Chapter 41 (1/2)

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Fii’s first friend from Déman appears in the next chapter.

“Kain-san! The Captain told me to ask you for techniques, so here I am!”

As Princess Fii said, York had sent her over here to learn.

What’s more, she even had a formal directive, signed with York’s name. To a Gra.s.s like him, it was the same as a direct order from His Majesty.

At any rate, it was dangerous for her up here, so he had her climb down before talking.

“You’re amazing! To think that you were hiding up in a place like that. I had no idea! What were you doing?”

(I was observing you…)

But of course he couldn’t tell her that.

Seeing him stay silent, Princess Fii seemed to guess something.

“Ah-, I’m sorry. It must have been some secret mission, huh!” she exclaimed with her eyes sparkling for some reason.

“Yes…”

In fact, it really was a secret mission.

Though it was probably not as cool as she was imagining.

“So Kain-san, what kind of technique will you be teaching me?”

Apparently Princess Fii had completely decided that he would be teaching her. He could see the sparkles of expectations in her eyes.

(No… Is this really fine…?)

Kain once again went through his lord’s orders in his mind.

『Observe Princess Fii.』

『If she is ‘black’, report it.』

『Teach Heath(Princess Fii) your techniques.』

Mn, there didn’t seem to be any contradictions.

In fact, observing Princess Fii as he taught her techniques and reporting nothing to His Majesty was in fact quite easy.

There didn’t seem to be any contradictions…

No contradictions…

(This is weird, right…! From a common sense point of view…!)

Kain wanted to clutch his head and scream. Or rather, he was already clutching his head.

He had stayed true to the role of a Gra.s.s, he had stayed true to obeying his orders, and the result was that the situation had grown even more confusing than before.

“Kain-san! Kain-san!? Are you okay!?”

Princess Fii looked at him, worriedly.

Resolving himself, Kain stood right up.

“Yes, I am fine. I apologise for worrying you.”

(I am a Gra.s.s… One who accomplishes his missions, and nothing else…)

He a.s.serted that he was a Gra.s.s in his mind, but he was actually feeling desperate.

“I see. Thank goodnesss. I don’t have anyone left to ask but you. So, what is it that you will be teaching me?”

(I can teach her techniques, but won’t that be dangerous…? This lady is a princess, no, you could say that she is already a queen. It begs to reason that I can’t teach her anything dangerous… Then, I absolutely can’t teach her offensive skills. Practising movement skills might injure her too… In that case…)

“Then, break fallin――”

“Something flas.h.i.+er would be good.”

Just as he was about to suggest something safe, Princess Fii puffed up her cheeks.

(Oh? She’s surprisingly wilful…?)

His impression of her during his observations had painted somebody a little different from the girl he was speaking to now, and that gap made him a little bewildered.

“Then, a defensive technique to avoid being grab――”

“I’ve already learnt that at apprentice school.”

After that, Kain continued listing safe things that he could teach even to Her Highness the Second Queen, but every single one was met with rejection.

“I want something flas.h.i.+er please. If I can’t show off to anybody, there’s no point. I BELIEVE IN YOU, KAIN-SAN!” she declared, even though it should have been their first meeting.

Fii was also desperate. Kain-san was her final hope for a secret technique.

And from Fii’s eyes, Kain-san was emitting the aura of somebody who was just filled with secret techniques.

(This is bad… I don’t have any safe techniques left… Can’t be helped… At least a movement skill then…)

In the end, Kain decided to compromise…

Kain brought Princess Fii into a rear garden.

As a Gra.s.s, he fundamentally avoided places where many people would see him.

“This kind of feels like a secret training session, doesn’t it.”

Princess Fii looked at him with excited eyes.

This rear garden had a wall. It was one of the shortest walls in the castle.

Kain produced a thick rope from his pocket with a claw at the end.

Holding the claw in his right hand, he tossed it strongly up onto the wall.

Catching onto the wall, the claw fixed the rope in place. After that, Kain smoothly climbed the rope without a sound, and a few seconds later he was on top of the wall.

(H-, How’s this…?)

Looking back at Princess Fii to check, he found her looking up at him, and in her eyes were more sparkles than ever.

“A-, Amazing…!”

Apparently he had met her expectations. Sighing in relief, he descended the wall to land in front of her.

After that, it was her turn to practice.

“Ei-! Huh…? EI-…!”

Although Princess Fii threw it many times, the claw couldn’t quite hook the top.

“This is pretty hard, huh…”

In fact, Kain had been aiming for this. There were a lot of difficult things with this technique, but none so difficult as getting the hook to latch to the wall to begin with.

The technique could be said to be very dangerous as a whole, but there was no danger as long as she never began climbing.

Princess Fii continued to challenge the wall for another 20 minutes before finally handing the hook back to Kain.

(Phew…)

He was sure that she had given up.

(Thank goodness… With this, my mission is over…)

For a moment, Kain thought this.