âNador-kun, you love our Sistana, donât you?â
âThatâs⊠Count Lyran⊠Yes, of course I love her! Iâm ashamed to admit it myself but I, Nador, just by thinking how beautiful Sistana is, my chest will throb painfully, my heart will tremble and the moment my eyes catch onto the sight of her smiling face⊠It feels like Iâm being embraced by a celestial maiden!â
Without ever mentioning the fact that he had a number of people he was intimate with in his favourite brothel, Nador moved his tongue, showcasing how fluent he was at spinning his tongue.
To be fair, he did in fact, always treated Sistana with the utmost care.
To ease the whole situation, he did his best to treat Sistana wholeheartedly. Although his words were coated with some greed and self-interest, the âloveâ part was not quite incorrect.
âBut⊠I donât know why but for the past few days, Sistana has been secluding herself in her own room⊠Iâve never seen her face ever since. These past few days, where I couldnât see Sistana⊠It makes me feel like Iâm experiencing the end of the world, where the sun has withered awayâŠâ
âO-Oh⊠Y-Yes thatâs right. Weâre very grateful to you. Everyday without fail, you always bring gifts and letters to our Sistana yourself. I too, wish I can refer to you as my own son soon.â
ââŠâŠ..!! C-Count Lyran!â
Nador appeared to be pleased at Pavadaâs words.
âBut⊠I donât consider a man to be worthy for me to call him my own son unless he can eat a certain food.â
âW-what? âŠ. Eat a certain food, you said?â
A little taken aback by the unexpected condition, Nador asked the count to repeat his words. Each noble family had certain values they stressed the most like âstrengthâ or âmagic powerâ.
For that very reason, there were many cases where a man from a low-ranked family was presented with some difficult challenges like⊠ăGo and defeat a monster called xxxăor⊠ăYou need to be able to pour yyy amount of magic into this magic tool for us to recognize youă.
ButâŠăYou must eat zzzăwas simply unheard of. Maybe the Count Lyran family valued digestibility the most?
However, now that Nador thought about it, this challenge was indeed very favourable to him since he didnât have any particular food he liked or disliked. It was not an exaggeration to say the level of monster subjugation challenge to be recognized by a count family was a life-threatening thing to accomplish.
âBut⊠If thatâs the only way I can prove my love for Sistana then I will eat up everything without fail!â
âOoh! Thank you, Nador-kun!â
For some reason, Pavadaâs face brightened the moment Nador readily accepted the challenge. Before Nador could realise there was something strange with the countâs behaviour, Pavada promptly took Nador to Sistanaâs room.
âMy lovely Sistana?!â
âYes. Nador-kun, can you please sit over there?â
The count gestured toward a small table and chair, fitting for one person.
Whatâs wrong with this place?!
All of the windows on the south side, which under normal circumstances would be bathed with a good amount of sunlight, were now completely covered with pitch black clothes. The juxtaposition between the roomâs feminine decorations and the black windows were too striking.