
"I won't ask Sera san to be my partner…"
Saying that 'he' is a lover or my husband would make it look like a lie, but [The person I love] should be almost safe…
I haven't met 'She' since I was in this human domain, I'll make sure, I'll meet my beloved husband there…
"B, lie…"
Miss Karina rejected it reflexively…
I saw a big tear flowing from his eyes…
Apparently, his sister's wedding proposal when we were about to leave the Labyrinth City was serious…
I don't feel at all guilty, but giving her last words before she enters high society might be good for her courtship…
While deceiving him with false guilt on that excuse, I spoke more…
"It's true, you know…?"
"She's a little older than me, but she's special…"
After hearing my words, Miss Karina turned around and ran towards her own room…
I'm sorry, but I'm not going after Miss Karina…
I'll ask head maid Pina or Lina to cheer him up…
Ahh, it's been a long time, I want to see Aze san…
The last time we talked to Telephone about [Sakura Dryad] and [Sakura Drop], so it feels like I haven't spoken to her in a long time…
"Chevalier same…!"
"The situation in the palace is a bit strange somehow…"
As if dispelling my false grief, combat maid Erina rushed into the entrance hall in a fuss…
"What's so weird…?"
"There are many of the same knights who go in and out…"
"After all, it's strange that they ride horses even though it's inside the palace walls…"
Fumu, I saw if there was a huge outbreak of monsters in the Royal Capital, but nothing like that happened…
After seeing the flow of the knights in the garrison, there were only people from the three order knights who were often in and out…
I want to know what's going on…
There were many people who seemed to know about it, but there were only a few who would say military matters to the Secilia…
The King and the Prime Minister seem to be busy too, I think Shiro will visit them later in the middle of the night…
I asked Erina to tell me if she knew what was going on, and then I went to the kitchen alone…
I have decided to prepare a mountain of whale carage and various cakes so that Miss Karina can eat to her fullest and distract her at least…
This mansion had a heat-retaining warehouse and cooling magic tools, so he could take them out whenever he wanted to eat…
The unexpected guest we just returned to the mansion was waiting…
"I'm sorry I made you wait…"
"What, don't mind it…"
"I am the one who came without prior notice…"
Julberg-shi who was wearing the white armor of the holy knight fully replied…
The people in the living room were me, Lina, Tiane, Julberg shi and the third seat of the Shiga Eight Sword, Heim shi [Weed] whom I had just met for the first time…
Heim shi was investigating the strength of the two of them, he had sent a probing glance towards him since quite some time ago…
By the way, Heim shi's armor is also the white armor of the holy knight, but it's been remade with obsolete until you can't believe that they're the same model…
At least please stop adding meaningless horns on the shoulders…
"Let's get straight to the point, what kind of business do you have…?"
"Umu, there will be a banquet where Shiga Eight Sword gathers tomorrow night in my mansion…"
"Your Majesty has given me delicious Oumi meat, so I thought of serving it to everyone…"
The beef from the official farm we ate at the time was delicious…
Other than me, their faces looked calm, but his presence felt like his feelings had been enamored with flesh…
"I have also invited other candidates of the Shiga Eight Sword…"
"I want you three to come by all means…"
It seems that the candidates were Jeril who was a Mithril explorer like us, and five others…
We were able to completely reject the invitation from the first seat of the Shiga Eight Sword, but since it would appear menrik events, so we also accepted it…
There was a simple arena in Julberg shi's mansion, so we had to make sure not to carry weapons in visible places to avoid a fight…
I discussed the matter of knights to Erina during our stale talk, but they only told me that it was a national defense secret…
In other words, there is a situation that affects the safety of the country, huh…?
