Chapter 165 – The Visitor
“At last we have arrived.”
According to the date, I was only away for about 10 days, but I felt something emotional.
Is it because you’re getting older?
I asked as I put down the luggage bag I was holding in my hand.
“Who wants to use the bathroom first?”
“Oh, can I go in first?”
“I don’t mind anytime.”
“Then I’m second.”
After setting the order of the bathhouse, Dorothea hurried up to the second floor to get a change of clothes, and everyone else scattered to do their own thing.
I was also tired from the long trip, so I took off my coat and went to my room on the second floor.
“Coke! Coke!”
I’ve only been away from home for about 10 days, but the room is full of dust.
“Write, annoying.”
After gathering the dust with magic and throwing it out the window, I took off the clothes I was wearing and lay down on the bed.
Also, the house is the best.
It was to the extent that I fell asleep in comfort that could not be compared to sleeping outside.
But I couldn’t sleep without washing, so I jumped up.
“Would it take a long time for everyone to wash?”
In the meantime, I’ll have to check the mail.
I changed into comfortable clothes and came downstairs.
Everyone went into their rooms, but the living room was quiet.
I walked out of the house, across the living room, and checked the mailbox.
I had only been away for about 10 days, but the letters were piled up.
When I entered the house with the letter, a naked Dorothea, probably just out of the bath, was striding through the living room with a towel over her head.
“Wow! What a surprise.”
As I stepped back in amazement, Dorothea gave a puzzled look.
“I don’t see you every day or two, so why are you surprised?”
“No, wear some clothes at home. What does a grown woman mean?”
“That’s my heart.”
Dorothea replied bluntly, and she drank from the jug.
“Keueueu- It tastes like this after a shower.”
If you look at what you do, there is no uncle, but the outer shell is a contradiction.
Thinking that I live very comfortably in the world, I went up to my room with the letter.
“Let’s see…”
Most of the letters piled up in front of the house were related to work.
There were a few flyers in there too, but let’s pass this because it’s not that important.
After roughly opening a few cans and looking at the contents inside, I naturally thought that I would suffer quite a bit when I go to work tomorrow.
It’s good that the authority of the superior is high, but conversely, it’s the same as saying that things don’t work without that person’s permission.
It was when I was reading the letter without realizing that time was passing.
Rustle-
“Yes?”
Unlike the other letters, I tilted my head when I found that the packaging looked luxurious.
“This is the mark of the demon king.”
Suddenly, I had no idea what was worth contacting me for.
After removing the red seal with a knife, he took out the stationery inside and unfolded it.
The sender was the Demon King.
It started with asking me and Ozma’s well-being from the first line, but to sum up the contents of the letter except for the useless contents, it seemed that the situation in the Kingdom of Oz was gradually stabilized, so stop returning to the battlefield.
Along with the information that the movements of the elves beyond the great forest are unusual.
“Are the elves finally moving?”
It moves quite quickly for a group with heavy hips.
That’s why the current movement of the Demon King’s army might have seemed threatening to them as well.
The peaceful days in the capital seemed to be over.
I was about to close the letter I had finished reading with a strange feeling of regret, but I hesitated when I saw the phrase written at the end of the letter.
「P.S. I sent someone to bring you」
“Who’s going to take me?”
I don’t think it was necessary.
While thinking about it, I decided to accept the kindness of the Demon King.
Considering that it would take a year to get from here to the Devil’s Castle, it wasn’t too bad.
[Hey! Kaldrash! It’s your turn to wash!]
“Yes! Go now!”
I heard Dorothea’s voice from the first floor, hurriedly put the envelope on the desk and went downstairs.
At this point, I should have realized.
The fact that Lord Maou didn’t leave hints for nothing.
***
Next day.
When I went to work at the financial management office after a long time, I ran into a completely unexpected person.
“Hey! Patrasche! Are you here now?”
The blue-haired aggressor who had taken over my seat waved his hand as he said that.
And I knew that face.
A blue-scaled Tyranno that was defeated after a death-death fight in the previous Dragon Mountain fighting tournament.
This is the Heavenly Demon Dragon, Gabriel.
“Gav! How are you here!”
When I asked with a startled look, Gabriel snapped his fingers with a smile like a child who had succeeded in a prank.
“I came to pick you up at the request of the Demon King. Patrasche. And now that I’m not a man, but a woman, please call me Gavril with affection.”
“Is this the time for jokes like that?”
Instead of matching her words, I pushed for an answer.
Then Gabriel waved his palms as if to calm down, and lowered his feet from his desk.
“Still, it’s been a while since we met, isn’t it too heartless?”
“…Because we weren’t meant to be.”
“I want to get to know you better.”
Gabriel said that and gave a strange smile.
Unlike before, when she behaved boldly, now she has completely adapted to the gender of a woman.
Two years was enough time for a dragon that acted as a male to completely degenerate into a female.
Well, since he was a dragon whose gender was meaningless from the beginning, he wouldn’t have to feel confused about his identity now.
“Anyway, like I said just before, I came here to take you to the Devil Castle.
“What if it’s tidying up?”
“Aren’t there a lot of things to do, such as taking over? I can give you that much consideration.”
It doesn’t seem like he’s trying to take him to the castle of the devil with reckless recklessness.
It was fortunately out of misfortune.
I went straight there to find Agnes, the deputy treasurer.
“Did you call? Chief Treasurer.”
“Come here.”
When I gestured, Agnes tilted his head and approached me.
I held out my fountain pen to Agnes and said,
“As of this time, you are the top of the Financial Management Office. Agnes.”
“Yes?!”
For Anes, who usually has less emotional ups and downs, she showed an unbelievably big reaction.
Deeply proud of that fact, I waved my fountain pen.
“Uh huh, my arm is falling off. Can’t you get it sooner?”
“Ah yes.”
Then Agnes belatedly trembled and accepted the pen I held out.
“What’s wrong with you suddenly handing over the position of Chief Treasurer?”
When I heard that, I shrugged my shoulders.
“Because this isn’t the only place that needs my strength.”
This is why talented people are tired.
When I said that and trembled, Agnes looked at me as if she couldn’t stop it, and then inserted a fountain pen into his chest pocket.
“The position of Chief Treasurer has been properly taken over. Thank you for your hard work. Mr. Patrasche.”
“Yes. Please do your best instead of me in the future. Agnes.”
I said that and patted Agnes on the shoulder.
It was a well-known fact that I would one day step down from the position of chief treasurer anyway, and I raised Agnes myself for that time.
In a way, it was just a little bit earlier.
As a bonus, there is also the advantage that all the things I had to solve when I went to work today disappear.
“I’ll take the luggage later, so leave it there.”
“All right.”
“Let’s go, Gabriel.”
When I waved my hand outside, Gabriel, who had been occupying my seat, meekly stood up.
I headed straight for the governor general’s office on the third floor of the royal castle.
***
“Ozma! Long time no see!”
“Geg! Gabriel!”
Ozma, who was more at odds with Gabriel than I was, raised a voice that hurt the governor’s dignity, as soon as Gabriel opened the door and entered.
But whether he didn’t notice it or pretended not to know, Gabriel waved his hand with a cheeky smile.
“Can I talk to you for a second?”
“…That’s possible.”
When Ozma said that and winked at the secretary, the secretary entered the kitchen and began preparing refreshments.
Immediately after, Ozma, sitting on the sofa, asked.
“So Gav, what are you doing here?”
Then Gabriel said with a smile as he crossed his legs.
“Call me Gavril now. And the reason I came here is because of the Demon King’s orders.”
“Father?”
Ozma tilted his head at the sudden name of the Demon King, so I took out a letter from my pocket and showed it to Ozma.
“I got a letter from the Devil Castle. The content is roughly telling me to return to the front line. Oz seems to have entered a stable period.”
After hearing my words and checking the contents of the letter, Ozma was silent for a while.
“Then I won’t be able to see you for a while.”
“Maybe it will?”
“When will you return to the capital?”
“I can’t guarantee that either. But if I go this time, I’m afraid I’ll put an end to the conversation with the elves in some way.”
Permanent peace or a war of conquest, only God knows.
“Okay. I’ll be guarding this place.”
“It’s nice that the story is fast. I was wondering what to do if you say you can’t send it.”
When Gabriel said that and laughed mischievously, Ozma smiled and said.
“Just because the body is apart doesn’t mean the heart is down. I have no intention of restraining this guy.”
“Five…”
Unknowingly, I admired Ozma’s words.
It seems that she didn’t know how to say such difficult words before her, but it definitely feels like her two years have grown her.
“Gyahahahaha, good, good. You’ve changed a lot from before? Ozma.”
“That is the greatness of love.”
When Ozma said that and pretended to be proud, Gabriel slightly hardened his expression and muttered, licking his lips with his tongue.
“It’ll be even more fun.”
As I watched the two fight from the side, I thought without knowing it.
‘What? What’s going on?’
Is this catfight?
