Chapter 78 – Ep.78 Smith, a Black Company in Another World
Sweet.
The door to the office opened with the sound of the doorknob being lowered.
The administrator, Mylia, who was sitting on the sofa and looking through the documents that Kernax had organized, raised her head and looked at the door.
My gaze met Kernax, who was standing with the door closed and had a dark complexion.
“It looks like a lot of people were agitated.”
“Shamefully… That’s right.”
“No. Is that something Sir Kernax should be ashamed of? Please sit down first. Oh, I was just reading some things on my desk, is that okay?”
“Of course. “These are things that the administrator will have to take care of when I am away.”
Millia smiled softly at Kernax’s answer.
“I think it would be best for you to sit down for now. “It looks like it’s very difficult.”
“… “I’m a little, mentally tired.”
In response to Kernax’s reaction, the administrator nodded his head slightly with an expression of understanding.
After briefly standing at the door and stroking her face a few times, Cernax settled his heavy body down on the sofa opposite Millia.
“Have you decided how many soldiers you will keep and how many you will take?”
In response to Mirilla’s question, Cernax nodded his head with a dark face and said,
“There are 306 soldiers to take, including me.”
“Hmm, I would like to say that the number is a bit small to boast about supporting soldiers. “I don’t think there will be much of a problem with the city’s defense and public order even if we take a little more, but it seems Sir Kernax’s thoughts were different from mine.”
“…”
Millia, who returned to her office a few hours before Cernax, had already gone through all of her detailed information about Molingta.
Kernax only bit her lip and remained silent in response to Millia’s question.
Milia, who was looking at her appearance closely, slightly adjusted her monocle and said.
“Lord Kernax is still a very affectionate person. “Because of that, he probably knows that he has fallen out of favor with the lord.”
“… Sorry.”
“Don’t apologize. There is no need to apologize and there is no reason to do so. “I just felt a little happy to be able to confirm that you are still the same person.”
Millia gently closed her eyes and smiled lightly.
“If my lord heard this news, of course he would say something more… “Let’s not report anything in particular.”
“… “Is that still okay?”
“Of course not.”
Millia said, ‘Why such an obvious thing…’ .’ She looked at Kernax with an expression, and Kernax’s eyes naturally turned to the floor.
“Instead, I will believe that you will be more active in proportion to the number of soldiers you lack. Then, both I and Lord Kernax will get through without any trouble.”
“… I’ll try my best.”
“Hmm. Great.”
Millia was satisfied with Kernax’s answer.
She would have been very disappointed if she had said things like ‘must’ or ‘never’.
That’s because the type of person that the head of the family, Count Ardel Filoria, hated the most was the type of person who had ‘absolute’ certainty about certain things.
Millia decided to give some hopeful news to Cernax, who was still slightly bowing her head.
“Although it is arbitrary, I have decided to give Smith’s ‘Night Fairy’, which was scheduled to be delivered to the Knights first, to the soldiers of Molingta first.”
“… Is that true?”
Millia nodded her head with a light smile towards Kernax, who asked with wide eyes and a slightly surprised expression.
Only then did the shadow on Kernax’s face disappear a little.
Kernax stood up and bowed to Millia.
“Really… Thank you.”
“That’s Okay. It may be arbitrary, but I think your lord will understand. “The durability of the armor the knights are wearing right now is flawless.”
“Still… Still, thank you.”
“Really.”
Millia looked a little troubled by Cernax’s continued gratitude, but she didn’t seem to dislike it.
“When do you plan on leaving?”
“… “I was planning to leave as soon as possible.”
She made this decision because she had to talk to local commanders and needed to understand the terrain that would become the battlefield as quickly as possible.
Millia also agreed with Kernax’s thoughts.
If there hadn’t been a person named Smith.
“I think a week later would be perfect. Even if you take your time, even if there are minor variables along the way, you will still arrive on time.”
“… Still.”
“Wouldn’t it be enough time for Master Smith to make enough items to supply to the soldiers?”
“Ah… Okay.”
Kernax felt ashamed of himself for having forgotten that fact even though he had expressed his gratitude to Smith just a moment ago.
“Then, wouldn’t it be better to tell the soldiers about this as soon as possible? “It will be better for you to maintain your mental and physical condition if you relieve your mental burden even a little as soon as possible.”
“Well, the handover of work… ?”
“You have a week. I think today will be okay, right? “I also came a long way and was a little tired.”
Millia massaged her shoulders as if she was a little tired, but Kernax could tell.
That the magistrate in front of her was acting like that on purpose out of consideration for herself and his soldiers.
Kernax had no choice but to accept the magistrate’s consideration.
“Then… Excuse me.”
“Yes. “I hope I can see you with a brighter face tomorrow.”
“Yes.”
Kernax’s attitude toward the administrator became more polite.
She bowed her head politely to Millia and then left her office.
Left alone, Milia neatly organized the documents she was holding in her hands and then got up from the sofa.
After putting her documents back on Cernax’s work desk, she also left her office and walked slowly down the dark hallway.
“Milia.”
A blonde woman with fierce eyes appeared next to Milia, who was slowly walking down the hallway.
If she were a normal person, she would have been shocked, but Millia walked calmly and spoke.
“Can we make enough for 305 people in a week?”
“… “Honestly, I don’t think it would be possible.”
“I think so too this time. However… “It seems our lord has a slightly different opinion.”
“…”
The woman did not respond to Millia’s words.
The two quietly walked down the hallway without saying a word, and before they knew it, they had arrived in front of the door leading to the street.
Milia said softly, placing her hand on the door.
“Make sure you move it quietly without anyone noticing.”
“Yes.”
Millia opened the door, and before she knew it, the woman next to her had disappeared.
“Whew~ I guess I’ll take a little rest today too.”
Milia’s eyes lit up as she looked at the Bambino’s garden, visible from afar.
“I hope you have a comfortable night.”
“Yes. Thank you.”
After being guided to the top floor room, Milia swiped a card with a happy face on her face, opened the door, and went inside.
“It’s definitely worth the price.”
Satisfied with the fresh air in her room, Millia roughly unwrapped the robe she was wearing, letting it spill on her floor, then fell onto the bed.
“I just want to sleep like this, but… “If she did that, her head would fall off.”
Millia, who was showing the meek and bright smile she had shown so far, wrinkled her face as if she was blatantly annoyed, put her hand into her cleavage and took out her crystal ball.
Milia was lying down on the bed and fiddling with her crystal ball.
Soon enough, light began to flow from her crystal ball, and Milia roughly placed it on her stomach and stretched out her arms on her bed.
“Ah, can you hear me?”
-Sounds good.
“That’s a good thing.”
Millia treated her lord as if he were a completely separate person from the person in her office.
-When I heard that shaky voice, it seemed like he was already lying down somewhere.
“Yes, I’m lying on a soft bed.”
-Report only what you need to report and rest in peace.
“I don’t know if I have anything to report.”
Millia picked up her crystal ball that had been placed on her stomach and waved it slightly over her face.
She said, “She pretended to be generous as the lord instructed, and gave Smith her word that she would allow him to advance the soldiers of Molingta.”
-What is the quantity?
“It seems that Sir Kernax cared more about his soldiers than I thought. She is about 200 less than you expected, my lord.”
-Right.
Millia frowned at the indifferent answer coming from her crystal ball.
“My lord. To be honest, this is very inefficient. “Personally, I would like to say that this is an uncharacteristic way of handling things, my lord.”
-Of course. Since it’s not for me, it has to be my way of doing things.
Millia’s eyes frowned even more.
“Then who are you making this trouble for?”
-Who do you think is the guy I would like?
“…”
One person’s name immediately came to Milia’s mind, but she did not mention it out loud.
Instead, she let out her pent-up frustration.
“My lord. Even a week is not enough time to make 300 cheap chairs. But do you think you can make something like ‘Night Fairy’ that much in a week?”
-This is to find out, so if you wait, you will be able to find out the results. Was there anything else unusual about it?
“… Mr. Smith. “Maybe they’re not from the desert.”
-The basis is.
“Even though he was from the desert, he didn’t seem to know anything about Drake. No, we say the Drake is precious, but don’t you know that it is the most commonly used mount among desert tribes? “To be honest, I couldn’t understand it at all with my common sense.”
-Hmm.
“And…”
-What.
Millia jumped up from the bed with a truly frustrated look on her face.
“Not only is the Adventurer’s Guild being overly protective, but there is also that location tracking artifact that Ardella mentioned…”
-Stop.
“… Ha. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I’m frustrated. “There are already certain circumstances, so why are you doing this?”
Behind Milia’s irritated voice, a small laugh came out of the crystal ball.
-Say it right away. I’m just saying I’m dissatisfied with being sent out.
“… “Does someone who knows that do this?”
Haha.
“Don’t laugh…” .”
For Millia, who hated going out so much, the current situation itself was extremely annoying, but Ardel, the person who ordered this, let a soft laugh sound into Millia’s ears for a long time through the crystal ball.
―This job is definitely not my way and is very cumbersome and involves a lot of unnecessary work. I admit it. However.
“However. What.”
―If it’s just to find a decent partner for a blunt daughter like me, I’m willing to go through this much hassle.
Millia was dumbfounded.
“No, I’m taking on the hassle, right?”
-That’s why I’m smiling. Haha-
Millia cut off the transmission of her crystal ball with her distorted face.
“Ah… “I just want to lock myself in a closet somewhere and hide away.”
Millia roughly threw her unlit crystal ball onto the bed and closed her eyes.
