Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician

After waiting for Ashley to settle down, we were all headed to Rosetta's house.

Rosetta said it was to work out a good aftermath. Well... I don't know what she's afraid of.

If it's true, it's the same thing Ashley thinks of me around bringing her back to the dorm.

Maurice might see Ashley as an enemy.

"Do you want me, sir?

Ashley remains seated in the reception room chair with a decent look on her face.

"I mean, Master Ashley reacted about my mother, so if you might see a connection with me, that's what I mean. If I gather a little information, I think the reason I left the house will be somewhat in Maurice's ear."

Given that I'm just a bastard while I'm out of home, and that Ashley is a lord - there's a chance you'll see Ashley behind my back. It's how Maurice receives Ashley's angry reasons around there... but we shouldn't expect anything conscientious about the way Maurice interprets things in that place.

He's like trying to push his own way through me, too, and maybe everything's like that.

Specifically - there may be tangible and intangible harassment of Ashley from those close to Maurice or, worse yet, direct exertion of power... It would be a natural prep to pay attention to her safety before that happens.

"Even so, the Earl is the Earl. It's not like there's no vertical or horizontal connection."

"Although this case will deepen your certainty. Still, Maurice is more directly destructive than the Earls of Cardiff themselves."

In short, ancient ginseng and thinkers close to Maurice remain around. I would also say that it is of a bad nature.

"What are you going to do to ensure Ashley's safety?"

"Well, you know what?"

Rosetta nods at Grace's words.

What I have to tell Ashley about this neighborhood seems to make me nervous, but it must be necessary.

If the person to be protected is not aware of it, there is a part where the protecting side cannot move either.

Even so, Ashley shook her neck sideways with a serious look, not disturbed.

"What bothers you about what I did on my own..."

I guess Ashley wants to say that she takes responsibility for her actions.

I'm not saying there's no way. She is the head of the Baron's family, and I think she can take the approach of hiring an escort or asking a nobleman close to the Baron Sirn family for help.

"No, the other way around"

"Reverse?"

"If Ashley hadn't told me that on that occasion, maybe one of us would have been exercising our powers."

"... right"

"Really. I don't have enough training either."

The three of us look at each other and leak a sigh of relief or melancholy.

Absolutely.... I need to be able to stand around more calmly on those occasions.

"So. It is only natural that we should cooperate fully with Master Ashley in this case. Ning Lo, I hope so."

And when I looked Ashley in the eye and said, she looked back at me for a while, but eventually nodded.

"... thank you, sir"

"It's a question of what to do with it."

The first thing to think about is how to ensure Ashley's safety until we can be sure that there is no counterattack from the Count or a slight glitch.

I don't think it would move off the surface if I put it in Prince Albert's ear. I don't know if the reason is brother-in-law or profitable... but that would also be if the Count took any more action.

If you take a heavy look at the fact that the Count has also sold fights to the Baron's house, and you're keeping your distance from this matter and making an adult out of it, even the Prince can't move. In the first place, Prince Albert is only slightly optimistic that he relies from the outset on nothing to strike a hand because the foundation is not a bedrock.

"In the meantime, I don't think it's a good idea to stay in a dorm with lots of people in and out of it. You should move your life somewhere else."

"Does that mean, for example... you should go back to Sirn territory?

That would be one solution... but Ashley's expression wasn't very floating.

Well, I'm paying for school, and I have Kennel and Beline's thoughts that Ashley came here, but I think there's a reason besides mine.

"... If you're not on board, I'd like to move in a direction that won't. You must be bothering me this time with the awkwardness of the response on the part of the school building, right? When it comes to the lectures I'm supposed to take, I'll do the best I can."

... Will it take the form of a tutor? That kind of trustworthy human entry and exit would be a matter that would also lead to her own safety, so if you're lecturing, that's fine.

Some of the reasons Beline suggested studying abroad for Termwilds would be part of Ashley's networking.

And it acts both better and worse on the surrounding situation for Ashley, even with that information alone, that it has become a hostile relationship to the Count.

Enemy enemies are allies. And vice versa. Anything that doesn't make a good impression on the Count will be on his side, and anything that doesn't will be on his enemy side. Like me, Rosetta, Prince Albert.

Talcott - although from what I've heard from Rosetta in detail, he'll be on Prince Albert's side.

Neither Talcott, who is a party as "extra" than the conversation, nor Rosetta, who came to report the upside, seemed to want to get it in my ear... but Talcott was sanctioned by Maurice just before he was forgiven.

I'm talking about Rosetta hitting the cure for a few broken ribs in conditions like being magically blown away and stubbornly kicked where she fell in.

So I guess the disturbance came to Rosetta's knowledge, and she came to report it to me. While we were waiting in the empty room, there seemed to be a lot of confusion over there.

Albert will also want to ensure that Talcott is taken in, so we'll talk about what Maurice was doing with Talcott.

I don't know what Talcott would think of that story, but I'd be pissed off if I were you I'd be made to do all the dirty work to keep my eldest brother's beautiful name.

Well, Albert would think and move around a lot.

"Then I'll think in the direction of renting a house somewhere or taking an inn."

After that, we just have to protect it. That's what we're talking about.

There will be hands that will put shadow mercury on the perimeter guard.

"Mm-hmm. Well... that's good. There are other ways."

Rosetta glances at me and Grace, then turns her gaze back on Ashley.

"Ashley... I think it's going to be a lot more noisy after all this time, huh? If you want to think about what happened earlier, maybe you should pack it up and think about it."

"Noisy? Why?

"First and foremost. I can name a few things that get noticed by those hostile to Maurice."

Hmm...... If Maurice's adversaries are hostile, they want to work with someone with a matching interest.

Networking also means building allies and creating enemy factions without reaction.

"He is the head of the Baron Sirn family and has a remarkable talent for healing magic. Besides, if you don't have a fiancée, I can't help it. A healing magician comes if he's single when he's like me... but some idiots try to make him listen to what power tells them. Whether you live in a dorm or hire a servant to live in a rental home... I can't have anything to do with the problems around here. If we're going to solve this, someone is going to decide this (...). Around here, Theodore, I wonder if the three of you will be... I wonder what you think?

Pointed water, think.

... Does Rosetta also think about the area? And the two of them came.

That's what Beline seemed to think from the start... but what about me and Grace's attitude towards each other, from other people's point of view?

No, well - sure. I guess there's a hand in getting me or Rosetta's house to stay and protect Ashley. As far as I'm concerned, I thought it was Rosetta's house.

Because it's not normal or because it's temporary? There's a reason it's between kids. Having Ashley stay at my house and hit the perimeter guard is - it's tantamount to declaring that I'm being cordial with a view to the future around me.

"No... can we talk too fast?

I know that this kind of talk sometimes doesn't allow the situation to stall. Rosetta tilts her neck.

"Oh? Ashley's the head of the Baron's house, and you've been getting attention, and I don't know if you're quick to talk or not, and I don't think that's the way it works, do I? It's not about me, it's about if I don't have a fiancée around yet, and how it works."

"It's..."

... or maybe the situation is already moving. Maurice's side of the camp.

More than you know there's a connection between me and Ashley, there's a chance you'll see the relationship that way. Now when Maurice uses people to exercise her powers, that kind of common perception will be created around her no matter what the facts are.

"Henry may have been thinking about Grace in your future. When you're a man with magic arms like you, you know you're not alone, right?

Ah......

... Rosetta, unlike Beline, doesn't involve any interests and it's percentage honest, so if we're going to talk about it, will it be a direct ball in the direction of putting Keri on the spot, as a result?

Whatever my father was going to do with me and Grace in the future.

I guess Rosetta is going to go out with Ashley as a healing magic instructor, because she seems to know how Ashley got here because of her common acquaintance with me... she also knows what Ashley meant when she got here.

I know it's not a very good story to send ahead. Will you pay attention to me and Ashley in the matter of the Earl Cardiff family? Well, sure, yeah.

Ashley blushed her cheeks a little and Grace was...... a quiet look as usual in percentage.

"What matters is how we feel about each other, right? Why don't you all three stay at my house today and take the time to discuss it. As far as I'm concerned, I'll have more time to teach Ashley healing magic, so you can stay at my house. It's just..."

Rosetta looks away and says.

"I think it's better not to leave it behind if you have thoughts. Whether you tell them how you feel or not, whether they fit together or not. There is a goodbye independently of that. But I guess that's why."