After waking up, finishing breakfast, and relaxing a bit back in my room, a thought suddenly came to me. Probably today or tomorrow, the return gift, a teleportation magic tool, would arrive at Marie-san’s place.
Hmmm, it’s definitely going to surprise her…… I really feel like I’ve done something bad to Marie-san.
When I first heard Tre-san’s proposal, I thought it was great if we could make a teleportation magic tool at a low cost and send it as a return gift. But once the tool was finished, packaged with a sealing magic formula, and I sat down to write the acpanying letter, it finally hit me…… I couldn’t really write about Tre-san’s ability in the letter……
Tre-san’s ability is treated as top secret even within the Seditch Magic Tool pany, and I was asked not to tell even Cento-san or Cien-san. Tre-san herself never uses her ability or talks about it anywhere except in front of the family or me.
……Well, if it’s just me or the family, she uses it for all kinds of silly things…… Like the other time, after finishing the teleportation magic tool, she declared "With my ability, I can make ripples even sweeter!" and probably fiddled with the sugar content. She ended up making ripples so sweet it was overwhelming, then collapsed muttering "It’s too sweet, I feel sick!?", but that was only because it was in front of someone who already knew her ability.
And since I couldn’t mention Tre-san’s ability in the letter…… The teleportation magic tool, which should have looked like it was worth around 1000R, about the same as the ripples we had been sent…… was in reality crafted with an extremely expensive magic crystal of over 90% purity.
The value gap was far too great pared to the original ripples, so it was obvious that Marie-san would be shocked…… But by the time I realized it, the tool was already plete, sealed, and packaged. After putting in so much effort together with Tre-san, Funf-san, and Sechs-san, there was no way I could suddenly say "Never mind, let’s prepare something else instead". so I decided to send it as it was.
If Marie-san ended up feeling burdened or apologetic by it, I thought I could just ask her to share more ripples with me again another time. That was my reasoning…… but still, maybe I really should have prepared something else?
[……No, isn’t it fine? You’d just end up not knowing what to do with it if you kept it yourself anyway, Kaito-san.]
[Yeah, well, that’s true, but…… also, why the heck did you suddenly show up out of nowhere, drinking wine over there……?]
Just as Alice, who suddenly appeared and began sipping from a wine glass, said, honestly, I don’t need another teleportation magic tool. I already have a special one, and other than what I have, Anima carries one in her magic box, and we also have two more stored in the warehouse for anyone else to use when needed…… Counting mine, that makes four teleportation magic tools, and in my room there’s even that special teleportation gate that lets me return home just by picturing it. ……So really, I don’t need any more teleportation magic tools; they’d just go unused.
On top of that, Illness-san and Caraway can use Teleportation Magic themselves, so the two stored in the warehouse hardly ever get used anyway.
[Besides, even if you had prepared something else, you’d just end up pulling some new source of stomachache from somewhere unexpected, so it’s meaningless. ……Oh, and by the way, this isn’t wine, it’s grape juice. Want some, Kaito-san?]
[Ah, if it’s juice, then sure, I’ll have some.]
Since I had plans this afternoon with Cornelia-san to visit a trading pany that makes special brushes for monsters, I didn’t feel like drinking anything alcoholic beforehand, even if my Blessing could nullify it, but grape juice is fine.
As Alice prepared a wine glass for me while listening to my words, she gave a wry smile and said:
[Well, it’s not like having a teleportation magic tool is ever a bad thing, so there’s no need to worry. And if something like pressure or harassment ends up falling on Marie-san or the Ritch Barony because of that overly expensive item, we’ll handle it on our end, so it’s fine.]
[In that case…… yeah, true enough. Then sorry, but if it does look like it’ll turn into some sort of noble-related mess, lend them a hand.]
[Yes, yes, understood. Anyway, this Subject K is one of the easier ones to handle, so Alice-chan’s just gonna take it easy.]
[……And the ones that are harder to handle?]
[Recently, it's that one regarding Kaito-san casually drawing in World Creators from other worlds one after another. I mean, we're talking about individuals whose specs are straight-up monster level……]
[I see……]
Well, indeed. When pared to World Creators among whom Omniscient and Omnipotent types are a dime a dozen, handling the squabbles and negotiations between nobles might be nothing more than child’s play for Alice.
? ? ? : [In the first place, if anything related to Kaito-san could be handled with predictions or countermeasures, Lilia-san and Eris-san wouldn’t have gone through all that. Whenever you try to prepare something, he drags in something weird from pletely out of left field and still lands a body blow, so honestly it’s easier for Alice-chan when he moves within a predictable range. She even has the leeway to enjoy herself.]
Serious-senpai : [No, stop enjoying yourself there…… Still, if I were to summarize this whole matter……]
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Stomachache Devil : [Alright, I’ve already beaten up Marie to some extent, and the meeting stuff isn’t scheduled yet, so let’s go beat up Cornelia.]
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Serious-senpai : [……Merciless.]
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