Sword of the Philosopher

We leave the inn, follow Amy's lead and walk out of town. About ten days each way...... the reason for this seems to be due to the fact that it is on the periphery.

"I'll always use the carriage to get around"

"Do you borrow it somewhere?

Asking Ami in a normal tone that she no longer needed to be polite, she shook her neck from left to right.

They're parking the carriage.

"... you're ready to be around. But what would you have done if we had twenty or something?

"That would mean just a small number, wouldn't it? It's about twenty days back and forth, so it's a good idea to have them wait."

The journey is tough with such a number of people, and maybe I didn't particularly consider it here... but she's right, the carriage was moored at the town entrance. Getting in on it...... the interior feels a lot more luxurious.

"I hope you enjoy your journey from here."

She went to your desk with such comments. And hold the reins, she runs the horse.

A small window exists in your podium, which can be opened and closed for conversation. If it's closed, you don't have a problem having a conversation? The window is now open and I can talk to her.

"I have some questions for you, and I'll take them, okay? Although I don't know much about this case."

Ami tells me as if to read my mind. So I exhaled small,

"Then I ask you a question... do you know what Mr. Forna, the master of the mansion, is doing?

"For once. I'm a lord on the face of it, but that's only the minimum I need, and then I'm immersed in research."

"… the minimum required,"

It's not a very good way to work from the people.

"Once you say no, you have a better reputation from the people, don't you? Forna has a good policy of banging her research without a complaint."

"You mean the ability to govern is high."

"Instead, the details like the cost of repairing the mansion are shredded,"

... You feel less concerned about yourself than you feel about cutting yourself.

"Saving money like that is insignificant as an age cut, so many of them are the result of Forna's good reign,"

"Then, well... there are other servants like you?

"There are a few maids dedicated to the mansion. But no one is involved in Forna's research."

"Maybe you're doing it alone?

"Yes, it is."

So you're saying that research on star gods recognizes how dangerous things are?

"... so you don't want the world to know. Then you know why Mr Forna is doing such research and why?

"You were already immersed in research at the stage when I entered the mansion and started working. I didn't pry deep... I could just feel the paranoia of that one."

"Paranoid?"

"It's the number of materials. The library you were visiting… there are materials that just don't compare to that"

"... where did you get that material from?

"I don't know that either. It's just that even if you fished for the surrounding ruins, it's too much."

... you mean you didn't just look around the ruins around the territory?

"When I spoke to the oldest ginseng who works at the mansion, he said he existed at the time he entered this mansion, so he probably had been looking into it a long time before becoming a lord. Or a handover from a former lord, or something?

... If it had been the former, a person named Forna would have looked around the ruins as a scholar before becoming a lord... I can only imagine the amount of material, but much more than the library I was in... If it had been, I might have taken to this continent instead of to other continents.

The latter... I mean, if it was a takeover from a former lord, do you have a history of eyeing what the former lord is researching Forna and giving me lords instead of providing material?

"How old is a person named Forna, by the way?

"I didn't ask, but you look youthful. It's more like there's a mix of blood that's not human."

"Like a dragon?

"I don't know because I haven't heard the details..."

Hmm, does that mean a long-lived species? If a human has a life longer than the life expectancy of life, he can also nod that he has traveled to various places to look around.

"And then, speaking of which, one more thing"

"Oh, you'll see. Male or female, right?

I'll preface my question, Amy. So Reese leaned her neck,

"Didn't you get it?

"Voices alone... I couldn't even imagine my age, and somehow it felt like I had no grasp"

"Right. I think the same thing about working... gender is female. It's just that I'm often seen as a man from the looks of it. There's no such thing as a woman."

"You mean someone who doesn't dress or do something like that"

"Yeah, exactly."

If you are even a lord, there will also be a need to do various folds and things externally, something that seems quite concerned with outfits and such......

"If it was a public place, Forna says to herself that there are people who sometimes wear beautiful dresses but don't look as good as they do"

I don't know more and more about humans... but if we stick each other in the face, we'll see.

"I wonder if this is about Forna's profile I can talk to you about. Any other questions?

"Right...... in this story, there's one person involved. I hear Mr. Forna had a question for you, but do you know anything about it?

"Hmm, because someone in the maid would do the customer response if I wasn't around... I don't remember, and maybe someone else put them through the mansion?

"... if you were just the first person to visit, you wouldn't go through. At least we need to know each other. Then you know something, too?

"I don't know... maybe it's a friend of mine from before I did the lord. Then Master Forna should get his name through."

Hmm, that doesn't seem to be a possibility from Forna's words and actions... but if you don't know anything, asking any more isn't going to give you an answer here. I've decided to end the question.