I Won’t Pick Up The T*ash I Threw Away Again - Chapter 26

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#26

I tried to sleep soundly without caring about Fillen or Sisly, but it was impossible. There was no way I could.

In the end, I spent the night with my eyes wide open and sat quietly on the sofa without doing anything.

I didn’t feel like doing anything, and there was nothing to do anyway.

After handing everything over to Fillen, all I had left was idle time.

When I was handling the Duke and Duchess’s affairs, I was so busy that a day wasn’t enough, but suddenly becoming free, I didn’t know what to do.

Should I read a book? Hmm, that seems like a good idea.

Having made my decision, I immediately headed to the study. The study door was firmly locked.

I naturally thought the butler would have the key, but he didn’t.

“The master has the key to the study.”

“Don’t butlers usually keep the manor’s keys?”

“That’s true, but last night the master asked me to bring him the study key, so I gave it to him.”

“I see.”

Fillen and the study. It was an unlikely combination.

If he had taken the training grounds key, I would have thought ‘of course,’ but taking the study key seemed strange.

Ah, maybe he took the study key because of documents?

There was no other reason for Fillen to take the study key.

I thought he would be lazy, but he’s working hard. It was a bit unexpected.

“Don’t you have any spare keys?”

“The study is an important place, so for security reasons we only made one key. If it gets lost, we change the entire lock.”

That meant if I wanted to go to the study, I had to get the key from Fillen.

What to do. If yesterday’s incident hadn’t happened, I would have gone to find him, but since that wasn’t the case, I was troubled. Meeting him felt awkward.

“Is His Grace the Duke currently in the study?”

“No. He’s still sleeping.”

Then I want to go see him even less. Because Sisly is in his room.

After pondering, I ultimately decided not to go.

My desire not to meet Sisly and Fillen was stronger than my desire to read a book.

If I couldn’t read books, I was wondering what to do with my remaining time when a maid came looking for me with a magic communication device.

“Miss, Assistant Tail Wizard has contacted you.”

I could roughly guess why Wizard Baron contacted me without having to ask. He must want to ask about the rainy season preparations.

If it was about that matter, I had handed everything over to Fillen, so it would be right to tell him to take the magic communication device to him, but I didn’t.

What if my prediction was wrong?

So it seemed better to listen to what it was about and then decide.

I received the magic communication device from the maid. When I lightly rubbed the communication device, Wizard Baron’s face appeared.

[It’s been a while, Miss.]

“It’s been a while, Wizard Baron. What’s the matter?”

[I contacted you because I have some questions about the rainy season preparations.]

It was just as I expected. I let out a light sigh and answered.

“That matter has left my hands.”

[What? What do you mean…?]

“His Grace the Duke took it over. From now on, His Grace will handle all manor affairs directly.”

At my words, Wizard Baron’s expression became subtle. He didn’t seem very pleased.

“Since that’s how it is, please contact His Grace directly for such matters from now on.”

Whether he was pleased or not, nothing would change.

This was also the right way. It was abnormal that I had been handling the Williot Duchy’s affairs all this time.

…Was it really abnormal?

[If the work has been transferred to His Grace, it might take a long time to process. His Grace is still inexperienced with administrative work.]

Wizard Baron, who had been silent for a moment, spoke with a sighing voice.

[I don’t know about other things, but the rainy season preparations need to be approved quickly… Could you perhaps handle just this part, Miss?]

“That doesn’t seem like something for me to decide, Wizard Baron.”

[That’s true.]

Wizard Baron’s expression darkened.

The Baron rubbed his face and carefully asked me.

[Could you perhaps check how far His Grace has progressed?]

“Wouldn’t it be better for you to check directly?”

[I’d like to do that too, but unfortunately the magic communication device’s time is almost up.]

Come to think of it, Wizard Baron’s face had been looking blurry for a while now.

Magic communication devices were magical tools that used charged mana, requiring two full days of charging to use for 10 minutes.

[So please, Miss. And if possible, please send the documents here today. We need to prepare before the rainy season comes…]

Before Wizard Baron could finish speaking, the magic communication device turned off.

I have no choice. I’ll have to go check myself.

I didn’t want to meet Fillen, but I couldn’t abandon my duties because of personal feelings.

I briefly wondered if this was really my job to do, but I didn’t think deeply about it.

Since I’m going to meet Fillen anyway, I should also get the study key.

I headed straight to Fillen’s room, took a deep breath, and carefully knocked on the door.

Knock knock, the knocking sound seemed unusually loud. Even though it was late morning, there was no response, as if he was still sleeping.

I’ll knock one more time, and if there’s no answer, I’ll come back later.

When I knocked again, this time unfortunately or fortunately, the door opened.

“What’s the matter?”

It was Sisly. She was wearing only a thin nightgown with a shawl draped over it.

Her exposed nape was mottled with red marks. Her skin was so pale that the red marks stood out prominently.

The sparkling blue jewel above it felt strangely out of place.

Does she wear a necklace even when sleeping? How peculiar.

“Where is His Grace?”

“He’s still sleeping. He overdid it a bit last night.”

Sisly said this while caressing her nape. Her intention was obvious, and it made me frown, but I didn’t say anything.

If I did, this woman might tattle to Fillen again, and only I would be troubled.

I didn’t want any more unnecessary emotional exhaustion.

“When will he wake up?”

“Isn’t that up to Fil’s mood?”

Sisly snapped back with a spiteful face. Her face was clearly full of wariness.

It seems she’s decided to completely drop her mask when talking to me.

Well, it doesn’t matter to me anyway. This was much better than wearing a kind mask and pretending to be friendly.

“Then when His Grace wakes up, please tell him I came looking for him. Also tell him I want to meet.”

“There’s no need for that.”

Suddenly Fillen appeared from behind Sisly. As soon as Sisly saw Fillen, she put on her kind mask.

“What’s the matter, Princess Tebesa.”

He looked at me with sleepy eyes and spoke.

“Did you perhaps come to apologize for yesterday?”

Apologize? I let out a small laugh and looked at Fillen.

“Is there something I need to apologize to Your Grace for?”

At my words, Fillen, now fully awake, glared at me with quiet eyes.

I met his gaze directly and told him the reason I came to find him.

“I received contact from Wizard Baron. Not knowing that I had already handed everything over to Your Grace, he contacted me.”

“Wizard Baron? What business?”

“About rainy season preparations. As Your Grace knows, the rainy season is approaching soon, so he said we need to prepare quickly and asked me to send the approved documents.”

“Ah, that.”

Seeing him nod as if he understood, it seems he read the documents.

So he wasn’t just fooling around with that woman all night.

I felt foolish for thinking that fact was fortunate.

“I was actually planning to finish the review and give approval to send it to the domain today. So I’m asking, Princess. May I ask you one thing?”

“Please speak, Your Grace.”

“Did you write those documents, Princess? Or was it your aide?”

“If you’re asking who originally wrote the documents, it was my aide.”

“Then did you read through all those documents, Princess?”

What an obvious question. I nodded my head.

“Ha.”

Then Fillen looked at me with a sneer.

Why is he acting like that?

Could there be a problem with the documents?

That can’t be. I corrected all the wrong parts.

The documents I gave him were the final version with only the last review remaining.

“Was there some problem with the documents?”

I asked carefully, wondering if Fillen had discovered an issue I hadn’t noticed, but Fillen lightly shrugged his shoulders and turned around.

“There was, but I won’t tell you, Princess. It’s no longer any of your concern. I don’t need your help either.”

My help, indeed.

“So I hope we won’t have to have conversations like this in the future, Princess. Now let’s go in, Sisly.”

Fillen was as cold as a winter wind to me while being as gentle as a spring breeze to Sisly.

At this fact, Sisly strutted proudly and linked arms with Fillen as they entered the room.

I knew well that Fillen liked and cherished Sisly more than me, but it was shocking every time I saw it.

I stood there for a long time like a borrowed barley sack.

Then I belatedly realized one fact.

I hadn’t even managed to ask him for the study key – something very trivial that didn’t suit the current situation.

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“What are you looking at so intently?”

Ber, who had come to report to Kalian, glanced at what Kalian was looking at.

“It’s a handkerchief.”

And it was a handkerchief with the Williot Duchy’s crest embroidered on it.

Why does Kalian have that?

When I looked at him questioningly, Kalian smiled brightly and held out the handkerchief.

“Isn’t it pretty?”

“Your Majesty, has your eyesight deteriorated? Shall I have glasses made for you?”

Ber indirectly expressed that the handkerchief was terrible.

Then Kalian irritably kicked Ber’s desk.

As the documents piled on the desk came tumbling down, Ber screamed.

“What, what are you doing!”

Kalian answered in a sullen tone.

“As you said, my eyesight got worse so I couldn’t see properly, why.”

Lies! He did it on purpose!

Since his opponent was the Emperor, Ber couldn’t say that and swallowed his indignation.

“How are the exam preparations going?”

“Actually, I have something to ask you about that.”

Ber picked up some of the documents scattered on the floor and held them out to Kalian.

“Would this level of difficulty be appropriate for the problems?”

Kalian twisted his lips after checking the documents Ber handed him.

“Are you joking? You must be planning to only select idiots?”

“…This is already difficult though.”

“Hardly.”

Kalian answered firmly and tore up the documents.

No. The problems that scholars worked on day and night for days…!

Ber despaired, but Kalian didn’t care and tore the documents to shreds, throwing them into the air.

The torn paper pieces fluttered like snow.

“Make them again. 10 times harder than now.”

“10 times?!”

Ber gasped and stared at Kalian.

“Do you actually intend to select a real aide?”

“Of course.”

Kalian grinned and his eyes sparkled.

“I already have someone in mind. Of course, I’ll decide whether to select them after they take the exam.”

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