Lady Bumpkin and Her Lord Villain: Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 6] by Ageha Sakura

Author:Ageha Sakura
Language: eng
Format: epub

Some time after the night of the new moon, Lord Nazel and I embarked on a new task. We headed for the outskirts of Sutrena on mountbeasts, accompanied by Mister Henry, Torre, Kelly, and several other government officials and soldiers. It was sunny, and a pleasant breeze was blowing.

“It seems like this will be a journey free of incidents,” Lord Nazel said.

“Yes, flying in the rain would impair visibility,” I replied.

Lord Nazel and I would ride our wyvern, Geni, while the others would be on pegasi. Our destination was a settlement in the northeastern part of Sutrena, the town of Kattena. Just outside town to the east stood the forest, while the territories of Zazame and Hihime lay to the north. A small thicket demarcated the boundary between the territory of Sutrena and that of Zazame.

Incidentally, I was the one steering Geni today. He was happy for our first trip in a while and had been happily turning around in the air for quite some time now.

“Oh my goodness, I’m so sorry, Lord Nazel. Geni got a little too excited.”

“Heh heh, it’s fine. I’m enjoying it too. I get to stick close to you this way.”

Lord Nazel put strength into his arms to hug me even tighter.

“Eek!”

For some reason, Lord Nazel looked awfully happy about the rotational flight we’d been doing. It meant our trip took longer than regular flight, and we also had to hold tightly to each other. Geni continued turning around playfully, but we eventually arrived at the town of Kattena.

It was my first time here, so I kept looking around with deep curiosity. The town was dotted with plain buildings that appeared to be little more than piled up stones, and overgrown weeds covered much of the unpaved roads. It looked like a very desolate place even by Sutrena’s standards, and everywhere we turned, we saw broken fences and the tumbledown ruins of old houses. In the houses that were still inhabited, almost every window was tightly closed. There were no signs of people anywhere. The doors’ hinges, rusted red, looked like they would break apart from the slightest impact. When I looked down from the sky, I saw vacant plots of land scattered outside the town; it seemed that they had once been fields, but they’d been trampled down by manabeasts.

“This is truly awful,” Lord Nazel said with a scowl as we walked through the streets.

It was easy to imagine that the residents had already lost their livelihoods and were facing intense hardship.

“There are manabeast claw marks everywhere. It looks as if they’re constantly under attack,” Lord Nazel observed.

“I believe your assumption is spot-on. Judging by your reaction, it doesn’t look like you’ve received any reports about this. When their fields are in such a terrible state, can the town even produce any tax revenue?” I asked.

It was truly impressive how Lord Nazel had inferred that something was suspicious here and decided to come investigate in person.

As the two of us continued discussing the situation, Mister Henry spoke up from behind us.

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