"Oh? Lydia, that's great!"
Ran opened her eyes wide and said, Guild leader?
It was not long ago that she was kicked out to Lazia because she was a middle-aged woman, but now she's a new guild leader.
"But there's only one guild in one item, right?"
Lydia smiled at Ran's question.
"We are the Ice Crystal Magic Crafts Guild."
Ran opened her mouth slightly and burst into laughter. It's blindfolded, but yes, it looks like it. The existing mana stone and ice modification are different in dimensions.
"I see. Then I'll give you permission, though it's heartbreaking. Of course, the Duke of Lazia will actively defend the new guild leader."
Isn't it natural for women to help each other in this tough world?
When Ran said so and blinked her eyes, Lydia's eyes turned red.
"Thank you. Lord, no, Earl."
Lydia went on to say,
"I'd like to leave Frances in this castle. The Duke's chief magic cleaner is a good place."
At the words, Ran glanced at Frances standing next to her. Are boys different from day to day? He also grew up compared to when he first came.
In addition, the magic craftsmanship he created was well- known for being delicate and sophisticated.
There was a time when Frances designed the modern tool that Ran said in a single night.
'Genius is genius.'
"I'd appreciate it if you stayed."
Ran said so and grinned.
"Thank you," Lydia said after bowing.
"The magic work you mentioned before has also been completed."
"Really?"
"Yes, a portable stove. Frances, show me."
Frances quickly went to his desk when she said that and brought a square object. It was about the size of a paperback and had a right-wing glass-like color. said Frances.
"You can put ice crystals next to it."
He inserted a processed hexagonal ice crystal into one hole.
"And press the button here to activate it."
Then the portable stove began to glow softly in warm yellow. Ran caressed it with her hands. It was a little hot, but it wasn't too much to touch.
"If you press the button one more time, it gets hotter, and the heat shoots out so much that you can't hold it with your hands. And in that case, like this--"
He pulled the bottom out to bring out four short stands.
"You can put it around it."
"Amazing! Can we mass-produce and distribute this."
I want to distribute one to the knights for winter training. When Ran thought so, Frances said with a perplexed face.
"Maybe, that won't work, Earl."
"Oh, really?"l
"Yes... I have to draw it with my hands-it takes a lot of time to draw it so complicated."
"Ahh..."
Ran nodded. Ran also knew that magic work was to carve magic dust in silver on a thin iron plate.
"I can't help it."
Ran nodded, saying so. said Lydia.
"We can make it faster if we have a laundry guild."
"Oh, I see."
Ran smiled.
"Then if you need anything, tell Yulia, the administrative assistant. I'll talk to you."
"Respect."
Upon receiving Lydia's greetings, Ran left the room.
'A new guild in the Lazian estate...good. The problem is getting solved.'
But I haven't heard from Eustaf yet. Ran was so depressed when she thought of it that she quickly turned to something else.
"But the weather has gotten a lot better."
Lumiere nodded at Ran's words. In early April, it was certainly the spring of Lazia, so the wind was no longer stinging, and icicles and snow melted to create a muddy ground. Even between the snow that still remain, the spiky blue shoots came up, signaling that spring has come.
Already, snowdrop was decorated with flowers in Ran's office vase.
'I'm sure they've arrived in the capital.'
But Ran's thoughts went back to Eustaf.
Although it is a world where magical communication zones exist, the distance limit was clear.
'It's a problem that can be solved if a transmission tower is built in the middle of the road ·····.'
No one seems to want to build a transmission tower.
'Of course, it costs a lot...., and I don't know what the principle it is.'
As a result, it was impossible to use magic communication tools from far away, such as the capital city and Lazia.
'And there's no magic of teleportation in this world.' It was a kind of taboo rather than a lack of magic. Turning back time.
Bringing back the dead.
To create something from nothing.
These three things were said to be magic that the great sage Iveria should not use, and although there is no one who secretly researches them, it seemed to be labeled as impossible.
'Magic is about breaking the laws of physics.'
Ran grumbled softly, thinking so.
However, the problem was that letters between the capital and Lazia required a long time.
"Let's make a messenger bird or something."
She murmured and Ran said, 'Oh, can't we really make something like that?' and shined her eyes.
I think we can make a postman drone or something.
'Let's ask Frances later.'
Ran nodded, thinking so. After that, I feel a little better.
"...I heard you're going to see the New Year."
So, Ran understood Lumiere's words a beat later.
"Huh?"
When Ran looked back at him, Lumiere asked again without showing any signs.
"I heard you're going to see the waterway facilities."
"Oh, yeah. It's spring and I'm going to see the banks and the waterways with my own eyes. I need to let my subordinates know that I care about it myself."
Lumiere said at Ran's words.
"Of course, you're taking me, aren't you?"
Ran said with a smile.
"Of course."
Lumiere smiled gracefully.
"Then that's enough."
*******
'The banks freeze and melt in the winter, and now they're falling apart.'
Is it because it was poorly built from the beginning or is the soil like that?
Anyway, Ran had a thorough examination on a horse.
I don't know, but I'm sure you'll pay attention to it if you show me, you're watching it!
In addition, the caretaker specifically called the farmer to talk to him.
'I don't think you can even make eye contact because you're a high man.'
In fact, I tried to wear something more frugal, but Dimodia was surprised and opposed.
"What do you mean? Who likes you to wear shabby clothes?"
And.
"Uh, don't you think it's friendlier?"
"What are you going to use because you're close to the commoner?"
Opening her purple eyes wide, she snorted and bit, and Lan was speechless. So, in the end, she asked Lumiere, who was closest to the commoner's sense, about her fancy dress, and she answered, wondering about Lumiere.
"I don't want to be a poor host."
It's a culture shock.
Ran's identity system is also difficult to understand clearly from the modern sense. I thought.
Do you mean that Commoners also wants to say, "My lord is pretty and her clothes are really cool?"
When asked again, Lumiere smiled and replied.
"It depends, of course, on how much of a chigel you give."
I answered with a reply.
Ran nodded, "That certainly is." Lazia had a long winter, so food shortages were chronic. Last year, I bought a large amount of food with money and distributed it, and as soon as spring came, I started lending food.
'I know that you shouldn't give it to me for free ·····.'
Instead, interest rates are set at·····
Eustaf had removed loan sharks like an ant with his fingers, and Ran thought, 'That, that much?' but he seemed to have been a bad guy and a hook that was not comparable to a modern private loaner.
Even Elizabeth was saying that she was relieved.
'If you think about it, isn't that the same thing for Lumiere?'
In a world where there's a possibility of being sold as a slave, a loan shark is a huge thing.
Anyway, it wasn't too fancy, but I dressed up in fancy clothes and went on a tour.
On each way out, the territorial people came out and shouted "Long live Lazia!" and Ran banned it from being unbearable.
"How are you? Did you deserve this winter?"
When asked by Ran, the farmer answered with a restless look.
"Yes, of course! Thanks to you, I spent the winter without freezing anyone to death."
"Didn't you run out of ice or something?"
"That was enough."
"Good thing."
Ran smiled with a smile. She said.
"Tell me if you need anything else. I'll petition the Duke."
Then suddenly the farmer burst into tears.
"No, even this is enough. If I want more, I'm greedy."
Then he cried and Ran was really embarrassed, and the manager in the middle soothed him and said.
"I'm thrilled that such a high man has heard the story."
No, it's like a great companion·······?
Ran thought so, and said, "Are you saying something unreasonable?"
"We're not being forced to do this?" he asked, and the farmer fell flat on his face.
"No!! Really, it's been so long since I've had such an abundant winter - and you've been so kind to a man like me·····!"
Ran was embarrassed, but she tried to remain calm and said, as she was impressed.
"I'm glad I did. If there's anything uncomfortable in the future, please feel free to tell me."
Then she quickly left with her party.
Riding on the horse, she left there and whispered to Lumiere, who ran side by side.
"I'm so surprised."
"Is that so?"
Lumiere blinked his eyes. He understood the farmer's mind too well.
"Maybe someone threatened me or asked me to compliment you?"
She frowned and asked seriously, so he smiled quietly.
"I don't think so. Whenever I think of my master, I cry."
Lan opened her eyes wide and burst into laughter.
"Okay, okay, okay."
Ran said so and looked around. Everyone is wearing old and shabby clothes, but they didn't look bad.
'I'm gonna have to do a dark trip later.'
I don't think the king sent a secret agent or a secret agent for no reason.
Ran shook her head excitedly thinking so. If I could, I'd like to go on a tour from the end of the estate to the end, but it seemed difficult.
I'd like to take a look around the home of the deities myself but-
'I can't do that.'
Everyone seemed to be quite happy that the duke, Eustaf, toured in person. But Ran, the count, had no authority. Even if you're a general or a patriarch, that's crossing the line.
'A duchess wouldn't know.'
When I thought about it, Ran felt her cheeks turning red. She ran faster, consciously trying to shake the idea off.
"Then the patrol is almost over."
Blaine, who followed her from behind, nodded at her words.
"That's right. I'll stay outside until today, and I'll go back to the Sky castle tomorrow."
"Oh, we're finally leaving."
I smiled thinking that the sky castle has become a complete sense of "my house."
"Before that, I'll stay at the villa today."
Blaine added, saying so.
"And you didn't have to come out like this."
Ran opened her eyes wide and smiled slightly at the words, and Blaine hurriedly added.
"Of course, I'm not saying anything, but it's hard to go on an outside tour."
"I know, but Eus- No, Lord want to keep it at its best because it's left to you."
She grinned as she said so. Blaine looked at her for a moment. There was a story that Eustaf gathered and told separately.
"I proposed to Ran."
Everyone blinked because it sounded as if they were eating bread today.
Then it was his father, Baron Wilde, who rose from his seat like a tingling.
"You'll marry the Count Romia?!"
"Yes."
Then the Count of Illuminati asked slowly.
"So did you succeed?"
"No."
Rarely, Eustaf spoke with a bitter smile and asked sharply.
"I think you already knew."
"I heard from Ms. Ran."
"Is that so?"
Eustaf's blue eyes glanced at him, and the Count of Illuminati replied briefly, "I didn't object."
The atmosphere between the people who went after Eustaf said so was different, but everyone felt "It's okay?" in common.
Elisabeth later said, "Are you marrying for profit, even though you don't like Ran?" but Blaine didn't think so.
'Anyway, she said no.'
Blaine thought so, and when he looked at Ran, Ran asked.
"Is there something on my face?"
"No, it's nothing."
In a hurry, Blaine turned his head. Ran blinked and said, wondering.
"You're in a villa today?"
"Yes, the Lazian houses and villas that we built before exist here and there. There's a lot of bad management - it's a good place today."
"I see."
Ran nodded.
This tour was also a week ago. Running on a muddy road was harder than running a horse, so Ran was riding, so the moment she got off the horse and threw herself into bed in the evening was always happy.
"I hope we get there soon."
Ran said so and grinned.