「W-We’ve been waiting for you, Kotone-dono!」
Gannet walked over to welco her the mont he saw Kotone’s figure appear from behind the door.
After her gaze wandered around the conference room, her gaze returned to Gannet.
「The eting hasn’t started?」
「We decided to wait for a while longer for you to co, Kotone-dono. Did you have so business to attend to before coming?」
「No, I just overslept a little bit. I’m not an early riser.」
「I see. The eting did go on till late at night yesterday and you’ve had to wake up early today too. My apologies for our carelessness. And thank you very much for being willing to participate in the migration.」
Gannet skillfully handled the situation with a smile with Kotone, as if his flustered appearance from a while ago was a blatant lie.
「… That person is really skilful at switching his attitude.」
Even Pora couldn’t help but admire him.
Rosemonde was glaring toward Gannet while muttering,「Old fox」 under her breath.
Kotone was walking toward the empty seat but then she suddenly stopped midway and looked at Pora.
Pora flinched the mont her line of sight t Kotone.
Just like that, Kotone changed the direction she walked, and went toward Pora’s direction instead.
「G-Good day… uhm, Kotone-san. Uhm, do you have so sort of business with Pora?」
「Where’s the man who sat beside you yesterday?」
Kotone ca closer and asked Pora.
「U… Uhm… he said that he has sothing to do right now.」
「… I see. Do you know where he ca from?」
「N-No, Pora never heard about that from Kanata-san… Uhm… Kanata-san rarely talks about himself…」
「Do you know his family na?」
「I-I don’t think I can tell you about it…」
Kotone’s eyebrows ford a frown upon hearing Pora’s remark.
It created an intimidating air unique to Kotone.
「It shouldn’t be sothing to worry about, right? Or else, is there so sort of secret behind it?」
「F-Fine then, Kanata-san said that his family na is Kanbara but… is sothing the matter with that?」
Kotone shook her head a little bit.
「Not a big deal, I’m just curious.」
After replying with short words, Kotone walked back toward the empty chair without even thanking Pora.
「Kanata Kanbara… Kanbara Kanata. Yup, doesn’t seems like those fake nas from Yamato kingdom.」
Kotone muttered as a faint smile ford on her lips.
But, that smile had only lasted for a second. Her face returned to the usual taciturn face by the next second.
Pora, who was frozen stiff when Kotone suddenly called out to her, finally heaved a sigh after seeing the latter get seated.
「W-What was that…」
「Humph, as if S-rank adventurers can oversleep. Just what kind of sche did that woman co up with.」
Rosemonde spat out such biting remarks.
「Is she really… such a dangerous person?」
「Never hear the story about soone who suddenly appeared when sothing happened? Well that’s aside, she’s regarded as so sort of hero in this city and she can easily exterminate the monsters. And yet, she’s kinda creepy since I don’t even know what she’s thinking about. And she isn’t the kind of woman who calls out to soone out of re curiosity. Things might beco troubleso if she’s targeting you.」
Pora felt the sa but whenever her line of sight t Kotone’s, the latter averted her gaze as Pora tried to see into the latter’s heart.
Gannet moved toward the innermost part of the eting room as soon as Kotone sat down in her seat.
He might be about to start detailing the current situation when Kotone was about to arrive a while ago.
「Pora! Philia will do her best!」
Philia, who sat on Pora’s lap, spoke with such conviction.
「P-Philia-chan, you mustn’t reveal your power recklessly oka–」
Suddenly, Pora recalled Kanata’s remark to Philia before he left.
If Philia did sothing this ti around, Kanata would beco the scapegoat for Pora.
「… Wait a minute? Since Kanata is gone now, doesn’t that an Pora will still… beco the scapegoat?」
Her face paled the mont she realized that terrifying fact.
Things could easily develop into a similar situation as back then when they recognized her as the one who summoned the Progenitor Dragon back then.
The problem was, she had no idea what kind of trouble was gonna be dumped on her now.
「This seems to be everyone. Well then, I shall brief everyone here about today’s migration plan with the information we gathered last night.」
Gannet stood in the middle of the conference room as he announced the start of the eting.
Pora was suddenly hit by bad premonition the mont she heard that.
「E-Eh…? That’s… strange?」
Pora was looking around the conference room with a listless look on her face.
And finally, she noticed a certain soone that should be here was nowhere to be seen.
The blonde-haired A-rank adventurer, Alfred.
She had completely forgotten about him since she was too nervous before the start of the eting.
The reason for her worry was because Kanata himself warned her to be careful of Alfred.
Alfred was a coward and a vengeful person.
She ca to understand that fact during her duel against him.
He even went as far as threatening her before the eting last night.
Pora believed that if it was Alfred, he would stoop as low as ambushing her during the migration. And the fact that he didn’t co made her even more anxious.
Without his appearance in this place, Alfred’s actions beca completely unpredictable.
「What are you worrying about, Half-Elf lass?」
「Uhm, I don’t seem to see Alfred… He participated in last night’s eting though.」
Rosemonde laughed scornfully upon hearing Pora’s remark.
「That idiot has long since escaped from this city.」
「E–」
Pora’s eyes opened wide the mont she heard Rosemonde’s snicker.
「E-Eh, b-but… did he actually… say that?」
「That guy’s face turned ghastly pale after last night’s eting and then he caught his female comrade’s arm and ran. There’s no mistake about it. I an, he even scread, “I’m not ready to die yet” so loudly. It doesn’t seem to be acting coming from such a prideful fella. Maybe he got scared sh*tless the mont he heard ntion of the demon king. 」
「Eh…」
「He’s the kind of lowlife who loves to walk under the lilight to beco the centre of attention. His strength aside, his personality will be a great hindrance to him. To be honest, I’m glad that he left.」
「… I-I see… Thank you for telling about this.」
Though it wasn’t within her expectation, Pora was free of one of her worries now at least.
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