Chapter 384: Facing a Terrible Situation

Because it is a hunt the maids accompanying from the clan capital are only around Her Majesty, Lily is not accompanying. Lily anyway even if she stayed in the clan capital would only have time on her hands so I think they should have brought her, but if the women who are targets to protect increase the range of defense spreads so they say they brought only the minimum number of women. Lily’s ability I think is far above the knights around there but that is not general recognition and to the Eisleben men being seen as ability below Lily seems a thing equal to an insult to die. There are guys glad being toyed with by Lily at the training ground but according to them when they go out to an actual place of exchanging lives they do not fall behind Lily! they say. Well the mouth is free to say.

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In the dining hall several maids are eating. Sandy and the other maids are familiar faces with the knights going hunting and talking at ease. Well it is not that large a mansion so it naturally becomes so I thought while watching. Only Sandy seems the oldest and maids younger and more calculating than Sandy being more popular can be seen. Is it that it cannot be helped because Sandy is a widow? Even though she is hairless.

The dishes served in the dining hall, perhaps because they welcomed Her Majesty and the clan chief and below, I think even for ones like us lavish things are put out. If this is the usual level of dishes the wealth of this domain is amazing. Accompanying the dishes a beer-like thing, wine, and a distilled-liquor-like thing came out. Wine is ordinary but the beer-like thing and distilled-liquor-like thing seem local specialties and those accompanying all seemed to have looked forward to them. Beer aside, distilled liquor, a high-alcohol thing, drinking it from daytime what will you do! I think but everyone drinks drinks and faces bright red it has become a banquet state. When the Eisleben clan knights start drinking the guard knights who accompanied from the royal capital start drinking too. Moreover because there is work from the afternoon with this we stop, no one stops them that way so the liquor that came out they gladly drink. Leaving it is a waste! they say. Those frowning seeing that seem only Sandy and me. Someone stop this I thought while refusing being told to drink.

Anouk is serving Her Majesty so in this dining hall there is no one else close to me so I eat silently. If these guys all break their guts what will they do? I suddenly thought. They will not drink themselves under I suppose but if at the critical moment they are useless what then? I thought and immediately noticed I must not raise that kind of flag...

Now, Her Majesty and the others’ lunch ended so I went to the entrance and waited and the clan chief with a bright red face came out. Following him Her Majesty with no expression follows. Anouk has a sign of anger floating. Is this not that the clan chief drank too much and that touched Her Majesty’s temper? Rather than showing anger honestly, hiding anger and being expressionless is far scarier, I know... The clan chief’s steps are firm so there is no need to worry... I suppose?

But a bad premonition, a pounding in the chest, almost never fails to materialize, I know. I worried about the direction of being shaken on a horse and growing badly drunk but it swung to the direction of breaking the gut.

One person two people leave the road, get off the horse in the grass and squat lowering trousers. They do not move as they are. We while looking at that sideways advance without stopping. Are Eisleben men used to this kind of thing? Leaving the ones who broke their guts, if while they are having diarrhea they are attacked by a beast what then? I think.

When the town of Andeshon became unseen it happened. Already more than ten people are thought to have dropped out. When one person with courage leaves the procession there are ones who leave accompanying that. If you lose face better two than one I think that way of thinking. When it is three or four you stop wanting to enter that circle. The scary thing about the symptom of breaking the gut is that it does not become all of the ones who went to squat have the symptom! There are ones whose gut is dangerous but they are enduring, that, ones with a hand on the gut have light symptoms or are they enduring on their pride?

When I thought the tip of the forest was seen ahead of my gaze the whole time the procession stopped. A small rest before starting the hunt but many of the knights scatter. Among the maids one or two seem unwell and about that no one says anything. Even if there is a screen and you say it cannot be seen from around, even if they are reasonably distant, if the sound accompanying diarrhea happens, even if you say it is a phenomenon that happened because it was bound to happen, what correspondence to take toward the person concerned I do not know.

Rather than hunt preparations everyone’s diarrhea cleanup is continuing. Somehow that liquor seems the cause. The low-rank commoners who did not drink liquor have calm faces. Her Majesty fortunately is calm. I cannot believe it but I do not think she is enduring a terrible one. Anouk and Sandy have not changed color either so I think they are all right.

The people left behind do not catch up and the people who were enduring also disappear into the grass. It has become like a field hospital? "Healing" somehow does not seem to work on diarrhea. Because it is food poisoning, do they have to put out of the body the thing that is the cause? Around there I do not understand well. Now and then on the wind the smell of diarrhea comes.

The clan chief? when I look he is sleeping snoring. He drank too much I suppose. If that auntie intentionally invited this situation she would be a terrible schemer. No one being on guard and the fools who drink with all their might may be the problem.

Anyway knights who are standing and seem fine are not even ten?

Even so, limited to this kind of time, a thing I do not want to come comes. Incidentally that was not that auntie...