“oh. “Do you know me?”
After spitting it out like that, I hit my forehead.
Considering the reaction in the ballroom earlier, there was no way he didn’t know me.
I’m thinking that this person will treat me like a cockroach and go far away.
Rather, Letsey expressed a favorable opinion.
“oh. Lady Evanroir. Nice to meet you.”
“uh… … me too.”
I was purely impressed by her courage and not being scared even after finding out that I was Celia.
He is a person with a very wide reach.
We instantly felt attracted to each other and decided to go out of the palace together.
“No, there is such a crazy person?”
“okay. “He’s a fucking duplicitous man and a sadist.”
“You damn double personality and sadist. He’s a bit similar to someone I know. Why are there so many crazy people in the world? phew.”
Letsi went out and told a story about the person she had decided to meet, and that person was a very unlucky person.
He’s a person like Dazar.
Now that we have something in common, we begin to feel a sense of camaraderie toward each other.
“I get goosebumps just by looking at your face. “Ever since she was little, she’s been very mean.”
“Ugh. To be childhood friends with someone like that. “It’s terrible.”
“You make sense!”
We stared at each other saltily.
“Letsy!”
“Celia!”
Is this what a friend is like?
It felt like I finally had a friend.
“If you go out through that exit, you will see a hole leading straight outside.”
“Oh oh. Letsi knows the geography of the imperial palace well. Great.”
“Hmm.”
Letsi looked embarrassed and adjusted the yellow cloth. She was just making her exit with her.
“You are here! Where are you going again?”
“Ha, Lord Hael!”
A knight who just looked at me and said, “I’m handsome,” suddenly appeared out of breath!
“Letsy? “Do you know someone?”
“Hmm. It’s called Lord Hael… … . “Ignore it and go quickly!”
“You can’t do that!”
A man called Hael ran towards us, hissing.
I was so startled that I pushed Letsy away and kicked his shin!
The solid iron legs that worked for Dazar kicked his shins painfully.
puck!
“Ugh!”
“omg. “Letsy, come here!”
We ran at full speed to get away from him, leaving him behind as he fell, clutching his shins.
I left the imperial palace through the hole Letshi mentioned and continued running.
“omg… … omg… … .”
After running for a while, we entered a corner alley and took a long time to catch our breath.
Letshi wiped her sweat and laughed haha.
“oh my god! This is the first time I have seen anyone defeat Lord Hael with one blow. “Your strength is great!”
“Yeah, really?”
“It was a very interesting sight!”
I leaned against the wall and laughed as she giggled happily.
Then, I took out a small wrapping cloth that I had kept in my coat pocket.
“What is that?”
“I’m going to need a lot of physical strength from now on. “Food to replenish your stamina.”
“Ohh?”
When I unwrapped the wrapping cloth, I saw two pieces of rice cake. I ripped off one of them and handed it to Letsey.
“eat. This may be my first time seeing this food, but hmmm. It will be delicious! “I baked it with a little bit of honey.”
“This is really food I’ve never seen before.”
In order to meet a machine craftsman and make a deal, you needed to have a lot of physical strength.
Besides that, I was planning on doing some other shopping as well.
I took a bite of the rice cake first, and Letsi watched quietly and followed me to take a bite of the rice cake.
I couldn’t see her face clearly because it was covered with a cloth and glasses, but I could see her mouth forming an arc.
“It’s delicious.”
“is it so? “I’m glad.”
“huh! “Very delicious food!”
Letsi smiled happily while holding the rice cake in her hand.
I, who had only met abnormal people since joining the Siaster duchy, was a little moved when I saw her.
oh my god. Such a normal person!
“Hey, would you like to come with me? What if Letsy has nothing to do… … .”
So I shyly suggested. She wanted to shop with her!
Letsy opened her mouth slightly as if she was surprised, but then laughed heartily.
ha ha ha!
“Very fun! Okay, let’s do it together!”
I was so happy. Finally, I have a female friend!
“Where should I start? atelier? cafe? “A dress shop?”
Letsey listed the stores that noble women commonly visited. She looked excited, as if it was her first time going.
I shook my head with a serious face. Those weren’t the places I was going to go.
“no. “The place we’re going to is a store called ‘You, too, can make bulging muscles, that machine.’”
“!”
It seems like Letshi’s steps are off. I guess I saw it wrong, right?
The store called ‘You can make bulging muscles, too, that machine’ was a place that appeared in the original work.
The owner of the store was an old man named Ralph, and since it was much older than the original, he must have been middle-aged.
Coming from a small tribe that was destroyed by the Quizen Empire, he was a slave until ten years ago, but became a subject of the empire thanks to Emperor Scarlet’s declaration of slave emancipation.
Above all, in the original work, when Axion destroyed the empire, he was the one who built a huge defense machine and defended the empire’s walls until the end.
Axion’s condition at the time was not bad, and some things were just overlooked.
Anyway, he was a very capable person.
This huge muscular man in front of me right now.
“what?”
“hello. “Are you Ralph, the owner of this store?”
“however?”
Cough! Cough!
The workshop was filled with stifling heat and the sound of metal being struck.
Shirtless men were working diligently, sweating continuously.
In the middle of it all, a bulky, muscular middle-aged man stood like a gigantic statue, looking me and Letsie up and down.
“Did you come to the wrong store? “The jewelry shop is across the street.”
I followed his gaze and looked at my clothes. Aha. this. Since she was dressed up to go to a prom, her outfit was very flashy.
Letsi, covered in a yellow cloth, looked very suspicious.
I shook my head.
“no. “I’m sure you’ve come to the right place.”
“Are you sure you said you came here?”
“yes.”
Ralph slammed down the huge hammer he was holding on the floor and crossed his arms.
“What brought these precious people here?”
It wasn’t a voice filled with very good emotions.
I remembered that in the original, I was introduced as hating all nobles except the Scarlet Emperor, who rescued me from slavery.
The eyes he looked at us were full of contempt and disgust… … .
“It’s very surprising that there is a place like this in the islands.”
“Letsy. Don’t touch it too hard. “What if I get hurt?”
The two of us didn’t really care about that.
I was very used to that kind of look before and after being possessed, and I thought it was because I already knew his past.
Letsi’s eyes were glued to the giant hammer machine pounding something.
“Ibosho.”
“Oh, sorry. That’s why I came because I wanted to make a request.”
“request? “I won’t accept anything like that from you, so go back.”
He snorted.
“I guess they came to ask me to make something like an automatic rotating table or an infinitely-operating fan for tea time. “So that your makeup doesn’t smudge due to sweat.”
“!”
what! Those incredibly useful machines!
“My works are not for that purpose! To repay a favor to His Majesty the Scarlet Emperor! “These are works that will be used for the prosperity of the empire!”
“Ohh?”
Then Letsy, whose eyes were shining as she looked at the hammer, quickly turned her head towards him.
She, who had a more unique appearance than me, seemed very interested in what he said.
“So let’s go back.”
Ralph had a very patriotic mindset, but he didn’t particularly impress me.
I patted the table between him and me with a annoyed look on my face.
“I’m disappointed. “I have secretly admired you after seeing your work, but in reality, you are a person who only understands others through external things.”
“what?”
“The machine that grinds miar, which has been supplied to mills since the year before last, is your work, right?”
“Well, how did you… … .”
That’s because I saw your signature on the machine I saw at the mill I visited last time.
“You were trying to somehow lower the price of miar powder by reducing the labor required at the mill, right? “For the common people.”
“… … “What are you?”
Ralph narrowed his eyes and looked at me.
A look of wariness appeared on his face.
