Volume 12 Chapter 3 Part 2

Although they haven’t arrived just yet. We’re the only ones on this side of the lobby.

A person who looks like a gatekeeper or a receptionist on the back door side looks at me with suspicion.

I was here just yesterday, so he should know that I would be coming here with Rutina today.

But even so, I wonder if this guy was informed about anything?

In any case, the silence that has now befallen the lobby is pretty unbearable, so I decided to do something to break it.

「My name is Kaga Michio. I have been scheduled to meet with Elder Cassandra today.」

I spoke to the person behind the lobby’s counter, since I can’t afford to just wait around without doing anything or being ignored even though this guys can clearly see me.

「Yes. You have been scheduled to meet with Elder Cassandra indeed. Now then, if you could come with me, that would be greatly appreciated.」

Ah, so this guy knew about my arrival after all.

He knew that Rutina and I will be coming here today, and still he was staring at us with the eyes that were putting an unbelievable amount of pressure onto me just by having him stand there.

Because if this guy, I feel like it would’ve been impossible for me to pass him by if I was alone here asking for a meeting with Elder Cassandra.

Could it be that the guest reception is so loose only in the Duke of Hartz’s castle?

Was the correct decision to make here to wait until Cassia arrives in the lobby and then go ahead together with her?

Just with Cassia though, because I don’t give a shit about the Duke. Or rather, if we waited for the Duke to arrive, then there’s no telling how the situation would’ve developed with Rutina here with me as well.

In that case, is the correct answer here to go ahead without waiting for them?

「Shall we be on our way then?」

「Yes, let’s go.」

Agreeing on our course of action, we followed the receptionist through an unknown passage until we have arrived in front of a large door.
「Visitors have come to meet with Lady Cassandra.」

「Let them come in.」

「Of course. You may go ahead and proceed.」

The receptionist knocks on the door, briefly talks to the person who was on the other side, and after receiving her approval to let us through, he pushed the door open.

When Rutina and I went inside, we found ourselves in a small room.

「Visitors meeting with Lady Cassandra.」

「Huh?」

In the back, I heard a voice of a person speaking. Is it a stop to check us? Or a cushion to soften the blow?

Well, I guess this is the standard procedure of how visits in the castles of the nobles are being carried out, which means that the Duke and his castle are the odd ones out here.

「This way, please.」

Someone in the back called out to us again.

It seems that it is enough.

After looking at Rutina for a sec, we proceeded forward. There was no change in Rutina’s expression at all. If her lack of reaction is anything to go by, then I guess there was nothing strange in what was happening right now, and that the nobles are simply like that and that’s just a part of the ceremonial proceedings.

「I shall now go summon Lady Cassandra. Please wait here.」

We proceed forward, but instead of arriving where Cassandra was, we entered yet another room. Is this yet another stop with the cushion to soften the blow?

「Now I would like to ask you to wait right here.」

Rutina and I were then left behind as we were told to wait right where we were.

「You may rest for a moment if you so desire.」

「Is it okay if I sit down?」
「Yes, it is perfectly acceptable.」

「Okay. Rutina, you may sit down too if you want.」

「Yes, thank you.」

I told Rutina that it was okay for her to sit down, so she sat down on a nearby chair. It was a splendid waiting room indeed, but they don’t seem to be serving tea to their guests here, which was a letdown for me.

「Pardon the intrusion. Here are some refreshments for you.」

Right as I was thinking that, a servant-looking person has arrived, carrying cups of tea with her.

It was not a regular tea, but rather herbal tea, judging by the taste.

The maid that brought the cups placed them before us and left without saying anything else. She seems to have brought a share for Rutina as well, but that should be expected since Rutina is the member of Elder Cassandra’s clan

「Would you like to have some?」
「Yes please.」

Rutina and I accepted the servant’s offer and drank the herbal tea. As usual, it was a refreshing kind of drink.

I wonder exactly what kind of herbs they’re using to make this stuff? Because judging by the taste, it has to be something really good.

The sight of Rutina as she was sipping on her own cup of herbal tea was beautiful as well.

She was sitting with er back making a perfectly straight line as she was slowly raising the cup and gently placing it next to her mouth.

She is graceful. She is graceful and elegant. She is graceful, classy, and elegant. This is exactly what it means when we say that someone looks as if they’ve been taken straight out of a painting.

Well, she’s a beautiful girl who looks exactly like a picture painted on a canvas, so that might be all the more truthful for her.

※However, it is only limited to good-looking guys.

When I see Rutina drinking her tea like that, the more I am sure that I am truly looking at a masterpiece painting that has been brought to life.
「Thank you for your patience. Now, please come this way.」

Whoops!

While I was busy staring at Rutina in fascination, the voice of the servant called out to us again.

Wherever they went, they came back very soon. I was honestly thinking that we would be forced to wait for much longer than that.

Or maybe we were genuinely waiting for a long time, but I was so busy with watching Rutina that I barely even noticed the passage of time around me?

Well, we probably didn’t have to wait that long because Rutina is here with me.

But this situation reminds me of one of the strategies that supposedly are employed by the companies during the job hunting season: a strategy that is a variant of a pressure interview where the potential candidate is being left alone for a long time so that the employer could see how they are going to react when placed in this kind of situation…. Or at least that’s what one of my high school teachers told us once.

If you ever find yourself placed in such a situation, the first and the most important thing that you need to remember is that no matter what happens, you cannot start panicking.

Maybe Elder Cassandra plans to make us wait in this waiting room for hours just so that she could prove that she is superior from us?

We cannot rule such a scenario out, but if that is her plan here, then it’s not something that a member of high society should be doing to the members of the lower classes. And besides, whenever I was coming to Bose’s castle to meet up with the Duke, I was never once made to wait for a long time in the lobby.

Then again, that might be simply because the Duke is the weird kind of noble here, or perhaps an impatient kind of noble would be a better thing to say.

I guess that having them wait for hours in the waiting room must be another standard procedure when it comes to the nobles meeting with the commoners.

If that is really the custom, then we might really be held here for a few hours.

My only hope here right now is that since Rutina is from the same clan as Elder Cassandra, then she is going to decide that her cute Rutina cannot be allowed to wait any longer and decides to grant us an audience immediately.

But… is such a development really going to be good for me personally?

If the elder is going to think that Rutina is cute, then that’s going to mean that she really is kind towards the women from her clan, which is going to mean that she’s going to direct her criticism towards me.

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  1. GoingAway

    That’s a lot of self digging.

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