Chapter 151 - Episode Twenty-Five - Alchemy Division (7)
With Rinoa and her subordinate sorcerer in tow, they returned to Lark’s Mansion.
Rinoa knocked on the door of the office.
“Mm, sorry, but I’ll need a little time…… come back ten minutes later.”
I hear a reply from Lark.
“Sounds like he’s busy right now.”
I call out, and I hear a noisy noise coming from inside.
Lark seems to be approaching the door as a chair rises.
At the same time as Rinoa retreats from the door, the door is opened and Lark appears.
“Rinoa and… oh, it’s you! Hmm, I knew you were joining forces!”
…… Since you’re a lord, I’d like you to be a little more poised.
Are you not worried about offending me?
If that’s the case, it’s uncomfortable, so please don’t do it.
When I looked into the office, I saw Euris standing near the door.
Perhaps the two of them were talking across the desk, when Lark started walking towards the door, so Euris was just about to follow him.
“…… Um, If there was a visitor ahead of me, we can about it later.”
“Oh, yeah, that would be great, but… er……”
Lark turned around to look at Euris’ face like that.
…… Well, I heard that this person is also a former adventurer and now the head of the private army, and the biggest contributor who has managed to delay the crisis in the Fage territory.
Don’t you have a lot of respect for Euris as well?
“I, I, um…… it wasn’t really that important, so……”
Euris looks away from Lark and drops her gaze to the floor.
“Eh…… no, but……”
“No, no, thank you for your concern……”
She said somewhat quickly and thanked us, and then quickly made her way to the exit.
When she saw us, she thanked us and left quickly.
“…… what will we talk about?”
I couldn’t decide if I should ask or not, but my curiosity got the better of me and the question came straight to my mouth.
“Oh, no … many of the members of my private army had mentioned that they wanted to leave the Fage territory once…… and that was, well, to be expected. They had come to check on me to see if I was anxious about that. She told me that she would stay no matter what, and that I should be at ease.”
Lark scratched his forefinger through his red hair and looked in the direction of where Euris had run.
I couldn’t help but look in the same direction.
There was already no sign of Euris.
…… I, I knew it was bad timing.
I knew that Lark was showing signs of concern for Euris and the meaning of Euris’ words was a bit awkward.
It’s easy to imagine that the atmosphere was difficult to break up the conversation.
Eh, I mean, are you possibly in love with each other……
“It’s not necessary for me to feel that indebted to you, though. Even though I was the one who was saved by Euris.”
Lark says sincerely.
I didn’t sense any particular implications in the way he said it, so my hypothesis was easily destroyed.
As for Euris, at least Lark doesn’t seem to have that kind of awareness at all.
“The same is true for the lord, but it seems that Euris-san is not happy either……”
Mea, who seemed to be thinking the same thing as I was, leaked a whisper.
I gave a small nod so that Lark wouldn’t notice me.
“…… Oh, speaking of which, where’s Marias-san?”
For a servant, she seems to be leaving the mansion a lot of times.
When I first met her, she did his best to stop Lark from committing suicide and seemed to be much closer to me.
“Hm? Eh, ohhhh…… I try to let that girl take care of her out-of-the-way errands, mainly shopping.”
He blushes and smiles bitterly to hide his embarrassment.
It’s a big difference from the time of Euris’ story.
“Oh, I see……”
“…… Well, that girl lost her father because of Nalgarn. She doesn’t seem to be in a state of mind yet, so I want to give her the opportunity to visit his grave as much as possible.”
It wasn’t the kind of story that you would spread without permission without her, Lark said, pressing down on his mouth.
He’s probably making time for Marias to stop by his father’s graveyard in between her outing errands.
…… That consideration, please show Euris-san a little more of your concern.
Discussing about it in the hallway was difficult, so we moved into the Office and finally got down to the subject we wanted to discuss.
“Actually, I was wondering if I could get a seal on the application that was previously pending.”
When I cut it out, Lark’s face twitched in an understandable way.
Although he managed to smile, I can see a thin line of conflict in his mind.
I previously submitted thirty-eight applications to Lark, and out of those thirty-eight, I received a decision on five of them to be withheld.
You may think it’s only five out of thirty-eight cards, but there are many important parts related to magic, and it’s a bit of a hindrance when aiming for a short-term battle with Icarus.
“…………”
“I’m not saying everything. Maybe this application made you wary and afraid to give our permit.”
I pull a sheet of paper out of the five and shows it to Lark.
“…… Ah.”
It seems I was right, and he blurts out a few words while looking at the paper.
I take out yet another sheet of application form that could be seen as somewhat dangerous.
These three sheets………can you get your stamp right here and now? As a matter of fact, when I returned to the territory just now, I got upset and got into a dispute with Icarus, which made my position somewhat worse…… I really needed our permission as soon as possible.
“But Abel, I heard you deliberately stir him up by being passive……”
I looked back at Mea and gave a small shake of my head, looking her in the eye.
Mea was silent as if she had figured something out.
“…… Ha~, can you let me think about it for half a day?”
“Then the opportunity to remove Icarus, a major obstacle to the reconstruction of the territory, might be postponed for perhaps six months. He would also take Nalgarn’s head with it.”
“Ummmm… That’s right……”
Lark holds his head and places his elbows on the desk.
He takes the three applications from me and squints at the contents.
“Uhhhhmmmmm~……”
He seemed to think that rechecking the content was stalling for time and that he wanted to get some answers while he was at it.
It was expected that Lark would be troubled.
That’s why I brought Rinoa with me.
“As for those three cards, there is no problem at first. If you’re worried about the shortness of Abel-dono’s stay, then you can have my side give you the lead authority.”
Rinoa raises her hand and says.
“Abel-dono has a far better understanding of complex magic than me, not just simple power. You can trust him.”
“I see…… if Rinoa says so much……”
Lark reaches out to me.
Okay, the gloom has been taken away.
I hand the three application forms to Lark with a heartfelt guts pose.
“By the way, from Rinoa-san’s point of view, these two sheets are……”
I looked at her expectantly to see if I could get another covering shot.
She shakes her head silently.
“What does this say about? I don’t know if it’s a good idea to write it in an awfully good way, but……”
Rinoa’s subordinate sorcerer peers at my application and tilts his head.
“If you make a mistake, the Royal Knights will come to burn the entire territory down for violating the commandments.”
The moment Rinoa said that, all the eyes in the office pierced me.
Lark didn’t seem to understand that it was that bad, either, so he stopped his hand that was holding the seal and his face went pale.
You-, you can trust me a bit more……
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