This is some time after Ekaterina and Alexei made up.

Forlì, who had been considering planting on the Duke's territory, came to the office to report the situation.

This time again, before lunch made by Ekaterina and Flora, it's in power lunch.

"First, we washed out districts that had been logged but not opened due to various circumstances. I want those districts to be the first to be planted.

The seedlings to be planted will this time be transplanted native to the forest. Since logging has stopped in some districts due to the emergence of Xuanlong, there are loggers who have no jobs and are in need. If I could get a fee, I would have loved to.

In the future, we will be recommending the cultivation of seedlings to some farmers. I wonder if it is possible to grow seedlings, even those who only have skinny farmland. In addition to black dragon cedar, I also wonder if it would be a good idea to mix fruit that is edible and can be sold as furniture materials, such as walnuts and cherry wood. Black Dragon Cedar can sell high, but we need twenty years, if possible fifty, before it can be used as a building material, so we thought we needed something to sell faster. "

Um, Mr. Forlì, I can!

It puts the vague ideas right into reality. and said it combines measures to combat unemployment, poverty and hunger.

Furthermore, Japanese plantations are almost cedar, but the harm goes without saying hay fever. Low water retention and not very good for ecosystems. If plantations mixed with cedar and broad-leaved trees, there would be no problem there.

"Do you think of seedlings in a buyout way?"

"It's the left. I also thought about a proposal to exempt growers from taxes, but I was wondering if it would be easier to understand and get money. Nothing, the idea of planting is new. Everyone thinks it's better to plant something on farmland that can be eaten immediately, so it seems necessary to show it in conjunction with planting and profit."

Best of all. I've never done it before, so many people just react to rejection. Every time we released a new system in the SE era, we struggled.

"What do the forest people think?

Hmm?

"It is seen as doubtful if it will work, but efforts to stop deforestation are appreciated"

"Right. Xuanlong is said to respect the people of the forest. I hope this attempt will not pass from the forest people to the dragons."

"Um, brother, Sir Forlì. What kind of people are the forest people?

"Oh, didn't Ekaterina know"

A forest people is a minority living in a forest in the Duke's territory, emigrating through the forest without settling, not interacting very much with other people, they say, a special being.

Something elf? But there shouldn't be any elves in this world, so I guess it's like Sanka, a mountain people who lived in Japan in the past life.

"The people of the woods are divided into several tribes, and the head of the biggest tribe is behind Forlì."

"Eh ⁉"

"is... well, it's on the left"

While coughing, Forlì nods.

Born as the Marquis' third son, Forlì, he was invited by his grandfather Sergei, who became his friend at the School of Magic, to visit the Duke's territory, where he met the people of the woods as he walked the mountain he liked since that time, and fell in love with the chief's daughter after all.

And I was insulated from my parents' Marquis family, became a grandfather's subordinate, and to this day.

What? That's amazing! The Romance!

I accidentally looked at Flora, but both the girls have sparkling eyes. It's a power that even Alasser unintentionally maidens.

Cough it up again, and Forlì mouths lunch.

Pie today. Meat pie, mushroom pie, gratine pie full of vegetables, apple pie.

It's not something I can make just for lunch break, but it's actually Ekaterina and Flora stopping by the kitchen the day before after school, before school, or for a small morning break, and planting it. Recently, it has become routine for me to review classes while having tea every night in my dorm and discuss tomorrow's recipe with that breath. The kitchen staff also wanted to know about Flora's recipe and helped me in exchange, and as a result, the lunch grew more and more handy.

"... you have a nostalgic taste"

Forlì said, and Flora smiled.

"This is the Baroness's recipe. That guy's pie is really great. I think Sir Forlì and I are getting old, so maybe you feel nostalgic."

"Baroness Cherney...... do you say your name is Natasha"

That's what they say, Flora looks out.

"Yes, it is. Madame is named Natasha... I wonder if you know that."

"Miss Natasha, at the time I was Countess Natasha Merneau, but I was in the same school year at this school of magic"

Seriously!

"Joseph Cherney and I were in the same class, and through him I got to know Miss Natasha. He liked to cook just like the two of you, and borrowed the corner of the kitchen to make and behave like this. It was so delicious, it was a takeover. Lord Sergei secured it every time. About a big meal."

Last, last. You were really close.

"Joseph and Miss Natasha arrived the night before graduation, but it was actually Lord Sergei who fed them."

"... what?

"Huh?"

"What?

The bomb fell.

"Um, excuse me, it makes a little sense... call me? Huh? Those two? Those two little people, no way, no way..."

Flora is a mayhem.

"Wait, Forlì. What did your grandfather say he was?

"Flora's step-parents and your grandfather say you were in such a deep relationship...? No, but, no way."

Alexei and Ekaterina are also confused. Wait, I'm a heroine with a villain warrant lady! You can have that cause!

"Joseph was a seemingly quiet, plain person, but there was something about him that was strong in the core, and he kept saying no to anything he didn't like. Lord Sergei seemed to like it there. I was wondering if I could say I expected it.

I don't know how I met Miss Natasha, but when I was a sophomore, I already looked like an uncut friend. It's not flashy colorful, but it just seemed like these two would be together for the rest of their lives.

But Miss Natasha's home prepared another bond, which did not allow her to marry Joseph, and she and her alumni were to flee the two to Cherney territory. It's the biggest memory of student life. "

The students' Norinoli outburst... The mastermind has a mild sympathy for the teachers and guardians of the three Dukes...

"Miss Natasha seems to have finally baked me an apple pie as a thank you to everyone, but the Lord Sergei who received it has eaten the whole hall. When you found out about it, you hit me by accident."

Hey......

"... Your grandfather remembers that the pie-like was not very favored"

"He said he just seemed to eat too much and would have a firm heartburn later. After that, he stopped eating if he liked."

Is that right......

I mean, uh, 8265;

I've never met your grandfather, but I've seen portraits at the Duke's residence. I also had two shots with my 10-year-old brother, and he was messing with his brother's beautiful boy, and his grandfather was as obnoxious as he anthropomorphized his majesty, but even a super dandy nice uncle...

Although there are too many gaps in the episode when I was younger!

The Novaks are laughing bitterly beside the grandchildren with heads. Because for them Sergei was a benefactor and boss of rigour itself who drew me apart, but I knew there was a floating aspect to it that wasn't all.

"Forlì, why didn't you tell me about your grandfather and Baron Cherney the other day"

"Because I thought it was up to you, young man. Exchange with Lord Sergei makes you wonder if it's special."

……

It was Alexei, who did not sound unusual. If I had been dating my grandfather and admitted to making out with Ekaterina and Flora, I wouldn't have been able to review my thinking.

"I was wondering what happened to Joseph and Miss Natasha after that, but I couldn't find out because I had this myself. It's a strange friendship, but I'm truly delighted to know that we're still living together."

When I said smudge, Forlì grabbed another bite of pie and it still tastes nostalgic, I said.

"- My chest hurts"

I dropped off the carriage at the Duke's house with Joseph and Natasha on it, punched Sergei who said he was kidding about eating all the pies to thank him, beat him back and hit him again, and after a while of working together, we two rolled to the ground.

That's when Sergei said it.

'It's too much to eat. You're heartburn. You're an idiot for the whole hall by yourself.'

"I wanted to try it once"

"Stupid."

"Yeah."

Sergei sighed.

"... wouldn't it be nice if I didn't have to let you go"

'I don't want that.... So, okay, that's about it'

"Ugh. Why are you always so stuck with me, you idiot? '

Sure, it would never have been love.

It's just that Sergei was already engaged to Empress Alexandra, and even a beautiful man and beauty who looked good, they were no longer ominously opposite poles in Alexandra, who was high chronic and ruthless, and Sergei, who had no grasp somewhere to be serious, but who was shaky and fair and gentle.

Natasha wasn't the type to be praised as a beauty, but she had small, gentle eyes and smelled sweet. Sergei would have been happy if the person he married had been Natasha.

"Never again, I won't eat apple pie"

Sergei groaned, and Forlì laughed.

When I never dreamed that my angry best friend, who for some reason had not hesitated to bother me, would leave so soon.

Looking back, it was a good time.