Chapter 190 – 9. Hormia’s Dictator, Countess’s Insidious Task

Chop- Chop- Chop-

“Hmm… “

As soon as I opened her eyes, awakening my hazy mind, a chop-little palm slapped my cheek. Chop-chop-chop-to the beat, the palm swung mercilessly on my cheek following Undine’s hum.

“Woke up-“

[Know!]

Chop- What should I say, the feeling of getting slapped with jelly? Booty, enjoying the touch of his soft palms- I woke up from the bed, checked that no one was in the room, scratched my head, and asked Undine.

“What about Perisha?”

Chop-Chop- Undine climbed onto my shoulder like riding a wooden horse and started banging her head, answering my question in an excited voice.

[Who called and just left? I didn’t want to wake him up, so I just let him sleep.]

Are you too relaxed? I didn’t even notice until Perisha left, so I got out of bed, glanced at an unknown reddish-purple flower on the desk, and went into the bathroom with Undine.

As befits a countess with Hormia as her manor, there was a proper shower even though it was a guest bathroom. Kirik- I turned the faucet and stood under it.

“Whoa-“

[It’s warm-]

Chambang- Chambang- After taking a shower watching Undines flying between puddles on the floor or water streams, I picked up a dry, well-folded towel at the entrance and wiped Undine and myself.

[I just need to absorb it.]

“It’s just a feeling.”

Pang- Pang- Pang- After wiping everything dry, I took the clothes hanging on the hanger and the sword standing on the wall and changed. I suddenly thought of Perisha, who was not in the room, but she stopped. Too much overprotection is not good either.

[By the way- Then should I follow Cassano? Can I go with you?]

“When is Perisha coming?”

[I don’t know- I heard you’re busy all day-]

Round and round and round and round, Undine rolled forward two times in the air and suddenly glared at me with her cheeks inflated like a child in a heartache. I tried to tell her to wait, but I put the words she was about to spit out at her, called Undine with her hand, and hugged her tightly.

“Then shall we go together?”

[Really?!]

There might be something unforeseen, so he intended to ask Undine to protect Perisha, but thanks to the Countess’s consideration, he took a day off with him yesterday, and he still thought that the situation was not particularly dangerous. No matter how much she was a countess, she could not ignore the tribute given by Perisha and even promised her in the form of an assignment. Put that aside and give Perisha her hand? Not easily imagined.

Of course, people couldn’t see even an inch ahead of it, so we couldn’t be careless. I decided to come back and talk, and I quietly left the room with the undine flying through the sky laughing hehe.

“I was waiting.”

“Whoa-“

When I opened the door, the maid standing next to the wall spoke to her in a low voice. Surprised, I let out an exclamation involuntarily, and the hallway soon fell silent.

“… The Countess has been waiting for me because she said she would lend me a carriage to go to the smithy.”

“Ah yes. Let’s leave now.”

“Please follow me-“

The maid, who bowed silently, spread the distance with haughty steps and then started to lead with the sound of her shoes. Since Undine is now hidden, only mana users or people with affinity can’t find it. She was flying freely, touching the chandelier hanging from the ceiling, or looking at the picture hanging in the hallway.

“… “

When I arrived at the front door through the main hall, the maid opened the door, and the first thing I saw as soon as I left the front door was a beautiful view of the vast garden and countless flowers I saw in the room. I took a deep breath in the fresh scent of flowers and the clear air, but I saw a table far away in the middle of the garden.

[Sister-]

As Undine said, the Countess was drinking her tea in the middle of a large table wearing her cotton cloth, and right next to her, Perisha was holding a teacup with a smile on her face. Even though it’s just the two of us, we’re sitting together like that. As she was about to follow the maid to the carriage with her curious eyes, the bell in the Countess’s hand rang cleanly.

“… The Countess is calling. Please follow me.”

With a firm voice, the maid turned around and stepped on the grass to face the Countess. The maid, standing next to the Countess, took the bell in her hand and placed it on the table as it was. The Countess lowered her hand, let out a languid sigh and then looked at me, who was walking with her chin resting on her table.

“Are we leaving now?”

I bowed my head at the short words and replied in a clear voice.

“That’s right. I will bring results that will satisfy your wife.”

Flinching- The moment I answered that I was a wife, the bodies of Perisha and the maid sitting next to me trembled. The Countess began to make noise by tapping her three fingers on the table one after another, calling the maid standing next to her in a cold voice no matter who heard.

“Come here.”

“Yes, Countess-“

A slap—her palm, swung quite hard, smacked the face of the equally veiled maid. The maid, who lost her posture and fell on the grass, immediately stood up like a crow, brushing off the grass from her clothes, and stood next to the Countess again as before.

“I guess our maid didn’t train properly. I don’t like other titles very much.”

“Isn’t it? She’s the count’s wife, so just be the countess. Why, Mrs. And… Like the Count.”

The moment he said the word Count, the atmosphere in the garden froze. Perisha, who was sitting next to her, tightly gripped her hand on her lap, but her expression remained the same, and I didn’t show it either.

“I don’t really want that. When you call me, you just have to be the countess, right? So the name, he-“

“This is Cassano.”

“… ? Hehe – I’ve heard the name, it’s the same, but I’m not sure. Yes Cassano, try going again.”

Let me guide you—with her languid voice the countess sent her maid away, clasping her hands together, and she rested her chin on them as she looked at me. She was so naive that she had no intention of touching Perisha, but that the Countess was holding her Perisha hostage with me.

“I will guide you.”

I calmly took care of my chilly spine, burning heart, and cooling head, and I followed the guide maid and got on the carriage with the timid Undine.

“… “

“… “

The wagon was extremely uncomfortable. As if someone had spilled poison inside the carriage, everyone in the carriage tightly closed their mouths and exhaled through their feeble pores.

Apart from the frozen atmosphere, the wagon ran wildly. The carriage, which had been rattling for several tens of minutes after leaving the mansion, continued to speed up without knowing how to stop.Hee hee- with the pitiful cries of the beaten horses, the speed of the carriage suddenly stopped just as we were about to run a little further.

“… This is the forge area from here. I will support the wagon when you return, so please ring this bell anytime.”

When the carriage stopped completely, the maid asked me to hold out her palm, and then she put a bell tied with a black ribbon on my palm. He said that the carriage would be ready whenever it rang. I shook my head in agreement to understand, and got out of the cramped carriage with Undine, who was fidgeting in the carriage.

Turbuck-

“Whoa-!”

He took a breath that he hadn’t been able to breathe until now, and his body sighed as he ate pizza. With her thought that she never had affection for her, I caught her by the ankle of her flying undine, and I sat her on her shoulder and entered her alley.

[Haaa- I was bored-]

“He said he was sorry that he was sitting with someone who was hit by my mistake. So it was.”

[Yeah, what can I do? Still, I was scared when they both glared at me.]

“… Undine, did you show up?”

At my question, Undine, who tapped me on the top of my head, shook her head and denied it.

[No? Did you just watch it? Exactly, who is-um, I feel similar-Anyway, that lady was a bit scared and I think I just happened to see her older sister in front of her.]

“Is there such a thing as a coincidence?”

[Like Cassano, there are people who start to perceive and see mana, and there are people who see it from the beginning because they have an affinity, and there are people who can perceive the existence of her spirit because of constant exposure to mana. I don’t know more details-]

At the explanation that seemed smart, unlike Undine’s, I oh oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh- oh and patted the thin ankle. Crack-her burst out laughing, and Undine stomped her foot and patted my chest.

[It’s completely connected now, so it’s itchy just by touching it – stop it -]

“Okay, ah! First of all, let’s solve half of it today. Undine, can you find a signboard that looks like this?”

I took out the parchment from my bosom and showed Undine the sign next to the address of the first blacksmith. First of all, the first blacksmith had set up a blacksmith shop near this alley he had just entered, so he was sure to find it soon.

[Yes- Let’s go!]

Purung- Hui-ying- Waterdrops young feet kicked on my chest and with elasticity Undine flew to the sky. Admired by the trick of a swimmer kicking off a wall, I moved forward slowly, substituting the address written on the parchment with the address of the surrounding buildings.

[I found it – I found it!]

“Oh, where are you?”

After a few minutes, I hadn’t moved forward, and suddenly Undine flew back from the sky. Paang- Undine, who made the sound of water and was held in my arms, replied with an excited voice.

[Straight!]

… Would it have been better to just walk? Still, I had a hard time, so after playing with Undine while sucking on Undine’s soft cheeks, I was able to come to the first blacksmith’s forge together with the chattering Undine.

Kkang-! Kkang-! Kkang-! An old man with well-groomed white hair and a stubborn-looking face, who radiated an aura that said, “He is an old man,” Was tapping his sword on the anvil outside the forge. It was quite well-organized, with students running around busily in and out of the smithy, as well as many other people.