My Pet Is a Holy Maiden

Sturdy Strike

Chitty, chitty.

The well-dressed old lady, who had suddenly broken in with applause, turned her gaze to Tatsumi, where Calcedonia leaned in delight with a soft grin.

"I'm suddenly sorry. But that was a good dialogue. It's not really that far ahead of the nobles, is it?

Once again, Tatsumi realizes the magnitude of what she said.

Sure, there was a lot of anger and the momentum that flowed on the spot, but still it was just too big for "a country to pierce its own thoughts even with its opponents," he blushed.

"Hey, I may have said a little too much...... well, still, I'm not going to let her go. That's the only truth."

"Your husband..."

Accidentally. So calcedonia like happy full face. I'm sure she doesn't see the surroundings now. The old lady - the former Duchess of Elisia Quarrotto - looked at Calcedonia like that and gave her a frightened look.

"Oh well. I can't believe I boned that calse so far. After all, you look like a pretty good manipulator."

"Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?!? Oh, I'm a bitch!? Oh, that's not true!! Oh, because I, the only woman I'm close to, is Cheeko!!"

"Chiko?

"Oh, um... the name Cheeko was not Calse's previous name... but, you know... what should I say... and, by the way, excuse me, who are you...?

Tatsumi unwittingly mundane without being able to successfully explain why she calls Calcedonia Chico. Then, Tatsumi finally wondered who the old lady in front of him was, and that point.

Speaking of which, the old lady laughed with zero voice that the mundane Tatsumi was extra funny, creaking as she hid her mouth with her hands.

"Oh, this was rude without a name. My name is Elisia. Giuseppe and Calse are old friends. Nice to see you again."

"Oh, yes, I say Tatsumi Yamagata. Really, Mr. Giuseppe or Chee... aren't you someone I know in Calse? So, how did Mr. Elisia end up here?

While asking Elisia, Tatsumi's gaze is directed at Calcedonia and Giuseppe.

This is not the kind of place that invites others today. But if you knew Giuseppe or Calcedonia, you would have been called to Giuseppe or Calcedonia for any reason.

Once again, Elisia laughs funny at Tatsumi comparing Giuseppe and Elisia over and over again.

"Uhhhhhh. Truth is, Giuseppe's right. If we actually meet like this, we'll see what kind of person you are."

"Ha...?

Not sure what Elisia is saying, Tatsumi tilts her neck.

"Actually, my son-in-law. Elysia helped me with this one. 'Cause there's a good detective at this fox's place."

"Oh, some old raccoon cried and begged me, so I had no choice but to help you?

Giuseppe and Elisia with an atmosphere that sounds fun while saying spicy things in their mouths. Tatsumi immediately understood that these two were very close.

"Ku, the former Duchess of Quarrotto!!"

Until then, I also forgot to keep my mouth shut and watched the sight in front of me, Galgardon Mother and Child.

I was surprised by Tatsumi's proclamation that "even the country pierces its own thoughts", surprised by the sudden appearance of a big man, and even more surprised to see that Tatsumi and his big man were actually in a friendly conversation.

But Sienaquaria, who had finally returned to me, fell on the spot in a great panic as she approached the big man, Elisia.

"The Grand Lady has heard of you, too. Ugh!? This one is to us, who are unceasingly aristocratic...... no, a bow-dragging fool to the kingdom of Largofiri itself! Besides, I don't know a few abusive wolves, such as tying up my pretty son! How dare you punish this fool with the help of Her Majesty!!"

"Oh yes! This person threatens Calcedonia, who is supposed to be my wife, to impose all sorts of things and even to be my own wife, the undeclared! I have heard that the Grand Mistress is also close to Calcedonia. For the sake of Calcedonia, bring this man to justice immediately!!"

Looking tied with rope, Larike also crawled to Elisia's feet imitating her mother.

Elysia looking down cold at such a Galgardon mother and child. Tatsumi, on the other hand, knew that Elisia was close to the highest of the nobles called the Duke, making her eyes black and white.

"Threatening Calcedonia...... right. Is that true?"

Hiraki Elisia sees Tatsumi. That gaze contains something like a strong force, and Tatsumi unwittingly steps back as she shakes her neck.

But Calcedonia stood in front of Elisia with a smile to shelter Tatsumi like that.

"As I have told Oo before, I love your husband at my will...... Tatsumi. Never been threatened. On the contrary, I'm really happy right now. Master Tatsumi said so clearly."

Remembering Tatsumi's earlier proclamation that even the country would pierce its own thoughts, Calcedonia had a superb grin that even the beholder would be heartwarming.

"Yeah. I don't think Tatsumi's threatening you, either. If I was trying to trick you or threaten you, I wouldn't be able to tell you that big a deal. By the way..."

Elysia was delighted with the growth and happiness of her dear daughter, who was also equal to her granddaughter, and narrowed her eyes. That Elisia's gaze lodged something sharp again, looking down at the two people crawling at her feet.

"I was threatening... no, which one of you was trying to threaten me?

Stiffness, and a harsh gaze shoots through Larik.

"Hey, what is it...? Wow, I've never threatened anyone in my life before..."

"Oh, really? By the way, Larik... could it have been? You know what this is?

That being said, what Elisia took out was a crystal about the size of an adult clenching fist.

A colorless, clear, true sphere crystal with no mixture gleams over Elisia's palms.

"What if... in" The Crystal of Photography "...?

"Yes, you're right. This is one of some old raccoon collectibles... but it shows something interesting in it. Why don't you take a look?

Elisia lays her hands on what she calls the crystal of appearance and chants something like a keyword.

Then something like an image appeared on the surface of that crystal, and at the same time a voice was heard.

The magic seal called the crystal in this photo is a magic seal that can record video and audio and play it back whenever you want, so to speak, with a video camera-like function.

I still can't hurt a young priest like Tatsumi!? My lord is angry. I don't know what's gonna happen to you or me.

The footage shown was a scene where Gorotsuki and some wealthy house family members and thinkers who were trying to intimidate Tatsumi were having some sort of noisy conversation.

The place was like a pub at the end of the place, full of hustle and bustle. I guess the fact that I recorded so clearly to the conversation in it meant that I used this magic seal from somewhere nearby.

Eventually, the footage switched, and the next thing I saw was a room where lavish conditioning and other items were tragically destroyed and exhausted, where the two men were having some conversation.

Apparently it was shot from behind the ceiling, slightly diagonally overlooking footage. Still, I can clearly tell that one of the guys in the room is some family-like guy from earlier.

And it was the other man who was definitely Larik Galgardon on this occasion.

"Oops!! Can't you grasp the weakness of a priest like Tatsumi yet!? When can the men hired hurt Tatsumi and Tatsumi?!?"

(Ha, yes... apparently only the escape legs are very fast, and no matter how much the men you hire surround you, you'll get out of there...)

I'm tired of hearing excuses! Achieve results faster than that! Otherwise... >

Larik in the video narrows his eyes and tells his family that he seems to be handing them out.

With the help of our Galgardon family, how can we destroy people like you?

"Shit, I understand, Master Larik... Hurt a man named Tatsumi immediately... Huh!!"

So Elisia stopped the footage.

Tatsumi's previous escape from the Gorotsuki was a time spent recording this footage in a demonic seal borrowed from Giuseppe by a secret detective under Elisia to serve as immobile evidence of what Larik did.

"Sure you... Earlier you said something like 'I've never threatened anyone else in my life before'... could I have misheard you?

"And I don't know!! I don't know any footage like this!!"

"Oh yeah!! I'm sure this must have been fabricated by a despicable man named Tatsumi there to fall for my Lara WOW!!"

"Come on, lords. Though you know that putting your hands on magic seals is extremely difficult unless you are also an expert on the path. In the first place, the Gorotsky warriors in this temple have already captured them. Because those gorots tried to ramble on the priests of our temple. Protecting the Temple and its followers is the duty of the cleric warriors, so what the cleric warriors in our temple did is quite natural. Well, I'm looking forward to hearing from those gobbles."

"You guys don't seem to really understand what the hell we've come up with"

Elisia zeroed as she sighed like a shudder.

"The kingdom and the temple are held together. What you did could destroy the trust between them. You don't seem to understand."

Since the Temple is not an organization belonging to the Kingdom, the Kingdom does not have any power of command over the Temple.

Neither the temple nor any involvement in the operation of the kingdom.

Although there are many pre-construction parts, that is the position of both. But there is naturally a deep link between the two.

Although the temple does not belong to the country, it does not mean that it has received no asylum at all, and for many citizens, faith in God is spiritual support.

If a deep crack is put between both the kingdom and the temple, it will manifest itself in the form of anxiety for the nation of the people.

Assuming the kingdom offends the temple, the temple will close its gates. And that does not end simply by saying that the people will be deprived of their place of prayer.

The temple serves not only as a place of prayer, but also as a medical facility and other training facilities.

Some places teach a little discipline such as nursing and treating the injured and sick, protecting oneself in some temples, and arithmetic.

If the temple closes the gates, the people will not receive them.

In that case, naturally, the anger of the people will be directed against the kingdom. It can't be a bright one, such as the destination of a country that has lost the trust of its people.

Therefore, the country and the temple strive to establish good relations with each other.

"What you have done is tantamount to stepping on the efforts of both of them. What if the old raccoon there... No, seriously piss off the High Priest. The relationship between the temple and the country will deteriorate, and naturally the country will ask you to take responsibility for it. And then... you know what happens, don't you?

Elysia smells like the disappearance of the Count's family, to say the least.

To this end, Galgardon's mother and son finally understood that they were in a difficult position to retire.

"Your deeds, which may put a deep crack between the kingdom and the temple, should be judged by the laws of the kingdom as it should be. But I don't want to make any more noise."

In the Kingdom of Largofili, the various metallic products produced in today's Earl of Galgardon territory are an extremely important element.

As well as the supply of arms and equipment to their own armies, metal products originating in Galgardon are also exported abroad as specialties.

The arms of the present Earl of Galgardon, who has so far enlarged that industry, are much acknowledged, and we cannot easily crush the Galgardon family.

Assuming that the Galgardons have been destroyed and the Count's territory incorporated into the Crown's direct jurisdiction, there is no guarantee that Galgardons' industry can be developed in the same way in the future.

So good is the hand of the present master, and you can't lose it.

"I therefore entrust your treatment to Almond Galgardon, the head of the Count's family. Is that good?

If Elisia spoke to the door that remained open, one middle-aged gentleman appeared from there.

Perhaps this person is Almond Gargardon, Larik's father, Tatsumi presumes.

"With all due respect, Grand Ma'am. I will punish these people responsibly. Thank you very much for your generosity."

Almond bows his head big toward Elisia. When he turned back to Giuseppe, he bowed his head deeply again.

"Thank you very much for your inconvenience under Chrysoprese... I can no longer tell you what to apologize for."

"I'm not asking for an apology either. Instead, punish them firmly. But don't let the feelings of your flesh and blood flow through you, huh?

"Ha!! I swear I will not make you feel any more uncomfortable with your servants, Calcedonia, and their fiancée."

"But I will only keep this matter in His Majesty's ear. And if there has been any shame over His Majesty, take it spoilt. Is that good?

"Yes, ma'am."

"Well, Count. How will your lord judge these men?

Giuseppe asks Almond, wrapped around his majesty as the supreme priest of the Savave Church, rather than the usual favourable atmosphere.

Almond also understood. That the Galgardons must truly perish if we are to take pity on their wives and sons here.

At this time, Almond turned for the first time to his wife and son, who were still crawling on the floor.

"Oh, you... oh, please... helped..."

"Father... please... have mercy..."

Both Sienaquaria and Larik realize that they are in a predicament, and take a lull of hope in Almond, their husband and father.

But the eyes of Almond looking at the two of them were already so cold that there was no more.

"Sienaquaria. I want you to stay away from me. I hear you can talk to your parents from the Grand Mistress. Perhaps your parents won't accept you back either."

Sienaquaria takes a breath in the cold, uttered words. Ignoring such a wife - already an ex-wife - Almond makes a pronouncement to his son.

"Larik. I will abolish you and make amends from home as of today. From now on, you and I are neither fathers nor sons. Go wherever you want."

"Oh no... your father told your mother and I to die wild, so it's awesome!?"

"Oh, yeah!! Take care of Lara, my only son, and what about the Gargardon family trail?!?"

Sienaquaria and Larike make a scene over Almond's decision - which felt like it to at least two people - that's too harsh. But Almond doesn't show a bare gesture of lending ears to it.

"Oh, don't worry about the Count's inheritance. I'll be responsible for introducing you to fine young men as adoptive children."

"Hey, compared to your stupid son there, everyone seems fine."

I hear a fox and a fox say so. Tatsumi was pulling a little on the spicy appearance of those two.

To Tatsumi like that, Elisia turned a meaningful gaze.

"Alas, there was a young man in the right place who looked promising in the future. Well, Count Galgardon. For one thing, why don't you take this young man named Tatsumi as your heir?

"Oh, yeah, yeah!? No, please!! Oh, me, nobility is not a pattern!! Because I'm a rooted common man!! I can never inherit nobility!! I can't do it!!"

Tatsumi shakes his hand and head with haste and momentum. Giuseppe and Elisia, as well as Calcedonia, laughed at how he was doing so strangely.

If you look closely, Almond was staring at Tatsumi with a serious look. Maybe you're seriously even thinking about taking him on.

A few days after the noise caused by Galgardon mother and child.

Tatsumi, with Calcedonia, was summoned to the office of Giuseppe.

Apparently, a flash of settlement arrived at the noise the other day, and it tells us the upside.

"So what happened?

Arriving in Giuseppe's clerk's office, he proceeded and settled his hips in the chair, then Tatsumi asked about it from then on.

"Mm-hmm. The Galgardons didn't seem to have much to blame. Except they're going to be extra taxed for a few years."

Destroying a noble house is never easy.

Because those who served that nobility until then will also be lost in the streets, and the operation of that territory will not necessarily be able to continue successfully.

"So what happened to that mother and child?

To Calcedonia's inquiry too, Giuseppe tells the result pale.

"Even those two, who were separated and forgiven... in the end, were not destined to go, so Count Galgardon decided to give them a small house and a field in the territory and live there. Not as nobles, of course, but as civilians."

"So those two can do well?

"Come on, I don't know that far. Just giving them a home and a field is not the Count's favor. If you're going to change your mind and live with this, good, otherwise you're going to have to stay wild and die. That depends on what you're about to do."

Sienaquaria and Larike, separated and accounted for, are no longer relevant to the Galgardons, even if they die drooling in the wild. It must be his last favour for his former family that gave it a home and a field.

When Tatsumi was ending this matter in her heart, she was inadvertently called out by Giuseppe.

"Whew, my son-in-law. It's not like there's no more noise like this one. What do we do there? I'm trying to make the position of the Lord and Calse clear to the public here... what do you think of the Lord?