CH 326

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Chapter 326- Double-Booking?

“Ah, the royal capital is in sight.”

We arrived at the royal capital four days after leaving the deep forest. Considering that it would take more than three weeks by horse-drawn carriage, it was a fairly quick arrival. We had been away from roayl for about a month, but nothing seemed to have changed. Well, it is normal that there is no big change in a month.

“Let’s meet here tomorrow.”

“I understand.”

“Okay.”

“Alright.”

Once I guided everyone to the house where we lived, and they remembered where it was. Tomorrow we will meet here. Then me, Sophie and Shana will go to the academy to submit our documents.

“Carina, I’ll show you around.”

“Thank you.”

By the way, Carina was going to stay at the safe, high-class inn where Elira was staying. At first she was reluctant to stay there because she didn’t have that much money, but Elira was getting a lot of money by the queen, she pushed through and agreed to stay at the same place.

“I’m home.”

“Welcome back. I have a letter for you from your father.”

“Huh? From father?”

When I entered the house, the maid gave me a letter from my father. The letter was addressed to me and Sophie, so we read it together.

“……… I see.”

The content of the letter was that father would resign as lord and Andrei-niisama would become lord. To announce this, they are going to hold a big party at the Adolfo mansion. He wanted me and Sophie to attend the party. The party was to be held exactly two weeks from now. He wanted us to come at least a week before the party if we could attend because we would have to be measured and made costumes and briefed on the flow of the party.

“We’re double-booked.”

To be precise, there is no overlap between the scheduled dates, so it’s not so easy to call it a double booking. However, our schedules overlapped in the near future.

“As expected we should be going…”

“Yes, we should.”

It would be no good for me and Sophie, my younger brother, not to be there when the title of lord is going to be shifted to the eldest son. Putting that aside, I want to be part of Andrei-niisama’s big day.

Even in this country, where the age of majority is 16, not many people become lords at 19. It seems that most of them are in their late 20s. However, I wonder if the situation has changed this time because of our father’s injury and so on. We won’t know until we ask them.

“What shall we do?”

“Let’s have Shana and the others head for the beastmen’s country first. Then we will catch up and join them later.”

Fortunately, Adolfo’s territory is on the way to the beastmen’s country. And if it’s just me and Sophie, we can teleport. If we make full use of that and hurry, we should be able to get into the beastmen’s country before the tournament.”

“It’s a good thing we decided to meet tomorrow.”

There was also a plan for Shana and the three of us to get together and head to the academy. However, Elira and Carina also decided to gather together because they had free time as well.

“Please send this letter to my father by express mail.”

“I understand.”

In this world, the delivery of letters to distant places can be done either by bird-type monsters or by people. Of course, the former is faster, but it’s also more expensive. In this world, it is said that it is possible to acquire monsters. However, it seems that it is difficult to acquire this skill on one’s own, because it is a kind of family ability, just like our enchantment. I think the family that possesses the family ability is a count.

Incidentally, in the letter that Sophie gave to the maid, we will arrive in Adolfo territory three days from now. I wrote. Since the letter will probably arrive tomorrow morning or something, that’s two days from the time the letter arrives, if you think about it.

“We have to finish all the formalities to enter the beastman country within three days.”

“That’s right.”

Thanks to Sophie’s teleportation, we can skip the travel time, so we have a little more time to spend in the capital, which is a big help.

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“I want the three of you to head to the beastmen country first.”

“I heard about that too.”

Apparently, Shana heard about it too. More likely, if Shana had returned earlier, she would have joined that party.

“If that’s the case, it can’t be helped. The three of us will go ahead of you.”

“Thank you.”

After that, the five of us discussed how we would meet up.

In the end, they decided to meet up within the beastmen’s country. However, we decided to meet outside the city, not inside. The reason for this was to simplify the procedures, etc. by having Carina, the royalty of the beastmen, enter the country with us, since security was being tightened against the demons.

I asked Carina to draw a rough map to the beastman country and mark the meeting point. Based on the map, Sophie and I will go to the marked point. When we reached that area, we would release some kind of magic into the sky and then we would be able to meet up with the others. Since the location was a little far from the city, they said it wouldn’t cause a commotion even if we shot magic into the sky.

“Then, I’ll go to the academy and submit the documents.”

“I agree.”

“Nn.”

Having decided what to do, the three of us headed to the academy to submit the documents.