"Marquess Roml, preparations have been completed. We have secured sufficient food supplies to undertake a military expedition together with Lily-sama."
In the middle of a cold and quiet night, Marquess Roml received a report from one of his military officers who had arranged so of the preparations and the plan that would be carried out when the season of war between the nobles started.
"Are you sure this will be okay?" Marquess Roml asked as he took a sip of the coffee Sebastian had made.
"Based on past events, there are so soldiers who are upset about not being included in the expedition unit that Lily-sama will lead. I think we will experience so morale drops among the remaining soldiers in Barracks."
"That’s going to happen because they want to join expedition unit, who will lead by Lily again. Can’t you calm their morale... with sothing?"
"I’m sure it will be complicated to do because our soldiers are already too immune to the extre training we have been doing. If there are no interesting challenges for them to overco, then it will be a lingering feeling of unmotivated, until Lily-sama returns ho from her military expedition."
"Ugh, it’s giving a headache. Why do our soldiers always want to do things that exceed human physical limits? I’m even surprised by this."
"Isn’t it because Marquess Roml himself trained them to be able to surpass the physical limits of humans who were trained without using magic during Marquess Roml’s family vacation?"
"..." Marquess Roml was silent as if regretting what he had done while he was on a family vacation.
"I never thought that the training I was doing to fill my spare ti would end up like this. Besides the First Main Division, is there a decline in morale among the other soldiers?" Marquess Roml asked one of his top military officers.
"For now, they are busy keeping a watch dogs on the borders of the region after so rats managed to get through them and other rats that seem to be attracted to our delicious wheat fields, that made Marchioness Amagi conduct a special operation by releasing a unit of bloodhounds to hunt down other rats that are attracted to our sweet wheat fields."
"It can’t be helped, our sweet wheat fields always make other rats jealous and even invite rats from other regions to infiltrate our wheat fields. Speaking of bloodhounds hunting rats, are there any reports of official bloodhounds owned by the Adventurer’s Guild?"
Marquess Roml’s question make the military officer in front of him to nod and take out an envelope that lacked an official seal.
"Yes, they asked not to hunt rats that their sniffer dogs were hunting," said the military officers, showing a crumpled piece of paper with writing encrypted with poetic verses.
Just by looking at the verses of poetry on the crumpled paper shown by one of his military officers, Marquess Roml leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.
"This truly makes regret being a Marquess who chooses to be a neutral noble. Without a reliable ally for things like this, I’m just opening a door to hope for help from others, huh?" Marquess Roml grumbled, prompting Sebastian to offer him a suggestion.
"This is precisely a good thing to do, Marquess Roml. By looking at the enemies that will occur in the future, it will allow Lily-sama to understand the current geopolitical conditions that are currently happening, to be applied to the future. To understand enemies who attack in chaotic tis or enemies who are neutral without carrying out attacks from behind the scenes, we must be able to overco difficult situations like this," said Sebastian, advising Marquess Roml.
"This is like giving a concrete example of what we’re experiencing to Lily, huh?" Marquess Roml asked, glancing at Sebastian.
"Yes, Marquess Roml. This will train Lily-sama to beco a Matriach who can overco any ergency with full preparation and counterattack, just as Lily-sama did with the river that she sabotaged. We don’t know what Lily-sama did with that river, and it will be revealed when the war between the nobles begins. If my guess is correct, it will be related to one of her butterfly spirit abilities that gives a curse. In the worst case... Lily-sama has cursed people who drink or use the water from that river."
"Sebastian... sohow it feels terrible if it happens."
Tookk...
Tookk...
While the conversation in Marquess Roml’s office was on a serious topic, a knock on the door was heard, and Sebastian rushed to open the door to Marquess Roml’s office.
Crack...
The mont the door to Marquess Roml’s office opened, several adult won wearing light armor walked in. This made several military officers who were in Marquess Roml’s office stare at them with sharp eyes, especially at the shiny Duchess family insignia on the sleeves of the robes they were wearing.
"Good evening, Marquess Roml. I hope you don’t mind our presence as we carry out orders from soone who is quite troubleso to refuse," said the female adventurer as she walked into Marquess Roml’s office while carrying several cans of ergency food and an envelope sealed with the Duchess’s family crest.
Ploopp...
Pllookk...
Several adult won who entered Marquess Roml’s office were from a renowned high-ranking adventurer party in the Adventurers’ Guild and were currently being hired by a high-ranking noble in the Aurora Kingdom. Their presence in Marquess Roml’s office was to bring a ssage and cans of ergency food distributed by the Adventurers’ Guild.
"It would be more interesting for you to refuse this soone’s request, wouldn’t it?" Marquess Roml replied with a joke that made the party of adventurers tremble.
"Believe , Marquess Roml... if we could refuse, we would be in a neighboring Kingdom and take a vacation for a while until this war tradition is over," said one of the adult won while opening the hood of her robe.
As the hood of her cloak opened, Marquess Roml only smiled wryly when he recognized her.
"I didn’t know you would be treated like this by this... soone," said Marquess Roml as he stared at the sealed envelope in front of him.
"If we’re talking about Duchess Kaori, she took sothing precious from you that you couldn’t escape from her bonds to do sothing like this. Which ans... Duchess Kaori just made a large donation to one of the orphanages that raised you and asked one of your caretakers to persuade you to do this?" Marquess Roml continued as he took an envelope that seed to contain sothing important with a can of ergency food.
"You know Duchess Kaori... crazy behavior like this, Marquess Roml?"
"Well, we’re talking about Duchess Kaori, who has gone mad after losing her husband. Anything can happen to a Duchess who doesn’t care about human morals," Marquess Roml replied as he tore open the envelope addressed to him.
Marquess Roml read the contents of the letter addressed to him, making him take a deep breath and exhale slowly.
"Aah, I didn’t expect this crazy Duchess to care about you girls. I’ll talk to Lily about this," Marquess Roml continued as he folded the envelope and handed it to Sebastian to burn.
"Thank you, Marquess Roml." Several adult female adventurers imdiately bowed to Marquess Roml before leaving Marquess Roml’s office.
Hearing Marquess Roml’s called Lily na, it made Sebastian curious about the contents of the letter he had read. However, as a butler who respected Marquess Roml’s privacy, Sebastian quickly burned the envelope he had handed over to him.
"We have an unexpected new ally who is willing to commit acts that violate the code of the neutral Adventurer’s Guild."
"No... we already have a new ally who knows how to exploit the weaknesses of ambiguous rules that lack proper legal clarity to exploit from the rules of Adventurer Guild."
Marquess Roml muttered sothing he knew himself, which made Sebastian rush to burn the envelope and try not to be too curious about the contents of the letter that Marquess Roml had read.
"Sebastian, have you ever tasted the ergency food cans, Lily distributed so ti ago?" Marquess Roml asked suddenly.
"If it’s sothing Lily-sama gave during the Golden King Bear hunting operation, then I’ve tasted it," Sebastian replied as he lit the envelope to make sure it was completely burned.
"Does it taste that good that it makes you addicted?"
Slurp...
While asking sothing that made Sebastian curious, Marquess Roml drank the remains of the coffee that was now almost empty in his cup.
"At that ti, I was eating dry food called ergency rations. Its hard texture made it difficult to swallow, and it tasted a bit bland, except for its strong sweetness. Is there sothing related to this food, Marquess Roml?" asked Sebastian, unable to contain his curiosity any longer.
"Well, it looks like Lily has do sothing related to the Quest request I submitted to the Adventurer’s Guild and added sothing big to it. Like this ergency food can in front of ," said Marquess Roml as he took the ergency food can with the illustrated instruction manual.
"The adventurers asked Lily for permission to add a manual to the ergency food cans that would be distributed to the residents who had evacuated to a place I had prepared. For reasons I still don’t know, they wanted to ask for more of these ergency food cans, because they were addicted to the taste and the convenience of cooking them."
"Uh-huh... how about we try it?" Sebastian, who looked curious, wanted to taste it for himself.
Marquess Roml imdiately threw the ergency food can to Sebastian.
Sebastian readily accepted the thrown ergency food can and read the instruction manual that soone had carefully illustrated.
"It’s quite easy to understand how to cook it. We just add water to cook the food in this ergency food can," Sebastian muttered while reading the instruction manual on the edge of the ergency food can.
"What a coincidence, it’s already midnight. Would you like to try it together?" Marquess Roml asked Sebastian, glancing at his military officers who were still in his office.
"I think it’s a good idea to take a break with a heavy snack like this," Sebastian said as he opened a can of ergency food and followed the cooking instructions on the edge of the can.
Pyyuurr...
Pyyuurr...
While watching Sebastian cook the ergency food cans, several military officers who had tasted Lily’s ergency food rations were also curious about the taste of the food from the ergency food cans, which looked different from before.
The mont they tasted it, they begged Lily the next day to get an ergency food can in front of Lily’s room.
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