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 ti…… co 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 sa ti 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 ?
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 , 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 forr 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 sowhat 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 and the question ca straight to my mouth.
“Oh, no … many of the mbers of my private army had ntioned that they wanted to leave the Fage territory once…… and that was, well, to be expected. They had co to check on to see if I was anxious about that. She told 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 sa 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 aning of Euris’ words was a bit awkward.
It’s easy to imagine that the atmosphere was difficult to break up the conversation.
Eh, I an, are you possibly in love with each other……
“It’s not necessary for 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 sa is true for the lord, but it seems that Euris-san is not happy either……”
a, who seed to be thinking the sa thing as I was, leaked a whisper.
I gave a small nod so that Lark wouldn’t notice .
“…… Oh, speaking of which, where’s Marias-san?”
For a servant, she seems to be leaving the mansion a lot of tis.
When I first t her, she did his best to stop Lark from committing suicide and seed to be much closer to .
“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 embarrassnt.
It’s a big difference from the ti 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 ti 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 sowhat 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 sowhat 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 a and gave a small shake of my head, looking her in the eye.
a was silent as if she had figured sothing out.
“…… Ha~, can you let 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 and squints at the contents.
“Uhhhhmmmmm~……”
He seed to think that rechecking the content was stalling for ti and that he wanted to get so answers while he was at it.
It was expected that Lark would be troubled.
That’s why I brought Rinoa with .
“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 , not just simple power. You can trust him.”
“I see…… if Rinoa says so much……”
Lark reaches out to .
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 co to burn the entire territory down for violating the commandnts.”
The mont Rinoa said that, all the eyes in the office pierced .
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 a bit more……
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