Chapter 222: Entering the Capital and Heading to the Ambassadorial Residence
Chapter 222: Entering the Capital and Heading to the Ambassadorial Residence
There were various procedures, yet we safely entered the capital! Because I was treated as a guest from a foreign country, while looking sideways at the line of ordinary people waiting to enter I advanced smoothly, and at the reception Captain Jobson spoke this and that with the clerk in charge, and we entered the capital. Incidentally I did nothing. I only watched.I am surprised at the number of people inside the capital. It is the first dense population in a long time and I feel as if I might grow dizzy. Even so, compared with Shibuya or Shinjuku it is sparse, yet still in this world it is quite a lively bustle. Are there no elves? Are there no dwarves? I want there to be demihumans. A beautiful girl with rabbit ears, you know. Of course I want to see one and keep one by my side. Looking roughly, it seems there are only humans?
Yet if I say such a thing Lily is likely to glare at me, so I stop.
The carriage advances without stopping. From the moment we entered, a cobblestone road has been maintained the whole way. With the kotsu, kotsu, kotsu of the horses’ hooves the carriage advances. The standard event of bumping into some noble and coming to the brink of explosion and so on did not occur.
"Prince Robin, we have arrived. This is the Marie Kingdom Ambassadorial Residence!"
At Captain Jobson’s voice I looked outside and saw a two-story mansion. Larger than I had thought! The width of the grounds is 40 m? 50 m? Amazing!? I do not know how deep it is. The building stands solidly in the center, and on both sides there seem to be vacant lots of more than 20 m. Yet the grounds are considerably overgrown; weeds are stretching themselves, you know? It looks as if the care is not thorough. This is not intentional, is it? And among the trees growing on the grounds there are many that bear fruit. Because orange-colored fruit is attached, is that an orange? Or a mandarin? The trees are not lined up randomly but are growing at equal intervals, so there is no mistake that human hands have been involved. Mmm— how should one think about this?
"Lily, doesn’t that look as if fruit trees are being cultivated?"
"Yes, it seems so..."
Lily also wears a subtle expression.
"Is it ordinary for fruit trees to be planted at a noble’s mansion?"
"Well... in the Marie Kingdom I have not heard of it much."
"Does that mean it is a fashion of the Mainz Kingdom?"
"It may be."
While conversing with Lily at the entrance gate, two people who appeared to be a butler and a maid came from the mansion. Both look to be around forty. Even past forty a maid is a maid.