Legend

Dinner parties that were delicious but didn't know if they were happy or unhappy enough to enjoy the flavor were still going on.

I guess I should say that the meal has finally begun, more than just being in the middle of eating an appetizer to be exact.

"Ray, I'd like to ask you a few questions, how was Elaine while she was in the Guild?

To Ray, who was then savoring another vegetable potage that resembled a potato, obviously different, the Duke of Kelevel asks him that unexpectedly.

Ray, who had tasted the soup without making a sound as a table manner, wonders how to answer the sudden question.

I don't know how to answer that, because I'm lost.

Lost and gazing at Elaine, Ray opens his teasing mouth when he sees the person nodding.

"He cooperated quite actively. And thanks to that... less odd jamming."

The odd obstruction in this case is naturally what the aristocratic nobility was doing.

The Duke of Kelp naturally knows that, but it nods without any kind of imitation as it appears on the table.

"Well, that's more than anything. Larks, I've been seeing a lot of borderline uncles lately. And I was worried that someone would stop him from growing bigger."

"Thanks to Elaine, it's a big deal that you don't have to worry about that area anymore"

"... Elaine, huh"

To Ray's words, the Duke of Kelevel slowly squeals like that.

It was, naturally, Ray whose gaze was directed, but a great power dwelt in his eyes.

Seeing such a Duke of Kelevel, Ray finally realizes his failure here.

It was usually Ray, who was abandoning Elaine, but this isn't the usual place.

Yes, it's where Elaine's parents are.

Making Elaine abandon in such a place has profound implications.

At least no one has ever done such an imitation.

... Not even those who wished to marry because of Elaine's beauty, strength, and desire for the financial power and power of the Duke of Kelevel family have been able to imitate such.

That's all the person named the Duke of Kelevel is feared, and it's also great to be under pressure to even feel physical pressure if you do poorly.

Ray, too, though I thought it was gone, couldn't possibly do anything about the words he said once.

Not to mention, I wasn't even trying to do something about it.

That's why I nod back, even as I feel the pressure emanating again from the Duke of Kelevel.

"Yes. Thanks to Elaine for all the help. … but also a lot of other help about the country of Labourina."

Pickle, and.

The moment I hear the word Labourina out of Ray's mouth, I get signs from Arcadia, next to the Duke of Keller, that it is similar to killing.

That is something similar and non-existent to what the Duke of Kelp is emitting.

Feeling such signs, Ray opens his mouth in such a way as to be afraid.

"Dear Arcadia, anything?

"... no. I have also heard about the matter of the country of Labourina. I don't know exactly what I was doing."

He was an arcadia with a grin on his mouth, but his eyes weren't laughing at all.

Only Arcadia with a lack of know-how makes my spine cold if I see a condition like this now.

If I say anything bad here, I'm even going to feel like it's going to end badly.

"Mother, maybe even from where Mother was, who is the victim...?

"I don't know. I've heard that there are people missing, but that's not all of them involved in what Elaine and the others did."

That's what Arcadia told me, but what she actually thinks, her eyes were telling the story.

"You. We were talking about sending a negotiating delegation to the state of Labourina, what's going on?

It was like just asking lightly, but the pressure in its gaze is strong.

Still, it's just Arcadia's husband, and the Duke of Kelevel opens his mouth without looking particularly concerned.

"This kind of thing needs a lot of rooting. You know that's Arcadia, right? Perhaps a formal negotiating delegation will take the form of a departure in the spring."

"... in a neutral, I hear you left a long time ago?

"I can't help that. Because this one was revealed in the Guild. If you imitate your hands poorly here, that's the only way you can see underfoot over there. Besides, he did retaliation before he went into such an action, and Elaine's presence with him made him look like a nobleman."

In that sense, it was the Kings who lagged behind the most in the matter of the country of Labourina.

Nevertheless, the Kings were not directly involved in the matter of the country of Labourina.

I'm pretty sure he crushed his face because he's still the biggest faction.

And it also took time to elect personnel such as who would be heading to the Labourinas, and as a result a mission was to be dispatched after next spring.

But only the Kings, and it is the kings of this kingdom of Mireana who are leading it.

In other words, it will be those leaving after next spring who will be the official mission from the Kingdom of Mireana.

"Still, the carelessness of those taken away won't clear up, will it?

"Mother, those who survive once taken away, to Gilm..."

"I know."

To Elaine's words, Arcadia answers lightly.

But when I heard that, Ray's spine got cold again.

One of the things about the Suras, that's what makes them pretty famous in the Guild.

But that's only a recent story, and I wonder why Arcadia knows that.

Of course, noblemen have mansions in Guild to gather all sorts of information.

That's why it's no surprise you know one thing about the Suras... but still, the rate at which the information is communicated is obviously too fast.

Without worrying about how Ray looks like that, Arcadia goes on to say the words.

"But being there doesn't mean I'm willing to go back to my hometown... or someone who can't. No one came back in the village or city I know of. Then… of course, I don't think the missing person was necessarily taken away"

Country, city, border...... people live in various places, but disappearing for some reason in this world is not a rare story.

To bandits, to illegal slave traders, to monsters.

Especially a young and beautiful woman is susceptible to those victimizations.

Arcadia knows that, too, but still, I guess there's something to think of when you think that someone you know is in such sight.

"Arcadia, keep it around. I know and understand what you're thinking, but there are things I can and can't do. And now, Ray's... it's the first boy's welcome party that Elaine's brought in. Don't go too far."

The moment she was told so, Arcadia apologized small and went back to her meal.

... Most of all, Elaine had dyed her face red on what the Duke of Kelp had spoken.

Loving Ray was like nothing to hide in front of a marina or a vihella, but that's only because it's in front of my people.

Or we've been best friends together since we were little like Ara, or we were buddies at the same party like Bühne.

Make that not direct, if my father told me so, it was only natural that I could illuminate it.

……

Elaine's cheeks and ears, bent down, are red enough to tell.

My parents grinned when they saw Elaine leaning over with no voice either.

It's not a teasing grin, a grin that delights my daughter in growing up.

... What do you care, not being a man to Elaine was something I was worried about with all my parents.

Elaine's appearance is undoubtedly beautiful.

That's not so strange to be called the Goddess of Beauty.

But that Elaine had nothing at all to show her interest in the man, she was just training herself.

From her standpoint as Duke of Keller, she was out in the social world, but that was only out.

There was no doubt that such Elaine's interest in the man was something to rejoice about for the Dukes of Kelevel and his wife.

(Though...)

He was the Duke of Kelp, who looked at his daughter like that with a smile on his face, but in the next moment he turns his sharp gaze to Ray.

"Ray, what is Elaine's position? You know that, right?

Sudden inquiry.

But Ray can naturally also understand what the question means.

"The only daughter of the Duke of Kelp,"

"That's right. In the future, will Elaine succeed this house, or will her son-in-law succeed this house, or will she adopt a son?"

"I think there's more definite means than that, though?

In the words of Ray, who tells him so, the Duke of Kelevel smiles funny.

"Well, a surer means? Don't worry about that. I want you to tell me something."

"It's easy. If you make Elaine's brother or sister, it'll all work out."

"Huh!?

Whether Ray's words were totally unexpected or even Arcadia, not just the Duke of Kelevel, took a breath for a moment...... when he understood what acts he was advised to do, Arcadia's cheeks became so red that she couldn't beat Elaine earlier.

The Duke of Kelp has not reacted as blatantly as Arcadia, and he turns a strong gaze toward Ray, who spoke of such a thing.

"Isn't it disheartening to speak out about my relationship with my wife?

"Perhaps so. But isn't that the best way to think about Elaine? Even though, Elaine inherited the Enchanted Dragon's Demonic Stone on the altar of inheritance. As a result, I think its lifespan is equal to that of an enchanted dragon, not a person"

Only an unfamiliar word, though slightly awkward, Ray tells as he looks into the eyes of the Duke of Kelevel.

I'm polite in my language when I talk to Dusker, but for better or worse, Ray has been with Dusker quite a while.

That's why I'm somewhat used to talking to Dusker now... but this is the first time I've talked to the Duke of Kelp.

Really, it would be natural for tension to mix there.

... Or maybe being Elaine's father is also a strong influence.

"Inheritance of the Enchanted Dragon's Demonic Stone, or? Though it is a grief passed down from generation to generation to the House of the Duke of Kelevel...... no, is that even now? Whatever, I know what Ray's trying to say."

More than inherited the Enchanted Dragon's Demon Stone, Elaine will undoubtedly outlive humans... and outlive elves.

If such Elaine were to be the head of the Duke of Kelevel family, not many people should have come out dissatisfied with it.

It is also possible that the worst case scenario could have been a disturbance stain on your home.

The status of head of the Duke of Kelevel family is so important… so I guess it is very attractive.

"So?"

Probably not.

Though I think so, I'll ask if maybe...... naturally it's the denial behavior of shaking your neck sideways that returns.

"It can't be that easy. In the first place, Elaine is special among the aristocrats. That's what Ray understands best, right?

"It's..."

Ray gets stuck in words.

In fact, Elaine, who has the aliases and beauty of a princess general in the aristocracy, deserves to be called a symbol.

... I guess that's why there are so many people who try to dictate without punishment.

It is such Elaine that she abandons her status as heir to the House of the Duke of Kelevel… not to mention the fact that she has not put it into words here, but running under Ray is not acceptable to the aristocracy.

"Whatever you do, it doesn't matter what you decide right now."

"Really?"

I knew it, but I still can't stop feeling sorry for you.

"It's just..."

I don't know if you felt sorry for Ray like that, or if you were going to tell him that from the beginning, but the Duke of Kelevel smiles thinly and opens his mouth.

"I want you to be assured that at least not much, unless you have a little extra time until the construction of the Gilm is finished, Elaine is going to have the aristocratic bounce monitored in the Gilm to avoid odd imitations. Of course, if anything happens, you can come home."

Ray and Elaine were each relieved by the words of the Duke of Keller.