The picturesque rice cakes are delicious today

"Party?"

"Oh, they're opening it in the royal castle."

That's what Faye said, scratching the back of his head at random.

"... you know, I'm not really good at that"

"Uh, yeah. I thought so. You don't look like you want to go there..."

Yeah. I'd rather be indoors than going where there's a lot of people.

"Still, that's sudden."

"Hmm... right. The letter arrived yesterday, and the party itself is the day after tomorrow."

... That's really sudden.

"Apparently there was a flaw in the delivery of the letter. The guy who brought it here apologized for everything. It's more like we're doing something wrong. Come on... yeah."

I know how that feels.

"... and I'm taking you for a reason."

"If there's a reason, though I'm going"

"Ooh!? Oh, okay!?

Yeah. If he asks me if I'm interested, I say I'm not interested. If you say you want to go or not, I don't want to go.

But if Faye wants to 'take' him, I'll go. I'll go if you ask me.

"... uh, well, I'm glad to hear that... for once, listen to me"

Yeah.

"First of all, it's a royal castle party. It's called" Exchange of Nobles and Majesty. "

... I can imagine what that means back there at the point where you're saying it's superficial. I don't like it.

"So, the truth is, he seems to be looking for the princess's fiancée"

"Ah... the one the Georens were saying?

"Oops. That"

Cheng Cheng. Faye was invited to a party I heard at the Georen house.

"So. What we were talking about at the Georen house, remember? In the royal castle, apparently, they want red dragons and such summoners."

"Yeah. I remember."

The Giolens certainly wanted a 'make it suitable for the princess's glasses' summoner. This means that the princess, the king, the people of the royal castle wanted the Red Dragon and all those subpoenas.

And... here, if I compare it with what I've heard, I think it's going to be, 'In the Royal Castle, we want the Summoner as a force of war'.

"... so you know why I was called, right? The Red Dragon."

"Yeah."

So I can see this, too. Faye... has the Red Dragon, so they called me.

"Maybe it's actually not an accident, it's what I did for you, too, that the letter came after such a critical time. If it's critical, I'll have to go to the party without taking care of it. If the means of travel were a carriage, we wouldn't even be able to reach the King's Capital by the end of the day..."

"That's terrible"

Maybe it was really an accident... but as far as Faye's concerned, I feel like a case, not an accident.

I don't know if you're trying to take the Red Dragon from Faye, or if you're trying to catch Faye... but the royal castle people want to make contact with Faye, whatever it is.

"I have His Majesty's seal on the boulder. If they write to me, there's no way I'm not going. I don't have a bad feeling about being invited on my behalf, not my dad, not my brother. But, well, we're gonna have to go."

"Yeah."

I can see that. Faye's in trouble, too. Oh, I think.

"So, well, I can't help it. You can't take a lot of escorts, and you don't have time to look for a handyman's baton."

"Ugh, yeah."

... Could I be handling the caution stick? I don't know what to do, though I'm not sure.

"At last, it's the royal faces that go to parties and scare me, but the other noblemen... they'll be stopping by the Red Dragon, too, so I can predict. But as far as I'm concerned, I don't want to talk to those guys, and if I suck, I can bring an infinite number of stories about 'why don't you marry my daughter'!

"Hmmm......"

Could I be taken to scold those aristocrats? I'm not more confident than a caution stick...

"So, let's get back to it, huh?

"Yeah."

"What good would it be to take you..."

Careful stick or substitute? I wonder what's coming.

Sometimes, I wait for Faye to say...

"I can be good to you!

Yeah. I don't know. I didn't know.

"You know, it's okay."

"The point is, if only I'd been talking to you the whole time. Or you could suddenly fall ill! Because with that escort, I'm going into the break room!

… complete the process.

"I mean, he wants to use me as a pretext to escape."

"Whoa! That's a quick story!

Yeah...... yeah, then well, I'm not sure.

"So... okay?

"Yeah, that's good..."

Besides, I was gonna go if you asked me to. If Faye is in trouble, I want to help. Even Faye has helped me a lot. For that matter, if I can give it back, I will.

... but there are some things that bother me a little.

"Um, is that okay with me taking you?

"Hmm? Ooh."

"A party is usually one that takes a woman..."

"No, I don't have a specific opponent, and I have a decision to make. But hey. Then I'd rather take a woman poorly and you than be mistaken."

Oh, shit. I don't like that kind of thing.

"And if I bring you in, Laocles will come with me, right? 'Escort! I don't think the strange guys are going to lean on him because he's going to be here."

... I'll see how Laocles is doing. Then Laocles looked like, "I don't care." Yeah. If that's the case, let's go together.

But I don't know what to do at the party.

"Oh, I'm fine. You can talk to me. Besides, there's nothing wrong with being disrespectful. It's like a party for nobles."

I don't have much confidence in manners or anything, but for now, I guess that's okay. Faye said it was okay, so maybe it's okay, I think. Well, no, but let's give it up then.

"It's just... that's not boring, is it? So, well, you're going to see it even as the party goes on? You don't get to see it very often. And I'm out of rice. Yeah. Royal Castle rice is delicious, so you can go for it."

I'm not that interested in rice... but you know what? It's certainly not what the party looks like.

If it's a place where beautifully dressed people gather, I'm sure... it's a sight to be a sawdust painting. Yeah. I wanted to see it.

"Finally... right. It's a royal castle in the corner, so let's see some decorative paintings and stuff. You're interested, right?

Yeah. I do. Russia, I'm motivated.

"Ha. Togo, you, 'I'm motivated by Russia' is on my face!

...... yeah. Because that's actually how I feel, so I can't help it.

Within that day, I went out of town with Faye and bought clothes.

... uh, courtesy clothes. The point is, the royal castle calls me to go to a party, so clothes for that. Neither I nor Laocles have such clothes.

It's just... I heard Fay used it a lot. I went into the clothes store and Fay showed me... somehow, it wasn't what I imagined.

"... you know, not a little flirty?

What makes me try on is this... flickering shirt. Yeah. Hilarious, shirt. Is this really a man? From my senses, this is very resistant.

"Hmm? No, but if it was you, you could do this."

What do you mean, it.

... Meanwhile, the Laocles have chosen normal, or non-flickering, clothes. Well, he shouldn't be dressed because he's only an escort...

"Uh... I hate it when it's hard to move"

"Well - it suits me...... so what about this one?

"Yeah, if this... no, this hem is flickering!

... basically, the clothes in this world are all like cosplay to me. So it was pretty hard to choose clothes with no resistance to wear.

Eventually, on a shirt with no flickering just a little embroidery in the collar, he wore a vest with no back and dressed like a swallow tail suit with a long hem on top. Well, there's not that much resistance to this. I just decided to bow something like a thin ribbon instead of a tie, and the shoes are long boots, so that's the place, yeah, cosplay...

After I bought the clothes, I decided to get ready for the summons and the painting material while watching them prepare for the bulk at the Redgard family.

"Phoenix Opal, I don't know what to do"

"Hmm? You're not going to make it an accessory?

"Hmmm... when I see this, it's going to be an appeal called 'There's a Summoner,' so I thought, is it good or bad?"

In this world, gems are some kind of weapon. So should I make it visible or invisible...

"Uh... well. Better not see it this time, maybe."

Yeah. Faye's gonna make a scene on the Red Dragon, so I'd better keep the phoenix hidden.

So this time, the opal with the phoenix in it was to be hidden under the clothes and invisible.

... Instead, I was to have one smaller gem with nothing in it, broached and worn on my chest. The point is, fashion to keep you from getting licked.

"So, it's a bamboo barrel."

"... bamboo cylinder"

"Yeah. This. I wonder if it would be weird to have it."

So for the first time, I was to show Faye a bamboo barrel. When I take out the bamboo cartridge, a pipe fox pops out of it and stares at Faye.

"Huh? This guy goes in where it's not a gem?

"Yeah. I'm gonna go in the gem too, but he seems to like going in the cylinder more than that... oh, here, no"

As soon as the pipe fox came out of the bamboo barrel, it began to enter the sleeve of my shirt. Um, I really don't care if it's a cylinder......

"... cylinder, ah"

Faye, who saw it, thought for a moment... left the room and came right back.

"Maybe this is it, you like it?

What Faye had was a cylindrical, beautifully crafted vial.

The tube fox looked at the bottle in Faye's hand, tilted his neck a little... went inside a little, then came right out.

"Well, don't you like it?

"Uh... that, what?

"Hmm? Bottle. It's just that I used to have magic pills in it. It's finished with magical craftsmanship, so I thought you might like it."

Oh well. Of magic......

"... Ah, if you look closely, this bamboo... is it? Yeah, this cylinder is pretty magical. Is that a kind of spirit tree? Then why don't you look at the other cylinders?"

...... yeah. Well, because this bamboo is amazing bamboo. It glows.

"That doesn't mean that going into the sleeves and hem of a towgo is also because it's a 'highly magical cylinder'?

"Yep..."

The pipe fox just came out, so really? When I asked him, he replied with a very foxy voice. Yeah, well...

In the meantime, the pipe fox decided to take him with a bamboo barrel. Instead, a tube fox bamboo cylinder holder was made so that it could be worn on the belt. Now I don't have trouble carrying it around.

"Uh, what about Laocles? To take Alicorn, though you will take a shield..."

"... you think I can put a shield in the royal castle party?

I don't think. Yeah. Too noisy.

"Well... Alicorn is either leaving a message or having it temporarily in another stone"

"Right. So we'll negotiate if you'll go into the stone for those who didn't use it?

"I will."

Alicorn's in the jewel on the shield, so you should have her moved in at times like this. I can't help all this.

Then Laocles negotiated with Alicorn to have her admitted to a temporary move safely.

I made sure the pipe fox holder was in good shape and prepared to sketch the royal castle with a small sketchbook in addition to portable painting material.

Faye was in a hurry to get ready... and rest that day, and the next morning we were supposed to leave.