Chapter 107 (1/2)

Volume 2

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 3 Chapter 20

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Passing through the gate, they walked down the path to the estate.

With Galeria at the lead, Nanalus followed after her, and the knight walked behind him.

However, Nanalus sensed a presence that wasn’t gentle at all from the knight.

The knight having this attitude was probably because he was a Mazoku, but that being said, Nanalus felt that this knight was a failure as Count Guutia’s subordinate.

As long as he served Count Guutia, he had the duty of paying the standard amount of respect to the count’s guests.

Making at the very least a slight bow to the guest was proper etiquette, as well as common knowledge.

If he was making light of him and thought that the likes of a Mazoku didn’t have that kind of common knowledge, then he was mistaken.

In the Zadark Kingdom, even the Magic Operated Armors knew at least that much etiquette.

「……」

It was there that Nanalus noticed one more gaze.

It was that of Galeria who was guiding him.

This gaze was a favorable one, unlike the knight’s……but this one could also be said to be rare.

He had conversed with various women in the Jiol Forest Kingdom hosted dinner party, but he had almost no memory of having talked much with Galeria.

At most, he had talked to Galeria who had become a wallflower and handed her a drink.

Since Nanalus looked like he was of advanced age, the did not receive love letters like Sancreed did.

To begin with, he was outside the range of being a love interest to women, and Nanalus also found that to be convenient.

In other words, this favorable gaze that was coming from Galeria wasn’t a feeling of love, and it probably meant that she simply wasn’t cautious of him.

Nevertheless, even though he was walking while being accompanied by a noble’s daughter, the fact that they weren’t conversing at all was pretty new to him.

Since he could tell that Galeria was doing her best to try and talk with him, he watched her for a while, but since he felt like it wouldn’t work out at this rate, he sent her a helping hand.

「That is quite a nice dress.」

「Eh? Ah, y, yes. Um……this……」

「Yes, it suits you very well.」

After Nanalus said that, Galeria made an expression that clearly said that she was relieved.

It was most likely a dress she held a lot of pride in.

Since noble women would typically choose their outfit to match the season, the weather, the location, and the latest fashions, they possessed a surprisingly large amount of dresses.

And since that was connected to displaying the noble’s power, there were examples where the noble women of the St. Altlis Kingdom would secretly compete in their number of dresses.

Although the Jiol Forest Kingdom was not strong in that sort of tendency, it wasn’t like it didn’t have that sort of thing at all.

And then, in most cases, an 「ace up the sleeve outfit」──a so-called “best set of clothes” would exist.

The fact that Galeria was wearing that could be said to be display of Count Guutia’s enthusiasm towards this tea party.

Just what kind of request would the count make……is what Nanalus thought at this time.

「Ohh, Nanalus-dono!」

Hearing that voice, Nanalus’s thoughts were interrupted.

While expressing a gentle smile, Nanalus turned his gaze to the owner of that voice──to Count Guutia.

At a corner of the garden that spread out in front of the estate, a circular table and chairs were prepared.

There were two maids at Count Guutia’s sides, but their atmospheres said that they weren’t mere maids.

They were probably the ones known as Battle Maids.

Battle Maids were maids that had somewhat studied martial arts, and it is said that there are many nobles in mankind’s territory that employed these Battle Maids.

At first, they were substitutes for Maid Knights, but nowadays they were recognized as a proper occupation……or so it seems.

Seeing as how they had thin swords hanging at their waists, they probably served as Count Guutia’s guard.

「To think I could truly have you come by today!」

「No, no, I am surprised as well. I did not think that I would be received by your daughter.」

In response to Count Guutia’s words of surprise, Nanalus purposely replied in a harmless and inoffensive way.

If he were to poorly react to how he mentioned about coming by today, it might turn into giving him some kind of information about Transfer Magic.

「Hahaha, no,no. That was Galeria’s wish, you see.」

「That is quite a wonderful daughter you have.」

「Yes, she is a daughter I am proud of.」