However, there"s no one here.
I wonder if everyone is partic.i.p.ating the banquet at the town above?
The boards we"re riding at 20 Km/H flies through the town as if gliding. The road is asphalt, or rather it looks like tennis court"s ground, or rather it"s made from pebbles that look like small light brown beads put together.
I asked Mia about it, but since she didn"t seem like she had interest with it, she replied, "Don"t know". Let"s ask that seemingly well-informed young man if I meet him again.
And then, we"re stopping slowly in front of a house. The boards gently descend to the ground, and disappear into it as if sucked.
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The house where Mia leads me to looks more like a modern building than a fantasy one.
What makes me think that is quickly apparent.
It"s the windows.
Windows in this world are relatively small, all of them are holes made from woods for the purpose of ventilations or lighting.
However, Mia"s house before me are adorned with big gla.s.s windows and gla.s.s doors with high degree of transparency. Back at the duchy capital, there were some mansions that used oak gla.s.s for windows, but there were none that used them as many as this, and most were fixed fittings. Since the ones here are fitted on windows frames that have rails, they probably can be slided for opening and closing like on modern constructions.
When Mia touch the front door, I can hear a sound like air escaping, and the automatic door opens. After I enter as leads by her, the automatic door closes behind. This is quite SF sthick. Might as well have multi-layered airlock doors, probably would have been more interesting.
The ceiling on the corridor is transparent, and the light of the sun from beyond the canopy s.h.i.+nes here.
Yet, the light is gentle since it has penetrated two layers of gla.s.ses.
Mia leads me by hands as we walk through the corridor.
As expected, seems there"s no magical structures on the corridor.
"Here."
It seems that this is Mia"s room.
There are one bed and one desk. Dolls with the shape of penguin-like deformed birds are lined up in the fixed-fitting shelf beside the bed. The room is generally dyed in pink color. There"s nothing like houseplants.
So she wanted to show me her room.
How do I say this, it looks like the room of a junior high school girl from modern time.
"Don"t look."
Mia enters a clothing room that looks like a walk-in closet.
I won"t peep even if you don"t say it.
Since it"s become quiet, I use [Telephone] magic to contact Arisa.
"Yesh, the common Arischanspeaking~."
"Sorry, wrong number."
Since Arisa is clearly drunk judging from her words, I cancel the [Telephone] magic. This time I invoke [Telephone] toward Liza, but there"s no reply. Looks like she"s sleeping. It connects to Mia"s mother in the end, so I tell her that I"m visiting her house.
That day I accompanied Mia on her fas.h.i.+on show until late at night. Genuine elf native dress complete with green tricorne, one-piece-like clothes, and three-quarter length pants with short skirt, there were plenty more variations than I had thought.
I put Mia, who had become sleepy after she was tired, on the bed and let her sleep, and then I also slept together beside her.
As for my excuse, it was because I was tired from the confrontation with the black dragon, and the all-night drinking bout yesterday.
I fell deep in sleep like mud without even dreaming.
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"Guilty, or not guilty!"
"Guilty~"
"Guilty, nano desu!"
"Master, guilty desu."
Before my eyes who has woken up, there are Arisa who"s lifting the corners of her eyes, Pochi and Tama who are happily diving to the bed, and Lulu who looks like she"s about to cry. Nana and Liza are here too, but the two keep silence. No, Nana steps forward and put a hand toward Arisa.
"Arisa. The lower official me will advocate for master."
Oh, a defense lawyer has appeared.
No wait, I"m innocent in the first place.
"What, does Nana approve affair?"
"Arisa, listen well."
"Go on and say it."
Arisa edges back slightly from Nana who presses on calmly.
I wonder why, I can"t help but feel that Nana will say some unnecessary things.
"Master and Mia are from different races. Descendants will not born even if they try to mate. Therefore, it is not affair."
Nana is making a proud expression that I haven"t seen for awhile, but as expected, her advocacy is off-the-mark. And, didn"t she imply that I"ve done the mistake with Mia?
"Mia!"
Uwa, Mia"s father has come.
"Ara ara, you"re getting along well."
"Nn, mutual love."
Like I said, there"s no romance.
Mia"s mother seems to have understood while enjoying the scene, but Mia"s father is misunderstanding it.
Mia"s father misunderstanding wasn"t cleared until after Mia"s mother a.s.sisted. No, rather than clearing the misunderstanding, I feel that it"s left hanging after the machine gun talks of Mia"s mother drowned it.
Mia"s mother gets down to business after she has talked aplenty.
You should have cut in faster if you have business.
"Now then, Satou-san, we"d like to hear about what happen with Mia step by step, so would you be willing to meet with the elders council?"
I may be able to meet the rumored high elf.
Looking at the elves here, I can"t expect dynamite body, but since normally I shouldn"t have been able to meet them, I"m slightly looking forward to it.