Chapter 4 (1/2)

Chapter 4 – Can this be even called a date?

I was deceived, that was the first i

It is a desolated building, which is in a dim alley away from the main street

As promised Selene would treat Kamui to a meal, but Selene, who has no chance to eat out, didn’t know of the restaurants in the I to leave the shop to Ka that Ka in front of her, that hasn’t even anything that seenboard, is a restaurant

To begin with, by even co

The inquisitive gazes of the people standing in the back streets Some of them had even looks that she absolutely couldn’t consider to be those of children

Notwithstanding, she endured and followed Kamui, and this was the result As expected, even Selene had hit the limit of her patience

“Hey, where are you taking me!?” (Selene)

“Where, you ask We have have decided on a restaurant, right?” (Kamui)

“This is a restaurant?” (Selene)

“Don’t be so suspicious, if you haven’t even entered it yet This is a splendid restaurant I think it’s more or less delicious” (Kamui)

“… Really?” (Selene)

Kaiven that Kaht face, it will be a mistake to trust him by only the atmosphere

“What are you so suspicious of?” (Kamui)

“You aren’t trying to bring e place, are you?” (Selene)

“… What an excessively self-conscious person For me the meal is more important than you” (Kamui)

“What was that!?” (Selene)

“Don’t get angry over each and every little thing I’ to enter since I don’t want to waste time” (Kamui)

“… Will it really be alright?” (Selene)

Selene is also a noble’s daughter Being overwhels, she has become quite timid

“I have told you it will be alright, right? It’s a lotaround in this place” (Kamui)

“If you say that, what do you mean with that?” (Selene)

“I will explain it after we enter Anyway, I’ to enter the restaurant” (Kamui)

Don’t followsuch senti and went inside And yet, the feeling of bewilderment doesn’t leave Selene

As she orrying in front of the door what she should do, Kamui suddenly turned up

“Won’t it be truly dangerous, if you are standing around in such place?” (Kamui)

“Don’t bring me to such a place then” (Selene)

“Coreat You will understand that your worries are unnecessary, once you check the interior” (Kamui)

Being told so by Ka Certainly, inside there are several tables lined up and several custo their meals Somehow I’m worried that the quality of the customers is questionable, but this place seems to be a restaurant without any doubt

Opening the door widely, her feet step inside At that athered on Selene

“I’m tired of it already” (Selene)

“Don’t mind it They will s

oon loose their interest in you” (Kamui)

“Really?” (Selene)

“It’s not like they are particularly looking at your appearance … Let’s go over there” (Kamui)

Saying that, Kamui headed towards a table, that was apart from the other customers

Although I still feel the gazes, I can’t stand idling around here either, Selene followed after Kamui

After a bit tiain a scarya shop assistant, bringing some water

“Isn’t it rare for you to be accoirl?”

“Ah, she’s my friend and an acquaintance of Alto and Lutz I plan to introduce her to Dierk this time” (Kamui)

“I see Then I will remember her face as well”

When the shop assistant said that, the looks of the surrounding customers were lifted from Selene

“Yea, it would save me trouble if you could do that Once in a while it’s fine, right? Also, you are rim faces then” (Kamui)

“For certain What will you do about the ordering?”

“Two times the usual Drinks as well” (Kamui)

“Got it”

Once the shop assistant left their seats, Selene opened her mouth

“Say, what’s this about?” (Selene)

“Although chief is currently working as so like the restaurant’s old man, he was a splendid boss back in the old days He has completely retired from that side, but there are many people, who are indebted to him Even now, he is fairly respected” (Kamui)

“Boss… that doesn’t seem to be a overly decent occupation, does it?” (Selene)

Because he had s even a those in indecent occupations However, Kaive Selene the details about that

“Well, it’s because this is such location” (Kamui)

“Why have you expressly brought me to such a place?” (Selene)

“If it’s here, nothing of the things we talk about will leak to others That’s the kind of place it is The gazes vanished, right?” (Kamui)

“Yes” (Selene)

As Kamui says, the unpleasant atone

“At the ti However, the surroundings understood that you are a trustable person once chief said that he would remember your face That means that the other customers can also talk with a peace of mind” (Kamui)

“Why did you come to this shop?” (Selene)

“We are originating froh it was a short tiuys Accordingly, I have acquaintances” (Kamui)

“How is the orphanage connected to this place?” (Selene)

Selene shouldn’t understand so like the circumstances of an orphan

“The places, where an orphan can work, are limited There are many of my seniors around here” (Kamui)

“… I see” (Selene)

“I have told you in the beginning The other customers are also the same in that they don’t want their talks to be leaked Absolutely don’t mention the information, you heard here, to anyone else Got that?” (Kamui)

The face of Kamui, who says this, has a seriousness, which Selene hadn’t seen so far Just how dangerous is it to break the rules of the underworld? In order for Selene to understand that, Ka a stern expression

“… I got it” (Selene)

“The real talk follows after the food comes Let’s have a relaxed chat until then” (Kamui)

“Even if you say chat … Which reirl just now” (Selene)

“It’s flattery If I say it in such way, chief will be happy as well, right?” (Kamui)

“Uht be so” (Selene)

Be a bit nicer to me, too As she believed it to be futile to say this, Selene stopped talking

“However, in the tiathered quite the attention, didn’t you? Be careful, okay? I don’t think that there are sothe people, ere at chief’s restaurant, but they ht persistently approach you to seriously scout you” (Kamui)

“Scout? What’s that?” (Selene)

Selene doesn’t know the word scout It’s a word unrelated to nobles

“Solicitation? They come to arbitrarily invite you to work for them by all means” (Kamui)

“Hee, I wonder, what kind of work is it?” (Selene)

It feels good to be acknowledged by people The one who thought that was Selene

“As a prostitute” (Kamui)

“Die!” (Selene)

Kamui’s brief comment was dismissed

“What? This area is different froh-class brothels here, no? As far as I head, popular women see a far better life than unskilled, poor nobles” (Kamui)

“Do you have the disposition to recommend the job of a prostitute to your friends?” (Selene)

Different froainst prostitutes Rather than prejudices, it’s repulsion It’s obvious

“We are friends?” (Kamui)

“I don’t know!” (Selene)

“It’s a joke Didn’t your ave h” (Kamui)

In the first place, it’s only so with Selene Until then I felt that there’s soroup We are of equal status in this regard though

“Even I’e” (Selene)

“What’s up with that ish? Then you are coht?” (Kamui)

“Isn’t that fine? Even I have times when I want to be spoiled once in a while” (Selene)

“And the partner of that am I?” (Kamui)

“… Oh well Ipartner” (Selene)

“I don’t particularly h … Tell me, are you really royalty?” (Kamui)

Suddenly Kamui turned the conversation around Not just Selene, but even he also noticed that there’s a feeling of having slightly grown accustomed to each other He doesn’t trust others easily Kamui has kept in

“That’s right” (Selene)

“The name of the former country is?” (Kamui)

“Ericsson Kingdom” (Selene)

“… I don’t know it A like the names of former countries” (Kamui)

The re like what the forht at the Imperial Academy

“Then, don’t ask” (Selene)

“It’s the topic of our conversation Is it fine for ?” (Kamui)

“What is it?” (Selene)

“When was it overthrown by the Empire?” (Kamui)

“You ask about unpleasant matters” (Selene)

“Sorry” (Kamui)

“In the generation of o” (Selene)

Even while co, Selene answers Kamui’s question It’s about a story before Selene was born That doesn’t mean that Selene hasn’t any memories she doesn’t want to remember

“Even before my mother was born, huh? I can’t know about that” (Kamui)

“However, if you speak of history, so like 50 years is recent It’s been a n nation for the first time” (Selene)

“… That’s true If we talk about so of the Empire, it’s quite renown, but thatother nations” (Kamui)

“That’s how it is” (Selene)

Over 90 of the Einally frolory co many countries

“Is your grandfather still alive?” (Kamui)

“He died At the ti his own life to save father’s group” (Selene)

“A so it” (Kamui)

In Selene’s way of talking can’t be heard at all that she is praising her grandfather for doing that

“Even if ojiji-sa like a massacre He likely didn’t want to watch his own country’s state after being absorbed into the E to what otou-sama says” (Selene) (T/N: ojiji-sama is quite hard to translate … jiji is usually oldthe o and -sama it becomes formal but, old man-sas about him)

“… I hope, he was a good king?” (Kamui)

“I wonder? However, the elder people are looking at the past in nostalgia” (Selene)

It’s an occurrence froo There are still many survivors In this aspect, certainly as Selene says, it’s still not history, but an event in everyone’s memory

“Then, does it mean that it was a better country than now? Well, that’s only natural” (Kamui)

“Guess so” (Selene)

Selene doesn’t knoas in reality However, with a feeling of wanting to believe it to be so, she returned Kamui’s question with positive words

“… How old are you?” (Kamui)

“What are you asking? We are at the saht?” (Selene)

“But, your father is more than 50 years old, no?” (Kamui)

He survived the period of the country’s ruin Naturally he will be more than 50 years old

“That’s right He has already turned 60 years old” (Selene)

“Well, good going, your father Doesn’t that e?” (Kamui)

If one crosses 50 years, they are of old age It’s an age where it wouldn’t be strange for them to die any time It isn’t improper for Kamui to admire that either

“Hey! Don’t say such weird stuff” (Selene)

“But I’ht, am I not?” (Kamui)

“The e as me when the country perished However, it looks like he wasn’t readily allowed to marry” (Selene)

“Why?” (Kamui)

“A dispute of interests If he produces a princess, his household will be able to seize real power “Every last of thehter”, it seems” (Selene)

The reions, which are destroyed countries, can ily there are many cases where the home’s influence of the wife, which is a i

“I see… So what happened in the end?” (Kamui)

“He begged in tears to the Emperor “Since I will incur the en about it, please”” (Selene)

“Hee, he is quite smart So, he took the partner, the Emperor chose for him?” (Kamui)

“Yea, it was quite the bet Even the Ele noble household just like that, can he? Eventually it was decided that he would marry with someone, who has no relation to Imperial nobles” (Selene)

“He was successful” (Kamui)

Actually it’s probably luck Instead of paying reparations to the nobles, he e

“Up to that point, yea Although you ht say that he prevented for his country to be freely used by a specific noble, that’s all there is to it after all It doesn’t change the fact that he is staying an imperial person” (Selene)

The reovern like a surveillance role, it doesn’t end with only that and they meddle in the territory’s politics in various ways as well In many cases it’s for their own interests

“However, he was able to protect the lineage of a direct descent From my point of view, it doesn’t really ht?” (Kamui)

“Guess so But, thanks to that, I’m…” (Selene)

“Is there so?” (Kamui)

“It was decided that I will succeed the country’s hope It’s about reviving the Ericsson royal family someday” (Selene)

“You are the heir?” (Kamui)

“Can you call it heir, I wonder? It’s correct that I’h” (Selene)

“… The Enore that, will they?” (Kamui)

Selene is also burdened with quite a bit He intended to change the topic in order to get so sympathy towards Selene in Kamui’s mind

“Oh well It will probably decided for me to marry a noble son from somewhere A partner, I don’t even knoho they are Well, if it’s nobility and royalty, that’s normal, but after all, you know Besides, everyone fro It’s quite co crushed by the weight of my responsibilities” (Selene)

“Sorry It becauess?” (Kamui)

“It’s fine It’s so that’s better for me to voice out as much as possible Once I return tolike complaints” (Selene)

“… I see So you wanted to get spoiled?” (Kamui)

“I told you that Imy partner, didn’t I?” (Selene)

“I don’t particularly mind, I told you” (Kamui)

“…” (Selene)

The shortening of the distance between us is the same for Selene, too It was the first time in Selene’s life that she had with Kaeneration, to whom she could freely complain

A somehow indescribable atmosphere formed between those two ―― At that time,

“Sorry for interrupting”

“Kya!” (Selene)

Selene raised a woman-like shriek due to the sudden voice The owner of the voice is the chief, who brought the food

“Oh, sorry Did I surprise you? You had a goodthat the food would get cold, if I waited, I called out to you”

His brusque attitude froed He addresses Selene in a friendly manner

“It’s not a good ht?” (Kamui)

“No, as soon as someone looked at you, there’s no doubt that they would see you as lovers”

“… That’s not possible”

“Is that so? In that regards, haven’t you called this jou-chan with you?” (T/N: the you used here is oar” you without honorifics It’s comer too, but then it turns derogatory aka rude)

“Eh? Huh?” (Kamui)

“You didn’t notice? Since ojou-chan hasn’t said anything, I believed that your relationshi+p is definitely like that, though”

“That’s not so!” (Selene)

Selene also denies it in a fluster to resolve the chief’s

“Really? The previous appearance of having a difficult talk about jou-chan‘s situation could be seen as appropriate for your age, too That’s not so your show to everyone, is it?”

The face of chief, who displays aa scary face, but one can sense a child-like innocence in his eyes

“… Chief, say, do you think it’s a to confuse us like that?” (Kamui)

“Well, there’s that”

The child-like innocence was the innocence of an olda prank

“As expected” (Kamui)

“However, if I don’t do it like this, you won’t turn your awareness towards girls, right, Kas of men You will become an adult for the first ti like understanding the feelings of women is eternally impossible, isn’t it? Wahahaha”

Saying sohs loudly Selene’s first iree that I wonder what’s that about

“Listen, put down the food and go back right away” (Kamui)

“Oh, right Let’s have the hindrance disappear”

In the end chief placed the food on the table with another great laughter and left the table

“…” (Selene)

There is a souess this situation fits nicely with chief’s expectations Kamui opens his mouth to somehow dispel this mood

“For the ti, let’s eat?” (Kamui)

“Right What kind of cooking is this?” (Selene)

“Soup” (Kamui)

“I can see that! I’redients!” (Selene)

At least Kary