Favoriser le rôle masculin - Chapitre 17
"Cela fait longtemps, Baron."
"…Oui."
The Baron’s face, which remained calm no matter what, cracked when I reciprocated his greetings and used honorifics. He was suspicious of my sudden weird behavior and wondered what kind of tricks I had up my sleeves this time. Bien sûr, as a great vassal, he didn’t show any of this, but I could tell what he was thinking.
“There’s also a wolf you haven’t met yet.”
“Grrrrr.”
“This is the guy that I’m raising these days.”
‘Shh, you have to be quiet.’ Shasha closed his mouth as I whispered and tugged his leash. But he kept staring at the Baron vigilantly.
“He’s cute, n'est-il pas?"
"… Hein, oui."
It was so obvious that he was answering reluctantly. The expression on his grim face was a common sight.
‘You must be thinking that a crazy princess is now raising a dog that resembles her.’
It was so obvious. The outsiders always looked at me like that. Mais contrairement à eux, the experienced Baron quickly removed his thoughts from his face.
"Jeune maître, I have something to tell you about the mine you mentioned the other day.”
The Baron held something in his arms and put it on the table. It was a black stone with an uneven surface.
'Oh, is it really that?'
The stone felt familiar to me so I picked it up and took a closer look.
il faisait clair, yet hard enough that it didn’t break easily. C'était froid au toucher, as if it was ice. Yet it was a stone I knew very well.
“The diamonds you were looking for were last reported a week ago. There are only stones like this left.”
"Quel gâchis!"
Lanoa clicked his tongue in disappointment.
‘The mood here is like a house in mourning.’
j'ai incliné la tête, feeling the heavy atmosphere between the two.
"Pourquoi?"
“It’s a useless stone.”
"Quelle bêtise dis-tu! It’s a mana stone. You would make a lot of fortune with it.”
Even if it was a bit small, it would be worth a lot. As I was rolling the mana stone in my hand, I raised my head feeling the piercing gazes. Two pairs of eyes stared at me intently.
“A mana stone?"
“You say it’s a mana stone?"
'Hein…? Attendez une minute, don’t they know it’s a mana stone? I think I brought up something wrong again….’
In the original plot, the duchy was famous for its mana stones, so I thought they would know about it. Mais en même temps, I didn’t know much about the existence of mana stones, let alone the famous ones.
“A mana stone is a jewel that shines with a blue light.”
“Mana stones are processed stones, while this is a raw stone.”
Just as the Baron said, a mana stone was a smooth jewel with a subtle blue light. But because it was a processed stone, one would need to break the hard shell of the raw stone, before grinding and polishing it to make it smooth.
The gemstone that I was holding was an ugly stone.
It had the same characteristics as the one I had read in the original book. If you weren’t a wizard, there was no chance anyone would know if the jewel was a mana stone. Even nobles who knew about its existence had a hard time distinguishing it. de plus, it was much harder for the Katzel family as they were very far from magic. The Baron asked as if he couldn’t believe what I was saying.
“How do you know about it?"
“I’ve seen it.”
"Où? There’s no way you would be interested in this sort of thing.”
At Lanoa’s question, I just quickly cooked up a story.
“The wizard I knew showed me.”
I used an unknown wizard from Rosetta’s memory.
"Ah oui, there was a wizard Young Lady had sponsored last year.”
The Baron successfully bit the bait I had just thrown.
“He showed it to me, boasting that it was a rare gemstone. Je suis sûr. It looks just the same as that one. Bien que, this is bigger.”
This answer was much more plausible than saying the stuff I knew from the book.
Because Rosetta wasn’t interested in magic at all.
She wasn’t the type to be interested in magic and wizardry. She would rather wield her sword a hundred times than waste her time on such things.
« Si tu ne me crois pas, then you can check it.”
"Je ferai ça."