「――Wow,
what's this?」
Dorothea blinked her eyes and walked into the
warehouse immediately, touching the crystals and tapping them with a small
hammer from the tool closet, etc. Eventually, she said with her eyes lit up.
「...Heh, it's an interesting material!」
「It is transparent like crystal, glows like
magic, is unexpectedly lightweight, and has a texture like steel... Hmm? Maybe
it can be used as a weapon?」
Dorothea says so, and Alexis tells her,
"Then, I'll leave it to you."
「I'll take care of it? No, I mean, please leave
it to me!」
Alexis laughed as Dorothea hurriedly rephrased
her words after she had uttered them.
「Okay, I don't like formalities. You can talk to
me normally without using honorifics」
「As expected of the sixth prince? You're just
like people said!」
Dorothea said and Alexis smiled.
**a
「As expected? How do they talk about me?」
「Eh? Well, you know, like you don't have a sense
of identity, or you're a maverick or something...」
「――Oh,
forget it. I think I know what you're talking about」
Alexis let out a sigh. Anyway, there are always
words that follow. Not like royalty, not like a king, one of the mediocre ones,
commoner-like, bland. Wherever he goes, the evaluation is always the same.
「Now, let's move on to the specific weapons
needed...――First of all, I would like you to prioritize building up the weapons
of the members of the expedition team. As to what kind of armor we need...」
For a while Alexis and Dorothea talked about
the armor.
Meanwhile, Fransisca waited.
Finally, the development of the armor was
underway at a rapid pace.
Since Dorothea asked them to wait a week for
the completion of the armor, Alexis and the others decided to continue to
collect usable materials and to prepare to conquer the dungeon ahead.
* * *
It was that night.
When it was almost lights out, there was a
knock at the door of Alexis' room.
「What's the matter Fransisca, did you miss my
thing?」
Alexis asked the girl on the other side of the
door with a grin. Then.
「What? ...What did you just say to Her Highness?」
It was Fatima.
「Fatima?!」
Alexis was startled. He had thought Fransisca
was the only one who knocked on his private door at night. What the hell was
going on?
「...Can I open the door?」
Fatima asked through the door, and Alexis
answered, "Yes," hurriedly.
Fatima opened the door and came in, still in
her maid's uniform, with a pouty expression on her face.
「Alex, don't tell me you usually call Her
Highness to your room? That's not good. It's true that we once allowed the princess
to... well, you know, to engage in lewd behavior. But that was for a reason.
Still, that doesn't mean we gave you free reign. Her Highness is an innocent
person, so you should be more moderate in your behavior」
「Ahhhh, you're right...」
(I'm glad she didn't catch the details of my
words...)
Alexis was relieved inside.
If the affair with Fransisca was revealed, it
could destroy the trust they had built up so far.
However, Fatima senses from Alexis' attitude
that he is not listening to her well, so she asks him, "Are you listening
to me?".
「Yes, I'm listening. Are you here to lecture me?」
When Alexis asks a question, Fatima's cheeks
suddenly turn red.
「I-it's not about that... But you know, we had
an agreement...」
「Agreement?」
「...that you'd put some fluid in me periodically
to keep the parasite under control. You said so」
Seeing Fatima whispering shyly, Alexis
remembered.
That's right. He remembered that such a place
was also a place to store his dong.
(Well, I guess I'm going to have a course by a
beautiful maid tonight...)
Alexis
grinned at the thought.
Thanks for reading...