79 Another Story: Abandoned Princes and Wolf Girls 01 (2/2)
In reply to the girl, Algardo carried a spoon of soup... into his own mouth.
Oh, and a sad voice leaks out of the girl's mouth. Even though I was hungry, I could eat something that looked delicious in front of me. Anger at the place makes me think I'm going to be bright red in front of you.
”... as you can see, it's not poisoned”
”... huh?
But the girl, who was about to turn bright red with anger, was quelled by the words that went on.
Algardo spoons the soup again and carries it to the girl's mouth. The girl includes a spoon in her mouth to bite her like she can't stand it.
”~ ~ ~ ~ ~!”
How long has it been? I couldn't even remember her aggressively, but the girl was captivated by the taste that irritated her tongue.
Delicious, delicious. That's all I'll ever know. But a sip of the spoon is not enough at all.
”Relax, this is for you. Eat slowly.”
”Quickly! Quickly!
”Calm down... oh, that's good enough. Drink as much as you like.”
Algardo carries the girl many spoons and makes her drink soup like she reluctantly said.
Even though the soup alone was delicious, whenever finely chopped meat and vegetable scraps rode the tongue, the girl chewed the soup as she nearly cried.
There was also less soup in the vessel, and Algard took the vessel.
”Can I eat all this at once? Don't be a jerk. Tilt the vessel a little bit.”
”Yeah!”
The girl put her mouth on the vessel like she completely forgot to be alert to Algard.
Drink up the soup that is carried to your mouth from a slowly tilted vessel indifferently.
Eventually he drank all the soup in the vessel and the girl exhaled satisfactorily. There are tears coming out of his eyes.
”Huh... Huh...!
It was delicious. Just filled and that satisfaction makes the girl weep.
Algard just kept staring quietly at the girl crying.
”... acrylic”
”Acrylic, huh? Is that your name?
”Yes.”
The wolf-eared girl, Acrylic named herself Algard with a flashing look on her face.
I'm not completely alert. However, you understood that Algardo would not do unreasonable tricks, even though he was alert, he was beginning to answer Algardo's questions.
”Acrylic, you... you've crossed the border, no, the mountain?
”... why, do you think?
”Because your words are not the public language of the Kingdom of Palettia”
”The Kingdom of Palettia?
Acrylic skewed his eyebrows in surprise. From that reaction, Algardo decided that apparently Acrylic did not know the Kingdom of Palletia.
The words that acrylics have spoken since the beginning are not those used in the Kingdom of Palletia. Without his upbringing as a prince, the conversation would not have been formed.
From the words of the acrylic, Algardo decided that the acrylic came from a neighbouring country in the Kingdom of Palletia.
The Kingdom of Palletia has a natural land. The kingdom of Palletia is filled with resourceful nature, such as deep forests, where the hands of men cannot be fully placed on land far enough to cultivate the fields, and mountain ranges that stand to divide the country.
And the land on the border where Algard is located is at the edge of the mountain range that draws the border.
The mountains and forests, and the land that is supposedly connected to the sea if we go further, are also home to many monsters, and even in order to build people, it was a territorial usurpation with monsters, and they continued to retreat.
Although the western hall inhabited by Algard was once a man-built territory, it was once abandoned from the outbreak of stampede and so on, and once again the realm was restored to this point.
That's why Algardo lives in this western hall with the minimum number of people needed. It's also valuable to be able to hire people here.
”Didn't you come from the neighboring kingdom of Cambus?
Across the Kingdom of Palletia and the mountain ranges, the Kingdom of Cambus is located on the other side.
Although there are no exchanges due to rugged mountain ranges and nature inhibition in this peripheral land, there are transactions between countries.
However, since mountain ranges are still used as borders, it is not possible to say that it is difficult to cross each other's territory and that there is a deep connection.
Therefore, the impression is that we are neighbors who are less involved if we do not know each other and if we are not merchants or diplomats.
By contrast, the border line and neighboring countries off the mountain range used to be targeted by Tiger Sight until Orphans, the former king, took office... but the Kingdom of Cambus was not included.
(Indeed, it was a country similar to the Kingdom of Palletia but less developed in magic as a condition of national territory…)
It is said that the cut off of the Kingdom of Palletia was the feat of the first king who made the Spirit covenant, from which he began to build his country with the aristocrats who could use magic.
Therefore, although the emphasis is on magic, the Kingdom of Cambus is made up differently, and magic technology has not developed that far.
Apparently, I can't say for sure because I don't have much information on the Kingdom of Cambus. I hear that the national traffic itself is thin, and that it is an exclusive state that does not want to enter its own country anyway to interact with the leftovers there.
It's not like we're trying to argue, it's good if we have the minimum necessary relationship. It's a country that has logistical problems and doesn't really go into it as a country.
”... I don't know”
But what Algard expected. Acrylic shook his neck from left to right on the back.
”Don't you know,”
”I don't know anything. Nothing...”
Acrylic shook his neck left and right without force, then closed his mouth.
Acrylic's face, which he has silenced, has a depressing, unhegemonic look on his face.
For the time being, it was Algard watching the acrylic that was silent, but he exhales slowly.
”If you're not going, are you here?
”Huh?”
”I'm interested in you”
”... to me?
”I want to know about you. That's the consideration. I'll live here and find out about you. Instead, you can live here. I'll serve you a meal, and I'll get you a bed.”
Acrylic looked at Algard's face with the expression, I don't know what he was talking about.
”Well, you have no right to choose. You're a thief. You can't complain about being killed on the spot if it's supposed to be.”
”... ugh”
”But you don't want to kill me without darkness. You deserve it. And I want you to help me find out about you. … If you do not snort, you may take the necessary steps to comply…”
”... Huh!? Him, doing terrible things!?”
”I want you to follow me if you don't want to be. I'll serve you a meal, and I swear I won't do anything stupid. Unless you do something wrong here, I'll even think about detaining you.”
Acrylic stares at Algard with his eyes round. Then I narrowed my eyes as I roared and thought.
How much time had passed since Acrylic roared, Acrylic had stopped roaring and was completely grown up.
”... I won't break out. But if I do something terrible, I resist.”
”Okay. I swear, we have to imitate it.”
”... you, what's your name?
”... oh, you didn't name it”
That's right. Algard distorted his mouth just a little and made him laugh bitterly.
”Al.... it's just Al. Call me Al.”