I lifted the tip of my chin slightly and spoke arrogantly.
“I have received an important mission from Her Majesty the Scarlet Emperor.”
It takes a little while for Letsy next to me, but I guess I can sneak around it later.
“Woe to your Majesty?”
A serious mission. It was a bit of an exaggeration, but it was roughly correct.
Don’t we have a very important mission to create new food?
Although I was doing it for my own benefit.
“yes. As part of that, I came to ask Mr. Ralph to make machines and tools.”
“… … .”
Ralph looked at me with a slightly surprised expression, his ugly face turned slightly red, and asked.
“Ho, does your Majesty know me?”
Then, I don’t know why, but Letsi blinked and scratched the back of her head.
I shook my head firmly.
“no. Ralph, you’ve been doing that without letting people know, right? “He secretly repairs the castle walls even though it is not profitable.”
“Huh… … .”
“Your Majesty, you don’t know. But I know. And through this request, I would like to convey Ralph’s abilities.”
“!”
Ralph shivered slightly.
Hehehe. It’s over.
I grinned to myself and took out the design I had kept in my coat and handed it to him.
“Here you go. “I want to make these.”
“Keuhum!”
Ralph, with a very different attitude than before, hurriedly took the design and spread it out on the table.
He narrowed his eyes and scanned the design for a moment, then looked at me with interest.
“this… … It’s fun. “What do you plan on using it for?”
“I’m cooking rice.”
“huh?”
“there is. Something like that. “You know, secrecy is essential in this kind of work.”
“Yeah, right! Huh.”
Ralph slapped his forehead as if he had almost forgotten and hurriedly covered the design with his thick hand.
Then, he rolled up the design while looking at his surroundings in a very alert manner.
“Okay. “I will accept this request.”
I grinned.
It was the perfect deal for our future plans.
* * *
“It was a very exciting negotiation scene. “It reminded me of the war of words that took place two years ago between the Prime Minister of the Empire and the Minister of the Kingdom of Adrin over the Tishen River.”
“… … ?”
As I sat in the cafe, sipping orange juice through a straw, I blinked.
The noble ladies here are so knowledgeable about the current situation. I hated current affairs politics.
Well, I thought it was probably a compliment anyway and laughed.
“thank you. Oh, and what we talked about earlier is a secret. “Actually, I lied a little bit.”
“lie?”
Letshi adjusted her wrapping cloth and tilted her head.
“Where was the lie in that statement?”
“Hmm. I was talking about His Majesty the Emperor. “That’s a bit of an exaggeration, so forget it.”
“Hmm.”
Letsi seemed to be displeased with something.
But what is this feeling, like someone is watching us?
I looked around, feeling as if my skin was being torn apart.
On the street bustling with festivals, there were boys selling newspapers, richly dressed ladies, and middle-aged gentlemen walking with dignity, but there was nothing particularly unusual.
“By the way, Letsi. “Don’t you feel like someone is constantly looking at you?”
“… … .”
Then Letsy, who had been dismantling the bread she had bought on the street earlier as if it were fascinating, stopped raising her hand.
Then he stood up and said something meaningful.
“hmm. You came earlier than expected. “Staying with you could be harmful, so I think it would be better to part ways.”
“yes?”
Ah. I haven’t been to the ‘Give me 3 seconds and I’ll poison you’ store yet!
We need to make medicine to eradicate pests!
I was very sad to let go of my friend Letsie, whom I had grown to like.
But I couldn’t help but let her leave resolutely.
“I’ll definitely see you again next time I get a chance.”
“That will happen.”
Letsi spoke as if predicting the future and then disappeared. It seemed like I was heading to a deserted alley.
I looked vaguely at her back and realized one thing.
When did she take them off? Al had left behind her big glasses!
“oh!”
So I grabbed my glasses and followed after her.
But, why did this situation come to be?
“Letsy! I left this behind… … !”
The alleyway I entered in search of Letsie was full of black masked people.
They had their swords drawn, with Letsi in the middle.
A bloody sword blade flashed in the darkness.
I appeared in the alley with my glasses raised and blinked several times to understand the situation.
Several masked people and one person in the middle of them being threatened.
‘Is this a kidnapping!’
After understanding the situation, I clenched my fists. Although I was scared of that bloody blade, I felt like there would be a way for me to survive if I grabbed Letsy and ran down the street.
I had to save my girlfriend who was in danger!
“Celia… … ?”
I ignored Letsy’s call in a panicked voice and headed in that direction. The masked people surrounded Letsi as if to prevent her from escaping, but they seemed to be embarrassed as well.
If you look at the way he walked in with his face crumpled up like a shriveled balloon and didn’t do much to stop him while he was walking in.
He said grimly, tilting his head up at a 45-degree angle.
“Hey, this is my area? “It’s brave of you to get ripped off in my place.”
“… … .”
The masked people were taken aback by my appearance, but they didn’t get caught up in the nonsense. hmm. These guys are well trained.
Usually, when someone talks nonsense like this, I tend to raise my voice because I wonder what they are doing, but these guys just glanced at me.
Sweat pouring down my mind, I quietly stood next to Letsey. And she grabbed her wrist.
“I’ll take this guy in exchange for the rent.”
It wasn’t as much as I expected, but it gave me a brief break.
We took one step or two and were almost able to get Letsie out of the guys surrounding us.
We heard the sound of all the masked people turning towards us.
“Run, Letsy!”
I strengthened the hand holding Letshi and kicked the ground with all my might.
“Huh, huh… … .”
“Wait a minute, stop.”
“Retsey, come to your senses! “It’s a dangerous situation!”
I shouted as I ran towards her, but Letsey instead grabbed my wrist.
“That’s not it… … . “The front is already blocked.”
“Huh?”
It was as she said. The exit to the main street was already blocked by masked people.
It stopped with a screeching sound. I thought he was following me leisurely, but this is what happened!
I quickly looked back at the masked people who were chasing me.
They slowly approached us without any sign of panting. He was relaxed, as if he was looking at a rat in a poison.
“Follow me obediently.”
Among them, a man who appeared to be a captain said that in a gloomy voice.
“Oh, oh, oh.”
A familiar voice that couldn’t be heard here came from above.
“Why are you here?”
I looked up in surprise and saw men in black armor crouching on the roof of the building, looking down.
It looks like crows sitting on a telegraph wire, leisurely looking down at the floor.
These people must be… … .
“Chiit! “It’s a black hawk!”
As soon as they appeared, the masked people started moving all at once. A clumsy hand quickly reached out towards Letsie.
“Hoek!”
I pushed Letsey away and punched the guy who was attacking us in the face with my fist.
I knew from experience that my arm strength was as strong as that of most adult men!
“Huh?!”
As the man stumbled, the guys squatting on top jumped to the floor.
Even though I fell from a high place, it was a very stable landing. Even though she was wearing full body armor, she couldn’t even hear the common friction sound.
As soon as they landed on the ground, they began to subdue the masked men.
One of them approached me. Her face was not visible as she wore a black helmet reminiscent of her falcon.
“Oh my, sister. “If you stay here, we will be scolded by our lord.”
“… … Leon?”
“lol.”
It was Leon, the head of Black Mae, who always carried a notebook called ‘The Way of Gourmet’, was good at grilling lamb on skewers, and was very disciplined in eating them.
He stretched out his foot, threw the masked man away, and scratched the back of his head. There was a sound of scraping a helmet.
‘Why are these scum here?’
I couldn’t understand the situation, so I blinked a couple of times.
I glanced at Letsy, but seeing that she didn’t look surprised, it seemed like she knew the situation would turn out like this.
He was just adjusting the disheveled yellow cloth and making a small, worried sound.
When the black hawk appeared, the situation was quickly resolved.
The unconscious masked people were handcuffed and piled up in a corner.
As I was looking around vaguely, I heard two men’s voices coming from the entrance of the alley.
“oh my god! “If you’re planning something like this, you need to let me know in advance!”
“No, I mean, I don’t have any authority. What are you doing by arguing with me? “Just ask the owner over there.”
“You’re the owner! Your Majesty is the master of all people. Duke of Siaster!”
what? Duke of Seaster? I was startled by a familiar name and voice and turned my head, and Dazar was there.
And next to him, a man named Lord Hael, whom I had met earlier in the imperial palace, was walking limping on the foot that had been scraped by me.
“Ugh?”
“… … what?”
That black guy in front of me was clearly the talented in-law who had been surrounded by his mother’s squad in the dance hall just a moment ago.
“What are you doing here?”
“Really you?”
We faced each other, glaring at each other with cold eyes.
The person who came between us was Letsie, who had adjusted the disheveled yellow cloth and gently removed the glasses in my hand and put them on neatly.
“Big. I, I am the Shadow Knight of the Scarlet Emperor. “It was deployed under the orders of His Majesty the Emperor.”
“yes?”
“Wow, you pretended to be the emperor and took on the role of attracting assassins!”
Letsey was desperate, but her acting skills were worse than that of an earthworm passing by on the floor.
Did it rain yesterday? What an earthworm… … .
As I watched the earthworm slowly passing by, my mind spun wildly.
‘aha. Letsi is the Scarlet Emperor?’
Fireworks exploded in my head. It was a sign that the correct answer was correct.
aha! I dared to go shopping with His Majesty, drink juice, grab his wrist, and run!
