Dungeon Master Makeup Money (formerly known as Dungeon Master Funding)
Lesson 23: A Place of Peace
See Melissa's sleeping face sleeping with her eyes round next door in the bed of the inn.
"Speaking of which, you've never seen Melissa's sleeping face before."
Melissa was usually awake longer, and she was faster to wake up, so she couldn't see her face even though she slept with her many times.
But the girl sleeping next to me now has a restful sleeping face.
By the time I returned to the royal castle with the prince and knight who were passing out using the metastasis crystals, it had already been evening when the sun had begun to set, and the people who were serving the royal castle who had sensed their escape as they walked through the royal castle with the two of them on their backs had rushed up.
For once, when I explained the circumstances and told him I was just passing out, I safely took over the two of them.
The royal castle was in a rush for the king to fall, but it seems that the fall of the previous labyrinth lords was prepared in advance from the experience of King Patrick when he became the labyrinth lord, and the prince was dealt with in the same way.
Because the number of knights headed to the labyrinth was decreasing, a knight-like figure said something. He did so, but when the prince woke up his eyes and explained it, he refused to explain the circumstances.
When I am freed from the royal castle as it is, I head to the inn for a late dinner.
In the meantime, it was Melissa who was visibly depressed that everyone was concerned about.
It was a heavy pile into Melissa's heart to hang an undead in its hands that included not only her own uncle, but even someone she knew, no matter how temperamental she was behaving.
Until I put up with that, I was attached to the labyrinth lord's inheritance and dialogue with the labyrinth nucleus, out of a biased desire to be useful to me. I can listen to you later and grasp the situation, but I can still better understand it in person.
That makes me loving and caressing my hair unexpectedly.
"Ugh, yeah......"
Apparently he didn't like it, and his eyelids can be slowly opened.
"Morning."
"... good morning"
Melissa looks out the window.
The time is just starting to rise in the morning sun and it's still dim.
Speaking of which, you slept with him yesterday.
"You've never slept with me and just accompanied me"
I figured out Melissa's condition, and Sylvia knocked me and Melissa into the room alone.
Afterwards, I slept in separate beds, but I couldn't leave Melissa alone when I saw her crying as she slept.
"Sorry for the inconvenience"
"Never mind."
"No, like me crying like that... ugh"
When I decopined to block Melissa's words, I held on to my reddish forehead and had tears in my eyes. I didn't mean to hit so hard while sleeping.
"What are you doing?
"Well… it's very hard to say, but given the composition of the party, I think it's useful to calmly judge the situation and use your own knowledge as a guide to action"
It's really a little rude.
Sylvia was only able to read and write briefly because she was originally from a small village, but she has a lot of knowledge thanks to her necessary pursuit and study, such as reading a requisition form, after becoming an adventurer.
Ira grew up in a slightly larger town, so she has no problem with minimum knowledge, but is not very involved in policy making because she is not fit to think about her difficult personality.
Even for Illis, he's biased in his knowledge as an adventurer, so he'll need Melissa's knowledge to negotiate with the royalty.
But that's the story at the party.
"What kind of person are you yourself? They're following me as a family, but what do you really want?
"It's..."
Melissa says.
It's rare for her to always come up with the optimal solution from her knowledge.
"The reason I became a family member in the first place was because of the thought that if I relied on the power of the Lord, I would know the truth about what had happened to my homeland. I was a little self-absorbed when Mr. Tech told me to give up my dreams."
I was desperate to get my hometown back as a girl.
But I was told to give up my dreams when people told me that such efforts would only be used as good by those who believed.
"But instead of getting the truth figured out in no time, he was able to guide me to my family."
"Are you going to stay with me in return for that?
Melissa shakes her neck to the side with an ambiguous grin.
"You were right at first. But now I'm glad that's it. I think it would have been possible to reclaim the territory if I had been serious then."
Later I was curious, so I looked into it, and with the disappearance of the third prince, I also put my back in the royal castle to carry out organizational reform, and tied up the lord with the breath of the third prince, starting with Ragway.
At that time, we were widely recruiting people who could manage our territory because so many vacancies had appeared.
It was Melissa with no track record, but the talent was close to being known by some of the leading merchants in the Wang capital, and since some fathers were former lords, it might have been possible to guard her and become a new lord.
But Melissa ignored the story.
"I think we talked about the fact that what I really wanted was not the status of a lord or anything, but a place where my family could come home. Mr. Tech was kind to me, too, but I knew I wanted to sweeten him to my father. I think I could have done quite a bit to be a lord, but I think there was some rebellion from the surroundings, just like Her Majesty the Queen, because of the woman lord. I was able to stay with the Lord and go home where my family waits and I was able to have a lot of fellow people in the same position. So I feel happier now."
Melissa cuddles up.
"Besides, when I was a young girl, I felt most comfortable holding you to my father, but now I feel most comfortable doing this."
When you're doing this - when you're holding onto me?
I don't think I had anything to miss that much myself.
Still, I guess there was something in Melissa that made me feel most at ease when I was holding her.
"You can hold as much as you want to be a little sweet."
"No. They're going to drown when they make you sweet like that."
"Something's gonna happen that's gonna get you drowning?
"It happens. If you behave like that, someone in your family might have a child in the near future."
"Ugh..."
I wanted to be Ariel because it was a topic I wanted to avoid if possible.
Little over a year after I grew up and became an adventurer.
I'm just not ready to be this young and fathered.
"The questions you asked the labyrinth nuke girl are also prepped for those things, aren't they? I guess that's why we started worrying about it, because we got that pill before we came to the king's capital."
"You see it all?"
It's too late to deal with a problem.
The labyrinth of the Wang capital was taken over by the descendants of the first labyrinth lord.
For your information, I wanted to know if it was possible to let myself take over the authority of the Labyrinth Lord if I had a child.
In the end, it turns out that the only way to do this is to get it to the bottom of the labyrinth on its own or to have it transferred to the bottom by being in tune with the labyrinth nucleus resting on the bottom. The problem had to be abandoned because I don't know if I can tune with the labyrinth nucleus until then.
"It's okay."
Melissa squeaks as she hugs.
The eyes were trounced like they were asleep.
"That medicine is not the kind of thing you would easily get because it would take a lot of magic to get it with magic. I also thought about getting the materials I needed and formulating them myself, but as soon as the materials I needed included things I couldn't get in this country..."
I started to hear you sleep with Suyasuya.
The time has just come when the sun has risen.
You'll be forgiven for sleeping a little.
"So why don't you stop hiding the signs?
Speak up toward the no-one in the room corner.
"Have you found it"
Sylvia's figure rises in the space where no one is supposed to be.
"It was such a confident way to hide?
"Blah, blah, blah, blah. I couldn't see through either."
I just felt like I had someone from my family from my mind as Lord.
According to Sylvia, you can now apply wall pull-outs to slip through light, sounds, and even signs. Funny, wall pull-out wasn't supposed to be a skill to slip through obstacles and enhance your covert abilities.
"You're sleeping well, apparently."
"Oh."
"We were worried about being one of them. If someone is sad, they will all be sad. That's our buddy."
From Melissa's mouth only my uncle is taught about someone he knew who was inside Skeleton Road. However, it is possible that there were friends and acquaintances.
Melissa had pushed and killed those sorrows of acquaintances.
If there's anything I can do, it's just comforting.
"Then I leave it up to your husband to comfort Melissa, and when it's breakfast time, I'll come and wake her up"
"Please."
Drop off Sylvia slipping through the wall and back into our own room next door, not through the door.
Breaking into people's rooms on her own is not a praiseworthy act, but she must have been worried about Melissa as she was.