Two days after arriving at the inn, I took Sabine-chan and Colette-chan from the innâs room to Yamano territory with continuous transfer.
If I donât return there occasionally, everyone will worry.
Yup, everyone in the territory is not worried about the territory, but me instead.
The territory management wonât turn that bad when the lord is absent for a few days. If the territory is in such an unstable condition, excluding me who can use transfer, ordinary nobles wonât be able to go to the royal capital. While the lord is away, the other people are doing exactly wellâŠâŠshould be.
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Transfer to my private room.
Otherwise, they will be surprised if I suddenly appeared before them. Then, when I took Sabine-chan and Colette-chan out of the roomâŠ.
(Noel)Â ăMitsuha-sama!ă
We were discovered by Noel-chan, a 10-year-old girl who was about to be sold off under the title of being a servant a few decades ago. No, itâs not even ădiscoveredă if I may sayâŠ
Perhaps because of their small age gap, Noel-chan had became close friend with Colette-chan. She smiled at her and ran off in a hurry to inform everyone about my return.
Seeing Noel-chanâs natural smileâŠ. you have became brighter, Noel-chanâŠ.
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Then, I heard the reports from everyone who have gathered and then returned to my room immediately, as there was no problem in current situation.
Yup, this is the main purpose of my return to the residence.
(Mitsuha)Â ăWhite Home, White Home, this is White Rook, overă
(Audyst)Â ăThis is White Home leader, can you hear me?ă
Yes, as today is the day before the arrival of the main party, we had promised to contact them for confirmation.
Because itâs troublesome to transfer the car everytime and move to the outskirts to contact them, I decided to contact with the communicator in my territory. Also in terms of frequency, if the distance is only halfway, it will be too close for UHF and VHF, and thereâs a possibility to get caught in a blind spot too for HF. Thus, I thought that it would be better to contact with HF from here.\n
The antenna also has a better performance here. Thereâs enough space, so instead of using an extension coil, I installed a full-sized antenna.
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(Mitsuha)Â ăYes, it has good reception, hence we could hear you clearly. Howâs the plan?ă
(Audyst) ăOkay, we are still on schedule. As Viscount said, we went a little further from the Esu Oo Ee or something. The schedule for our arrival does not change and we will arrive in tomorrow afternoon. Letâs merge at the inn near the royal palace as mentioned before.ă
(Mitsuha)Â ăUnderstood, then, tomorrowă
(Audyst)Â ăUmuă
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Ah, SOA is the term for Speed ââof Advance. It divides the distance you are advancing by the estimated travel time that is to represent the current situation youâre having. One hour ahead of SOA, 5 minutes late, and such, itâs a word to grasp the progress so far.
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The ăYamano Household Maid Corps, girls groupă, Colette-chan, Noel-chan, 12-year-old Ninette-chan from the fishing village, and 4-year-oldâŠ.no, sheâs already 5-year-old now, Ria-chan who is a maid apprentice here, plus Sabine-chan are having a meeting, or should I say, playtime with me after having finished communicating with the Earl. Well, even though I said ăMaid Corpsă, Colette-chan is not a maid, though I donât care about the details.
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I had explained to everyone that Sabine-chan was not a princess, but a retainer candidate from the royal capital, a similar position with Colette-chan. Sabine-chan herself wanted it to be like that.
Well, instead of being treated at utmost care, Sabine-chan has chosen this as there is a few chance of being treated as a close friend.
Still, it was impossible for Sabine-chan to pretend to be a maid, and because the retainer candidate Colette-chan treated her normally as a companion, I thought it will be fine for her and seems like she has fit in well just as I imagined. As expected of Sabine-chan.
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(Mitsuha) ăShould we go soon?ă\n(Sabine) ăEeeâŠâŠă
I thought of going back to the innâs room soon and called out to them, but Sabine-chan gave a frowned look.
Aah, it was so much fun to play together with normal girls, huhâŠâŠ
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(Mitsuha)Â ăItâs fine, you can always come again, okayă
(Sabine) ăyesâŠâŠă
Sabine-chan is a good girl. When she wants to complain, she will complain but she knows the time and place for it. And now she judged that itâs not the time to argue. Well, perhaps she didnât want to show her shameful appearance in front of the younger kids.
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Then, we returned to the inn with continuous transfer and waited for the next day.
âŠâŠ3 days in the royal capital?
No, it doesnât change that much even in a neighboring kingdom. We will go sightseeing, eat street food, and enjoy a lot of things with three people normally. We wonât do anything like collecting nor writing.
No matter what, we donât want to be kidnapped every time, get our purse stolen by the orphans or be entangled with an idiot nobleâs son. Especially, when we are supposed to be a 10-year-old three-girls group.
Like this, in six years, Sabine-chan will be 16 years old, Colette-chan will be 15 years old, and I will be 24 years old while looking as a 12-year-old girlâŠâŠâŠ.
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Ugggaaaaaaaahhh~~!!
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And the afternoon of the next day.\n\nThat is obvious. There can not be a guard who overlooked the situation in which the commoner will likely harm his kingdomâs Princess and Viscount.
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(Employee) ăEhâŠâŠ?ă
The guards were not protecting the envoys, but instead in a position to protect us. The young employees and the middle-aged employee, who was at a loss for words, stopped and frozen because of the unbelievable atmosphere from the guards as they exuded bloodlust with a single sword.
Yes, the middle-aged man is the receptionist who drove us away the other day.
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(Audyst)Â ăDonât move! If you get even closer, we will cut you down!ă
The Earl declared so in a heavy tone, and all the people from the inn were frozen in place.
(Audyst)Â ăI can not overlook the possibility of rudeness and danger to our kingdomâs royalty and the head of viscounty, no matter if they are the people from another kingdom. If there is any such action intended towards the delegation party, there will be no problem to attack, no, subjugate you.ă
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(Receptionist A) ăRoyalâŠâŠtyâŠâŠ?ă
The middle-aged employee was dumbfounded as heâs the one who was responsible for giving instructions to the other employees.
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(Audyst)Â ăHer Highness, Viscout Yamano, you two are not staying here?ă
(Mitsuha) ăYes, we tried here at first, but we were driven away by that person, hence we went to another innâŠ. are Earl-sama and the others staying here?ă
At my words, the Earl answered lightly after giving a sharp look towards the inn employees.
(Audyst)Â ăNo. We will stay at another inn, though?ă