Satou's here. When I saw the unusually realistic animal toys sold with food on a convenience store, I remember secretly wanting to collect them all. It's the same thing with gacha in recent the social games.
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"Your Royal Highness Shistina, it is truly an honor to be graced with your presence."
Marquis Ashinen said such words to us who visited the viceroy mansion.
The people present here aren't only the Marquis couple, the nobles of the labyrinth city with peerage are also lined up in the entrance.
Usually it's the maids and the butlers who would meet the guest, but as expected of a princess, moreover, since she's the little sister of next king from the same mother, the treatment is different.
After princess Shistina greeted them like a royalty would, Sera and I also greeted them and then we were guided to the usual salon.
The salon that usually felt too large now feels a bit cramped due to the amount of guests.
Coming here bringing a lot of sweets as the souvenir is good decision.
"Sir Pendragon, this is a present to celebrate for you climbing the peerage rank and your inauguration to be the Tourist Ministry vice minister. This is not just from me, but all 17 noble houses in the Labyrinth City."
Marquis Ashinen is giving me a small box that has careful craftsmanship.
Following after him, the other nobles also congratulated me.
"May I open it?"
"Umu."
Opening a present like this immediately after receiving it is the proper manner in Shiga Kingdom, but I inadvertently asked due to my Japanese nature.
--Geh, are you serious?
My surprise surpassed the Poker Face skill as I stared the content of that small box.
"It was worth it getting that by exerting all means, seeing you be that surprised."
"...T-thank you very much."
I take out the [Chant Orb] from the small box and smile at the Marquis and the others.
According to the AR beside the orb, it seems to be something from Saga Empire's [Bloodsucking Labyrinth].
There's a [Light Magic Orb] beside it.
The Chant Orb must be an extra.
They should be quite rare, but getting abundant of drops right when you don't need them happens in games and another world.
It was quite unusual for me to show a worldly desire, so it seems they asked the merchants to look for them as a surprise present.
I'm very grateful. It's not like the thought, "just what was all of my hardships for", didn't flash on my mind, but grumbling after they have gone through a lot of trouble for my sake would make me get hit with a divine retribution.
I feel bad for only receiving things, so I signal the marquis house butler and make him take out the souvenir I've passed on to him earlier.
"These are the tiara and the emerald I saw back then! So you remember."
"Yes, they're articles befitting of Marchioness after all."
I'm indebted to the Marchioness for helping me making the personal connections in the Royal Capital, so I got her the [Tiara] and the [Egg-sized Emerald] that she wanted.
I've sucked up a lot of money from the Royal Capital's nobles, so buying these were no problem at all.
"My! What a beautiful glass-work."
"Satou-sama, is this handicraft the work of a Royal Capital's workshop?"
"Behold! This small handicraft looks as if it's alive."
In addition to that, I presented other things like ancestor king glass statue and small-sized animal glass statues for the servants.
The former was well received as planned, but it seems the marchioness and the noble wives like the latter too.
These were easily made with my original magic [Glass Art], a spell created from [Mud Art] and [Sand to Glass].
At first I made this magic since I wanted a bowl for the shaved ice, but it looks like I can use this for many other things.
"Marquis, I've left the new work to the butler, please enjoy it."
"....B-by new work you mean a work of art?"
"Yes."
It'd cause discord if I only gave the present to the Marchioness, so I haven't forgotten the Marquis's share too.
His present is not my own work, but a [Nude Statue of Man] I got from the Duchy Capital using Unit Arrangement. The Marquis once said, "My friend obtained the new work in the Duchy Capital."
I gave an Echigoya Firm-made set of [Vitality Medicine], [Gloss Skin Medicine], [Hair Growth Formula] to each head of the noble houses. It seems they're hard to get in the labyrinth city, so they were exaggeratedly pleased.