“I am having Mio continue the investigation over there. Li is running around with the adventurers.” (Makoto)
“That guy, suddenly clinging to Waka in tears. Good grief.” (Tomoe)
“Even though I said I would be going with you, Tomoe, he didn’t show any signs of wanting to co too. Now that you ntion it.” (Makoto)
“He must be feeling bad about it. He must think of it as embarrassing to the point that he can’t et face to face with .” (Tomoe)
Li said sothing about it being inefficient if he were to be there, but it was probably in part that he found it hard to look Tomoe in the face.
After notifying us that he had gotten an arrangent with the Weitz Orphanage for just past noon, he said he would deal with the rumors we had, and is going around the city with adventurers.
Judging from his state, he must be planning on running around quite energetically.
“Isn’t it because you have been working him to the bone lately, Tomoe?” (Makoto)
“...Haha, I thought I had been quite lenient with him though. Looks like I have been a bit too soft on him.” (Tomoe)
“Answering your expectations continuously must be a hard path. I would say he is working hard.” (Makoto)
He was originally an adventurer that didn’t have that much difference from Toa and the others.
When taking that into consideration, Li has worked really desperately, and has obtained the ability.
I try to be careful not to promote his difficulty to ultra hard lunatic mode with my words.
If it still ends up increasing despite trying to be careful...I am sorry.
“Just the thought of asking for Waka to follow-up for him is already insolent, and yet, he was also bested by a re childhood friend. Moreover, it was his forr ho, his forr ho.” (Tomoe)
“Now now, thanks to that, we can try making a yoseba.” (Makoto)
“That’s...! I am indeed looking forward to that though.” (Tomoe)
“Right? There was no need for a labourer stop in Asora, but when thinking about the Tsige orphanage, there’s possible things that can be done.” (Makoto)
“There’s no future for the orphanage at this rate after all. The adventurers, rchants, and the people with money just make babies without thinking about the future. It would be one thing if the parents died at a young age and the child ended up an orphan, but there’s a lot of children that were abandoned because they were a hindrance... Tsige may be a place where desires swirl, but this is just troubling.” (Tomoe)
“That’s why I was thinking about changing a li~ttle bit the orphanage that has been receiving our support with the plan our company has. That’s if you are into it, Tomoe.” (Makoto)
If I am the main player, I am confident in getting soft.
In a lot of anings.
And it will probably end up in a result that won’t be beneficial for any side.
I think the spider web of Futsu-sama is sothing that must not be cut.
It is exactly because it is cut heartlessly at tis that there’s aning to it.
Mio is a literal spider, but I feel like she would cut those up without hesitation.
Shiki is busy in regards to the Academy, and I feel like he would show a similar softness as . With children involved, I think Shiki would get weak too.
If we are talking about fitting candidates, there’s Sari and Tamaki, but I have no intentions of bringing them out from Asora.
Tomoe is a qualified one too...
...Well, you could say that I am being dependent on Tomoe here.
“You said that I would find it fun, Waka. Then there’s no way I would say no.” (Tomoe)
“Thanks, it helps out.” (Makoto)
“...Did you think up that matter about the yoseba when you were taking a bath with Li?” (Tomoe)
“Yeah. Now that I think about it, I have simply been receiving reports of the orphanage, it wouldn’t be strange at all to show my face once. But just going there to fix a misunderstanding would feel insufficient. Cause you know, there’s nothing that would trouble us from them investigating us.” (Makoto)
“That’s exactly right.” (Tomoe)
“Then, I was thinking about a way for them to know us well, and on top of that, give us sothing in return. If it were to work as a fancy harassnt, it would be great.” (Makoto)
“Fufufu, I see. I have seen a peek of sothing similar in your mories. Was it your father? In a childbirth celebration of your father, a friend of his gifted him a 2t truck worth of paper diapers.” (Tomoe)
Truck...
It was a small 2t truck, but even with that, they wouldn’t be able to use all of them up.
I feel like that was not the fancy kind of harassnt, but the actual kind of harassnt.
If it is a mory of mine, is it at the ti of my little sister, Mari’s birth?
Can’t really call it a mory, huh...
It is a mory that I have almost no recollection of. This is the first ti I have heard of it.
A friend, huh. My father didn’t give the impression that he had many friends aside from the people at work.
Who is it, I wonder. Soone I know too?
“That’s way too many. Or more like, I am surprised that you properly rember things from my mories aside from period dramas, Edo, katanas, and history.” (Makoto)
“...Really? Anyways, one whole room of the Misumi household was completely used up by those paper diapers, and it was amusing.” (Tomoe)
“Must have been.” (Makoto)
“The fact that they managed to use them all up speaks a lot about the plannings of the person that sent them.” (Tomoe)
“None remained? Seriously?” (Makoto)
“Seriously.” (Tomoe)
“Ah, it is there, huh. The Weitz Orphanage.” (Makoto)
“Looks like it.” (Tomoe)
“By the way, Tomoe, about this...” (Makoto)
I take out a bottle that fits perfectly in my hand and has an intricate design.
“...A perfu bottle.” (Tomoe)
Tomoe showed vigilance for a second, but she soon took the bottle from my hand with relief.
“I don’t feel any magic power from it. It looks like it is just a simple perfu.” (Tomoe)
“...Yeah. Just that, I received that from that Dusk Street Top. Before I departed, when I was with Mio.” (Makoto)
“Fumu...” (Tomoe)
“It is a perfu that has been popular in Tsige for a long ti with n in the upper class, and he himself uses it, is what he said.” (Makoto)
But it is perfu.
I felt like it was strange he would give the sa thing he uses as a present.
I tried slling it right at that place to see what kind of sll it had, but I honestly felt like it wasn’t that good of a perfu.
It was to an extent where I wondered if elves like this kind of scent.
I don’t have a scent I am normally using, so since I got a present, I even wondered if I should try putting it on as much as possible to show that I am using it.
But it is perfu.
The magic tool that gave the worst mory I had recently was a perfu.
Even after understanding that it is an item with no magic power, my doubts still remained.
Just in case, I removed the lingering scents of it before eting with Tomoe, and was thinking about asking for her opinion on whether to use it or not.
“Hmm, I don’t rember there being a story like that at all. It is certainly a scent I know of though... That Top was an elf, right?” (Tomoe)
Tomoe confirms the scent.
So she knows it.
So it is not so original blend perfu.
“Yeah, by the way, it is a man.” (Makoto)
I feel like gifting a perfu between n is strange.
“It would enter in the expensive category, but I would say it is the kind that’s sold normally. But there’s no practice in Tsige of giving perfus to others, and elves don’t like perfus too much to begin with.” (Tomoe)
“I see.” (Makoto)
“I can’t tell what his objective is, but there might be so bad underlying reason for it.” (Tomoe)
“Right? The Dusk Street did feel uncomfortable. It seems they do have different tastes and factions, but it disgusts in foundation. It is the den where people who are even more crazy loyal to their desires in Tsige stay, so there...might be things that only you can do there though.” (Makoto)
Like stealing, for example.
It is clearly a cri, but it is one of the light ones in the Dusk Street.
It is not that you steal because you don’t have money, you steal because it is fun to steal. They love to see the troubled person that got stolen from.
Those kinds of people gather.
It is a similar situation with deceiving, killing, and kidnapping.
If it were on the vector of simply bettering their skills, I personally wouldn’t have felt that much disgust towards it.
“Then, let’s move with the number one case in mind.” (Tomoe)
Tomoe blows away the scent that was wafting around her and her surroundings.
Being able to blow away the scent that’s on her in such a free manner like this, magic is more handy than modern science.
There might actually be sothing that can eliminate scents with one push though.
Like the powerful ones of the toilet—wait, that’s not important.
“Number one?” (Makoto)
“The case where there might be so kind of aning to the people we are about to et. The people may have had so bad mory towards a person that had this kind of scent.” (Tomoe)
“I see...” (Makoto)
From my perspective, Rio and Kanta are people that are temporary allies as guides of the Dusk Street.
But the two of them must definitely have so sort of hidden special criminal lust.
There’s no way a person that’s the leader of those people is a normal person.
A long-living elf has been hiding there for a long ti on his own choice.
It is certain that he is not a decent person.
Kanta has blood seeped in his scent, so he is probably sothing like a thief, killer, or a torturer.
I don’t know what Rio might be.
At a glance, he doesn’t give the scent of a criminal.
The easy to understand would be a scamr.
If that’s the case, even a temporary alliance is dangerous.
“Once the talk is settled, we could have a chief person of the orphanage sll it and see what they say.” (Tomoe)
“If it brings about a bad mory, wonder if they will speak about it honestly...of course they would. If it is Tomoe, there’s not even the need to question that.” (Makoto)
The sense of sll and taste are deeply linked to mory.
The mont they sll it, if there’s sothing, it will surely surface in their mind.
And Tomoe won’t miss that mont.
It is a good move.
“Oya, looks like they have co to welco us.” (Tomoe)
“The gazes of children have been piercing us for a while now though.” (Makoto)
It really must be rare for there to be guests from outside.
They probably have separated them in rooms and have been ordered to stay inside, so they don’t et us directly.
I hope there won’t be any escapees until the main talk is over.
After we passed through the gates of the orphanage and walked on the stone pavings leading to the building, an adult that seed to be a staff mber hurriedly ran to where we were.
One person.
Deep inside, there’s also a pretty elderly man.
There’s adults gathered around him, so he must be the director.
I thought for sure they would be waiting in front of the gate, but they were all gathered at the entrance of the building.
It slightly feels as if they are defensive here. Why?
And the one who ran up to where we are is a young woman.
She is dressed in a proper and presentable manner.
Or more like, it is the clothes made in Asora.
The fact that she took the initiative to co here alone must an that she is Seina?
The childhood friend of Li.
“Is she Seina?” (Makoto)
“Yes, I have t her a number of tis.” (Tomoe)
We conversed in a low voice, and confird this before Seina arrived.
“Thank you for coming here! Kuzunoha Company’s Tomoe-sama, and the representative Raidou-sama! Nice to et you, I am Seina!” (Seina)
She lowered her head vigorously and a clear and nice-sounding voice resonated.
......
Her feelings of wanting to give us a warm reception can be felt, but...yeah, it is clear as day that she is not used to this.
Now that I think about it, I don’t know how much support they are receiving from other places aside from us. Was this okay for the other places?
Wait, maybe they knew beforehand that I look favorably at these types of people?
“Waka, she is actually a bit more of a competent person than this.” (Tomoe)
“Ah, I see.” (Makoto)
Looks like that wasn’t the case.
Tomoe was honestly amazed.
Chestnut-color hair. Is that called a brunette?
From what I can see, she looks like a model without make-up.
A person from an orphanage wouldn’t have perfect make-up.
Considering the circumstances, she wouldn’t lose to a well-off female receptionist of the Adventurer Guild in terms of look.
“...Waka?” (Tomoe)
“Hm?” (Makoto)
“...Nothing.” (Tomoe)
“Uhm, Raidou-sama.” (Seina)
“Eh, aah. Nice to et you, Seina-san. I am the representative of the Kuzunoha Company, Raidou. I apologize for not showing up. Chances to do so were not showing up.” (Makoto)
“! Here as well! We apologize for suddenly calling you! I told Li it wasn’t that urgent, but that guy, he suddenly ca yesterday night and told us to make ti tomorrow. Geez.” (Seina)
“We are relying on him all the ti in a variety of jobs in the company. Due to this connection, we learned about the Weitz Orphanage, and thought about providing so small support, but it looks like Seina-san and the people working here have ended up misunderstanding this.” (Makoto)
“Seina-dono, this is a matter that I took in my hands and ended up with Waka simply being reported about it. To think this would bring forth a misunderstand in such a manner. I am truly sorry.” (Tomoe)
Tomoe matches my words and lowers her head.
Seina got visibly flustered.
I can understand.
She probably hasn’t seen Tomoe lower her head ever.
Tomoe is evil, she is purposely doing it knowing this full well.
But it is already too late.
I will be having the Weitz Orphanage stand out. Fufufu.
“E-E-Eh?! No no no, there’s no need to mind it!” (Seina)
“Is the person there the one in charge?” (Makoto)
I look at the man that seems to be the director, and ask Seina.
“Yes! The director, Kimaro Hanza! Due to a distant connection with a big company, this orphanage also—” (Seina)
“...Right, Seina-san. Since you have invited us here, we have brought a present.” (Makoto)
I felt like the conversation would lengthen with a topic of no importance, so I had it cut.
It is the instinct of a man that had two sisters in between.
“A present?! No, we are always receiving gifts from Li already.” (Seina)
“That’s sothing that Li-kun himself prepares. This is from the Kuzunoha Company. Tomoe.” (Makoto)
“Yes. Here, Seina-dono.” (Tomoe)
“Ah, thank you very much! Heavy!!” (Seina)
Tomoe gives Seina a cloth bag.
Tomoe was holding it up with one hand, but that’s just because it was Tomoe.
Seina held her ground with both legs, and was sohow managing to hold it up with both hands.
Now then, let’s go in.
“Then, is it okay for us to intrude now?” (Makoto)
I ask Seina with a nonchalant expression.
“Y-Yes. I will guide you!” (Seina)
“Yeah, we also thought it was about ti to harvest. Your invitation ca in good timing, so we are truly grateful.” (Makoto)
I purposely mix in ominous words and follow her with a smile.
By the way, this was the suggestion of Tomoe.
She told ‘let’s go with the slightly courteous but kinda evil type’.
Thanks to this, Tomoe, who lowered her head to Seina and was using her as a present carrier, was in a good mood.
On the other hand, Seina’s shoulders jumped at the word ‘harvest’.
“Waka, that’s a nice Echigoya.” (Tomoe)
With the voice of Tomoe at my back that I could even hear slight giggles from, we entered the Weitz Orphanage.
Right right, there’s apparently 216 children here.
This building feels cramped for that number of children...no, it is quite the coincidence that that number is double that of worldly desires.
Tomoe told ‘that’s just a technicality’ and kicked down that thought of mine.
Now then, the remodelling of the orphanage into a yoseba by Echigoya, will begin.
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