Chapter 3 (1/2)
For one week, the Knight Leader and I walked together down the long hallway every day
Not even once did the ghost appear
”Ms Tiffany, could it be, that your ancestors were renowned exorcists—!?”
”My name is Tina, Vice-Captain Dorts They were just mediocre countryside nobility”
I swore on the name of my family tree
”Ms Tiara, it could be that this has been your talent all along A talent that was once dor—…”
”It's Tina, Vice-Captain Well, even if you tell me that…”
…what is the use of such a skill for a cleaningon callingevery time?”
”I usually call co is actuallyafter you, you know?”
”Oh, really?”
Vice-Captain Dortmund, who always looked relaxed, tensed his expression a bit
”Yeah After all, I can easily say aht now Moreover, spending tiranted access to other popular knights such as et jealous of you”
…Let's just ignore that he just called hiht there
It cheered me up a little that he at least tried to be of help after forcing me into this kind of situation He kept an eye on details, too—as expected of Vice-Captain
”I think I'll be okay! When my first job was done, the head maid covered for me in front of everyone”
The serious and strict head n tasks to the rasp over woy
Hence, she understood that there were circuement that shouldn't be made public
In the end, she said—
”—'Tina'll be reassigned on a tee lice infestation in the Knights' area'”
”Bwahahahaha—!!”
”Vice-Captain, this is no laughing hts' area is dirty, you know?”
—including you, Vice-Captain
The handso tarnished, after all
”Wait, what—!? What kind of 'cover-up' is that—!? It's basically saying that we're all infested with lice!”
”Exactly”
”Huuuh—?!”
The so-called knights' area consisted of an office, the training grounds, and a single doroes; because there is a lot of lice in the knights' dorrounds are also infested In order to prevent further da, she has to stick to the leader as he who visits other areas so that they may exter”
”That… did we do anything to your head ht so too—both Rose and Jasmine have become cold recently They were dispirited; their eyes dead
”Well, they're not bad people to begin with However, I do recall that tis—uys a little?”
”—ugh”
”What's theat all…”
The Vice-Captain answered softly, and powerlessly shook his head
”Okay, at the very least, I', Ms Tina”
”It's nothing, Vice-Captain I' out forbullied due to jealousy, they treated entler than before because they were very syether with the Knight-Leader, after all Although the con was, they bathed with me less often
”But, lice-exterirl like you would accept that kind of duty Yet, everyone see such task”
”Ah, that's probably becauseherbs”
I used to tend to the herbs back in ht some of therow the ht, it was about time to introduce 'Tina Walter's special anti-lice herb blend', which was popular back hoht, now that you ood s a lot of fun about it
—I was a little e?”
Both of us turned at to the faht-Leader Ranbic
However, for some reason, his expression looked colder than usual
”Oh, Leader, I was listening to Ms Tina regarding her hobbies It see theood”
”? You've finally decided to call her naht-Leader also noticed…
”Oh, that's… well, it won't make sense even if I explain it to you—besides! There's so even worse than that! We're ru ht now Ms Walter, can you coh he didn't sound as cold as before, when he called me with such an indescribable expression on his face, I couldn't help but approach hi iet too close with Bock”
He uttered so with such a serious face
”Eh?”
”Because if you get too close with Bock…—
”—…you'll end up pregnant”