While Dolan and Selina, with Selibear's permission, are calling for the Baron Mission to Bern, standing slightly away from Jalla's village, Seribear quickly prepares to skip instructions and welcome the delegation. Was progressing.

Originally, we had already decided to invite the delegation to the village in advance, so we had almost completed the preparation, so it was possible for the Dorans to go out and return in a short time.

The villagers, who had previously ordered not to leave the house, were given permission to go outdoors and to decorate the road following the accommodations prepared for the mission. I have.

Originally, with the arrival of a large number of men from other places following the return of Serina, the village of Jalula had a little festival-like atmosphere after the news arrived, and the majority of unmarried Lamia were floating. I have.

Seribea had to tighten the discipline several times so that he could not be lifted too far.

"You're arranging the hotel as fast as you can, for the first time customers.

Remember that all the mission horses are golems, so you don't need to feed or water. Prepare what you don't need and make sure you don't miss out on what you need. ''

In a room where she had just met with Doran, Lamia and her spouses responded almost immediately to Seribea's instructions, and the one who left the room and the one who entered the room changed violently.

Although Seribear holds the status of Queen of Jarula, successive queens are sometimes elected and are not as authoritative as kings in monarchies.

Even more, it is just a title for making a small society with a population of around 1,000 work efficiently, and it is one of the mechanisms, so it is a wording for those who have seen the responses from those who are ordered by Seribear .

"I've arranged the inn. I've been here with your assistant, Dr. Doran, Serina, and the great missionaries. Rooms and meals are ready!"

Lamia, slightly older than Selina, returned in a slightly frivolous tone. When the report is over, hand the paper of the material you have in hand to another Lamia and leave the room.

Although there is still work to be done, the surrounding nations would be blinded if they weren't dealing with the Queen.

Neither Lamia nor Seribear herself cares about such an attitude, and Seribear listens to what to check next.

In front of Doran and others, they all take a fairly fearful attitude, but it would be pointless as long as there is Serina who knows the inside.

"Also, the choice of a mate has given me some understanding over the years, but I don't want to force me! It's out of my captivating evil eye."

"Is there a way to invite after drinking a lot of alcohol?"

"Don't let them drink so stunningly. If you're confident and if you're a Lamia, don't shoot your opponent in front of you, right? Yes, next! "

"This is a list of the mission guides. They are all in place. The mission is ready to go as soon as they enter the village. The guards are well staffed. Chimeras and Even if Wyvern invades, no one alone will be injured. ''

"Okay, if you affirm that, make it happen. In recent times, the Wyverns are quiet, but never be careful.

The missions are tired of traveling through the dark wilderness. Arrange meals for dinner with as little burden on the gastrointestinal tract as possible. Don't forget to prepare a soft drink. "

After several Q & A sessions and status reports and confirmations, Seribear breathed a breath. There is no other than Seribear in the room, and everyone is scattered around the village to do their job.

Just like the Bern side, unlike the forest of Ente, is the first time to negotiate with Llama-based Jarula, which is a monster, the Jalura side is also the first to have full-scale negotiations with a group of human species as large as Bern. That's it.

When the news from Serina, which had just been sent out to the outside world, became known to the village, it was as if a storm had occurred, and it took much time before the delegation arrived to calm it. It was wasted.

Jalula, a racial group that is also a powerful tribe-wise wizard, is a powerful force in the Mores Mountains.

However, Jalula has its own problems, such as its low endurance, difficulty in increasing the population as a characteristic of its species, and its tendency to become closed due to the hidden village of the Mores Mountains, which has a small cultivated area. .

The visit of the Bern delegation this time will not be a solution to all of these problems, but it will be a notch that will make a big step forward in solving them, and at the same time a big turning point that has the potential to create new problems was.

For Seribear, it was a great pleasure to find her girlfriend as her mother, but at the same time it was completely unexpected to return her unmistakable decision as Jalula's chief. Not get.

After confirming that there was no other eye, the door of the room was knocked small, followed by a cool man's voice, as if seeing the moment when Seribear exhaled.

"Seribear, can I enter?"

"Siegbelt? Yes, please come in."

Entering the room is Siegbelt, Seliva's mate and Selina's father. She has the same golden hair as Selina, and her blue eyes with intelligent light are very similar to her daughter.

Considering the age of Selina, she may be younger in her late thirties or early forties, but her gentle appearance reminiscent of a calm atmosphere and a warm sunshine seemed to be young at the age of ten.

On the left is a tray with two cups and a teapot.

"I can't hide the fatigue of you, I'm not sure. The position of the guards is fine. I want you to be relieved in that regard. Adult dragons are impossible, but a group of Wyverns can manage it."

"Yes, I'm not worried about that."

Siegbelt is part of Jalula's security. At first glance, it looks like a masculine man, but she has a good skill in using all sorts of weapons, and she is also good at auxiliary magic.

"And that's the post"

After receiving the cup presented by Siegbelt who came to the side of Seribear, Seribear feels at ease with the scent rising from the cup.

A long-term husband understands what his wife wants in this situation. Thankfully, if you put your mouth on the amber liquid in the cup, the subtle sweetness of honey will delight your tongue.

"Thank you, I took a break."

"Oh, that was good, but it was a pleasure that Selina came back much sooner than she thought, but it was no doubt that the one she brought was a nobleman, and that Jarla's village itself No one was thinking about applying for an exchange. ''

"As far as I know, it's a story I've never seen before in Jarula. I wasn't a stranger at all because Bern had been paying attention since the previous pioneering project ..."

"If you go north from the village of Bern, you will inevitably be more likely to encounter children traveling on Jarula. Did you hear that the former queens were also struggling to deal with them?"

"Yes. Unlike the Romar Empire, the Arkrest Kingdom was not purely humanistic, and I knew that there were many inhabitants and that there was interaction with the Arakne settlement, so it was compared among the neighboring countries Someone who was easy to contact.

And if we expand our cultivation direction into the dark wilderness, it will be an opportunity for us to greatly expand our sphere of life.

It's hard to get into the existing prints of the Kingdom of Arkrest, but if you've worked together to develop a new territory, you'll have little resistance to accepting us "

"Because this time I and your Serina are beside the chief on the other side, you will be able to talk deeper and more calm than before, and everyone in the village will hopefully. Acting on.

I'm sure I still don't have enough information on the Baron's territory, but I don't think it's bad to consider it positively. ''

"It's important to know how far you can get information from your opponent's chest.

Mermaids and lizards have already interacted with them, and although their achievements are already overlapping, they do not know them directly.

Even if everyone in the village seems frustrated, I will go carefully. ''

"It's the right decision for you in crisis management, Seribear. So let's leave Jarula's representative here and talk about it as a parent. Is there a substitute? "

"Your alternative is fine.

"Oh, what did Dolan bring to you, what did she see? How did she interact with him? But they were talking with each other in front, and deep. You still don't know how far?

"But Selina misses Doran very much. She was desperately trying to be in front of us, or an official mission from Baron Bern, but I couldn't see it. It was not something.

Do you have the impression that Doran is holding it up and accepting it? She's about the same age as Serina, but she's much more calm and no older.

You may think of Serina like a handsome little sister or something, because of your natural disposition or because of your growing environment. ''

"We can't deny that we spoiled and overgrown Serina. It's inevitable to treat Serina like a young person. It's childish that you and I both are I was worried the most when I left.

When the kids leave, they are prepared to see or be killed in the worst case of any parent, but I'm really reassured that Serina didn't. "

"That's me, too. That child has a lot of hesitation, so even if I remove my feelings as a parent, it's the worst child out of the way ...

`` The magical arm was counted from the top earlier, but the temptation was all over the poor and it was a child who doubted that it was really Lamia. ''

Seribear's assessment was a correct assessment of Selina before leaving Jarula's village.

Selina is a little timid, but she grew up only in the Mores Mountains, where countless life threats exist. There is a sweet spot.

"I'm worried about Dolan, whom she finds so well. It is certain that she is competent given his position, but he is unlikely to be here."

"Well, that would be the first Lamia example of a well-established child to marry herself to another land.

To be honest, I was determined to send my daughter to someone else, but I wasn't prepared to leave for someone else.

"Selina has overestimated our surprises, but with the exchange with Baron Bern, and after some time, it's not unusual for Lamia to go out of Jarla and make a family. .

`` It's not at all possible for my child to cause a big change in the way Jarla is. ''

"Still, as a parent, the most important thing is that Selina will be happy. If being with him is a happiness for Selina, and if Dolan is the person to whom Selina can be assigned, I want to send it out. ''

"Yes, it would be good if you were such a partner. It is a matter of concern not only as a mother but also as a queen."

*

When we re-entered Jalula with the delegation waiting outside of Jarula, the people who had been trapped inside the house went out and lined up, turning our enthusiasm at us. He is whispering with his neighbors and acquaintances.

The appearance of Lamias is prominent, but there are also figures of heterogeneous men and young children who are their spouses, so it is about 7 to 3 ratio.

Lamia's gaze is directed at unmarried young male members who make up almost all members of the delegation, and glances including color and incense shaking the man's core unintentionally become a great stimulus to the members' hearts one after another. Is given.

The young members-I'm not much different in age as a human-are upset by their red eyes, despite the difference in concentration, being challenged by the mysterious gaze of Lamia who has the lower body of a non-human snake . Well, they want to be a bridge between Jarula and Bern.

Some of the delegation members, including me, Serina, Neogeo and Shumal, will prepare accommodation at the hall where she met Selina, the mother of Selina, but the general delegation members will stay at a house near Tate. It is planned.

Even as the members of the escort leave their members, they continue to divide themselves into two parts, and the gaze of curiosity and interest continues to be scattered here and there, and some members of the members are still restless. Hmmm, was Lamia too stimulating for a younger man than expected? If you look at Serina sitting next to you in a carriage-

"Hm, is it too strong?"

"What is it?"

"It's easy to see that Lamia is beautiful when she looks at Selina. I judge that it was too intense for the members of the group to be selected this time."

After all, it is the hometown of Serina. Selina, the mother of Selina, is also a very beautiful woman, and the people she sees after entering the village are all high-quality women. Lamia's ecology makes it necessary to do so, but it's no big deal.

"Because it's Lamia, otherwise it would be difficult to leave offspring ..."

My frank words were that Serina was completely accustomed to it, and even though I was indirectly praised as being very beautiful, she was no longer stuttering.

This is a lonely thing. Hummun. Well, the reaction that dyes my cheeks a bit red is just too cute, so let's be satisfied now. It is important to know that everything is sufficient. Hmmm.

While I and Selina were having a private conversation, a bit hidden from the members outside the carriage, the line of the mission arrived at the destination Tate, this time with both Neogio and Shmal, Seribear. We are greeted by lords.

An elliptical desk was placed in the center of the room, which was larger than the room that was just passed, and it may have changed according to this increased number of people.

"Aide, you can see that some of the men in security are military or similar."

It was Neogeo who spoke so shortly before the negotiations began, a short time before calm down. There is only a former mercenary leader who is experienced, and it is smart.

`` If it was just a connection with a mercenary or a fallen knight somewhere, why not call me? ''

"That's right. It looks like the quality of the training I would have received somewhat is high. There are more than forty of them.

We have features that we do not see here. The atmosphere is different for both Romar and Takarato, and it may be mountaineers or people who live beyond the Mores Mountains.

However, it doesn't match the appearance of the mountain people we hear. They have more tanned skin, more rugged jaws and shallower carvings than these people, and are said to be the ancestors of ethnic origins from the west of the dark wilderness.

On the other hand, they have a nose and a sharp tip. The lower jaw is thin and sharp, and the width of the eyes and eyebrows is very narrow. Obviously the race is different from the mountain people. ''

"Beyond the Mores Mountains. If so, you will be from an ethnic or nation you haven't met yet, but the villages of Jalula are far away. Then would Serina's father be the same age? ''

Do you think there is something? If you turn your gaze to NeoGeo instead of telling it, on a real battlefield or in life, a man who has piled up much more than me will mutter and pat his chin.

Well, the other side of the mountains. It is a candidate for the base of unknown powers that Lynette encountered at Gora Doo. It shouldn't be too easy to connect, but is Jalura important as a transit point to look across the mountains?

Aside from now whether it will be good or bad, maybe your father may have a secret even Serina himself does not know. Hmm, it's not a very peculiar pedigree, and I think it's good if you don't think too much, but it will add more uncertain information.

Before the suspicions swirling in my chest were cleared, we smiled here with the materials that Seribea, who had increased to four people in the same way, handed over the materials that had been given earlier and the materials on that side Float.

Well, is the man by the side of Seribea the father of Selina? I didn't say a voice, but that wasn't a mistake, as Serina by my side reacted with a small bow.

"I would like to introduce you again, Seribear. This is the commander of the Knights of Bern, Neogio Cyshade, and the Deputy Foreign Minister Sumar Hashtar. We will be conducting the negotiations with four people including these two people."

"I'm going to see you first. I'm Jerla's current Queen Seribear. Please be kind."

She smiled so softly that she was so incredibly shiny as Selina's mother that she couldn't seem wonder why Selina was so bad at temptation. Well, that's also a good thing about Serina.

"We have examined the story presented at the previous meeting very well, and we all agree that it is very meaningful.

And everyone has changed their eye color, even with respect to the wonderful items you send us. The people of Bern are good at seeing what others want. ''

As in the case of the Lizard and the Huala people, this time, as in this case, we chose something that would be hard to find in the village of Jalula and still be interesting.

Because they are hidden villages in the Mores Mountains, they consider Lamia, whose main means of self-defense is magic, mainly in clothing and medicines that are difficult to obtain. The horse golem we've been pulling is also a useful workforce.

The village itself can only produce its own clothing, but it can be obtained from other places.

Due to recent attention, the village of Bern is extremely geographical at the northern end of the kingdom, but a variety of goods are rapidly flowing in from various parts of the country. It can be purchased inside.

In particular, there are many merchants who are scattered sparks day and night aiming at the status of the merchant, and the village of Bern is increasing every day. Isn't it a long day from village to town or town to city?

"I'm happy if you liked it. I'll do my best from my Lord."

"Yes, it was more violent for us, and we were told earlier that our delegates had sent discouraged gazes to the missions they were brought to. I apologize to you.

Those young and healthy men are too dazzling for us, and for young people it is a treasure beyond human size jewelry. ''

Uhu-fu-fu, Ahaha, and I and Seribea were so sobering as I do, and they exchanged a laugh that felt strangely dry, and I saw Serina, Neogeo, and Shmal with a face that pulled somewhere I was

I can't afford to be honest in front of Selina's parents. I want you to watch it warmly even if you run a bit odd!

Seribear and I have a smile and begin to exchange constructive opinions. Considering the time, it takes about a couple of hours until the feast as a welcome sign.

After the feast, you will have a private talk about the marriage between your parents and Selina.

By the way, at the current talks, Jarula seemed to be thinking about overcoming their current situation, and I was personally impressed with the feeling.

We will receive a formal answer at a later date, but it is likely that we will accept the proposal for dozens of people that we proposed here.

I can't compare what political negotiations are like because I don't know of any other examples, but as far as Neogeo and Shmal's reaction is concerned, it's not that outrageous or out of the ordinary. It seems.

However, when it comes to what I'm going to talk about, both Neo-Geo and Shumal had to be very careful beforehand if they had to be careful.

"Seribea, we spoke to the villages of Jalula to make a good friendship with you, but we have to tell you now. There was something that didn't work. ''

It is foolish to convey your intentions and information to fools, but sometimes foolishness is the best option. Considering the current situation and the relationship with the other party, it is better to choose a fool.

But it would have been undeniable if it had been said that our arrogant option was to move forward.

"In order to build a partnership with as many people as possible about the invasion coming from the unified dark wilderness, and to intercept this to destroy their destruction and control."

When everyone in the room understood what I had spoken, the result was a silence as if the sound had disappeared.