“Ah man, he’s gone. I was thinking of accepting him if he reflected on everything and wanted to join us.”
Ota was just here, but after staring at us, he turned on his heel and ran off shouting something.
The reason Ota was able to get this far was because I hadn’t re-erected the Barrier that the Demon Tribe had dispelled.
I absolutely couldn’t condone him trying to lay a hand on Meileen, but he’s still someone from my hometown, in a way.
I deliberately let Ota, who had survived, off the hook, thinking that if I punched him once he might reflect, and if I showed him that we were living peacefully here, he might ask to join this community, but…
“I’m seriously embarrassed to be called his classmate…”
Nara-kun seems genuinely ashamed of Ota, who ran off shouting about being so true to his desires, his face red with anger and shame.
Well, the fact that Nara-kun is a former classmate who was Summoned with Ota is undeniable.
That’s probably why Ota’s existence is so embarrassing.
“I wonder what he’ll do now? He seems to like the Princess, so maybe he’ll go to Princess Victoria’s place.”
Meileen said, looking at my face.
Her expression seemed to say, “Can’t you do something about it?”
“…Maya-san. Can’t you do something about it? If he keeps piling on the embarrassment, I’ll be embarrassed too.”
Nara-kun said directly.
Certainly, if we leave him alone, he might go to the Princess-sama of Weimar.
I’m devoted to Meileen, so I won’t be swayed, but objectively speaking, that Princess-sama is quite a beauty.
She’ll definitely catch Ota’s eye.
And he might try to get the Princess-sama to compete with us.
If Meileen and Nara-kun are asking me, I can’t help it.
I won’t bother going to warn him, but should I leave the same Magic Tool that I used to monitor the Younger Princess-sama in Weimar?
As I thought that and took out the surveillance Magic Tool and activated it, Mona latched onto it.
“What is that? You were hiding something like that? Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Wait, wait, wait. Calm down.”
Mona’s face, approaching me with a serious expression, is scary.
She’s steadily approaching, and just as she’s about to reach me.
“Mona? You’re too close, aren’t you?”
Grasp! Meileen’s iron claw grabbed her face.
“…I apologize. I got a little carried away.”
“Good that you understand. Now, why were you so excited?”
“Yes. That thing that Kenta-sama has is a Magic Tool that allows you to see distant images as if you were there, right? I was thinking that if we had that, intelligence activities would be much easier.”
Ah, well, certainly, with this, ‘monitoring’ would be easy.
But.
“This isn’t omnipotent either. It can only show you the situation, it can’t collect information from people. What I asked Mona to do before was to gather information including rumors. You can’t hear in-depth stories with this.”
When I said that, Mona said, “I see,” then lowered her head slightly and stepped back.
Why do Meileen and Mona both lose the highlights in their eyes when they get excited?
It’s a little scary.
As I was watching the master-servant relationship between Meileen and Mona and thinking that, Nara-kun approached the Magic Tool with shining eyes.
“Maya-san! Maya-san! This is a drone, right!? I want to control it too!”
“Are you a kid?”
I was going to dismiss Nara-kun’s request, but he was begging so earnestly that I handed him the controller that was integrated with the monitor.
“Whoa, amazing…”
Operating this Magic Tool isn’t difficult.
Nara-kun quickly learned the knack of operating it and is playing around, moving the surveillance Magic Tool freely.
Hmm.
If he likes it that much, should I give Nara-kun a job?
“Nara-kun, fly that to the Weimar Royal Capital and monitor it.”
“Eh!? You’re letting me control it!?”
“Yeah.”
“Yes! I’ll do it, I’ll do it! Thank you!!”
Nara-kun said that and started operating the surveillance Magic Tool while looking at the controller.
“Whoa! Here I go!”
Nara-kun, who started operating it saying that, stopped moving it immediately.
“What’s wrong? Is something wrong?”
When I asked that, Nara-kun looked at me slowly.
“…Which way is the Weimar Royal Capital?”
“…”
Come to think of it, he came here without going through the Weimar Royal Capital.
He was so eager to have me let him do it that I thought he knew.
“The Weimar Royal Capital is this way.”
As expected, Eva, the former Princess of Admos, the neighboring country of Weimar, seems to know the location of the Weimar Royal Capital, and with advice from Eva, he somehow started moving the Magic Tool.
Now that we know the location, I guess I’ll leave the rest to Nara-kun.
“Well then, once you arrive, please take care of the monitoring work.”
“Yes sir! Roger that!”
Hearing Nara-kun’s reply, I headed home with Meileen and Leon.
At that time, I heard a voice from behind saying, “Eh? Monitoring too?”
…Too late.