The Annals of the Flame Kingdom (WN)

For a 'girl' named Sonia Solvania, a 'woman' named Ayano Okawa can be described as her strongest rival.

Either way, Erica or Emily are. Theon... even with Sonia's brilliant brains, he gets a little question mark, but Ayano's reputation is high among the favorite enemies gathered around Kota. Whatever you say, I'm a man who knows' Hota '.

"Uh... I'm bored -! Hey, hey, Sonia. Not even a sledge?

"No...... Mr. Ayano? Well, I'm not bored."

"You've been sitting there forever, haven't you? I'm a little tired of saying" wagon trip "to a boulder."

"... a little more 'shan' please"

It was two days ago that Kota talked to me about 'negotiating' in Terra. He snuck a sigh of sigh in his chest at the 'strongest rival' in front of him, hurrying to get ready and riding the carriage and looking out the window bored in the car aiming to terra all the way.

"I am... I mean, I'll do it when I get there? But okay? You can be distracted in the carriage. Don't you think I'd be stuck breathing if I kept my mind open all the time?

"Still, Mr. Ayano is too distracted."

"A little bit, right?

"Do you say a little?

Ayano shows Sonia with her eyes turned in response by clamping her shoulders. A whole day after riding the carriage, if it is like this all the time, it is the thing that Ayano stock in Sonia will also fall.

"Don't say hard things, Sonja. So... do you want to have a little talk?

"I won't let you."

Ayano's eyebrows painted Heh's letters in Sonia's words that were not even nibbly.

"... me, maybe they don't like me?

To Ayano, who looks pitiful, Sonia looks silent and shakes her neck left and right. It's not like Sonia and Ayano don't like each other. Even though I think of it as "the strongest rival"...... rather, I have an unparalleled interest in this woman in front of me who was Kota Matsudai's "special".

"But now you have an important job, don't you? I want to prioritize you, me."

"Have you come with your work priorities? I don't know what to say... you look like Hota, Sonia."

"Oh? That would be an honor."

"Wow. Will you come?"

"... and it's time for you to stop? Honestly, it's hard to talk."

"... you're sharp, Sonia"

"I said stop... oh, should I put it this way? Can't you stop it, 'n'?

To Sonia's words, Ayano raised his hands to show his intention to surrender, and then scratched his head to show that he was only a little troubled.

"Was it broken?

"You can do it. What is it," Wow. "

"I went pretty well when I was Kota, didn't I? Shiritori Conversation"

"... did you do the same to Courta?

"Bus going to training...... in things like carriages. He looked stunned when he seeded it, Kota."

"Do you want to take the Demon King in your hand? Mr. Ayano is the Great Demon King, isn't he?

"Stop it. I'm not a Great Demon King, and I'm not more of a Demon King."

Instead, I think Ayano would be the 'Great Demon King' in many ways, Sonia who can put that color in her gaze. Ayano, who sensibly felt it, tilted his neck slightly to show it.

"What's going on?

"No... I wondered what would have been better for Mr. Ayano."

"Is that it? Are they fighting and selling?" What was so good about a raccoon like you! 'You say?

"Oh, it's not! Mr. Ayano is, uh, very charming, and, uh, that!

Sonia shook her hands to the left and right as she panicked against Ayano, who turned her eyes. Such a strange figure of Sonia, Ayano smiled one at a time and sat deeply in the carriage seat.

"... I don't know what would have been better. I mean, I don't even know if it was good."

"Can you afford it?" I am loved "?

"... you're involved, Sonia. What's the matter with you?

Ayano turns his gaze in a different way than earlier. To that gaze, but hesitation for a moment. Best of all, and clearly Sonia opened her mouth.

"A little, I wanted to try"

"What?

"Little Sprinkled Talk," he said.

Breathtaking as I was surprised by Sonia's words. Then Ayano's mouth rose niggly.

"... hmm. What's the subject, Kota?

"Let's talk about this in common, shall we?

Admirers, and it's embarrassing to put it into words, so Sonia can put that meaning out of words. He nodded small and Ayano opened his mouth.

"... I see, I see"

"Can't you?

"It's not a no. That's right. I never really talked to Sonia properly. If we're going to keep going friendly, should we talk about that area again?

"That would help. And there will be others."

"Whoa. Sonja, what do you want to hear?

Let your sister answer anything and raise it! Ayano said to stand aside and show, but everywhere Sonia's gaze is serious.

"Mr. Ayano... where were you attracted?

Courta-sama's.

Still giggling and showing while still solidifying the modus operandi.

"- Uh, I see. Sonia, don't you think this is my biggest rival?

Ayano makes it look so easy to see through Sonia's mind.

"... right. That's what I think. And... I don't think this imagination of mine is so wrong. Different?

There is no upset. He stared straight at Ayano and continued to look at Sonia's gaze like that funny and say words.

"No, not when you say it, and yes, is it?

Ayano's words like mystery

"What does that mean?

"Hmm... I'm a little hard to respond to when people ask me what that means..."

That's what I said, Chillari. Sonia looked surprised by such a gaze at the younger Sonia and let her put her doubts straight in her mouth.

"What's wrong?

"Well, don't get too upset, huh? Don't you think," This guy, what are you talking about to the raccoon habit "or something?

"Rather, it's going to make you uncomfortable in your current words? Do I look like I'm gonna say that?

Ayano flaunted his shoulder at Sonia, who looked at him with a sinister gaze. After looking at her, Sonia sighed.

"... to the habit of a raccoon, I don't think, etc. I don't think so, keep going."

"Really? Well... eh? Maybe Sonia and I look alike."

"... similar, is it?

"Of course, not appearance. I'm not looking like Sonia. I'm not... I'm not thinking... Stance on things, huh?

"Stance, is it?

"If it's very convenient for me, the guidelines are good, right?

Bitter at Sonia showing with a question mark on her head. Ayano continued his words.

"For example... Sonia, you know what a test is?

"I understand. I've never taken it."

"The boulder princess. Well, then I hope you can just imagine... me, huh? If you're going to pass with 60 points, you're going to pass with 60 points."

……

"By the way, Hota is the type of person who goes to pick up a hundred dots even for tests that pass with sixty points. Preview it properly, review it, and even review it thoroughly after the test. I can't help but think of a type that can't compromise. Maybe that's what Erica and Emily are like."

Talk that far and stare at Sonia's face. Sonia accidentally missed her gaze at Ayano, who seemed to see through to the depths of her heart.

"Hmm, my reasoning... Sonia is with me. I think it's useless to score more than sixty points, type."

"Mm, no use!? Well, that's not why..."

"No?"

Ayano's gaze like asking. After stuffing her breath, Sonia exhaled and showed it loose, as if she had just given up a little.

"... right, I won't deny it. I don't know how to put it."

Sonia herself is not the so-called talented type, but the genius type. Most things can be understood once or twice, even if it is bad, and the memory of a great deal of hard work is not hateful in a short life of ten years.

"You're not saying it's a bad idea to make an effort to get a hundred points? I think it's good to be serious about everything."

"It's kind of a sight from the top."

"It's not like that... well, yeah. While Kota writes three hundred answers, I'll solve five of the sixty."

……

"What kind of workplace was Hauta and I at? This… requires a lot of accuracy and speed. Now it's the demon king. They say something, but when you see Kota back then, you're gonna laugh, right?" I'm doing it till what time, Matsuyo! 'Or' If you're gonna do it slowly, even three kids are gonna do it! 'Or... because I wasn't so surprised when Kota would quit already. I was always upset. What is it, you chocolate guy! What a waste of time. I wish I could be a little smarter... right. I was making fun of Kota. "

"... you can't imagine. And Kota... I think Kota, and Ayano."

"If I told myself about three years ago, I'd round my eyes, wouldn't I?" You, because you're mellow on that chocolate guy. "

Maybe it's Yangtian News, which isn't as good as a cross-world summons, and that's what I said and laughed ridiculously at him and showed him.

"... and it was me who left Kota to his talent while making a small fool of him to feel good about Tengu, but here's the thing... a lot of things, huh? Well, it's a big mistake."

"Failure, is it?

"I don't really want to say it... but you know, I did a hundred jobs on a habit that I think is good at sixty points and said, 'I'm working on it!' You said they saw you pretending to be like..."

Sigh, one.

"... sorry, lie. I was going to do 60 points, but I was actually doing zero points, me."

……

"I didn't mean to say that... well, it must have been pretty pricey, too. This is how I cried... well, bad dressing, bad dressing"

He smiled bitterly and showed him a slightly bitter face as if he remembered that time - and broke that face as if he had taken out the treasure.

"- Right there? Kota helped me."

Really, like talking about important memories.

"... you looked good ~, then Hauta. Normally, he's not a good guy at all, and I thought he was only good enough to make an effort... I saved Kota's" effort "by his stance. That's all I was denying to that stance. That's it. It's mellow already, right?

Cash, right? Sonia shook her head beside Ayano, laughing and showing. Ayano exhales somewhat relieved by the trick.

"Well, that's why I saved my own predicament... well, I'm so grateful and respectful to Kota for making me think that I can't stay like this... I love this... so I can't love her."

Say that, grin again. Of all the smiles Ayano has ever seen, the most fascinating, the cutest, the most flamboyant - and the happiest, such a smile.

"... deep, you're dating"

It is something you understand. Take it to Sonia, who doesn't know "Kota" and only knows "Kota" and if it was meant to be, it would be a good story to hear... and I dare to hear it myself, no other.

"Uh... well, we're not going to have a shallow relationship or a short relationship, are we? At least, I'm the one who knows the most about Hota! I'm proud of you."

Ayano's words equal to a stop. "I'm not losing to you guys," Sonia leans down unexpectedly, shocked as she said. but it's also for a moment. There's no reason for that, at the end of my face I thought so and raised my temper.

"... hmm..."

I saw Ayano with a difficult face. Winning proudly and laughing high, would not be Ayano's character on the boulder, but still now we all have no idea what it means to do it in this situation, and Sonia twists her neck and shows it. Ayano dropped his shoulder and showed Sonia like that in his sight.

"... so I'll tell you. I, Kota, confess to you, right? It's not direct... well, I like it, you know?"

"Proud, is it?

No way, laugh at one thing.

"- Such a Hota, 'I still don't match Hota!' I don't know... well, I made it a sode with that 'I'm all for it', me"

Regrettably, lonely.

That's how Ayano bites her lips, and Sonia tries to speak up and still pushes her silence without being able to find the words to speak. Thank Sonia for that, she laughed and showed, and Ayano continued her words.

"For that reason, I'm not leading more than everyone else. Rather the other way around, the other way around. I don't care if you say you're in my ass the most."

"That's not..."

"But that's why I'm not going to give up, and I don't need sympathy. Precisely, just say something like," He's stupid. "

"Pu, pu?

"Talk over here. Anyway! That's why I can't fail anymore. 'Cause I'm bluffing it over and over again... sorry, but the seriousness is dancing better than everyone else?

"... I'm not going to pull you off either."

"Superior"

That said, Sonia laughs and shows Ayano, who laughs and shows him invincibly. The often intersecting gaze scatters a spark in the car that echoes the gutter.

"... and let's just say that... we're talking about your work."

After a brief, blinking silence, Ayano cuts out the story by saying so. Unlike earlier, Sonia showed a pitiful face that was taken aback by a rather colourless story.

"... they suddenly change the subject, don't they?

"I told you to be serious, Sonia, didn't I?

"Yes, though. But isn't it your turn to listen to me fluidly?

"Why did Sonia fall in love with Kota? Fine, nothing."

"... that I am not an enemy?

"Surprisingly belligerent, Sonja."

Ayano shook his head and showed Sonia to stare at him.

"Just as Sonia thinks of me as a rival, so do I think of Sonia as a rival, right? It's also, in a way, much more powerful than Erica or Emily"

"... Really?

I'm glad, I don't think so. Sonia with a subtle look on her face. The strongest competitor you think of yourself as a rival… at least it's a lot better than not in your eyes.

"Sonia and I are a lot alike."

"Is that it?

"It's good to be alone, right? You're not the same type of person as Kota."

"Is that... is one of you talking about 'unnecessary'?

To Sonia's words, Ayano, who quietly shakes her neck vertically and then shakes it sideways to show it.

"... Well, it's not that simple, is it? I'm not going to talk about romantic feelings just because of my abilities, and it's not such a logic story. In the first place, I also know that Kota is a person who doesn't choose girls by that standard. I know."

But.

"- When Hota is in trouble, I want you to talk to her first when she wants a different type of human opinion."

- What do you think? and.

"At that time, I want to be the one to say the words. I want Ayano Okawa, not Sonia Solvania."

……

"I've said so many things... blah, blah, I can't afford to care about people. I told you earlier, but you're making fun of me. I didn't say," Who might like Kota? "

"... So, are we talking about work? To be relied upon the most."

Saying so and showing one shoulder, Ayano rode out and showed her body all the time without shaking the inside of the car.

"As I said earlier, me and Sonia are pretty much alike"

"Right. I won't deny it."

"Well, that doesn't look anything like Kota if you give it back... more importantly, Erica, Emily, Kota, and Terra's three leaders look alike."

"You mean the type that aims for a hundred points?

"Bad policy."

Both ways. Sonia snorts at Ayano, who says so and cuts and throws it away.

"Nothing, I'm not fooling around, am I? But people who strive for the best are often the ones who can't afford it. That's right, isn't it? The resources available are finite, and I'm dividing them into a single point. I can't do anything else, of course. So."

Dangerous.

"Dangerous, is it?

"You say you have a narrow horizon... well, all you see is' it '. Even this time... I know there's a lot of reasons, but the merchant ship business is overdone at once, on a boulder."

……

"Even for Erica and Emily. Right? In the end, I'm allocating limited resources to" Kota ", so I'm going to listen to everything Kota has to say. Should we have exhausted more arguments if we were meant to, and made decisions about whether we should or should not? I think so."

"But... we didn't even have time"

"I can understand that, too. So let's do what we can."

"What can you do?

Again, question mark. I saw Sonia like that and Ayano laughed and showed her again.

"We have things that are not in Kota, Erica, and Emily. Well, what is it?

"... don't return the question with questions, because I haven't taught you in different worlds?

"I'm telling you in the other world, don't think you can answer everything, okay? Come on, think about it and see. Thinking time is five seconds!

"It's short!

"Five, four, one, zero! Yes, in time."

"And is it shortened!

"Come on, give me an answer!

Aren't you going to answer Sonia's penetration, Ayano, who keeps talking like a no-brainer? She sighed and showed as if she was stunned by such Ayano, and Sonia was often silent. but I let him shake his head left and right without coming up with the right answer.

"I don't know."

"Quick to give up! Let's think some more, Sonia."

Didn't you say that resources can be used effectively?

"No, I told you,"

"You don't have to think for yourself, there are people in front of you who know the answer. Drop your head and beg to teach."

"... oh, Sonia, you look like me after all"

"It's an honor, let me tell you."

So? Ayano sighs one sigh this time at Sonia asking.

"Then I'll change the question. Not just this one... but what do you think is the most dangerous thing in the maritime trade?

"The most dangerous thing in the maritime trade...?

"You get an answer for this, don't you?

One nod at Ayano's words, Sonia turns her gaze to the ceiling. Only a bespoke carriage borrowed from the Flame royal family to coincide with this return of Terra, a beautifully embroidered ceiling of the Flame royal crest. After all, Sonia turned her gaze back to Ayano, thinking that the "snake" in Solvania might not be very impressive.

"... after all, isn't it 'Storm'"

"Storm."

"Yeah. Whatever, pirates are dangerous too. But there is no harm in it, except that the pirates will not carry the ship without turning against it, and they may not destroy it."

"But storms destroy all ships and shipments?

"That's not all, people"

"I see, is that some way of thinking"

Yeah, nodding, Ayano pointing his gaze at the ceiling. Sonia asks with a surprised look on her face.

"Because that's not the right idea?

"No. I think that's the right thing to do.

That's what I said, I'm gonna put my gaze back on Sonia that was up on the ceiling.

"In our world? There is a product called" Marine Insurance "to spread the risk of maritime distress."

"Insurance, is it?

"To put it bluntly... right. If you were paying a certain amount of money, you would return it with money, whether the ship broke or your luggage didn't work? Is that it?"

"... Isn't that wonderful"

"Whether or not it's great at all... Well, Kota said it would be nice to have that kind of product, right?

"... Were you?

"'If only it was accompanied by ship maintenance and accident compensation,' he said. I think it's maritime insurance around here."

To Ayano's words, Sonia explores the memory in her brain. If you ask me, I do remember Kota saying that.

"Kota and Sonia's thoughts are basic, together, right? I'm thinking about an accident on the voyage."

"It's... isn't it?

"Yeah, I'm not wrong. I'm not there... you see, because I'm a 'banker'"

It wasn't an accident.

"Will you pay for the goods you gave across the ocean 'for sure'?

Consider the 'deal' after the voyage,.

……

"Accidents, pirates, or storms never happen, do they? You know, going through pirate-free waters, choosing a season with few storms... so you can take care of things, right? But what about the 'deal'? No matter how peaceful your voyage is and how lucky you are to get to the other port safely, there's definitely a 'deal', right? Are you sure they'll pay for that then?

"It's... but if you say so, I don't have the chili."

"That's right. If you're talking about countermeasures, it's a good idea to make a deal with something that you can't pay for. So, pick someone, and each chamber will continue to grow up on your right shoulder? Just a few less business people."

"It's..."

"So let's put 'insurance' on there"

That's what I said, let loose and laugh and show it to you.

"I'm an amateur at Shipbuilding, but I've done" Shipping "before. To a certain extent, it is understandable. So..."

Let's see.

"If you say it in the Kotai style... well, what about" bill of exchange business and letter of credit business "?

Say that, and now show me 'what'.

"- It's not in Hota, Erica, Emili... take advantage of me and Sonia's" advantages, "right?