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Interlude: Count Blaise Lamprog in his study

Night. The study in the Lamprog family mansion.

Blaise Lamprog was looking through a stack of papers under the lights.

Most of the territorial management is left to those who can be trusted.

Sometimes, however, there were matters that had to be approved by the lords themselves.

Holding his eyes tired from a task he doesn’t like very much, Blaise calls out to the man standing by his side.

“Edith.”

"Yes, Blaise."

The freedman, waiting for Blaise’s work, bluntly returned shortly.

A carefree attitude that is never shown on the surface. However, for both of them, this was their original relationship.

Blaise asks without making eye contact.

“You’re not still mad at me, are you?”

“.......”

Edith remains silent, and Blaise exhales a breath of exasperation.

“Ifa looked fine.”

“.......”

“She seems to be doing well over there. Sending her to the academy was the right thing to do, wasn’t it?”

“.......”

“It would be pitiful to spend all your time in such a remote place. You and your daughter.”

“Don’t say that. I like this place.”

“You and Ifa are different. She should want to see the outside world.”

“...... my gripe isn’t about that. I just can’t stand the fact that you gave up Ifa so easily.”

Edith never asks that Ifa be freed from her slave status.

It is not uncommon for the children of freed slaves to be kept on hand as slaves. In many cases, it is almost like a hostage, so to speak, to work obediently as a subordinate after emancipation.

But between the two, there was another meaning.

“......Not to mention, attach her to that abominable child.”

“Edith.”

Blaise says admonishingly.

“Ifa is not a forgotten memento, nor a handprint to show your loyalty. The sentimentality of you and I is only going to fade with age. Don’t worry, let her walk her own path.”

“……Hmm”

“And don’t call Seika an abomination. he’s a normal child.”

Blaise continues.

“He goes to the academy as an excellent student. He has not caused any problems. He’s not a demon after all. Even Bertha thinks the same way as I do these days.”

Blaise himself was surprised by the attitude of his wife Berta shown to Seika at the dinner table.

My wife has always been afraid of Seika.

She always seemed to be afraid that that mysterious magical power would harm Luft and Gly.

However, both of her sons are now grown up and Seika has established good relationships with various people in faraway lands.

Therefore, she may have a forgiving heart.

“I still think it’s creepy.”

Edith says as if to spit.

“He was strangely mature even as a young child, and he still looks the same inside.”

“I do not think so. The face he turns to Ifa and his friends at the academy is not the same as the face he turns to me, Bertha, and the servants.”

“I don’t care what you think, but what was the reason for adding Ifa?”

“...... Edith.”

Blaise says in a voice that sounds like it might sigh.

“Why don’t you admit it? You’ll know if you look at it. She seems to like Seika a lot.”

“......”

“When it was decided she was to go to the school with Seika, I thought that she was happy to report to you as well.”

“...... tch!”

“I’m a father too. I know how you feel.”

“You don’t have a daughter.”

“Hm...... Well, maybe so.”

Blaise smiles and speaks to Edith.

“Seika is a good man. Do you not trust what I say? Edith.”

“............No, I believe you.”

Edith replies with a sigh.

“You are a strange man. You don’t seem to be interested in other people, but you have an eye for them.”

“Researchers must have an observing eye, and surprisingly, they are sociable.”

“I don’t think so, as far as I can see. If you are so sociable, why don’t you talk to Her Imperial Highness more?”

Blaise looks slightly bitter when told.

To be honest, Blaise was not very good with Fiona either.

He did not know what to think of the young girl in the first place, but he did not know how to treat the holy princess, who seemed to be always daydreaming.

Fortunately, she is usually with her maid of honor and Grey, who has been chosen to become a holy knight, so she doesn’t have to do anything herself, which is a relief.

But on the other hand.

Blaise felt that her stay in this place had some meaning.

The Holy Princess is not a normal girl as she looks and acts.

Otherwise, she would not have come from that state, where she had no backing and was the furthest away from the throne, to show such a strong presence.

It is probably true that she wanted to meet Amiyu, who is one of the most outstanding students in the school.

But that is not the only reason.

I don’t know if the hidden purpose is a thing, information, opportunity, or another person ....... But it must be one of them.

And I am sure that I will never know.

But the princess will fulfill her purpose and leave, without my knowledge or control.

Blaise had a hunch.

There was no need to pry into unnecessary matters.

He would just have to get through the next few days without incident.

After a moment of silence, Blaise opened his mouth.

“Are you coming to dinner tomorrow night, too?　It would be nice to have dinner with your daughter .......”

“I thought I told you that tomorrow there will be a dinner with the executives of the trading company who are coming from far away. Don’t try to involve me in this. If you won’t do your job as a lord, at least do your duty as the head of a count’s family.”

Blaise sighed deeply at the unexpectedly good argument.

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