Dinner Party
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Amidst the pouring sunlight. A single crow, stopped on top of the Taboo Mansion’s gate. Here, there’s no such thing as a mailbox. In its place, the crow, his servant, receives the letter from a rental house at Veybar and transports it.
“Ahー, crow-chan, morning”
With a thoroughly accustomed look, Mira places the crow on her shoulder and receives the letter.
Biri Biri Biri.
Without any hesitation, the butler, opened her master’s letter.
“Hmm hmm……an invitation!? ……uh-oh”
Giving a reward feed to the crow, she runs to Asch’s side ferociously.
“Asch-san Asch-san Asch-saーn!”
Don Don Don!
“……what is it”
The low blood pressure Magician who finally, adapted to the clumsy butler’s noisiness.
“Please take a look, this, it says it is an invitation!”
“……had you been taught to open somebody’s letter without permission?”
“Nope!”
“……”
‘Aah, there’s no getting used to this fellow’s idiocy’, is the ill-natured Magician’s affirmation.
When he takes a look at the letter’s content, it was indeed an invitation.
“Hmm……well done, you were able to read the words huh”
“Ehehe……it’s because I skipped out on cleaning and studied”
“……it is a complete mystery, how you can shyly and happily say out your abandonment of duty though”
“I am looking forward to itー”
!?
“A, are you……planning to participate?”
“Eh, I mean, I am your butler after all”
“……a butler, doesn’t normally participate in a dance party, you know”
A Dark Magician, who had gotten thoroughly used to pointing out every single given thing, he is.
“Eh!?”
“I want to instead ask in detail why you think you can go”
“But, I have to look after my Goshujin-sama and whatnot, don’t I!?”
“……it makes me furious to have『look after』said to me by you though. Well, you’ll go to the venue, but you’ll probably be on standby in the waiting room”
“Why!?”
“That’s how it is!”
“I don’t wanna I don’t wanna! I want to join I want to join I want to join I want to join―――!”
“……”
A manic master who can’t stop sighing, at the butler who’s rolling on the ground, throwing a tantrum.
“In the first place, even if you participated in the dance party, you’ll probably just feel pathetic”
“Wha, what a horrible thing to say”
“It’s the truth. In the first place, the only ones with the right to participate are nobles”
“We can just lie, can’t we”
“……that’s what commoner about you, you know. And, it’ll be exposed right away. Since you can’t use magic”
“You don’t know that, right!?”
“Can you use it?”
“……I cannot use it though”
“Fuu……that’s right, you’re a commoner. In the first place, there’s no Magic Power Field(Gate) in your head”
The narcissistic Magician, he starts explaining proudly.
“Wha, what is that”
“It’s a part of the brain that governs Magic Power. This portion here of yours doesn’t have that, all the nobles that can use magic……huh……”
While touching the back of Mira’s head, a question mark pops up in Asch’s head.
“Hey, what are you touching a lady’s head as you like for!?”
“……why. Why, is there the Magic Power Field(Gate)”
At the back of her head, there’s the sensation he had diagnosed with his hands for years. If they go by Asch’s theory, Mira will be able to use magic.
“U゛――――uu!? Please stop, you’ve been stroking somewhere strange since just now, you pervert!”
It’s apparently ticklish, and she tries to remove his hand over and over again, but Asch, who can’t believe the phenomenon that’s taking place, continues touching the back of her head.
“……it is something that is hard to believe, but you, can actually use magic”
Asch answers, extremely, reluctantly.
“Eh!? I, can use it?”
“……it’s normally something you realise when you’re young though”
Commoners, every one of them wishes that they can use magic. It’s an everyday thing for them to imitate nobles to see if magic comes out when they’re young.
“In that case, does that mean I can also participate in the dance party!?”
“How did it come to that!”
“I mean, I can use magic! I can pretend to be a noble, can’t I!”
“Even if, for example, you could use magic, what about the invitation? Do you think you can behave like a noble? In the first place, I only said you could use magic; you can’t use it skilfully without training!”
“Guguguu……stingyy”
“……”
Just as the same old incomprehensible rebuttal came back to him, Asch sighed for the third time today.
“In the first place, why do you want to participate in the dance party?”
“Fuufuufuu. Good question. It had, always been my dream. Participating in a dance party, and being told by a prince,『Won’t you have a dance with me』. And then, getting proposed on that day, becoming a princess――”
“……I’m gonna, go to sleep already, so don’t wake me up until noon”
Ignoring the tends-to-day dream butler who talks with gleaming eyes, the ill-natured Magician shut the door and dived into his bed.
“Fuu……I wonder how she can talk about her dream so innocently”
He mutters, by himself.
A dance party is, in other words, a place of politics. Negotiations between fellow nobles for political marriages. Even though behind the beautiful and flamboyant dance floor, there’s a slimy darkness squirming over there.
“rraー, raーraー♪, raーraーra♪”
He can hear humming from outside.
Anyway, she’s probably dancing to some horrible dance music.
“……”
“rraー, raーraー♪ rraー, raーraー♪, raーraーra♪”
“……haa”
Sighing for the fourth time today, Asch opens the room’s door again.
“A, Asch-san? Didn’t you go to sleep?”
“Your humming is too noisy. Also, it’s not like I can’t let you participate if you remember general magic and etiquettes in two weeks”
“Eeh!? Really?”
“It’s because you’re way too noisy. And, if I didn’t let you join, you probably won’t ever shut up about it in the future”
“Yes! I will not ever shut up about it in the future”
Mira declares, happily.
“……then, let me sleep. I’m exhausted from staying up for pulling two all-nighters since yesterday”
“Yes”
Asch, he returned to his room and dived into the bed again.
“rraー, raーraー♪ rraー, raーraー♪, raーraーra♪”
“……haa”
‘In any case, she’s going to be noisy huh’, Asch sighs for the fifth time.
“rraー, raーraー♪ rraー, raーraー♪, raーraーra♪”
“……”
His expression as he fell asleep while listening to that humming, was letting out a faint smile.
