206 Chapter 14-2: Returning Home

"I'm finally home"

"I'm glad it was before it snowed in earnest"

After returning to Wang Capital for the first time in months, we went straight to the Alliance to announce the completion of the request and returned to the Mansion. Returning to the mansion were members of "Oracion" and Leni, who broke up with Chris and Albert in guild. Each of them had work to do, such as checking while they were on their journey, so they said that they would have a lot to do, even though they had just returned.

"Hmm? Looks like someone's coming."

"Well, it's someone from Alex and the others who's using the carriage while they're away."

When I put Ryden in front of the front door while we talked about that, the door opened in good time. I thought it might be Aina, but it was Mr. Cliff who opened the door.

"Welcome home, Dear Tenma and Merlin. I have a little business to attend to today, and I'm sorry to disturb you."

Because of Mr. Cliff's errands, I thought the king might be here, but he said no. When I walked into the mansion wondering what the hell it was about,

"Welcome home"

"" Welcome home ""

The Ainas (...) who were waiting near the front door welcomed me...... I was surprised because there was something different about it, but Ainas eyes seemed to complain about not saying anything, so I walked straight by without going in.

"It's just... Hih!

"Hey, Aura...... HI!

"It's just... buffoo!

"My name is Leni Tantan. For a short time, thank you."

All three of them were women who had reactions, but the first three of them followed me in a hurry when Aina looked at them. Only Mr. Leni, however, remains on the spot and politely greets Eina and Mr. Cliff. And when Grandpa, who was right behind me, said, "Yeah," he just said, without showing any particular unusual reaction, he chased me through early enough to go to the dining room. And as I entered the dining room, I started laughing out loud.

"You were just patient... well, I don't know how you feel"

"Mm-hmm. I don't know... BUFF!

Compared to Amur, who is erupting in front of the dining room, Grandpa would have put up with it. And Jeanne and Aura, dear ones from earlier, said that the horror that had been bewitched when they were about to scream because they were too surprised earlier had not escaped, and they were slowly moving forward with a blue face.

"In the meantime, sort the souvenirs so my uncles can come whenever they want... so I need to go see the Juubeys before then"

That's what I thought, and I tried to get out in the hallway.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

The moment I opened the door, a black mass (Merry) jumped in momentum.

"Whoops!

"Heh? Bye!

When I heard Mary's footsteps, I was able to easily target Mary's body the moment she opened the door, but Aura, who had not noticed at all, took Mary's body on her back and rolled with Mary for about a few meters.

"Meh."

"Mo ~"

"I'm home, Allie. Tama, I'm home."

A little after Mary jumped in, now Allie came. Tama, too, was coming up to the closest window from the dining room and making a squeal.

"This time, Allie and the others have souvenirs."

Allie, hearing the words, was not sure what it meant. So when I took some of the hay I bought from Shellhide out of my magic bag and took it in front of me, I was happy to start eating it.

"Delicious? Shall we eat at the Jubeye's, then? Mary, if you don't come, you're gonna miss your meal."

"Meh! Meh, meh!

"Amur, it's time for you to let Merry go"

"Mmm."

Mary had been caught trying to hit Amur after she hit Aura. Freed from Amur, Mary was considerably less powerful than usual when she came running over and then she hit me too, but thought she wouldn't get a haystack if she was too strong.

"Look, I'll leave it here. It's a luxury product from Shellhide."

It's a lie to say it's a luxury product, but around Shellhide, horses only say it's a specialty, and there's a lot of good food, so I asked Uncle Borderline to introduce me to the vendor, and I bought it in bulk.

"Well... it's time to ask Mr. Cliff why"

Aina was waiting on her way to the dining room to talk to her, and she was led to the receptionist. So I waited a while,

"It's a tea contract"

"Oh, tea, tea, oh!

"Wow!

Master Lyle (...), who put the treat in front of me with an unscrupulous smile, was screaming when Luna (...) showered her tea.

"Dear Luna! Tea should not be poured into the crowd!

"Before you do that, worry about me..."

Aina was scolding Luna, wiping her quickly scattered tea. The substitute tea was immediately put in by Mr. Cliff, but Master Lyle, who was served tea, remained left alone.

"So, do you want me to tell you why you two are in our house dressed like that?

"Yes, sir… please wait a moment before doing so. Master Lyle, where are you going? I have to explain it to your husband now. Behind me, stand still and wait."

Master Lyle tried to leave the reception room to get dressed, but Mr. Cliff had stopped him.

"Actually, due to the lives of these two people, Maria, I was trained as a butler and maid. Well, you both have jobs and schooling, so I didn't say every day... and the day Tenma and the others came home was test day, and we were going to make a decision about whether to extend our training."

I don't know what the two of you did, but I'm guessing you did enough bad to cut Maria's indulgence bag. Or you should have either piled up your daily deeds.

"So, what's it like?

"You're doing very badly."

To my question, Mr. Cliff gave his rating without putting his hair in. The two of them, who Mr. Cliff had double-crossed, seemed quite confident and rather depressed after eating the verdict of the opposite.

"Well, even if you can't do it well, you two have to admit your hard work. Just trying."

But when I heard the rest of Mr. Cliff's words, they all smiled,

"But since the final decision is made by Maria, I can only tell her as I am."

The two men, who were dropped and lifted and finally dropped again, had a look of despair.

"That's a lot of trouble. Well, I understand you two. So now that I'm back, I'd like to take a souvenir..."

"Don't you have something important to report to Tenma and Maria before you do?

"It certainly was. It's very important."

I had to royalize a very important story that I experienced during the request of Uncle Borderline.

"The story should be Maria directly from Tenma. If you're not tired, you might want to go report it now. Maria will be expecting a report."

"Well, I'll get ready for you a little bit"

That being said, I explained to Grandpa and Jeanne to get dressed, and I changed my dirty clothes myself and put my souvenir in a magic bag.

Upon completing his preparations and speaking to Mr. Cliff, Mr. Cliff looked a little surprised that Jeanne was here, but was convinced to explain that Jeanne was also one of the parties.

"Tenma, I'm going too!

"Amur asks for the next time. Maybe Maria and the others will listen to Amur, but I think we should start with Jeanne."

"Hmm... ok"

As Amur pulled back, we were led to the carriage by Mr. Cliff.

Eina didn't go back to the royal castle with her, but stayed a little longer for Luna and Lady Lyle's guidance, so I told her I was going to give Aura a break for today and make her work tomorrow. Aina was nodding at my instructions, but in all seriousness she seemed to want Aura to do her job immediately, watching Aura raise her voice of joy on the sidelines several times.

Near Aina like that, Luna said something. I did, but now it's because I'm in a made-up apprenticeship position, I said so. I just didn't come near.

"Luna, you don't have to worry because I won't tell Maria about your failure."

And I called out, but it didn't seem to be the case, and I was shaking my head.

"You're not... Oh! You're a souvenir! I'm securing Wyburn's meat, so I'm sure Royal Castle's cock will be ready by tomorrow or so."

"Really! Do... not!

Luna almost rejoiced, but what she wanted to hear was not about the souvenirs. When I thought that was a quiz with few tips, I remembered I was keeping Mr. Cliff waiting, so I gently apologized to Luna before boarding the carriage.

As I was traveling in Mr. Cliff's manipulative carriage,

"Dear Merlin, Tenma, there is Chris in front"

So I opened the window and there was definitely Mr. Chris. Besides, with a man... well, it seemed like he was arguing.

"Ignore it?

It only smells like trouble, so I thought I'd do what Mr. Cliff says... unlucky, Mr. Chris turned this way. And I got eyes on me watching through the window.

"Please leave with all your might, Mr. Cliff"

"You can't. Chris has already noticed, and above all, he's on his way here."

If you can speed up in a straight line, you can shake off Mr. Chris, but he's coming from the front up there, unable to make small detours around the city. No matter how, they get on board during the turnaround.

"Then stop here. At least let them walk this far."

And thirty seconds to wait... Mr. Chris walked like a race to the carriage.

"Affiliated with the Kingsguard, Chris. I'm returning to duty now!

"Got it. Now take your escort assignment."

Mr. Chris reported to Mr. Cliff and tried to get in the carriage,

"Christina, we're not done talking about this yet!

The man who came after me stopped Mr. Chris. But...

"Didn't you hear me say I was returning to my Kingsguard duties? In this carriage is a guest to the royal family. Interrupting the Kingsguard's mission to serve as an escort could amount to disrespect for the royal family, but are you prepared? And my name is Chris, not Christina or anything else. Besides, you seem to have the position of associate baron, but the Kingsguard has been given the baron equivalent of power by His Majesty. Do you understand what that means?

Chris looks at a man with such cold eyes that he has never seen him before. No, instead of being cold, I had the fear of saying that if a man ate any more, he would immediately slash them away.

"Mr. Chris, I'm keeping Maria waiting, so I'd like to head to the royal castle as soon as possible?

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. We'll be right there."

The man doesn't know if he noticed that Mr. Chris was seriously angry or because of Maria's name, but he didn't do anything to hold Mr. Chris back any longer. I'm just not convinced, I guess, because I was looking at Mr. Chris as a stare.

And Mr. Chris ignored it as if there was no such thing as the presence of a man, and got in the carriage.

"No, that was really helpful. He was so persistent that he wanted to kill him... Tenma, if you guys hadn't come by, you might have really killed him."

Mr. Chris was returning to his usual atmosphere when the carriage set off.

"So, Mr. Chris, who were you earlier? And what do you call Christina?

You didn't think Chris could keep his mouth shut before he got help, even though he looked like he didn't like it.

"My former (...) father. And Christina is the name they used to call her."

I said that as I turned my back. From what I've heard before, Chris is cut off from his parents' house and I've heard that the reason for this is because he tried to use Chris to smoke good juice, but it's actually worse.

"When I was twelve, that man brought me in for a chat. Well, if you're a noble child, there's one story about having a fiancée at twelve, but you're married, not engaged! Plus, they're over forty old men!

Chris was pretty excited, apparently, as he talked.

"I thought it would be an unlikely story as a child, but not only that man, but also his wife! It was suspicious, so I snuck into the two rooms and looked into it, and it seems the guy owed a fortune to an old man over forty, and he was trying to give me over to that debt. And my wife thought that I could take over the old man's house because I would live longer no matter what. By the way, that old man was a Viscount."

Chris, who was twelve, said he decided to run away from home after thinking about how to avoid marrying an old man. And the next day, he said he was leaving for the king's capital. They say the travel expenses at that time were the whiskers of the father and mother that were at home.

Arriving in the Wang capital, Chris first ran into the soldiers' stuffing and explained to himself why he ran away from home. From there, a soldier in trouble with Mr. Chris's treatment reports to the headquarters of the Knights of the King's Capital. Plus the Knights had trouble handling it, and they reported it to the King.

Apparently, the boulder king was also surprised by unprecedented circumstances, but soon he decided to protect Mr. Chris, warned his parents and the Viscount's old man, and admitted to being as marginal as Mr. Chris hoped. After that, Chris was about to go to the orphanage, but he tried the next year's entrance exam because the results of the school entrance exam he took to try were pretty good, and he won the recommendation frame brilliantly. By the way, until then, the cost of living was compensation from the former family (the attempt to force them to marry was found to be an abuse), and for the missing amount, they asked the knight who took care of Mr. Chris at the Royal Castle to be their guarantor, and borrowed it from Wang Capital's money loan. By the way, the knight means Mr. Jean.

"Even though I had forgotten its existence until recently, I gratefully brought in an affair knowing that I had won the martial arts tournament and that I was not yet married. You really don't learn. In the first place, I don't understand that I'm a nobleman with more power than he is now, and that interfering with me in the first place is an act contrary to His Majesty's decision."

Even then, I kept being asked about Chris' stupidity in the carriage. In the meantime, Grandpa and Jeanne spent time pretending to sleep.

"Chris, it's time to stop chatting. For once, you're back on Kingsguard duty, aren't you?

Chris, who had been talking for a long time, became quiet in Mr. Cliff's words.

"The gates of the royal castle..."

To escape the man, I told Mr. Cliff I would return to duty where people's eyes existed. I guess I changed my mind before I knocked around the gate more than I declared so.

The carriage passed the gate and proceeded straight to the front door, but Mr. Chris got off the carriage just before he arrived at the front door. Thanks, they can't go inside the royal castle without wearing the Knights uniform except in an emergency, so they're going to get dressed in their own quarters in the first place.

"Dear Maria, I have taken Tenma"

When I asked Mr. Cliff to show me to the room where Maria was, there was Ernesto in there with Maria and the King, Caesar and Isabella, and Zain.

"Dear Maria, the request has been successfully completed. Souvenirs will be transported to the kitchen later"

"Yeah, thanks, Tenma. And welcome home."

I greeted Maria and the others, and when I said I had a report, they recommended an empty seat, so all three sat down. Maria and the others usually seemed to question having Jeanne sitting standing behind them, but Jeanne also nodded that it was a relevant story.

"So, what's a report?

She seemed like a happy Maria at any rate, so maybe she's mistaken for what it's like to travel.

"There may have been a report, but a troublesome demon appeared in the Great Forest"

"That way (...)!

"Yeah, Rich (...). Lion said he would give you more information, but I thought you should report what you felt directly from me. That's why I brought Jeanne, but the only member who went to Kukri Village that didn't fall into the Rich trap is Jeanne. So I brought you here because I thought you could explain the details of the situation better than I did at the time...... was there something wrong with that too?

Maria and the others reacted a little strangely, so I accidentally put it in my mouth, but Maria and the others shook their heads by saying "nothing".

I then felt the outcome of the engagement with Rich and told Jeanne about me and my grandfathers at that time. In it, even me and my grandfather, who seemed to be good at magic and more tolerant than people, were told why only Jeanne was able to move freely while being sane when they didn't know Rich's trap, but I didn't know the clear reason, and it just so happened that the trap was shallow. However, I think that the title of "Virgin" held by Jeanne has something to do with being able to use "Appraisal", but I kept it a secret in itself that "Appraisal" could be used, and above all, I did not know how the title of "Virgin" was influenced, so I agreed with the conclusion that "by chance".

"Well, I'll take a little souvenir to the kitchen."

"Tenma, let it be Cliff, so give Cliff a souvenir."

When the conversation settled down, I stood up to keep Wyburn's meat in the kitchen and heard Maria waiting for me. Well, I'm in a state of being a guest, so I guess I decided it would be strange to let him carry me, so I transferred the meat to Mr. Cliff's magic bag and sat back in his seat as it was.

"Tenma, do you still have something to report to us?

Maria says that, so think about it for a second.

"On the frontier of the Border Uncle, we magically built a fort"

I thought you cooperated on military matters, but that wasn't the same.

"Is this about a spy from the Borderline Uncle?

"That's already news coming from the Houst Border Uncle. And I left the matter to Uncle Borderline."

Instead of Maria, the king answered. Maria's inability to open her mouth seems to be a different answer.

"It's not about Canon... is it? Could it be that you used Gol and Jill yarn at the wedding?

I also wondered if you had any queries about Mr. Serna's wedding dress, but he shook his head to the side. However, I was reacting to the wedding, so it sounds like a story from around there.

"So, did you have company?

"That's it!

I finally came up with the right answer... apparently, from here on out, it was the real deal.