When Ichigo and Reese started working this afternoon.

In a room at the Narson Mansion, Eira had taken a seat opposite the table with Zirconia and had been briefed on the changes to her employment contract.

In front of Eira are two sheets of leather paper with the same contents, written 'Employment Contract'.

The contract contained benefits and working hours per month, as well as general job descriptions and remarks.

One is for employment-side storage and the other is a refrain that Eira leaves at hand.

"The basic working hours are until we finish cleaning up dinner, as always, but if Mr. Kazra asks you for any help after working hours, then please be firm. 'Cause the salary it says is the amount I assumed it would be."

"(Oh, my salary is doubling...)"

While staring at the item of the contract's benefits with a dismayed look, Eira was solidifying.

Eira's salary has been quite high since she was Leese's exclusive squire, but the amount offered this time is double that.

This is an amount that exceeds the salary of the military Kingsguard Commander and is high enough to be classified as top among those working in the Mansion.

It is further stated that the furniture will also be rented free of charge on top of the private rooms provided on the ground floor of the mansion.

To the very good treatment, Eira's body shivered a little at the same time as her mood rose.

How harsh are the duties associated with such treatment?

"What's different from the content of the contract so far is that the employment contract cannot be terminated from you for the next ten years, in addition to Reese's concurrent duties as Mr. Kazra's squire, and maybe Marie's guidance. And do it perfectly, taking precedence over anything Mr. Kazra asks you to do. Do you have any questions? If not, I'll sign here and get the contract renewed."

Zirconia prompts questions as she pushes the inked ceramics and feather pen towards Eira.

"Oh, uh..."

Even as she receives the feather pen reflexively, Eira desperately makes her eyes run over the contents of the contract.

I felt like I was offered double my salary for a moment, but when I heard that once I signed the contract, I couldn't cancel the contract for as long as ten years, I would also be cautious about checking the contract details.

"As for the business details, I can't decide on this occasion if I can do business volume when I combine the two employees of Leese and Kazura. So if you feel you can't do this, I'd like to talk to you."

"Of course you do. Don't worry, I won't tell you to do the amount of work you're missing. If I had to, I'd think of putting a dedicated servant on you. Besides, if Marie gets used to the job, she'll lighten up your burden, so maybe it's just the beginning."

Zirconia answers Eira, who asks questions in a tense manner, smiling softly.

As far as I can tell, I don't think I'm going to push you that far, even as a zirconia.

When Eira smiled and thanked Zirconia as she was relieved, she began to look through the contract again.

"(If you can put a dedicated servant on it, there won't be any trouble buying it out, and if Marie gets used to her job, I guess it's okay to take care of Kazura to the extent that she helps a little... but it doesn't mean that she has a huge amount of work to do, but her salary is doubled...)"

When Ayla looked up from the contract, she turned to Zirconia with such expressions as a snack.

"... Zirconia, I'm talking about Leese and Kazura... well, hey..."

"Yeah, I need you to stick those two together"

Zirconia smiled away at Eira, who seemed hard to say.

"For a little reason, I want you to manage to move those two to think of each other. But not in a very obvious way. I just want it to be natural."

"Wow, me..."

Eira leaned over looking wolfy because she didn't think this would be directed straight either.

Even if they tell you to make me think both ways, Ayla barely knows anything good, etc.

Eira has never talked about anything other than a good job description, and she doesn't even have a good personality.

First of all, I need to get pretty close to Ichigo, but it seems Narson and Zirconia are limiting the good information, and nothing gets in my ear.

Even if someone tells you to do something like that that you don't even know how far you can step in, you're in trouble, to be honest.

"What do you say? Can you do something for me?"

"Uh..."

"Mm, what?

As Eira continued to say with a puzzled face how she replied, Zirconia kept a gentle smile on her face and continued without getting her hair in between.

It also feels as if he's trying to shake his head vertically so as not to give him time to think.

"Wow, even if I don't move, Master Kazura seems to like Master Leese, and Master Leese seems interested in Master Kazura, so I was wondering if it would be unnatural for me to move... I think it would be better to leave it to the flow as it is..."

"Right. But there's a chance it won't stick, right? Then I'm in trouble. We need to raise the possibility a little bit. It's okay, you can do it."

Zirconia pushes the story in with a soft tone and expression.

Eira opened her mouth in a hurry when she was pushed off without much information as it was.

"So, what about Master Isaac? Mr. Nalson seemed to be pushing Isaac a lot more than before."

To Eira's question, Zirconia gave a slightly surprising look.

Never before had Eira defied Zirconia's instructions or made an opinion, so she didn't expect such an inquiry.

In Zirconia's expression, Eira realized that her statement now also sounded like it contained some accusations, depending on how she received it, and thought she had "gone" inside, but it was a later festival.

"Mm-hmm... Isaac is a really good kid, and I think he deserves Leese because of his impeccable family. But Mr. Kazra means more than that. I don't know how to explain it... you're in trouble..."

Eyla awaits her answer in horror at the zirconia she thinks with her hands on her mouth.

Zirconia usually has a soft and gentle tone, but the horror when furious is unusual.

Eira herself, I have seen firsthand how Zirconia is angry a few times, and besides only from a distance, those were also four years ago.

There's nothing too absurd about words outside of military affiliation, but as Eira, who hears from fellow samurai and guards about the horrors of Zirconia when she's angry, I don't care if she's in a bad mood.

If you imitate too much, you may be unemployed the next day.

Behind Eira's worries like that, Zirconia didn't even look particularly offended, and after thinking about it for a little while as it was, she turned her gaze back on Eira.

"Right, even if you ask me to do this without telling you anything about Mr. Kazra, you're in trouble, too. I'm sorry I couldn't do you a favor."

"Yes, no..."

"Well, since what we're about to talk about is top secret in the realm, I hope you never tell anyone..."

It took Eira a moment to relieve herself that her earlier instructions had been withdrawn, but Zirconia continued to draw her expression to the words she had spoken.

Now Zirconia said she would tell you something very confidential.

It's easy to imagine that Eira doesn't want to know such things, and that she'll be caught up in some pretty troublesome things by knowing them.

But I can't possibly take the option of saying no here.

Looks like I managed to get through something good and ended up in a yab snake state.

"Can you just sign it before I listen to you? If you don't feel comfortable after listening, you don't have to think deeply about Leese and Mr. Kazra."

With that said, Zirconia smiles and offers a feather pen.

"(That doesn't seem to be all right at all)"

and Eira took the feather pen in her hand as she poked in her heart, nodding in tears.

Either way, Eira doesn't have the courage to refuse instructions from Zirconia.

The situation has gotten worse by raising it poorly, but there's nothing more I can do.

I didn't want to give up that it was better than losing my job.

When Eira finished signing the contract, Zirconia received the contract to confirm the signature and put it at her disposal.

"Thanks, then. Just keep going. I'm talking about Mr. Kazra."

"Yes......"

Zirconia also turned a smile off her expression and took her face seriously to Ayla, who was ready and had a serious look.

"Mr. Kazra is not human. It's Graciole."

"... Huh?

Eira listened back unexpectedly to Zirconia's dialogue, which she had not anticipated.

I look at Zirconia's face thinking it was a joke, but Zirconia's expression is serious.

"Does Ella know what Lady Graciole is saying?

"Yes, for once... I heard it as a decoy when I was little..."

"Exactly the same thing as the old lady...... no, more than that happened in the village of Grisea about two months ago. The starving village is now completely revived and the fields that were completely destroyed are incredibly rich."

"Ha ha..."

To a story that is too unclamped, Eira returns a raw reply.

I knew Gracior's legend because I had heard it many times since I was a young girl, but that was only a fairy tale, and I didn't think Eira thought it was actually a story or anything like that.

But Zirconia says Graciole actually showed up and saved the village.

"I'll skip talking about how Master Gracior has come to help rebuild the territory, but now Master Gracior is trying to revive the barn zone around Isteria. He also says he can help us develop other tools to work efficiently and improve water damage control and sanitation in urban areas, but it's still unclear how far he can help us."

To Zirconia, who explains in one breath, Eira also spits and listens to the rest of the story.

Zirconia's condition is serious in itself, and joke-like signs don't even feel fine dust.

Eyla felt a slight sweat gushing into the atmosphere of a place that had changed as soon as possible.

"That would be too much of a thank-you story if it were normal, but that would be a problem for us right now. Somehow, more than ever, if we don't get that support soon, we won't be able to make it to the war against Barbell."

"... Also, the war begins?

Heard it was war, Eira asks Zirconia anxiously.

In the war up to four years ago, fortunately, there have been no war deaths among Eira's relatives.

Both parents and siblings were alive and well, and several relatives were wounded in service, but all survived until the truce.

But if the war is going to start again, then it may be time for someone to die in battle.

My siblings are also old enough to serve, so they will be conscripted as soldiers.

I no longer liked spending my days driven by the anxiety of the reports of the war deaths of those close to me.

"It'll start, won't it? Even if we don't want to, Barbell will attack us. That's what that country is. No blood, no tears, a demon-like country"

You're remembering the war ahead, a fierce emotion of hatred surfaced in Zirconia's eyes.

But it's also for a moment, turning a gentle smile again at Eira, who looks at herself anxiously.

"But if I can install enough support for Mr. Kazra, I'll be fine. That guy... I don't know if I can say people, but common sense in this world doesn't work for the knowledge and tools he has. With that tool and knowledge, and the blessing power that Mr. Kazra gives you, you'll never lose that you've dealt with Barbell."

"Blessings, is it?

Eira listens back unexpectedly to the word blessing that suddenly appeared.

When I started listening, I didn't want to go into too much depth, but I couldn't help but listen this far.

"Yes, blessing. Maybe, but Mr. Kazra is giving blessings to those close to him. Whoever gains the power of that blessing can acquire the power of a monster. As long as you have that power..."

Eyla can't immediately imagine being said to be a monstrous force, but I guess it's true if Zirconia says so.

I don't know in what way I can get blessings, but if I can get so squeamish power, I also feel like I know why Zirconia is obsessed.

If there is a great opportunity to gain the power to defeat the hate balbalbale, I guess we can't choose the means to do so as a zirconia.

Though my in-laws, I can still say rational for not forcing my own daughter, Liese, to seduce the good.

Zirconia, speaking with a slightly tranced look, returned her expression to her original natural smile when she noticed Eira staring at herself.

"Yeah, well, it's just a secret here that you're trying to stick Leese and Mr. Kazra together. You can't even tell Narson. Of course, keep your mouth shut on Reese. Tell me when you need help. I'll help you with anything."

"Or, yes, I did."

At some point, Eira has been in the process of taking on the story, but it's not even like I can say no now.

I guess the fact that you shouldn't even tell Narson is due to Zirconia's arbitrariness.

It is also clear that Narson is a barrier not to impose a good temptation on Reese.

Now Eira has become a Zirconia handkerchief, not a Narson.

I honestly can't wait to be horrified, but I can't help it now.

"You don't have to be so nervous. If Reese cares about it, I don't think it's that hard. You just have to give it a little push. If you're not very conscious, you'll go crazy the other way, so just be careful there. Now we're done talking. You can back off now."

"Yes, excuse me..."

When she replied anxiously and dropped off Eira, who stood up and thanked her before leaving the room, Zirconia exhaled and deposited her back on the back of the chair.

Looking at the situation in the village of Grisea, Ichigo appears to offer support and blessings quite strongly to the person he likes.

In the future, if a good thing Liese becomes in love with a good man and succeeds in making Istel family and Istelia attached to him in the form that accompanies it, he will surely be able to mount support on military relations as well.

I was turned down when I first asked for military support, but this time it should work.

"I'm sure, it's okay. This time."

Zirconia shrugged as she told herself, closing her eyes gently as she did.

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