Chapter 156: Forgotten Breakfast and Another Job (1)

"This is the greeting of Anirofe style, the headquarters of Dules~. I omitted a little though~."

Rosina winked at the Dules.

Apparently Rosina was aware that she herself was the reason the Dules were sunk.

So she had conveyed that she was only one of my Dules.

The air in the room lightened with Rosina’s greeting.

Kuu.

Suddenly, perhaps because the tension loosened even a little, someone’s stomach cried cute.

"Ah! Breakfast..."

Cathy raised her voice as if she remembered.

"! Master, I am sorry. Breakfast preparation is, that, still..."

Muriel also told me looking apologetic.

Come to think of it last night too, we ate nothing.

Did Muriel and the others eat?

Well, it cannot be helped.

"Then~, shall I help too~."

When I tried to open my mouth, Rosina proposed to Muriel smiling.

Was Rosina this sociable even with Muriel?

"Rosina-sama, will you cook?"

"Of course~. I am good even if I look like this~. And no honorifics~. We are the same A-Dule~."

"Mother is truly good at cooking."

To Muriel’s rude yet natural-seeming question, Rosina answered while laughing.

Sheena followed that with a serious face.

Then the four of them including Cathy went into the kitchen.

The instant Rosina left the room she turned this way and winked.

How well she settles the place.

Because she is a priestess, is she skilled at grasping people’s hearts.

Well, she is hard to grasp but not a bad person.

"Then we should prepare the meal too."

"""""""Yes!"""""""

The Dules’ usual energetic replies echoed through the room.

...

"Then what happens to Sheena-chan?"

"Etto, you are Sara~. That’s right~. She becomes a Dule’s Dule~, so position-wise she would be under everyone~."

Conversation progressed while we ate breakfast.

At first the content was this dish is delicious, who made it, who helped, but gradually the topic concentrated solely on Rosina and Sheena.

Rosina also tried to blend into the Dules’ circle, answering questions while confirming the name of the person who asked.

"But~, when you use Sheena tell me~. Ah, only Hiroyuki-kun is different~. You can use her as you like~. But~, use me properly too~."

Rosina turned toward me while posing.

The Dules floated bitter smiles.

"I used you properly, right?"

Of course, last night.

"That’s right~. I’m glad~."

Rosina put both hands to her cheeks and looked up at the ceiling enraptured.

The Dules also turned red.

Hey hey, do not remember it during the meal.

Then a bell sounded from outside.

Nearby the temple of Suze that governs order and justice in this area was ringing the bell to tell the time.

The count was five.

That means ten in the morning.

"Mother, it is time."

"That’s right~. It is a shame but~, I will go to work~."

Rosina and Sheena stood.

Come to think of it they said they have to treat the injured and sick today too.

They left it to the other priests yesterday for a whole day, so today they have to work that much harder.

"Take care. Do your best."

"Thanks~."

When I said that, Rosina waved her hand saying thanks looking happy, and Sheena bowed her head once then they left the dining room.

"She was like a storm."

"But she seems like a good person."

"Master does not make bad people into Dules!"

"We might get along."

The Dules criticized Rosina one after another.

But the content was all good, and I was relieved too.

"Now then..."

I have to work too.

Not sword instruction, the other job.

I looked at Yanica and muttered in my heart.

...

"What do you want to hear?"

Yanica sitting in the chair in front asked me insolently.

"Ow!"

Immediately Yanica’s head was struck.

"What way of speaking is that toward your master!"

Sophia standing behind Yanica cautioned her.

No, the Sophia in question also uses casual speech.

Well, that is like Sophia.

"...Ah, right. Are you okay already?"

I sat on the bed in front of Yanica and asked Yanica who was rubbing her head while glaring at Sophia.

What I asked was the aftereffects of the torture from a week ago.

The body should already be healed, but the heart will not heal easily.

"What?"

But Yanica tilted her head and turned a dubious face at me as if she did not understand the meaning of the question.

Then Sophia struck Yanica’s head again.

"You still do not get it? How many times do I have to..."

"Sophia, sorry but can you go outside?"

At this rate the talk will not progress, so I asked Sophia to go outside the room even though it was bad for her.

"But... I understand."

She seemed to want to say something, but when I stared at Sophia she agreed though looking dissatisfied.

"If something happens knock on the door."

When Sophia opened the door she turned and said that to me.

Here, my room has Soundproof magic applied.

Therefore even if you raise your voice it does not leak outside.

But if you knock the door directly that sound leaks outside.

If something happens notify that way, that is what it means.

Something, meaning she probably does not trust Yanica.

"Ah, got it. Sorry."

"If you think that, look after me more than the other girls."

Sophia floated a small smile then left the room.

"Now we are alone."

"Yes, that is so."

When I looked at Yanica, Yanica also looked at me from the front.

Those eyes looked like they were provoking and also like they were afraid.

"So how is your condition? Did you get quite better?"

I asked again.

"It is not something for you to worry about."

Yanica snorted fun and looked away.

"Is that so. Then, well. I want you to tell me one thing."

I straightened my posture.

Hein who had been in charge of Yanica’s interrogation before ultimately could not get important information out of Yanica.

I am trying to get it out in his place.

There are various things I want to hear.

Personally for me, and apparently for this country as well.

But there is something common to both positions that I want to hear first.

That is...

"I want you to tell me the place where the three of the former royal family, former King Rudolf, former Queen Teresia, and the former prince’s bodies were buried."

Needless to say the three are the family of my To-Dule Tiria.

Her parents, and Tiria’s younger brother who held first succession rights to the throne.

Of course I want to know for Tiria’s sake, and as a country, no, Julius and Helene also want to bury them thickly to recover former King Mateus’s lost ground with the people and remaining nobles.

"...I do not want to tell."