Town chapter 80: Garden Party 2
Now, when the sun rising from the east has reached 80 degrees. In other words, it was a minute before noon, but I, n.o.buhide Fujiwara, was currently at the venue for the Garden Party.
Let"s start with the current situation. There is a small table in front of me who is sitting in a chair and a chess board above it. But there is no one in the facing chair. Instead, the aristocrats who were screaming 「Romatto!」, 「Romatto!」surround me. In addition, a girl screams loudly, 「What"s wrong with you, teacher! Please finish this guy quickly!」. Furthermore, the guy who is called Romatto from everyone and teacher from the girl is standing in front of me with his mouth wide open. Eventually, that Romatto stripped his white eyes and began to blow bubbles from his mouth.
Did you understand? There was exactly a chaotic situation there.
Now, needless to say, there is a process in the current status. It can be said that the world is based on a rational process, so that if one is added to one, it will always be two. In other words, what I want to say is that if we understand the process up to this point, we can explain the current chaotic situation.
So the time goes back to today"s morning.
――It is the day of the Garden Party.
"Good, I will go"
In the morning, I handed over the gift to the official in front of the castle and broke up with my escort team. It is possible to take a servant into the castle. However, thinking that something would be important, the wolf tribe remains. Instead, I take Reina as representative of the Polo company
Reina and I went to the servant"s waiting room with my costume tool. I followed the information desk and entered the venue. Reina says that it is customary for low-ranking people to come early and talk or dance. Well, it is common in j.a.pan that the lower end comes early and does the ch.o.r.es. That would be even more prominent on this continent of feudal society. That said, there is no need to come first.
Some aristocrats had already come to the venue. Whether they are acquainted with each other, they are gathering together with a metal cup in their hands and chatting.
My presence that appeared there. n.o.ble society is small. The strange presence of me was probably unusual. When they notice my presence, they speak as if they are talking secretly while watching me.
In addition, they called the person in charge. It"s clear that they"re asking him about me.
I thought it was an unpleasant atmosphere. I remember using the company cafeteria when I was just a temporary employee in j.a.pan. There were only full-time employees there and I, a temporary employee was seen with white eyes.
"How about a drink?"
The person in charge who is wearing butler"s clothes recommended alcohol to me.
"Thank you"
I receive the cup and alcohol is poured inside. There was also an idea to borrow the power of alcohol for a little detail.
At the edge of the sight, the n.o.bility who would have heard of me from the person in charge looked at this without any meaning and laughed. They are sly guys.
If I think about it, even when I had a meal in the company cafeteria, I was pointed at my back by regular employees. And saying that I´m not a full-time employee. Go out of the way.
In the first place, such an arrangement was not heard in the company at the time. If it is the company cafeteria, it would normally be that everyone who works here can use it. The next day, when I asked my team leader, he said that temporary employees should not use the employee cafeteria. It is a story that cannot be done at all.
About eight years have pa.s.sed since that time. It would be nice if the treatment for temporary employees became a little better. That"s how I"m worried about distant j.a.pan.
"Emm, this one......"
Something is coming. The man who came was a young, fat man with a face that seemed to be exuding in character. Other n.o.bles are behind him.
""I wonder where the count was? No, excuse me, would you be the Marquis?"
The aristocrats laugh. Even though they knew I was a baron.
"I am a country lord and only a baron. I have not received such a great rank"
"What a Baron! Why is such a person here!? Do you have a splendid lineage!?"
The fat man who is surprised by exaggerated gestures asks questions again. The people around him laughed again.
"No, Im a new aristocrat who bought a province to the north"
"This is, what, hahahahaha! Everyone did you hear! This baron here is a commoner who bought a territory in the north to become a n.o.ble!"
The fat man shouted in the garden. Letting everyone know how unfit I am for this place. The next thing he vomits was a reproach.
"Why is such a person here? Today is the Garden Party. There is no way that a commoner aristocrat like you can partic.i.p.ate in it"
"No, I don"t even know that"
Do you know. I ask the guy who called out to me.
"I don"t know. If you piled up a lot of money to partic.i.p.ate in this Garden Party, you would have rubbed your head against the ground and begged the Prime Minister"
The opposite is the case. I didn"t want to come even if I paid for it. Then another――this time a young man who is pretty well-equipped, talks to me.
"Well Well, isn"t it nice? He too......excuse me, what was your name?"
"......Fujiwara"
"Yes, Ujimushi-kun"
Only 『Ji』 is right. What is in your ears? Well, it"s awkward, so I don"t bother to correct it.
"Even if Baron Ujimushi got a lot of money, it wouldn"t change that he was invited. Well, here, I"d like to teach the new aristocrat as a senior aristocrat."
"Oh that is good"
"A good idea"
People have a vulgar smile to the words of that good-looking man. It is a aspect of really making me look bad.
"First of all, a drink. Hey!"
The good-looking man calls the person in charge and let wine be poured into each other"s cup.
"So, let"s celebrate today"s encounter"
The metal cups made a kinky sound. Then I try to put the cup at my mouth. However, I was stopped by the good-looking face in front of me.
"No No, we don"t drink that way. Isn"t it okay? Put the cup on your nose. When n.o.bles toast at a formal party, they drink wine from their nostrils"
So it came. An obvious lie. But the good-looking man is an unfamiliar face.
"Ku, Ku......"
"Pu......Puhii"
Other aristocrats desperately laugh. Even if they laugh, do they think I wont find out? How stupid do they think I am.
Anyway, they are like children. Thinking so, I rephrase.
"Be a role model"
"Huu, I"d like to set an example, but that"s not the right way to do it. First of all, it"s an absolute rule that the lower-ranked person drinks first. After that, I will show you many examples. Now, I"m going to do it, too, so do it"
This is that. If I drink wine with my nose, it will be like a slap to my face. And when I complain, "No, I "m sorry, I"m not really sure" it will become a laughing story saying, a commoner is an ordinary n.o.bleman.
In other words, teasing. It"s too childish. I can"t get along very much. So I think about what to do with the wine in my cup.
1. I throw it out in front of the man. 2. After putting it in my mouth, I vomit it in that man"s face. 3. Grab the neck of the man in front of me and throw it into his face.
Yoshi three, let"s do three. I"d like to say, I grab the opponent"s neck with the hand of a person who doesn"t have a cup, but this option, I"m not going to do it seriously, I"m suspicious if I have enough power to do it. Just play. It"s a play that comforts me. In the first place, I am a man who has lived in j.a.panese society. If you are angry at this level, you will not be able to become a temporary worker. In the end, I chose not to do anything.
"Why don"t you do it? Do you think you cant do it?"
"Yes I cant. I have never heard of such customs from east to west. Maybe you were born from some barbarian"
"Rude! What are you going to do!"
Anger. It looks like the good-looking man has no patience. The same is true for other aristocrats, including the fat man. They don"t see me as a n.o.ble of the same rank. No, I don"t even see them as n.o.bles. Insults from such people are very unforgivable.
But I also say it back. Whatever they think, I"m a n.o.bleman.
"Which is rude? You were trying to humiliate me with an unusual manner"
"I call you an idiot. You wouldn"t understand it as a non-talented person, that it"s a medicine. If you feel ashamed here today, you will learn from it, and you will learn more about polite manners as an aristocrat. I"ll give you another chance. Drink the wine from your nose"
Saying a good thing. I"m often impressed that such a guy is so clever.
"I already have the manners of an n.o.ble"
"Hou…...what do you say? Remember, you can"t swallow the words you vomit"
Reina said the aristocratic society was dark. If its an old-fashioned Dryad Kingdom n.o.ble who doesn"t recognize new things, it"s remarkable. That"s why I was taught to this day. Don"t show a gap.
So, I did a dance battle and a meal battle and now I defeat two of them in a chess battle till the man called Romatto appears and it returns to the presence...... As I said at the beginning, the essential Romatto is standing, peeling his white eyes and blowing bubbles from his mouth. Apparently he was the last weapon to break me with chess, but this is not the case.
"Yo, You! What did you do to teacher!"
The little girl beside me said that. But I"m not doing anything.
"No, No matter what I"ve done, I"d like to hear it here......"
"What you! It"s impossible for Romatto-sensei, the strongest contender in the continent and chess creator, to expose such a situation in front of chess! You"ve done something!"
Hmm? Creator of chess? I brought chess, just like Reversi. And what spread of chess?
Speaking of which, it was that person many years ago. I don"t have any feeling. He was watched by the wolfmen and I spoke directly to them two or three times only. I have heard from Elsa that he is active in Reversi. I completely forgot.
"Ah, I remembered. That Romatto? Do you remember? I"m Fujiwara"
I spoke as if I met a nostalgic acquaintance. However――.
"Gofuu!"
"Se, Senseiーー!!"
Vomiting......although he didn"t, he spit something out of his mouth and Romatto fell. Yeah, what"s going on.......
"Emm......isn"t it better to see a doctor?"
I advise the girl next to me. There was a n.o.bleman who was able to use healing magic among the crowd, so he didn"t need to go to the medical office. However, the female n.o.ble said there was no abnormality.
"Bl, Black magic! Teacher looks like this because of this man´s black magic! What an obscene man because he can"t beat Teacher! If this happens, I, my master´s disciple, will win over this cowardly magician and save Teacher! Lets fight!"
The girl who hears the diagnosis goes mad. Thus, the chess game between me and the girl who seems to be Romatto´s disciple began.
Romatto looked at the two people who faced each other with his empty eyes. Romanche was playing chess in desperate form. But eventually, tears began to acc.u.mulate in his eyes.
"Teacher......I"m sure I"ll win"
Suddenly, Romanche looked at Romatto and smiled while crying. The board is not visible in the collapsed state. However, Romatto can see it by looking at the expressions of those around.
Defeat is rich. But nevertheless, Romanche is challenging without giving up. for whom. It"s for her teacher.
『Teacher, make me your disciple!』
Romatto suddenly remembered when Romanche became his disciple. She had pa.s.sionate eyes. He felt nostalgic like seeing his old self.
Reversi was handed over to kill time when he was a prisoner in the beastmen town. When he learned it easily, he tried to challenge the wolfmen proudly, but was easily defeated. It was regrettable. He might have never done it, but he was absorbed to it. When he was eating, he was desperately trying to put himself in Romanche´s situation.
What on earth is he doing to himself who is the master though his disciple is fighting desperately?
Lord of the Beastman town. Romatto doesn"t know why he is here. If he just says, "Neither Reversi nor chess was devised by Romatto", Romatto´s whole life will collapse. Of course, if Romatto denies it, everyone here will believe in Romatto. But he cant do that.
There was a duty. To the people of that town. What is given now is that given in that town. However, he felt like he had to fight when he was watching Romanche.
It"s okay. Romatto stood up. There is no longer a single cloud in his mind anymore.
"Can you win?"
When Romatto asked Romanche, after a short round, she shook her head without help. When Romatto looks at the board, the battle situation is clear. Romatto turned his eyes to his decision.
"Fujiwardono. Is it okay to change the players?"
"......I don"t mind, but will it remain as it is?"
"Indeed"
The defeat is far from rich, and it can be said that it is certain.
"Fo, Foolish"
"It"s impossible for Romatto-dono"
And everyone says the recklessness of Romatto.
"Te, Teacher......?"
Romanche also decided that it was impossible and stared at Romatto with worried eyes.
"Leave it up to your Teacher"
Romatto gently smiled at Romanche. It was a smile that made her heart rea.s.sure, like a mother to her baby.
Now, unprecedented work such as changing the batting. No one gave it up because there was an understanding between the players and everyone expected a miracle in this absolutely unfavorable situation. Maybe Romatto will do it. The surrounding people couldn"t help thinking of such a miracle.
The batting has changed and the game has been resumed. A long thought that used the time until the hourgla.s.s fell. The audience was watching the two players as if they were sucked in.
Someone"s breathing sound can be heard tremendously loud. Anomalies are not just the sound. The illusion that a second feels like hours. The crowd felt that much time. And――.
"Huu......I"m defeated"
It was n.o.buhide who spoke that word. What happened. It can be said that those who could understand it clearly were not present except for the two players.
――No way, did Romatto win?
Such an idea came to everyone"s heart, but everyone is still in a dream. Everyone feels that the visual information is not real and their consciousness is vague. Therefore, one person among the crowd pinched his cheek.
"I, It hurts, not a dream"
Those words awakened everyone and brought them back to reality.
――Ooooooooooooooooo!!
A great cheer erupts that the earth is shaking. It is a miracle work. It is a miracle work. Those who are here now witnessed a miracle.
"Romatto-dono did it! He did it!"
"We have become miracle witnesses!"
And again, a great chorus of "Romatto!"
「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」「Romatto!」"
A stormy 「Romatto!」 call jumped into the garden, over the garden, over the castle and over the castle to the city. The inhabitants of the royal capital are probably staring at the castle. Her Majesty the Queen and senior aristocrats who have not yet come here may be frustrated by the annoyance.
But that doesn"t matter. Now here is the miracle of G.o.d. No. It"s not a miracle of G.o.d. Romatto"s own miracle happened, which he took with his own hands for his disciple.
While receiving cheers, Romatto quietly closed his eyes.
(I won......no, I won......)
Satisfaction. Satisfactory things were spreading inside Romatto. There"s nothing to remember, it was the best chess match. There is an adorable disciple in his bosom. He did everything he could. But there were those who were offended by his best.
"Did you see it, uprising n.o.ble!"
"Get on, this is the ability of a true n.o.ble!"
As the 「Romatto!」 calls weakened, a series of voices can be heard. Whose voice is it? It is a voice that is familiar with n.o.buhide.
Romatto is also originally not a n.o.ble. He knows how devious the aristocratic society is. It is easy to predict whether n.o.buhide or the n.o.bility will be bad.
When Romatto opened his eyes again, n.o.buhide seemed to take it for granted. He knows that no matter what he does, he can only lose. So there is only one thing that Romatto should do.
"Wait!"
The size was not enough for the many blaming voices, but his voice was powerful. When they found out it was from Romatto who stood up, the people around quickly became quiet and waited for the words to follow.
"I know this Fujiwardono. He is a very moral person. So is the current chess. It was a great match"
"But he taunted us......"
The good-looking man tries to argue against Romatto. However, when he was stared at by Romatto´s sharp eyes, he couldn"t speak as if he had difficulty breathing. Romatto inhales and screams.
"I´m really indebted to this person. If there is someone who taunts this person, even if heaven and earth permits, I won"t forgive!"
A scream that can cut through clothes. The crowd undulates and the surrounding is wrapped in silence like a forest. It seemed that everyone was stunned at once.
Romatto sits on the chair again, despite the rest of the audience. After bowing his head, Romatto spoke to n.o.buhide with a gentle voice like a lie.
"Fujiwardono, long time no see"
"Emm, Romatto......dono is it? I never thought I"d see you in a place like this"
"No, I"m sorry that I was so upset by surprise earlier. I was really sorry for interrupting the chess match in the middle"
"No, it was very helpful. I had just become a n.o.ble in Dryad Kingdom, so I didn"t think so well from others"
Romatto and n.o.buhide. In addition to that, the conversation between the two bounced. Romatto thought, "It seems that he know that I have faked to be the inventor of Reversi and Chess, therefore he was going to do something about it".