Chapter 460 – Love and Sabotage

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The city at the end of the world, Eratus.

Inside the Descartes mansion, which can be accessed through a small warehouse in the harbor, Kshat knocks on the door, standing in front of his master’s room with a worried face.

“My lady, are you okay? You’ve been locked in your room since last night… If you feel unwell somewhere, I’ll call a doctor.”

Her master her, Fleur Descartes, had gone into his room her since Cleon had gone, had n’t even eaten her properly, and had n’t seen her face her.

No, it’s not that he does n’t show his face her by wearing his usual mask, but in the sense that he does n’t really step out of the room.

Naturally, it was a concern for her servant her, Kshat, who served her.

Yesterday’s meeting with Cleon’s party ended successfully, so Fleur’s mood should rather improve, because the opposite result appeared.

Could it be that something is wrong with her body?

Was it wrong to ignore the screams I heard yesterday?

However, Kshat, who had been with her for nearly 20 years, showed no signs that Fleur had done anything violent to her, nor did Cleon seem like a person who would do such a thing.

So, why the hell did the master end up like this?

Even though she could n’t speak, she had been trying as hard as she could to read those feelings, but this time she really could n’t help but raise her hands.

“If the lady doesn’t come out, I have no choice but to go in. Is that all right?”
Then, a crackling sound was heard from inside- after a while, with a clap, the door to her door opened.

Perhaps, when he saw Fleur’s face her wearing the usual mask, Kshat let out a sigh.

“For now… I’m glad you’re all right. I’m glad you did. But, why are you doing that?”

“That, that’s… So…”

A hesitant voice mixed with breathing sounds emanated from the mask, and Fleur glanced around.

In this spacious mansion, of course, besides her kshat her, there were her attendants her, and since she had n’t come out of her room since yesterday, there were several maids around her door watching her.

“Ah- I see. Then, let’s go inside and talk.”

“Yes…”

Her her attendant, who has a shy young lady who is not comfortable talking even in front of her her own attendant, quietly leads her into her room and talks to her maids gathered around her.

“Everyone. Go back to your seats and do your job.”

Her maids were sorry that they couldn’t hear her lady’s voice of her, but at the words of her butler, they quietly left the spot.

Kshat feels fortunate to have well-educated servants.

That education, though, was done by Kshat himself.

The door closes as quietly as it did when it opened.

Fleur’s room was too simple to be called an aristocratic lady.

At the time of design, I thought that a lot of furniture would be placed, so the only thing placed in a space with a large area was a bed. Closet. And all the dressing table and desk.

There is no table for teatime, no extra closet to hang up a new dress like any aristocratic lady.

Should I say that it is simple, or should I say that I have no hobbies or tastes?

Considering that there are aristocratic families where the pillars of their houses stumble due to the spending of the ladies, frugality was also a virtue.

Kshat sometimes worries about Fleur, wondering if he is just accumulating stress.

He doesn’t like going outside and wandering around, so he usually just takes a book from the library and reads it.

And on top of Fleur’s desk, there were also a large number of books from the study.

Kshat is worried about the desk collapsing before he can talk to Fleur-

And, a little curious as to what kind of book she was reading, she approaches her desk her.

“Ah, ah! Now, wait…!”

And, as if trying to stop such a kshat, Fleur tried to grab her arm of her, but she could n’t catch up with her stride of kshat with Fleur’s slow steps of her.

Kshat arrived safely in front of the desk and tried to temporarily evacuate it to the side or under the desk while moving the mountain of books little by little.

But when she looked at the covers of those books, she could n’t help but doubt her own eyes her as one eyebrow twitched.

‘Chest pain – a sign of love’

‘Standing in front of that person’

‘The surest way to escape solitude’

‘To reach him’

The books on Fleur’s desk are all famous romance novels from an era ago.

Kshat, who knew that she did not normally read such a book, she looked back at Fleur, but her expression was unbelievable at her change.

Looking at Fleur, who is ashamed to put her hand over her face her with her mask on her, she is slowly convinced of her beliefs her.

“My lady. Could it be that you have a crush on him just because you met yesterday?”

And, Fleur nodding her head as if driving a wedge into it.

Because her actions were so unexpected for Kshat, even her thoughts her stopped for a moment.

Incidentally, she also had n’t had a lover of hers until she was this age, so she was her mother in her respect.

“I-I see. Ah, considering the lady’s age of her, I think it’s very natural for her to be attracted to someone.”

If you are in your mid-twenties, you may think that it is a little late, but for now, Kshat is trying to water Fleur’s shyness her with appropriate words.

At Kshat’s words, Fleur lowered her hand from her face her and at the same time removed even the mask she was wearing.

“Ugh… Is that so…?”

And, the reddened face of her hiding underneath her was not caused by the heat when she was wearing the mask.

Her heart her was beating fast, and the more she thought about yesterday’s events, the more her face her became hotter.

“Miss…”

Even Kshat, it was the first time she had ever seen her like that, so she was speechless.

“Uh, yesterday. Cleon caught up with me when I almost fell … Then, I showed her face her …”

‘Ah, that was the reason for yesterday’s scream.’

As expected, Kshat is relieved to confirm that Cleon was not at fault.

“After that. Her heart didn’t stop pounding her… It wasn’t long after we broke up, and I thought I wanted to see her again…”

“And, I see… I see… It’s possible. You really want him to…”

Her title her is a butler, and she is a kshat who looks more dignified than other men, but she is also a woman by nature, and her attendants who accompany her on a daily basis treat her as a woman.

All the maids in the mansion are young girls of the same age.

Unsurprisingly, their main interest is love, and I have heard Kshats talk about their lovers.

Because of living in an underground mansion like this, I don’t see them often, so I exchange letters or go to see them on vacation.

Every time that happens, the desire to meet again becomes stronger.

Kshat judged that Fleur now was in a similar state to those maids.

“However-“

As if interrupting Kshat’s accident, Fleur’s voice was heard.

“…But, it won’t work. He’s an adventurer, and I’m the lord of this city, and the head of the Descartes family… He’s sure to think of me as a burden… Bringing personal feelings into the fight against the regressors, Anything that gets him into trouble will bother everyone…”

At the negative thoughts caused by low self-esteem, Fleur muttered that with a self-deprecating laugh.

“Besides… I’m not even that cute. More than me, the two of us who were together that day are much cuter…”

“What are you saying! The young lady is beautiful enough! If you take off that mask and straighten your back, you are a full-fledged young lady!”

Since those words were Kshat’s sincerity without any lies, he encourages Fleur with a strong and confident voice.

“I think it’s definitely a good change for you to have a special feeling for someone. I can’t say for sure if that feeling will be reciprocated or not… But please cherish that feeling.”

“Kshat…”

Fleur nodded at Kshat’s words, and the dark color slightly disappeared from his face.

“I want to go see Cleon…!”

“Ah, the young lady is going out on her own!?”

Kshat covers her mouth again in surprise at her words her, but then he nods his head and bows in front of her.

“We’ll prepare a wagon. In the plan we received yesterday, there was a place for them to conduct excavation work today. So, I think it will be there.”

“Uh, yes. I’ll prepare, too. I’ll take a shower… And makeup… Oh, I’m going to wear a mask, so I don’t need makeup…?”

“The young lady is beautiful enough without makeup…But you don’t know what will happen. Even if you prepare for the situation where the mask comes off, it is judged that nothing bad will happen.”

At Kshat’s answer, Fleur nodded her head embarrassedly.

And after a while

A chariot bearing the Descartes family coat of arms had left Eratus and was running out.

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Kshat escorts her, grabbing her hand of Fleur as she gets off her carriage.

Neither Cleon nor Sasha recognized the two of them and couldn’t understand why they had come all the way here.

“Hey, Cleon. Perhaps, those two…”

When Quon quietly asks Cleon a question, as if whispering, Cleon nods her head.

“Yes. The Cartesian family I met yesterday.

“Fleur-sama…”

If Quon also looked at the two with a slightly tense expression.

Fleur found Cleon and approached him in a straight line.

Her plump, somewhat light and slow steps made her seem unaccustomed to walking outside of her.

“My lady! If you hurry up like that, you’ll fall!”

When Kshat talked like that behind his back his, he could n’t help but think, ‘Is this walking fast…’.

However, the next moment, when Fleur’s foot got caught on the stone that the god of fate had laid as if playing a joke, with only a short distance left to Cleon.

“Eww!?”

As her body leaned forward, she nearly fell over-

Cleon’s arm was receiving it.

“It turned out just as the butler said.”

Saying that, Cleon raised her body her, and Kshat, who hurriedly ran behind her, bowed her head to Cleon.

“Thank you Cleon.”

“No, I’m glad I didn’t fall.”

Fleur, her party her, her body her stiffened and her head her bowed, only heard the strange breathing coming from her mask her.

In an awkward atmosphere, when Fleur doesn’t say anything, Cleon talks.

“—So? What happened to the lord?”

Despite Cleon’s question, Fleur stood firm and still.

Seeing her like that, Kshat brings her face to Fleur’s ear her and whispers to her.

“…Miss.”

Suddenly, Fleur, who had barely come to her senses at the servant’s call, glanced around, and soon met her eyes with Cleon-

Even with the lenses covering both eyes, the exchange of gazes could not be prevented.

Fleur looked silently into Cleon’s eyes.

“…?”

When Cleon smiled bitterly at Fleur’s gaze and tilted her head, she reacted as if asking why.

“Huh.”

And Fleur staggered, making strange noises involuntarily from her mouth.

“… Ha.”

And, it is the butler’s job to assist the young lady who can’t do anything beyond what she imagined.

“Since the young lady is also interested in excavating ruins… Would it be okay if I said inspection? This area is also the territory of the Descartes family. I came to encourage the members of the investigation team.”

“I see… Then the timing was a bit bad.”

While saying that, Cleon looks around and talks.

“The investigation team has already rushed into the underground ruins. If we had arrived a little earlier, we might have been able to go inside together.”

Lila is her second child her, and if it were Artis, she would have said it was okay because she thought she would be fun, and she would have taken her her and rushed inside her.

However, Kshat, who does not show any sign of regret after hearing such a story, brings his face closer to Fleur and nods his head.

“Is that so? It’s a pity,” He said.

“Looks like you didn’t say anything…”

“No. Your voice is quieter than usual today…”

At her words her, Cleon nodded and introduced Quon, who was quietly looking at the two from the side.

“This is Quon. Just like Sasha, he’s a fellow adventurer with me.”

“My name is Ku-on. Nice to meet you, Mr. Fleur. Mr. Kshat.”

And, Fleur and Kshat’s eyes would naturally go that way.

If it was Kshat, he had already turned his gaze to Cleon and the people around him at the time he arrived, and figured out the number of people.

From the moment she got off the carriage, Fleur’s head was fixed in the direction of Cleon, so she didn’t even know who was standing next to her.

When her gaze her, which had been aiming at Cleon with an auto-aim, shifted and moved towards Quon, who was standing next to her.

“…No, it’s really big…!”

And she involuntarily let out an exclamation, enveloping the surrounding area in a chilling silence.

Cleon shuts her mouth, and Kshat covers her forehead with her hand as if her head hurts her.

Sasha nodded her head, recalling the first time she saw her kuon her, and the quon spoke of her with a wry smile on her face with a bit of shame.

“Ah, thank you…?”

Can I say that?

When she answered awkwardly at a situation where she didn’t even know herself, the kshat would bow her head once more.

“I’m sorry. Quon-sama. My lady doesn’t have many opportunities to interact with people, so excuse me.”

“Oh, no! It’s fine. I don’t mind.”

Aside from being accustomed to such a reaction, I could sense that Fleur was really not used to dealing with people.

Quon, who was a bit nervous about being the owner of one of her domains her and being a lady from a noble family, made it easier to deal with her because of her opposition her.

Anyway, after her self-introduction her was over, Kshat, who wanted to find a topic to change and bring the relationship between Fleur and Cleon even a little closer, told Cleon.

“Come to think of it, did Cleon-sama not go inside?”

“It’s hard to control the outside when everyone is inside.”

“It doesn’t look like people will come to a place like this… But there’s something to be concerned about, right?”

Cleon nods her head at her words her and becomes a little serious.

“That’s right. We’re not the only ones who want to excavate the ruins. Obviously, I thought that the regressor-Laplace might take advantage of this opportunity and approach.”

“Laplace…”

Kshat hears the name and clenches his fist while frowning for a moment.

“… What’s the matter?”

“… No. I have a slightly bad relationship with that person.”

Cleon looked at Kshat, who seemed to feel a strong hatred for the name somewhere, thinking she had something to do with her past her, so she decided not to ask more.

“…But if Laplace comes. It might not be so good to be here right now. Lady, now that we’ve confirmed that the ruins have been excavated, we’d better hurry back to Eratus…”

“She’s right. If she collides with him, there will definitely be a battle. Don’t get caught up in it.”

At Cleon’s words her, Fleur looked at Kshat and Cleon alternately, then lowered her head.

Then, by pulling Kshat’s arm her, she delivers her own words.

“…Lady, it seems that Cleon is right. Even if we are here, it is clear that we will be disturbed. We will quickly return to Eratus. Please, may you be safe. …”

Cleon, nodding her head at her words her, and going to walk with her to see her off her, even as far as where her carriage her stood—

Sniff, Sasha’s nose rang.

Then, with a shocked expression, he shouted in a high voice.

“Mr. Cleon! Mr. Kshat! You can’t get close to the wagon!”

At her words her, the two of them hurriedly stopped and Fleur also stopped at the same spot.

Kwajik! If you think you heard the sound from the wagon-

A black shadow with sharp claws appeared, splitting the carriage in half, rushing forward, aiming at Cleon’s neck and thrusting its hideous weapon at it.

A rabbit-like monster covered in black fur.

Cleon quickly pulls out Cleon and succeeds in blocking the claw.

Caang! When he heard the sound of metal clashing, Kuondo and Sasha quickly got into battle and Kshat fell back, using his body his as a shield to protect his master his.

“Bhopal Rabbit… You’re here, Laplace.”

When Cleon muttered that, looking at the strange monster that had been blocked by force, the rabbit answered by shaking his head.

“This isn’t just a Bhopal Rabbit, it’s a Bhopal Rabbit Mark 2 Landa Cleon.”

“It doesn’t matter either way… Is the main body hiding somewhere?”

After saying that, Cleon applied magic power to the Caliburn and released it, knocking off the relentless Bhopal Rabbit.

“Thank you for digging up the ruins, I came to gulp.”

Seeing the Bhopal rabbit pretending to be cute while sticking out her tongue, Sasha frowned in disgust.

“… I will stop you by force.”

And, when Cleon stands in front of such a monster and straightens his sword-

Suddenly, Bhopal Rabbit’s gaze turns to Kshat, who blocks the trembling Fleur.

“Oh? Ohh. Kshat! You’ve grown so much! Is this your first time meeting me in person?”
“Laplace…!”

There’s a thump, and I hear the grinding of her sharp jagged teeth.

“Don’t say that. I’m like your father.”

“Who! Who is my father!”

“…Kshat…”

When a strange pattern emerges on her furious skin of her, Fleur calls such a Kshat in a small voice as if worried.

Then, Kshat, who was ‘hot’ and came to his senses, looked back at Fleur and answered.

“…It’s all right, lady. I’m still sane.”

And, Kwajik! When she bites her own arm with her sharp teeth-blood of a blue color-like seawater oozes from her body her.

It takes shape and transforms into two spears, one held in each of her hands.

Kshat took the spear and moved closer to Cleon’s side.

“I’ll join you. Mr. Cleon.”

“Doesn’t she have to be by her side of her?”

To Cleon’s question, Kshat silently nods her head.

“Laplace cannot hurt Fleur-sama because of his promise to Descartes.”

“…Then. I guess I can focus on the fight.”

“Yes.”

“This is, four young people rushing at one old man. It’s too much.”

Bhopal Rabbit shrugs his shoulders and then, abruptly, grabs his body his and curls his upper body his.

OK-

Kwajijik! I heard her do it, and her wings and tail her protruded from the back of the body her.

His fingernails became even sharper.

Even horns sprout from his head, transforming into a demon-like form.

“But I should show my dignity as an elder as well☆”

“…Are you still making ridiculous monsters?”

Kshat looks at the Bhopal Rabbit and mutters softly, but the Bhopal Rabbit’s head turns 180 degrees and answers.

“Not as much as you!”

Then, as before, in a straight line, but at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, he rushed to cut the heads of the two people.