Chapter 18: The eting Dances 2
Translator: Hasr11
Editor: Gold Swallow
Seeing the eting room still brimming with excitent, I got a headache.
I wonder why they’re all so excited without feeling any sense of incongruity. I could understand it if it were a man-woman couple. But Legato and I were both n, and our country had no culture of welcoming sa-sex couples with open arms. Of course, there existed a certain number of sa-sex couples, but they couldn’t be together out in public and simply restrained themselves. The people around also had an unspoken agreent to nonchalantly accept them— it was that kind of an atmosphere.
But for that to…
「How long have you two been going out?」
「Hey, who confessed first?」
「Tell how you first t!」
Facing Legato, everyone sent questions flying as they laughed. He’s totally being teased. Legato being made the victim instead of was because it was more worthwhile to tease him than . In a sense, you could say they were actually doting on him.
I felt things would go needlessly out of hand if I tried to awkwardly interrupt them thus I pulled my hood over my eyes and stuck to remaining silent. Sorry, Legato.
「So then, what does Nidel like about him?」
「Well, um—」
Everyone else attending the eting was older than , and their positions were also fairly high. Accosted and forced by such people, Legato seed pretty shaken up. Was he all right? I was worried. Whenever Legato got flustered, his words would beco a little strange. Don’t blurt out untactful things, I prayed in my heart and kept an eye on his standing figure.
「Um—, I’m always the type to get the short end of the stick, so…」
Just as I’d feared, the words Legato had blurted out while blabbering after being shaken up made guffaw, and I had to pull my hood further over my eyes.
Why did he bother to make such a gaffe!? I wonder if…it’d remained on his mind after telling it so often…I’ve said sothing along the lines of I like that part of you that always gets the short end of the stick.
In the midst of my shock, the eting room had turned silent for a mont at Legato’s words.
And then, I heard so people snigger. However, there were also many who didn’t laugh.
「Legato-dono, no matter how you look at it, that isn’t the case.」
It was a voice laced with a bit of anger— I couldn’t believe it belonged to the Royal Palace Magic Order.
「Then, do you an going out with Nidel-dono is getting the short end of the stick?」
「No, that’s not it! I didn’t an it in that way—」
「It’s cruel as expected. Even if Nidel-dono is from the Tech Order, to say that about your lover is sothing you should never do! And right in front of Nidel-dono too!」
The Royal Palace Magic Order seed to be defending for so reason, and I ended up laughing at the developnt that I’d never imagined, but I didn’t know whether to sympathise with Legato-dono or not.
「That’s right, Legato. It’s cruel no matter how you look at it. Poor Nidel-dono.」
The King rebuked Legato with a serious face. Legato turned pale and accepted the King’s scolding while standing at attention. Everyone from the the Royal Palace Magic Order nodded their heads in agreent at the King’s words, whereas the higher-ups from the Knight Order were clutching their stomachs in laughter.
I wonder if the lot from the Knight Order got on their nerves so much, that this ti the Royal Palace Magic Order lashed out at the Knight Order.
「You all are laughing, but it’s because your attitudes are normally like this that it’s a problem! Aren’t you making a fool of magicians?」
「No, no, what’re you saying. I regard magicians in high esteem.」
At the Royal Palace Order’s snapping, the Captain of the Knight Order waved his hand in denial as he laughed. I thought it was an attitude that didn’t show much sincerity, and of course, everyone from the Royal Palace Magic Order thought so too.
「Basically, isn’t it because there’s such an atmosphere within the Knight Order that Legato-dono said sothing like that this ti!? Nidel-dono too is an outstanding magician. To say such words treats him too lightly!」
No, no, you’re the ones who treat the most lightly usually, I rebuked in my mind, though I remained silent.
「Everyone, calm down for a minute, please stop fighting!」
The Pri Minister raised his voice in exasperation.
The eting room could hardly be in more chaos.
The eting seed to have more or less ended, and I prepared to leave the eting room that seed to be still buzzing with laughter. I was worried about Legato, who was being scolded by his higher-ups in the Knight Order who were still grinning, but I didn’t have the courage to speak out at this place.
I left the room in an attempt to escape.
I drooped my shoulders in dejection and returned to the gloomy tower. The gazes of everyone in the Royal Palace I passed on my way to the tower bothered . I wondered if they all knew about and Legato.
No, they definitely know about and Legato. It’d reached everyone for sure.
I give up… thinking so, I let out a sigh and set foot into the tower
「Welco back, Nidel.」
When I entered the room, Hunon sent a smile. Seeing his face, I realised. There’s no way the well-inford he doesn’t know of it.
「How was the eting?」
「How, you ask…」
When I hemd and hawed, Hunon gave a sly grin.
「Did they make a fool out of you??」
As expected, he knew.
I drooped my shoulders further in dejection. Just how far has this story spread? Listening to Hunon and talk, my colleagues who were absorbed in their work nearby raised their heads in ones and twos.
「Make a fool out of…what does that an…?」
「Look, it’s that. Nidel’s personal matter. With Captain Legato.」
「Ahh,that…」
「Such a topic arose in the eting …? It must have been unbearable for you…」
My colleagues looked at with eyes of sympathy. Seeing that nobody seed to be surprised, I realised that everyone already knew of it and I once again got a headache. Even though they knew it, nobody ca to tell . I‘m grateful for that, but I wish they’d told instead. A complex feeling arose in my heart,
「But Nidel, isn’t this the first ti we’ve been a hot topic since the Tech Order was started?」
「That’s true. We caught a leader of the Knight Order. Moreover, it’s the young and most promising Captain Legato. Well done!」
「We have so pride too!」
The people who’d gathered around spoke in excited and sowhat happy voices. That reminds , everyone seed to be in a good mood as of late. Maybe it was because of this news.
「Wait a minute, isn’t it strange!?」
When I reacted, everyone around made an confused face.
「Why is everyone talking as if it’s normal!? We’re both n! Isn’t that bigger news? Doesn’t it go against the Royal Palace’s public order and morals!?」
When I voiced my doubts that had appeared in my mind during the eting just now, everyone looked at each other and gave a half-smile. Hunon, grinning widely, turned to and spoke.
「That’s because it’s interesting. The fact that you and Legato are together beats you two being n and such by far. The whole Royal Palace knows it now. Just give up.」
At Hunon’s words, I sank onto the floor.
For now, let’s not leave the tower for as long as possible, I decided in my heart.
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