Night. Lamplog family mansion study.

Blaze Lamplog was looking through a bunch of stacked paperwork.

As far as territorial management is concerned, we leave most of it to those who can be trusted.

Sometimes, however, there were matters that the Lords themselves had to approve.

Blaze speaks to a man who refrains beside him, holding his tired eyes to a task he doesn't really like.

"Edith"

"Oh, my God, Blades"

A liberation slave waiting for Blaze's job gave it back short as he blurted.

Difficult attitude never shown on the table. But this was the original relationship for the two of us.

Blaze asks without even looking at each other.

"No way, I guess you're still mad"

……

To Edith, who remained silent, Blaze exhaled in a frightened breath.

"Efa would have looked fine"

……

"He seems to be doing well over there. School he was right to do it. Didn't I?"

……

"It would also be pitiful to let them spend all this time in such a despicable land. That and your daughter."

"Don't put it that way. I like this land."

"You and Efa are different. He'd love to see the outside world, too."

"... my dissatisfaction is not that. I just can't stand your imitation of letting Efa go."

Edith never tells me to free Efa from her slavery status.

An example of keeping the Son of Liberation Slavery at hand as a slave is not uncommon. Often it is close to a hostage, so to speak, to make him work obediently as a subordinate even after liberation.

But between these two, there was another meaning.

"... not to mention attaching it to that abominable squire"

"Edith"

Blaze tells him to teach.

"Efa is neither that oblivion nor a bill to show your loyalty. Something that just disappears with old age, like you and my sentiments. Come on, let that kid walk his way."

"... hmm"

"And don't call Seika an abominable child. That's a normal kid now."

Blaze continues.

"I also attend school as an excellent student. I'm not causing any problems. After all, it wasn't the Demons. Even that Berta thinks just like me these days."

Blades himself was surprised by the attitude of his wife Berta, who showed Seika at the dinner table.

My wife has been afraid of Seika for a long time.

That mysterious magic always seemed to fear that it would do harm to Lufts and Glai.

But now the two sons have grown up splendidly, and Seika also has good relationships with various human beings in distant lands.

So maybe you feel like forgiving.

"Hmm... I'm still, that's creepy"

Edith tells me to throw up.

"I've been strangely grown up since I was a toddler, but the contents have still not changed"

"I don't think so. Faces directed at Efa and school friends are not like those directed at me, Berta or a servant"

"I don't know what you think, but where was the reason I put Efa on you?"

"... Edith"

Says in a voice where the blades are likely to sigh.

"Come on, why don't you admit it? If you look at it, you'll see. He said he liked Seika a lot."

……

"When Seika and I decided to go to school, I thought we'd be happy to report it to you."

"... chip!

"I'm a father too. I know how you feel."

"You don't know what you're doing without your daughter."

"Hmm... well, I guess so"

Blaze smiles and tells Edith.

"Seika is a good person. Can't you trust what I'm saying? Edith."

"... no, let's believe it"

Edith answers with a sigh.

"You're a strange man. I don't seem to be interested in other people, I only have eyes to see."

"Observation eyes are mandatory for researchers. And, surprisingly, sociability."

"As far as you're concerned, I don't think so. When it comes to sociability, why don't you buy more of Her Royal Highness's interlocutors and get out?"

Said blaze gives a slightly bitter look.

Blades, too, to be honest, didn't like Fiona.

I'm not sure what my young daughter thinks in the first place, etc., but I didn't know, among other things, how to deal with the Holy Princess as if I were even dreaming in that daydream.

Fortunately, I am often with my own samurai and Glai, who has decided to become the Holy Knight, so I have no curtain to come out of, though it is helpful.

But on the other hand.

Blaze felt that her stay in the land meant something.

The Holy Empress is not the girl who looks and acts as she says.

Otherwise, there should be no back shield whatsoever and we should not be able to show our presence so far from that state, which was furthest from the throne and so forth.

It's probably true that I wanted to meet a daughter named Amu, who is also an international brilliant student at school.

But that's not all.

Whether the hidden purpose is something, information, opportunity, or another person... I don't know that. But it should be any of them.

And I'm sure I don't know that.

However, the Empress serves her purpose in her (slight) ignorance and leaves.

I had such a feeling about the blades.

I don't need to pry into anything extra.

We just have to spend the next few days doing nothing.

Blaze, after silence, opens his mouth.

"Are you going to be there for dinner tomorrow? Taking a meal with my daughter..."

"I should have told you there would be a dinner party tomorrow with the Chamber of Commerce executives coming from afar. Don't try to get me involved. If you don't do your job as lord, at least do your job as countess."

To unexpected honesty, Blaze sighed deeply.