Risou no Himo Seikatsu

Chapter 5: 2 [The Secret of Beeball]

"I apologize for this untouched visit. There are no words of gratitude for the warmth of His Majesty Zenzilow, who has embraced my selfishness with pleasure."

The first thing that came out of Princess Bona's mouth was the words of apology, as Good Jiro had expected.

Indeed, an untouched visit cannot be said to be courteous. In particular, Sanjiro is now in the royal palace in the position of 'principals', and Sanjiro and Princess Bona are not mindful enough to ignore such insanity.

But there's no way that Yoshijiro, who understands Princess Bona's position as a 'go-to', could be nagging about that extent.

"No, I don't mind. Regardless, it's convenient here, so not always, but there's no reason to refuse His Highness Bona a visit when it's like today"

While stabbing the nail so lightly, she showed willingness to welcome Princess Bona's actions.

"At a time like today," it goes without saying that Prince Francesco has challenged Princess Bona to an interview with Yoshijiro by herself, shaking off her role as a visitor.

In other words, Yoshijiro says, "If something like this happens in the future, don't worry about touching it or making an appointment, but please rendezvous later".

I guess such a good jiro's intentions were correctly conveyed.

"Oh, thank you."

Princess Bona has the look of a lifetime gained by Nine Deaths, and she bows her head again.

"Yeah, I don't know, but good for you, Bona"

"Huh... Yes, Your Highness Francesco"

Princess Bona, who almost said something reflexively to the culprit of the struggle to get out of the brain weather, swallows it at the inches, realizing that it was not a good word to utter on this occasion.

This looks like you should change the air a little bit. Sachiro, so sensitive, even in a tone as if he'd just come up with it.

"Speaking of which, it's time for tea. How about that? Would you like to move the place to Shia in the garden before proceeding?

I suggest so insignificantly.

There is no particular reason for both princes and princesses to reject that proposal,

"Oh, that's good. I just got a little thirsty."

"Yes, thank you. I'll have it."

It was time for the two of them to return their affirmative words.

Shia in the garden. There are no walls, and the inside of that building, which supports the slab ceiling with only four columns, is much cooler than in the royal palace, as the wind is planted through the nearby fountain.

For this reason, the proposal to spend the hot hours of the day in Shia in the courtyard is extremely natural. However, the main purpose of Yoshijiro's move to Shia is not to take the cool.

Its water noise naturally continues to sound all the time in Shia next to the rising fountain. For this reason, the conversation inside does not even reach the ears of the secretaries and soldiers of the escorts who refrain from being around them, unless they raise their voices consciously.

Moving the place to this occasion was the utmost consideration given by Yoshijiro, who wanted to report and confirm to Princess Bona about Prince Francesco's earlier 'silence'.

"Then make me some cold tea"

Setting back on a Southern-style chair made of wood and violin, Yoshijiro speaks so to a man who deliberately refrains behind his back with the same amount of voice as usual, with his face facing the front.

Whereas

"Ha, Master Zenzilow? Did you say something now?

Secretary Fabio listened back deliberately,

"Oh, didn't you hear me? I asked you to make me some cold tea."

and as shown all the way up to the point where Yoshijiro will say it again out loud.

Now, he appealed to Prince Francesco and Princess Bona, "speaking normally on this occasion doesn't sound like the people around him," but whether or not the intention was communicated has to be judged by the look on their faces.

"I'd like some cold tea, too. No, you should drink something hot and sweat on a hot day, but you still want something cold when it's hot."

That being said, Nico. The inability to read Prince Francesco's expression of laughter is what he also expected as a good jiro.

The problem is, Princess Bona, this one was really easy to understand.

"What? Ah! Yeah? Yeah! … Wow, I would like some cold tea too…"

In words, that change in expression is first "doubtful", then "satisfactory", then "doubtful" again and finally "sad".

At last, as soon as I heard it, I couldn't understand the meaning behind it. It was neat, and a few moments later, I smiled, "Oh, I see," and even shortly afterwards, I said, "Why should I have a seat for such a secret conversation?" He thought again, "That's because before he came to this place, Prince Francesco put confidential information in the ears of Yoshijiro that people couldn't hear," and he was desperate.

He was a sincerely sympathetic Shinjiro, but he can't put that emotion into action from a standpoint. Instead, we're in a position where we have to tap into that rudeness and pull out this profit.

(Though, it wouldn't be a good idea to overdo it and have the opposition of the two kingdoms, and given my position, I shouldn't have a nasty handle on it... kinda awkward)

While Yoshijiro was thinking about it, a samurai, who had received the life of Secretary Fabio, finished arranging a wooden plate on the table with a silver cup with drinks and sweets on it.

As well as silver cups, wood dishes are delicacies, carved with precision patterns in fine wood packed with wood.

With his mouth on the silver cup and his throat lightly moistened, Yoshijiro looks evenly at the blonde prince sitting opposite him and the chestnut-haired princess, opening his mouth.

"His Highness Francesco. What does it mean that with the" transparent treasure balls "to which His Highness was whined earlier, the question of time concerning the creation of the magic props will be resolved? Can you tell us how to do it?"

This was the decision that it was better to cut it out to be a stand-alone entry, but the word drew on Princess Bona's dramatic change.

"Huh!?"

Thoughtfully blown out without any room to fix it, Princess Bona exposes her 'amazement' not only on her face, but on her whole body. Fortunately during my misfortune, I wouldn't have included a drink in my mouth.

Of course, in case you think about it, I made sure Princess Bona swallowed cold tea before cutting it out, in the form in which such good jiro's care played a role. Although it wouldn't be any consolation to the person who blew it out.

But for Princess Bona today, the pursuit of a bomb statement that elicited that reaction was far more important than a serious reaction in a lady who exposed herself in front of a royal family in another country.

"F, Your Highness Francesco, did you not tell me!?"

Is it the revelation of reason left by Princess Bona critical that its voice volume is squeezed as much as normal? But its face has to be called 'pale' rather than a metaphor, and the voice emanating from its blue-purple, bloody lips is close to 'severed demon' through screaming.

But I just don't know how that princess feels.

"Yeah, speaking of which, I might have just said it. It was a pretty small voice, but you heard it from His Majesty Zenzilow. Ahahahaha."

"... it's not funny, Your Highness Francesco. That's the secret of the Shalova royal family.

"Oh, speaking of which, you did. Your Majesty Zenzilow, that's why you have to keep this to yourself."

Princess Bona exasperates to Prince Francesco, who lurks her voice with a pinned index finger on her mouth, precisely with the expression she just noticed.

"What are you going to do if you keep it from His Majesty Zenzilow! It ends when His Majesty finds out!

"Well, my lord Bona, calm down. It's nothing to say this in my position, but Prince Francesco's crush was so small that no one should have been able to hear it except me sitting face to face.

Let's talk a little bit more constructive here. "

At the same time, Yoshijiro laughs bitterly at the inner "you're young." If Yoshijiro's first words were just plain clear, rather, Princess Bona's reaction is what makes him a deadly source of information, which he does not realize.

Nevertheless, Princess Bona is only sixteen. Japan is a high school student. Even at the birth of a royal nobleman, a human being whose bargaining skills in poker face and adrift are acquired at a practical level this year can be considered a minority. Seeking that far from this seriously looking girl would be something called cruelty.

"Oh, yes, I'm sorry. I've seen something ugly..."

I looked back at my words and actions, and now Princess Bona, blushing, lowered her head. While

"Right. I can't help it if I'm sorry, and at any rate, let's make an effort to move this in the right direction.

How about that, Your Majesty? If you give me that treasure ball that Your Majesty has, I can drastically reduce the time it takes to create the magic artifact. "

Prince Francesco smiles so thickly, as if it had been the default route from the beginning.

(Oh, this is... after all, it's not just stupid, is it?

"I see, I understand the general circumstances. But what I don't understand is, why should it be Beeball - that treasure ball? We have heard that the two kingdoms are the best in the South when it comes to polishing technology for gems.

Isn't that technology enough to polish the crystal to a spherical shape?

Making an effort to keep nature and heightened vigilance from appearing on his face, Sanjiro inquired that way in as insignificant a tone as possible.

Prince Francesco shook his neck beside him in a daunting motion with an unshadowed smile.

"Terrible. That's a little too much buying up our country's jewelry processing technology.

Indeed, our country also has a fingerfolding gemstone processing technique on the continent, but it is impossible to polish transparent materials to that stunning true sphere. Hey, right, Bona?

Princess Bona, who was told the story, continued to grind for a long time, but eventually took one big sigh of sight of whether she had noticed it or not, and she starts talking.

"Yes, there is not exactly one technician in the two kingdoms today who makes it possible,. The polishing of gemstones depends on the artisan arm, so in the past some artisans have been able to polish crystals into practical spherical shapes.

Most of all, even such an exceptional craftsman seems to have finally left three or four in his lifetime because there are so few success stories and it takes time. It's not like so many craftsmen spend their craftsmen's lives just creating a true sphere. "

"I see."

Sanjiro nodded as impressed.

In fact, even in the history of the Earth, it was quite a few days later that it was possible to polish the hard minerals into a true sphere.

I don't know about Yoshijiro, but polishing minerals into a true sphere requires so much high skill.

In comparison, it is far easier to make a true sphere of beads. Unlike crystal grades and others, they don't 'polish to true spheres', because they create to true spheres from the beginning.

Ooh, if you cut the viscous liquid glass in the right amount and roll off the spiral slope like a slide in the pool, it's cold and spherical just fine when it falls down.

Regardless, in such an obnoxious way, the majority will be distorted things that cannot be called true spheres, but there you can make up for them in numbers and extract only the successful products.

In the corner of his head, Yoshijiro strikes a relationship and proceeds with the story as he ponders the "procedure for creating beeballs" he saw in a glass hall he went on a school trip to when he was in high school like that.

"That's definitely a precious item. But how effective is it when you actually use those treasure balls?

"It's..."

They still have resistance to the full release of the information beyond this period, Princess Bona says, but there is no such special mindset for a blonde prince sitting next to her.

"Yeah, that's totally different now. If that treasure ball you gave to Isabella before, the general conferral of the four great magic is a day, I guess. Colors and shapes are important for granting magic items.

Hey, Bona? Isn't that right?

How far are you willing to keep talking? At all, Princess Bona's expression, not a very good poker face from the beginning, is obviously drawn to Prince Francesco's chatter, who doesn't know to stop.

This already seems like if you want to shut Prince Francesco's mouth, you're going to have to order the soldiers of the escort to sue him for physical means.

Princess Bona, so enlightened, consolidates her determination. By explaining it out of your mouth more than this has happened, you should take a little bit of the lead in this conversation and somehow take it from a one-sided state of information to some form of give-and-take.

Princess Bona, who consolidated her determination to be such a jerk, nods with an openly manicured look when she gazes at Yoshijiro.

"... Yes. The closer 'color' is to colorless transparency, the better the street of magic is supposedly at the time of grant. If it doesn't even have to be colorless and transparent, it's a good street of magic compared to what it isn't. This is actually why gems are rarely valued as grantees.

And the shape... Oh, I'm sorry. I got obsessed and talked to him alone.

Is His Majesty Zenzilow also interested in these stories?

After releasing some information, the slightly deliberately chestnut-haired girl cut words by saying so.

Yoshijiro realizes that's all Princess Bona is trying to say in the dark.

(Oh, I see. You want me to say "interested" here. If you can say that, at least from here on out, you can take it from the form of "Prince Francesco spoke on his own" to the form of "I spoke because this one showed interest")

I don't need to ride you here any more than I realize what you're trying to do over there.

Nevertheless, even if we hunt down too much here, we could end up hitting the crack in our relationship with the two kingdoms of Sharova Zilbel.

A quick thought, Yoshijiro laughed a little too much and replied.

"No, it's a very interesting story. But that's why you're a little scared to put it in my ear. I'm so ashamed that I've finally woken up to my magical visibility abilities this past year, because I'm magically oblivious to people, I'm going to say a damn thing and disappoint you both.

Your Majesty Aura wouldn't have done that. "

If you mean, "In my position, you can't promise me consideration for getting any more information, can you? I ask Aura, the queen, to talk like that," he says.

The girl with chestnut hair, who correctly listened to Yoshijiro's unspoken words, deepened her grin as if she was a little hoarse, because it was a trivial, not so hard to understand metaphor.

"Really? If so, may we continue this story at a later date with His Majesty Aura?

"Yes, I will tell His Majesty that from my side."

I managed to get the conversation together. In front of Princess Bona, who can't hide the color of relief, Sanjiro, who keeps his poker face, is also so nervous and under pressure that, in his heart, the girl in front of him is no different.

I barely put it on the table because I've only had a little experience.

…………

Prince Francesco, on the other hand, watched the dialogue between Yoshijiro and Princess Bona, with Nico and an unholy smile, turning from his vain mouth until then, with a well-behaved and unspoken mouth.