Chapter 354: There Are Good Things, And…

The inside of the shop had grown quite quiet, and somehow the entrance was still making noise. Not enough to call it making noise, but Mama’s voice could be heard now and then. Then at last the talk seemed to have been settled, and it went quiet. Kots kots heel sounds, Mama walking this way. Tonight Mama? Or Ann and Rin? Both are hard to throw away! A three-person course at once is still early for me. What do I do, what do I do?

"Lord Merry?"

Mama came into the box seat. Her face was different from until a moment ago, stiff. And the one who came in after Mama was Sonia!

"Uwah!?" "W-why!?"

Ann and Rin raised voices. Both seem to know Sonia. And from behind Sonia who came in was, n-what, Her Majesty! But no one knows Her Majesty. Natural. The clothes she wears are a plain dress, a world apart from the usual figure overflowing with festive aura, so they would not know this?

"Oh!"

In the usual tone I almost said Your Majesty!, and my mouth was marked with a batten and I was instructed to stay silent.

"L-Lady Scarlett."

When I said that she nodded, kokun. Then she came in, tsuka tsuka, and tried to sit between me and Rin, but Rin, who does not know Her Majesty is Her Majesty, does not move.

"Open that place!"

Her Majesty ordered, but Rin does not listen.

"No! I dislike it. You came later so sit in an empty place!"

She said it through, bishi. Her Majesty thought an instant. Without invoking strong authority she shifted the table, and Her Majesty sat by force on my knee. Then my standing thing hit the split of Her Majesty’s backside. Fairly hard too. For an instant Her Majesty’s backside stiffened, so I think she recognized what hit the backside, whether it entered the split.

"Who is this person?"

Ann said. But Sonia brought her for form, and even if Her Majesty sat on my knee by force I said nothing, so she seemed to have reached the thought that she is a person of some standing I know, and this person cannot be slighted.

"Is the customer Lord Merry’s acquaintance?"

Rin’s tone from until a moment ago flipped and she asked Her Majesty. As expected people of this kind of shop, even the girls, have an eye for people.

Her Majesty ground her backside against me, guri guri, turned toward Rin,

"Yes. More than an acquaintance, a closer relation. I am also close with Lady Sonia."

and emphasized the relation with Sonia. Then the keyword Sonia worked, I suppose. Ann and Rin went shaki.

Ann asked,

"Will you drink something?"

and Her Majesty said,

"Yes. Sorry, but could you make it the two of us? This is from me."

She said it and passed one gold coin each to Ann and Rin.

"Eh!?" "Uwah!?"

The two had been a little irritated until then, but the moment they saw the gold coins they became smiles as if there could be no more,

"Understood." "Please, take your time."

they said and left the seat. But Her Majesty does not get down from my knee. Of course my son stays hard, caught in Her Majesty’s backside.

"Um, Lady Scarlett, why did you come here?"

"Ufufu. Lord Robbie was taken by the Clan Chief, yes? Seeing that I asked Lady Sonia. Where in the world did Lord Robbie go?"

"Haa."

"Then Lady Sonia knew the shop the Clan Chief goes to and taught me what kind of shop it is. I have never been to that kind of shop once, and I surely will not go from here, so I said a selfish thing that I want to go no matter what and had her bring me."

"Lady Sonia knew well the shop the Clan Chief goes to."

"Ufufu. That is because the Clan Chief always drinks on a tab, and every month the bill comes around to Lady Sonia. So she roughly grasps the shops the Clan Chief goes to."

What, Clan Chief, your tail is grabbed!

"But Lady Scarlett, coming to this kind of shop without a guard, is it all right?"

"That is all right. The surroundings of the shop are packed with guards, and around me now there is Lord Robbie, yes?"

"Now there is, but until coming here who did you have guard you? Perhaps Lady Agnes? Or Lily? Anouk?"

"Anouk is in the carriage. Lily, while we are in the territory capital I told her not to put her mouth in whatever Lord Robbie does. Sometimes let Lord Robbie do as he likes, I said. So she should be at the inn now."

Ooooooh. Her Majesty, truly a goddess!

But then as a guard it feels a little short.

"Lady Scarlett, then was the guard enough? Is Lord Blueford not worried?"

"That is all right! Lady Sonia is here."

"Heh?"

"Lady Sonia. That person is one of the leading users of sword and bow in the territory, I hear? Of course the strongest among women, so I think she is best as my guard. So I had her come together. From tomorrow too when I go out I will always have her with me."

"I see... ara, that means?"

"Yes! I hear Lady Sonia will serve as Lord Robbie’s sword teacher from tomorrow."

"What..."

Even while having a serious talk Her Majesty pressed her backside and shook it. She is absolutely finding this interesting. I gripped Her Majesty’s waist and stopped the movement.

"L-Lady Scarlett, I am about to explode! Please stop!"

I asked, and,

"Ara ara. Then you may let it out? Lady Sonia said in this kind of shop you do this kind of thing. Does Lord Robbie dislike it?"

"I-I do not dislike it. But this kind of thing is done too? In this kind of place!"

"Kya!"

Her Majesty raised a cute scream. That is because I turned up the skirt of Her Majesty’s dress, put a hand in, and touched her thigh. Smooth skin feels good! Do I go as I am? There is no such thing, right?