chapter 32
32. Artisan
Earth’s carriage rattled so badly that it hurt her buttocks, but the carriage of another world had magic applied, so she couldn’t feel any rattling.
A wagon with some magic is more comfortable than a car with all kinds of science and technology. I feel that science is weak in the face of magic.
“Wow— the outside has changed drastically!”
“Oh right! I brought steamed potatoes for a snack, would you like to eat it?”
“Look at this! Even if it thumps, it doesn’t shake!”
While everyone in the party kept their mouths shut and kept silent, Noah moved as if he didn’t care at all.
As I ate the steamed potatoes she gave me, I looked out of the carriage. It wasn’t enough to say that it changed quickly, but from the perspective of a rural girl who had never ridden a horse in her life, it seemed to change in an instant.
“Where are we going?”
I looked out the window and muttered, Stella folded her arms and looked at me.
“You don’t even know?”
“Because you didn’t tell me.”
“… … Your homeroom teacher doesn’t work?”
Saying that, Stella muttered in a very small voice.
I couldn’t hear well, so I tilted my head and asked again.
“where?”
“… … Duke of Iritz.”
“… … you, please.”
“Oh, isn’t it!?”
She hadn’t even said a word yet, but when she was pricked, she was startled and started to complain.
But there was no doubt about it.
Stella Iritz’s wagon happened to be heading to the Duke of Iritz.
“Then is this a coincidence?”
“… … Since I said I would ride in this wagon, I might as well do it out of consideration.”
“Take care.”
Duke of Iritz.
The birthplace of Stella Eritz.
We were heading to her estate.
“hey.”
“… What.”
“You haven’t given me a visit yet, have you?”
Hearing my words, Stella’s complexion began to turn pale.
This time, I’ll have to take it myself.
* * *
The earth is round. So is this world.
Thus, demons do not come from one direction, but can appear from all directions.
The Duke of Iritz was a nobleman in charge of protecting the southern part of the empire, and dozens of families under the Duke’s family followed him.
Naturally, the prestige of that family could be said to be the best in the South.
“It’s big… … .”
Seeing the home of the Duke of Iritz, Noah opened his mouth and exclaimed with exclamation. To be honest, I couldn’t stand the overwhelming emotions that were boiling in my heart.
‘Bye.’
Even as a modern person who visits buildings over tens of stories every day, no, rather, as a modern person, he had no choice but to exclaim with admiration for this overwhelmingly large mansion that wastes space.
How much is it all? If we had built a field instead of flowers and trees in this garden, how could we feed tens of thousands of people?
As I waited with such useless thoughts, the carriage that had completed the entry and exit procedures slowly walked inside.
Even if it was walking, it was incomparably faster than the speed of a human walking, and it took more than thirty minutes to reach the hometown.
Surprised by that fact, Noah burst out in exclamation.
“Your house is very spacious!”
“Heh, it’s nothing. On the contrary, among the dukes, he is on the frugal side.”
Stella let out a snort and began to swear. It’s not the house you built yourself, so what’s so dignified?
To tease her, I threw a semi-serious joke.
“Stella, I love you. Marry me.”
“What, what… … ?”
Upon hearing the confession, she blushed and fell into silence.
When I saw that, I was embarrassed and started sweating.
“It’s a joke… … If you react that way, it’s a little bit different, isn’t it?”
“… … Let’s go in.”
Stella went inside without answering. His face turned slightly red, perhaps angry at the fact that he confessed as a joke.
When I followed her inside, the maid and the butler, who were waiting for a call from the front door, bowed their heads at the same time.
“”welcome. miss.””
“I went.”
Stella, who was accustomed to this scene, casually passed it, but commoner Nona and I could not.
“Wow, wow… … .”
“Why are there so many maids… .”
“Wow, there are so many maids in our house… … .”
Hearing the words of DeNoir-senpai through one ear, he followed Stella to the Young Room.
The lord, the owner of this mansion and estate, and the father of Stella Eritz.
Gently, Stella knocked on the door of the office and waited for an answer from the inside.
“What happened?”
“father. It’s me. stellar.”
“… … Come in.”
After a while, Stella carefully opened the door to the office.
As soon as I opened the door and entered, I took a slight step backwards at the heat coming from the inside.
However, seeing that the other two went in casually, I thought it was my mistake and went inside late.
Surprisingly, Stella’s father was not caught.
He had pale yellow blonde hair and bloody eyes.
A muscular body that’s easy to hit with 3 to 500.
The scars and wrinkles that half-covered his face made his handsome appearance look ugly.
“Long time no see. father.”
“I see.”
Stella greeted my father lightly. Thinking about her usual behavior, it seems like she was raised on Nyao Nya, but unexpectedly, her father maintained an indifferent attitude even when he saw her.
He looked around us for a moment and then looked straight at me for a very long time.
He stared intently at my body, then closed his eyes for a moment and opened them to introduce me.
“This is Hypnos Iritz, the head of the Duke of Iritz.”
“Bar, nice to meet you. This is Dinua Erebos, the Marquis of Erebos.”
“No, it’s Noah… … .”
Watching Denoir and Noah say hello to him, I followed along and tried to introduce myself.
“Ian Clark by Clark Baron… … .”
“you.”
Hypnos grabbed me and pointed at me.
It was quite pressured to be noticed by the head of a family. Is he not a middle-aged man with more experience than the real me?
“I’ll leave you alone and leave. Stella, including you.”
With that said, everyone left the office except me.
After they left, a very long silence reigned in the room.
* * *
The silence was broken when ten minutes had passed.
“They say Stella is in debt.”
“Ah yes.”
Ian answered late. Seeing this, Hypnos took out a letter from Stella from the drawer.
He took out the letter and showed it to Ian, waving it.
“Do you know what this is?”
“well… … .”
“Stella’s letter. There is only your story here.”
Saying so, he read a portion of Stella’s letter. Had I been here, I would have blushed and glowed.
“It’s been years since he said this to me, ‘To my dear father.’”
dear father.
lovely daughter-in-law.
By doing this and that.
We must open the family’s secret warehouse.
Please allow me.
Other than that, words adorned with all kinds of modifiers were continuously listed.
Stella’s own words are incredibly colorful and feminine.
After stopping reading the letter, Hypnos folded the letter again and kept it on a stationery, and put the letter back into the mailbox and sealed it.
“You know what I was thinking when I read this letter?”
“… … Stella has more aegyo than expected?”
“I knew he was so obsessed with you that he could tell me this.”
He said so and clenched his fists. The gigantic forearm muscles that could have been thought to be able to directly defeat the monster were wriggling.
Looking a little scared, he burst out laughing as if it was funny.
“How is it? Do you think so too?”
“… … Stella likes me, probably not.”
Of course, Ian knew that Stella would have a crush on him.
Only as much as the system raises the affinity.
Other than that?
There was absolutely no reason for her to fall for her. The first meeting was the worst, and it was even worse after that, and he’s been making excessive demands on her even now.
“When did I say I like you?”
“… … Yes? You say you fell in love.”
“It meant Stella fell for your talent, not rationally.”
The smile on his face, which had been smiling slightly, disappeared completely. As if the shadow had changed, the expression itself began to change in a harsh way.
Still, putting a serious expression on his ugly face makes him look like something from a godfather movie.
“Don’t dream in vain. do you understand It means don’t cross the line.”
“… yes, what All right.”
I never dreamed of it, I never aimed at it. Ian nodded quietly.
The reaction to this opponent was not very good. Because words don’t make sense to someone who is stubborn and stubborn.
He nodded that he wanted to understand, and now it’s time to move on to the important story.
“Yeah, I made a bet with Stella.”
“—Yes. And I won.”
“Can you hear the chimney?”
“Stella first… … .”
A little hoax and 99% truth. There was no one who would not be deceived by this. Most of the time it’s true, so it’s okay if the other person asks a question or asks an unexpected question.
Hypnos, who was interrogating Ian with various questions as if interrogating him, realized that the fact that Stella had lost was the truth.
Even in the process, there was no fraud or manipulation, and it was surprising that it was won purely by luck.
‘How the hell… … ?’
Stella wasn’t an emotional idiot.
The duke’s daughter was not educated in that way.
She was taught to move only when she could definitely win, and never to lose.
But she was swayed by her emotions and challenged an absurd bet, and even lost?
‘This man, there is something.’
Even with Stella’s eyes, he couldn’t fathom it.
So I would have earned a tragic defeat.
Unidentified special.
Hypnos intuited that it was Ian in front of him.
And if so.
“Follow me.”
The uniqueness of an individual is the specialness of mankind.
A strong individual ultimately saves humanity.
For humanity, for the empire. A family heirloom could be wasted.
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More than anything.
‘If you marry Stella, you will eventually become the duke’s financial resources again.’
After completing the calculations, the duke slowly got up from the table.
“I’ll show you the duke’s treasury.”
Saying so, he headed to the secret warehouse known only to the Duke.
* * *
thump.
A secret warehouse that is forbidden to access by anyone except the head of state, and where even knowing its location is taboo.
Two men were walking down the hallway there.
Hypnos asked Ian who was following me.
“How much do you know about heirlooms?”
“Well, like everyone else… … .”
“Yeah, then I don’t need any further explanation.”
chin.
Standing in front of the warehouse sealed with chains and locks, the principal took the key out of my pocket and unlocked the lock.
The security seemed too light, but the hallway itself was enchanted, making it impossible for anyone without a key to even access it.
Gaju opened the warehouse and lit the lamp inside.
After a while, a small flame began to light up the inside of the warehouse.
“Our Iritsu family is the family that protects the entire southern part.”
In other words, the entire South belonged to him.
“In other words, the heirloom of every pet that dies in the South passes to us.”
That’s a lot of heirlooms built up over hundreds of years.
Treasures are not even recorded, and it is unknown what kind of heirloom they are.
“Choose one of these.”
Hearing that, Ian opened his eyes.
He was aware of everything in it.