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“Uu, I shouldn’t have drank alcohol… I was kind of longing to try it and this is what I get…”
According to Ms. Kriemhild, she came to Shiki, stayed at the inn and was offered alcohol when she was chatting happily with other customers at the bar. Although she apparently rejected the drink on the spot because while she was old enough to drink, she was also a student and couldn’t go too crazy. Even so, since she always longed to drink alcohol, she tried a little in secret later.
However, she got tipsy from that small amount of alcohol and for some reason decided that exercising would make her feel better. Thus, she ended up in the state I found her in. She might have been okay if it was a light exercise, but she just had to do burpees, an intense full-body exercise. Naturally, she also ended up vomiting.
“Well, some people end up like that. Please be careful in the future. Here you go.”
“Uu, thank you very much…”
I handed Ms. Kriemhild a cup filled with cold water from a water magic stone.
After she sat down in a comfortable place and slowly drank water, she seemed to calm down so I struck up a random conversation with her to distract her.
“By the way, why are you in Shiki? Did you come to see Lady Violet?”
“Well, that’s a part of it too but Ash asked me to take Char back.”
“I see.”
Ash was worried that if he left Chartreuse alone, he wouldn’t come back for a week or so.
Just as Ash was troubled because he couldn’t go after Chartreuse due to some business, Ms. Kriemhild suggested that she’d go to check on him. Thus, she had arrived this evening. A woman, who was Ash’s attendant, also came with her, but she was lured away by the lustful demon (Khaki).
Is that really fine, Ms. Attendant? To be lured away like this?
Also, given the time period, it doesn’t look like she has seen Chartreuse in that outfit, which I’m glad about.
Apparently, Ms. Kriemhild will be going back tomorrow afternoon. If she has time in the morning, she also plans to meet Lady Violet.
“Is Vi doing well?”
“Yes, she’s doing fine. She’s gotten used to her work as the lord and she’s doing such a great job that I can’t compare to her.”
When I said that, Ms. Kriemhild smiled with joy.
I could tell that there was no other meaning to her smile. She really cared for Lady Violet, but… that’s exactly what sparked some doubts, so I decided to ask her a question.
“What do you think of the current Lady Violet, Ms. Kriemhild.”
“What do you mean?”
“I was wondering how she is right now compared to how she was at the academy.”
In response to my question, Ms. Kriemhild put her left hand on her chin and made a thinking posture.
After pondering over it for a while, she answered.
“Well, when she was at the academy, she often had tense encounters with Ma… the girl who she dueled and His Highness Vermillion. She was always frowning back then. She’s not like that now so I’m relieved. I think it’s a good change, but I also feel a little sad that I’m not the one who caused it… Sir.”
I’ve thought this before too, but Ms. Krienhild really isn’t good at using honorifics.
It’s fine even if she doesn’t force herself to do it. But if I point it out, I feel like she’ll tell me to drop the honorifics too so I’ll just leave it at that.
“Even though I was pretty busy, I should have talked to her more… well, even if I did talk to her, I think I would’ve been chased away by others around her.”
“You were busy? Were you collecting materials for alchemy magic?”
“That was a part of it too, but it seems that I’m quite different from other people, so I was desperately trying to make up for it…”
Different from others?
Ms. Kriemhild was probably different from others from the moment she became able to use alchemy magic, but has she always been the kind of a person to realize that she was out of sync with others? She could reach various conclusions depending on the love interest route, so maybe she’s just a very unusual person?
No, maybe this is also the influence of the other girl who uses alchemy magic–
“Yes, I studied hard…! I was finally able to use theory for the basic magic I’d been using with just a feeling until then!”
But it was nothing to worry about.
I guess it’s something like she wasn’t good at basics because she was able to do things to some extent with her natural talent.
“In other words, you don’t like looking at textbooks and your brain demands sleep whenever you do. Am I right?!”
“How could you tell?!”
“Ms. Kriemhild, you’re the type to get more excited about the old weapons and magic circles written in document collections than textbooks, right?”
“How do you know that?!”
Because I was like that too.
Magic circles in my previous life might’ve only been beloved by delusional edgelords, but in this world they’re considered a proper science. Lately I’ve found it troublesome to write them and construct them so I don’t use them unless I’m talking with people with strange tastes like Apricot or using them for big ceremonies. When watching such a spectacle, I don’t think it can be helped if I feel excited.
Come to think of it, I remember there were several scenes where the main character (Ms. Kriemhild) wasn’t good at studying and was taught by another capture target.
“Personally, I like the magic circle that was used to defeat roaring beasts.”
“Oh, I get that. I’d say that it’s written in a way that shows respect for the opponents by defeating them one by one instead of killing all 30 together!”
‘Yes, while the one-hit-kill without any unnecessary tricks is also amazing, but the sense of precision that comes from discovering another interpretation of it just makes one so excited. To think that there was another way of looking at things. That’s just–‘”
“I get it, I totally get it! And the other thing is…”
“You’re right! That’s why…”
Looks like my interests match with Ms. Kriemhild more than I thought.
If we had a connection in previous life, we might have had similar hobbies, like manga or games. If we were peers in this life, we might have become good classmates.
―― Huh?! Is this the so-called power of the main character?! Did His Highness, Ash and the others fall for this charm?… ah, no, they didn’t actually fall for her.
“Clo, are you cheating?”
“I’m not. Oh, good work on the patrol.”
Just as we were engrossed in the discussion of magic (?), Robot, who was on patrol duty, landed in front of us. While we were having a chat about magic, a robot on patrol duty landed at our place.
Maybe she was using silent mode because she appeared suddenly, but I felt her presence, so I wasn’t too surprised. However, just as I was worrying that Ms. Kriemhild might have been surprised,
“Long time no see, Blondie. How have you been?”
“Yes. I. Have. Been. Fine. You. Also. Seem. To. Be. In. Good. Health. So. I’m. Gl— No. You. Seem. To. Be. Feeling. Under. The. Weather?”
“Ahaha, I drank alcohol, but I was weaker than I expected. Now I’m fine thanks to Mr. Clo’s care!”
“Then. I’m. Glad. Also. Please. Call. Me. Robot. When. I’m. In. This. Form.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, Robo. Your name is so pretty, I couldn’t help myself.”
… Wait, this girl did not just get used to Robot, but she’s also close enough with her to call her by her name?
When I asked her when they managed to become good friends, she told me that during the investigation, she used alchemy magic to create replacement parts for Robot when parts of her body malfunctioned. That’s how they got close.
Is this the power of the heroine after all…?
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