Dressed in a cape and wearing a crow mask, the standard scavenger look. The point is that her voice is familiar to Annan.

Playful, with some grossness, or scavengers......

"Centurion?"

"Oops, recognized."

Annan suddenly reached out to take off the centurion's mask, and she made a dodge movement, but still stopped and let Annan lift the mask.

Seeing the familiar brown-orange broken hair and hideous scars, Annan pressed the mask back: "Why are you here?" ”

The centurion patted Annan, who was in a hurry, and put on his crow mask: "Because I have been transferred to the royal capital." ”

"No ......"

A few days ago, Annan saw the figure of the centurion in Breeze City, and no matter how fast the centurion is, he is not as fast as the legendary mage's teleportation...... He came to a reasonable conclusion: "You are twins? ”

"Who knows."

It seems that the cowhide will not be blown out, and Annan continued his previous words: "Why not? I killed countless bread and nezumi in Breeze, and prevented them from subverting Breez, but this kind of feat is not enough to be a centurion? ”

The centurion didn't speak, but just looked at Annan playfully through the crow mask, which made him a little uneasy, and changed the subject smartly: "What's the matter with the king?" ”

The waiter who brought the food on the plate also just right to alleviate the embarrassment.

"Don't you know?"

"That's why I asked, the entire royal capital, the mage tower, the scavenger, the Holy Grail Knights, the knights, the academy, and the royal family are at the mercy of the nezumi? By the way, I still remind the heroes of the rat plague. ”

The centurion ignored the part of the invitation: "The royal family is working it out. ”

"Are you sure? When I arrived, I saw celebrations everywhere about the defeat of the nezumi...... The nezumi have come out of the capital to attack me, and a whole clan is heading north, and I can't understand how you celebrated at the very beginning of the war. ”

The centurion sighed: "It's complicated......"

"I'm not going to interfere."

Annan said seriously.

He hates trouble. The Breeze City incident was because he was involved in a conspiracy, and he was too lazy to take care of the affairs of the royal capital, and it was not his turn - he was just a small lord in the middle of nowhere.

"Whatever you want, have fun in the royal capital."

"Of course I'll have fun......," Annan muttered, continuing to eat.

The lamb soup was very small, and the soft bread was also the amount that the eldest lady could not eat, and the waiter came over with the bill, and Annan felt for his pocket, and then froze there.

He ran out of money.

Annan, who was accustomed to doing nothing in Breeze City without spending money, only had a few coins in his pocket.

"Centurion ......"

"I didn't eat again." The centurion left the dining room.

Annan faced the waiter alone: "How much is it again?" ”

"Two silver coins, sir."

"Two silver coins? This is not more than fifty copper plates in Breeze City, and I will give you 80 at most...... 1 credit. ”

"Sir, this is the rule of Charles's restaurant, please don't embarrass us......"

At this time, the foreman who was leaning on the counter and staring at this side came over: "The stinky northerly guy is running the king and is coming to eat?" ”

At this time, Annan had three options: summon a large element to punish the foreman who looked down on the dog, and raised his eyebrows; Open the portal and ask Olmedo for money, and stun the foreman with the money; Sincerely express your difficulties.

Annan raised his head: "I'm sorry, I didn't bring that much money...... Can I owe you some and send it over later? ”

A silver coin in his pocket and thirteen copper coins were placed on the table.

The foreman, who was just about to scold, suddenly crashed into the mysterious and magnificent black eyes like black jewels:

“…… We have free events in our store, you are our lucky winner, congratulations! Have you eaten enough? Not enough to talk to me again. ”

"Really?" Annan was pleasantly surprised and put away a silver coin and thirteen copper coins, "I'm full, thank you......"

"Nothing ......"

The foreman watched with a doting smile as Annan went out and left.

"When did we have this event?" The waiter next to him woke up the foreman. The foreman shook his head and seemed to be more sober: "I just have it, let me work!" ”

……

Penniless, Annan didn't wander around anymore and returned to the manor, where he said to the elderly head maid, "I'm almost 500 meters away...... The yard of Charles' Restaurant cost two silver coins, can you send it over for me? ”

"Okay, Young Master Annan."

Annan then buried himself in his study and read many local works that could only be found around the royal capital.

A day passed, and the royal family never summoned Annan. Anyway, Kylbelos' teleportation scroll was on his body, and Annan could wait—when the rat hordes of the Far North advanced south to the royal capital, and the big men who were plotting something had to do something.

He also wanted to go around and revisit the church where he had fought, but his shy pockets were holding him back.

On the afternoon of the second day after arriving in the royal capital, the first humiliation came: a kobold, a kobold who had been assigned to Annan by the Department of the Interior.

The kobold guard, dressed in a cool cloak with nothing underneath, held a spear and stood up straight—almost reaching Annan's chest.

"What's your name?" Annan asked it.

"Otto! Lord Annan! ”

They thought they were humiliating Annan, and the royal capital was waiting to see Annan's jokes, but in fact Annan was very happy. There are a large number of kobolds on the outskirts of Hirabayashi Town and in the haunted gold mines, they drove away the miners, and they were driven away by the blue dragons, and the kobolds ran away with the gnolls at the beginning of the establishment of Breeze City, and later in Betal City because the kobolds were not worth anything, which made Annan never have the opportunity to contact the fantasy creatures he encountered for the first time in this world.

They are called kobolds, but they are more like lizardmen, with dragon-like heads on their short bodies. Annan felt that dragons looked at them like humans looked at gnomes.

"Do you know me?"

"You are the King of the North! A well-deserved big shot! ”

Kobolds can't think of anything too complicated. When Annan asked why it was a guard, Otto honestly said that it was a slave in the Home Office, where there were many kobolds who did the same dirty work as he was, and then he was lucky enough to be called by the big man to serve as a guard for the king of the north.

Along with the kobold guards, there was also an invitation signed by Duke Léondrey Albert, inviting Annan to the banquet tonight.

Knowing about the estate of Duke Léandro Albert from the old maid, Annan set out in the evening, only to rent a carriage with the kobolds because there was no carriage.

The kobold apparently did not know how to drive a carriage, so Annan personally took the reins. Dozens of minutes later, Annan, who had crossed half of the inner city, arrived at the estate of Duke Léandro Albert.

"Also be careful not to let your 'guards' into the banquet."

Annan handed over the invitation, told the kobold to stay outside the manor, and walked towards the noisy and lively banquet under the meaningful gaze of the butler.

(End of chapter)