I was dozing in my room, lured by the sound of the rain that had been falling all morning.

　I was lying in my easy chair, surrendering to the strange magic of the sound of the rain.

My lord, if you will excuse me.

　With a knock, the voice of the mansion's maid could be heard.

'Fluffy ... what?'

　He listened back, yawning so loudly that tears welled up in his eyes.
　A young maid came into the room and reported.

'His Highness Lina Mi Aigina is here to see you, sir.
Lina?　What do you want?
'Well I don't have...'

　The maid furrowed her eyebrows and made a troubled face.
　Well, a maid couldn't possibly ask the royals what they were doing here, right?

　Anyway, Lina, what is she really doing here?
　I've been dozing off for so long, I can't think straight.

　Anyway, you can ask her.

"Where are you?
Okay, we'll start with the guest room at the end of the hallway.
It's in the guest room.

　When I heard where she was, I left the room, walking past the maid at the door.
　I walked out into the hallway and headed to the guest room at the end of the hallway that I was told in a straight line.

　Anyway........why the guest room?
　It's supposed to be the parlor to let guests through when they come in.
　Is there something to this too?

Fluffy...

　I stretch as I walk, I'm still not moving my head at the moment.
　I hear the rain, but the world seems to stand still, to say the least, in silence.
　My head is not working as well as it should on a rainy day.

　I've reached the subject's guest room.
　I put my hand on the doorknob - oh, it's locked, isn't it?
　How did you get the key?　He's a client.

　I don't know. Did you make a mistake?
　Oh, well, it's just this key.

　With a twist of the knob, I force open the lock and enter.

...Huh?
..........

　The head that wasn't turning stopped turning even more, or rather, froze.

　My head and my body froze.
　But they were even more frozen than I was.

　Lina Mi Aigina.

　For some reason, she was naked in the room.
　She took off her clothes and took a fresh set of clothes.

　A drop from her wet hair, plopped, and fell to the ground.
　Time stops and starts to move.

　A scream ripping through the silk echoed through the mansion.

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　It's just me and Lina in the guest room.
　Lina has changed from wet to dry clothes and is sitting in a chair with a cold look on her face.
　I, on the other hand, was sitting upright on the floor a few feet away from the chair, feeling guilty that I had seen her completely naked while she was changing.

'Did you see her?'
'What?　No, that's not....
You saw it, clearly.
Yes.

　My shoulders slump and I get small.
　I've gazed at him so much, and we've made eye contact, there's no good excuse for not looking at him at all.

''Huh....''

　Lina sighed tremendously.

'We're in trouble,'
A frame?
'Unmarried royalty, especially female royalty, are chaste.

　Yeah, that's right.

"You must not show your skin to anyone but the man you are to marry. "You must not show your skin to anyone other than your own husband, even if he is your husband, except in his own bedchamber.
What would happen if I saw it?
I had to kill him.
Nah!

　Lina stared at me.
　She looked like she was thinking about something, then said more.

'Here's the problem.'
What more?
"If you were a commoner, you could just show your disrespect, but you're a nobleman, a full-fledged baron of the Kingdom of Aegina. If you want to kill him, you'll have to report his details to His Majesty.
Nah!

　I'm raptured again.
　But it makes sense.

"And when that happens, they'll take down the Cano family for sure.
No, no, please don't do that!

　That's not good, very bad.
　I don't want to be the master of the house, but that doesn't mean I want to destroy the house or anything.
　The ideal thing for me is to give the house to my sister.
　And I'd like to return to a comfortable, easygoing life.

　The only thing I want to do is to take the Cano house down.

Please!　I'll do anything.
Yeah?

　Lina tilted her head and looked at me with a slightly softened brow.
　Is this a pulse?

Did you just say you'd do anything?
Oh, yeah. I'll do anything. So don't report me.
So will you do me a favor?
Please?
I came to ask you for a favor in the first place.
You can tell me anything you want, if I can help it.

　Lina huffed and smiled.
　Her expression softened, this would work.

The stray demon Sandroth has been on the rise again lately. I've been sent by Your Majesty to destroy them. But it's impossible for my girls to defeat it. So...
'I suppose we'll just have to beat this thing called Sandros!　Where are you?
I'm here.

　Lina took out a four-fold piece of paper, I took it and opened it up, it was a map with a batten on it.

　It's not far, it's a day trip.

'It will take three days to get there first, but I've got my legs ready--'
I'm out.

　Goodness must be hurried, no, it's a mudslide, that's why we have to make it the fastest.
　I ran out of the mansion and ran as fast as I could towards the location on the map, brushing off the rain that was falling in my spirit.

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Baron Hermes Cano. Your commission to defeat Sandroth was a great honor.

　The hall of audience in the mansion, a messenger from the kingdom was endlessly laying out the Emperor's compliments.
　Even if you take out the formalistic qualifying declarations, it's still not quite long enough.
　I could tell that he was really messed up and was being praised.

　It's really a tremendous compliment.
　They say I'm the most loyal vassal in the kingdom for unconditionally cooperating with Lina, and that my work should be a model for all nobles.
　These are just some of the things that are being said.

　And finally...

I suppose you could say that he is the crown jewel of the kingdom.

　He even said.

　While the messenger was speaking for the king, Lina, who had followed him, remained silent beside the messenger the whole time.
　After delivering half an hour of praise, the messenger, having completed his task, left the hall of audience.

　I dismissed the other vassals and soldiers and left him alone with Lina.

'What do you mean, why did you tell His Majesty the King?'
'What do you mean? 'Defeating someone means you can even tell who did it by the trail. Wasn't it like that at the Slime Lord?
Oh...
Traces of your power were passed on to the kingdom at that time. It won't be long before we know for certain that you defeated Sandros.
'Yes, that's true, but ... yes!　So you wouldn't have had to add all that stuff?
Huh?
I cooperated with you unconditionally or something.

　That was a great lift, too, and this one is untrue!

'Huh...'

　Lina was dumbfounded and sighed loudly.

'Ah, I had to say it. You can't tell me that you helped me because you saw me naked, can you?
Ugh....

　As long as Lina was right and I couldn't tell her that I saw her naked and helped her with the terms of her silence, I had to do something like that.

''Gunn........''

　As a result of my panic and keeping Lina quiet.
　I had made one more fame in the kingdom.