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Minasan okoshiyasu! This is Yukkuri demasu!
Second of the triple release.
Oh and I finalized Balveile name as Balveile with an e in the end to make
it more Frenchier…
DISCLAIMER: There is no guarantee that my translation is 100%
correct. Please correct me if I was wrong.
Author:
すずの木くろ (Susunokikuro)
Translator:
Yukkuri Oniisan
Editor, Proofreader:
TheDefend
Chapter 70: Bonds of Obligations
After the breakfast, Lieze was in front the bronze
dresser in her room, as her hair was being arranged by Eira.
Currently, Lieze’s hairstyle was what is generally
referred as the chignon.
In another name, the dumpling hairstyle.
It was what she had heard from Kazura during the
breakfast just now, that today they would be installing the waterwheel in the
fields until the evening.
Since they would be walking on foot without using Rata,
a casual clothing that is easy to move is a must, and so was her hairstyle.
「Hey, Eira, what are your thoughts about the things back then?」(Lieze)
Lieze, whose hair was being tied up by Eira in silence,
suddenly turned her sight from her own reflection in the mirror and looked at
Eira’s reflection while asking her.
「Umm…… Is it about my concurrent post of being Kazura-sama’s servant?」(Eira)
「Un, that. Even though Kazura-sama has other maid assigned to him, what do
Eira think about the reason to be nominated for that position?」(Lieze)
「The reason about that, is it? ……」(Eira)
Eira stopped her hand that was tying Lieze’s hair and began
thinking while grunting.
「Hmmmm. Perhaps since my experience as a Maid is considerably long and my
age with Kazura-sama’s age are close? From his appearance, Kazura-sama looks
like a person in the mid-twenties, so perhaps it’s because of this.」(Eira)
「…… Hmm.」(Lieze)
Lieze’s attempted to say, that seems not true, but
Eira interrupted her words.
「Or perhaps, Zirconia-sama was trying to induce Lieze-sama to have an
interest to Kazura-sama? I think that by assigning me as Kazura-sama’s servant,
it will create a point of contact between you two. Considering that Kazura-sama
was invited to the dining table when the participants were only the family
members until recently, I think that there is no mistake in this.」(Eira)
「Un, I have the same thought.」(Lieze)
Since what she had thought was the same with Eira’s
opinion, Lieze nodded in agreement.
「Several days ago, Okaa-sama expressly came to my room to discuss
about Kazura-sama and I have no doubt it was to try to make me interested in
Kazura-sama. However, there is one point that I couldn’t understand.」(Lieze)
「You couldn’t understand?」(Eira)
When Eira asked her back, Lieze tilted her head
slightly while making a doubting expression.
「Okaa-sama didn’t answer me when I ask which
country’s noble Kazura-sama are. Don’t you think there is something being
concealed?」(Lieze)
「……Certainly.」(Eira)
When Lieze heard the story about Kazura from Zirconia,
she said that Kazura is a great noble of a certain country.
However, even when Lieze asked which country it is, Zirconia
didn’t answer.
Thinking it normally, there was no need to conceal
such information with Lieze, so if the aim was to make Lieze became interested in
him, it made Lieze couldn’t understand even more.
「Perhaps, he is a noble from Balveile.」(Eira)
「Eh, that’s not possible……」(Lieze)
「But, if we consider that he is a great noble from a nearby country, then
there is only Balveile in the North, doesn’t it? There should be no noble that
stand out that far in Claylatz[1]
in the East, and Protia[2]
beyond Claylatz don’t have much intimate relationship with Arcadia.」(Eira)
The neighboring country in the east, Claylatz don’t
have any great nobles who held much power.
The reason for this was because Claylatz has a form of
direct democracy government since ancient times.
A direct democracy was a government form where each
individual citizen could directly participate in the government.
In Claylatz, all citizen above 18 years are given
suffrage and have voting right for the matters in the congress.
In peaceful time, the people who hold all important
office, like the leader of the state or the diplomatic officer, were elected,
furthermore, their term of office was limited to one year.
For this reason, concentrating interest by a specific
person won’t occur.
Although there were nobles remained from the past
where the nobles were the heart of the government, the nobles in Claylatz did
not differ greatly from the commoners.
In short, Claylatz was a country centered on common
citizen.
Of course, disparity of wealth still exist, but the
rich and the poor have the same right, they were common citizen.
In Claylatz, there were several cities other than the
capital, which forms a close alliance of city-states.
The country of Protia, located east from Claylatz, was
a monarchy. There were nobles who held power, but until recent year there was
no active cross-national interaction with Arcadia.
In the war 4 years ago, as a result of Claylatz
intermediation to unite in an alliance to oppose Balveile, there was finally an
active interaction between the nations.
Even before that, because of the trade that was
actively performed through land or sea route, the relationship with each
country was favorable.
By the way, Claylatz and Protia relationship were currently
extremely well.
Until the war 4 years ago, this relationship was
sometimes threatened by the issue of maritime rights or other concessions, but when
the common enemy Balveile appeared, they mutually joined their hand.
But then, it was a temporary improvement in the
relationship for cooperating interest of opposing a common enemy, so it wasn’t
clear what would happen when the war with Balveile was over.[4]
Also, there was a country further east from Protia
called Eltair Kingdom[5],
this country too joined the same alliance as Arcadia at the previous war.
The size of the country was the same as Protia.
The relationship between Arcadia and Eltair Kingdom
was even thinner than with Protia because of the distance issue.
Because the distance of the land route needs to pass
through 3 national borders, the trades mainly came from the sea route.
「However, Zirconia-sama who greatly hate Balveile, not only won’t invite a Balveile’s
noble to the resident, it will simply be unthinkable for her to invite that
noble to join the dining table with the family.」(Eira)
「But, then that’s only leave Protia…… By the way, why Okaa-sama hate Balveile that much? Although I believe that it is
reasonable if that hate was because of the sudden invasion, but if there is other
reasons, perhaps something terrible…..」(Lieze)
The people who live or work in this Estate knew the
well-known Zirconia’s antipathy towards Balveile.
When the ceasefire agreement decision was being
discussed between the nations, there was a famous story of how Zirconia quarreled
with Nelson with considerably furious tone.
There was a rumor that Zirconia strongly advocated to reject
the ceasefire agreement and then while the northern barbarian was moving, they
should cooperate in invading Balveile.
Even after explaining the current Arcadia and the
other countries situation, Zirconia didn’t change her opinion, moreover it
seems that she called Nelson as a coward.
At that time, it said that she verbally insult Balveile
quite abusively and claimed that every Balveilean need to be massacred. Whether
or not this was true is not certain.
Furthermore, it was true that several days after the
ceasefire agreement had been finalized, Zirconia was in an extremely bad mood, that
she even didn’t talk with Nelson and Lieze.
After several days had passed, it seems that her mind
had calmed down, Zirconia apologized to Nelson, and afterward, she returned to her
usual gentle woman attitude.
Or rather, it seems that her character had been
mellowed than before, as she was dealing with the surroundings in a gentle
manner.
But, it was different when it came to the military
affair, her character of not compromising with anything in training or the
likes, was still the same as before.
However, when the subject of the past war with
Balveile came out in the conversation, Zirconia’s expression suddenly became
scary, hence Lieze would deliberately avoid bringing that subject up.
「……This is only a story I heard from the rumor.」(Eira)
Eira began to talk while looking down at Lieze who was
pondering.
「It was said that several months before the war with Balveile happened, several
villages in the northern mountain region in Isteria Province was attacked by
bandits. The inhabitants of the attacked village were all killed or kidnapped……
that……」(Eira)
Lieze stared motionlessly at Eira who stopped the
words and looked hesitating.
「Zirconia-sama seems to be a survivor of those attacked villages. The
details were not known, but afterward, she volunteered to Isterian Army as a
soldier, and then Nelson-sama fallen in love with her, then just before the
war, they married.」(Eira)
「…… Where did you hear this from?」(Lieze)
「When Nelson-sama and Zirconia-sama intended to marry, I sometimes heard the
senior maids gossiping…… However, it was purely a rumor, so I don’t know how
true it is.」(Eira)
「……」(Lieze)
Hearing about Zirconia’s past for the first time, Lieze
sank into silence with a mixed feeling.
If these rumors were right then Balveile might have a
hand at the bandit’s attacks at the villages in the northern mountain district.
If that’s the case that explains why Zirconia extreme
hate towards Balveile and why she is sensitive when Balveile’s subject is
brought up.
Why she married Nelson was still something not really
understood for now, but perhaps it could be conjectured to be related with
Balveile.
「Why have you never informed me about this before?」(Lieze)
「This is not a subject that can be purposely talked about…… Furthermore, it
must be remembered that this just purely rumors.」(Eira)
「I….. I see. Eira, your hands stopped.」(Lieze)
「Ah, my apologies.」(Eira)
Lieze warned Eira who was unaware that her hands had
stopped, and then she returned her sight to her own reflection again.
✧✦✧✦
While Lieze was preparing herself in her room, in a
certain room at Leveson’s Mansion, Havel was facing his father Nord who was on
the other side of the table.
In contrast with Nord’s stern expression, Havel was relatively
at ease.
「Father, this is just a misunderstanding. I had never done anything to
promote Marie.」(Havel)
「Then why it was Marie who was designated? It will be normal to think that you
had made Marie to look after that noble named Kazura when he lodged at this house,
having foreseen that it will come to this.」(Nord)
Nord was enquiring Havel as if to interrogate him, but
he didn’t raise his tone of voice.
However, inside his eyes, anger appeared and
disappeared.
「Since compared to other maids proficient in cooking, Marie’s skill was
somewhat inferior, I only ordered her to help the cooking preparation on top of
aiding Kazura-sama’s daily necessities. So Father’s complaint sounds like a strained
interpretation.」(Havel)
「…… Fumu. Then, why at the other day trip you took Marie as a servant?
Even though, another servant will be acceptable.」(Nord)
「That day was the day when Father and Brother had just returned from Gregorn
Province, so I just choose a person who wouldn’t be a matter if they are
missing from the servants which need to do the reception for that day. Furthermore,
since Brother hate Marie, she is attached to me. If you consider these points,
then wouldn’t it be natural for me to chose Marie.」(Havel)
「I see that you have become a fairly smooth-talker……. Well, I will consider
this to be a good thing.」(Nord)
Nord relaxed his stern expression and lightly sighed.
Nord had mostly sure that Havel had promoted Marie
away, but he admired how Havel stated his logical excuse.
「By my proposition, Marie was temporarily loaned to Istelle House. When that
man is away from Isteria, then Marie will be expected to be returned to Leveson
House.」(Nord)
「…… Loaning, is it?」(Havel)
「Yes.」(Nord)
When he heard about the loaning, Havel frowned only
slightly.
When he heard from Nord not long ago that Zirconia had
personally come to Leveson’s Mansion to request for Marie’s redemption, he had
thought that surely the property rights will be transferred to Istelle House.
「Havel, do you remember the promise we exchanged before?」(Nord)
「Yes, of course.」(Havel)
「Then you should know, right? Without even any need to be in a haste, if you
had advanced in the military and reached a suitable position that will bring
the profit to Leveson’s House, then I will yield Marie to you. Since money is
needed to release Marie from slavery, after all.」
「……Yes.」(Havel)
「If you understand then stop with the poor tricks. Even if it’s you, if my image
of you deteriorated then that promise will become a scrap paper, you will be
troubled by it, understood?」(Nord)
When Nord said this, Havel’s glance at him, even if it
was only slightly, sharpened.
He was worried whether he will be blamed by this matter.
On the other hand, Nord waved his hand and lightly
laughed.
「No need for that glare. It’s not like I will annul that promise. Look now, it’s
the time where you must report for your military duty, isn’t it?」(Nord)
「……」(Havel)
Havel slightly bent his waist to bow at Nord and then head
towards the room’s exit.
「Hey, Havel.」(Nord)
When Havel put his hand on the door’s knob, Nord
called out to him.
「What is it?」(Havel)
「This time method is a bit too overbearing, but well, this is quite a good
method. I amend my words, this is not a poor trick. Do an even better one next
time.」(Nord)
「…… Excuse me.」(Havel)
This time Havel made a clear frown at Nord’s remarks,
before calmly exiting the room.
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Thanks for the chapter!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, if Havel is desperate enough, he could just beg Kazura and problem solved!
And I seriously miss Valetta...
Where do you hear this from?
do -> did
Have was relatively at ease.
Have -> Havel
Thanks...
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ReplyDeleteEltair ... isn't that Zordon's planet? Or was that Eltar?
ReplyDeleteThank you for the translation.
parecen griegos o algo asi que van a ser invadidos por romanos luego de la reforma de cayo mario XD
ReplyDeleteYour translations are the only things that keep me from losing my mind after my everyday silly job. Please keep up the good work.
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