Countess Cianella’s Male Slave

141. Understanding the level (1)

Shione’s shooting practice is over.

She came up to me, briefly saying hello to Flora, the ranger sitting next to her.

Following Sione, Flora looked behind her and bowed her head toward me as well.

While talking well with the countess’s lady.

Maybe it’s because it’s been a long time since I went around to catch kobolds.

Looking at those awkward gestures differently than back then, now it seems more comfortable dealing with my superior, Shione, rather than me.

After bowing her head for a while, I greeted her Shione.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“Yes, Ray you too. She must have sparred with her sister… Today we even dealt with bows. Isn’t it hard?”

“Yes. It’s okay.”

Because I’m not the me I was when I was just getting out of the iron cage a year ago.

Now that the mana accumulated by clearing the quests and the physical abilities that have grown are on track to some extent.

Well, that’s about it. It’s exhausting, but not too bad to worry about.

We left the gymnasium and entered the hallway inside the mansion, chatting nonchalantly.

Bright light comes in through the slanted windows. In the hallway, where the scent of old wood wafted up, the servants who came and went today were nowhere to be seen.

Thanks to that, the only sound resonating in the quiet hallway was my footsteps and Shione’s footsteps.

In the meantime.

“Ummm… ….”

Shione approached me, closing the distance little by little, and she let out her drool.

She glanced at me with the kind of eyes that her little ones would have when they were wishing for something.

Before I go back to my room, I’m going to have you run a tedious errand.

“Ah, maybe it’s because I pulled the protest so hard, I’m a little hungry—”

Look, I knew that too.

“Can I take my cookies with me as usual?”

“No, something a little different today.”

Poof!

Shione raised her little hand.

“A sandwich made by Ray.”

Spread your index finger out of a clenched fist to form one.

Her knuckles had calluses thanks to long practice of the pinch-type technique.

Then she made a mysterious expression for a moment and rolled her pupils.

Poof!

I spread my middle finger and suddenly created two.

“No, I think two would be fine.”

I stared blankly at Shione for a while.

Making one is troublesome, but to make two.

I really didn’t like the way he proudly demanded that he not put a drop of water on his hands.

Growling… ….

“Ah… ….”

“… Hmm.”

I nodded quietly as my boss seemed really hungry enough to ask for two sandwiches at once.

“I will make it.”

“… Okay.”

Shione couldn’t lift her head easily, probably because she was embarrassed to be heard by me.

If you’re a strong girl on this continent, shouldn’t you bow your head so easily with only a growl in your belly?

I said with a grin to ease her embarrassment.

“There is nothing to be ashamed of.”

“Oh, I don’t know. Shut up….”

“It wasn’t that the sound rang through the hallway, it was just a little bit, wasn’t it? Don’t just look at the floor like that, raise your head proudly and look ahead.”

“Oh, I don’t know—”

In the end, the moment when Shione couldn’t win against my affection and looked up in front of me.

“Shione?”

Shione stopped her steps and stopped in place.

She looked at her profile and had a small smile on her face.

I could see that her pupils, embracing the clear sky, were focused and fixed on something in front of me.

I also followed her and turned her head to face her.

‘That’s… ….’

We were able to capture the image of the person who caught Shione’s attention and appeared in front of us at some point.

Her warm brown hair was medium-length and hung down to her shoulders.

An expression so stiff that it looks like a person with cold, achromatic emotions like frost. She stares at us impassively with her piercing eyes.

Her appearance could easily arouse feelings of fear, displeasure, or rudeness, but her face far surpassed the beauty of the noble ladies. This also comes as one of the charms.

Wherever she goes, she is a woman who can be treated well just for her beauty.

If there is one flaw—

‘It’s an elf.’

Pointy ears sticking out through her hair.

Those pointed ears were proving that she was an elf and not a human like us.

I knew that another elf other than Arielt lived in the count’s house.

It’s quite far from the elves’ quarters, and there’s no reason for them to come down this hallway.

Why the hell did the elf walk from the side of Shione’s room and run into us like this?

Again and again.

As we lost her gaze to her for a moment, she slowly came towards us.

After narrowing the distance to some extent, she greets us with a plain voice.

“Let me greet you. Lady Sione Cianella, and—”

Black eyes with unknown intent. Only that pupil rolls down and catches my image in my field of vision.

Sniff.

She took in a breath of air as she captured my image.

As the tip of her tall nose sways slightly, a small emotion dwells in her, who was like a machine. It was a surprise and a surprise.

She must have been surprised by my spirit energy. I will smell not only the scent of the refreshing wind, but also the scent of burning firewood from the scent of the spirit leaking out of me little by little.

She looked at me with slightly enlarged eyes and continued her greeting.

“You are the spirit sage of the young lady.”

Didn’t you like the look of the elf?

Shione sneaked up to me and answered her greeting.

I also quietly lowered my head behind her, and once more silence came to the hallway, and the dwarf’s eyes began to roll towards Shione again.

“I am Elisa, who is serving Friel in Arielt House.”

Shione opened her mouth, making eye contact with her quietly.

“Elisa… Do you have any business with me?”

“I came here because Friel Arielt has something to say to Sione.”

“You mean Friel Arielt of the Great Forest?”

“Yes, Mr. Friel said. Mr. Friel is very interested in the spirit magician’s spirit magic. If Shione-nim agrees, as a personal courtesy with no cost, she said that she would advise the Elemental Sage on spirit magic as a guest and simple advisor, not as a priest.”

“… Okay.”

Shione thought for a moment about Elisa’s words with her arms crossed, then untied her arms and answered.

“… I am very grateful for Mr. Friel’s kindness, but it seems difficult to give an answer right away. I think I need some time to think about it, is that okay?”

“Of course.”

Elisa took a step back after giving a perfunctory smile at Shione’s words.

“If you have any meaning in Friel-nim’s words, please come to Friel-nim’s assigned room tomorrow morning.”

After saying that, Elisha bowed her head again and greeted her politely.

* *

Friel Arielt’s servant, Elisa.

After her conversation with her, Shione entered her room first.

It was after I made a sandwich for her and her that I went back to her side.

Two Siones. Me one

We were sitting at the table, slowly tasting each other’s sandwiches and talking.

“Ray, what do you think of what the elf named Elisa came and said?”

“If Friel Arielt offered me advice on her elemental arts… ….”

I gently put the sandwich I was holding onto the plate.

Rather than chewing food, I needed to focus on rolling my head for a while.

“I don’t think it was a bad offer.”

Friel Arielt.

Sounds pretty plausible, indeed, for the black dwarf in it. No, actually I think it’s a good suggestion.

“Friel Arielt is the daughter of the Arielt family who has been blessed by the spirit among the elves who are more proficient in elemental magic than anyone else. It’s an opportunity that a normal spiritist can’t get even if you pay billions of dollars.”

“Ummm… yes…… ?”

“Furthermore, he directly revealed that he was just a guest of the count’s family and was just giving advice on spiritism out of a simple courtesy.”

Actually, the spirit magic of the demons is really good.

It is the power of magic that shoots with an arrow, and a trick to conserve mana. How to resonate more easily with the spirits, etc.

Since they almost live with the spirits all their lives, it is not enough to call them artisans with deep knowledge of the spirits.

Their help will surely come in handy someday, even if you only know it in your head, without experiencing it physically. This is not enough to call it a miracle.

Moreover, rather than being in a troublesome intertwined relationship with a priest.

From the point of view of a customer, he said that he would give advice one step away.

Just saying that everything will be done in his favor. She also indicates that she does not intend to make a big fuss about this.

It seems that she wants to use this opportunity to buy Shione’s favor.

“Then Ray… How do you feel about being advised of elemental magic by Friel? … ?”

“I-“

But unfortunately—

“It doesn’t matter if you bother to take her advice.”

I am not a halfway elemental sage.

“Because my elemental skills are superior to those of most elves.”

Right now, this body is a bit lacking.

Because he has a higher level of understanding than the average elf.

Let’s speak confidently about our abilities.

“Wow—”

Shione just stared at me with an unlucky look and munched on a sandwich.