Part 5
Looking at Finn and the others in the distance is Karl with binoculars in his hand.
“That kid, if he ever does anything improper to Mia, I’ll have him executed.”
Karl says something dangerous, but then turns around when he hears someone’s footsteps approaching.
Then, standing there was Leon.
“Areh? Karl-san, right? What are you doing in a place like this?”
Luxion was floating near Leon’s right shoulder, pointing his red lens at Karl and moving his inner ring.
Karl responds by making a smile, although he feels as if he is being probed.
“Well, Mia was on the boat. I thought I’d check on her.”
Leon comes next to Karl, who is trying to smooth over, and sees Finn and Mia on the boat.
“True. But still, they’re together today? Finn is as overprotective as ever.”
Leon is stunned by Finn’s overprotectiveness, but his partner, Luxion immediately tells him.
[Master can’t speak about others either, though. You are with Noel today, and I think you are overprotective enough.]
“——Shut up.”
Karl was intrigued to see Leon interacting with the artificial intelligence.
As he strokes his chin and watches them, Leon notices and asks.
“What’s wrong?”
“No, you seem to be very close. The kid——Same with Herring and Brave, but your relationship looks slightly different. That’s interesting to me.”
After hearing Karl’s assessment, Leon and Luxion were apparently dissatisfied.
They turn their faces away from each other.
“It’s hard to have an artificial intelligence without loyalty.”
[It’s me who has a hard time with a twisted Master.]
In front of two people who seem to be somewhat similar to each other, Karl let his guard down a bit.
Then he asks Leon how he is doing these days.
“I beg your pardon. Things seem to be getting more and more dangerous these days. I know you can’t talk about it, but are you okay?”
Leon answers, scratching his cheek with his fingertips and looking away from Karl.
He can’t tell them everything and doesn’t seem to want to.
“It’s a lot of work. Well, I’d like to end it peacefully.”
“Peaceful, huh? ——Herring tells me that you are very strong. I wonder if you could defeat the Holy Kingdom of Raschel single-handedly?”
When he asked probing questions, Luxion was more guarded.
There was silence, and the red lens watched Karl’s movements.
If he makes a strange move, he will be immediately dealt with.
However, Leon is less cautious.
Perhaps he had been let his guard down by the fact that he was an acquaintance of Finn and Mia’s.
“I hate that kind of thing. I may look like this, but I’m a peace loving man.”
“You, the so called Fiend Knight?”
Karl laughs teasingly, and Leon jokingly replies.
“That’s a different person. I’m not a fiend, I’m not that kind of a man to be feared. It’s just what other people call me arbitrarily.”
“I think it’s what other people think of you. Well, that’s fine. ――Do you have a goal? Since you’ve got the power, you at least have a wish that you want to fulfill, right?”
Status, honor, money, women —— it’s a question for Leon, who seems to be able to have it all if he wants it.
But Leon scratches the back of his neck and makes a disgusted face.
“Any more than this is out of my hands. The truth is, I’m someone who lived the slow life as a quasi-baron in the countryside. I don’t know what happened that made me rise so far”
When Karl heard this, he was startled and rolled his eyes.
“You didn’t want this? Not even a little? As a man, you want to get a promotion, right?”
“No, I don’t. I hate responsibility. If I have to take on more responsibility as I rise in the ranks, I’d rather be in a lower position.”
Karl looks at Leon and thinks.
(Well, maybe it’s not unselfish, but maybe it’s true that he doesn’t want to get a promotion.)
That’s when it happened.
Leon notices something unusual and directs Karl’s gaze toward the boat.
“Something’s wrong, isn’t it?”
“Hmm? Wha!?”
Karl looked toward the pier and saw Mia there, getting off the boat and running alone. She was apparently crying.
Finn is standing there, Brave is rushing after Mia.
It is obvious that something happened.
(K-Kiiiid! How dare you made my Mia cryyyyy!!)
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