Outbreak Company: Volume 7 by Ichiro Sakaki

Author:Ichiro Sakaki [Sakaki, Ichiro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

The next day, I was to appear at the castle with Shinichi-sama. In other words, I was to attend an audience with Petralka an Eldant III, the empress.

There were a number of audience rooms at Eldant Castle, of which we were shown into the very smallest. Even so, it was bigger than any room in our mansion, and it had a unique atmosphere that always made me a little uneasy. Normally, someone like me would never get anywhere near the empress.

“..........And that’s the story.”

Altogether, four of us were shown into the audience chamber. Shinichi-sama, Minori-sama, myself—and Falmelle-san. Since the subject of a replacement maid for me was expected to come up at this audience, I had been brought along. And Falmelle-san, insisting she wanted to pay her respects to the empress, attached herself as well.

Just a visit with the empress would raise her stature as a merchant in the Holy Eldant Empire, so she didn’t want to miss this opportunity—or so I suspected. Falmelle-san may have spent her life imprisoned, but she had certainly absorbed the commercial know-how of the Faugron family.

Shinichi-sama explained the broad contours of the situation before concluding, “So we’re going to need a new maid... Is that all right?”

“Will you indeed,” the empress mused from her throne. Her Majesty held the imposing title of Empress of the Holy Eldant Empire, but in fact she was impossibly cute. She had luxurious, beautiful silver hair and round eyes as green as emeralds; she looked like the delicate work of a master doll maker. Her Majesty, however, seemed somewhat uncomfortable with the fact that this made her look a bit young—she seemed to be concerned that it would undermine her authority—and she would not be very pleased to hear anyone actually pronounce her “cute.”

“So you are Myusel’s mother.”

Her Majesty looked past Shinichi-sama to where Falmelle-san and I were standing behind him. I felt myself straighten up, but Falmelle-san somehow seemed even calmer under the imperial gaze.

“The resemblance is apparent. We might have taken you for sisters.” The empress sounded intrigued.

Falmelle-san offered an elegant bow in return. “My father told me she looked exactly as I did when I was an infant. Thus some expectation attended her, but sadly it seems my daughter has not inherited any of my powers.”

“Powers, you say?” Her Majesty leaned forward, her interest apparently piqued by Falmelle-san’s pregnant hint.

“Oh, nothing very remarkable. Sometimes it is called ‘The Foreseeing Eye.’ It’s terribly vague, never showing me any details—but once in a while, images of the future are revealed to my sight.”

“My goodness...” The empress’s eyes widened. “The power of prophecy? We have heard tell of it, but...”

“Apparently it’s helped business go very well for her family,” Shinichi-sama added.

“We do have some magic-users who tell fortunes here at the castle,” Her Majesty reflected. “But besides being most imprecise, these fortune-tellers claim that to see the future is to change the future, or some such thing. If your power is indeed what you say, it could be of great use to our nation in everything from governance to war.

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