Seeing their back and forth, Gran spoke to Yuumis.
“See? It was your mistake to think of this guy… to think of Luru as a normal kid. Didn’t I say to think of him as an equal?”
“Isn’t that just your impression? I still had no idea what kind of person this boy was! There are things you can’t grasp without having a chat with them, you know… But, well, alright. I didn’t think that he’d even bring up contract magic. Sorry for speaking like I was testing you. I heard about yesterday from Gran, but I wanted to get to know your character a little more deeply…”
From Luru’s perception magic, it seemed that her words weren’t a lie.
“But you still want to report it, right?”
“Honestly, it’s true that it wouldn’t do to stay silent after hearing about it. However, I intended to speak about it as little as possible. Even so, the guild chief has a little authority so… if you consider the case where he decides to exercise it, I wouldn’t be able to guarantee that I’d definitely stay silent. That’s why I thought there’d be trouble in that regard… But if you don’t feel like talking, I wasn’t really going to ask you, you know? I’m interested but… I couldn’t help but feel that if I heard about how to change the magic sequence, and then reported that to the guild head, it would just become a bothersome situation. If possible, I want to avoid situations like that, so wouldn’t it be fine if I didn’t hear anything? There wouldn’t be anything to report.”
It seemed that she was telling the truth.
“Then you won’t be asking? Even though we came here already?”
“That’s what the plan was, but… you can use contract magic, right? If I agree to being bound by that, won’t you tell me? If I can’t speak about it, then I wouldn’t need to fulfil my obligation anymore, right? Wouldn’t that be fine?”
“I don’t think that’s a good thing to do but… Gran, what about you?”
Gran nodded in reply.
“To begin with, I wasn’t gunna say anything. If I was properly following the guidelines of the guild then I’d have the obligation to report, but… In the end, nothing came out of our little adventure. Wouldn’t it be alright to overlook this? Moreover, there’s what Yuumis reasoned out just now as well, so there’s no problems, right?”
In the end, the two of them didn’t intend to absolutely fulfil their obligations.
They were a really irresponsible pair that just went with the flow.
It seems that Luru’s impression of them from when they just arrived in the village wasn’t mistaken.
“Well, in that case… I guess I’ll speak? Iris, are you fine with it too?”
“Yes. As you desire, Luru-sama.”
And thus, Luru cast contract magic on the two of them, and began to talk.
“It is my pleasure to meet you, madam.” The word ‘madam’ here is 奥様(okusama)、and is just a way of addressing the lady/wife of the house.