Chapter 136 – First Meeting
The mansion of the Count Glorious family was located in the center of the capital.
The scale of the mansion itself wasn’t that big, but it was built on the Yolk of the Capital, so even the price of the land here would be enormous.
Today, Countess Glorius Yeo’s social debut attracted the attention of many aristocrats because the Countess Glorius family was one of the five richest people in the Kingdom of Oz.
Her independent activities cost her money, so many of her key royalist figures must have joined in to subsume her as her source of funds.
To be honest, I didn’t even watch it, it was a video.
“Guest, we have arrived.”
Hearing the coachman’s words from outside, we prepared to disembark.
The first to get off is Barnett, followed by Camilla and me.
When I held out my hand to Ozma, who got off the carriage in the last order, Ozma gave a slightly surprised expression, and then she smiled faintly and took her hand.
I feel the warmth through her thin cotton gloves, supporting her weight as she gets off the carriage.
When Ozma appeared in a light purple dress, the guards guarding the entrance to her mansion swallowed her saliva.
That’s because her figure was incredibly beautiful even to me, who had my eyes lifted up by the beauties around her.
I went up the stairs to the mansion with the three of us.
“Five…”
The mansion of the Glorious family, with marble floors, was made in a clean and modern black and white monotone.
After watching only Wangseong, who was running at the peak of splendor, seeing something like this honestly made me feel welcome.
Probably because this is less eye strain.
“Guest, please follow me this way.”
One of the maids lined up in the hall on the first floor came up to me and started talking to me.
We started following her towards the banquet hall where her party was being held.
***
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Inside the banquet hall, it seemed that the atmosphere had already reached its peak.
It was because the sounds of people laughing and chatting could be heard clearly, even through the tightly closed door.
As we arrived at the banquet hall entrance, a man who appeared to be an attendant lowered his head and asked a question.
“If you don’t mind, can I hear your name and title?”
I nodded and said.
“Patrash, Chief Treasurer, and his partner, Governor-General Ozma Zoroaster, belonging to the Financial Management Office of the Government-General of Oz.”
The moment he heard that name, a slightly frightened expression appeared on the attendant’s face.
Of course, after a very short time, it returned to its original complexion.
“Come on, let’s go in.”
Saying so, the attendant opened the door himself, and he went one step ahead into the banquet hall and shouted in a loud voice.
“This is the position of Patrasche, Chief Treasurer, and his partner, Governor-General Ozma Zoroaster, belonging to the Office of Financial Management of the Government-General of Oz!”
Then, the banquet hall starts to stir up a lot.
But I pretended not to know and stepped into the banquet hall.
It wasn’t that we came to a place where we shouldn’t have come, it was because we had received an invitation from the landlord.
“Where are you coming from here… Won…”
“I don’t even notice…”
“Only Count Glorious has become pitiful…”
Aristocrats who couldn’t speak openly in front of them, but whispered behind their backs.
To be honest, it’s not polite to use force in a place like this, but I couldn’t just stand by and see the idiots who started cursing just because they wanted to.
You get screwed in the first place
Right!
When I snapped my fingers, the blade of wind created in the air flew towards the nobles and ladies who had just been whispering.
The distance was adjusted so that the magic tore their clothes to shreds.
“Kyaaaaah
In an instant, the half-naked nobles collapsed screaming.
“What are you doing!”
The male aristocrats, who were wearing at least less embarrassing underwear, pointed at me with blushing faces as if their circumstances had improved.
I replied with a shameless face.
“I was judged immediately because I insulted the governor. You should be lucky. Human.”
“Keuuuk! On the subject of the demon king’s dog!”
Seeing how he openly treated people as animals, he was probably one of the royalists.
Then, whether you like it or not, you will be taken to prison after today’s party.
This is because the area around the mansion is already completely surrounded by the police belonging to the Government General.
I smiled favorably and invited him.
“Are you kidding me? Then feel free to throw your gloves. If it’s a duel where each other’s honor is staked, I’ll always accept it. Of course, I’m not responsible for my life.”
“Iiik!”
The middle-aged male aristocrat, perhaps because he knew that I was extremely strong, just shuddered and left the banquet hall without even bothering to challenge me to a duel.
After that, the forcibly stripped nobles hurriedly follow.
After they all left, I put my hand lightly on my chest and bowed deeply to the other attendees.
“There’s been a bit of a commotion. Please continue to enjoy the party.”
Then, the banquet music of the orchestra, which had been cut off for a while, began to flow again.
In the chaotic atmosphere, when the party participants laughed and started chatting again, Ozma next to him asked in a disgusted voice.
“Is it okay to do this as soon as I arrive? A social debut party for the Countess of Glorious.”
“That’s why we provoked it knowing that we couldn’t act recklessly. We can’t leave it alone. It’s a matter of prestige before being in a bad mood.”
“…Yes, you are good.”
Ozma must have given up on her persuasion.
Well, I was always good.
As I led Ozma and approached Countess Glorious, who was watching the whole situation from the platform above the banquet hall, people’s eyes focused on us.
Most of them were a mixture of fear and awe, but there were certainly some with a little wonder.
Probably because today’s Ozma is incredibly pretty.
As we climbed the short stairs and approached Count Yeo, the old butler who was guarding her side bowed her head and said,
“Welcome. The master has been waiting for you.”
We were guided by Butler Noh and went to greet Countess Gloria Yeo, who was sitting at the highest table in the banquet hall.
At first the countess’s face was obscured by the veil that covered her head, but as she got closer she could see her radiant features.
‘It’s pretty.’
That was the first impression.
Honey blonde short hair that looks like melted pure gold and red eyes that shine like bright jewels.
The dress was also red, as if to match it.
A gorgeous dress decorated with black frills, like a single rose, steals the viewer’s attention.
I heard that she had just turned twenty now, and the Count, who had inherited the Gloryous family, was a great beauty.
Since she was rich, count, and even pretty, it seemed that after today’s party, there would be a line at the gate of the mansion as a matchmaker who brought marriage talks.
When our eyes met, she slowly got up from her seat and said,
“Nice to meet you. Governor Ozma and Chief Treasurer Patrasche.”
With both hands, she gently pinched the hem of her gothic dress, which was as red as blood, with a small margin for Glory Earth, and bowed her head.
“I am Sophia von Glorious, the owner of this mansion and head of the Glorious family.”
She smiled and smiled as she said that.
***
Countess Sophia von Glorious was a woman of a type she had never met before.
Despite the fact that she has the face of an innocent maiden, the atmosphere surrounding her is strangely seductive and gives off a femme fatale feel.
She’s not in the mood of someone who’s been confined to the mansion on the pretext of her frailty, and is just now making her social debut. This.
We exchanged simple greetings and played a search battle with each other, but we couldn’t get much income.
Instead, Countess Sophia expressed interest in my relationship with Ozma.
“If you don’t mind, may I ask what your relationship is like?”
Then Ozma sipped the wine in his hand and answered.
“I’m engaged. We’ve been living together for two years already.”
“Oh my God, let’s live together.”
As she said that, she looked back and forth between me and Ozma with startled eyes.
Well, it was normal to have a reaction like this.
Humans who live for at most 40 to 50 years are treated as de facto marriages after being engaged and living together for 2 years, but demons with a long average lifespan were not particularly like that.
“Maybe it’s because I don’t have a lover yet, but I’m envious when I see the two of them getting along.”
Then Ozma laughed and pretended to be proud.
“As you go through life, you’ll find a partner that suits you. That’s what it means to be a partner of destiny.”
I suddenly looked at Ozma, selling her medicine, astonished, but that seemed to sound different to Count Sophia Yeo, who was still young.
“I’m a partner of fate, do I have someone like that?”
“Maybe you’ve already met. You just haven’t realized it yet.”
Then, as if she liked Sophia’s words, she mumbled the word ‘a partner of fate’ over and over again, and then she smiled brightly and thanked her.
“Thanks for the advice. It helped me a lot.”
“I’m glad you did.”
While watching the situation from the side, I felt a strange tiredness and shook my head.
Ozuma This guy, anyone who sees it will know that he is in a 100-dan relationship.
