Special Extra - A newly written Short Story
“By the way, what do you normally do in your own room?”
“──Ha?”
On a certain afternoon. When Tifalycia went to Reiji’s room to talk about governing matters, Reiji asked that to her on the contrary.
“Why...all of a sudden?”
“Well, there’s no real reason.”
“Haa......In my own room, is it?”
“Yeah. Aren’t there various things?”
“......Well, there is Tistel’s──”
“Un, not that kind of boring stuff. It’s about things you will be embarrassed about if someone sees.”
“Wh──Why do you want to know about such things!?”
“Let me ask you back ── What do you think is the reason?”
“Eh......”
When Reiji asked like that, there would definitely be a meaning──
“Well, there’s no complicated reason behind it. I’m just bored.”
“You’re the worst!!”
“No no, didn’t I always say? Intel is everything. It begins with knowing about any and all kinds of things, you know?”
“Don’t make it sound plausible for......”
“So?”
“There is no such thing!”
Clearly denying it, Tifalycia glared at Reiji.
“I said this before, there are many miscellaneous chores to do, especially recently, so I do not have the time to do anything else.”
“Hoh, none? Completely? Not even an instant?”
“......That’s......if talking about an instant, then there is.”
“Right? Let alone an instant, between jobs, when entering the bath after the job is over, a time to take a breather, you still have such times. Especially when considering yesterday’s workload, you should have plenty of time to waste.”
It was a strangely detailed story.
Tifalycia noticed her own anxiety and quickly spoke.
“Yesterday...certainly......umm, I did have some time to do some light reading.”
“Yesterday...huh.”
“............Umm, what...do you want to say?”
“Eh? Isn’t it about what kind of embarrassing thing Tifalycia usually does in her own room?”
Reiji grinned.
That roundabout way of asking ── Tifalycia could not help but realize.
That was wrong. It was not a simple question of asking what Tifalycia usually did in her own room. It was not that, the objective was something that laid ahead of that.
Rather ── Did Reiji already know?
About what Tifalycia usually did in her own room.
The moment Tifalycia thought so, her face turned completely red with embarrassment and realized that she had to make an excuse immediately.
“U-Umm...you see. I-It’s not really something embarrassing but ── that......I-I wore the clothes my mother worn in the past and...p......pretended to be......the Ruler of 「Elf」 ── t-there is a deep reason behind it.”
“Heeeeh (w) By the way, what’s this meaning that you speak of?”
“Uu...guh......Umm, I’m still...the lowest seat of...the royalty of 「Elf」......”
“Ah, there’s still the what if as a potential inheritor of the throne! Unlikely though! In the first place, even if there is the possibility, pretending to be the Ruler won’t really have any use though!”
“Uuu......”
“Well, what I want to find out is not that.”
“Not this!?”
“There’s something even worse right?”
“E......Even worse......?”
Amongst the things Tifalycia did in her own room which would make her feel embarrassed if seen by others, there was only that ── no.
Don’t tell me──
Was that seen?
Reiji grinned as if he knew everything, Tifalycia’s face was already beet red, she faced down, looking about to cry, and spoke with a really small voice.
“When I was...reading th......that......book......occasionally......umm......my feelings...heightened......umm..................basically......that’s...therefore......you can call it natural reaction or──”
“──Alright, okay.”
Suddenly, Reiji clapped his hands.
Tifalycia jolted her body and looked up questioningly, to see Leu in the room unknowingly.
“Luring with this kind of feeling will make a weak opponent talk themselves.”
“──I see, I have learned from this. As expected of Master.”
“Eh............eh?”
Lured? A weak opponent will talk themselves?
In order to teach Leu the method of grasping a weak opponent in her hands, Tifalycia was used as the teaching material?
Reiji had not really ── known what Tifalycia had done?
“Well, the difficulty depends on the opponent. And as usual, Tifalycia has been a great help for becoming a sample as a good way to kill time.”
“────”
“Hmm? What? No words of gratitude? I’m also glad to know a new side of Tifalycia. Pretending to be the Ruler of 「Elf」 (lol).”
Tifalycia, who was tapped on the shoulder by the unreservedly laughing Reiji, trembled with rage boiling inside──
“Ah, is it better if I expose one more thing?”
Her worst weakness was grasped by her worst opponent, as she knew that, she lost her momentum and hung her shoulders powerlessly──
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