Ten minutes later, Emilia-sama and the two parent-and-child pairs stepped down from the carriage.
Huh?
The parents and children all looked a little confused.
“Emilia-sama…”
“As expected of you, Shun. You noticed right away. I’ll tell you all about it over dinner.”
I was just about to ask Emilia-sama why the families looked so bewildered, but she beat me to it. At this point, I knew better than to press her. If I asked now, she probably wouldn’t tell me anyway.
“More importantly, why are you here with Shun? I believe I told you not to eat or drink anything here, since lunch will be served later.”
“W-wh-what are you talking about?”
“Hmmm?”
Ah, figures. The Margrave really had been forbidden from sneaking bites after all. Emilia-sama had probably been trying to steer the conversation onto another topic, but the Margrave’s suspicious behavior had completely captured her attention.
“You have some sauce on the corner of your mouth, you know?”
“Oh, my apologies. Ah!”
My goodness, Lord Margrave. How could you possibly fall for such an obvious trap?
The instant everyone present realized what had just happened, we all had the exact same thought: Oh, he screwed up.
“Fran, Horn. Was the Margrave eating the staff meal?”
“Yeah! And he even ate Shun’s lunch!”
“Shun-oniichan took out a different meal from his Item Box.”
“Fufufu. Thank you, both of you.”
Having obtained testimony from Fran and Horn—the two people most likely to answer honestly—Emilia-sama turned her attention to the Margrave.
His face had gone deathly pale. She stared at him with an utterly expressionless face.
“You and I are going to have a little talk.”
“…Y-yes, ma’am.”
Emilia-sama pointed toward the carriage with a small nod of her chin, her expression utterly serious. With no other choice, the Margrave obediently followed her.
Not a single person said a word as we all watched the two of them climb into the carriage.
Don, don, don, thud!
“Everyone, I sincerely apologize for the trouble our family has caused you.”
“Please accept our apologies once again.”
Only after the carriage door closed did Casey-san’s and Telma-san’s mother turn to the foreman and the person in charge of the demolition work and apologize.
“Oh, Casey and Telma’s mother, huh? Those two have been working hard ever since the Harvest Festival. They’re real hard workers.”
“The ringleader already told us everything, so we know more or less what happened. And the townspeople don’t hold it against them at all.”
Neither the foreman nor the person in charge had a single bad thing to say about the Nasca and Franz viscount families—not even when Casey-san and Telma-san were brought up. That was proof enough that the people of the Margrave’s territory had accepted Casey-san and Telma-san as their own.
Bang, bang, bang, bang.
“Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhhhhh!”
Incidentally, the carriage shook violently and someone’s scream could be heard, but no one at the scene paid any attention.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeneijiworks.com
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