Chapter 73

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"Then, I wish you the best of luck."

"Yeah, I'll be back."

I am now at the castle gate, about to depart, being seen off by Esuick.

After that, it seems Esuick made various preparations, allowing us to leave early.

"Hmmn."

As an envoy to the demon kingdom, I am heading there in a carriage prepared by Esuick. Inside the spacious carriage, Lily is swinging her legs and humming a tune happily.

By the way, only Lily and I are in the carriage, with no one else around.

Esuick asked us to go with as few people as possible, so it's just the two of us who were originally planning to go, plus one person to drive the carriage.

"Then, let's get going!"

The carriage driver is an auntie who speaks just as she looks.

"Ah, please do."

"Please do! Please do!"

Following me, Lily loudly asks the auntie to start the carriage.

"Alrighty then!"

With that deep voice, the auntie says and starts the carriage.

"By the way, Lily, you're a princess, right?"

In the carriage, while talking to Lily, I suddenly remembered and asked her.

"Hmm, is that amazing?"

"Yeah, it's amazing."

Because she's so young, she doesn't seem to fully understand her position, so she asked me back. I decided to explain a little.

"You see, being a princess is what everyone aspires to. Princesses are all beautiful, you know."

"If Lily were a princess, would Nest also aspire to be one?"

"Yeah, he would totally aspire to be one."

"Hmm."

Lily, sounding slightly pleased by my words, placed her head on my lap.

I don't remember where I heard it, but this is apparently called a 'lap pillow.'

Ah, and I also heard that it's usually the man who gets the lap pillow, but that's fine, I guess.

"What do you think the demon kingdom is like?"

I asked Lily, who is still resting her head on my lap.

When I was still in my village, I saw demons a few times, but honestly, they didn't seem much different from us.

Maybe the demon kingdom isn't much different either.

"Hmm, well, it's fun?"

Lily seemed to think about it for a while, but in the end, she only gave me a vague answer.

"Is that so..."

I guess I really need to see it for myself...

"By the way, what's the reason you were sent as envoys?"

During a break, the auntie driver asked us.

Well, I don't think there's any harm in telling her...

"Yeah, we originally participated in a party in the city, but one of our companions was mistaken and taken to the demon kingdom. This time, we asked King Esuick to let us go and bring them back."

The reason for the mistake is Lily, who is currently leaning on me and sleeping, but I don't think I need to mention that.

"Wow, that's a tough break."

The auntie, surprised by my words, said.

"Well, you know, it's... my important person..."

...Ugh, I never say things like this, so it's embarrassing.

Maybe because she's older, I ended up saying things I didn't need to.

"Wow, you're quite the guy."

Then, the auntie, misunderstanding something, looked at me with a smile on her wrinkled face, as if she had found something interesting.

"N-no, that's not it, it's not like that!"

I don't know what's wrong or what's not like that, but I tried to defend myself.

"Um, it's just... Ah!"

I thought I needed to say something, but in the end, I couldn't think of anything and just made a strange sound.

"Hehehe."

The auntie is trying to hold back her laughter, but she's not doing a very good job.

"Ha..."

I guess older people are like this...

I remembered how, in my village, children who had made older people their enemies would become very obedient to them a few days later, and I thought to myself.

"Anyway, do your best."

"Thank you."

I didn't forget to thank the auntie who was cheering us on.

"Alright, let's go..."

After finishing our conversation with me, the auntie returned to her job, and the carriage started moving again.