Chapter 231: There’s no such thing as a superior or inferior culture
On the last day of the year, like a gift, Eruha came with a piece of parchment.
You heard me--not a letter, just a piece of parchment. On it, was a single sentence.
--Come to me before the flower blooms--
Huh. This was...an invitation? But what that have to do with Natha’s request? I looked at them in confusion, but Eruha was smiling and Natha let out a relieved sigh.
"So...it’s a good news?" I asked.
Natha smiled and pulled me, who was standing beside his desk, to sit on his thigh. "Yes," he answered. "That’s her way of saying nothing will happen so we’ll even have enough time to visit her."
"Is that so?" I took the small parchment and looked at it. "What if it means there’s nothing you can do about the result?"
Not that I was feeling unconfident, but I wanted to cover every base, you know what I mean?
"Then she would still respect my request and give out instructions on what you should prepare to at least amp up the possibility," Natha said. "Besides," he tapped onto the parchment’s surface with his finger, pointing at the sentence. "This is written in human tongue."
I gasped. Oh! How stupid of me! How could I just realize it now? Natha was writing the letter in the archaic common tongue, but the answer came with the human letters.
"You mean...this reply is...for me?" I blinked and lifted my face to look at Eruha.