The Adventure of the Boy With a Mind of a Middle-aged Man

The premises of the Millard family turned out to be gorgeous compared to the surrounding private houses.

A well-maintained garden, a flowerbed.There is even a pond for watching carefully.All the buildings were glass, and it was no exaggeration to say that they were newly built.

"Ugh!

The cliff's grip and the sound of biting his back teeth at the beginning.

As Pruitt strokes Cliff's head from behind,

"We're always on your side.So you can do whatever you want!

Cliff looked back at Pruitt with a dazed face, but without waving his hand away.

"What happened suddenly?Not like you. "

Ask while calling out.

"Oh, wow. I feel like I have to do something like this."

I see. But thank you.

When things like anger and confusion disappear from Cliff's eyes, he starts walking again.

"Welcome home, Cliff Boy."

A gray-haired man with sharp eyes wearing a butler's uniform who greets him at the front door.

"Sebastian, long time no see. Where's Father?I'm sorry to bother you, but I need to talk to you. "

A gray-haired man, Sebastian, stared at the cliff with his eyes open, but straightened his posture and put his hand on his chest to greet him.

"I understand."

Guide Mia and the others to the living room and disappear.

After waiting in the living room for a while, a gentle uncle came in.This man will be Cliff's father, Rice Millard, the current master of the Millard Realm.

"I'm home.Father. "

Cliff interprets lightly, not nicely.Cliff must have this attitude, and only someone he doesn't trust at all.

Cliff frequently talked about the nobility after Mr. Shirabe's class.Perhaps for Cliff, his father was a man of faith who desperately dealt with a poor territory called the Millard Territory.

However, in view of the current state of the territory, its assessment may have changed 180 degrees, and it may have fallen back to a mere incompetent lord of bad governance.

"Yes. Welcome home, Cliff."

Sitting in front of Cliff,

"Tea for your alumni."

I'm going to ask the maids to serve me tea.

"No, thank you. I'll be home as soon as I'm done."

Cliff smacks his words like he throws them away.

Hey, Cliff, I told you to calm down!

Neighboring Pruitt whispers a word of advice in his ear as he puts an elbow iron on the side of the cliff.

(I know!

Cliff exhaled a lot.

"Father, are you aware of what is happening in this empire?

Stay put and talk about Mia and the others leaving for this territory.

"I just got a letter from the center.You mean an order from the new Imperial government to pursue the traitor Grey?

The words with the rebels distorted Cliff's side angrily, but immediately regained his normality.

"Yes, I want House Millard to support Lord Gray and show no interference in this civil unrest!

He pressed his forehead against his desk with both hands and begged.

"I don't know. You've always hated Grey, haven't you?

"Yeah, I hated it.After all, it was only Grey who was truly in love with you.Ugly jealousy. "

Cliff reveals himself in mockery.

For the first time, the smile disappeared from Sir Rice's face, and things like familiarity disappeared.

"I was supposed to pretend to be indifferent to Grey.At least not in front of you. "

"Only Grey himself was unaware of it in his family."

"Oh, did you guys realize... that I'm the reason Grey thinks he's so narrow in this mansion?It makes me laugh. After all, it's all in the back!

Cliff swallows his back teeth to Sir Rice, who laughs madly.

I know how Cliff feels now.That's because Sir Rice cut off the front and admitted that he didn't really love Cliff.

(I don't like it)

I once believed that Mia had been abandoned by her father, just like Cliff.Maybe that's why. Mia couldn't forgive this man at this time.

So when I tried to spit out the criticism of Sir Rice...

- No, Mia, take a good look.You will notice his discomfort. [M]

Suddenly, Mia's feelings suddenly cooled down to a calm voice echoing over her head, and she noticed that Sir Rice's eyes were not laughing at all.

(What's wrong?)

Mia began to observe Sir Rice's every move without finding out the truth.

"Tell me one thing."

"What is it?

Stop laughing and Lord Rice looks back at Cliff.

"Why are you running such a cod business in Millard Territory?The place where they were born is only slightly different, and the life is as different as heaven and earth. "

I'm sure he's talking about Tote Village.Indeed, this territory is too distorted.Tote Village is one of the most important cities in the Empire, and if you take one step there, poverty will spread.This is all we need to find this territory, the entire Empire.

Because Valeria wanted it.

"Because your mother wanted it?Father, please be serious!I'm asking you about the reason for this territory's bullshit management policy!? "

Cliff stood up and clapped his hands on the desk and raised his voice.

"Hmm, even if you say so, that's the truth."

"That's not the reason!How can you be so miserable to the people you keep just what your mother wanted!? "

To Sir Rice, who drinks tea with a fake face, Cliff stares at the worsening expression.

"That's a little selfish.Cliff, even you were right about Valeria until a few years ago.You thought so, didn't you?

"That's...."

I get stuck in words, but when I hold my chest with my right hand,

"That's right. You're right!I just walked down the rail my mother laid!It's easy to believe unconditionally in others' words and status as worthwhile!But that's just a thought stop.It's no different from being dead!That's what I learned at Magic Knight Academy!

Lord Rice raised his hands in horrible solemnity and stared at Cliff.

So?

I urged her to continue talking.

"I'm not tied to anybody anymore.I look at it with my own eyes, I look into it, I talk to it, and I come to a conclusion with my own hands.Yes, I swore!

Sir Rice nodded loudly several times in response to Cliff's scream.

"I see what you mean. [M]But you weren't the only one that touched Gray.To the servants of this mansion and the inhabitants of this mirage.Weren't you with Valeria and pushing them hard?You changed your mind. [M]Is that what they'll accept?

……

Ser Rice stood up at the edge of his mouth as he bit his lower lip and pulled his chin.And when I reached Cliff's seat, I slapped him on the shoulder.

"As well as Grey, who has rebuilt the village of Toto, Aqua has been committed to improving the territory.And what about you?I am full of my own head and have not even come to confirm this territory until now.You have no right to criticize me like that. [M]Isn't that right? "

To Sir Rice, who talks to many people,

"Hey, old man, if you just keep quiet and listen to me, I'll let you go!When Cliff was absent from summer school, he didn't return to the Territory to save it.From your heart! I wonder how hard he's been trying to get his vacation back!? "

Cliff stayed at the academy and bowed his head to the teachers who were on secondment from the Sagami Chamber of Commerce, even when everyone was home on summer vacation, and spared no effort to learn while he slept.It's all for the development of your own territory.Mia and the others have been watching the Cliff's efforts.

"No matter how hard you try, people don't follow things that aren't bleeding.That's what it is. "

"Huh? Is Cliff bleeding?How stupid! Nobody cares about their friends as much as this one!Same for the people!This guy's eyes aren't any different from ours!

Sir Rice once again takes a seat in front of Cliff.Then he put his elbows on the table and put his hands together, looking at Mia and the others as if they were standard, but he immediately fixed his gaze on the cliff.

Really? Even if I give up a hundred steps, I can't resist her if she tells me to shut up. [M]Just keep quiet, like old times.You can't be the lord of this land now. "

Lord Rice releases so cold.

This conversation is weird after all.Now that I've calmed down, I can see clearly.If this person really doesn't love Cliff, there's no point in having this conversation in the first place.It's over with a smile.

- Remember. What hurt you the most?

Yes. Mia was most hurt when she was abandoned by her father.I'm not interested in you at all.I felt like I was told that, and I hated my father so much that everything would be better now.But after all, I could hate him, but I couldn't forget him.

The same goes for Sir Rice. The imitation of such a cliff's anger and hatred is itself a confession of interest in the cliff's present.

In other words, Sir Rice...

"You..."

Finally, he took control of Pruitt with his right hand, striking his right fist at the desk and trying to get up.

"Pruitt, shut up.Sit down! "

Relent as usual to Pruitt.

"Sit down, you, I'm a dog!

Looking at Lord Rice from the cluttered May fly plume,

"Cliff told me the truth.So don't hide anything from me, either!

I shouted with a tone of silence.

Apparently it was a picture star.Sir Rice's usual leeway vanishes and he looks to Mia.

"You're such a sudden girl.You think I'm not telling you the truth?

"That's right! I'm sure the only words from the bottom of my heart are that I love Dr. Gray.Everything else is cod, right?

Ask Sebastian, the gray-haired butler behind Sir Rice.He now took out his handkerchief and held his eye to Sir Rice's interaction with Cliff.From the warm, gentle expression towards the cliff, Mia already has this farce prediction.

Sebastian quickly put his handkerchief in his chest pocket.

"Milord, Cliff boy is fine now.This will be our brave leg. "

Put your hands on your chest and speak.

With a poker cliff on his ass, Sebastian rushed to the door in the back room with a handle.

"Whoa!?"

A blonde young man with good breadth who rolls into the room with great momentum.

"What? Huh? Brother Thomas?

Thomas scratched his head into a more confusing cliff with a tall man called Thomas, who put a butt mochi on the floor.

"Hey, Cliff, it's been a while.

Say hello with your right hand up.

"That's why I said this imitation is a bad hobby."

In Sebastian's abundant and critical words,

"No, haha...."

To Sir Rice, who smiles so casually,

"I mean, that mother supremacist cliff has changed?Isn't it a creed that I'd like to check?

Thomas speaks out against it.

"So, what is Thomas's conclusion?

"You don't know that, do you?You passed! Pass!Absolutely, because the last brother of the bug is so clear, I was trying to find even one of the roughs and reveal his nose, but it wasn't as loud as I expected. "

Thomas scratched his head and sat next to Sir Rice.

"By the way, Cliff, you're making a big mistake.This man is quite troubled.After all, you left the house politely, so often you wrote to me. "

Speak the answer to the anxiety in Cliff's heart now.

"Wait, a letter? But I haven't been in touch for a long time...."

A cliff stuck in words,

"Actually, I didn't hear from you.Anyway, I've never heard back. "

In Lord Rice's self-ridiculous words,

"Well, now I've always wondered what my mother's puppet is for.But when I got married and had a child, I knew that I would be a father, and for the first time I was interested in the feelings of my father.I read the letter and I'm here. "

Thomas's monologue scratching his cheeks.

"After all, Grey told you to come here, didn't he?

Somewhere in Cliff's skepticism,

"No, that's not true.I'm here because I saw your father's letter.I didn't get any instructions from him. "

Thomas immediately denies it.

"But did you just say your last brother was a monster?

"Well, I recently got to know him in a working relationship as a judge.I heard a rumor from a colleague about Syrabe Inés Navarro, but I was surprised to find out that it was Grey, the youngest brother of my Millard family. "

Thomas shrugging his shoulders,

"When I heard from the lords about Gray's role in the Undead case, it was similar."

Ser Rice gives you a dry laugh.

"Anyway, Gray doesn't value or trust this Millard family that much.From what he knows, House Millard is under the control of that damn demon mother, and it's no different from the territory of the barons and nobles. "

"That's right...Only the servants of this mansion, Aqua, and Cliff, you are the only family that Gray trusts. "

To Sir Rice, who mocks himself and mouthes sadly,

"My lord, we're pressing for time. Shouldn't we move on?

Sir Rice nodded loudly at Sebastian's suggestion to change the slightly heavier conversation.

"That's right. My administration of this territory is clearly in error. [M]That's what you pointed out, Cliff. "

I assure you clearly.

"Well, the lives of the residents of Mirage here are terrible.Of course it's the poor standard of living, but the most important thing is the eyes. "

Thomas answers blurrily while wearing the flesh of his jaw.

"Eyes?"

"Ah, the light of hope has vanished from their eyes."

Mia and the others were aware of that.That's why Cliff was so angry.

"Villagers who are already moving from another village to Toto Village can't wait.The administration of this territory is no longer on the verge of failure. "

In a terribly solemn colour, Sir Rice stood up and looked out the glassy window.

"Father, I can't tell you how hard it is to say.But now..... "

Yeah, I know.

Sir Rice turned back to Cliff and began talking.