IMPORTANT:
I missed Idle Chat 11 which is supposed to come after Idle Chat 10
All links will be moved forward by one.
The Reincarnated Boy’s Growth Log ~The Harder I Work The Stronger I Can Become!?~ Idle Talk 11
Looking Around
“I have been expecting you, Alexia-sama. And thank you for sending them all the way here, Prince Fergus”
When we arrive at the mansion of the Feudal Lord of the town we entered had used, General Melia was at the front, and the soldiers were lining up and bowing behind her inside the mansion. It’s quite the spectacle.
“Eeh, thanks, General Melia. For shouldering the preservation of the public order in our place”
“N, no! I will help as much as you want if you are fine with me!”
……this person started blushing and going, ‘haa haa‘ for some reason. I spoke to her once during the war, but she didn’t feel like this at that time though. I guess I’ll keep an eye out for a bit.
“Ou. We’ll rest here today for a day, and tomorrow we’ll return. Is there any place we can stay over?”
“Yes, of course, I will make the arrangements. Oi, lead the way for Prince Fergus”
“Hah!”
Prince Fergus and the others are being led into the mansion by the soldiers called by General Melia. The soldiers head somewhere that looks like a different wing. Still, this mansion sure is huge. It’s larger than the Margrave’s mansion, you know. Maybe it’s because the previous Feudal Lord ran away right from the start, there are no traces of any struggle either.
“Well then, I will lead the way for Alexia-sama and the others as well”
General Melia says and walks towards the mansion, so we follow behind her. We were lead to our respective rooms, and we leave our baggage there. The baggage has been placed inside either the Item Ring that Alexia or I possess. It’s divided between man and woman.
After that, Alexia, the magistrate, and I gather in the conference room to have a talk with General Melia. Everybody else went to check out the inside of the mansion.
Rabi-san went to the Adventurer’s Guild in this territory, and Rose-san accompanied her as well as went searching for an empty lot.
“For the time being, will you tell us the current state of the territory?”
“Yes. Firstly, it is the former Regalia nobles, the majority of them surrendered, but the nobles in the vicinity of the border with Regalia are still resisting”
It’s what Fergus-aniue talked about. They’re those that are probably thinking that Regalia will come and help them.
“May I know how many people are there roughly?”
“Ah, Lei-sama, there is no need to use polite speech with me. Please speak normally”
General Melia makes a regular face and says such things to me. I spoke in polite speech because I’m bad at speaking casually to people who are older than me, but I ended up being refused right away. Well, it can’t be helped.
“I got it. So how many people are there roughly?”
“Yes. Including the nobles who possess territories and those who don’t gather, there are about 30 people in total. There are about five thousand soldiers”
That many huh. But if I’m not wrong, the Nanor soldiers that General Melia brought along was 30 thousand, right. They can’t suppress them even with that?
“I have currently divided the troops of 30 thousand into 5, and they’ve been respectively divided to the north, south, east, and west, so it’ll end up taking some time no matter what for them to gather”
That can’t be helped huh. The domain is quite spacious after all. I guess they have to split up no matter what if they’re planning to go around that entire region.
“I got it. Send a messenger to those nobles. Telling them that it’s still in time now”
I guess that’s what they call a final warning. It’s true that if it drags on for too long, the nobles who have currently settled down may rebel as well; if they’re going to resist any further, then we have to quickly suppress them. We have to teach those nobles that rebelled a lesson though.
“That’s right. If we have the leeway after that, we have to go around looking at the other territories as well. We don’t have enough people, so we’re leaving the nobles who surrendered as they are currently, but we don’t know whether they’re trustable until we actually meet them, and it’ll probably serve as deterrence if we bring the soldiers along”
Both Alexia and General Melia nod at my words. Well, all of that will also come after we return from the Empire though.
We talked about various things after that as well, but in the end, they’re all just empty talk if we don’t come back from the Regalia Empire, so since we managed to confirm things to a certain extent, we decided to disperse there.
“Lei, what are you going to do after this?”
“Nn? After this huh”
I didn’t really think about it. The time is probably still just past noon. There’s nothing to do even if I stay cooped up in the mansion.
“I’ll go to take a look at the town, for a bit”
“The town?”
“Aah. I don’t know what kind of place this place is after all. I’ve got to take a look”
When I say with a smile, Alexia acknowledges it despite smiling and going, ‘it can’t be helped’. General Melia says she’ll escort me since it’s dangerous by myself, but I want to go and take a look incognito, so I rejected her. Besides, I’m not alone after all.
“”It’s fine since we’re around nano!””
Aah, I’m counting on you. General Melia backed down as well because Alexia persuaded her for me, so I leave the mansion alone.
Still, there sure are few people. It’s not like there are no people at all, but I pretty much don’t see people walking outside.
“For the time being, I guess I’ll go around taking a look”
“Gauu!”
……gauu? Krondine that placed Eclat on its back walked to me when I looked in the direction of the voice. ……have you, been made to become Eclat’s legs?
“Are Eclat and Krondine tagging along?”
“Kyuu!”
“Gauu!”
I try asking just in case, and Eclat and Krondine let out their voices that are all pumped up to go. Krondine sure became big enough to have leeway even after placing Eclat on its back. I guess its length is about 60 centimeters. Eclat is lying limply on top of the back of that Krondine.
“Kyururu”
“Gau? Gaugaruru”
“Kyu Kyu, Kyururun”
“Gauuggauru!”
……Eclat and Krondine have a conversation that only they understand, and the two head towards a stand for some reason. The stand’s goods are skewers huh.
“Do you want to eat it?”
“Kyuru!”
“Garuu!”
The two look at me hungrily. It can’t be helped.
“Occhan1. Give me three skewers”
“Oh! If it isn’t a customer for the first time in a long while. Ou, wait up!”
The stand’s Occhan happily grills the skewers. Both Eclat and Krondine are also stirring because of the nice smell.
“Here, they’re done!”
When I receive the skewers from the stand’s Occhan and am about to hand them to Eclat and Krondine, I feel gazes from somewhere. When I look in the direction of those gazes, from the alleyway between the houses, children who are slightly dirty were looking fixedly at me.
