Kuro no Senki (LN)

Viscount Tina Sheratan slowly lifted the cup.

I carry it straight to my mouth and enjoy the fragrance often.

I drank incense tea and exhaled ho.

Work fatigue seemed to leave with exhalation.

The tea party this afternoon was a tranquil moment for Tina.

That has succeeded the housekeeper. It remains the same.

No, the importance may be higher now that I take on the heavy pressures as a lord.

The Lord's responsibilities are too heavy on his fifteen-year-old little girl.

Not to mention, it wasn't long before I was ready to be a lord.

At the very least, I wish I had time to be prepared, but even if I had time, it could have been the same.

Because it's hard to say that I'm still ready after six months of being a lord.

That day, if my father didn't go deer hunting, if he didn't go horse down..., there's no day I wouldn't think that way.

My father's death was an unexpected event.

Three aristocratic boys with army experience or four boys as son-in-laws.

With her husband in command of the army, Tina learns to run the territory under her father and inherits the housekeeper in anticipation of her time.

Such Tina's life design was lost by the death of her father.

Either way, time to be free from heavy pressure is important.

Do you understand that, Sebastian, who is always a loud butler, is also quiet at tea parties.

So quiet that I forget to keep it aside.

Most of all, it was in the past that the afternoon tea party was a tranquil moment.

It is now becoming time for prayer.

Please, may there be nothing today, it's time to pray.

Tina's ears capture rough footsteps.

"God, who is pure white and commands order," Tina prayed, but there is no way the footsteps will turn away.

Apparently, God didn't hear my prayers.

I'm sure he's even taking a nap.

The rough footsteps were imminent.

Tina doesn't have the skill to fight.

Only wait for the storm to pass.

Even wild rats have the wisdom and skill to turn themselves away from danger, yet nobility cannot escape their duty.

The door opened roughly as Tina placed the cup on the table.

It was the maid who opened the door.

Such misconduct would not otherwise be tolerated.

I mean, I guess that's all the maids are mad about.

I'm sure, after this development, Tina shrank.

"I will quit now!

"Ha, ha, no"

As the maid walked over to Tina in her ghostly shape, she was relentlessly angry and rolled up about what she had been done.

Tina is on the defensive side.

Yes, yes, I'm sorry, I just want to apologize.

Ha, and I heard a small sigh from behind.

It was a sigh of Sebastian.

Again, it is a sigh.

Since Tina succeeded the housekeeper, she has repeated the cycle of hiring a maid and being quit.

I know the cause.

I also know how to handle this, but Tina doesn't have the ability to handle it.

Sebastian mourns it.

The maid left the room complaining.

Tina sighed deeply and slammed onto the table.

"Also, the maid quit?

Suddenly, I was called out.

Low, faint voice.

"... well, that's my uncle"

Tina woke up and stared at the door.

There stood a man with a beard.

The face is not good.

The beard is not taken care of and the hair is similar.

The eyes fall and the shape of the eyeballs is well understood.

He's not that tall, but he's fat overall.

It looks like a bear with a beard.

The man's name was Reed...... he was Tina's uncle.

He left the army recently and came back.

"Ah? Is that even a complaint?

"... no"

I had something to say.

Why do you make a mess of a maid you just hired?

Didn't the maid quit because of that?

But it was the words that admitted Reed's actions that were so hard to squeeze out.

Instead of speaking differently, we can't even look at each other.

"Then it's fine. If you leave me, you're in trouble, aren't you?

……

Tina did not answer.

Eventually, the door closes.

When I looked up, there was no sign of Reed there.

"Tina doesn't respond with fortitude, so we're on track."

"I know."

If you're going to say that much, even if you give me a help ship, I swallow that weak sound.

Sebastian is right.

My men can't move if they want to, unless Tina, the lord, shows her will.

But Tina was afraid of Reed.

Just being stared at by a lead makes me sweat, and just being called by a name makes my body tense.

I also thought if they left for Reed.

Tina has two problems.

One was about Reed and the other was the presence of a standing army stationed on Viscount Sheratan territory.

The problem is the poor behaviour of the Standing Army.

It's the new captain and his surroundings that are causing the problem, but any organization downstairs is something to mimic up there.

The influence had begun to manifest itself as a disturbance of wind discipline.

It was Reed who put a toothpick on this flow.

Reed drank a new captain and corrected the wind turmoil.

I want to do something about Reed.

But when Reed is gone, the new captain may cause problems again.

Such a dilemma and a sense of self-blame that I wish I was firm annoys Tina.

"We have to do something, because I'm a lord"

Uh-huh, and Tina roared round her back.

At that time, the figure of a person passed the back of his brain.

That's the gentle grin of the former Viscount Hamal.

I have met Viscount Hamal many times before.

He also promised to help me if I had trouble.

"I've decided! Former Viscount Hamal, no, I will have Viscount Hamal as my back shield!

"Dear Tina?

Sebastian's face is cloudy.

"I understand the other application. But there's no other way to solve the problem."

"... it is dangerous for Lord Tina to leave the mansion now"

"What do you mean?

"Yes, I was wondering if Master Reed had any intention of taking the housekeeper"

No way, Tina shrugged.

I don't want to believe it.

But if Sebastian's words are true, the stumbling block fits.

Reed came back to take the housekeeper.

But it's hard to even stay in the mansion, rather than just come back and take the housekeeper away.

So I used an Army-era cone.

I caused the captain to make a scene and by packing it up, I made him assume he was the person he needed.

The rest is easy.

You just have to wait for the chance to kill Tina while you increase your side.

The method of killing doesn't matter if you poison him or disguise him as an accident.

Tina shuddered herself.

Because I realized Reed was not just an abusive man, but a cunning plotter's face combined.

"Sebastian, you think your uncle is going to hit you with some kind of hand?

"We think that's likely. Yes, for example…"

Sebastian nodded and covered her mouth with her hands as she conceived.

"... make Lord Tina raid the carriage she rides"

"Well, let's get behind your uncle."

Tina smiled.

Tina's contemplated maneuver led the boxcarriage with a similarly dressed maid, and she dressed herself as a man… simply cut her hair and dressed in a miserable way.

By the way, my chest didn't even have to wrap a cloth around it... it's a simple thing to leave later.

Tina rode on an old loba and snuck out the back door.

Through a narrow alley and out on the street.

Tina stroked her chest down.

The city was quite busy.

Viscount Sheratan territory is not vast, and there are no specialties.

Merchants recognize Viscount Sheratan territory as a relay point to Viscount Hamar territory, so the obvious rarely turns back in people.

However, I think the number of dewstores has decreased.

Looks like the number of pedestrians has decreased to be seen from the range of outdoor stores.

We'll think about the pedestrians later, Tina said, leaving the city.

I was anxious to see if my operation would lead to a lead, but I also had the exhilaration that I was having a great adventure.

Tina takes the street west.

The sides of the street are covered in dead grass.

The length of the dead grass even Tina's waist swayed like a wave every time the wind blew.

Tension is lost within the streets.

So when I found two men on horseback, my reaction was delayed.

The two men were raising their swords from their hips.

If a child paints a sword, they will draw a sword like the one they are raising from their hips.

That's the kind of boneless sword.

The two men approached slowly.

When the two of them stood in the street with nothing, they saw Tina and approached her.

I mean, you two are Reed's men.

Tina jumped off the loba.

I jumped straight into the corner of the street.

"Hey, wait!

Tina keeps running, ignoring the voice that stops calling.

I don't even turn around.

Aren't there two men approaching?

If they catch up to me, they'll kill me.

I couldn't turn from that fear.

I fall over and over again, making myself crawl on the ground and dive into the shadow of a fallen tree.

The ground was muddy around the fallen trees. Had it not been winter now, it would have been attacked by a large mosquito swarm.

Tina holds her mouth with both hands.

The two men proceeded to scratch the scratch and stopped not so far from Tina.

"Hey, you there?

"... no"

The man questioned shook his head.

Apparently, the two of you are not highly capable of tracking.

That said, I can't be relieved.

It would be as easy to kill as Tina, even if she has low tracking ability.

But the threat is not just between the two men.

Cold, Tina shook her body.

A frozen muddy takes Tina's temperature relentlessly.

Lower body temperature is synonymous with depletion of health.

What if they find out you've drained your health?

Even if we can't find him. What if we're supposed to lurk here for hours?

Tina clenched her dagger for protection.

Shouldn't we bet on the possibility of survival if we're going to die either way?

"Chip, let's go home"

"What are you gonna do when you get home? It's a shitty job, isn't it?

"Well. I got momentum, but it could seal your mouth, right? Then wouldn't you be smarter to run away while you're receiving your advance?

"So is that."

The two men seem to have shallow thoughts and lack a work ethic.

But now the two of us are grateful for their annoyance.

"Then I'll get some Lova's stuff."

"Right."

Thief! and Tina forgot her position and nearly screamed.

Lova is loaded with the luggage necessary for the journey.

The sound of scratching the grass away, but it would be wiser to hide for a while.

Because there's also the possibility that the conversation between the two of them is an act that brings Tina out.

Tina continued to lurk in the shadows of the fallen tree, trembling in the cold.

In the end, the luggage was stolen by two men, but Roba was safe, whether it was a hassle to take him.

Tina only proceeded cautiously this time.

He used a branch to avoid ambushes with his pursuers and only stopped by the village when purchasing water and food.

Many branches were interrupted and many stretched in the direction of misperceptions.

Each time he turned back and took many times more time to go west.

Road bank ran out on the way.

Because I bought water and food at the villagers' word.

I knew they were looking under my feet, but I didn't want to rub it and find it in my chaser.

Road banking ran out and more fellow travellers.

His name is Hungry.

This hunger was my first experience in my life.

So much so that I felt envious of Roba eating the grass off the road.

The post between the territories waited for the night and broke through in the shade of the night.

Tina ran out of guilt for committing the crime and her fear of punishment.

It's a full speed that has mobilized all of its health.

And Tina fell.

Gong, gong, shock and pain intermittently occurred.

Honestly, opening her eyes was also a hundred million robberies, but Tina opened her eyes thinly.

Then the boy was looking down at Tina.

Am I as old as Tina?

Brown's hair is short and he stands upside down like a cat or a hare that intimidates his enemies.

I have a lovely face, but I'm hoisting the corner of my mouth.

Maybe the person is going to have an evil look on his face, but the child seems to be smiling a lot.

"Are you all right?

……

Tina did not answer.

The boy was looking down at Tina when he felt shock and pain and opened his eyes.

I didn't peek in worried or kneel on the spot.

I mean, the boy kicked Tina in the head.

"Mi, water, and food, please"

I thought it was coming.

The boy stuck out a leather water bottle and bag.

Tina arose momentum and took the water bottle from the boy's hand.

Tina drank even a drop of water from the water bottle.

Warm.

Warm, but delicious.

It was the best drink I've ever had.

When I opened the bag with my trembling hands, there was bread there.

Bossy texture, but this is delicious too.

Tina finished her first meal in a long time and stared at the boy hah.

"Oh, thank you"

"I just saved you out of the blue, don't worry about it"

The boy turned his heel back.

The carriage stopped a little further away.

It's a carriage with quite a few years of age.

The boy stopped and looked back.

"Hey, where are we going?

"Uh, to the former Viscount Hamal."

Ah, and the boy looked up to heaven.

"The former Viscount Hamal's place means the city of Linol, right?

Linol is a city with the mansion of the former Viscount Hamal.

"I'm planning on working there, too, so why don't you come with me?

"Huh? Uh."

Tina couldn't answer instantly.

I see what the boy is saying with courtesy.

I wondered if it would be good to involve him like that.

"I'm not saying I can't."

"Okay. Please."

Tina decided to take the boy's offer after worrying.

There were three reasons.

First of all, you must be exhausted.

The next thing you know, there is no road bank.

Because at the end of the day I thought that if I was with the boy, I would deceive the chaser's eyes.

"We're going to have a short relationship, but I'm going to name it. I'm Cole, a businessman."

"I'm Ti... I'm Tim, I'm a traveler"

Tina named her pseudonym with a slight guilt.

"Traveler."

Cole looked at Tina like she was frigid.

I regretted I should have thought of a compelling background, but it's a later festival.

Cole kept his mouth shut for a while, but exhaled small.

Maybe he decided it was easier not to get into it.

"So, what are you gonna do with that loba over there? I'm telling you, I can't afford to load a lobby."

"I think it follows on its own, maybe"

"Well, I didn't try to get away from you."

With that said, Cole didn't seem convinced enough.

"Well, get in the back"

"Yes."

Tina got on the carrier and slid her body into the gap in the load.

That's all the loads were loaded on the carrier.

The ride wasn't pleasant, but Tina had fallen into deep sleep at some point.