Speaking of the jacket, because it wasn’t buttoned, Shin could clearly see her cleavage pushed up by the leather armor from his location. This was totally different from the princess he imagined.
――――『Rionne Strail Bayreuth Level 230 Magic Swordswoman』(T/N: I may have stated her main job as Dark Knight before.)
Although her name and level were displayed, Shin understood that excluding him, she was the strongest in that room simply from the presence she emitted.
Shin guessed that she probably wore those clothes for combat. Apparently, a match seemed inevitable.
“Thanks for coming. I’m Rionne Strail Bayreuth, this country’s second princess. My best regards.”
“I’m the adventurer, Shin. Thank you for inviting me here today.”
He bowed his head while introducing himself.
“Oh my! This is turning into a serious talk. I don’t really care for etiquette, so you don’t need to worry about manners. Feel free to call me Rionne.”
“…Then, Rionne-sama it is…”
Though Shin thought ‘isn’t it bad?’ for the princess to not care about courtesy, but still, Shin avoided pointing it out.
As she frequently appeared in the downtown area, her activities as a princess would put adventurers to shame. ‘There’s also such a thing’, Shin convinced himself.
Her beautiful appearance was princess caliber, but she didn’t exude the dignity of someone from a royal family. Was this a positive or negative for the royal family? It seemed opinions could differ on this matter.
“Princess, I wouldn’t do that in the first meeting. It will cause a misunderstanding.” (T/N: Having a boy call a girl by her first name is typically done only by those in a relationship.)
“He is a person who we may soon fight together with as a companion. Wouldn’t this be better than creating a strange barrier between us because I’m from the royal family?”
“…Shin, it’s unfortunate, but this is how the princess is. Please don’t worry about your social status and act casually.”
“Yes…I, will do my best…I guess?”
Shin thought ‘rather than a princess, she should be called a sociable adventurer.’
Gadras’s tone too, for some reason, became less formal. Apparently, this seemed to be their usual way of exchange between lord and retainer.
When Shin fleetingly glanced at Feyzel, while feeling at a loss, he saw that the man stood upright like one of the room’s furnishings as if saying ‘it’s of no concern to me’.
“Um, for now, I want to ask you the reason why I was summoned…”
“Muu! You don’t have to use formal words, you know?”
“Well, for some reason, that’s kind of..”
Just because the person in question permits it, it didn’t mean that the surrounding people would accept it in the same way.
Even if the princess has no bad intentions, since there was an observer there as well, it would be troublesome for him if someone later said he acted too familiar.
“Well, there’s no helping it if Shin said so. Now then, the reason why I invited you today, I think you may already heard it from Barlux, but it’s the matter of the Skull Face. It was the one that was level 359 and wielded this.”
As she said that, Rionne opened a huge case that was located under her feet.
‘Wasn’t that a job for a maid?’ was what Shin thought, but unfortunately, there wasn’t a single maid in that room. Incidentally, there wasn’t even any tea prepared.
What Rionne took out was the greatsword, which had belonged to the Skull Face that Shin had previously defeated. It should be too heavy for a woman, but Rionne lifted it with one hand like it was nothing.