Now my lady, allow me to take your hand."
"Eh, um? Is it alright for me to be escorted?"
Lulu happily takes my hand even while looking hesitant.
Lulu is the lead role today, so there's no need to hesitate.
"Sir Pendragon has come!"
"Viscount-sama! Do you remember me?"
"Satou-sama! Please dance with me."
When we entered the assembly hall, some familiar loli noble daughters and unfamiliar young ladies met me.
I don't know the reason why I'm this popular, but thanks to Sera and the princess's guards, I escorted Lulu without any interruption.
"C-can I really dance in such a prominent dance party?"
"Please don't worry. Zena-sama looks beautiful even compared to the other ladies."
Liza backed up Zena-san who was getting anxious.
I think the parties in the royal castle were more flashy, but it's probably just a rounding error of the refined Zena-san.
In order to make her get accustomed to this early on, I'll let her participate in this kind of events more.
"Meat tasty~"
"This meat here is delicious too nodesu."
"Cut fruit."
"Mia! This fruit is a rose, so I report."
"Nn, pretty."
Tama, Pochi, Mia and Nana are engrossed with the dishes together with Lady Karina.
"It seems you add this sauce to the meat."
"The sauce is spilling~?"
"If you put another meat above the meat, it won't spill nodesu."
"As expected of Pochi desuwa."
"Nice~"
Glad that they're enjoying it.
"Did you not know? Sir Orion has gone back to visit his hometown."
When I asked a familiar-looking young noble about Lady Karina's little brother, Orion-kun, I was told that he's currently visiting Muno Earldom.
I haven't got any mail from Muno Earldom since I've been traveling with an airship recently.
"Satou-dono, I've collected the pedigree of the eastern small country group."
"Thank you."
Toruma gave me a booklet that contains the condensed information of the eastern small country group.
I only skimmed at it, but I saw that it had information about the tastes and the ways to negotiate with important figures, even better than the tourist book.
He'd have been successful if he used this talent in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs....
"Satou-dono! Why didn't you invite me to the barbecue meeting!"
"Truly truly! It was already over when I rushed there after my retainer informed me about it!"
Marquis Lloyd and Earl Houen who were usually always smiling pressed me with menacing looks.
These two should have eaten a lot as the judges, I never thought that they had enough willpower to eat more.
"I'm very sorry. I was worried about your stomaches so I kept it a secret while intending to invite you two for another day."
"I-is that so! As expected of Satou-dono."
"U-umu! I'm looking forward to the next barbecue meeting!"
The barbecue meeting is already decided huh.... These two's stomaches sure are youthful.
Afterwards, Viscount Shimen, Viscount Emlin, and even the previous Earl Wolguck couple wanted to participate too, the scope of the barbecue meeting was getting bigger.
I intended it to be a small meeting, but since the invitee had increased too much, we will open the meeting in two days, borrowing the duke's castle open space.
The retainers of Marquis Lloyd will handle everything besides the cooking, so I only need to tell the required ingredients and tools to him.
"Head Miko-sama is?!"
Sera who was talking with a priest of Parion Temple leaked out a voice of surprise.
I had a bad feeling when I saw Sera running toward me with a pale face.