Chapter 77: Lumen Ordo
“Sir Whitney, I truly apologize... but we must head to the conference room immediately.”
“...Pardon?”
Lady Meredia and I, waiting inside the fortress for the return of Head Maid Maria, tilted our heads in sync as she came rushing back to us a few minutes later.
“We had a modest welcome ceremony planned, but... something serious has come up...”
“...So you’re saying that because of that issue, Lumen Ordo has decided to scrap the hospitality and just get straight to the meeting?”
“I—I sincerely apologize. On behalf of everyone, I bow my head in apology...”
As the head maid offered her absurd explanation, the Lady muttered coldly, her face stiff with disbelief.
“This is getting more and more ridiculous.”
“Haha...”
“If I were the invited guest and received such treatment, I absolutely wouldn’t stay quiet about it.”
I was oddly touched by how indignant she was on my behalf, even though it wasn’t her own problem. Still, to ease the mood, I had to defend Lumen Ordo a little.
From the looks of it, they’d clearly never hosted an outsider before. I could only assume they’d prepared some bizarre ritual and now things had gotten out of hand.