Chapter 102 (1/2)

The diplomat

[head patting intensifies]

Additional note for anyone interested: Elizabel speaks in a very formal tone, while Diane speaks in rather rude and cra.s.s way, in other words, the former is a young lady while the later is tomboy. But we already knew that huh?

The Schultz tribe completed their first step into a new future.

They will also be living safely for the time being.

I would like see how they are doing, but all this chaos wouldn’t allow me.

Let’s think about that when things are calmer, first I need to make sure things are going good.

[Margils-Sama... Would you spare a few moments?]

As I think some of my burdens were relieved, someone called me.

It was the daughter of the duke of Fillsand, Elisabel.

Thinking about it, the cause for all this uproar was rescuing her from her brother a.s.sa.s.sination attempt. Had I visited Fort.i.tude castle as a simple guest, me relation to the duke and the others would have been so much easier.

[Yeah, I also wanted to talk to you]

I wanted to take some time off, but I think it’s better to just hop on into action.

We talked in my room at the castle (I’m not renting it, the duke a.s.signed me one room for my lodging).

[Please come in]

Elisabel graciously prepared some herbal tea, and then sat next to me.

I remembered a scene with hot tea lined with some cakes.

[Is this Ruth’s fruit?]

The Schultz tribe eat plenty of this fruit  dried and preserved in sugar. The sweetness is plenty strong, but it matches quite nicely with the bitterness of the herbal teal.

[Yes, I shared it with the others]

This girl is working as a representative for Fillsand, she’s the one who carried the negotiations with the Schultz tribe, furthermore, she listens to the complains and requests of the commoners, and also serves as an intermediary between the citizens.

She gained the goodwill from many among those people.

[I see... Wasn’t hard being rejected by them?]

[Certainly it was, at first they even threw rocks at me]

Elisabel told me so as if it wasn’t a big deal

[Sounds terrible, is everything fine now?]

[Yes, a bit better]

So far, she’s been working really hard as diplomat for Fillsand, and yet, her mother is a princess of the Schultz tribe, and her father the tyrant that tormented them.

It was impossible to build any trusting relations.h.i.+p in that setting.

[I see, you really did your best right?]

[I... The only thing I’m good at is talking to people]

She is an outstanding diplomat, but more than that, she could held a  fair dialogue no matter the person, that left a deep impression on me.

I unintentionally patted her blonde head.

I don’t think she likes it, but she was shyly smiling.

[Last night... I I finally spoke to my father]

You could say our chat until now was a kind of greeting.

I prepared two cups of herbal tea, she was ready to talk about the real issue now.

[I see, how was it?]

[I think it’s as you already hear, to my father... I’m nothing more than an useful person who’s only good at one thing]