âCry-san, you receive a letter of thanks from Gladys HouseâŠâ
âHmm⊠Aaah, just leave it here.â
â⊠Please make sure to open it later, okay?â
Eva puts the gorgeous, sealed letter on my desk.
This is a problem as unlike Hunters, nobles and merchants will always write a letter right away. There are still many unread letters left on my desk in the Clan Master room.
I look at the letter I receive on top of the pile of letter, I confirm that there was a wax seal with the Gladys coat of arms and look away.There is no reason to receive a letter of thanks, but in the first place arenât they too fast to send one?
Since my Certification Level went up, the number of letters I got was increasing day after day and the amount I got was amazing.In particular, with my status as a Clan Master, I had become very noticeable as I almost never leave the Imperial Capital. I receive a lot of letters for example, letters begging for some help, or invitation letter, or thank you letter or letter of challenge or curriculum vitae letter. There was only letter that wonât make me happy and letter where there was nothing I could do, so it started to pile up.
I know that I will have to open it someday, but my hand just canât reach them. I am the type of person to put things off as long as I can if I donât like doing it.
Recently, as I have left too much letter piled up, some of them were opened by Eva instead and she even gave them a reply. I think my action were the correct one as my reputation got better.
âSee, I am also, busyâŠâ
â⊠Contrary to those addressed to the clan or your Party, I donât think I should open letter addressed to you personally⊠As it may contain confidential informationâŠâ
There isnât. There isnât anything that I am hiding from Eva. Canât you tell by looking at how I behave usually?
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If I have to say one of my benefit, then it would be that I have no secret at all. Eva makes a small sigh and carefully select some letters. I drop my line of sight on the pile of letters that doesnât seem to go down and she quickly say.
âLooks like, Ăclair-jou impression on the cake Cry-san gave⊠Were, well, she particularly liked it.â
Aaah, right. There was another way for me to handle this.
I nod strongly with confidence to Evaâs words.
âOf course, she will.â
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I am not bragging but I know all the sweets store in this Imperial Capital. From coffee shop to pastry shop, I went around all of them on my own. The only shop I donât know about are the store in the ăAbandoned Metropolitan Areaă like the one Eva told me before, the cake I had prepared and served it to Ark is also coming from a shop that I can confidently recommend it.
It is a new product from an unforgettable store, it was the first Western confectionery store I entered when I first came to the Imperial Capital.The first time I went there, there was no one, probably because it was in a remote location but nowadays, there are always queues in front of the store and even if you line up, it is hard to buy one. Both the customer service and the product taste are three stars. I am even acquainted with the owner.
Even if you ask me for a recommendation for a weapon store, dojo or information store my answer is always hazy but if you ask for a cake shop I can give as many answer as you want.Ăclair-jou is a noble but this is why everything she eats are only high-class product, so she probably never tasted the streetâs savor. Even if the ingredients are high-class, it doesnât always mean that it is good.
However, who would have thought that my choice would even fascinate the tongue of the Countâs Daughter⊠It was as if I was evaluated for my own ability after a long while, so I am very happy. It seems that Hunters have a lot of chances to eat raw product so their taste buds got dull, so it is very difficult to get their approvals.When I notice that Eva is looking at me, I hurriedly tries to clear my throat.
âAaah. I donât really like sweets but there is nothing I donât know in this city.â
Arenât I badass?\nââŠâŠ Yes, I guess so.â
But, I see. This is the awakening of a new cake companion. I thought she was a troublesome noblewoman but why does only her tongue seem to be excellent.I probably canât take her over instead of Tino but I would really love you to introduce me to shop only known by nobles.
Well, this and that is a different story.
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I decide to process all the letters on my desk together.
âWell, please give them an appropriately bland reply to all of them. Answer them while thinking of refusing all their requests and invitations⊠As you see, I am too busy.â
Eva is looking at me coldly.I am sorry to answer them without opening it but when I read letters, it makes me sleepy, most of the letters from powerful people or merchants use stiff words and roundabout expression inside so even if I read all of them, honestly there will be many thing that I donât understand. The best thing to do is to leave everything to this excellent Vice Clan Master and she will handle it.
Even more, I want you to process all the letters without sending them to me, but because of Evaâs sensitivity, she seems to answer me with a big ăNoă.
â⊠You donât have any plan though.â
ââŠâŠ I need to keep being available, you know. Or rather, donât you think, everyone is writing too much to just one Hunter? I wonder if the other Level 8 are also so busy⊠Even though Huntersâ main job is to explore Shrines.â
I would like you to forget about me if you want to involve me in a battle for power and I am also afraid of dealing with sly old merchant.At the beginning, when the first latter came, I thought that, if I do nothing then the number of letters would decrease but there is no sign of that. Even though I am doing the best I can.
When I yawn, suddenly coming into my view was a white puzzle in a frame hung on the wall. \nRecently I was only showing her my miserable appearance. Shall I show her the nice and understanding Master after a long time?