Chapter 481 – The Cat and the Top Lord

000

After returning to Asteris, Cleon’s morning was chaotic today.

The thing in front of her eyes is Calia who is in trouble with an expression that she really can’t live.

And, sitting upright in front of her like that, guilt was invisible on her face.

“Herti-sama! If you keep doing this, I’ll put you in shackles when you go to bed or tie you to the blanket with a rope!”

“Oh my gosh… That’s strange… I’m sure you slept in my room yesterday too~”

It was clear why Calia was so angry.

Even today, the moment Cleon wakes up in his bed, when he quietly gets up at the sound of quiet breathing coming from behind him.

Courage! With her voice echoing loudly, Calia opened her own door and entered.

“I’m really sorry, Mr. Cleon…! Our head of the family has really troubled me over and over again…!”

“No, except for the messy morning, there’s not much damage…”

Cleon says it’s okay and when she tries to calm her Calia, her patience her is showing its limits as Herti sits carefree while yawning next to her.

In the end, bang! Her case her is over when Calia grabs her her and Herti by the nape of her neck and drags her away.

I thought it would be

“Hyung-ssi makes a lot of noise in the morning too~”

Wherever she was, the one that sneakily showed her face at the open threshold was a moving cat doll homunculus. It’s ‘Schrodinger’.

“I said I couldn’t see it, so I guess I was sleeping in another room.”

“Well. To be precise, I don’t need to sleep. I looked around the mansion while everyone was asleep. Nothing really stood out.”

While saying that, the guy flew in flapping his wings and stopped in front of Cleon’s eyes while talking.

“But, it’s a nice place. It’s well-maintained. To rent a place like this, the older brothers must have really liked it?”

“We’re not the only ones using the lodgings here. Employees of the company must be treated similarly.”

With that in mind, the wealth of the Dark Dragon Company, with several mansions built inside the walls of the company, was also surprising.

“So? What are we going to do today? I’ll be busy again when the festival of the Five Elements or something starts, so I don’t think I’ll be able to relax again in a few days.”

“Right…”

While Cleon thought so, he thought of what he could do in Asteris.

Now that Quon has returned to Asteris, he will now go to the shrine himself and receive training from the High Miko to learn Miko’s skills.

Lila will stay in her studio her as always. When she was informed by Cleon that there was a problem with the sealing of the magic eye seal sphere she had made, the way she wrapped her head her was a bit pitiful.

Sasha placed the Griffon’s egg in her garden her, she said, and that she would be near it so she it would n’t mind if he woke up. She’s not without a bit of an overprotective side, but she’s better than a gryphon waking up when no one is around.

Galatea, whom she only met on the third day, is still recovering, so she is flesh-to-skin with Caliburn to speed up her recovery her even a little bit.

Even though she was skin-to-skin, she continued to hold her hand her.

The reason why Caliburn’s magical power exploded was because the self-defense system by black magic was rapidly activated. If so, it was thanks to Lyla’s theory that Galatea would be able to do the opposite as well.

Galatea looks really annoyed that she has to be with Caliburn 24 hours a day, but Caliburn laughs and takes such Galatea into her arms her and does n’t let go of her for a second.

Looking at it this way, in the end it was only Cleon who had nothing to do.

“If this was the royal capital or Elesia, I would have taken on a light request and went on an adventure.”

“Hey, is this adventure a hobby?”

Schrödinger calls Cleon a workaholic, but there was no way Cleon himself could deny that.

At that time, the blanket where Herti left is wriggling.

“Wow!?”

When Schrödinger is startedled by the sudden movement of the blanket, it moves as if it were to bounce off and hit Cleon’s face as if it were covering it.

Cleon removes Schrödinger with one hand and turns over the wriggling blanket.

OK-

“Meow.”

“Go, cat!”

“…Bahamut.”

What caught Cleon and Schrödinger’s eyes was Hertie’s cat, ‘Bahamut’.

The guy sits on Cleon’s blanket as if it were natural, and makes eye contact with Cleon, who is looking at him.

“Meow.”

Then, after making a cry once again, Cleon lifts Bahamut like that.

Even though he’s not the owner, he’s so calm when someone picks him up, so he’s used to being touched by people-

If not.

Cleon had always thought that it was a bit strange that Bahamut was guiding Hertie, so maybe you were actually a monster, or something transformed.

I was thinking the same thing.

No matter how much I looked into the eyes, I couldn’t see anything like that.

“Meow.”

And, Bahamut cries once again while facing Cleon.

Could that just mean ‘what are you looking at’?

Somehow, having a snowball fight with such a cat became silly, so Cleon put Bahamut back on the bed.

“Did you follow Hertie… Or did you bring Hertie? I don’t know which way. It’s better to return it.”

Saying that, Cleon finally got down from the bed that seemed to hold him forever.

001

“You were there too, Bahamut.”

Hertie, who received Bahamut from Cleon, had already changed into the old-fashioned clothes she always wears in that moment.

With makeup and grooming all finished, she started working.

However, when I sat at my desk and worked, Bahamut, who was always sitting on my lap, was gone, so it seemed that he was a little uneasy.

Bahamut is such a clever cat, he’ll be back soon- I thought, but when Cleon brought him, he seemed quite relieved.

Bahamut also purred when Herti hugged him and rubbed him against his face her, purring in a pleasant voice.

At the sight of her somewhere warming her her heart her, Cleon involuntarily smiled at her and spoke to her.

“You’re on good terms.”

“Yes. Bahamut is my friend since I was born.”

“…”

When Cleon heard that, he was silent for a moment.

Considering the average lifespan of a cat, this was impossible, and it was hard to imagine that Hertie was actually a few ten years old.

Then- Some kind of joke? If that isn’t-

“Ah. That’s right, Mr. Cleon. Do you have any plans for today?”

While Cleon was about to continue contemplating the identity of Bahamut, when he heard Herti’s voice of her, the thought naturally stopped and he shook his head.

“No. To be honest, I’m also thinking about what to do. There’s still time until the Five Elements Festival, and the costumes we talked about yesterday aren’t ready yet.”

“That’s right. Leave the preparations for the Five Elements to us first. We won’t bother Cleon-sama.”

After Herti said that, he shut his mouth, then continued.

“Then Cleon-sama, how about looking around Asteris with me today?”

“Hertiwa…?”

“Yes. Today in the afternoon, we are supposed to look around the stores managed by our company. There are stories related to the Five Elements Festival, but most of them are regular store management.”

“Are you the owner of the top, going by yourself?”

When I say it a little unexpectedly, Herti answers while covering her mouth with her hand.

“Of course. They are the ones who borrow our trust along with our name. If that’s the case, we will also have corresponding management responsibilities…”

Then, she speaks while pointing her finger at her own eyes her.

“Even though I am blind. Thanks to you, I can feel invisible things. I can react sensitively to such issues.”

“…Is it.”

Certainly, she was blind but she seemed to have no trouble seeing, and she seemed to see more than people with normal eyes.

Herti drank carefully from her tea that was placed in front of her, then exhaled her warm breath and said:

“Ah. But no matter how much I do, I can’t check things like ledgers, so Calia usually accompanies me.”

“Then… Isn’t Calia going with me today?’

“Yes. Calia has other work since the afternoon. She came to visit me this morning as she knew I was not there while preparing for the work… She is busy, but she did something sorry.”

As for Cleon, I could n’t fathom all of her hardships her, but it must be hard to know that she was n’t worried when the top lord was someone like Herti.

As if understanding her feelings of her, Cleon had no choice but to nod her head.

“Okay. Then I’ll accompany you. I think we might be able to see Herti at work.”

“Wow! Thank you, Mr. Cleon! Actually, what if you say it’s annoying?”

Looking at her smiling happily as he held her hand, Cleon smiled bitterly at her.

“Really? From what I’ve seen, he seemed pretty sure he wouldn’t refuse.”

“…Huhu♪”

At Cleon’s words, Hertie only let out a slightly pleasant laugh.

“Then I will prepare to go out, so Cleon-nim, please prepare as well. In about an hour, we will depart.”

002

An hour after that.

When the sun rises high in the sky and the sky becomes clear without a single cloud, the temperature rises a little, and now it becomes a bit difficult to wear long-sleeved clothes.

Thanks to this, Cleon is more light than usual, but if you think about it carefully, she is a woman who plays the most important role in the economic sector of the Eastern country.

Even so, Cleon, who thought she could n’t go out without armament, was carrying her master’s sword for some reason at her waist her.

It wasn’t a magic sword or a holy sword.

It was an old sword with a lot of blood, but it fit perfectly in Cleon’s hand her.

And, when we headed to the place we had promised, the shop’s garden, Herti had already come out first and was waiting for Cleon.

Instead of the usual long, sky-high silk clothes, today’s outfit was somewhat of a kingdom style.

The white, breathable, short-sleeved shirt, probably made of cotton, sticks a little to her upper body her, clearly revealing the curves of her body her more than usual.

From the end of the two voluptuous peaks – if you watch the steep slope reach down to the waist, that part looks like a tent.

The bottom is a blue skirt with no special features.

It was a piece of clothing that reached below her knees and gave off a refreshing feeling.

Her hair her, worn in a hairpin as usual, has been changed into a ponytail that exposes the back of her neck, giving it a neater look than usual.

Even though it was such a light figure, it was still hot to be outside in this weather.

He looked a little sweaty.

And- a parasol in hand to keep out the sun.

It was not something that nobles used in the kingdom, but something made of wood and paper used in the East.

Sensing that her pink surface she gave off a bright feeling, Cleon unknowingly looked at Hertie at the rough appearance that was the exact opposite of her usual appearance her-

Soon after, Bahamut, who had been guarding her side her like a bodyguard, started crying again.

“Ah. Mr. Cleon.”

Despite her blindness her, Cleon approaches Herti, who recognizes that she is himself.

“The kingdom-style clothes look good too.”

“Is that so? Huhu. Thank you. Calia was nagging me that if the clothes were too light, she would lose her dignity.”

She smiled and covered her mouth with her hand, which did not lift her parasol.

However, her face was slightly red.

“I’m glad that Cleon-sama likes it too.”

After adding that, she slowly turned around in front of him as if she wanted to show it to Cleon.

The bottom of the skirt slightly lifts and falls in line with the movement.

“Actually, I got this outfit tailored after receiving advice from Miss Riomes. It’s for when you’re going out alone with someone you want to steal your heart from.”

“…Is it Riomes?”

If it’s her her, should she say it’s her answer her or unexpected, Cleon’s head gets confused for a moment.

But if you think about it, even she usually wears clothes and looks as if the word neatness itself floats a human figure.

The problem is her words and actions her, and … Her ‘castle’ her.

She later said that from what she had heard, she felt aroused even when her man hugged another woman.

She still couldn’t make an accurate judgment or evaluation of her.

“…Wait, Cleon-sama? You’re not the one to be surprised right now, are you?”

But Herti puffed out one cheek as if he was a little dissatisfied that Cleon was thinking about something else.

“…Yes?”

“Muu… This is a formidable enemy. …Whoops. But that’s why it’s worth the challenge.”

Cleon shuts her mouth for a moment as if she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

Soon she turns around and walks away with Bahamut first.

“Then. Let’s go, Mr. Cleon? Today is sure to be a fun day.”

In her words her, which seemed to swell with anticipation somewhere-

“Yes. I hope so.”

Cleon nodded her head in response, and they left the store together.