Chapter 431 – 15. Short Vacation in Hinera Village

“The prince is waiting inside.”

“Ah, yes.”

After enjoying my last encounter with Katra and ending my long vacation, I went up to the capital and headed for the imperial palace.

Unlike meeting Oberon on an expedient way while on a secret mission in the past, I had to officially talk to him today, so I visited the imperial palace without hesitation and succeeded in coming to his office, presenting the certificate Oberon gave me.

– Smart smart

[Come in.]

The maid opened the door to her comforting voice, bowed her head to her, thanked her, and found Oberon smiling, sitting at her desk with her back behind the closed door.

“Long time no see.”

“Hmm, did you enjoy your vacation?”

“Thanks to you, I’ve been hearing a lot of good news.”

“I’m glad that’s the case.”

It’s only been a week since I reunited with Oberon, but he asked if he had more things to say than he thought, asking how he was doing and listening to my women’s current situation or good news, nodding his head and rejoicing as if it were his own.

This kind of person is my boss, I clapped in my heart and praised Oberon for a more successful life than Earth.

When the conversation stopped for a while and the embarrassing silence subsided, Oberon rose from his seat as if everything went well, sat down in front of me, and put the story he had brought up the other day back on the topic.

“Didn’t we talk about the banquet last time? Before that, I’d like to organize a short tea party, but although I can’t participate, I have a close friend who wants to meet you once.”

“Are you close friends?”

“She’s a woman I’ve been friends with for quite some time. She is so beautiful, she is a beautiful woman… I think I have a little bit of interest in you.”

“You’re interested in me, it’s too much.”

Is there anyone who can hear my story? When I questioned the situation that made me tilt my head, Oberon let out a cough, straightened his back, and answered honestly.

“Sometimes I told you about your martial arts. Didn’t you do a lot of work?”

Is it that way…

It’s not like Oberon is going to introduce me, but if I know that there are not just one or two women next to me, what if the women insult me, I naturally thought that.

She thought about it for a while, then, saying, “Now, let’s talk about that for a while,” And changed her topic. Looked at me

“You can think of the fact that you came to me once to answer the question and answer we had at that time.”

Wasn’t she just here to talk about vacation? Oberon added.

I cleared my throat at the thought that she was so quick to notice, and after taking a sip of the guest tea in front of me, I quietly opened my mouth enjoying the comfortable warmth.

“Yes, I have a question for you. What will happen to Rell’s new recruit?”

Oberon furrowed his eyebrows for a moment, as if he didn’t know how to ask a question about Lel.

“… Strictly speaking, Lell’s liberation of her slaves was not a sin. According to the will of the former emperor who abolished slavery, the nobles who were involved in such illegal activities committed a crime.”

“However, the other sins that Lell committed are a different story. Raiding fortresses and killing nobles, they did things they shouldn’t have done like a group of thieves with the ideology of freeing slaves on their backs.”

Kung, Oberon knocked on the table and continued the story in a somber voice.

“The safety of non-slaves was neglected, saying that they should harm non-slaves and guarantee safety to slaves. Of course, the fortress gun was just a trap for us to catch them, but it was their choice to step into the trap.”

Whoa, Oberon, who spits out quite a long story at once, rubs his forehead as if his head hurts when he hears the story of Lel, and begins to tell him in a sore voice.

“To be honest, she doesn’t even have the information she’s been leaking from her yet and has no idea what to do. She doesn’t even open her mouth and keeps her mouth shut like a corpse waiting for the day she will die.”

“It looks like her prince wants to get information about her from her.”

“Yes, her vassals and imperial officials insist on her execution, but the tangled relationships are too complicated for her alone to execute her. It’s to the point where there are even rumors that her imperial palace and her are related.”

Oberon’s grumbling as if he was vaguely catching his way, but he couldn’t reveal something properly. Thinking that this was an opportunity, I slightly lowered her head, met Oberon’s gaze, and interrogated her quietly.

“I will open her mouth.”

“… Also?”

“Yes?”

“It’s just like Regina.”

Oberon’s face, which had been a little bright just a moment ago, but he put Regina in her mouth and chewed Lel’s name, looked at me with a grumpy face as if he was going to solve it with her body again, and didn’t like something.

Never had anything like that before.

Could it be that you have Lel in your heart?

Rell is obviously violent and has a very beautiful face due to the nature of the elf race with a lewd body enough to charm all men. I had never seen his face because of the cotton he always wore, so I realized that Oberon was a man too.

“Has she kept her in her heart… “

“My, there’s no way I would have thought such an unscrupulous thought!”

Kung, Oberon resents hitting the table.

Or just say no, don’t get angry…

Thinking that my guess was correct, I brought up the story of Katra to correct his misunderstanding a little while glancing at Oberon.

“As you know, her former men are staying in my village. Rell even broke into her village before her and tried to rescue her.”

“Ah, was it the vice-captain?”

“Yes, how can you not?”

“… He said that he would repay the favor by establishing a major, but to think he wanted such a troublesome reward… “

Oberon wrapped her head and let out a deep sigh. I originally had no intention of doing so, but Catra said he really wanted to see her, and Lel was also very interested in her.

To be honest… ‘Cause I’m a man too

Is it too trashy?

After pondering for a while, Oberon let out a sticky sigh, washed her dry face repeatedly, glared at me with her slightly faded eyes, and whispered softly to her.

“Come to think of it, you’ve been like this more than once or twice, huh… “

Oberon was deeply troubled as he tapped the table with his index finger. After pondering for a long time and snapping his fingers, he put his hands on the table and presented me with a condition.

“Instead, there are conditions.”

“Yes?”

“No matter how you recruit, you have to make sure to get the information out. As the leader of the Slave Liberation Corps, I have to find out all the information Leriel has.”

“Information means… “

“The cultists, their quarters, the nobility with whom they were connected, and the undisclosed knapsack who sponsored the Slave Freedom Corps, everything! We have to tell them all about those who hide in the shadows of the empire and eat away at it.”

“I will try.”

“I search for it, but I find only twigs, and now I have to get her help and pull out the roots.”

“I will definitely get it out, I swear.”

“… I tried to attach a torture technician, but if you want that, I’ll take another step back, it’s always been that way. Isn’t it too revealing even if you reveal the female color… “

“… That is not the purpose this time.”

“You mean that was the purpose of Regina?”

Oberon’s strangely sharp tone, did this bastard really point out Lel?

Men’s jealousy is an ugly law, I glanced at her Oberon with her narrow eyes and realized her self-confidence.

Still, seeing the prince like this is new. I decided to calm him down one more time to reassure him, remembering the different appearance.

“I will definitely get the information out. Trust me.”

“Yes, you are always the answer. I know the big one, um.”

… I’m heartbroken.

Oberon woke up with a coughing cough as if he was ashamed at the time when I glanced at him with sullen eyes without realizing it.

“Regarding my best friend, he said he won’t be able to attend the tea party. It’s a busy body.”

“Ah, is that so… “

I expected her to be beautiful, but my voice sank without even realizing it.

“… Are you sorry?”

Is this your chance to score points?

In order to relieve the upset Oberon, I decided to raise his acquaintances and raise his status a little.

“If it’s as white as what we talked about earlier, wouldn’t it be that the prince’s best friend is a busy beauty who never stops making appointments? In addition, it is regrettable that her beauty naturally comes to mind when she breaks up her promise with the famous Prince Oberon.”

“Hmm, hmm, is that so… ? I didn’t even see her face… ?”

Oberon, who seemed strangely excited, I realized that my choice was not wrong and raised the beauty I had never seen before so that his nose would rise even higher.

“If the prince said so, I have no doubt that she is the most beautiful woman on the continent. I really, really, really wanted to see you… It’s very unfortunate.”

“Well, since you say that, even if you try to hide it, you won’t be able to. In fact, she has already arrived, but since she only stays for a short time, she must be afraid that you will be sad.”

“Ah, is that so?”

“However… I have that promise, so I have to leave for a while. In the meantime, I’ll arrange a chance for the two of you to have a private meeting, so take this opportunity to appreciate her beauty.”

“Won’t you be rude to him?”

“It will be okay to listen to your story.”

Oberon looks strangely excited. I wanted to introduce him to that extent, and I felt sorry for stopping him, so I blankly watched Oberon stride out of the office.