episode_0065

“Weren’t elves a race that communicated with animals and talked to birds in trees?”

I learned that nomadic elves were more like ‘knife-ears,’ and elves living in the forest felt like ‘true elves.’

So I thought it was a similar image to my past life.

“Aren’t elves a nomadic people?”

“Do elves communicate with animals? I thought they were a race that roamed the prairies on horseback and hunted.”

“That’s a bad elf.”

“Bad elf?”

“There are good and bad elves?”

The image that I learned as a child and the image that other people know were so different.

There’s no way my family would have taught me wrong?

It’s a little embarrassing to say, but among humans, our family is the group that has had the most contact with elves.

It’s a flaw that we’ve encountered them as enemies, but thanks to that, we can definitely distinguish between friend and foe.

“Am I understanding it wrong?”

“I don’t really know, the spider AIN are so secluded…”

“I know they live in the prairies…”

I asked the AIN who had been quietly staying out of it because there were no answers from the humans, but the answers that came back were rather like wedges.

“Ugh…”

I earnestly looked at Katerina, who was keeping her mouth shut with a meaningful expression until the end.

With a faint hope that Katerina might be a little different because she is an elf.

“Unfortunately for the others, Sir William is right, good elves live in the forest.”

“…!”

It wasn’t our family that was wrong, it was the world.

Realizing that my family’s home education was not wrong, I clenched my fist and rejoiced, whether others saw it or not.

“What is a good elf?”

“Humans are surprisingly mistaken that the AIN are a single race, aren’t they?”

While I was rejoicing, Katerina, as if she had been waiting for this question from Duke Herbert, started explaining about elves with her eyes twinkling.

“Just like humans have many countries, we also have many tribes depending on where we live and our beliefs. The root of the roots is our forest elves and the giant tree faith, but humans often war with nomadic elves, so when they think of elves, they think of those barbarians. There are no disadvantages, so we live thinking that way, but it’s subtly unpleasant.”

“I’ve traveled around the world often, but I’ve never known that there are forest elves, or that there are many tribes among elves, until today.”

“Why didn’t I know that until now?”

“Isn’t it because there are so few elves?”

“They don’t even try to find out? Humans think all elves are the same, who was it that added the surname ‘Fairy’ to all the knife-ears?”

“……”

The atmosphere in the studio instantly cooled at the three letters ‘knife-ear.’

For a moment, I wondered if I had misheard, but seeing that most people besides me were trembling their eyes, I heard it right.

“Ahem…!”

“Cough!”

Everyone from humans to other AIN coughed as if they hadn’t heard anything and turned their eyes away from Katerina.

“Ahem… Let’s stop talking about sensitive topics here, and we need to decide on our filming location quickly, is it okay to go to the eastern forest of the Imperial Capital tomorrow?”

“I’m all for it, should I bring my bow and lyre and strike a pose?”

“No, that’s too much, what about the others?”

“It’s okay!”

“The forest seems to be the best.”

“J, just do it in the forest!”

Unlike the beginning, which was full of questions, the decision was made quickly thanks to the strong support of the forest elves.

“Okay, then Katerina and Elizabeth, gather in the forest tomorrow, and the rest of you, take a break, got it?”

“Yes!”

After reminding the staff of the finalized schedule, I wrapped up the story and dismissed the staff.

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The first photo was decided to follow the opinion of Princess Elizabeth.

It would be good to leave a strong impression from the beginning, but since we will be running the advertisement several times, I thought it would be more memorable for people to start blandly and finish aggressively.

“Fortunately, the weather is nice.”

After arriving in the forest, I waited for Katerina to change clothes in the carriage that Princess Elizabeth had brought, looking up at the sky.

After deciding on the filming and leaving work, clouds suddenly started to gather in the sky, and it rained lightly in the early morning, so I was worried about what to do if the weather was bad.

Fortunately, when morning came, the sky cleared up so much that you could say it was transparent, except for one or two cirrus clouds.

“Ugh…”

I barely made the time thanks to the efforts of the staff, but if it had been delayed due to the weather, it would have been terrible to even think about.

The plan would be completely twisted, and the staff’s efforts would be wasted…

I’d be so sorry, I wouldn’t know how to face the staff.

“Sir William, can you come here for a second?”

“Yeah.”

While expressing my gratitude to the clear sky, Princess Elizabeth, who had slightly opened the window of the carriage and peeked out, called me.

I approached the carriage at a trot and said, looking up at the princess.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing special, just check how it looks before I get out of the carriage.”

“Okay.”

At my nod, the princess’s head went into the carriage, and the door of the carriage, which had been tightly closed, opened.

Revealed through the open door were Katerina, wearing a green dress with a deep neckline, the princess’s maid arranging her clothes nearby, and Emily.

I narrowed my eyes and slowly examined Katerina.

Her hair was the same ponytail as usual, but her bangs were touched up to give her a more mature feel.

She must have borrowed Princess Elizabeth’s clothes to wear the dress, but it clung to Katerina’s body naturally, as if it had been tailored to her body from the beginning.

The hem of the dress hung naturally from her hips, as if she hadn’t worn a petticoat and only wore a girdle and bra, and the lines of her legs were subtly revealed beyond the clothes whenever Katerina moved her body.

And the shoes were finished with plain black shoes.

It was a style that suited the refined elf beauty that Princess Elizabeth had envisioned.

“Ugh…”

As I was carefully scanning Katerina, Katerina, who let out a groan, tugged on the waist of the dress and grumbled.

“Why do human dresses stick to the body so much?”

“That’s what’s in fashion.”

“If that’s the case, why not take it off and walk around, why wear such cumbersome clothes…”

“That’s something you can say because you’re a pretty elf even if you take it off, how can your waist be the same as mine, who’s been squeezed by a corset even though it’s not that tight?”

“Elizabeth-nim has bigger breasts than me.”

“Ahem!”

Watching quietly, it seemed like the conversation was flowing to a strange place, so I coughed to cut off the conversation and took a step closer and opened my mouth.

“It’s okay, we can start filming right away.”

“Really? Then where will the filming take place? I hope it’s not too deep, as the clothes can get dirty.”

“If you walk for about a minute? there’s a nice tree, sitting against it will make a pretty picture.”

“Okay, Katerina, let’s get off.”

“Yes.”

At the princess’s gesture, Katerina poked her body out of the carriage door.

Perhaps because she was not used to the shoes, I quickly reached out and grabbed Katerina’s waist and hand to help her get out of the carriage with her precarious steps.

“Ah, thank you, you’re skilled at escorting.”

“It’s nothing.”

Katerina, who had stepped on the ground, bowed slightly and thanked me.

“I’m okay, so keep escorting Katerina so she doesn’t fall.”

“Okay.”

I glanced at the carriage, wondering if Princess Elizabeth also needed an escort, and the princess, who skillfully jumped down, waved her hand and pointed at Katerina.

“Can we start now?”

“Yes.”

“Let’s go that way.”

With Katerina propped up, I checked that Princess Elizabeth’s maid and Emily had all gotten off and slowly took a step, pointing in the direction of the tree I had marked.

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“Young Master, can you please stop rolling around in the grass?”

“Shh! The angle is perfect right now?”

“Then, shouldn’t we start shooting soon…?”

“Wait a little bit, the angle is good, but the height seems to be a little off.”

“Ugh…”

“Ah, that’s it!”

I spent several hours finding the composition where Katerina would look the prettiest, rolling around in the grass and climbing trees, and I was able to find the best spot after suffering.

“Katerina, make a serious face and look at that spire.”

“Like this?”

“Tilt your head up a little more, just a little… Stop!”

After getting Katerina to strike the right pose, I squatted in the grass and aimed the cuboid magic tool, stopped breathing, and waited for it to focus.

The initially blurry image gradually took shape, and after about 5 seconds had passed in my mind, a very clean image appeared on the magic tool.

“Now, th…”

Just as I was about to tell Katerina that I was going to take the picture.

– Flap!

A bird about the size of a fist fluttered its wings and flew up, landing on Katerina’s shoulder.

And the bird hopped and hopped, finding a comfortable position, and stood on the end of Katerina’s shoulder, looking in the same direction.

I pursed my lips and put my hand on the button of the magic tool at an opportunity that would not come easily.

I held my breath once again and pressed the button firmly.

With the flash of light and the scattering of mana from above the magic tool, Katerina’s appearance is engraved.

“Is it done?”

“……”

The flash and mana subsided, and Katerina whispered very quietly, moving her lips, but I showed her a gesture to wait a moment and waited for the photo to come out of the magic tool.

After waiting for several tens of seconds with bated breath, a photo about one span wide and half a span long came out of the magic tool.

“Oh…”

After checking the photo, I exclaimed and got up from my seat and shouted to everyone around.

“Okay, that’s it! Let’s stop here today.”

“Hoo~ Did the picture come out well?”

At Katerina’s question, who took a comfortable posture and exhaled loudly, I looked at the bird that had flown into the sky in surprise and nodded with a satisfied expression.

“It’s the best.”

“Hehe~”