12th of May.

During the time when salt was still being bought up here and there.

Lis.h.i.+a Farheight and Pascaud Rush had reached the city of Rakham.

They weren’t on any fixed schedule so they were going at a somewhat slow pace.

After all, they could easily make it from Presos to Sharuru with a good horse.

“Lis.h.i.+a-san, will we be staying here today?”

Pascaud asked Lis.h.i.+a. He was baron Rush’s third son and was now 20 years old. He had a normal physique. He had blonde hair and blue eyes which would make him pretty good-looking but his low eye corners ruin it all.

However, that also makes him kinda easy to talk to and so he was surprisingly popular amongst the female knights, soldiers and attendants.

But there was only one woman he wanted to be popular to. It was none other than Lis.h.i.+a Farheight, who was right in front of him.

“Right. From what I have heard, Earl Walter seems to be staying here right now. Let’s go give our greetings.”

“Eh…”

Before departing Pascaud had heard about what Earl Walter had done and how he had lost a part of his land as leasehold land.

For that reason, he was worried about how Lis.h.i.+a will be welcomed by the Earl, since she was going to that land as an amba.s.sador.

Even though he wanted to protect her, he was from a baron household and was the third son at that, as well. It wasn’t like he could hold his own against an Earl.

“I don’t really recommend it, though.”

Pascaud was the older among the two but Lis.h.i.+a held a higher position than him. On top of that, it was the woman he had feelings for so he was trying to keep a low profile.

However, Lis.h.i.+a wasn’t the least concerned about it and turned the horse around towards the Earl’s villa in Rakham.

“It will be fine. He’s another n.o.ble who serves the kingdom.”

“…..”

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Lis.h.i.+a stated to Pascaud, who couldn’t help but worry.

“Thanks for coming, Farheight-dono, Rush-dono.”

However, contrary to Pascaud’s thoughts, Earl Walter welcomed the two in a very good mood. On the surface, at the very least.

“It has been a while, Earl. I was on my way to Jin-dono’s leasehold land as the amba.s.sador of Kurain kingdom.”

The moment Kaina village’s name popped up in the conversation, the Earl’s expression distorted just a bit but neither Pascaud nor Lis.h.i.+a noticed.

“You have been appointed quite an important job then. As it’s just a villa, I can’t provide much of a good service but please, stay the night here.”

The Earl said with a smile. Lis.h.i.+a decided to meekly take him up on his kindness.

“Leave the horses at the stable and your luggages with the butler.”

As they were told, they gave away the big, official luggages to the butler, keeping the hand luggage with them. As the official doc.u.ments were sealed, they would immediately know if it was tampered with and they also didn’t think the Earl would do such a thing.

They had three horses, one for Lis.h.i.+a, one for Pascaud and another for their luggages. They left them at the stable.

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“Ah, please give this one these fodder and water.”

At the end, they also left 2 of their carrier pigeons there. Among the 2, 1 was to report back after reaching Kaina village, about the situation there. And the other was for emergency purposes.

The fact that they had military-use carrier pigeons showed how important this role was.

“Yes, please leave it to me.”

The butler gladly received the pigeons, saying he had also taken care of pigeons before. That also made Lis.h.i.+a feel relieved.

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Lis.h.i.+a and Pascaud got two separate rooms.

After entering her room, Lis.h.i.+a thought back upon her task again.

[As the Kurain kingdom, we really want to hold onto this brilliant–super brilliant magi craftsman, Jin.

And, we also would like to receive some tools or magic tools sometimes, which would bring profit to the country.