225 Chapter 16-3 Ladybugs to Pawns

"Tenma, you'll be taken care of for a while!

"Oh... show Jeanne, Aura and Jinn to their rooms"

A few days after the party, the 'Sword of Dawn' arrived in the Wang capital and was to stay in the Ootri family mansion. For once, I informed him in advance of the situation in Wang Capital by letter, leaving him to decide what to do, but a letter of reply was carried by Ted saying that he would soon be in trouble with us. But there were more troublesome things happening to me than the Jins. It's

"Before I do, I'd like to ask you...... Mr. Tenma, is it true that you and Primera are properly engaged?

I thought the topic of Wang Capital would be 'Dawn Sword' choice in the Jin dungeon offense, but with me and Primera dancing at the party, rumors broke out that me and Primera might have been engaged. The engagement of the S-rank adventurer, who is updating his undefeated record at the tournament with a grand nobleman's lady, and even more so since I started officially working as an adventurer, who is so close to his father and family that it is not strange among them to say he is best friends with a man, and because of rumours that he is in love several times, he is told that this time is the true story.

"It's just a rumor about that... entirely because I didn't know. To Primera and the Duke of Sanga, I think I did something I'm sorry for."

My downfall...... that was choosing an unmarried woman as my partner in the dance. Besides, by extension, to the first person on the song...

"On second thought, the first song of the dance is supposed to be,"

The person in the first song of the dance basically often dances with his or her partner, fiancé, or lover, especially the aristocratic party is strongly inclined to do so. I mean, inviting Primera to the first song of the dance in such a situation shows me in an attitude that I want to be in that relationship with Primera, which Primera is deemed to have accepted.

"Hmm? So, when you danced with Amur, why didn't you make a scene?

So far, the first song has been danced in the order of Maria, Amur, Hannah, and since Maria and Hannah are married and what kind of relationship with me is already widespread, I would have understood around that it is not such a relationship, but since Amur is single and once an aristocratic warrant, I wonder what was not rumored.

"Weren't they supposed to have made it with their teammates that they didn't have partners with each other?

And Leena says, so think about it for a second...

"Sure, it could have been the same sight as usual. Dancing was cluttered."

It was like Amur wandering around me, as usual, and it was a dance between the unskilled, so I was dancing in the corner secluded and discreet. If so, it wouldn't have been a topic other than that of bad dance.

By the way, when I played Maria's opponent, she was full because the level of dance was too different to fall, and in Hannah's case, she was full because of the rhythm of only one person dancing Samba while her surroundings were waltzing, so that she wouldn't fall even then.

"Anyway, don't just imitate Primera like she cries"

When Leena concluded that way, Aura, who decided she was finished talking, tried to lead the Jins to the room,

"Colored men are tough."

"Let me samurai a beautiful place, as long as I envy you"

Jin and Garat are making fun of me. So,

"Aura, take Jin and Garat to the Juubeys. In the corner, the Juubeys will forgive you, too. Jeanne will show Menace and Leena to their rooms as planned."

"Okay ~!"

When Aura replied in Norinoli, Jin and Garratt began to panic, and Menace and Leena followed Jeanne by passing beside them with a thin, laugh.

He then played with Jin and Garat for a while and, satisfied, gave Aura instructions to show them to their room.

When I picked up the Jins, there was nothing left to do, so I headed to the dining room to make a large production of snacks, and Chris had been drinking for me since daylight. Chris, who came back the day after the party, learned from his colleagues that men were highly popular, and that the time was short and rough.

"Tenma... what is my value..."

I got caught even though it was a pain in the ass. I wish I could have gotten away with it before they noticed, but I was a little late to notice Mr. Chris because I was thinking about it.

"Come on? People are worth something, so I don't know."

I replied unnecessarily and fled to the kitchen to stay out of it. And as you prepare to make snacks in the kitchen,

"Jeanne, go deeper!

"Hey, hey, don't push it Aura...... is that it?

It came the way Jeanne and Aura panicked. Perhaps you've run away from Mr. Chris, just like me.

"If you have something to do, I'll give you a place?

If you two have a job, I thought I'd go somewhere so you wouldn't be disturbed because mine is always better.

"No, um... I didn't come to the kitchen for work..."

Seeing as Jeanne was trying to say, I could understand that the two of them had fled from Mr. Chris, not from work.

"Well, can you help me?

"" Pleasure!

I found out you two were free, and I felt sorry to drive you back to Mr. Chris, so I decided to ask him to help me make my snack. Both of them have replied to the eating mood just because they had reason not to have to go back to Mr. Chris.

"I don't feel comfortable with the treats I have in my magic bag, so I want to make them with an emphasis on quantity. So, Aura and Jeanne are baked treats focused on cookies. I make pancakes. Any questions?

"Mm! I'll take care of the taster!

"I'll be joining the baked sweets, too."

I intended to speak to Jeanne and Aura, but at some point Amur and Mr. Leni were also here nearby.

"Mr. Leni, please. Amur, unfortunately we are not recruiting a taster. Well, not if I help."

"… Copy"

It felt like Amur said she wasn't sure, but she decided to help me eat sweets.

"Then again... Jeanne and Aura are baked confectionery other than cookies, Amur and Leni mass produce cookies, I make pancakes. All right, let's get started."

I decided to put Jeanne and Aura, who are used to it, in charge of other treats, as long as Amur and Leni were put together and limited to relatively simple cookies, which would be fine.

"Don't feel glad in a big kitchen at a time like this"

The mansion the king built for his grandfather, but I don't know if it meant they were going to use it, or if the people of Kukri Village were thinking about using it, but the dining room and kitchen are made wide for the size of the building. Thanks to this, three treats can be made simultaneously.

"Something, rather than pancakes, sounds like you're baking some roasted skin."

When I bake many pieces of smaller dough side by side on a large iron plate, something really darkens the baking color. It looks more like a roasted skin than a pancake.

"Do you divide the one with a dark baking color for pinching acorns and creams?"

The beans come from the south, so if you make the acorn, you'll be able to do something that looks baked. Well, I've never made an octopus, but I've made an octopus before, so if you boil it down, you'll be able to do something that looks like an octopus.

Since some skin appeared, the next step was to lower the temperature of the iron plate and go into mass production of pancakes. Then,

"Tenma... what do you think of me..."

Mr. Chris came like a ghost.

"Chris is Chris."

"I'm not asking you that!

I felt signs that someone had come into the dining room when I was looking at it differently than usual. There were three of us who came in, and it was like Albert who came in the lead, so it would always be three idiots.

"Hey, Tenma, are you listening to me? So, who's going to be a good daughter-in-law, me or Primera?"

While slightly out of consciousness, Mr. Chris' story was going in a strange direction.

"And that's Primera, right? Because like Mr. Chris, he's never been drunk enough to tease me."

In the case of Primera, it would be different from the usual standard of a good daughter-in-law because she is often drunk before teasing, but it would be an important standard for some people.

"Well, then, Mother! Which is better."

"It's Primera. I don't think a woman who gets drunk frequently during the day will have a good influence on her child."

"Whoo!

I guess Mr. Chris has something in mind about this, too. Well, just because I get drunk frequently doesn't mean I can't raise my kids properly... it won't sound good.

"Well, then..."

"With Primera"

I don't know what you tried to say, but you wouldn't have to deal decently with a drunk.

"Mr. Chris, you're in the way, so go back to the dining room"

"Yes......"

I drove Mr. Chris back and baked pancakes one after the other with the rest of the dough.

"I'm out of fabric, and this is all I need"

Since the dough was made in large quantities, there were hundreds of pancakes about 10 cm in diameter and fifty pieces of whichever burnt skin was the same size. However, fifty pieces of broken shapes and badly scorched came out, so I decided to turn these to a snack named Taste.

Some time after they finished baking pancakes, Jeanne and the others seem to have finished making their own treats. Among the things I made, I decided to turn from failing to tasting preferentially, and saved the rest in a magic bag.

"Well, shall we all taste it... and before we do... Mr. Leni, Amur, what's up?

Amur is putting a lot of cookies in front of him. Moreover, even if I speak up, I never reply, and on the contrary, I don't show how to open my mouth.

"Actually, I... I put a few cheeks up to do it and burned it in my mouth"

"... Amur, turn around and open your mouth... 'Aquaheel'"

Nothing, I was just saying it was the usual Amur. As a result of my greed that it would be delicious to stand up, I just say that I am unable to burn my mouth and talk.

"I thought I was going to die...... freshly baked cookies are murder weapons!

When treated with aqua heels, he returned to his usual noisy Amur and complained about the dangers of cookies.

"You kept me waiting. Albert, I'll eat Cain and Lion too... Ro?

I gently apologized to Albert, who had left me alone, and called Cain and Lion to go ahead with the snack as well... it wasn't Cain and Lion who were sitting near Albert, but the Duke of Sanga and Primera.

"Tenma, which one did you mistake me for?

The Duke of Sanga has asked pleasantly, but Cain wouldn't be able to say he mistake it for Lion anyway. Well, originally the Alberts just didn't confirm it from the image of a set of three, so I didn't make a mistake with either Cain or Lion.

"No, it wasn't either wrong or anything, it was just wrong because if Albert came to us in a threesome, there was almost a 100% chance they were Cain and Lion. Well, it dropped to 99% on this one... I'll be careful in the future"

"Oh, then you have no choice. Instead, you could say that there's a cause for Albert and the others who are so disturbed."

The Duke of Sanga laughed when he heard why I was wrong and Albert had a bitter laugh when he thought the Duke had told him he was "going too far to play".

"So, Duke, what business are you on today... before, what happened to Primera?

Primera slammed onto the table and didn't try to look at me better. The way it looks, oddly enough, is exactly the same outfit as Chris... but I don't know what caused the primera, but Chris is just too drunk and drunk, so the only thing that's the same should be the outfit...

"Don't you see... really, don't you?

The Duke of Sanga asks in case, but I didn't remember at all.

"Tenma... I could hear you interacting with Senior Chris in the kitchen, even in the dining room"

"Of the dining room... Exchange?... Ah!

With that said, I answered all of them with Primera because I've been asking questions about which would be a better daughter-in-law or mother Chris or Primera. It was a pain in the ass, but seriously, my answer wouldn't have changed...... or if the other person was Chris in that state with two choices, I wouldn't have gotten an answer other than Primera.

"But even in the world, there are rumors that Tenma and I are engaged. Even if I don't care about the rumors themselves, I guess I'm shy because of the favorable words coming out of Tenma's mouth. Do it gently."

"Well, when it comes to rumors, there's something Primera deserves. You don't have to worry... No, in this case, it might be better for Primera..."

The Duke of Sanga, contemplating and whining along the way...... was nearby so he could hear the whole thing. Maybe on purpose.

"So, Duke of Sanga, what business are you on today?

Listening in a slightly stronger tone, the Duke of Sanga interrupted his grunt and dwelt, albeit with a serious face.

"Actually, I'm here about the engagement rumors."

I still think so.

"That's not a lie...... but I'm here today about The Dawn Sword. It was Camouflage who brought Albert and Primera, and if we came together, you'd think the world would have come on its own to talk about engagement, and the reformist nobles could make that excuse...... so can you call everyone at The Sword of Dawn?

The real purpose was to meet the Jins. From now on, you seem to be having fun making fun of me.

"Aura, get me the gin."

That's how the Jins were brought here... but I was so nervous. Well, where I was relaxing, I suddenly ate a call from the Duke. No matter how much you knew about the Duke of Sanga through me, I don't think you'll have a chance to talk directly except for Leena, so there's no reason to be nervous either.

"First of all, congratulations on this attack on the Seigen dungeon"

"Oh, thank you"

When Jin thanked him, it was followed by the Garrats.

"So he wanted to dedicate the nucleus of the dungeon to the royal family, but what do you want for the consideration?

It means giving each of them a formal title and territory in consideration for dedicating the nucleus of the Seigen Dungeon. However, the Jins declined on the grounds of their lack of ability to run their territory and their unwillingness to become aristocrats in the first place.

"You're in trouble for that... because when the consideration is money, it's no different than buying it out... you don't like the gems because they're bulky, do you?

As a royal family, I want to give the jinns some special reward, but it's no different than buying it out like the Duke said it was money, and if it's anything of value other than gems, I can't have anything commensurate with the dungeon nucleus.

"After all, as a royal family, is it quick and easy to understand to give the title?"

"Tenma, some people, like you, say no to the title even though they accumulate many achievements. Everyone in" The Sword of Dawn "will make sense..."

"In my case, unlike the Jins, it's a financial feat."

Dragon zombies have become informal, and the dragons and walking dragons have just sold unnecessary parts without dedication or anything else because of their accomplishments as one adventurer. For once, I am attacking a dungeon in the south, but I am rewarded by Hannah because it is a feat in the territory of the Southern Autonomous Region after it was small. It should be noted that Mr. Hannah has tried to give Amur as a reward, but because of the rare agreement between me and Viscount Emeritus Robo, it fell into what I said was money and southern specialties.

"Perhaps you should have given him the title of forcefully, even during the coup."

"Because if the king tries to carry things forcefully, he'll just cry to Maria"

It's a cowardly hand, but if you can keep Maria on your side, you can handle most things when it comes to royalty.

"Well, now, Tenma, I've decided to leave you alone, and what am I really going to do?

The Duke of Sanga has a series of troubles on his face like he's not in trouble, so

"Shouldn't I lend it to you? The Jins, too, don't seem interested in the title now that they're acting as adventurers, so why don't we just decide to give it a title when we retire the adventurer?

The point is that I would send the reward forward, but I thought it would work as a reward if I only made a promise as a royal family.

"Right. Maybe that's a good idea."

The Duke of Sanga adopted my proposal lightly. Maybe he was waiting for me to come up with the plan. The Jins were also convinced that it was not now, but decades later, to receive the title.

"Maybe you were going to put me between the gin and the royal family from the beginning?

"Well, you're right. I could imagine everyone in" The Sword of Dawn "rejecting the title. So if you have a deep relationship with both the royal family and the" Dawn Sword, "and yet the influential tenma to the nobility and the public, the compromise proposal you put out, it means that you can contain those who disagree even if they show up."

I didn't feel half used by the Kings, but if I was the only one standing between the Kings and the Jins, I'd have no choice... if my proposal were adopted, I'd do the King a little favor.

"Dear Tenma, it's a customer"

I wonder who came when the Duke of Sanga was.

"I'll get in your way."

He was my grandfather's best friend. Plus, he's coming into the mansion before he gives permission like a royal.

"Go home! Jeanne, with salt! Spread the salt!

At the sudden appearance of Master Ernesto, Grandpa yelled and yelled at Jeanne to sprinkle salt. Jeanne, surprised by the voice, hurried to get a pot of salt... but gave it to me without knowing what to do.

"Grandpa, you'll have trouble getting pushed back. You finally have someone who looks like a mastermind...... for now, just sit around it properly. Jeanne, I'm gonna bring this back. And then I'm gonna bring you some water."

"Jeanne, the cup you serve to this one should use the old Shiloumal that was at the flush... or use it!

The old Shiloumal... had cracks in it after I stopped using it, so it was the one I was planning to dispose of. Trying to entertain me with water would be terrible too, but Grandpa was worse.

"Jeanne, I knew you'd bring me tea normally"

My grandfather was going to be serious if I kid him any more, so I decided to stop him around here.

"So, is the purpose today about the reward of the 'Dawn Sword'? Then the gin's hopes have come together. Later, the Duke of Sanga will report to the King."

"Now your Lord's work is done, isn't it? Why don't you just go home... or go home!

Grandpa is definitely trying to push Ernesto back, but if Ernesto's job was about the Gins' compensation, the errands should be over by now. So there shouldn't be a problem driving him back here...... does Ernesto have anything else to talk about? Ignored Grandpa and sat in a seat near the Duke of Sanga.

"Hmm, did that story come together, that's superimposed. So, Duke of Sanga, what's going on with the fate story?"

"Ha! That story is about to start now"

When I looked at Albert wondering what the (...) story of that (...) was, Albert didn't seem to know either and shook his head sideways. I saw Primera once too... but as soon as I looked at her, I lay my face down on the table.

The Jins seem to have decided that they moved from their stories to my personal stories and went back to their rooms with a no to Lord Ernest and the Duke of Sanga.

"So, what is the story of fate?

I have a bad feeling about it, but you two aren't going to move until we talk, so I asked.

"As a matter of fact, I was hoping I'd have more time... since the reward story ended quicker than I thought, you could have a private conversation"

It felt like the signs of the Duke of Sanga had changed into something completely different than usual.

"To put it straight... Tenma, would you and Primera be engaged?

"What?"

"Huh!

I was surprised at what the Duke of Sanga said, but Primera was more surprised than me. Other times, Grandpa and Jeanne and Aura are too surprised to solidify, and Amur and Leni are surprised to solidify their ears and tails upside down. Note that Albert seemed confused at the same time as surprised, wandering around the primera in a weird move.

"If you seem to be resistant to engagement, you can just put it by your side. Well, to put it plainly, is it in the form of 'mistress'?"

With my fiancée and mistress, there's quite an opening, and I was wondering if my father would ask me to leave my daughter as his mistress.

"No, well... normally, even if you're the other person, I wouldn't ask you to make Primera your mistress, etc. However, there were a few circumstances this time..."

When the Duke of Sanga is doing so a little hard to say,

"It seems that some of the nobles who saw Miss Primera dance with Tenma the other day thought Miss Primera was willing to marry, and some idiots would say her own son instead of Tenma. And some say that it is irresponsible for Tenma not to marry Miss Primera. Those who do not speak, but who are irresponsible are the same as the Duke who abandons them, and His Majesty who does not speak knowingly... They will deny it, but at least it seemed to me."

Master Ernesto inserted his mouth in place of the Duke of Sanga. Sure, some people would seriously think that, and some would say it in harassment, but it was nevertheless true that in aristocratic society, there were aspects of me and Primera's behavior that were reprehensible.

"It is also possible to physically silence those people, but it is not surprising that doing so will cause havoc that will divide the country into two or three parts. I'm not saying it's not, but there are aspects of the aristocratic world that you can't help but think it's strange, so you can never even say this one is right. So, if Primera is Tenma's fiancée or mistress, she can criticize you."

It is not uncommon for a nobleman to offer his daughter as a mistress to a leading man, and some of the noblemen who are criticizing him can shut him up because he is doing such a thing. Besides, you can accuse me the other way around of trying to imitate the kind of ripping between me and Primera... well, I feel slightly more forceful about that, but I don't think I deserve what happens to them as a result, because it's like having a difficulty with royalty and grand aristocracy in the first place.

"That's the thing, so could you make Primera your mistress and put it by your side?

The Duke of Sanga said he was taking it as if he were going to talk to the public, but I feel like it's about to matter a lot.

Still, I can't think of Primera as my mistress... you couldn't think of that the first time I saw her... or something.

"If you can do the Duke of Sanga a favor, I promise you the royal family will handle the loud flies responsibly"

Ernesto mistakenly said I was troubled and said I would contain the noisy nobles.

"No, well, it's okay to get engaged, but I was just thinking that when we first met, you never thought this would happen."

"Really, could you put it down as a mistress? Well, just pretend, so don't worry too much... but if you want to get married while we're together, don't worry about pretending or anything... is that it?

The Duke of Sanga, seemingly uncomfortable with my words, stopped talking along the way and began to look around.

"Yeah... you're not a mistress, you're going to be engaged? Really? No kidding?

"Yes, that's what I said"

"Primera, come here for a second. Albert, come too."

Is the Duke of Sanga still incredible, calling Primera and Albert? Both of them, my words seemed incredible and came close to what the Duke of Sanga had to say without making a sound of surprise. And

"Huh!

"Yes! Yes, I am!

The Duke of Sanga gently pinched Primera's cheek, twisting Albert's cheek up as he wished,

"Hmm... as far as Albert's reaction goes, that doesn't sound like a phantom... Congratulations, Primera"

And he said, throwing away Albert with a bright red mark on his cheek, sending a blessing to Primera.