The Annals of the Flame Kingdom (WN)

"... I see. Lord Adolph says yes… did he say so?"

Hauta and Zion, who ate the painful 'defeat', returned the irreparable Zion to their room, and Hauta was visiting under Lotte alone. Basically, I thought it would be difficult to get an appointment to Lotte, who is a 'busy person', but contrary to my expectations, I was able to get an appointment so badly that it went hand in hand with the transportation of the interview.

"Yes. I'm sorry, Mr. Lotte. The way I approached it was also unsavory..."

"No...... yes, 'no'. Thoroughness, which is also what the sweetness of my outlook has invited. I heard about your work at Hotel Larchia… or I thought,"

"... embarrassing story... perhaps I thought 'yes' somewhere in my mind too. Honestly, I didn't even envisage being 'turned down'"

To Lotte's words, Kota also bites his lips small.

In this "defeat", I realized for the first time that Kota also had the "sweetness" of the outlook with regard to Hotel Larchia. It is certainly a 'difficult' project, but there is also the full support of Klaus, El, plus the pride of having saved the predicament of Hotel Larchia with his own 'work'. Not in a very good way, but there was also the prospect that you might 'hang out' with me to some extent.

"... you won't have a choice, it is. It's not just your fault."

And even for Lotte, that's the same thing. Haota had a good grasp of her performance, and there were places where she no longer thought Adolf would say no.

"... because of Scion, is it?

"... it's not like that. This is my responsibility."

The proposal itself is a thing of Scion, but it is Kota who did not pinch an objection to Scion's valve. Kota herself, it's just a level story about who talked more than he thought Sion's suggestion was' good '.

"... I appreciate you being able to shelter me, but I'm not too interested in doing it, am I?

"Because it's true."

"Really? So let's do that."

That's what I say. When Lotte fumes, he puts his hand on his nodding jaw and starts meditating. In the feeling that time had stopped, Kota opened his mouth unbearably.

"... So, do you have any measures?

"Measures, is it?

"Yeah. For example... well, persuade the other nine-member committee, or something"

"It's hard, it is. I'm not even thinking about convincing you from the edge about the other four. Regardless, if you present some benefits, you may find yourself at the negotiating table…"

That's what I said, one sigh.

"... Originally, the Committee of Nine is just ahead of us already having enough 'wealth' to roar at hand. Now that we have enough to present… with benefits like 'coins', you can't come aboard"

"... in 'Big Money'?

"Then you should give up the banknote introduction itself. I don't want to issue banknotes. Because I want to improve the finances of this Flame Kingdom."

If we want to introduce a banknote economy in order to improve our finances, and we cannot do so without presenting more 'benefits' than the improvement effect, we do not need to do so in the first place. The banknote economy is a means, not an end.

"... so, give up," he said?

"I didn't say that. Whatever it is, it's not an easy thing to do, but... Right. Now I will speak directly with Lord Adolphe."

……

"Oh, as I mentioned earlier, it's not like I'm putting out because you were 'impudent'. There is no doubt that you have brought us here, Lord Matsuyoshi, without disgust or irony. So...... right. This is a" grudge "for what" inside "said rudely."

Kota gives Lotte a slightly surprised look when she says so and shakes her head left and right. Lotte gave a surprised look at such a change in Hota's expression.

"What is it?

"No... I'm the one who said this in front of me... but if you'll excuse me, it's 'kind'."

"... oh"

Lotte smiles bitterly at Kota's words.

"I may be mistaken, but I'm not cold on my own. We are proud to say that we are tough on our enemies, and we are tough on our enemies... but we will not bow our heads to your efforts."

"... are you ill, Mr. Lotte?

"... I hope you don't ask about things like Theon, Lord Matsuyoshi. I'm fine, I am."

Say that and sigh small.

"... well, I'll sit down with some abdominal proposals. From now on, I'll take over the case. Let's hope Lord Adolf gets an appointment as soon as possible."

"Busy, he said?

"That's what Lord Adolphe would say if you were me. But I am also, hypothetically, the prime minister of the Kingdom of Flame. Whatever."

"... is that right?

He is the supreme power of Hotel Larchia, who says, 'Even the king cannot stay without reservations'. Lotte smiles one bitter smile at Kota's expression that she doesn't expect him to do the interview until she breaks the appointment.

"Lord Adolph is a man of honor. Regardless, it would be difficult if you had an appointment...... but Lord Matsuyoshi? There's a way out of everything, isn't there?

"Way out?"

"Well, you don't care about the neighborhood. Anyway, let me do something about it here later. Oh, don't worry, no matter what form it takes, this' grace 'will be restored in some way to Terra territory. Lord Matsuyo. Thank you so much this time."

Deep down, Lotte bowed her head.

- Later, it's my job.

There was a niggling grin on his raised face.

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- Honestly, I just had a bad feeling.

"Ohhhhhhh! I'm annoyed! I'm seriously annoyed!

"Hey, hey, Scion! What time do you think it is? He said he'd piss me off! Because Liz can see you with her white eyes!

"It would be nice if you could look at anything with white eyes! What do you mean," Have you ever been heartbroken? 'That's it! Why are you looking at me like that from above...... ku! I'm annoyed! I'm seriously annoyed!

"... What is this tragedy?

"Ah! Here, Coata! No, it's not!

After Lotte's office, Kota returned to his own room in the royal castle. Before I opened the door to the room, I knew there was an intruder in my room in The Voice, which I had heard walking down the hallway. I knew it.

"... you know what? I'm not going to tell you not to drink anything, but could you at least swallow 'beautifully'?

Liquor bottle rolled indoors in the room.

Scattered empty dishes on the table.

The moment it opens, the smoke is bright white like you might see it burning, and a sucker that is piled up on an ashtray.

"... is this where the booze is done?

As if, the morning after the drinking party held in his own room, Kota drops his shoulder small without knowing it. It's not a cleanliness habit, but in one way or another, I like it beautifully. Hotai is just dazzling, such a miserable situation.

"... what happened, this?

"Uh... I need to talk to you for a minute, and you visited Cota's room?

……

"When I knocked, I heard Theon say 'go ahead' from inside, and then I walked into the room... that, in this' miserable '"

"... oh"

"Whatever you ask Theon, 'I've never been flabbergasted is that bad!' All I'm saying is..."

"... I wish I had left you alone"

"... it would be tough for Cotta to leave that state of Scion on the boulder..."

Unexpectedly, Hota, who came with a hollow to Erica's such tenderness, gently strokes Erica's head. "Ha! 'What a voice. Around Erica turning bright red in her face, Hota turned her gaze to Theon.

"... so? What is it, Mr. Scion? This tragedy."

"So - hmm? Oh, Coata! You're home good! Come on, let's drink!

You will be swallowing a great deal of alcohol, uplifting your face, and letting your eyes tron and loosening its cheeks without hesitation when Theon finds what Cota looks like. Haota shook her aching head two or three times when she had some headache coming from looking like that.

"... Hey, Coata?

"... what?

"The... what the hell happened? Theon seems pretty angry too..."

Erica asks about that with her neck tilted to the side as she pulls the edge of her clothes together. Kouta flaunts her shoulders in such a way that she looks like Erica.

"I was at Chairman Adolf's earlier. I'm sorry to interrupt you in favor of the example banknote... but on that occasion, Chairman Adolph was told," You've never been flirted with, have you? 'I was told...... that sounds like you regret it too much. As far as this tragedy goes. "

"... wait? What kind of story development makes you talk like that from a banknote story?

Kota smiled small and bitterly at Erica, who twisted her neck and showed her face that she did not understand at all.

"Our proposal is... what is it? There was no 'compassion' for them at all."

In Kota's words, Erica said, "You? 'I give him a surprised look just saying it.

"... aren't you half made of gentleness?

"It's not a headache pill, me"

The color of bitter laughter was darker on Erica's voice, and Kota inherited the words.

"Not in a very good way to put it, but honestly I am Chairman Adolf...... no, I thought there was one 'loan' at Hotel Larchia. There wasn't much time left, so... I ran to a quick solution."

Many banks impose so-called 'norms' on their employees on a quarterly, semi-annual, or year-round basis. Although it is said to be highly public, it can still be taken for granted more than making money and being a 'for-profit' company of sorts. Acquisition of credit cards, investment trusts, individual loan transactions, loans for corporations called business-funds, etc. become typical things.

"... you failed, really"

At the end of the period, bankers rush around to achieve unachieved items as they do every day. I will go out to a business partner that I am pleading with, and I will bow my head to promoting employee credit card transactions, asking for investment trust purchases if I can afford them, obtaining loans for business funds, etc. - I tend to go ahead and say, "You asked me not the other day, and now this is the one I want to hang out with you," well, you understand.

"You had a sweet outlook"

"... Coata..."

To some extent, the sweetness of the prospect I thought could be achieved with 'Please Sales' as well. In the end, the cause of this defeat is exhausted... and Kota is fully aware that it is Kota's own fault. Even now, it is a later festival, but during the course of other projects, it was possible to devise a strategy to "dictate down" Hotel Larchia.

"... so you're saying Adolf couldn't?

"Right. I couldn't put up enough arguments to elicit approval. I saw Mr. Lotte earlier... but I left it to Mr. Lotte."

There is something inside with Hota, but there is nothing more to do than attribute it to his own mistakes. To Kota, who drops his shoulder, Erica hangs her words with a touch of brightness.

"Ho, holla! Coata, you're not so depressed! Coata, I tried so hard! Let Lotte handle the rest, shall we? I'm sure he'll do it cleverly!

Hey! and Erica smiling. To its appearance, it darkened the colour of bitter laughter more than earlier - and, after showing hesitation once, Kota slowly opened his mouth.

"Right. I'll have to entrust it to Mr. Lotte later... but that makes me a little angry, doesn't it?"

"... why not?

"'Cause... look, you're asking me to end up failing... not dressed badly?

That's what I said, Hota, who gives him a flashy look. After staring at the figure as Pocan, Erica erupted small.

"Pfft... what, that?

"Well, it's me. I glanced a little obstinately."

"Already, Coata? I don't know what else to say. You look like a kid, don't you?

"From Mr Lotte's and Mr Adolphe's point of view, you must still be a child, so am I."

"Heh heh. So that's you, Coata the kid? Why don't you let your sister say," Okay, okay, "and put it up?

Erica slaps such a light mouth when she feels that her distance from Hota has somewhat shrunk further into that childish, obstinate, adorable attitude of Hota, who was pulling Erica at all times, even as she stretched her chest in front of her lined strong enemies, dignified, or fluttered. It was for a moment that I was distracted by such Erica's attitude that Kota showed her niggling and distorted the edge of her mouth.

"... right. Shall I do you a favor?

"............ to?

"What's going on? You're gonna say," Okay, okay, "right? What shall we do? If it was me and Erica, there would be a height difference... head, should I lower it?

"Oh, no... you know... you're kidding..."

"A joke? No, no, Mr. Erica? I was looking forward to the corner, isn't that terrible?

"Ha, fun - well, that's..."

"Come on, please"

Please, just to say, Kota bows her head and shows it. Did you just get a little annoyed by Kota, who smiles uncommonly and unwillingly, while dyeing her cheeks red, Erica stares at Kota lightly. Still stunned by Kota, who did not change his expression, he sighed one as if he had given up, and Erica lowered her hips on the spot. Drop your butt between your legs, in what is commonly called a pelt seat.

"... Erica?

"... you're still smart as it is. My leg hurts when I stretch my back...... ho, holla! I'll stroke your head...... Shh, sit down and put your head on here!

That's what I say. Beat him with both hands.

"... Huh?

- My own, my thighs.

"Hih, I'll give you a knee pillow! This is easy to stroke... Besides, maybe it's not enough to stroke your head for" Kid Kota, "right?

I kept my cheeks dyed red and still said, 'Humph!' And Erica smiles with a heartfelt vigour all the time. The younger girl looks like her best stretched back attitude and her figure is a very cute thing. Although it is a thing.

"... right. Shall I ask you, then?

- I kind of feel like losing if I get wolf here.

What the hell are you fighting, words like that flowed in Kota's head. Well, the younger girl, and one way or another, when Erica does that to me, it's the "pride as a boy" thing in the corner of Hota that inspires me.

"... to?

Erica, by contrast, turns wolf. Anyway, it's about Hota, 'What are you doing, Erica?' I thought you'd stop me like that at all times, but it's an infinite attitude of riding. Well, that being said, here it is: 'Oh, joke, joke!' I kind of feel like a woman is going to get rid of it... and in the first place, it's also useful. Women are brave! All the while, Erica sat with her back to Erica and pinned her spine out just a little bit in an attempt to gently take the back of Kota's head as she knocked her body down and approached her -

"- Do that when you're alone!

- Erica shows Shion's voice to Kota, who wakes up the body she was about to defeat, standing up a little with only the power of her lower body. Theon turned his frigid eyes to the two of them, who scratched their cheeks only slightly to the smell of light and turned the day after tomorrow.

"... you know what? I do think that friendliness is a good thing. I suppose? Normally, a heartbroken friend comes and drinks and winds up in a tube, right? Some more like this... you know what I mean? That... when I come with you guys, leave me alone and you two will flirt! You're stubborn!"

"Uh... the..."

"What! I don't ask for an apology!

"No, the apology... oh, no, the apology too..."

That said, it seems difficult to say, Kota points to herself, and then points that finger at Theon.

"…………… Friends?

"I'm serious, you!

"Oh, Shh, I'm sorry. No, the... yes, I'm sure you're a friend... what is it? Shall I say that when Mr. Theon tells me that, I kind of want to rebel... one way or another, let's say our relationship is between the perpetrator and the victim... but I can't be clever."

"Don't be shrewd! What? What? Then you didn't think of me as a friend!

Scion, bark. He looked sympathetically at Scion like that and pointed Erica at Kota with a slightly blamed caged gaze.

"... that, Coata? I think Theon's pathetic for a boulder right now, me."

"Chi, it's not. You think you're a friend...... like this, what is it? Tell Mr. Theon, 'We're friends, aren't we?' And when they say otherwise... don't you think Erica too?

"We're friends, aren't we? You must be my best friend! Friends of my heart! 'And the glasses that Admiral Kiddo tells me are in your mood, ho tai.

"... what shall we do? Somehow, I feel like I know."

I don't even know when they say it again. Theon heated up more and more to such Erica's vague statement of affirmation.

"Oh, you guys ha! They're terrible!

"Shh, sorry"

"Oh, sorry."

"Hmm! Apologize and forgive me. I won't wait! In the first place! The first thing you need to know is why I'm drinking here! After you two flirt..."

"... in the first place, I wonder if you're liquoring on your own in the absentee's room..."

"Did I say something!

"... no, nothing. Please, keep talking."

There are also burdens, fumbling noses at Kota, who is somewhat low-profile, and Theon continues his words.

"If you say so from the beginning...... Hmm! Fine. Anyway! I lost the air on the field then and somehow said, 'Oh, wasn't that nice enough for me?' Or so I thought... think about it and see! Why do I look up at Lord Adolphe and say," You've never been flirted with by a man? I'm inexperienced in my life, 'you have to say!

"I don't think I said that much..."

"He said it! You know what a cota is!

Kota also gets stuck in the words of Zion, which is like stabbing him. I don't even know what Zion is talking about. I didn't put it in clear words, but I can't go wrong when they finally told me the difference in my life experience.

"... well, sure? Even I have a place to cry. Not as good as Aria, even I was expecting Royal University of Larchia to skip in. I liked learning in the first place. I didn't have time to lose track of sex."

"... oh. You said you were in love with the world or something."

"Don't call me Itai! Anyway! Lord Adolph has a point. I don't have an overwhelming enough knowledge of 'there'. Instead of being flirted with, I've never even been close to a man. There's not even one floating rumor out there."

"... it's amazing when you think about it. Theon, you're quite beautiful."

"I know you don't have one, Master Erica."

"That's... yes, but"

"Well, I don't know what you're talking about. Erica is a member of the royal family, and a shiny princess. I'm afraid to invite you to play with fire in a light mood. In that sense, it would be easier for civilians like me to speak up... because they won't have to rot."

"Well, that's not what I said!

"I know. But it is true. Well, that's good. Anyway! As it is, it involves my, this Theon Baumgarden voucher!" He said he's never been in love before "is not in the business... in the first place," I don't know "is still unpleasant and unbearable!

"... yeah... so? What is the conclusion?

Kota, I only have a bad feeling about this. I don't know if I know how Hota feels like that - well, I definitely don't, but Theon has a grin on his face.

"So, Coata! Have a date with me tomorrow! Have fun - so 'hook' me up!

I said something stupid.