Chapter 108 A secret meeting at night part 1\n, I thought to myself as I took out two cups and began to pour us drinks.
Of course I knew that the two of them were busy running about each day for Master. They trained the soldiers as aides to the coaches.
At the same time, they protected milady and carried out various other tasks, all while using their free time to train everyone who followed them from the territory to the capital.
Recently I hadn’t seen them around mostly because they were so busy with all of that.
In the past I’d also brought up the fact that they could have appealed to the master or milady to take a break from their work in the mansion.
But Ryle was stubborn. The man before me, on the other hand, bragged that he was “only going to Master’s place to play”.
We took the full wine glasses into our hands.
The clear sound of glasses bumping together echoed through the room.
We poured the wine into our mouths.
A taste that was a bit sweet, but also quite rich spread open in my mouth.
“Ah…how delicious. A Makarama product indeed.”
“…Yes. You really got something good out of this.”
“Everything that Master owns is good wine. He’s such an alcoholic that he’s needlessly picky about it. That’s why people call him the drinking guard.”
Laughing, Dida poured all the rest of the wine down his throat.
“Time to go back, I guess. Finally.”
“Yes. So you don’t have to keep running between the mansion and Master’s place.”
“True. There are still various things to prepare.”
“…Are you also looking forward to going back?”
“Don’t read too deeply into it. Just answer the question.”
“Hmm…I don’t know if I can truly call it a return. Where I am must be where milady is at. So it’s a bit strange for me to return to the territory.”
This man was also like me, willing to sacrifice himself for his lady. His usual arrogant attitude made a lot of people question his loyalty though.
“But…well, when we go back to the territory with our lady…there are really too many obstacles here. We can’t really be by her side like we can back there…most importantly, there are so many people here who surpass us in power by far.”
“There don’t seem to be that many people who are stronger than you?”
I said this, playing dumb. Dida laughed. He seemed to understand as well. There was a strange bitterness in his eyes, a bitterness that he couldn’t express in words.
“I was kidding. Yeah, in the capital, you truly feel that you’re insignificant, weak. What we have…before the crushing strength of political power. No matter how long you train, you can never compare to that.”
“Exactly. So I want to go back soon as well–as milady’s protector.”
* I didn’t find this in the translations before, so I just ran with this romanization.