Graduated from Witchcraft Institute

"Father, I want you to see this before you eat. William and the others found it in this country's bandit Azito."

Eileen stood up and went to hand him a bunch of example paper under King Andrew.

King Andrew takes it as he sits in his seat and examines it inside.

As we read on, the king's eyes turn to something sharper.

And when I finished reading the whole street, I hummed my nose uncomfortably and poked a bunch of paper back at Eileen.

"It's Irene the Knight."

"What... Ah, yes"

When Andrew calls out in a dignified voice, Eileen stretches her spine in a panic about being poked into the void.

Did I deliberately call you "Knight Irene" to indicate that I am talking about a position of king and minister, not as a parent or child?

"The man who brought this letter has never complained of falsehood."

"Uh... yes. William is a trusted friend of mine, and it's hard to imagine him lying like he's going to fall for us, at least. That's your father... you know the king."

"Oh, you're right. - Then I'll leave it to you, Knight Irene. I don't mind hiring an outside person. Don't allow pigs to imitate what they licked inside my country."

"─ Ha, yes!

When I make sure Irene replies that way, Andrew turns to me and raises the edge of her mouth with a nibble.

"William and his people, too, had a hard time. Bringing this to Eileen is brilliant. If you give it to the lower officials, they might have squeezed it because they thought it was a Yotai story. I'll give you a gold seal later. You should accept it as a just reward for your work."

"Yes, thank you"

"Okay. ─ Then this is about as good a tough story as it gets. The rest is dinner time. I have plenty of good liquor and food to prepare. Enjoy yourself."

The belated queen had also just arrived in the dining room, and King Andrew declared so.

A sumptuous dinner began.

"Hey, and I was surprised. I never thought it would be my mission. [M] Uh, what do we do..."

Eileen, who's eating in the seat next to me, has been crushing me like that.

Though she is healthy, she leaks anxiety and eats well.

On the other hand, I return words to her, enjoying the aromatic wine.

"Really? I could have assumed the possibility that this would happen."

"What, really?

"Oh. I think it's well within your assumptions if you take into account His Majesty's character"

The extravagant Andrew is the type who pushes his lovely little boy down into the valley of Chihiro.

It's not hard to imagine that if you decide it's a moderate difficulty to get Eileen to gain experience, you'll actively throw her in there.

"Bu. You can't help it. Because I'm not as smart as Will."

"Well, it's hard to be good at it."

"But what do I do? I can't think of a plan! I wish I was smart like Will."

That makes Eileen hold her head.

Hearing that, I sigh loudly.

"Eileen, you should learn how to use people a little. What did His Majesty just say when he appointed you? I would have added a word."

"... What happened?"

"I don't mind hiring an outside person."

"Oh, speaking of which, you said that too. What's that... ahhh!

Eileen gets up rattled and shouts.

The eyes of everyone who was in the dining room, including the servants, focused on Eileen.

"Oh, I'm sorry. It's nothing, haha..."

Eileen sat down with her shoulders narrowed, waving her patty hands to fix it.

"... that means hiring Will as a staff officer?

"To my ear it sounded as though His Majesty was offering it as one of his choices."

"Oh yeah... Oh, my God, I wish you made it clear that your father would, too."

"It's one thing to get Eileen to think about it, including that, and about Her Majesty, the other thing that I'm not thinking about that deeply. If you're going to get someone under the organization, you should put the nature of the person above in the math."

"Will is still amazing......"

Eileen seemed to have abandoned her thought.

I think it's a good idea, and I flatter my shoulders.

And there 's--

"Ooh, William. You seem to be educating my beloved daughter well."

King Andrew took a seat with his cup in one hand and stepped aside to our seat.

And next to me, on the other side of the empty seat opposite Eileen, I slip back.

Where did the table manners go?

He said he was rude, but it seems like this guy is the one who wants to be rude the most.

And Andrew turns his arm around my shoulder and speaks to me in a whisper so that Eileen doesn't hear me.

"William, if you want to educate me, will you marry my daughter?"

All of a sudden, I've said things that don't even clap.

"... make a joke"

"I'm not kidding. Who does that look like? That's a horse, but she's my lovely daughter, and I'm not going to give it to a man who's not even Rokuro. But then I don't think I have a wife. You'd be impeccable, and my daughter likes you. Think about it."

"Ha..."

Hi Andrew seems serious.

I guess Irene likes me to the extent that she doesn't hate me......

Nevertheless, I never thought about Eileen's relationship with a man or a woman.

Looking beside him, Eileen, in a pure white dress, looked at this one with a strange incline of her little neck.

─ ─ Cute.

That kind of emotion comes up in me unexpectedly.

But...

"... No, thank you very much, but I'm going to do it as an adventurer"

I gave it back to Andrew.

Andrew then started laughing out loud next, with the face that he had been poked at.

"Ha ha ha! Right, that's the most important thing for you! He's as funny as ever! But you'll see, that temper of wanting to stand with one of your own arms!

That's what I said, he slapped me in the back with a bash.

Strong Andrew's beating makes me cough up with a geese.

So, William, those three beauties are your women?

Andrew comes back for another ear punch.

At the end of that gaze are three people, Satsuki, Mi and Cyril, who are on the other side of the table.

The three of them notice me and Andrew's gaze and look strange.

I shake my head to the side and return the words.

"No, they're fellow adventurers.... and Your Majesty, the way you say 'the three of us' is a thing that presupposes infidelity. I'm not impressed."

"... you, you're hard. If you see a good woman, you'll all want to hold her."

"May I tell your wife that?"

"Sorry, it was my fault. Give me a break."

His Majesty, Andrew, apologized peacefully.

"─ But I'm serious about my daughter. Not right now, think about it."

That's what Andrew left me for, and now he's headed toward the three Satsuki guys and started talking to them.

It made me wonder what it would be like to be a king too free.