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School rooftop.
I was to discuss the future with Herring, but the topic inevitably turned to the old castle of the Golden Hand.
Herring happily talks about Mia-chan.
“Listen. I think Mia may have discovered a new species of plant. I would love to name the plant after Mia, what do you think?”
“How many hours are you going to talk about Mia-chan?”
“I haven’t even told you 30% of it yet?”
Watching Herring tilt his head back, the word “overprotective” seems to perfectly fit.
I sigh, and Herring, perhaps feeling bad about it, asks me about the recent situation.
“Meanwhile, what about you?”
“What do you mean?”
“I heard that daughter of the duke cut off her ties with her parents for your sake. I thought it was kind of sudden, even though there was some break-up talk going on. I thought I’d ask you what kind of methods you used, for future reference.”
“Aren’t you just curious?”
I’m dumbfounded, but there is no point in hiding it, so I tell the truth.
Of course, all my pathetic stories get cut.
I cannot disclose my shame openly.
“I just told that I needed Ange.”
“Is that all?”
“What else is there?”
“No, if that’s all, wouldn’t it have been better if you had told her beforehand?” If I can tell her, there wouldn’t have been a problem in the first place.
I can think of a reason I hadn’t noticed and give Herring an answer that sounds like it.
“Is it a difference in values?”
It was a messy answer, but it seemed enough for Herring.
He is thinking seriously.
“――That’s a troublesome problem for us.”
“Right”
When I make a sidelong glance, Herring leans his back against the rooftop railing and looks up at the sky.
Then he cut to the chase.
“It’s time for me to make contact with another capture target.”
“Robson? You have a harsh judgment”
“I’m just trying to determine if he’s the right man to trust with Mia’s life.”
I say that’s the problem.
Herring, who is overprotective toward Mia-chan, inevitably has a strict eye for men.
Above all, Herring himself is a high-spec man.
Back in the empire, I hear he’s famous as a knight.
I hear he’s not a noble, but I’ve heard the empire is a meritocracy, so there’s a chance he could get a peerage.
I haven’t heard about his financial resources, but I heard that he has a lot of savings because he doesn’t spend much money.
Once I asked him what he was spending his money on and was surprised to find that most of it was related to Mia-chan.
Is there a man in this school that Herring would approve of?
Herring asks me for it with an unflattering look on his face.
“―― But I’ve been realizing lately that I’m a little strict.”
“A little? That’s a little?!”
“That’s why I want you to help me find out.”
“Me?”
Why would he ask me to do that?
When I wonder, Herring tells me the situation.
“It can’t be helped! I don’t have anyone else I can ask. Marie――san, I feel like she has no eyes for men.”
Indeed, it is doubtful that Marie, surrounded by five idiots, has the eyes to judge a man.
She was a person who fell for a hopeless man from a previous life.
“I’m not confident either, but isn’t it more important that Robson gets along with Mia?
Forcing them to get together won’t end well”
I remember what happened to Loic in the Arzel Republic, and I tell Hering that the best thing to do is to let the two of them feel each other’s feelings.
Herring seemed to agree.
“I guess so. First, their feelings. On top of that, it’s whether he’s a man who can protect Mia. At this point, I’m thinking of raising him to be a man who can protect Mia, what do you think?”
“Do you want to start a game of nobleman’s training?”
“If he can’t, I’ll have to prepare him!”
Since there is no man suitable for Mia-chan, he said that he would prepare one himself.
What could make this guy go that far?
“Isn’t your love for Mia-chan too heavy?”
“It’s not heavy. This is normal.”
Raising the capture target of that Otome game and developing him into a man worthy and suitable for the protagonist!
I had a bit of trouble stopping such Herring.
But if he could make the five idiots decent, I’d be inclined to leave it to him.
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