Chapter 517 – [Sub Story] Heroines in El Cerdo -2-

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The faint scent of black tea resonates throughout the room.

When the teacup was placed on the table with a clicking sound, a tall woman standing quietly next to her poured tea into the teacup.

“Thank you, Ascaron.”

Merka expresses her gratitude to her own butler with her graceful voice her, her usual bun hair undone with her all long straight hair.

Instead of a coat and dress, wear an easy-to-move T-shirt and dolphin pants.

Someone might point out that this is not a good outfit for a lady from an aristocratic family, but the butler, who is in the most appropriate position, smiles and stands by her side of her.

And- it wasn’t just the scent of black tea in the room, it was a different scent- no, it would be a bit difficult to call it a scent.

Looking at Merca, who is enjoying tea against the backdrop of the smell of tinkering, with slightly strange eyes.

It was Gray, a gray-haired girl with protective goggles pulled over her face.

It was Merca’s prosthetic arm and leg that she was touching while wearing her machine-made glove.

As a producer, she was asked to inspect and was responding.

“Why are you drinking the sword here?”

Grey, talking as if he couldn’t understand.

The smell of tinkering can’t be called empty words, and she, her young lady, would hate it.

However, at Gray’s words, Merca answered with a smile.

“That’s right. I want to test the prosthetic arm and leg I checked right away. So when will it be? More than durability, I’d like something more spectacular.”

Watching her talk like that, Gray’s eyes twinkled.

“If that’s the case, don’t worry! Just as you ordered, I’ve put a fun weapon!”

“Whoops. I’m looking forward to that!”

Looking at the two smiling uh-huh oh-hoho, the butler couldn’t help but sigh.

“Please make adjustments to the extent that the lady’s body is not in danger.”

“Of course! No matter how much I do, I don’t make weapons that hurt customers!”

“A weapon with risks is a romance, after all.”

Merca puts her hand on her cheek as if regretting the conversation between Asuka Lon and Gray.

“So? What kind of weapon is it?”

“Actually, it’s an opponent I fought a while ago. There’s a dwarf who shoots lightning from a hammer…”

Gray opened her mouth and her eyes twinkled as she said that.

But her hand her moves without stopping.

On top of Gray’s workbench, a mouse-shaped automaton had shining eyes.

Even if she was n’t looking directly at her, Hermes ‘eyes connected to her were observing her workbench her and moving her hand her.

At that time, the door of Gray’s detective office opens quietly.

Then, a girl in a cute adventurer’s uniform entered there.

A skirt with suspenders, a white blouse.

Wearing a blue beret on her head, she was a cute girl with white hair and red eyes that could not be matched by her clothes.

In her hand her, she was holding a white wooden staff, the tip of which was a crystal-like octahedron with a red magic book magically floating inside.

“Excuse me~… Is there Gray…?”

“Peruruca!”

Looking at her guest who has come to visit her, Gray raises her body her, Peru Luca bows her head, then recognizes Merca, who is graciously enjoying her tea beside her, and she turns towards it. It was her head her down her.

“Ah. Merca-sama was there too…!”

“Are you all right, Peruluca? That outfit suits you as well! I think we should give the designer a bonus.”

Merka twinkles her eyes as she takes her remaining arm to her own chin, making a V made with her index finger and thumb.

“Didn’t you tell me the other day and tell me already?”

“It’s a joke. A joke.”

The clothes worn by Luca in Peru were sponsored by Merca.

To be precise, it was Merca and Aruru who were sponsoring her three adventurers and one stag beetle that had crossed over from her other dimension.

Since they have no means of proving their identities, unless they have the protection of a high-ranking aristocrat, of course they will be immediately suspected-

Dark elves, dhampirs, and undead, as well as a non-human race party called stag beetle, were a hot topic in this royal capital right now.

That’s why Aruru and Merca guaranteed their identities and supported them to settle down in this world.

As for the circumstances, I was able to hear everything from Gray.

Besides, it was fortunate that there were people among the citizens who trusted them because they went around to save people from the calamity of the march.

Without such a history, it would have been difficult for them to stay in this capital.

“Grey, they say that the inspection team will be leaving soon. We’re going to go see it together, right?”

“Oh right!”

When Gray raised her body as if she had forgotten, Merca nodded her head knowingly, saying “Ah”.

“Come to think of it, it was today. There will be a lot of wagons lined up. It must be spectacular.”

“That’s true, too. That Selena has something to do.”

Saying that, Gray took off the mechanical glove he was wearing on his moving hand her, and the mechanical glove moved on its own.

“Sorry Merca! I’ll be back soon!”

“Oh, what about prosthetic arms and legs?”

When Merca asks while tilting her head, Gray replies by pressing a bread hat on her head her.

“Hermes is the sword to finish it off! It’s almost done!”

[Although it takes a little longer for me to move alone.]

The mechanical rat’s murmur mixed with lamentation.

And, watching Gray run and hold Peruluca’s hand and go outside, Merca murmurs.

“Hmm, having more friends besides Hermes is a good thing.”

“Yes. I think so too. Lady, how about making more friends?”

“Oh, you’ve made a lot of friends lately, right? Friends aren’t everything.”

While Merka said so, she leisurely sipped her own teacup again, Asuka Lon looked out the window at her with a wry smile on her face.

“By the way, it seems like he said he had something to do with Selena… What the hell is he thinking? We won’t be able to talk to him in person.”

“I do not know?”

There must be something Gray is thinking about.

Merca, who replied, showed no concern for the two.

That, of course, was because she trusted Gray, she didn’t have to say.

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Gray and Peruluca rush out of the office and head to the main road of the royal capital.

The streets of the royal capital have been restored to their shape in just a few days, and they have been restored to the point where there are no problems with carriages as well as people.

Thanks to this, the ranks of the carriages on which the inspectors rode stretched out from the castle and headed for the gate.

Looking at it, I can’t help but recall the victory march a while ago.

This time, I was able to look at the ranks without feeling the burden of having to protect someone.

Of course, there were fewer people watching than on Victory Day.

“Wait… Wait gray… Ha… Ha…”

When Luca, Peru, whose stamina is not good despite being her dhampir her, calls out to her her Gray, Gray scratches her head and looks back at her, voicing her ‘ahh’.

“I’m sorry.”

“Uh, uhh… My poor physical strength is the problem… Physical training, I’ll work hard…”

Saying that, Peru Luca raised her head to see a few people standing around watching the moving carriage.

“It would have been better if there were a little more crowds.”

Saying that, Gray put his hand in his pocket her.

Then, inside it was a mechanism the size of a thumb in the shape of a ladybug.

“But Peru Lucca, she thought well of her sword. Whilst trying to help her comrades in her eastern country, she put her bug on her her.”

Gray speaks very bluntly.

Colleagues in the East country, of course, refers to Cleons, and she refers to Selena, who is heading to the East country from now on.

The bug is a ladybug-shaped bugger. Moreover, the quality is not good, but the shooting is possible.

“Yes. Master often did this to monitor our actions.”

When Luca Peru said that and looked at her own wand her, the magic book trapped inside her wand her showed no reaction.

This is because the forensic book containing her teacher, Aleigh Star, was sealed by the crystal barrier of her wand.

“It’s a pervert… A book guy…”

Gray looks at the magic book with cold eyes.

“I was surprised when I came up with the plan. When I asked to add ‘bug’ to Peruluca’s idea, the big stag beetle said, ‘Are you thinking of attaching me? That’s not a bad idea’…”

“Ahaha…”

Peru Luca also scratches her cheek with a wry smile as if she remembers what happened then, and she thinks of the three of them spending their free time in the inn.

The clothes you live in now, the clothes you wear, and the money you need to settle down.

All of them were received from Merca and Aruru.

Considering that if Gray hadn’t explained herself, she might have been homeless near the royal capital.

Even if I was grateful, even if I was grateful, it was to the point that gratitude was not enough.

“Come on. Then the sword goes to the lead car!”

“Yes!”

When Gray once again led her own arm and ran down her street, she could see her little girls all playing together, everywhere she looked.

Even the wagons that moved slowly on the roads of the royal capital were a little faster than people walking.

That’s why Peru Luca and Gray realize that they have to move her feet her pretty hard to keep up with that speed.

“Haa… Haa… Bird, it’s faster than I thought. Carriage.”

“Yeah, that’s right…”

When I barely reached the lead car, I saw a woman standing on the roof of the most luxurious carriage holding onto the railing.

“Wow.”

And, Gray’s face her became a bit tired of her appearance.

The drill hair her curled so nicely that Merka might have changed her hair style her because she was n’t worried about overlapping her.

In fact, Merca also tended to change her hair style often, but she had the image of Merca if she said ‘drill hair’ after all.

Selena’s gray image of her was instantly covered.

“Wow…Wow… Really, she looks like a princess somewhere…”

Luca Peru also praises Selena, who is seeing her for the first time, holding her hand her as if a little surprised by her appearance her.

“Something… Physiologically unreasonable… For me.”

But Gray, unlike Peru Luca, shakes her head and looks at Selena with her eyes widened.

Selena, she was waving her hand towards her street, even though the street was empty.

“Ohhoho! Ohhohoho! Everyone! I am Selena Regent, who is going to the East as a representative of the kingdom this time~! The Regent family will continue to visit the temple on behalf of the Tromeya family, so please take care of me ~”

As if she was doing a campaign, she raised her voice and waved her hand without erasing her smile. You could even feel her professionalism.

“What are you doing…”

However, the problem is that there are really few people.

The only reason why there were no voices saying ‘noisy!’ On her street her was that she was a woman from a ducal family.

And-

‘…That’s definitely a knight who participated in the victory march at the time.’

Armor that covered the whole body, a helmet modeled after a dragon’s head.

Escorting Selena with a spear in her hand is the “Dragon Knight”, Renowned as the kingdom’s strongest knight.

It was Drake himself.

“I don’t understand why the kingdom’s strongest power is being sent to the east…”

Gray thinks that there must be something up.

However, Peruluca’s ‘Gray! Get away!’, She came to her senses her and pulled her hand out of her pocket.

Then, the ladybug spreads its wings and spins around to follow the flying course.

And then- it was to cling to the wagon Selena was riding on.

“…What?”

Only a very light weight would have been added to the carriage.

But at that moment, the dragon knight seemed to flinch.

Gray didn’t miss it, did he really notice the bug? And put on a nervous expression.

Soon after, the dragon knight, who could not see any movement, shook his head while thinking ‘was it an illusion…?’.

“Did it stick well?”

“It’s attached. I don’t know how long I can stay undetected…”

“That, that part is luck and production skills… I guess.”

At Peruluca’s words, Gray stopped there as if he understood, and watched the carriage procession proceed.

“The truth comes out only after leaving the capital.

Saying so, Ladybug and Gray close their eyes to keep their sanity.

But then, Selena’s voice her, fading away, could be heard right next to Gray’s ears.

“Ugh.”

Gray quickly disconnected from Ladybug once, as if his ears were hurting…

When I reconnected, I noticed that this time Selena’s voice her was a little quieter.

[There are no people at all. Unlike Tromeya’s time, I mean. What do you think?]

Apparently, the explanation of a person who sees Aruru as a rival continues…

[Come to think of it. Why are you following me? How do you escort the royal family?]

‘It’s still before passing through the gates of the kingdom, but it’s a sword that brings out a topic that concerns me.’

Gray thanked Selena in his heart her, then listened to the Dragon Knight’s reply.

But she doesn’t answer until 10 seconds – 1 minute, no, 3 minutes pass and Selena passes through the gates of the royal capital.

[Huh. Just shut it down You’re not really dumb.]

No answer comes back to her reproving voice her.

[No funny person. Well, it’s because I know my skills well. Cleon- When you meet the traitors of the kingdom. I wish you well. Drake.]

‘As expected, I’m going to find Amelia and Cleon…! I will check it 24 hours a day with my ladybug and give it to you without missing anything.’

Gray clicks her tongue and opens her closed eyes.

“…I hope that person never meets Cleon before us…!”

Then, Peru Luca said so and put her hands together and prayed.

“…Don’t worry, sword! Even if we meet, there are already a lot of beauties around Cleon, so if it’s that Selena, it won’t have much of an impact!”

“…Even by looking at her drill head her…?”

“That, that’s…”

Gray had no choice but to answer that she didn’t even know what to say.

“…This is the sword that finishes the work of making a prosthetic arm for Merca once we return to the office. In the meantime, if stories pile up, we might be able to figure out their plans!”

Saying so, Gray held Peruluca’s hand once more.

And, just like when she ran out of the office, she ran to return to the office.

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Yeah… I guess this is what was attached earlier.

Discovery☆ Whoops, it’s 100 years too early to try to follow us…

Those two were cute~ Okay. I’ll let this sister take care of it this time.

Haa~ I want to rub my face against Amelia-tan’s cheeks soon~

Wait for me, Amelia-tan…! Because my sister will go right away!