About an hour later.

Breaking through the courtyard of the mansion, Ichiya and Baretta snuck back outside the room.

Open the window and enter the room through the window frame.

The lights in the room were out and the fireplace flames lit the room slightly.

"Oh, welcome back"

Zirconia in a dress was sitting on the couch as the two looked in the direction of their voices.

Apparently, he was napping, and he's stretching his back as he bites off his yawn.

"Were you out of town?

"Yeah, yeah. Join Mr. Barletta for a festive sightseeing."

"Well, that's good. But I also wanted you to speak to me before you went. Already in your spare time."

"Ha, ha. I mean, can I stay here? Still in the middle of a feast..."

"I showed my face to the first greeting, so that's okay. It's Nalson and Leese who are here to help, so you probably won't be able to do it without me."

I don't care what you think, but Zirconia didn't care about the good gaze, she looked at Barletta behind her.

"Oh, yeah, yeah. Ella was looking for you."

"What, is Mr. Eira here?

"Yeah. He seemed in a lot of a hurry, so I was wondering if he might have a rush."

"Okay. I'm gonna go for a second."

As Barletta was taking off her coat and paying for the snow on her head, Concon, and the door knocked.

At the same time, Zirconia hid herself behind the couch.

To Valletta, a decent one, Zirconia puts her index finger on her lips and poses as "shut up".

"Master Kazura, are you there?

"Ah, yes. Go ahead."

When Ichiyoshi replied, excuse me, Eira came into the room.

"Great, back to you...... Ah, Master Barletta!

When Eira found Baretta, she had a blatantly relieved look.

"Master Liese is waiting for you at the banquet hall. Hurry up and get ready."

"What, is Master Reese here? And the banquet hall..."

"Uh, anyway, they told me to hurry up and bring them... you know, that's where I'm nodding... is it Master Zirconia?

When Eira said so, Zirconia's shoulders rocked tremendously.

In the mirror behind Barletta, he was just nodding in the shadow of the couch.

To Zirconia, who gently peered into her face, Ayla lowered her head with a pepper.

"Did you come here… hurry up and return to the venue. Ladies and gentlemen, we are looking for you."

"But I'll be back in a little while. I'm not feeling well."

"Instructions are flying throughout the mansion from Master Narson, saying, 'Drag me, but bring me here'. Well, you seem a little angry... so you'd better get back soon..."

"Ugh... ok"

Zirconia stood up in a semi-dead motion and was taken by Eira to leave the room with Barletta.

Ichigo takes off his coat, pays for the snow, and takes a breath.

"You're kind of hungry...... we'll all be busy and you want to tinkle and eat even frozen foods"

Rub a cuckoo ringing belly, remove the frozen taco yaki from the freezer and set it in the microwave.

Distracted by the driving sound of an inorganic microwave called Voon, I could hear the glorious music from a faraway ballroom slightly.

It reminds me of the hustle and bustle of the city I had touched earlier, and I feel sexually lonely.

"... let's just take a peek in the cooking area. I want to be where people are."

He left the other octopus yaki in the range, and Ichiyoshi left the room behind.

Dozens of minutes later.

Barletta was taken to the ballroom on the ground floor by Eira.

Wear a large open party dress around your neck, pinch your hem and walk fast.

I don't feel comfortable because I'm not used to wearing it.

"Um, I don't think it's a good idea for me to go to a feast seat after all... and what should I do when I'm new to this..."

"I'm sorry to say. Master Reese really said that... I think Mr. Reese will measure up well around you, so if you go with it, you'll be fine."

To the bewildered Barletta, Eira says with a heartless look.

Even when she was dressed, "Why herself," Barletta asked, "Eira was also cloudy, honestly not being able to tell me why.

Through the hallway, Eira opens a large door leading to the hall.

As soon as possible, the hustle and bustle of people talking to each other and the music of gorgeous strings jumped into my ear.

The room, lit by many candlestick lights, was full of men and women dressed in brilliant costumes.

As the two stepped into the hall, several gaze gathered at Barletta, who was in the near field.

"I don't mind to the extent that I'll see you when I see you. Follow me."

"Yes, sir"

Ella whispered to Barletta, nervous, as she sewed among the people and started walking.

Baretta follows it perfectly so as not to leave a gap with Eira.

"Hey, what house are you on?

"No, I don't know. What about you?"

"I don't either."

"Or cute..."

To the whispers of the different people, Barletta follows Eira even more nervously and naggingly.

Fortunately, they could not speak, and the two proceeded to the back of the hall.

I walked a little and reached beneath Reese, surrounded by several men.

There seems to be some excitement in the story, and everyone is having fun exchanging words around Reese.

"Dear Liese, I have brought Barletta with me"

Reese looked back at Eira's call and smiled when she stopped looking at Baretta.

Everyone on the spot turns their gaze, and Barletta subsides with nervousness and embarrassment.

"Good, you're here. I'm sorry I called you out of the blue."

"Yes, no. It's okay."

"Dear Leese, what about your woman?

"This is my friend Barletta. I couldn't. I asked him to come to the feast."

Softly put his hands on his back, Barletta rushed to correct her posture.

"It's Barletta. Best regards,"

When Barletta lowered her head with a pepper, the men also gave their names a uniform thank you.

"Excuse me, but what house is Miss Barletta in?

"Oh, she's a civilian, not a nobleman."

When Reese said so, the men looked at each other in a uniformly surprising manner.

"Invite just a civilian daughter to this feast?

"Yes, because it's a fun feast, I want her, my best friend, to join me."

"... Hmm, Master Leese has a lot of interaction with citizens from day to day. I don't know if you even have a friend you can't care about."

"I will impress you with the breadth of your nostrils, which you will be treated with indivisibility."

They praise Reese with their mouths, as if to go with Reese's story.

Barletta felt uncomfortable somewhere and dropped her eyes on the floor.

"Well, I'm going to pinch something with this girl, aren't I? Ladies and gentlemen, let me talk to you later."

When Reese said so and made the meeting, he pulled Barletta's hand and left the place behind.

"Thanks for coming. Let's go outside for a little while."

"Yes."

Release the hand that was connected and head for the exit leading to the hallway.

But every time I walked a little, someone called Reese, and she stopped me many times.

Reese greeted each of them politely and repeated that a couple of words would break up.

After a while he finally left the hall and moved to a separate room for rest reserved exclusively for Reese.

Reese lowered her hips on the couch and sighed deeply.

"Oh, I finally got out. I've been talking all evening without standing up."

"Oh, so you called me"

"Hmm... I'm not really"

When Reese said so, she stuck her torso out to Barletta, who sat on the couch opposite her.

"It's been quite a while since I let you go and get me, but where were you?

"Oh, well... I've been in the dossier room the whole time"

He stared at me, and Baretta lied.

Reese does not return words immediately, and a slight time silence flows.

"... it was. Alone all the time?

"Yes, sir"

"Hmmm......"

Reese slipped her gaze from Barletta's eyes to its chest.

There was a copper pendant swinging that I had bought a good one earlier at the trinket store.

"I thought you'd like that, too. I didn't know there was a shop selling the same thing in the mansion's library."

"Ugh... but I can't help it"

He was quickly nursed and Barletta lowered her head at first sight.

"Ah," Reese sighed deliberately, leaving her back on the couch with an exaggerated trick.

"Have you been out of town with Kazla?

"Yes......"

"Fine, it's a festive date for two. Well, you'd think I'd be a chance in the same position, and it's natural to invite him out."

……

"Hmm, what's wrong?

"Yes, no"

You felt something in Barletta's atmosphere, and Liese turns a lot of gaze.

Baretta panicked and looked for a topic to deceive.

"Oh, um... has Master Leese ever been to the store this pendant was selling?

"Yeah. I stopped by when I went out with Kazla before. So they bought this."

Say so and let me pinch the pendant on your chest.

A golden pendant, inspired by a bird stuck in a branch.

"Isn't she cute? I fell in love at first sight at the store."

"Yes, it's so cute. You wear it all the time."

"Yeah, it's my favorite. That flower pendant over there is good too, right? A perfectly polished copper workmanship is so beautiful. Either this or this, it bothered me so much."

"Was it? Why didn't you do this?

"Look, I see a lot of people. It's not convenient to have a copper pendant on your neck at that time."

"It's not convenient...... do you mean it has to be expensive?

"Yeah."

With a seemingly complicated look, Reese nods.

"When what you're wearing is cheap, that's all some people you meet fool around with. Should I say I can fuck you?"

……

"Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't mean it in a bad way! Talking about some people like that!

To Valletta, who has shut up, Reese hastily explains.

"If it's something Kazura would buy for me, don't replace it. I always want to wear it. Well, Kazura was the first one to find it and tell me," This is cute, "and I really thought it'd be better that way."

"Oh, really..."

Barletta pinched a swinging pendant on her own chest and dropped her eyes at it.

Reese is relieved to see how happy she is at any rate.

"It fits that dress perfectly, too. Speaking of which, were the dress sizes okay? Not tough?"

"Ah, yes. My chest is just a little tight and everything else is fine"

……

"... ah! Kid, the only time I was tough was when I wore it! It's just the right size if you get used to it!

"Yes..."

He chatted sloppily for about half an hour afterwards, and Leese stood up "let alone" when the conversation broke.

"Oh, it's time to go back. Why don't you join Barletta? I'm gonna stay standing until dawn, though."

"Yes, no, I wish I could go back to my room..."

"Right," said Barletta, grinning bitterly.

"Okay, you can go back. I'm sorry I called you in."

"No...... uh, good luck with that. Welcome."

"Mmm, thanks."

Leese smiled at Barletta, who broke her hips and thanked her, leaving the room.

Meanwhile, around that time.

Alondo walked down the unpopular hallway with a bright red face.

The aristocrats who greeted me lumped me with booze and managed to poke me through the hall that I couldn't do any more.

Arond isn't as good as Liese either, but he gets greetings from many nobles at the New Year's Feast.

And each time, well, one drink at a time, I'm advised to drink, but Arond was more inclined to be drunk than the others.

Because Alondo has his face at dinner parties all over his work pattern, where the motto is to drink up all the recommended liquor without ever saying no.

A long-distance banquet like this one was no exception, and all the recommended liquor had been drunk up.

"Damn, you're kidding me. I would make you drink too much of anything... but I haven't even said hello to Master Narson yet..."

Nevertheless, Arondo does not have a miracle liver that is rumored to be converting liquor into brine, as Leese did.

Quite resistant to alcohol, but if you keep drinking, this is how the limit comes.

The harassment from other officials who were jealous of their sudden emergence, calling them 'celebratory liquors', was the main cause of drinking too much, as they had been entrusted with a large amount of logistical work in recent times.

Whip your fluttering body and continue down the hallway looking for an empty rest room while suppressing nausea.

The door in the room immediately behind me opened properly as I passed some of the rooms with the lower bills marked 'In Use'.

Looking back, there was a havel in formal attire.

"... brother? Are you all right, sir? Her face is bright red."

"Oh, Havel. As you can see, it's not much of a problem. I'm sorry, let me rest in that room with you..."

It was Arond who loosened his expression on his brother's figure and tried to say so, but suddenly turned his eyesight into something sharp.

I made sure to hide behind Havel's back because I realized Marie was watching this one.

"... Hey, Havel. What the hell were you doing here with him?

Habel looked surprised when she suddenly asked her brother in a bottom-cold voice.

Marie looks frightened, shrinking herself behind the havel.

"Come on, man. How many times do I have to tell you it's a disgrace to the house? I didn't think you'd be so stupid."

"What is it all of a sudden? What do you think?

"Aah!? Master Habel!!

Blocking Havel's words, Arond punched that cheek thoroughly as he stuffed it against Havel.

Marie rushes over to the havel that blew up inside the room.

"I didn't think so, but that's what happened! I didn't know you were like your father!

"Chi, no! This is what I say to Master Habel…"

"Shut up. Don't make a deaf voice."

"Huh..."

Guilty, Marie shook her shoulders and stiffened.

Habel stood up soaking blood from her mouth and glanced at Arond as she stepped forward to shelter Marie.

"Marie is not ashamed or anything like that. Please withdraw your statement."

"... what?

Arond entered the room and shut the door abusively.

I can't imagine from my usual serene expression, staring at Havel with angry eyes.

"He's got slave blood on him. How can you not know how dishonorable it is that blood of slaves mixes in the lineage?

Havel did not move to Arond's questioning and stared straight back at him.

"Isn't Marie a brother and sister with the same father as us? Stop hitting Marie so hard for reasons you can't do anything about it in person"

"Oh, my God!"

Arond was furious and hit Havel again.

But he flutters because of the booze and is easily avoided by the havel he was in.

"Brother, please calm down. Don't move like that with a drunk body..."

"Ugh!

Havel gently avoids the fist of Alond, who has been beaten again.

Alond gained too much momentum and fell flashly involving the round table that had been placed.

But as soon as he woke up, he hit himself with Havel's hips.

He fell to the floor so that the two of them could hang together, and Alond shook up his fist as he rode horseback on Havel and grabbed the chest barn.

"Ah, brother! Please don't! Were you out of your mind?!?

"Though you'd be the one who's out of your mind!

Arond yelled and waved his fist down Havel's cheek.

A gutsy, dull sound sounded, blood flowing from Havel's mouth again.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing about the house?!? They're laughing in the shadows because you guys treat this guy special, 'The Rouson Family Is Slavery'!! Not until you..."

"Stop!!

Marie clinging to her right arm, which Alondo swung up again.

"Don't touch me!

"Please! No more!!

"What the...!?

Arond tried to shake Marie off, realizing that her right arm wouldn't even move.

Poking through that momentary gap, Havel thrust Arond with both hands.

"Gu... and you..."

As Arond raised his face with his buttocks on, he met Havel, who was awake while Marie supported him.

Havel has a chilled eye and stares at Arrondo.

"You...!

Arond ate his teeth so hard that he heard a lot of noise that he stared at Havel.

And he stood up flustered, and left the room intact.