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Interlude 4
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Lightning god Thor, he noticed that he suddenly lost something during his drinking bout
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The lightning god Thor from Norse was a son of the chief god Odin.
He was a child of the king who ruled over the palace of Valhalla, so he was naturally a prince.
However Thor was exceedingly good-humored, also as a protector god of the mass, he was also very loved by the people.
He arrived at this heroic world Hyperborea in a whim.
He wandered through this sanctuary that was completely different from his homeland. During his wandering, he also interacted with the locals proactively and sometimes he would also do a helping act to those in need.
That day, Thor was sailing on sea together with fishermen.
The lightning god personally held a harpoon, jumped into the sea, brought down a large swordfish, and celebrated it with the men who were also in the same ship with him.
After returning to the harbor, they began a drinking party from noon.
It was a big banquet where they drank and sang while enjoying the freshly taken blessing of sea as snacks.
Of course, Thor drank and ate more heartily than anybody else. He displayed an impressive figure as though to declare that a great man of Norse was here.
In that banquet everyone sat down on harbor’s bare ground in a circle.
During that time, Thor put his beloved hammer on the ground beside him while eating and drinking.
Then he suddenly noticed that his weapon wasn’t anywhere to be seen. However he got the feeling that someone far away──a familiar someone told him something. Something like lend me this …….
「Fuumu……」
Due to his drunkenness too, Thor felt reluctant to search for his hammer right away.
「Let’s look for it after this party!」
He proclaimed such drunken nonsense that was really unbecoming for a god very majestically.
But, after he finished drinking two more glasses and looked at his side once more, the steel hammer of the lightning god was there again.
「I see, so it was just my imagination.」
Perhaps he had drunk a bit too much.
……Although he thought that, Thor wasn’t someone who would stop drinking just because of that. He brought even more alcohol into his mouth without hesitation.
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Queen Cassandra, providing food and drink earnestly for the sake of her loved one
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The Capital of Pleasure, queen palace──.
At the residence of Queen Cassandra, a royal order was given to the kitchen to prepare tea and light meal in a hurry at the early afternoon that day.
Before long, the afternoon tea set was brought to the queen’s personal room.
The set was given that name and invented by a certain young man who a skilled cook. However, Queen Cassandra didn’t touch the food that was lined up on the balcony table.
The young man sitting at the opposite side of the queen said.
「Could it be, you got a foreboding?」
「Yes. I suddenly felt like that Ren-sama and Stella-sama will need these……」
Cassandra answered the prime minister Julio Blandelli.
And then before long, the afternoon tea set vanished before the black tea and freshly made scones could go cold.
「Ren’s Circle of Friendship huh. It has become a really convenient power.」
Julio was impressed.
Even without going through the summoning procedure like before, a coaxing toward someone friendly could be quickly and easily responded to this degree.
The key player in this case Cassandra murmured with worry.
「But, to think that Ren-sama is asking me to send food especially……. Just what kind of situation Ren-sama is in right now?」
「This is him we are talking about, so he should be able to easily overcome anything unless his opponent is really formidable.」
Julio grumbled with a serious tone.
「But in this Hyperborea, such formidable opponent can be found anywhere to a frustrating degree though!」