Chapter 25:
Fiancee!? This old geezer is athena's fiancee!? His voice is polite, but his smile is very evil. It is a smile that everyone wants to punch.
Athena is sitting very closely to me and she is holding my clothes while trembling. Christina-san is clearly angry but she did not say anything.
「Athena, you are back already. I guess you miss me already right?」 Ferg
Miss? Do you want me to punch you? What a thick-faced geezer.
「Ferg-dono, shouldn't you be managing your business right now?」 Christina
「There's no need for that, christina-sama. I am the richest merchant in this kingdom. I have thousands of excellent subordinates, they can manage it themselves. Also, my future wife just arrived, there's no way i can ignore her.」 ferg
Richest merchant? Is that why even the duke can't to anything about him?
「Don't get full of yourself, we will make sure that the marriage won't happen.」 Christina
「Is that so? Well that's too bad. I heard that the strong monster are slowly going out from the forest. If i will leave this kingdom, can you even hire an adventurers to help exterminate them? Don't forget that my business is the reason why this country is financially stable.」 Ferg
「That's...」 Christina
「Fufufu, you daughter is just a small price to pay. In exchange, i will help this country to advance more.」 Ferg
This old geezer! I want to punch his evil face. Athena is thrembling, so i hold her hand tightly.
「You can laugh all you want now. But we will make sure to find an evidence against you.」 Christina
「Fufufu, and how exactly are you going to search for something that doesn't exist? I'm sure you already know that my business is clean right?」 Ferg
Clean? That face of yours? Having a clean business? Is he joking? Christina-san did not answered, don't tell me they really didn't get any evidence?
「Anyway, i still have a lot to do, so athena let me...」 Ferg
「Don't come near her.」 Me
The old geezer tried to hug athena, but athena was trembling so i stand in front of athena like shielding her.
When the guards saw that, they shouted at me saying that i'm rude, then they unsheat their swords and rushed at me. So i gathered a compressed magic at my hand and then pointed it at them. When i released my magic, it explodes and the 4 big guards was blown away to the wall. Then the old geezer laughs.
「Fufufu, what a strong kid. And who might you be?」 Ferg
「I don't have a name to tell to someone like you. And if i tell you, you will have to die.」 Me
2nd rule that god gave me, if someone will discover that i am from another world, they have to die. Well, that sounds evil. But that's not a problem since i won't tell anyone.
「Fufufu, that sounds scary. Then i will not pry deeper. Anyway, it looks like you are protecting my future wife, so i will just let you do that.」 Ferg
Are you scared now? I'm sure this person will try to do something about me. Well i'm not that worried, since i will make sure to beat him first.
When athena saw me protecting her, she has calmed down a little. But she is still scared. I want to end this now, so i didn't answered the old geezer.
I glared at the old geezer, and he glared at me. I want to punch his face, but i can't do that since he is the richest merchant in this kingdom.
In order to bring this man down, the kingdom needs to find an evidence against him. In that way, the kingdom can get hold of the business.
If they just suddenly capture him, the business won't get passed to the kingdom, and a very large amount of money will be lost.
In a worst case, the kingdom's people would starve, and would be force to do a coup de'etat.
The old geezer called the guards, but they are still unconcious. I don't want to help this geezer, but i want them to leave immediately. So i poired water magic on them.
When the guards waked up, they are wondering where they are. And when they remember what happened earlier, they point their swords on me again, so i released a large magic power from my body to scare them.
I just released an amount that would not destroy the house, but since the house is very wide, the magic power i released is still strong. When the guards saw that, they are trembling in fear. So the geezer called them and leaved the house.
「Kaito-sama!」 Athena
When the geezer and his guard leave. Athena rushed to me and hugged me. She is trembling. I would surely bring that geezer down. I patted athena's head and smiled at her.
「It's allright now. And you don't need to worry, i will not leave you until we bring that man down.」 Me
It doesn't look like there's an evidence against him. So my last resort would be to torture him until he speaks. I wonder why there's no evidence though. That face looks so evil.
「K-kaito-sama, thankyou so much.」 Athena
「Then kaito-kun, how about you stay here at our house?」 Christina
Hmmm, i am embarassed to stay at a noble's house. But this is the best way to protect athena. I don't know if i should accept, so i looked at athena who is still hugging me, then she looks at me. Our face was so close, she is looking at my face that was just above her.
「Kaito-sama, please stay at my house. Or, is that... a no?」 Athena
Uwa~ah, she is so cuuute. If you do that, then there's no way i can refuse!
「I got it, i will stay here with you.」 Me
「Yeah! Thankyou kaito-sama!」 Athena
She's still hugging me, and she put's her face on my shoulder. I wonder if she likes my hoodie, it is so soft after all.
「Then, Christina-san, i will be in your care fo a while.」 Me
「Yeah, we will be glad to have you here. Seri, show kaito-kun to the guest room later. But it looks like athena wants to cuddle with him more, so you need to wait for a while.」 Christina
「Motheeer!!! Geeez!」 Athena
Athena is blushing so much, and her mother is just laughing. They are really a mother and daughter. They both love teasing other people.
After a while, Seri-san leads me to the guest room. But for some unknown reason, athena followed us. The room is big, and clean.
I thanked seri-san for leading me. Then i sit on a table inside the room and write a letter for sarah. I will be staying here for a longer, so i told kuroma to bring a letter to her.
I didn't tell her about athena's problem ofcourse, so i just hope that she will not get angry.
We didn't have anything to do, so athena showed me the capital. There are so many stalls and delicious food. I want to make foods from my old world, but everything i know is already here. Mayne i should just make an ice cream, or cake? There's only little desserts in this world, after all.
It's already night time, so we returned to the mansion. We also ate already outside so athena told the chef that they don't need to cook for us.
The guest room has it's own bathroom, so i just bath there. After taking my bath, i lied down on the bed.
Now then, i wonder what i should do about that geezer. I talked to christina again earlier, and she said that there are no evidence against the ggezer at all. His business is clean, no corruption, no bribery, no embezzlement. Everything was clean.
While i am thinking on what should i do, i didn't noticed that my consciosness is slowly fading, then i fell asleep.
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*Pat pat pat*
Hm?
*Pat pat pat*
Somehow, this situation looks familiar
*Pat pat pat*
Isn't this? Sh*t i need to wake u...
「Ughwah!」 Me
Auuhhh, it huuurts!.
「Kuroma?」 Me
Ne~igh!
I knew it, but i was too late.
「Kuroma-chan, don't do that. Kaito-sama, are you okay?」 Athena
「Athena? Why are you here?」 Me
When i wake up, athena is at my side. She is wearing a sleeping pajama.
「I'm scared because of what happened yesterday, so i sleep here.」 Athena
Scared? Don't lie! You are smiling right now!
「Then, why is kuroma here?」 Me
「He returned yesterday night, so i bring him here.」 Athena
「So you mean you bring kuroma here, then you see that i am already sleeping, so you sleep beside me?」 Me
「Eh? Ah, n-no. That's... I'm scared, really.」 Athena
Don't lie! You are smiling! You can't even look at my face.
*SIGH*
「I see. Scared huh. But we are not engaged, so please refrain from doing that next time.」 Me
「O-okay」 athena
Areh? She looks sad, stop that. It's so cute.
I am still sleepy, so i lay down again. I told athena to go back to her room, but she didn't listen and she lied down instead. It's no use scolding her, so i just let her do what she wants. We are not engaged, we are not even lovers. But we look like a newlywed.
While i was laying down on the bed, i used my perception magic. Yesterday when we explore the capital, there are so many places that i want to see. But i didn't get to do it because the capital was way too big. So today, i want to use my magic to get familliar to the royal capital.
While i was spreading my magic thin and wide, i can see so many people, there are even even a few people doing a circus. There are also a bunch of people swinging a wooden swords, maybe they are a knight?
「Kaito-sama? What are you doing? You are staring at the ceiling since earlier.」 Athena
「I am using perception magic. We didn't get to explore the whole capital yesterday because it was too big, so i am using magic to see it.」 Me
「Perception magic? Is that like a map?」 Athena
「Yes, but you can also see the people and everything.」 Me
「I see. Kaito-sama, please teach me how to do that.」 Athena
Hmm, there's really no problem even if i show her. But i don't think she can spread her magic wide like mine.
「O-okay, then. Release your magic power, and make it thin, then spread it slowly.」 Me
「Okay」 athena
Athena released her magic, but it's not that strong. She said she can summon a chasing horse, so maybe this much magic power is strong compared to other people.
While athena is spreading her magic, she suddenly smiles.
「Kaito-sama, this is amazing! I can see the flowers at the garden. And i can see the people walking outside. But...」 Athena
Areh? She is smiling earlier. Why did she become sad?
「Is something wrong?」 Me
「N-no, it's just. My magic can only reach the outside of the gate. Kaito-sama, how far can your magic go?」 Athena
Etto~, i still have a lot of magic power that i didn't use so...
「I don't know, I can see the whole center part of the capital right now, so i can still spread more. But i'm sure that i can see the whole capital.」 Me
「Kaito-sama, you are so amazing. If i can do that i will always use that to... Wait. Kaito-sama!」 Athena
Eh? Ehhh???
「What? What's wrong?」 Me
「Kaito-sama, spread your search until the south part of the capital. There's a big mansion there that was surrounded by big walls!」 Athena
「Huh? Why?」 Me
「Just do it!」 Athena
「O-okay」 me
I don't know what she is talking about, but i just listened to her. I spread my magic more and more, until i can see a big mansion that was surrounded by big walls.
Etto~,
「Okay, i already see it. But why are making me search this mansi... Areh?」 Me
「Kaito-sama, you saw something right?」 Athena
There is a big plain on the back of the mansion, and there are people practicing a bow. But what captures my attention is that the people that was aiming at the targets are being... whipped?