Volume 6 - Chapter 21 – Secret (1/2)

06-21 Secret

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Surely there’s been some kind of a misunderstanding.”

The maids responsible for Reinhardt, Elsa, and Beana calmly replied, but,

“Whawhawhawhawhawhawhawhawhawhawhat do yoyoyouoyou mean!?”

There was one easy to read girl.

“…”

Everyone looked at the girl with pitying eyes. She was, of course, the maid responsible for Jin.

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“Huh!?”

Finally she realized it, and belatedly pretended to be calm.

“Laila, you…”

“Wa,”

It seemed like her name was Laila. Laila’s eyes were downcast, and her shoulders shook. Immediately afterwards,

“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!”

She burst into tears.

“Ca- calm down, you.”

“I’m sorryyyyyyyyyyy!”

Seeing Laila cry in front of people without hesitation made Jin and the others feel as if they were in the wrong.

Elsa couldn’t simply stand back and watch and patted Laila on the shoulder,

“No need to cry. No one said that you in particular were in on it.”

In spite of that while Laila still sniffled, she had nearly stopped crying.

“*Sniffle*…Abe yuu sube…?”

“Ah, yes, that’s true.”

Reinhardt replied, seemingly a little drawn back by her face smeared with tears and snot.

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“In the first place, last time I stayed here we didn’t have any maids like you around.”

Since Laila had calmed down, Reinhardt explained his reasoning.

“And now when it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say nobles from all around the country have gathere here, anyone could guess that the security has become more strict.”

Then taking a glimpse at the maid assigned to him who seemed to be in her late teens and had a sharp air aorund her, he said,

“You’ve got too few wasted movements for a maid. Those are the movements of a person trained in martial arts, most likely a martial art utilizing a short sword.”

He brought the explanation to an end.

After a brief silence, clapclapclap, the sound of applause resounded. The source was again a maid assigned to Reinhardt, this time the glamorous beauty in her 20s.

“Bravo, Reinhardt-sama. Indeed, we are a part of the Royal Secret Maids.”

No one knows whether or not Jin thought what kind of a chuunibyou name is that when he heard it.

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“The Royal Secret Maids are as name implies, a covert force borrowing the appearance of maids. I am Rianna, this is Kate. She is Mary, and finally there’s Lisa. We are the squad two of the Royal Secret Maids.”

After having their true character reavealed, the squad leader of the Royal Secret Maids’ squad two, the glamorous beauty in her 20s, Rianna, began to talk.

“Our mission is to maintain security in the royal palace. We remove even the slightest bit suspicious people to keep order in the royal palace.”

She said, then shaked her head,

“But being seen through by Reinhardt-sama means we’ve failed.”

After that, she began to set off.

“Oi, you’re just going to leave?”

“Yes, since we’ve failed in our duties we will withdraw.”

Rianna dropped her shoulders and replied. But reinhardt said,

“You fool, surely it’s not like you’ve completely failed?”