Book 15: Chapter 2 (2)
Ten minutes had passed since Shin told Yuzuha that, if she had to stick to him, she should at least do so in small fox form. While waiting for Schnee and Tiera to return, Shin watched Yuzuha merrily snoozing on his lap when he heard quarreling voices from the entrance.
Shibaid had also noticed and was looking in the same direction as Shin. The residence they were in was fairly large, so normally it wasn’t possible to hear people talk in the entrance from their room: Shin and Shibaid could thanks to their 【Listen】 skill.
They didn’t mean to eavesdrop all conversations in the residence, so they usually kept it inactive and only used it when necessary.
Shin detected two presences walking around the entrance, so he activated it thinking that they were heading inside the residence. One of them was saying that someone had come to meet Tiera and they wanted to wait inside, while the other, an elf working in the residence, refused. The residence was very large, so a number of helpers worked in it.
Shin kept listening and the conversation took a strange turn: they started talking about the Lulac clan leader, the problems of the Lucent and Luderia clans and similar questions, so Shin decided to conceal himself and go to the entrance.
“—and thus, we request lady Tiera to come to the residence of our Lulac clan. If things continue like this, the Luderia will grow even more powerful. As a caretaker, this cannot be considered correct.”
“Nonsense! You are simply after lady Tiera’s powers. The Lucent are now a part of the Luderia, thus, it is natural for lady Tiera to be at our side.”
Shin was now close enough to hear the voices normally, but rather than angry he felt simply exasperated. In the end, they both wanted to use Tiera for their own benefit. Considering the status of the 2 male elves quarrelling before him, it was pretty obvious for them to do so. However, Shin knew of Tiera’s feelings so he couldn’t help but think that they were engaged in a pointless debate.
“It cannot be helped, I see…I shall return for today.”