When I returned to Lazia, everyone greeted Ran and Eustaf with happy faces. Only then did Ran change into comfortable clothes and threw herself on the sofa because she seemed to be relaxed.
Caruso and Daryl posted a report with a dying face, and Elizabeth posted a report with a satisfied face.
Lumiere smiled and looked at the document.
"You're busy, master."
"Yes, I am."
Ran grinned. I don't know what it is, but Lumiere's tone and behavior have also changed.
'Good side.'
He quit calling her Miss Lan and returned to Master, but his accent was a little different when he sang it.
In addition, he firmly said, "No matter what you say, I'll call you master," so Ran had to nod, "If you really want it."
Lazia was all red in color. Sooner or later, it will end in the month of October.
'Time flies.'
In two months, it will be New Year's Day, and then Eustaf will come of age.
'Then I'll hand over my Head position.'
And maybe I can stay in Lazia. You know, Eustaf said he'd make a deal,
'Maybe he's digging out of his family register.'
This was a bit of a possibility.
'But it doesn't matter.'
I was going to start with a new status anyway, and then I was going to throw away everything related to Lazia.
'But what happens to me if I dig it out of my family register?'
Back to the original castle? What was her last name?
'And if it's not for Lazia, there will be no justification left here.'
But I washed the honey sucker as a lady, but that's too bad.
Ran thought of that and recalled a square box that Levery had sent to her.
It contained a new identification card and a new name- based account at the top of Golden Rose. You just have to leave with that box at any time. Ran closed her eyes thinking so. I can't believe it's already been this long.
'Great job, Ran. Really.'
Hot, Ran opened her eyes.
'Wait. What's this? Jumar light? It's not time for the ending credit to go up yet.'
Ran came to her senses and got up on the sofa. Lumiere said, "Are you asleep?" and Ran shook her head.
"No, but I think I'm less tired when I get home. But Lumiere. Aren't you always being next to me? You're not going to report back to Blaine?"
"I asked Lord Ross for you."
Lumiere grinned. Ran somehow felt sorry for Ross.
On the way, Ross and Lumiere fought, and Ross lost. Since then, Ross has asked Lumiere to fight whenever he has time, and Lumiere has won all of them.
Ross had a pretty shocked face, and after that, he would train hard behind the wagon.
'It was a face that looked like the sky had fallen.'
Ran nodded. Dimodia saw it and lightly commented, "The power of relationship has changed."
During the trip, Ran liked Dimodia better.
Ran once asked her because silver hair and purple eyes reminded me of the Duke Miro.
"May you be related to Her Highness, the Crown Princess?"
Then, Dimodia answered with her head up.
"Well, Count Beloine is a royal citizen, but perhaps the blood of the Empire was mixed in his predecessors."
Ran liked the nonchalant answer. In addition, it was strangely less distant than Kara or Soda.
The nagging Dimodia liked Ran even more, and when Ran said so directly to her, Dimodia opened her mouth and laughed.
"The Lord is really unique."
That was her evaluation.
'And she's a great smile.'
Ran added additional points.
"Lord, are you already at work?"
As Dimodia frowned, Ran slapped her eyes on the document.
"No, I was thinking about something else."
"You're thinking about something else, and you're moving on to the paperwork."
At the words of Dimodia, Ran laughed. Soda cut in between the two.
"Dimodia needs some rest. It's the same with the Lord. If the Lord doesn't rest, we can't rest either."
"Yes, I got it."
Ran nodded gently and put down the document. With a slightly uncomfortable face, Soda looked at Lumiere and Lumiere politely said.
"Just think of me as a standing tree."
"There's no such handsome tree."
Soda mumbled in her mouth, coughed for nothing, and spoke loudly.
"But it's hard to relax with a man."
Lumiere said with open arms.
"I am a tree."
When Soda opened her mouth, Ran burst into laughter and said.
"I'm fine, but wouldn't it be better to report it yourself? I'm embarrassed by the Blaine alert."
After a moment of thought at Ran's words, Lumiere nodded.
"All right, then."
As Lumiere left the living room, Soda rolled her eyes and said.
"Was he like that?"
I don't think he was like that. Ran spoke seriously.
"I didn't know, but I guess he was like that."
And maybe I did something. Ran thought so.
It was because Lumiere looked quite strange when she said she couldn't remember anything because she was drunk.
'But he doesn't say anything. I can't help it.'
Ran thought so and said with a smile.
"Want to see the decorations from the Dwarfs?"
Soda's eyes shone like the sun.
"I want to see."
Opening each box of accessories in the hands of the servant, Soda and Kara exclaimed.
"Look at this jewel!"
"How is it so shiny?"
"I think it's shining on its own. Right, Soda. What about this bracelet? It looks like a gold-colored on a nail leaf. It's real gold, right? It's all gold, isn't it?"
"Yes, it's real gold."
When Ran confirmed it, Kara and Soda also looked at the delicate goldsmith until the vein of leaves.
The ring also had millgrain's craftsmanship, which was impossible with human skill.
"What's this? A small lamp?"
The lamp, which was made about half the size of the palm of the hand, looked beautiful with a motif of a cage.
"Yes, turn the ring on it."
When Soda turned the ring on Lan's words, a bright light came on. Soda laughed with admiration.
"That's a magic tool."
"It's pretty and practical. You can wear it around your waist."
"That's right."
The two women nodded alternately.
"Isn't this pretty, too?"
Dimodia, who has already opened all the boxes throughout the trip, opened another box and introduced several more magic tools.
Whenever that happened, Soda and Kara marveled. The small dagger also captivated the hearts of the two.
"I'd wear this as an accessory."
Soda and Kara said in unison.
After the sightseeing, Ran had dinner with Eustaf for the first time in a long time.
"How's your winter preparation going?"
"Yes. We've started to distribute the ice crystals we've marked to the people of the territory, and we've started to distribute the magic supplies."
"Well, why don't we build a village where the magicians live?"
"That would be fine, too. I'm moving the guild around, so I'm going to focus on that."
"Yes"
Ran nodded.
"The sugar-making process will also begin in earnest next year."
"Really? Wow..."
Ran cheered quietly, and Eustaf laughed. Ran said in a good mood.
"I think it's good to have white sugar without having to be refined. Let's name it snow sugar! This is branding, too."
"Isn't it ice sugar?"
"It doesn't have a pretty name."
At Ran's words, Eustaf looked up, wondering 'Is that so?'
Ran was puffed up in her dream and said, looking at Eustaf eyes.
"Of course, you will need someone to take charge of it....I may not be there in the future...."
"That's right."
Eustaf didn't even blink an eye and said so, so Ran closed her lips for a while and soon smiled quickly.
"How's Count Illuminati's son? I thought he had three sons. I think they'd like it if the castle hired them."
"We're trying to figure out the candidates. I thought I'd need a general manager."
"Show it to me."
"I've already sent you the documents."
"Yes"
Ran nodded.
'It's hard for both an administrator and an accountant. With the General Manager, we could coordinate things more clearly.'
I'm sure my work will be divided up. You're better off thinking about leaving.
Ran nodded. Caruso and Daryl were very satisfied. The accounting was neat and the bookkeeping was thorough.
"Come to think of it, Noonim."
"Huh?"
"Caruso said he had a lot of cash left, so he asked me how about lending money"
At Eustaf's words, Ran frowned without realizing it.
"Like a ring tender?"
"It's not a ring, but it's a sad to leave the cash as it is."
"No, I don't want a loan shark."
Ran said without realizing it.
In fact, it was common for nobles to play money or interest. But it didn't sound very good to Ran's modern sense.
"And if they don't get paid, that's a loss."
"They're not paying the Duke of Lazia back?"
"Oh, so I don't like it to be like that. Oh, but do you need a place to borrow money, so is it better to have a safe first- tier financial sector?.... Are there many of us who borrow money?"
"I don't know what the first financial sector is, but I know. It hasn't been long since money started circulating in the land. I think there will be quite a few young people who have paid for us."
"Then.... They'd better pay us back for that. and pay back the low interest...."
Ran sighed.
"There's nothing easy. We're gonna need a lot of people to do this."
Mumbled and Ran laughed.
"But I'm glad the Duchy of Lazia is small. The population is only half as large as the other duchy."
"Because the land is ruined."
"Right. The winter is really long. There aren't many good places to farm."
"But there's snow sugar and ice crystals. We'd better plant a large scale of white trees."
"Right, wood is worth it. I like it, it's a pretty cream color."
"But the problem is that it's soft."
"Yeah."
A soft tree may be good for processing, but it is less valuable. Of course, it is used as an ornament because of its beautiful cream color.
"And sugar would be more efficient than wood."
"So is that."
Ran nodded.
"If it became a richer estate,...it'll make a better living...."
Ran thought of it blankly and suddenly thought of him.
"Infectious disease."
Eustaf's eyes were wrinkled.
"What do you mean?"
"Uh, no, no."
Lan shook her head in a hurry. Her knife became a little faster.
"No, the epidemic, if you think about it, was caused by Uncle Lindbergh? The territorial condition deteriorated and became impoverished and spread more easily...'"
Ran glanced at Eustaf. Come to think of it, the original Eustaf married his uncle's daughter.
I've never complained about it. Don't even try to deal with the daughter. He just died when the epidemic went around.
Even before Sina came, the problem that Eustaf was worried about was marriage. At that time, it was his duty to find a woman who could bring a lot of dowry because the Duke of Lazia really had nothing but his name and nothing but debt.
But when Sina came, she found the ice crystal, she got out of it.
Ran stopped cutting.
Looking at the red juice from the beef, she swallowed her embarrassment.
There must have been a reason why Eustaf liked Sina. A benefactor who flew from the world and lowered the lifeline at a difficult time.
'What if Eus doesn't like Sina?'
It was a possibility that I had never thought about.
'If you think about it, it doesn't make sense that I'm alive.'
I was thinking about it in public, but the plate was removed in front of my eyes. Ran looked up in surprise, and Eustaf exchanged her plate for his neatly cut meat.
"Because the knife looks hard."
"Huh? No, it's okay..."
"I'm fine, too. Let's eat."
"It's not good to cut it in advance."
Ran's mumble, Eustaf picked up and said, cutting Ran's steak.
"It would be better to cut it in advance than not to eat it."
"It's not that I don't eat..."
But Ran quickly put the steak in her mouth. It was easy to eat because it was definitely cut. It's annoying to use a knife.
While eating, Ran thought lightly.
'It's only natural that the future changes. Come to think of it, I worked hard to change it. I'm a prophet, too.'
Even if Sina and Eustaf don't fall in love. If it's a decision between the two, maybe it can't be helped. Ran glanced at Eustaf's neat face, thinking so.
He asked.
"What have you been thinking so far?"
"Destiny....?"
His blue eyes quickly fixed on Ran's face.
"You're looking at me?"
When asked by him, Ran nodded and shook her head slightly embarrassed.
"No, just, about Eustaf's future lovers..."
"Why on earth would you think of that?"
Ran blinked her eyes.
"That's true."
Why would I think about that?
"Just worried? I guess so."
Ran muttered so much and put the rest of the meat in her mouth. Well-cooked beef was tender and delicious enough with its unique herbs and salt seasoning.
"Let's talk with Caruso and Daryl about lending the money one more time. If you think about it, they're both commoners, so they won't hurt territory commoners."
"That's prejudice."
"Is that so?"
"Yes, that's why we can exploit it more harshly. I'm an aristocrat, so I can be more generous."
"Okay,... let's talk about it without prejudice."
"I will."
Eustaf nodded and Ran finished her meal.