Young Master, Please Put Some Pants On! - Chapter 14

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Chapter 14

This wasn’t a place for her to settle down. She and they were fundamentally different beings. She couldn’t blend in here. Mellis’s face flushed red with shame and disappointment in herself.

But that was only momentary, as the efforts she had made all this time suddenly flashed through her mind. She had strived every day to adapt to this place. Not once had she acted with the consciousness that she would leave someday, and she had given her all to Garulus, whom she cared for, at every moment.

While she understood his cynical attitude intellectually, she also felt sad and wronged. Was she just a fleeting connection who would briefly stay and leave to the people here?

When she thought that all the efforts she had made so far might have been meaningless, something welled up inside Mellis’s heart.

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About ten minutes later. Kermanomon, left alone in the room, sat at his desk silently resting his chin on his hand. With a light knock, his aide Malcolm appeared.

“Your Grace, did something happen?”

“No. Why?”

“I encountered Nanny on my way here, and her eyes were red underneath. I wondered if there had been some argument with Your Grace.”

“Her eyes were red?”

“Yes. I figured Your Grace must have said something harsh again. How can you frighten the nanny we finally found?”

Kermanomon frowned at Malcolm’s words. It was true that he had been sharp with Mellis earlier, and he hadn’t cared about it at all. What came to his mind was the last thing Mellis had said before leaving.

“I don’t care what the Grand Duke thinks of me. I’ll do whatever it takes to reconcile you two. Be-because that’s what Garulus wants. Surely someday you’ll be grateful to me!”

For someone who couldn’t even meet his eyes, closing her eyes tightly and stammering with a trembling voice, it was quite a bold way of speaking.

“That doesn’t seem like the attitude of someone who’s scared.”

As expected of a herbivorous beastkin. Trembling all over when barely standing up to him, yet holding back tears alone on the way back. It was simply amusing.

He still had no interest in Mellis whatsoever. In this vast ducal residence, there was no reason for him to care about one new curtain being hung or one piece of tableware being changed. Mellis was the same. She was just another change among Garulus’s countless nannies who had been replaced.

However, she was somewhat peculiar in various ways, making her stand out.

“She’s more amusing than I thought”

He whispered in a low voice while briefly looking at the tart placed in the corner.

“Pardon?”

“Never mind. So what’s the matter?”

When Malcolm, who hadn’t heard the murmur, asked back puzzledly, he waved his hand dismissively as if it was nothing. Malcolm approached him and handed over a bundle of documents.

“This is the response from the Magic Tower. You requested them to track the magic tool that Young Master had used before.”

“It’s only coming now?”

It had been weeks since Garulus returned home, and they were only bringing the results now. It was absurd. While the Magic Tower’s slow work processing was famously known, wasn’t this crossing the line?

Knowing both the Current Magic Tower Master’s insincere attitude and the fact that the Magic Tower always suffered from staff shortages, he hadn’t expected much even when told it would take a week at the time of the request. Even that timeframe had been reluctantly given after he, as Grand Duke, had pressured them multiple times.

“That’s why I said from the beginning we should request it from the Kendal Kingdom Magic Tower.”

“….”

The Empire wasn’t the only place with a Magic Tower. There were a total of four Magic Towers residing on the Physis Continent, and truthfully, the Aizen Magic Tower belonging to the Empire was the least capable among them. The reason was quite simple. The Empire’s Magic Tower was clearly understaffed compared to other kingdoms’ Magic Towers.

“As I said then, considering the distance to travel to Kendal, it would have been about the same. Besides, wasn’t it the Aizen Magic Tower Master who originally created that magic device? It would be more inefficient to travel a long distance when we have the creator right here.”

Despite his cold voice, Malcolm didn’t care and argued back.

“No matter how much you dislike humans, you should acknowledge what needs to be acknowledged. The Aizen Magic Tower is incompetent. Don’t humans and beastkin have different rates of magical power manifestation? It’s fortunate that Young Master returned safely, otherwise you would surely have regretted it.”

If 1 in 10 humans manifested magical power, for beastkin it was only 1 in 1000. Beastkin were born with strong bodies and animal senses, while humans had magical power and healing power. It was a clear fact that the two races were born with different abilities, and that was the most basic reason they had no choice but to coexist.

However, Kermanomon didn’t want to accept that fact. Having to coexist with humans out of necessity. Just imagining it made his stomach churn.

“How many times in life would I need the Magic Tower’s help anyway. Forget it.”

While magic had developed and many beastkin relied on its convenience, it didn’t apply to him as a pureblooded beastkin. Using his own strength was far more convenient than relying on mediocre magic.

Unless it was a special case like this one, there was no need to borrow such abilities. Born with everything from birth, he found the fact that he had to ask others for help extremely unpleasant.

What he had requested from the Magic Tower was to find the location where the magic tool had operated—that is, Garulus’s destination. However, since Garulus had returned anyway, Kermanomon felt no need for it and threw the documents into a corner of his desk without properly checking the contents.

“That’s something Your Grace should…”

Malcolm, who was about to point out his master’s consistent attitude, quickly shut his mouth. While he didn’t fail to understand his hostility toward humans, wasn’t this just part of business? But since he disliked even that, Malcolm could only feel frustrated as his subordinate.

But how could he possibly persuade him? Adding more words would only be met with disgust at his nagging. Malcolm let out a quiet sigh and handed him something else.

“This is additional information I investigated regarding Nanny.”

“Why are you so interested in the nanny? Are you looking after her because she’s a fellow herbivorous beastkin?”

When Mellis’s story came up again, Kermanomon asked accusingly, his mood unconsciously souring.

“Since Your Grace won’t investigate, I had to roll up my sleeves and do it myself. As I’ve mentioned before, please be careful to investigate thoroughly when bringing someone of unclear identity into the manor…”

“Ah, always with the nagging.”

Kermanomon casually skimmed through the documents he handed over with an indifferent expression. However, for all the lengthy elaboration, the content was surprisingly short.

“Is this all?”

“Yes.”

“For such grand talk, there’s nothing much here. I already knew she was from Elramton Territory from her own mouth… Family relations and Academy graduation. There’s nothing special at all.”

“That’s what’s strange.”

Malcolm’s expression turned quite serious as he slowly rubbed his chin with one hand.

“The records are too clean, aren’t they? If someone lived in one village for so long, there should be more to find, but there’s nothing else at all.”

“…”

Kermanomon lowered his eyes and examined it once more. Just as Malcolm said, it was documentation without a single unnecessary detail. As if someone had fabricated it.

“If you say so, I’ll investigate further.”

He was about to say something but soon put it down on the desk with a light sigh.

“Forget it. As long as there’s no criminal record, that’s enough. What more could I want.”

Kermanomon was extremely busy. During the week Garulus was missing, he hadn’t been able to handle any work and had abandoned everything, so now he was thoroughly experiencing the aftermath.

Between Imperial Palace-related matters and managing his vast territory, he was busy enough already, and it was too bothersome to stir up trouble just to investigate one nanny for Garulus.

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