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Yukkuri Oniisan
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Chapter
45: Zirconia-sama is Watching[1]
It was the next morning
after the bandits attacked Grisea Village.
The current time was
five in the morning. A bright light slowly began to appear at the starry sky
above Isteria, the sun might show its face in just another 30 minutes.
At the Nelson’s Mansion
in Isteria it was still in the early morning where the sun hadn’t appeared yet
and except for the soldiers who patrolling the premise, no other people could
be seen.
However, in a certain
room at Nelson’s Residence, even this early in the morning, the owner of the
room began to stir and crawl out from the magnificent canopy bed.
The owner of that room
was Lieze, who carefully fixed her disorderly long glossy dark brown bed-head hair.
She tried to get out of her bed and sat on the edge while her eyes were still
half-asleep.
She continued to sit dazedly
for about a minute before she stretched her body and let out a big yawn.
Then she picked up the
prepared water jug placed atop of a small table beside the bed, poured the
water into a bronze cup, and drank it.
She gurgled the water
inside her mouth, before spit it out into the copper bowl that was placed on
the same small table.
After repeating this several
times, she moved to the front of a large bronze mirror attached to a dresser.
Then she put on a wooden headband to tidy her hair up. Then she washed her face
using a silver wash basin.
After washing her face,
she wiped her wet face down using a towel made of soft cloth while unfastening
her headband.
Thereafter, she
collected her hair into one hand and tied it using a cloth string that was
colored dark brown like her own hair. It was a ponytail hairstyle.
She turned her head
aside to check the condition of her hair and moved to the middle of the room.
Suddenly she did a complete 180 degree leg split and started doing stretching
exercise.
「One, two, three, four」(Lieze)
With both of her hand grasping the tip of her
right leg, while counting, she pressed her forehead against the shin of her
right leg.
After this finished she
performed the same routine with her left leg’s shin, and repeated this exercise
for several times.
When the stretching on
both legs finished, while still in leg split position, she brought her body
forward to touch the floor. After ten seconds, she slowly raised her body.
After that, she
performed multiple body stretching exercises for about twenty minutes.
When the stretching
exercises over, she dressed up with the knee length tunic that had been
prepared beside her dresser, and tightly fastened it with the leather belt.
Then, she took a small
cloth bag from the dresser’s top. After confirming the content of the bag, she
fastened the leather strap on the bag’s mouth and put it into her pocket.
「The spear, the spear…」(Lieze)
Putting the leather
boots, she took the short spear that was stood beside the bed. Finally, Lieze unlocked
the door, opened it and headed outside.
「Good morning, Lieze-sama.」(Guard)
「Morning, Sellete. I will go to the courtyard today.」(Lieze)
「I understand. Please take
care.」(Guard)
As soon as Lieze exited
the room, she exchanged greetings with the young female soldier that stood
guard in front of her room, and headed to the courtyard.
Every time she met with
a soldier en route, she would called out their name without fail, then
exchanged a few words with some of them.
The soldiers who were guarding the mansion from midnight to early morning
almost had the same members composition.
So, no one questioned her, since they know that Lieze always heads to the
courtyard in the early morning.
At the time Lieze reached the courtyard, the surroundings had already been
brightened up. The morning dew that wet the plants in the courtyard was
glistening under the morning sun.
While the morning dew on the grass drenched Lieze’s boots, she moved to an
open place in the courtyard.
There, she took a small breath and brandished her short spear before beginning
to swing her short spear with smooth movements.
✦✧✦
While Lieze was practicing her short spear in the courtyard, Kazura was
deeply asleep with his left cheek touching the desk in Nelson’s office room.
Last night, after Kazura had his dinner for the second time with Nelson’s
family, including Lieze, he left early and returned back to Nelson’s office,
and ate several canned food he brought from Japan.
After Nelson and Havel returned to the room, with Isaac and Zirconia who
came later, he continued summarizing the construction documents without
interruption nor any break time.
During the explanation, others entered and exited the room numerous times
to perform their assigned duties. When, by some chance, Kazura was left alone
in the room, his concentration suddenly stopped and he collapsed. Thus, he fell
asleep with his cheek flat on the desk bringing about the current situation.
Someone had put a blanket on Kazura’s shoulder and a small amount of drool had
dripped onto the desk.
Fortunately, since the documents had been tidied up at the desk side, the
drool didn’t harm anything except Kazura’s face and the desk.
Kazura who was sleeping blissfully was suddenly jolted, in response, he
quickly raised his face and look at the room restlessly.
「Ah, I fell asleep……? Ouch……」(Kazura)
Since he slept in such an unusual position, his body was in pain as if it
was creaking.
It was because he was conducting river inspection with Havel for the whole
day yesterday, while during the night he was filing documents that he ended up
burdened by such fatigue.
「Ah, it might be bad if
everyone kept covering for me…… If it like this, perhaps it would be better if
I asked for a room for me to take a rest……Ah!」(Kazura)
Kazura stopped his words when his eyes saw the thing placed atop the table.
He then grabbed that thing – an alarm clock – from the side of the table.
The analog clock’s arms were indicating the time as 6:30.
「L-luckily, there’s still time……
perhaps……」(Kazura)
Kazura placed the clock back on the table, stood up, and hurriedly dashed
out from the room.
✦✧✦
「Fuh…… it haven’t been one day,
but he won’t come, right……?」(Lieze)
After practicing with her short spear for about one hour, Lieze rested her
short spear’s end on the ground and muttered.
Then she took out the small bag from her pocket and unfastened the leather
strap to peek at its content.
「……How beautiful.」(Lieze)
Inside the cloth bag was a heart shaped pendant. In the middle of the heart
shaped silver frame was a transparent milky white gem – a synthetic opal[2]
– embedded in it.
The synthetic opal let out a rainbow colored shine under the morning sun
and Lieze enjoyed the ever changing sparkle that her eyes received as she moved
the angle of reflection in the light.
「Good morning, Lieze-sama.」(Eira)
After Lieze viewed the pendant for some time, Eira came with a cloth towel
in her hand.
「Ano, is Kazura-sama……」(Eira)
「Yes, perhaps he won’t come
today.」(Lieze)
Lieze answered Eira’s question while putting the small bag back into her
pocket. She received the towel and wiped the sweat that flowed down her
forehead and neck.
「Hey, is he really the person,
the one who dropped this pendant?」(Lieze)
「There is no mistake for it.
Kazura-sama also seems to remember me.」(Eira)
During the night two days ago, when Kazura first joined a dinner with Lieze,
Eira flusteredly came into Lieze room.
Then she informed Lieze that the man Eira crashed into before and the man
named Kazura, that Nelson introduced as his friend, was the same person.
If he was the same person with the man who crashed with Eira then there is
no doubt that he was the person who dropped the pendant that Lieze possesses
right now.
Lieze was intending to confirm with Kazura if he was the person who dropped
the pendant she hold right now and at the same time use the pendant as an
excuse to start a conversation with him.
For this reason, last night after Kazura left his seat in the dinner, she
sent Eira to inform that there is something Lieze want to talk to him and to meet
her in the courtyard in the morning
Kazura seemed to be really pleased by this invitation just like a dog who
will quickly come if its name was called while swinging its tail. However,……
「Lieze-sama, if that pendant is
really Kazura-sama’s, then what you intend to do?」(Eira)
While Lieze was gazing at the stone gate that connected the mansion with
the courtyard and wondering if perhaps Kazura really won’t come, Eira timidly
gave her a question.
Her expression and her answer were about the same as what Eira predicted.
「Hmm, if he really is the owner,
then he is a rich person. Then, just like the other guys I will charm him and
induce him to give me many presents. However, I’m troubled by what Mother said
the other day.」(Lieze)
「Zirconia-sama?」(Eira)
「Yes. It looks like Kazura’s
background is that of a great noble from a certain country. Then, just like the
background suggest said, it seems that he is tremendously wealthy. He also
possesses a lot of curious and unusual things alongside inexhaustible wealth.」(Lieze)
「……I never heard any rumors
about the existence of such person before. What country did he come from?」(Eira)
「That is, Mother didn’t inform
me what country he came from…… But I have seen the royalty and the nobles
surrounding them in the capital lived with unbelievable splendor lifestyle even
though it was just after the cease-fire. So even if he really a very rich
noble, he doesn’t strike as particularly unusual and…… Ah, he came.」(Lieze)
While Lieze and Eira were discussing, the door that lead to the courtyard
from the mansion opened, and Kazura came out running.
Kazura found Lieze’s position at the courtyard, and after showing a
relieved expression walked towards her.
「Kazura-sama!」(Lieze)
Lieze called Kazura’s name and while still holding the short spear, made a short
run towards him.
Eira didn’t followed Lieze and only stood in place while bowing her head down
to Kazura.
「Good morning. I’m sorry for
being late.」(Kazura)
「Good morning. I’m sorry to
call you in the early morning…… Ano, is this troublesome for you?」(Lieze)
Lieze, who was about one head shorter than Kazura, looked at Kazura with uneasy
eyes.
Seeing Lieze like this Kazura showed a kind smile.
「No, certainly not. This is not
troublesome at all. I also have something I want to talk with Lieze-san, so I
am glad that you called me.」(Kazura)
「Then, thank you very much!」(Lieze)
Even though Kazura’s reply might be only lip service, but Lieze was really
delighted.
「I-it seems that you are in the
middle of practicing with the spear?」(Kazura)
「Yes, this is my daily routine
in the morning. Since a person in Istelle House must know how to use a weapon.」(Lieze)
Lieze said this as she looked at the short spear in her left hand.
Even though the short spear was only 140cm long, but for a person with
small stature like Lieze, it looked relatively big.
「(Uum, her appearance with hair
down and dressed up is nice, but this rough appearance with a ponytail is also
wonderful. If like this, the in the future she will be more…… No, she already
quite a beauty right now.)」(Kazura)
Kazura had such thoughts as he watched Lieze looking at her spear. Noticing
Kazura’s watching her, Lieze tilted her head in curiosity.
「Ah, umm, I heard from Eira-san
that Lieze-san has something to talk with me.」(Kazura)
「Yes, actually, there something
I want to show to Kazura-sama……」(Lieze)
Kazura tried to make an excuse for his sight at Lieze, and so she took out the
cloth bag from her pocket without any particular fuss about it.
Then, she took out the pendant from that bag and presented it in her hand
to show it to Kazura.
「Might this be something
belonged to Kazura-sama?」(Lieze)
「Hm?」(Kazura)
Seeing the pendant that was being showed to him, Kazura first have a blank
expression.
Then, he looked fixedly at the pendant on Lieze’s hand.
「(……Huh?)」(Lieze)
Lieze thought that Kazura would be more surprised, so she was rather
disappointed by Kazura’s lack of reaction.
Perhaps, Eira’s memory was faulty, and Kazura in front of her was a
completely different person from the man who crashed into Eira. This was what
appeared in her mind.
「This is…… Ah, I see. So this
is what Lieze-san want to talk about.」(Kazura)
After looking at the pendant for several seconds, Kazura nodded as if he
remembered something.
「The pendant at Lieze’s hand
might be something I dropped when crashed into Eira that time. I didn’t
realize-…… Not that! I mean, I realized that it’s gone and had been searching
for it!」(Kazura)
「Eh! Y-yes, that time, it seems
that the pendant accidentally dropped into Eira’s apron pocket……」(Lieze)
「(Just now, he was going to say
that he didn’t realize that it had gone, right!? To not realizing that he had
dropped this valuable item until now, what kind of sensitivity he had?)」(Lieze)
Upon, hearing Kazura’s reply, Lieze’s mind was amazed.
It was an unusual fine gem that Lieze never saw before, but he was going to
say that he didn’t realize that it was gone.
Normally, if someone lost something this precious they would make a bigger
clamor.
「As expected, Kazura-sama is
the person who crashed into Eira that time, right? Is Kazura-sama travelling
incognito that time?」(Lieze)
「Umm…… That’s right I suppose,
something like that. I was really rescued by Lieze-san’s help that time. Thank
you very much.」(Kazura)
Kazura replied in such a manner that Lieze judged that she couldn’t probe
it much further.
She didn’t understand the reason, but there might be something that makes
it necessary for him to travel in the city as an ordinary citizen.
It would be strange to probe further, as she mustn’t hurt her own image.
「No need for it! That time, my
bodyguard had unauthorizedly done terrible things to Kazura-sama. I apologize
for it…… Ano, then I will return this to Kazura-sama.」(Lieze)
Lieze expressed an apology with a natural apologetic expression on her face
while putting the pendant back into the cloth and presenting it to Kazura.
Kazura received the bag from Lieze, then after he was thinking for several
seconds, he gave it back to Lieze.
「Thank you very much. But, I
will give this to Lieze-san. As a thanks for that day and as a sign of
acquaintanceship[3].」(Kazura)
「Eh!?」(Lieze)
Lieze who was given the bag was wide-eyed in surprise. She alternated her
sight between Kazura and the bag.
「B-but, to receive this
precious thing is……」(Lieze)
Lieze showed a nervous and troubled expression.
「It’s fine. Take it.」(Kazura)
But, Kazura showed a smile.
「Although it was a coincidence,
but if not for Lieze-san and Eira-san’s safe custody then I wouldn’t be able to
see it for the second time. Since I already halfway gave up on finding it
anyway, please take it without worry.」(Kazura)
Kazura said this without hesitation so Lieze was giving a retort in her
mind.
「(No, you really, completely did
not realize that it was gone!)」
But she just gulped it down and not said this out. She received the bag and
held it tightly in front of her chest.
「……Thank you very much. I will
treasure this!」(Lieze)
Then she showed an unsurpassed delightful smile to Kazura.
「(Damn it, she’s really too cute.
It’s foul play)」(Kazura)
Facing that first-rate smile, Kazura was agonizing in his mind.
「(This man is really rich
beyond belief! Furthermore he is also generous)」(Lieze)
While Lieze had such thoughts in her mind.
✦✧✦
From the shadowy window at the second floor, Zirconia was observing Lieze
and Kazura’s conversation.
When Lieze received something from Kazura, she showed a happy expression.
She made a smile and then left that place.
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Well… synthetic gem is cheap…
[2]
Fun fact, two notable producers of
synthetic opal in the world Kyocera and Inamori are located in Japan. Also,
most of the so-called synthetics opal are more correctly called "imitation
opal", as they contain things not found in natural opal (plastic
stabilizers, etc).
………..γ ̄ヽ………Thanks!…………
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Zirconia sama is pleased
ReplyDeleteaw man,,, just a filler... :\
ReplyDeletethanks for the chapter ~
lol a golddigger!
ReplyDeletei'm more interested in zirconia: will she try to make her daughter marry kazura or is she more like "poor my daugther, don't fall in love with him, you can't reach him"?
Thanks for the chapter!
Rather its "Dont fall for him because... he is mine"
DeleteTechnically, she isn't her daughter. Zirconia is Nelson's second wife.
DeleteO.o I thought this wasn't going the Harem route... I swear someone said the princess would go with the knight captain or whatever he was...
ReplyDeleteno no no, its nelson and zirconia that trying to matching issac with lieze not someone.
Deleteand lieze herself prefer someone rich and tried to charm them and giving lots of gifts to her.
forgot what chapter it is but I think it's exactly right before kazura disguising himself as commoner that time.
Don't fall for her looks!
ReplyDeleteShe's a Gold digger.
YOU have VALETTTA a cute, innocent, loving young woman.
ReplyDeleteWith an good head.
q.q don't you dare!!!
And thanks. Finally my addiction can be meet xD.
Indeed, Valetta is the OTP !
DeleteDon't fall for her trick, true love is waiting for you with Valetta.
Fist heroine is the waifu! Choose her or it will destroy your laifu!
Ara ara XD
ReplyDeleteI didnt expect it to come out of her.
DeleteThanks for the new chapter!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chapter. Don't be fooled Kazura.
ReplyDeletethanks for the translation. however i dont understand this:
ReplyDelete>I will try to edit the rest of the chapter and release it next week (kinda busy now)...
does this mean when i come look for new translation next time i need to klick this particular chapter again or will there be a new link. ot is the rest already added without me knowing?
I forgot the s... It should read "chapters"
DeleteI will release 46-50 next week...... Need to catch up with the pace right??? (it's Slice of Life so the pace is still slow)
oh i understand, i am stupid xP anyway thanks for the clarification
DeleteThanks ! Well, I wonder if he will ever tell her that it was a cheap thing XD
ReplyDelete>This man is really rich beyond belief!
ReplyDeleteShe is not wrong, here)
Thanks for the chapter.
ReplyDeleteMore often than not, "synthetic" gemstones have significan differences with natural ones.
The most natural artificial gems, cultured pearls, do have the exact same properties, but only because they are not "synthetic" and are instead produced in the same way as natural pearls.
The next more similar are rubies/sapphires and diamonds, but they have some structural differences and usually sport traces of contaminant substances in proportions markedly different from their natural versions.
About the rest, while they try to approximate the composition, since the differences between a lab environment and a natural one are notable and thus the stone shows differences in coloration, clarity, hardness and specific gravity, they almost always add foreign substances to compensate for those qualities.
^Yup. Correct. As a stone lover i know this too.
DeleteSeriously dangerous gets the stuff only. When they use radiation or toxic materials to get the effects...
Most fun thing is. When you're shopping DIRECTLY at an manufacture or a shop in an source land. So much... so many good stones. (collector greed)
But when your radiation device goes off in your pocket ... you kindly leave the store. I even once sampled some saphirs for someone and analyzed them in my freetime.
*huggrrghs...* if i hadn't been carefully i could have badly posioned myself. These where quartz ... artifically colored. And i was wtf... yup, try harder... no toxic ways pleaes.
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But as far as that cheap neglace goes.
I suspect it's the plastic variant of opal. Not the gemstone variant.
AND heck you can make beautiful things from simple Methylmethacrylat + the right coloration and effect monomers~ I made myself an fake ruby once, and gravured it a bit.... with fluroscent material. Hrhr... which it didnt got stolen from my workdesk....
Still Valetta is the best girl, thanks for the chapter.
ReplyDeleteTerima kasih bro~
ReplyDeleteTank kyu!
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Thanks for the chapter :) waiting for more :p
ReplyDeletewell.....shes actually not wrong in the slightest, even in his own world hes rich beyound belief at the moment.
ReplyDeletexD but then again. It's not like he is super rich.
DeleteIt's yen we're talking about.
114 yen atm per euro.
103 yen atm per dollar.
4 billion yen, if it's at the current rate are 35mio euro roughly. THAT's alot. But there#s been higher jackpots on a yearly basis atm. And it's laughable in comparrision to what most bigger firms make.. sadly.
Only we normal people would think of it as "rich beyond belief". My mother had two people in her care as sozial worker, which won a lottery .... then became broke in a few years time.
That happens alot...
Let's see, maybe he's rich beyond belief in japan only, with normal job, and normal social life. In the first place, You can't compare businessman's wealth to a lottery wealth.
DeleteOkay for an normal common man. He's rich beyond belief.
DeleteI in his shoes, would invest the money into houses and get an steady influx of money back (atleast 50% of the money).
If it's done in an "safe" area. He would have something for his family forever.
if you invest 100k here in a flat.
You can expect to get 500~800 per month of it. And that's not even in the "main city areas".
Dammait, a gold digger. XD no matter, Kazura will change you....
ReplyDeleteI'll be sad if this turns out to be harem.
ReplyDeleteWin lotery will never make you rich,its consume your future money or your child or grandchild wealt, thats how world logic
ReplyDeleteah I see, she's a bitch alright. a Royal Bitch to be exact.
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