Chapter 4 (2/2)
Ritone retorts instinctively to the book.
「This is bad, the reason of why Ritone of the story had to put a slavery choker on the baby dragon, was this…」
Once again, he realizes how difficult is to raise a dragon.
「Then, without further due, let’s return the baby to the Mother Dragon」.
-During the few first decades of a dragon, it will recognize the first living being as the parent and will become emotionally attached. If you forcibly take it away from the foreign parent, it will become extremely sad to the point that it will weaken to its death.
「Are you kidding me? There is no other option?」
「There doesn’t seem to be another way, let’s send an emissary to inform the Mother Dragon.」
Eagle and Ritone didn’t have any other option than sigh at each other.
The next day, at the courtyard
「So, we are going to start magic practice.」
The proud Head maid, told Rin strictly. The maid is an expert in water type magic.
「I understand!」
「Kyuii!」
The dragon was responding energetically between Rin’s arms.
「Rin, I get that the dragon is cute, but, you should leave him…」
Ritone was trying to convince Rin, but was rejected with a tantrum.
「I don’t wanna. Milky and me became friends! Isn’t that right, Milky?」
「Kyui kyui!」
Before he realized, the maids have named the dragon Milky.
In that instant, the head maid walks determinedly to Rin’s side and pulls her ear.
「It hurtss!」
「Behave yourself! Don’t be conceited, just because you have some talent towards magic. I will personally coach you in the ways of magic, so stop being selfis.h.!.+」
「… I understand…」
Rin handed over Milky to another maid, and started her magic lesson.
「Let’s start, shall we? if I’m not wrong, you can use the same darkness magic, can’t you?」
「Yes.」
「The darkness magic is also known as Spatial Magic. We have the ability interfere with the s.p.a.ce. Among dark magicians, our Shylock House excels with summoning magic, we can distort the s.p.a.ce and summon items and even living things. It is said that the founder of the Shylock House used the magic from demonic beast’s cores to summon money and support the hero.」
「So it was like that. It is quite convenient, isn’t it?」
Ritone is reflecting about it. He seems to have understood the mechanism behind RPG games, and why there are drops after a monster’s defeat.
「As your magic power increases, you will be able to summon any kind of living being. But what the magician can summon, depends on the person. Also, all the summons must be done with things that doesn’t have owners.h.i.+p over them; and even though you made it disappear, it won’t bring trouble to anyone. After the first generation, the G.o.ddess added this restriction over our family.」
「It’s natural, if it’s not, it could only be considered as robbery.」
Eagle nodded to Ritone’s observation.
「Then, let me show you my summoning magic. 」
As he waves his staff, he releases is a fierce amount of magic from his body. In an instant, something fell from the sky, and made a noisy DOKAAN sound.
「In-incredible. This is…」
At the courtyard, there is a rock with a diameter of one meter. Around it, there were pieces of rocks scattered all over the courtyard.
「I can summon rocks. Well, the rock itself doesn’t hold any value, but it can make some rude guys who haven’t paid their debts, pay obediently, by dropping a rock just in front of their noses.」
He then starts laughing eerie. Certainly, if you drop a big a.s.s rock in front of their noses, anyone will start to cower.
「It’s time for you to try, with all your soul, pray to the G.o.ddess. The first thing that you have in your mind will be fixed as your summoning object. In other words, it’s a contract with the G.o.ddess.」
Eagle handed over the family’s relic wand. Hearing the explanation, Ritone reflects.
(So, it has to be something that even if it disappears, it won’t affect anyone, and it also helpful. That’s it, Garbage from another world.)
Deciding what to summon, he waves the wand.
Suddenly, stuff that cannot be described appeared all over the courtyard.
「… This is… What is this?」
A cylindrical object rolled over his feet, Eagle looks at the thing and tilts his head in wonder. The object has some kind of drawing, and is somewhat transparent, and a bit dirty.
「It’s a success! This is a pet bottle.」
In Ritone’s face, after seeing success, showed a big smile all over his face.
「What’s a pet bottle?」
「In short words, it is a container to put liquid in it.」
「What!? A canteen that can be completely airtight? This is marvelous, being this small, it can be carried by soldiers one by one, reducing the supplying costs」.
It is natural that he’s this surprised. The game was designed after the Europe Middle ages as the base. At that time, water supplies were transported in water jugs or barrels, those weren’t airtight, were also heavy, and a ha.s.sle to transport.
「If you want such a thing, I can summon as many as you want.」
「It’s that true? Then, please give me those in a large quant.i.ty.」
Seeing Eagle happy, Ritone was happy too.
「Hahaha, this is amusing. This cane, is lot easier to use than my tree sc.r.a.ps wand, and it also reduces the magic consumption considerably to the point that the difference is discernible.」
「It’s natural. Normally, a wand is made from a tree that is showered by magic. Then, an artisan puts his soul into his work. A cane made by an amateur won’t be able to handle summoning magic.」
「So it was like that… Okay, then I will summon without rest, Eii!」
Ritone started to act c.o.c.ky and waved the cane. All of the sudden, a plastic bag with the words “Garbage Resources” appeared and inside of it there were empty cans.
「And this is?」
「As I thought, it is a type of canteen. The drink goes inside this tin can, and it’s sold this way. After drinking its contents, it will end up as garbage.」
「To think that they do some strange things…」
Even though he said that, he picks up the can and inspects, and in a moment his face’s complexion changed.
「Isn’t this light silver? And this one it’s steel. To think they will treat such a precious materials as junks, your previous world, what wasteful thing they are doing!」
「It is really that precious!?」
「Light silver is better known as mithril, and it’s known as the legendary metal that can store magic power and it’s mostly used to make legendary weapons. And the steel is known as the hardest metal, but the manufacturing process was lost over the time… And to think that these are treated as garbage. How deplorable! It is like dumping gold and silver.」
For quite some time, while holding the cans, Eagle was complaining about it.
「So, if we sell it to a merchant, can we sell it at a high price?」
「No, I cannot do such a stupid thing. This will be considered as top secret of our Shylock House. Using these, we can forge armours and swords and give them to our soldiers. With this, our army will become a lot stronger, and our House will flourish even more!」
Eagle made an evil grin and burst into laughter.
A few days later
Ritone was getting a little bit tired about his life as a n.o.ble. Starting from that point, Eagle treated Ritone as a treasure even more than before. He was okay at first but, to protect his secret from the world, Ritone was surrounded and heavily guarded by a squadron of maids 24/7.
「Little master, do you require my a.s.sistance?」
「You can order me anything」
「Little master, where to?」
「I’m just going to p.i.s.s!」
Even though I’m going to the toilet, the maid squad follows me one by one.
「Just where are you planning to follow me to…」
「To anywhere, anytime. Let me take care of your clothes.」
「You don’t have to!」
Ritone was as red as a tomato while rejecting their offer. The maids, continued even though at this point, it only looked as hara.s.sment.
「If you want me to, I can hold it for you.」
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「It’s okay, just leave me alone!」
「We cannot do that. Your grandfather ordered us to be by your side all the times. I know it is difficult, but let’s train your mind and soul so that it doesn’t bother anymore.」
There were similar to this everyday, so Ritone’s privacy and personal s.p.a.ce was nowhere to be found.
(I don’t want this anymore, maybe he is spoiling me but, I cannot catch a break. Maybe the real Ritone’s personality began to warp in this environment.)
Running out his patience, Ritone went to his grandfather’s office.
「Oh, it’s about time that you showed up.」
Eagle showed a calmed face, even though Ritone’s face was full of anger.
「Grandfather, please stop this madness already! Every day, I can’t catch a break, because the maids are following me 24/7. They even follow me to the bathroom and then to the bed…」
「Isn’t it just fine? All the maids smell good, don’t they?.」
「Well… that’s true, but that’s not the point!!」
Ritone disclosed about his nonconformity regarding his privacy and personal time.
Hearing Ritone’s point to the end, Eagle brought out some files from the desk.
「Grandfather, this is!?」
There were few names written in the paper.
「These are all the guys who tried to a.s.sa.s.sinate you, or kidnap you. I have already taken care of them.」
「…!!!」
To suddenly realize, that a.s.sa.s.sins have already started to move, Ritone could only s.h.i.+ver.
「At some point, the opposite party won’t have any other option than to be docile. Let’s see how many more heads need to roll before they stay still.」
Eagle suddenly laughs with such a wicked tone. Kukuku… Ritone, feeling a cold breeze, reaffirmed the dark side of the aristocracy world.
「I understand, I’m sorry for throwing a tantrum.」
Seeing Ritone sulk, Eagle fl.u.s.tered made a follow up.
「We-Well, as a man, one would want to be free in the outside world, being raised in a confined placed could be hard, but you already lived in the outside world for such a long time. You should know that everything is not about freedom right? So, please hold on a little bit until everything calms down.」
「Yes, is there anything that I could do to help? Even though I have grandfather support, and you could suppress the opposite party, it’s just a temporary solution. After your death, who knows what would happen…」
After being told by his grandson, Eagle starts to think.
「You’re right. This current situation cannot continue for a long time. Putting aside the time I’m alive, if you are underestimated by our va.s.sals, it will lead to the ruin of the Shylock House.」
「Maybe you could hand me something to work on, something that I could handle… I know! I have the power to summon things from another world. Using my ability, maybe I could solve a problem of our land.」
Ritone, somehow, was trying hard to gain the approval of his va.s.sals, as the future master of the Shylock family.
「A problem, huh… As you said, even though our land is a prosperous one, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t problems. Inequality, poverty, hunger, slavery, monsters attacks to tribes and other n.o.bles whom are cooperating with us. I got it, I will lend you a hand so try to solve a problem. As long as you solve one of the problems of our land while I’m alive, you could increase your approval and authority over the va.s.sals.
「As you order!」
Having given a task, Ritone became cheerful again.
Ritone, to hold a stable position as the future head of the Shylock family, is starting to make plans to solve numerous internal affairs.
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