The next morning, I woke up somehow with Fran hugging me.
Huh?
I’m pretty sure Fran and Horn were in Casey-san’s room, and Shiro and Ao were in Telma-san’s room. Fran is clinging to me really tight.
Fran seemed awake too, so I’ll ask her what happened.
“Shun, a drunk Sue came into our room…”
“Eh? How did Sue open Casey-san’s door?”
I hadn’t locked my door because Shiro and the others might come in, but Casey-san and Telma-san always locked their doors when they went to sleep.
“She used some kind of unlocking magic. Then Casey and Horn ran off to Telma-san’s room. I came to your room.”
“Oh, I see, that must have been scary. There, there.”
Yeah, having the door to your room suddenly unlock and a drunk person stumble inside is genuinely terrifying. And come to think of it, unlocking magic was one of the more difficult applications of non-attribute magic too. Naturally, I couldn’t use it myself.
Still stroking Fran’s head as she clung to me, I decided to go take a look at the scene of the disaster.
“Whoa… she’s definitely drunk.”
“Mm…”
The door to Casey-san’s room was wide open, making the entire room visible from the hallway. Sue is there, sprawled out on the floor, sleeping blissfully.
Oh right. There was no way we could let anyone else see her like this. At the same time, I couldn’t just walk into Casey’s room without permission. So, with Fran still in my arms, I headed over to Telma-san’s room, where everyone had apparently taken refuge.
Knock, knock.
“Sorry for showing up so early in the morning. It’s Shun.”
“Ah, yes. One moment, I’ll open the door.”
Click.
The door opened, and Telma-san greeted us. The moment I looked inside, I saw that every inch of the room’s beds had been occupied.
“Um… well… I’m really sorry about everything Sue did…”
“It’s alright. Something similar has happened before…”
According to Telma-san, during that infamous birthday party, a drunken Sue had wandered into the room where Casey-san and Telma-san were staying at the mansion. That was why they had handled the situation so calmly this time around. Apparently, they were experienced victims.
“Casey-san, would it be alright if I go inside your room and wake Sue up?”
“Please do. We’ll come along as well.”
Having received Casey-san’s permission, we headed over to her room.
“zZzz… zzz…”
Sue was still making those strange, incomprehensible sleeping noises. Even when Ao poked her repeatedly with a tentacle, she showed no sign of waking up.
For now, the overwhelming smell of alcohol was the bigger problem. So before doing anything else, I used household magic to clean her up, then followed it with a healing spell.
*Flash*
“Huh? What? Where am I?”
When I cast a healing spell, Sue slowly sat up. She looked around the room, and suddenly her mind seemed to wake up.
“Eh? Is this… Casey’s room?”
“Yes, this is Casey-san’s room.”
Seeing me, who had healed her, and the crowd near the door, Sue’s expression changed to one of realization.
“I am terribly sorry…”
And then, Sue immediately performed a perfect dogeza (bowing deeply) towards us.
Sue. This is the second time in the past year that you’ve bowed deeply the day after drinking you kmow.
‘“Well, we’re also at fault for letting her drink, and the damage wasn’t too bad, so let’s leave it at that.”
“Yes…”
And so, the situation was somehow resolved. However, there was actually another drunk causing trouble inside the mansion.
“Gooo… grwooo…”
For some reason, the Margrave was fast asleep right in the entrance hall. And his snores sounded like the roar of some giant monster.
“When he gets drunk, he tends to fall asleep wherever he happens to be.”
“Poke, poke.”
Standing beside the sleeping Margrave were Emilia-sama who looked completely accustomed to the sight and Kent-chan, who was happily poking the Margrave’s cheek. Apparently, this was a perfectly normal morning occurrence.
Then Emilia-sama turned toward us and, with a bright smile, delivered a single devastating remark.
“Shun, from now on, I think it would be best if you cast a healing spell on Sue before she goes to bed whenever she drinks.”
“Uuu…”
It seemed Emilia-sama had already heard about Sue’s antics that morning.
Sue’s face instantly turned bright red, and she shrank in embarrassment. There was no escaping it now. Her drunken rampage had been completely exposed.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeneijiworks.com
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