Chapter 42 - The Banquet in Full Swing (1/2)

Ch.42 The Banquet in Full Swing

With Lotus’ guidance we move to the main dining room and, in there a great amount of alcohol and delicious food has already been prepared. In a formal like way the food is lined up on the dining room table in a buffet style, and it is surrounded by several small tables that have been set up.

As soon as the banquet starts, the food and drinks are consumed one after another. Every person here are nothing but owners of slender and proportionate figures and yet, I look and wonder where does such a large quantity of food go.

“Although intelligence work is our specialty our foundation is as knights so, everyday we have training. Therefore it is a test to one’s strength so everybody eats well,” a beautiful female knight comes next to me and explains this to me at some point. She is beautiful One-sama, very much unlike a knight but for a while now she has been eating and drinking heartily.

“Is that so?~ I was surprised. Everyone has very nice figures so, I was wondering where they were stowing away all that food”

“I think Leader is also?”

One-sama peeks a look at me with her wine red eyes while brushing her beautiful silky golden fringe to the side. If you stare at those eyes, which are so lovely to the extent that you may think  you have somehow been awakened to a no-good world. Although my inner thoughts are in a flutter, I think back upon what One Sama said and the scene of the Duke eating and say,

“……now that you mention it, it does seem so”

At breakfast, as expected, he does not eat everything but at dinner he eats quite an amount. Midway I meet with some intestinal terror so I end up giving up but…..aah, I’ve ended up loosening my own dark history again.

Secretly crestfallen I lower my head in my heart, but on the surface I feign a casual appearance,

“And, Leader is a person who can do his job very well”

This time a One-sama-with-slightly-peculiar-bronze-hair enters from the side, which reminds me, until today, I have never heard about things related to the Duke’s work. The first time was before when vice-leader Corydalis talked endlessly about it. I mean, it is best I do not have an interest though!

“He does not talk about work very often so, I did not know.”

I can’t say I didn’t listen because I was not interested so, vaguely, I smile and lie. Besides, I have heard that it is an organisation that even to family you cannot give very detailed accounts concerning the work so, I think that even if someone like me asked, no answer would be returned. Ah, sorry I don’t feel like listening. It is important so I said it twice.

“We haven’t stood at the front line of a battle but our organisation works behind-the-scenes. ”

Next is a One-sama with silver thread like hair and she smiles at me with a extremely lovely smile. Uh, when did she come to my side?

……huh? Now that I notice, the female knights are all surrounding me. Viva☆Harem!! ……not, *cough*, excuse me. It is once again the situation of a women’s assembly.

“Leader’s leadership is precise and not useless.”

“Is that so?”

“There is no discrimination between men and women.”

“Well”

“It is quick and its performance is good.”

“Ohh”

For some reason the One-sama’s have ganged up and have begun to swiftly talk and inform me that ‘Leader is capable person in whatever way’.

“I was already prepared for destruction that time of that infiltration operation~”

The blonde One-sama smiles bitterly. Saying things like that, I do not entirely understand but I give my suitable *hmm, uh huh*s.

“Right, right. It was a close call, they fell for Leader’s trick well and before we could realise it everyone was safe and had returned alive.”

The silver-haired One-sama looks off somewhere into the distance with nostalgia.

“Truly, that time it was such clear leadership~”

Bronze haired One-sama absentmindedly smiles.

Meritorious deeds in battle, accomplishments in literary and military arts, reputation at work and so on.

I only interject with ‘ohh’, ‘well’, ‘is that so’ and so on. It was the same as before, today is a day for being unduly informed about the Duke.

Drink, eat, drink again. The One-sama’s become steadily talkative. In a good mood they amuse themselves with talking about the Duke. The praising of the Duke to the skies like this.

“Umm~? Everyone you are the Duke’s fans right?”

At last I see my chance and interpose.

“By no means!”

“Right right! Although he is a good person as a boss”

“His private life, well!”

“““Moreover we are married!”””

The three of them answer all together with nice smiles. And then from there,

“Such a thing like grandly taking a mistress after getting married, no way!”