episode_0385

“Ugh!”

-Where are you secretly spying on?! nastily!

“Birds kill people! “Ugh!”

-If you don’t want to die, get out of there right now!

There was a loud man’s scream, and soon after, Damon flew towards me.

It was obvious what he was doing.

“Have you been there again?”

-huh. I won’t be able to go anywhere for a while.

“Hmm, it seems like every time I go out, at least one person always shows up.”

-Isn’t this a little dangerous? I think I need to warn you once. Or at least cover your face. Since they don’t say anything and just protect you, they don’t know that it’s dangerous and just keep playing around like they like it.

As I saw that every time Mr. Negi walked around, he brought with him a man of poor quality, I wondered if this was really just a matter of appearance.

It wasn’t common to attract guys like that in Academy City.

‘Is it a bit like that? ‘Something like a arrow.’

It’s not that there is no way to solve this problem.

Surprisingly, the method is simple.

The reason kids didn’t get caught by those guys was because they showed off that she was a student, so all she had to do was make it clear that she shouldn’t be messed with.

‘For example, something like luxurious clothes that nobles would wear.’

In my opinion, Negi’s appearance is good, but the fact that he wears old clothes that commoners would wear seems to be the fundamental reason why bad guys are attracted to him.

“No, you can’t talk.”

-why? Don’t you need to know what’s going on?

“You know Negi’s personality. If I found out, it would only make me more discouraged. “They might not go outside at all because they don’t want to cause trouble.”

-Ah, is it really possible to act in such an extreme way?

Not much time has passed yet for the wound to heal.

If you tell someone who is already intimidated about something bad, it is not good for their mental health.

“If there is even the slightest possibility of that happening, it is right not to do it. So, I ask you to stick by my side as much as possible. When they say they are going out, you have to follow them unconditionally. okay?”

-Okay, okay.

“Okay, go back to Negi.”

Damon, who had grown large while chasing the man, became smaller again and fell to Mr. Negi.

After hearing what happened to Damon over the past few days, I knew that I should never let Negi wander around alone.

Franc was quite the troublemaker, but Negi was a troublemaker with even more potential than Franc.

‘Does he seem like someone who creates incidents even if he stays still?’

Still, I will hide it as long as I can.

What Negi needs after going through a difficult time is normal, normal days without any abnormalities.

※ ※ ※

While the Negi family was unable to pay attention to the punitive force due to the joining of the clan, Princess Mona assembled the entire punitive force and was preparing to go on a campaign.

I thought they were going to take a lot of stuff from the top, but it looks like quite a lot of stuff went into the punitive force.

“I heard you hired an employee at the general store?”

“Has that already reached your ears?”

It was unexpected that Erintina brought up the topic of Mr. Negi before even talking about it first.

“Didn’t you say there was no need to hire employees? “Why did you suddenly hire an employee?”

“The general store was expanded. And since I thought I would be away often, I decided to hire an employee.”

I had no intention of doing so, but Mr. Negi came in and I had no choice but to hire him, but he played it cool in front of Erintina.

“Hmm? It looks suspicious. “Is this someone with something?”

Erintina was once again doubting whether I had predicted the future and hired someone.

“It’s not like that.”

“really?”

“really.”

“It’s even weirder if it’s real. Are you keeping someone who doesn’t matter to you? How many people have I tried to put next to you so far? “All those people ended up using it just then.”

Employees assigned by Erintina.

I abandoned them unintentionally.

This is because he left to take care of the locust monsters and the epidemic and went somewhere else.

“I didn’t leave it behind intentionally. “I had to do something, so I couldn’t help it.”

To be honest, I forgot.

“I know, you’re busy. I think it can happen. But it’s strange that a person who found such things inconvenient suddenly brought in an employee. I don’t think you brought in employees for no reason. As you know, when I offered to hire you as an employee, you refused.”

“… … .”

“Is this something I shouldn’t know?”

“There is nothing like that. “I was just trying to save it when it rolled in and picked it up.”

“You rolled in and picked it up?”

“It was a shame not to pick it up.”

“???”

Erintina frowned, probably not understanding what I was talking about.

“There is something, but I can’t seem to tell you.”

“If you’re really that curious, why don’t you come take a look?”

“Can I really go and have a look?”

“Why not?”

“The staff said she was a very pretty woman. “He was so friendly and kind that I thought an angel had come down to him.”

“… “Did that employee do that?”

I only met him briefly, but I had no idea he would leave such a deep impression.

I didn’t understand what the basis for saying that they were kind and kind were based on.

“huh. He asked me if I was seeing a guy. “I guess it was love at first sight.”

“under… “Tell them no.”

“No? why?”

“Men are off limits for the time being.”

“Perhaps you like it rationally… ?”

“I’m going to be in big trouble!” “It’s not like that.”

Anyway, I was going to talk about the situation to some extent in order to get help, so I told Erintina about the trouble Negi was going through.

I didn’t bother to tell her that she might be Fran’s biological mother because I would find out if I met her in person.

“If a woman is pretty, that kind of annoyance inevitably happens.”

Erintina actively sympathized with my story, perhaps because she had experienced many negative experiences due to her beautiful appearance.

“Have you ever been in trouble like Negi?”

“I am a nobleman.”

“I’m not saying there isn’t one.”

“Because I had the strength, it must have been less difficult than what that person experienced. If I were born as a commoner with this face… .”

Erintina shook her head, as if it was terrifying to even imagine.

“If I were that woman, I don’t know if I would have made it this far.”

“That much?”

It is meaningful that you say such a thing even though you still don’t know anything about Mr. Negi’s situation.

Erintina doesn’t go into detail, but it seems like she suffered a lot because of her appearance.

“Anyway, I’m worried because I feel like I’m the type of person who will bring about an incident even if I stay quiet. “I’m worried about how to solve it.”

“Why are you embarrassed? “You’ve been through quite a bit of that too.”

“me?”

“huh. “Can you say no?”

I couldn’t refute what she said, considering that I was seeing three women.

“I have the power to take responsibility, but you don’t have that.”

If an incident happens even though she stays still, I tend to jump into the middle of an incident myself and cause something to happen.

I provided the cause, and they suffered something they never hoped for, so I couldn’t compare my situation with Mr. Negi’s.

“I don’t feel unfair because I contributed to the cause. But employees aren’t like that. Even though that person is just living a normal life, problems are intertwined. “The situation is more serious than mine.”

“So you’re asking for help?”

“uh. First of all, I tell him to take Damon with him whenever he goes somewhere, so I protect him. But staying here itself is dangerous.”

“If she’s that pretty like you said, there’s no way she wouldn’t be noticed by a noble.”

“So I thought about a way, and I thought it would be better to hide the fact that I am a commoner.”

“If you get caught pretending to be a noble, there will be more trouble.”

“I’m not saying to actively pretend to be a noble, but to at least change the way I wear it. “Then there won’t be any trouble with low-quality commoners.”

“Ah, that might not be a bad idea. But what if that could create a bigger problem?”

“What problem?”

“The nobles are twisted.”

“Can’t nobles just use their power to suppress them?”

It may have been before, but now we are at the center of power.

So, I thought it would be okay to use their power to get rid of the nobles.

“If it comes out like that, there won’t be a problem. But nobles don’t come off as naive. “What would you do if you found out your employee was a commoner?”

“… “It might be difficult.”

“Maybe that noble will try to kidnap your employee.”

kidnap?!

“Kidnapping people?”

“I almost had something like that happen to me, but would a commoner be so appalled?”

“!!”

I had no idea that the reason I was able to think of this right away was because I experienced it myself.

“Are you shocked? “If you look like me, having that level of experience is inevitable.”

Perhaps because it happened in the past, he didn’t seem shaken.

However, I was sorry for bringing back bad memories.

“sorry.”

“it’s okay. “It was so long ago that I don’t even remember much anymore.”

“You’re not doing that now, are you?”

“of course. Who dares touch me? “No one can touch it.”

Erintina’s face was full of pride as she proudly spoke with her chest out.

“I’m glad.”

“I can’t say it’s a perfectly good method, but I think it’s better than nothing. “I think I know roughly what you need, so I’ll help you.”

“thanks.”

“Huh, how pretty is that employee?”

“ok?”

“I thought you were so pretty that you would help me like this. Talk to me. “How can you be pretty?”

Erintina admits that she couldn’t help but be curious, but evaluating her (presumed) mother-in-law’s appearance was not an easy task.

“Pretty is just pretty, right?”

“Ah, can’t you even say that to the person helping you?”

“… “As long as you change your outfit, you can pretend to be a nobleman.”

She is the biological mother who gave birth to Fran.

However, while it is not easy to approach Fran because of his unique madness, Fran’s biological mother, Negi, naturally attracts attention due to her beauty and a certain sense of sorrow.

“You shouldn’t be so vague. “Compared to me, who is prettier?”

“Are you asking me to answer that?”

“huh! “It’s not a difficult question to answer.”

How can that be an easy question to answer?

“Of course I have to say it’s you?”

“Then isn’t it?”

I blinked my long eyelashes and pretended to be pretty, but I had to force my mouth to stay shut.

Otherwise, I felt like I would give her the answer she wanted without realizing it.