372 Reconciliation Meal ② - Apology Valve

Then a half an hour and a little later we arrived at the Count Saturas residence.

It is a large mansion next to a stone, like the one that kept the former Count Turan's mansion small around. In front of the building, the front yard is spread out, and the same construction is paved with gray cobblestones from the gate to the entrance. Is this the standard for aristocratic mansions in Genos?

"I've been waiting for you. Please proceed this way."

A young lowlife boy and a magnificent martial officer in unfamiliar attire invite us into the mansion. The corridor is carpeted with long hairy feet, and the walls are hung with framed paintings by the way. Out of nowhere, he invested more in ornaments than in Count Turan's mansion, and it was an elegant and amusing agitation.

That's how I was first invited to the bathroom.

but it was also a lot spacious during the refrain, and an unexpected number of squire waited there.

What will this number be? From the young to the old, men and women are disturbed, for a total of eight. Everyone is wrapped in a flickering long coat of milky white, with their hands combined in a row in front of their bellies.

"The bathroom can relax for up to ten people at the same time. Pick a squire of your choice and use as many people as you like."

"Does a squire help you wash your body? Then we don't need it for ourselves."

Instead of Ziza-Lou, who had only once cleansed herself in the bathroom, I let her answer that way.

Then, the lowest surname who had guided me so far looked just a little troubled.

"It is our lesson that bathing is one of hospitality. Please do not hesitate to select your employees"

Somehow, it is an atmosphere in which if I refuse to accompany them here, they are likely to be blamed by their masters.

Because of that, we chose only one of the youngest little boys and decided to clean ourselves up from the men together.

The blushes are Giza-Lou, Sin-Lou, Rud-Lou, and me. While we were taking off what we were wearing, the boy with the small surname lay his eyes down and waited quietly for it.

"Nah, I don't think so, but sometimes a man's guest asks for a woman's help?

Rud-Lew asked as he stripped and scattered his woodland outfit to look like it, and the boy replied briefly with the word "yes".

"So, what, a female guest chooses to help a man or something? That's not all there is to it, is it?

"No."

"Which is no. You don't think a woman could expose her skin to a man?

"Yes."

Rudd-Lou compared me to Giza-Lou, scratching his yellow-brown head at me.

"Nah, is this house okay?

"... no matter what kind of lesson the nobles possess, we just keep our lesson"

"Well - yes, but no. There's no way a woman would expose her skin to a man who's not even family, is there, Asta?

"Ugh, yeah, right."

Long ago, I was to be led to a place where the women would bathe in the water by Rudd-Lou's plot. That caused you to get stuck with Giza-Lou, but Rudd-Lou looked as cool as if he'd completely forgotten something like that.

And this has not yet been revealed to anyone, but when I first decided to use this bathroom, I was accompanied by a heterosexual Chiffon-Cher. If I may think of it, was it an aristocratic hospitality to the guests?

(Speaking of aristocracy, it seems aristocratic, but there's no way it fits the mood of the people around the woods like that.)

That's how we opened the next door and stepped into the steamy bathroom.

Yomogi-like aromas are identical to those of Count Turan's residence and Tea Party palaces, but even more so, there is a mixture of flowery sweet aromas. Further behind the room, even a tub with water tension was provided.

"What the hell? Are you taking a bath in this?

"Yes, use whatever you want as cold and warm water is ready"

The boy with the lowest surname had only taken off his long clothes and appeared in one lower strip.

He is a white, luxurious, idyllic boy of color. Imagine where this boy is helping your lady bathe, and I feel more and more weird.

Together, the presence of the tub greatly delighted Rudd-Lou. It is more familiar to the people of the woods to wear water from their heads than the foundations, steaming their bodies and scaling them, etc. And in Genos, which is quite a temperate zone, bathing in water was a pleasant thing to do.

The tub is provided lower than the floor. Go down the stone stairs and sink your body into the strained water. Its depth was enough to reach the chest when it sat, and there were red and pink petals floating on the water.

Rud-Luu and Sin-Luu have sunk themselves into that tub from the beginning, and Giza-Lu is rubbing his body with a wooden slab. The boy, whom no one could call upon, stood securely in the corner of the room, and with them so sidelined, I tried to put my foot on the other tub by myself.

Which water is slightly hotter than human skin?

Is someone burning firewood outside, about five of them big enough to be soaked together, so this seems to require a lot of fuel.

But it was also a hot tub for me to enjoy for the first time in seven months.

The hot water temperature was not enough, but the body and mind loosen to a different comfort than the water bath. Coming to this mansion, for the first time, I was to feel thankful for the lavish mastery of aristocracy.

"Why do you go all the way into hot water? Then you'll sweat extra."

Rudd-Lou, who was watering Sin-Lou, asks strangely.

"You wouldn't have a problem if you let that sweat flow down here, would you? In my hometown, it was more normal to soak in hot water."

"Hmm?" Rudd-Lou jumped into this tub as he leaned his neck.

but within ten seconds, "I knew I couldn't -" he disperses.

"Something's mumbling about my back and my butt. Can Asta put up with that a lot?

"I usually feel good. But maybe it's the exact opposite of raising cold water."

So we enjoyed the hospitality of the bathroom without distracting the hands of the boy with the small surname. So I put on my original clothes and went back between refrains, and I was stuck with Ey-Fa saying, "That was a long time ago."

The women, after all, choose the youngest samurai and disappear into the bathroom. Choosing a heterosexual sex is out of the question, and I guess I caught my mind wishing to accompany an old woman. That's how the i-fa spent about the same amount of time in the bathroom as we did, and they were going to spend about three or forty minutes here to fit right in.

"That was a long time ago, wasn't it?

When I was inspired to stick with the prank and state it that way, I was kicked in the leg by the guide, Ai-Fa. I guess I stuck with the long bath because i-fa was also a very fond of bathing in the water.

Either way, the time is almost six. Having bathed safely, we were finally forced into a dining room.

A wide staircase is climbed and guided upstairs. Decorations such as paintings, statues and flowers lived in pots were on the way there, and even more luxurious faces awaited us in the dining room.

It is a fairly spacious, longitudinal room. Candlesticks were hung all over the walls, and the familiar chandeliers were lowered overhead, so the interior was bright as day. At the foot were beautiful carpets with geometric patterns, exotic tapestries on the walls and strange statues in the four corners of the room - after all, a room that, while in the same series as Count Turan's residence, was even more luxurious and refined and aristocratic.

Speaking of abundance, the former Count Turan family should have surpassed it. But this Earl Saturas mansion seemed more obscene than that. I'm more passionate about decorating the room than the Count Turan family, and besides, I guess I was going up there with an aesthetic feel. Somehow, it doesn't feel so luxurious or disgusting, or weirdly oppressive. Even I don't have anything to say about interior decorations, but it felt so cozy and small here.

"Oh, welcome. I have a visitor by the woods. Please, take your seats."

Members of the aristocratic side had already put their faces together.

With the exception of Melfried, who will be present as a courier, his accompanying lady Eurifia, her daughter Odifia, and also her courier Polearth-Leeheim, that is the only face I have seen.

And the House of the Earl of Saturas was smaller than I thought.

It will be the Lord who has spoken to us from above. He is a nobleman of forty years, who grew his hair with oil, just like Leeheim, and curled his conceited moustache. It has a middle meat mid back, wrapped around a loose long coat, and only one silver ornament is lowered from his neck.

And later, an unrecognizable young man sits next to Leeheim. He looks younger than Leeheim, probably as young as me. It's not armored, but it's wrapped in white clothes that look like martial arts officers, and they're staring at us with a harsh eye.

He has brown eyes and yellow-brown skin on his brown hair, just like our lord and Leaheim, and he looks very serious. Hair and skin colors vary, but the impression may be similar to the Wellhide of the Marquis of Banaam.

"I am Luidros, the lord of the Earl of Saturas, and this is Leiris of the Knights of Saturas - the son of Gay Malos, a fool who this time caused trouble to the history of the woodland. Since Gay Malos is not yet a body that can come out to this kind of place, let me say a word of apology on behalf of our strange family"

It was an unparalleled, flowing tone of speech.

The owner of this elegant and elegant mansion deserves it. In a way, I might even call it the most aristocratic nobleman I've ever met.

Against such a Luidros, from here on out, Giza-Lou gave the name of each of them.

Then, he deposits the hunter's clothes with his lowest surname and lowers his hips in the order of Luu, Fa, Din and Zaza. Luidros the Lord was in the upper seat, and the aristocracy on the right hand side, and the people by the woods on the left hand side were arranged.

"Oh, I've got a knight's chair for you. I want you to give me the knife on its back."

If you look, the cylinder is attached to the left hand side of the back. Its chairs and cylinders are decorated wooden with exquisite sculptures. The hunters silently pulled out each sheath of leather and plugged it into its cylinder. Sure, if this is the case, it seems to glance at the meeting without letting the knife go of itself.

"Really this time, Gay Malos has bothered you. As much as I am utterly lamented at this time when Marquis Genos strongly tells me to spin the right edge with the people of the woods. As the head of the Earl Saturas family, let me express my sincere apologies."

Ruidros seemed to be the type close to Malstein, if you dare say so. Courtesy, eagle fried, then I can't say much inside. However, there is no atmosphere like eating people like Malstein, but an impression of an elegant, small-sprickly, young, magnificent aristocrat, etc.

"You mean Sin-Lu. I hear they never had more hand injuries, but did they really have any problems?

Sin-Luu silently thanked him small enough to pull his jaw.

I guess I can't tell what kind of mouth to give to the person in the aristocracy who is the head of the Count family. Forestside, especially hunters, don't have a habit of using their tone of speech very differently by their opponents.

"Nevertheless, I didn't know you would defeat Gay Malos with one blow while wearing the knight's armor. That armor is what you wear when you ride the Totos and storm the enemy with a cavalry spear. Tailored especially sturdy so that the giant axe of the people of the North can also be retreated. I didn't know it would be difficult to even get up on my own if I fell from Totos, but I would wrap such heavy armor around it and defeat Gay Malos... No, I was really impressed"

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"But I guess that's the power of hunters by the woods. Even in this Genos, young humans don't really feel much about it. I guess that's why my stupidity has also imitated offering swordsmanship games to hunters by the woods."

Following his father's gaze, Leeheim turned that way.

It is the usual, flabby face. Luidros smiles calmly and turns again toward Sin-Lu.

"That's the last thing I can do. Rumor has it that hunters by the woods possess exceptional power, but with the exception of a very small number of humans, they never even pulled a knife out of town. The people by the woods are not a bunch of outlaws, so that's natural. That's why my stupidity must have misjudged the power of the hunters by the woods."

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"But when I got older, I and Gay Malos and others had the opportunity to know something called the power of the hunter, whispering. That was when we were still young...... I wonder if that was what happened thirty years ago. A hunter by the woods pulled a knife in town in retaliation."

Is that possibly the story of when the parents of Baim's family went down to town sprinkling the halt of the chiefs?

Giza-Lou stares at Luidros' gentle smile with her eyes as thin as thread.

"There were about five unreliable Hans who worked illegally against the people by the woods, and about ten guards who were trying to chase it out of town. All of them were defeated by only one hunter by the woods. No good swordsman can imagine such an imitation. I wonder if the people of the woods are really the same people as us, and I and Gay Malos trembled in terror in this mansion."

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"I guess that fear has caused Gay Malos to make mistakes. That doesn't make his sins lighter, but let me tell you this story so that you know exactly how he has committed such a sin. I hope you understand."

"Then I suppose we should have avoided the battle...... after all, the pride of something called a knight wouldn't have allowed it?

"Exactly," Luidros nodded when Giza-Lou asked.

"Gaymaros had gained the prestige of one of Genos's finest swordsmen. The platter had already passed, but as a way of losing its pride, I guess on the contrary, it had lost everything. My brother, who divided the blood, is going to step off the road in this way, and I am very heartbroken"

"... I can't say I understand that, but I do understand that you are in a very painful position. This is the kind of noise caused by a man close to his blood, his real brother, in a place he doesn't know how to keep it."

"I hope that's all you understand"

Ruidros agrees again, not to be too proud.

"Besides, it was my foolishness that led Gay Malos on such a path, because it is the story that the beginning of it was in return of interest that was made injustice by the people of the woods. As much as I'm ashamed to return it.... Was Raina-Lou there?

"Yes."

"I see, it is indeed beautiful. Nor do you know that foolishness will take your heart away"

In the shadow of a translucent shawl, Rayna-Lew is faceless. In Moribe, even praising the appearance of an opponent who is not even going to welcome him to his daughter-in-law is regarded as a kind of violation of manners.

"Before we begin the dinner of rapport, I would also like to be bored about one of them... Leeheim, with what intent did they try to deliver expensive gifts and such to the people of the woods?

Leeheim, who was pointing that way, turns to his father in such a way as to be reluctant.

"I just wanted to have that daughter as a samurai, Father."

"Well, to the samurai."

"So I tried to dedicate a silver and gemstone necklace to show the power of the Earl Saturas family. Is this behavior breaking some kind of law?

"Hmm. Serving a human being to a maid who is not a citizen of Castle Town is not much to hear, but it probably isn't at all possible. Even more so if you have such beautiful and exceptional kitchen number arms."

And, with his moustache twisted and often reticent, Ruidros turns his gaze again toward Giza-Lou.

"Lord Giza-Lou, the chief surrogate. Even if this is the story of dealing with an unnamed town daughter, for example, Leeheim would surely have sifted the same way. And if the town daughter had been exposed to poverty, she must have admitted the story without a word or two. If you can work as a maid of the Count's house, you can keep him out of poverty for the rest of his life."

Ziza-Lou stared back at Ruidros as he explored.

Ruidros smiles so that he can fool it.

"Nor will we rejoice, however, that every human being can be held by the aristocracy. If you are also a maid of the Count's house, then yes, you can hardly go back to your parents, or exchange deeds with a man in a boarding town or rural area. If you're not prepared to spend the rest of your life as a member of the Count's family, you won't be able to take such an offer."

"Hmm. I guess that's why my sister Raina couldn't feel deeply involved with the nobility either"

"Oh, that's the right decision to make. I am free to wish that the aristocracy may have extra human beings, but I have no right to impose them. The law of Genos also stipulates that only Mahdra's slaves are sold and bought in copper coins. So when his sister refused Leeheim's offer, it was supposed to be over... Leeheim, that's why the immaturity of him who couldn't turn down his obsession caused this disaster?

Leeheim was as fluffy a face as ever, but he didn't try to argue with anything.

Ruidros overlaps words even more in a mundane tone.

"If such a beautiful and talented daughter had been the opponent, I would not have blamed her for her deeds, nor would I have allowed her to be held as a samurai. It even seems to me to be a delightful deed, because it is also a testament to the left that it feels just and has no feelings of contempt for the people by the woods. But even though you can't abandon your untrained until after that prospect is gone, and you're wasting it like a toddler, you also attribute your mind to blisters?

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"I hear that the former lord of Count Turan's house retaliated for an outrageous act when he refused the offer to the cook he tried to hold. And also, Princess Lifreia, the current principal of the Count Turan family, has taken the people by the woods to the castle town without question. It wasn't that much more sinful, but it involved gay malos in its own naivety, and it led to such an end. In that regard, we should be vigorous"

"... I'm reflecting. However, I didn't even dream that my uncle was afraid of the hunters by the woods, and I didn't think that that was why I would dye my hands in outrageous acts."

When Leeheim responded with an emotionless voice, the neighboring Rayliss young man rang a chair in his sieve and stood up.

The young man bows his head deeply after looking around at everyone on the spot with his strong light shining eyes.

"It is due, for one thing, to the stupidity of my father, Gay Malos, that we have fallen into such a state of affairs. The sin of my father, Gaymaros, who broke Selva's pledge and also defiled the swordsman's battle, is by no means acceptable. If I were to redeem that sin, I would be with my father, Gaymaros, to this body in any punishment."

"Only Gay Malos redeems the sins of Gay Malos. There is no law in Genos that will punish you, my son."

Melfried says in an icy, cold voice, Raylis bites his tight lips off. After staring at the figure for a while, Ruidros nodded his seat to him.

"Together, Gaymaros, along with his seat as head of the Knights of Saturas, also lost his title as a knight. There will be no other way to spend the rest of your life carrying the stigma of being an unforgivable treacherous man in the future. Those who bear the stigma of having a sinner's father will continue to live as knights. I wonder if they will redeem their sins."

"... Yes"

"And how are you going to behave if you have brought such a disaster to the Count Saturas and the people by the woods without breaking the law, Leeheim?

"… I hereby pledge to Selva that in the future I will acquire myself and that I will never stain my hands in any act that would discredit the name of the Count"

Leeheim still responds with an emotionless voice.

Its eyes were even rested only on a table lined with empty plates.

"Hmm. The Earl Saturas family was hand-in-hand with the Earl Dalaim family and was still on the path to take off from the disaster invited by the Earl Turan family. For us, it was a story that the fringe with the people of the woods was never possible, was it, Lord Polearth?

"Yes, as I've been telling you for a long time, the cooperation of the people by the woods, including Lord Asta, was essential to distribute ingredients from the castle towns in the lodging towns. As you know, Lord Ruidros."

Yes, the ploy to distribute the baked Poitan to the Inn Town and financially hunt down the Count Turan family was pushed by both the Dareim and Saturas families together. Even with regard to the subsequent dissemination of the various ingredients, Polearths should have been active, with the full cooperation of the Earl Saturas family. Jan's work in the Inn Town is also part of its outreach efforts.

"I had left it up to Lord Polearth to negotiate with the people of the woods, but if you ask me, we and the people of the woods are comrades in arms to defeat the former Lord of Turan. Accommodation towns were also busier than usual this Easter, but there must have been little influence on the forestside people there as well. I want to keep spinning good luck with you, Lord Giza-Lou."

"We also believe that we must re-establish the right ties with the nobility of Genos. You have to be honest about that."

Giza-Lou, who seemed warm to look at, responded that way in a gentle tone.

"What bothers me there is the mood of your son. Surely the man has not broken any law, but he worked on Marquis Marquis Marstein to call my family Sin-Luu to the castle town. And Malstein was told that Saturas' next winner, the man's offer, could not be dismissed, and that he felt it was a necessary measure to cut off Saturas' vicious ties with the people of the woods, and he accepted it."

It was Polearths like no other that brought that story to life. That Polearth is also slightly shrugging his neck at the straightforward story of Ziza-Lou, who seems to be a folk by the woods.

"Has the man really come to cut off his bad faith in the people by the woods? As far as I'm concerned, let me check that place again."

To Ziza-Lou's words, Ruidros nodded heavily.

"That's a good story. O Leeheim, Lord Ziza-Lou saith unto the lord. What are their thoughts?

"... I would like to make an effort in the future to be able to spin the right edge with the people by the forest. I swear to Selva I won't give them a funny little"

The word was a special victory, but after all he remained on the top of the Buddha and did not try to gaze in with anyone.

Giza-Lou wanders over the chair with "Hmm".

"It's a lot easier to say things like swearing to God. I wonder if it will carry the same weight as the words we swear against our Mother Forest."

"Absolutely. For the people of Selva the oath to Western God is absolute, so let us affirm that there will never be a man to break it."

"Really? But I can't feel the truth at all in that person's words"

At the same time as releasing those words, it suddenly felt as if Giza-Lou's big body had grown even bigger.

It is an invisible intimidation that has hardly been seen here lately. In the seats on this side, the Ai-Fa and Sin-Luu and Rud-Luu were about to float their hips.

"And so do you, Count Saturas. I know you're not speaking falsely, but it seems like you're keeping a predetermined word in your mouth. Not only you, but all three of the Earls of Saturas."

Polearths, Euriphia, etc. felt somewhat decent, but Melfried has narrowed his grey eyes to keep an eye on Ziza-Lou. I guess the intense intimidation unleashed by Ziza-Lou is also something that can be felt differently by humans who still have the heart of the martial arts.

And Giza-Lou stares at Ruidros all at once. "That's a misunderstanding, Lord Giza-Lou," Luidros returned while he nodded his complexion.

"Really? You say what you're supposed to say, and it feels like two of you are responding accordingly. Weren't the two of you supposed to say something like this from the beginning?

Leeheim was looking at his father, hiatus and sideways, and Leiris kept his eyelids closed with his spine upright.

"So anyway, you didn't feel any truth from the two of you. Wouldn't it have made sense for them to accompany you on this occasion if they had just spoken the words you were commanded to say?

"... I am the Lord of the House of the Earl of Saturas. Isn't it supremely natural that the Count man should do so to the Lord's intentions?

Ruidros said to take it for granted, but Ziza-Lou shook his head quietly beside him.

"With us, it is not against the will of parents or chiefs. Yeah, that's why I never say a word I'm not in the mood for. If you wish to bond with us correctly, it seems unnecessary to give such an order to your family"

"No, but..."

"How old is your son?

To this pretentious question, Ruidros wets his cold sweat as if he were so baffled.

"Li, Leeheim turned 22 this silver month. What the hell is that supposed to mean?

"Twenty-two? I'll be 24 soon. And I am the eldest brother of the chief, Donda-Lou, and he is the eldest brother of the Earl of Saturas family. If you succeed him from my father, in the next generation he and I will spin the edge of the forest and the Count's house. … so I can hardly second his truth."

Thin eyes, like the thread of Giza-Lou, are slowly transferred from the master of the Count family to his son.

Leeheim glanced almost like a dead man.

"Let me ask you again. Count Saturas' eldest brother, Leeheim, how do you feel about this one?

"Oh, my feelings are just as I said! I don't feel like disobeying your father's orders!

"So if you don't even have that order, do you still wish to hold Rayna?

Leeheim was almost going to flip behind every chair.

I hear you felt sorry for that, Polearth, at a slight rate, "What is it, Lord Leeheim?" and sent out a helpship.

"I wonder if I should be honest, even if I don't disturb you like that. I'm guessing you weren't thinking about Lord Leeheim and exposing the people by the woods by force like Princess Lefreia once did?

"Also, of course! I'm not going to sin like that!

"So why do you look so disingenuous from earlier?

From the looks of it, it just seems to be gizza-lu smiling. Polearths and Euriphia were rather like the Leaheims were suddenly leopardizing their attitudes.

With such people watching over him, Leeheim shudders his shoulders with a rug laid on the table. It was once the intimidation of Ziza-Lou, who frightened Rudd-Lou like a child. As far as I'm concerned, I feel like I want to sympathize with Leeheim even in this situation.

"Oh, I..."

"Hmm?"

"I can't let go of my desire to have her. Still, I can't go against my father or the Lord Genos... so I guess I can't hide my depressed feelings..."

"Were you so obsessed with Rayna?"

Giza-Lou said in a tone that was a lot more impressive, and from its place, Raina-Lou of the day also spoke.

"I guess it would be an honor to receive such an offer to the nobility who can unite Genos. But people by the woods don't get to live out of the woods. Please forgive me."

"I know... I know, even I..."

Leeheim, with his blue face on, got annoyed.

After staring at that figure, Giza-Lou turns to Leiris.

"So what about you? What do you think of the sins your father committed?

"I was not compelled by the Lord to apologize. My father has sinned seriously in the knight because of his weakness, so there will no longer be room for explanation. On behalf of my father, I would like to express my sincere apologies."

That's how Leiris opened his eyelids and pointed a sharper gaze at Sin-Lu, who sat next to Ziza-Lu.

"However, how many swordsmen is the person who thrust his father into that much fear and, yet, defeated it under one blow? I can't get rid of the desire to make sure of it."

"I see, that's why you've been showing such fierce signs. If you ask me, there's nothing wrong with that."

Ziza-Lou nodded, as he was convinced.

"We don't learn to take swords and test each other's powers, so we can't hear that wish right away, but if you plead guilty to your father's sins, there's nothing wrong with that. You don't mean to be slashed by Sin-Lu all of a sudden, do you?

"Of course it is. All I want is a trial of proud swordsmanship."

"Well, let's talk about it again."

From Giza-Lou's large body, the invisible intimidation suddenly disappeared.

Giza-Lou then turns his gaze back toward Ruidros.

"I could finally be good at hearing the truth about you two, too. I am so sorry that I am going to overlap my words because I am here on behalf of the chief."

"Oh, oh... so you've come to accept our apology...?

"Let us accept the words of apology of the Earl of Saturas in the name of Ziza-Lou, the eldest brother of Donda-Lou, the chief of the forest. … I hope to strive to spin a better edge even though it is difficult to get my mind straight because I live by different learnings"

"Well..." Luidros breathed deeply.

It is as if its appearance, which was sprinkling and youthful, has gotten a lot older. Even if you are the main player, if you are not convinced, you will not quit taking the knife - he will take the readiness of the people by the woods directly from the front.

"So, why don't you let me carry the food, Lord Ruidros? Let's hope for a bright ending for all of us, and tilt the cup together."

Following such a relaxed voice of Polearths, the dinner of rapport was finally to be executed.