Chapter 186: What Should We Do?
Chapter 186: What Should We Do?
"Amazing! Everyone’s windows have lights on!"At my words,
"Right? It can only mean that something major has happened."
Lily answered, and Stevie nodded repeatedly as well.
"But it isn’t necessarily about me, is it?"
That’s true — it isn’t necessarily about me. I might be self-conscious. For all I knew, word might have come that the margrave in the capital had died, and the place was in an uproar over that.
"Yes. That possibility certainly exists. Therefore let us wait here for a while. If someone comes to Robby-sama’s room in the middle of the night, it would be better to consider them suspicious. In that case we will leave the mansion and head for the Mainz Kingdom immediately."
Lily proposed.
"I see. Then what if no one comes?"
"Tomorrow morning we simply act as if we know nothing and leave."
I see — no matter what I said she answered the other way, answering smoothly as if she had anticipated my questions.
"That’s true too. By the way, which side of the king’s succession struggle is the margrave on?"
Lily tilted her head a little and answered,
"As I recall, he is not aligned with either side — neutrally speaking, he is neutral."
Stevie, stop just nodding and say something yourself! That was my inner voice.
"In a bad way, that means sitting on the fence. An opportunist, huh~~"
I thought he was the worst kind of person. But no one wants to board a sinking ship after clearly raising a flag.
"Well, yes."
"He’s walking a dangerous bridge."
I thought. Was it just favoritism that made me think no matter how one looked at it he ought to side with us?
"Regarding that, I will refrain from commenting."
Oh, Lily was making a cautious statement for some reason.
"Anyway, shall we wait here?"
Well, either way we had no choice but to wait.
""Yes.""
Stevie finally spoke.
We moved across the roof and watched the uproar in the mansion from a place with a good view. What was happening? Even now horsemen were entering through the gate from outside. Perhaps because they were worked up, they were shouting at the people who had come out from the mansion to meet them. They did not look like complete strangers; it looked as if acquaintances had arrived. Did that mean people of the margrave’s household had arrived?
Before long the lights in the rooms of the mansion began going out one by one. What was going on?
"I wonder what happened? Has it been settled?"
"I don’t know. There seems to be no sign that anyone came to Robby-sama’s room either."
"How can you tell?"
I asked Lily, but
"It’s a secret."
Stevie answered proudly. I see — Stevie’s ability.
Looking back on tonight, I truly felt I was being helped. Of course both below and above the waist. Did I only have a cheat against women? Umm, I didn’t know whether it could be called a cheat, but since I wasn’t suffering any inconvenience it was probably a cheat. I wanted to give even one-tenth of this cheat ability to the me who had been in Japan. I wanted to become someone who could manage properly on my own without relying on Lily and Stevie!