Shizuku instinctively tried to raise a groan in objection to Gaharudo but decided to sit down loudly. Suzu calmed her with a wry smile, however for some reason Kouki was glaring at Hajime.
[Hajime Nagumo. You as well, don’t go placing your hands on Shizuku?]
[Be relieved, I don’t have the faintest interest in doing that. Rather, if you're only going to idly chat, I’d like to leave now?]
[Our chit chat was unneeded huh. It’s a talk about a new concubine…...or Empress that may appear you know? It even involves the Empire's future…..ma~a, what I wanted to talk about certainly wasn’t about Shizuku. You should already know right? It’s about your abnormality]
Gaharudo bought time by starting with Shizuku to observe Hajime, he judged it was the proper time and slowly the entire atmosphere changed. It was different from the playful atmosphere, it was now one filled with ambition, it gave off a radiance of a sharp blade.
Gaharudo cut to the chase and asked the biggest reason for meeting with Hajime’s group.
[I’ve heard about it to some degree from princess Ririana. You’re someone who’s made it to the end of the great labyrinths and obtained the ability to create artifacts…...completely repelled the Majinzoku’s army, and was able to travel the distance which would normally take 2 months in less than 2 days, such an artifact. Is it true?]
[Ahh]
[And you have no intentions of sharing those artifacts with neither the Kingdom nor Empire?]
[Ahh]
[Fu~n, one person monopolizing that power…….do you think we’d allow such a thing?]
[Whose permission is required? If I’m not allowed, what exactly are you going to do about it?]
Gaharudo steeled his eyes to Hajime’s response.
The Emperor’s ambitions increased even more, Ririana began gritting her teeth and was worrying nonstop. The bodyguards behind Gaharudo began to release bloodlust before Gaharudo did. In contrast, the presence of the people who were hiding in the room began to diminish even further. It was exactly like a touch-and-go state.
Towards the tensed air Kouki’s group had stiff faces and steeled themselves for battle.
However, Hajime’s group completely warded off the breeze-like bloodlust with their own heavy bloodlust which could be felt sticking onto their skins, then calmly reached out for the tea cups. At that instant, he glanced at the locations of where the hiding people’s hidden presences were. [Have we been noticed?] they said.
did they notice properly, their presence that could be felt shook slightly.