Fiance (Fake)
“This is…”
“Kuro’s Guild Card. By the way, as I’m D-Rank, she’s even better than .”
I also showed him my D-Rank card.
“Mm? Kehma-dono, you aren’t B-Rank?”
“As you can see, I am D-Rank.”
“Hmm… is that real? You shouldn’t counterfeit those, Guild Card forgery is a serious felony you know?”
Von O’Doll said that as he looked at my Guild Card… eh?
What’s with his reaction?
Wouldn’t it be better for him to choose at as the fiance rather than , a plebeian commoner? I showed him the card thinking he’d follow that route, but his reaction is like he knows that I also have a B-Rank card.
… Should I try feeling about?
“… Why do you think I’m B-Rank?”
“Your na is in the Raverio Empire’s aristocracy listing as a noble near Sia.”
What… the heck.
Seriously? There’s an aristocracy listing? No, there’d obviously be one, but I never thought that my rank could be found out by it.
… So him trying to force Mai O’Doll on was exactly because he knew that I’m (kind of) a noble.
Rather, Haku-san, how far do your claws reach… no, maybe it wasn’t her? Was my na placed on the listing because I was registered as a B-Rank? That ans it was an out the mont I got the B-Rank Guild Card.
“… Which ans you knew that Kuro is a noble?”
“Well, yes. Her na is rather eye-catching.”
Yeah, seeing [Sex Slave (at)] in a high ranking list like that would be a bit surprising. As an aside, a man nad that would hold the aning of [at Shield (at)] from what I hear. [1]
“By the way, does that list include gender?”
“It does. It does, but… nas are nas. It might work if we went with saying that the listed gender is a mistake? Not even I thought that it would truly be a woman.”
Right? … I wonder if I should change nas since it’s on there?
“By the way, the list gets renewed every five years. It only ca out just recently.”
“Could you show it?”
“Sure.”
A very large, thick, leather-covered and imposing book was brought out.
We’re listed among the newly added nobles? Nobles that have newly established houses… oh, Rokuko’s there too. Her family na’s Labriheart.
“There has never been an adventurer with the na of at becoming a noble before this. Virtually all of those nad at are rankless slaves, and even those that register as adventurers would change their nas. And even if they didn’t, any sensible record keeper would stop them when they beca a noble… there wasn’t an inquiry?”
Haku-san isn’t sensible… no, I guess it’s more that she’s rciless.
As for , I’m Kehma Golen.
It’s a very Golen Village’s Village Chief-like na. That’ll give away. did I not give Haku-san my family na?
But it not being my real na—Masuda–is convenient. I can insist that Golen that isn’t .
“Ah, so that’s it. I was surprised when you suddenly said I was B-Rank, but that’s not . As you can see, I am a D-Rank adventurer, just Kehma.”
When I said that, Von O’Doll looked at dubiously.
However, I never said that I was a noble.
“… Did you just go crazy? Didn’t you just admit to it a mont ago?”
“Huh? I was just checking out why you thought I was B-Rank. It’s true that there’s a noble family whose na matches that of my village, so I can’t bla you for connecting them to .”
“That so… so Kehma-dono, you insist that you are a D-Rank adventurer?”
“Yes, it is as is written on the Guild Card. This card is a real one, I don’t have the courage in to do sothing like forgery.”
You could even use a lie detection magic tool, my Guild Card is the real thing.
With that, Von O’Doll burst out laughing, unable to hold back.
“Kukuku, right. Sticking with it… You can hold your own even compared to nobles, Kehma-dono.”
“Thank you for the complint.”
“Let’s go with your proposal and have Kuroinu-dono be the fiance.”
Oh? He said that he’d [Think] about it a mont ago, but he’s already decided?
Well, at’s definitely the better pick assuming I’m not a noble. She’s young, fit, and has an obedient personality. Other than her gender and slave status, there’s no shortcomings about her.
“Now then, my reward, please?”
“Mm, information about the [Godly Pillow] was it? Sure… The [Godly Pillow], a part of the [Godly Beddings], is an extrely important sacred object for our Raverio Empire. Everything I say after this will be between you and .”
It’s amusing that beddings and sacred object overlap in aning there… ah, but he probably wouldn’t know that huh? [2]
“Listen carefully as I’ll only say this once. The [Godly Pillow] exists and is sothing that each lord of the Sia family protects from generation to generation.”
…
Eh, so you an it’s like that.
The [Godly Pillow] belongs to the Sia family?
“By the way, its managent is not administered by the the feudal lord themselves. Neither the successor nor the successor candidate can touch the [Godly Pillow]. This includes their partners… do you understand?
The one managing it isn’t the feudal lord, Von O’Doll.
Sa with his eldest son, the successor, and his second son, the spare.
Sa goes with his spouse, which ans…
“… Mai-sama… is the manager of the [Godly Pillow]…?”
“Mai’s fiance would fit the managent criteria as well.”
… I see. So it’s basically him saying you need to beco the formal fiance if you want to use the [Godly Pillow].
“In the na of the Sia family and White Goddess-sama, founder of the Raverio Empire, I swear that everything I said is true.”
“…!”
His oath was a guarantee of the Raverio Empire’s upper class nobility.
It’s aning was that [If this is a lie, I wouldn’t complain even if Haku-san destroyed the Sia family and its conspirators]. Co to think of it, Haku-san did tell [They all swear on ] as small talk at so point. Also, it appears that this oath has never been broken by anyone before.
“I could put my oath into writing if you want? I couldn’t write about the contents of our chat though.”
“Of course, I understand.”
I had him write it down just in case.
*
By at becoming her fiance, it was decided that we would stay one more day.
at will once again be introduced to her family, this ti as the fiance.
I wrote another letter and had it sent to Golen Village.
Its contents were simply: [I passed becoming the fiance over to at].
I returned to the sa room as last night. I have so free ti until dinner, so I decided to get so rest.
Just then, at tugged at my clothes, holding my shirt tightly.
“… Goshujin-sama?”
“Nn? What’s wrong?”
“…”
at was trembling… what happened?
“… Oi, what’s wrong? Are you alright? Does your stomach hurt?”
“A-are you, getting rid, of ?”
at asked in a strangled voice.
… Oh, so that’s how it sounded to her? That’s my bad.
“There’s no way I would part with my important hug pillow. We’ll just be lending your na for a while.”
“… Then I can keep… being Goshujin-sama’s slave, forever…?”
“You’ll be my hug pillow slave for as long as I live.”
She stopped trembling when I said that.
I know that it’s saying it, but isn’t it a bad thing for to treat her as a pillow slave her entire life?
Well, for now I decided to just take at as my hug pillow and have a nap.
“Kehma-sama! What happened!?”
… You could at least knock, Mai O’Doll.
Footnotes:
I feel like Keima ntioned this a long ti ago. Return
Sacred Object = shingu = beddings Return
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