Chapter 86 – Rules of Barbarism.

“Haha, why do I have to be like this?”

Usher let out a sigh as he passed the time sitting pathetically in front of Medea’s door. The reason was obviously because Medea took her Belka into her room. It was dissatisfying that she was spending less time with Belka because of her interjections, but that didn’t mean she could separate Medea. It was true that she wanted to keep the girl to herself, but she was Medea to Belka, and she was the first person he could call a friend besides him.

He would follow them around even for Belka’s sake, but he wouldn’t interfere. If she wasn’t the same girl, the story would have been different. Then she remembered that she also had people she could call friends.

“Come to think of it, what happened to Kerner and Robert?”

Slowly learning the true nature of the town, Usher rejected them. If you think about it now, you probably didn’t know about them, but didn’t you reject them more than necessary? He was worried, but as Lily came to mind with him, the feeling of regret disappeared. The girl she just called her town idiot because she had a vague impression and didn’t even know her name. The most intense memory in his memory was of giving himself to Robert and Kerner.

It was the first time he had witnessed a woman’s naked body, and it was the relationship between her man and woman, so there was no way he could forget it. At first he wanted to satisfy a need he had become aware of, without even knowing its meaning. But Usher shuddered with disgust when he learned that she had been having affairs with the men of the town, not just Kerner or Robert, at Mack’s behest. He also sympathized with her. Because she’s an idiot and she does those things without knowing anything and she thinks she was being used by Mac.

But when she hears from Mac’s mouth that she is not her idiot, that she was simply pretending to be that way, and that it was also she who brought up her relationship with Usher and Belka. When he found out that it was because she liked him, he couldn’t describe the feeling of betrayal he felt.

“Because I can’t meet you anymore.”

As she was alone, she had all sorts of thoughts. He cooled his head as he leaned against the large door.

“Oooh, stop now, forgive me.”

Is it because I keep changing into different clothes without taking a break? Belka said in a weary voice.

“No. I have to wear a few more.”

However, Medea did not intend to stop playing with dolls for girls. She wonders how this happened, when she goes back to when Medea fell asleep in the garden and when she awoke.

“Belka too. She would have woken up if you had just woken her up.”

Medea was walking down her hallway, relieving her frown from an unfamiliar nap. She figured that by now, it was Usher’s time to train with Donnar, so she figured Belka would be there too. As she walked out looking for the girl she did, she ran into an unexpected figure.

“I’m glad the roads didn’t cross.”
“Heath.”

She was about the same height as hers, but not her age. That’s because he was only short and had the appearance of an adult. Above all, that cynical expression, which revealed more strictness than her father, who was known for being cool-headed, made it impossible to look at him lightly. He asked, thinking that he seems to be running into them often these days.

“What’s going on this time?”

It wasn’t a particularly uncomfortable opponent, but when I looked at her face, Mediah naturally found herself treating her hard. Although there was also the fact that, due to his personality, there was nothing he would encounter unless it was mainly public matters.

“It’s because there are a few people who want to hire them.”
“If you came in this time, it would be the Paciphenia people.”

Those who entered as vassals were mainly professionally trained knights, that is, military officers who had passed a rigorous examination, or civil servants who were in charge of administration rather than battle. Since military officers are more in demand than civil servants, knights are mainly hired as vassals. Since the lord has the duty to take care of his family, he accepts their family as well, and sometimes, if there is a daughter or daughter from the family of the vassal who wants to be employed in the castle, he will hire them.

From their point of view, who manage the territory and castle, there was no reason to refuse because the family of the vassal could benefit more from paying wages and obtaining labor than just playing and eating. And that’s for the castle hostess to judge and decide.

“What about the papers?”
“Here you are.”

Since she didn’t have her mother to fill that role, Medea was at least partially filling it. Of course, I wasn’t given a lot of work because I was still young, but I was able to play this basic role. However, the paperwork was limited to one or two pages, perhaps because few of the vassals who entered this time had families.

“It’s surprising that such great people are rarely married, let alone those who have a lover.”

It was really surprising. The knights who became opponents for the reason of looking at their skills were the Royal Guard who selected exceptional ones among the knights. It was surprising that the knights who won without missing a single one of them rarely had lovers or fiances. The knights who could deal with the dragon called the king of monsters. In this world where monsters are rampant everywhere, a knight with excellent skills was no different from the best groom.

Thanks to this, the chattering of the maids employed by the castle was more often heard. Well, from their point of view, it was as if the best grooms had rolled in through the vines. In addition, hired servants who have vassals as family members are naturally treated more highly than ordinary maids. It was obvious that there were probably not one or two maids who saw this as an opportunity. Mediah knew that it was not a bad thing from their point of view, so they were encouraging rather than restraining.

“This is Sir Donnar.”

The portrait and name on the first page belonged to someone who was familiar with Medea. It was impossible not to recognize her friend Belka and the family of the man who had reaped Usher. Having initially withheld it, she turned it over to the next page and saw it there. A portrait of Belka.

“How did this happen? Hiss.”
“That is.”

As if he had guessed what she would ask, he informed her that her girl wanted to get hired first.

“…Good. There are only these two applicants anyway, so let’s decide right away. Mr. Sif has a position in the department he wants, so we’ll hire him as he is.”

She smiled grimly when she saw that Belka wanted chores like cleaning and laundry.

“Whoa, whoa, you applied for something like this without telling me, but you applied to a place where it’s hard to meet me?”

It wasn’t that the girl’s actions weren’t unusual, but she probably never thought that Mediah would find out about this. But unfortunately she couldn’t help what caught her eye.

“Heath, there are no vacancies in the department she applied for, so it doesn’t matter if I change it arbitrarily, right?”
“Of course.”

Even if he’s picky, he doesn’t mind a little bit of greed as long as he doesn’t deviate from his principles. Then no one would say anything about hiring her for a position that hadn’t been filled in her last years. So, the department that Mediah hired Belka for was her maid. The girl is flawless because she is treated as a vassal’s family. Thus, her Belle Carla Medea, who became her own handmaiden, was playing around with her grumpy doll, changing her clothes.

“Really! Being sincere is good, but Belka is too harsh!
“But.”
“Ugh! And if you’re hired that way, you’ll have no time to play with me! Will Belka want me to be lonely?”
“Aww, I’m sorry.”

In fact, the reason was that even if the time with Belka decreased, it would decrease too much. Moreover, she did not want to make her friend do such odd jobs.

“Now! This is the last outfit. This will be the one Belka will wear from now on.”

And what she gave her was a maid’s uniform made for her girl’s age.

“But it’s a bit disappointing. She wanted to dress me better.”
“This is enough.”
“I’m not satisfied!”

Seeing Belka change into her maid’s uniform, Mediah forgot her complaints and admired her. Is it because she is the weakest girl of her age? She was only a size smaller than the grown-ups wear, but she did not look like a simple maid, even though she was wearing the same design of a maid’s uniform. A black headband with white lace on top of her red hair, which is like a flower blooming in the garden, and a black and white maid outfit covering her slender body, make you doubt whether it is really the same as what a maid wears.

Perhaps because of her small body, her face that doesn’t reveal her emotions, her clear skin reminiscent of a lily, and the atmosphere created by her golden eyes, the girl looked like an elaborate porcelain doll dressed in a maid’s outfit.

“Seriously, how could she look so good no matter what she wears?”

Thanks to that, the change of clothes, which must have ended with a bit of grumpiness, took a long time with momentum. By the time the doll play for girls was over. They noticed a commotion outside the door.

“Hey, isn’t that the kid you were talking about?”
“Do you think it’s right? The color of your hair, and the way you are casually standing in front of the lady’s room.”

Usher, who was sitting in front of Mediah’s door, suddenly heard children’s voices. The sound was low, but it was just the right size to get on a nerve. Wanting to know what was going on, he raised his head and clicked his tongue at the children he saw. To be precise, it was because of the figure of a boy who was mixed in between them and was looking this way.

“You! You must have escaped earlier!?”

He was none other than the guy who threw the glove at Usher and challenged him to a duel. The guy came up to him where he was sitting and huffed, but it was just an opponent that Usher didn’t care about.

“Huam, so have you been looking for me so far for that time?”

He seemed pathetic to the guy who was so relentlessly chasing and bothering him.

“What a trivial reason! A coward who runs away from a holy knight’s duel!”
“Ha? A sacred duel?”
“Yes! You coward!”
“You can’t run away from a duel without being scared!”

Even the two children who had followed him shouted and surrounded Usher. He didn’t really have anything outrageous about him. Especially when I think of the story I heard from Donnar. Usher remembered the duel he had heard about at dinner.

“So what was the duel about?”
“It’s like a fight between knights. If you have a legitimate reason to apply when you’ve damaged your reputation or when you feel really unfair. When you covet someone else’s booty or feat, you fight a duel for another reason and take it away.”

The more I listened, the more I felt that being a knight was a job that was far from fairy tales or romance.

“It’s a very snobbish reason.”
“Yes. But it’s a culture that’s almost died because discipline is usually more important.”
“Why?”
“In the first place, being a knight is a professional soldier, but also fulfills the role of a commander. In a duel, one of them could die, so what else would it be like to reduce the high-quality manpower?”

Because they are busy with various dangers and wars with monsters everywhere, those who do such acts only see it as ignorant behavior unless it is a dire situation. Can such a thing be called a sacred duel? More than anything.

“It’s no different than someone else’s woman coveting someone else’s woman and threatening to take it away with her power, but that’s a sacred duel?”
“Profit! When I!”

It’s annoying that he can get away with it since he didn’t even accept it in the first place.

“You’re not fighting because you don’t have the confidence to win!”
“If you win, that’s enough!”

I was really annoyed by the guys who kept making noise around me, but it was still worth watching. Normally, she would have accepted the fight, but for Belka’s sake, and because she didn’t want to cause trouble to Donnar and Sif, who were indebted to her, she tried to endure it.

“If you accept it, accept it!”

He kicked Usher in anger as he kept being ignored.

“Oops! This is real!”

When Usher tried to stand up, because the place where he had been hit was the calf that was overcrowded because of the sparring with Rogi.

“What is this fuss in front of someone else’s room?”

The door opened and Medea and Belka came out.