Volume 6 - Chapter 33 – Unexpected Ambush (1/2)
06-33 Unexpected Ambush
Evening, 8 o’clock.
Jin, Elsa, Stearina, and Dominique gathered in Reinhardt’s room.
The maids serving Reinhardt, Rianna and Mary, and the maid Kate serving Elsa were there too. Jin’s maid Laila wasn’t there.
Neither Stearina nor Dominique had maids with them. As the room would get too packed.
“I want to hear more about Reinhardt’s Schwarz Ritter, please.”
Dominique said with tear-choked eyes. Her blue eyes were facing towrads Reinhardt.
“Even if you want to hear more, I don’t really know what I could talk about…”
“Oh? I’ve heard rumors though? Were you not the champion in the combat golem sham battles held in Celuroa Kingdom’s capital last year?”
That had been Schwarz Ritter’s debut.
On that occasion Schwarz Ritter had pushed aside one veteran golem after another, and in the finals he utterly defeated ‘Adamas Warrior’ who was said to be the number one in Celuroa Kingdom, and won the championship.
“Alas, I wanted to see it too. If only I wasn’t away from the capital on official business…!”
While saying so, little by little Dominique inched closer to Reinhardt.
“…That lady, is she all over Rai-nii?”
A small distance away from them Elsa said sullenly. Next to her Jin was slurping fruit juice,
“As I thought, she’s interested in Reinhardt, don’t you think?”,
He said.
“But it’s strange. Usually Rai-nii doesn’t get that close to women.”
When as a reply Elsa said something a little troubling, Jin couldn’t surpress a bitter smile.
Yet another person also approached Reinhardt, Stearina.
“But he’s a noble and moreover an excellent Magi Craftsmanm, so isn’t it natural for them to be interested in him?”
Jin asked Elsa, who replied,
“But as a Magi Craftsman, Jin-kun is better.”
She completely shot down his reasoning.
“Haha, it’s an honor hearing that from Elsa, but I’m just an ordinary person, so.”
“Lies. If Jin-kun is an ordinary person I’ll lose my faith in this world.”
Elsa said something that could be either speaking well or speaking ill of him.
Jin was at a loss for how to reply so he changed the subject,
“Come to think of it, Beana didn’t come here. I wonder if something happened to her?”
He said, and Elsa began to reminisce about what that occurred in the bathroom not long ago.
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After dinner, it was time to bathe to get rid of the dust that smeared everyone’s bodies.
Beana and Elsa went to enter the bath at precisely the same time.
At this time, because even the Royal Secret Maids had been recruited to help with the cleanup, they judged it to be a peaceful time to enter the bath.
“Oh, Beana.”
“Elsa-sama…san.”
As expected, Beana couldn’t stop her polite language.
“I said Elsa is fine.”
“Yes, but…Elsa.”
“Mm, that’s good.”
Elsa was one step ahead and was already submerged in the bath, and after washing her body Beana also entered.
“Um, do you… have a moment?”
“Mm, what is it?”
Beana looked around the bathroom to again confirm that it was just the two of them, then,
“Elsa-sa…Elsa, what kind of a relationship… do you have with Jin?”
She asked. Elsa tilted her head,
“We’re friends.”,
And replied. But that answer didn’t seem to be the one Beana was after,
“T-then, Elsa… How do you think about Jin?”
“Hm? How is that different from the previous question?”
Elsa answered the question with a question. Beana nervously asked Elsa a second time.
“Do you…like Jin?”
“Mm. I do.”
Elsa replied instantly, while Beana hid her face from her, and,
“I also like…him.”,
She opened up her heart. When Elsa heard it,
“As I thought. You like Jin-kun just like me. We’re together.”,
She said and smiled. Seeing Elsa act like that, Beana asked,