Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 9] by Hiiro Shimotsuki

Author:Hiiro Shimotsuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Eight: The Princess’s Retinue

Shess’s new residence had an astonishing fifteen bedrooms in total, as well as a deluxe bathroom with an absolutely ginormous bath. If this were Tokyo, a place this big would have cost several hundred million yen, at least, but in this world, this was basically par for the course for a noble’s residence. In fact, if anything, this would be considered on the small side.

Luza plus Shess’s ladies-in-waiting would live with her in the mansion, while the rest of the princess’s retinue—the other guards, the servants, and the cooks—would reside in a separate building elsewhere on the estate, the grounds of which were surrounded by a fence. Despite the size of this secondary building, Shess had brought so many servants with her, some of them would be forced to bunk up. Hm, having to share a room with a member of the opposite sex, huh? Sounds like a recipe for hilarious hijinks. Could be kinda fun.

Once I’d given Shess the grand tour, I decided I should introduce myself to her entourage, but for some odd reason, I found all of them glaring at me as I approached, especially Shess’s ladies-in-waiting. From what I’d been told, a princess’s ladies-in-waiting were handpicked from other, less important noble households. Perhaps they disliked the idea of being in the vicinity of filthy commoners like Aina and me? Or maybe they thought their mistress shouldn’t be acting so buddy-buddy with us, due to our inferior pedigree? Whatever the case, Shess had five ladies-in-waiting, and they all looked to be between the ages of fifteen and twenty-odd. After looking me up and down a few times, they huddled around and started muttering to one another.

“That’s the dragon rider?” one of them asked, shooting me a disdainful look.

“It must be, judging from how Her Highness acts around him,” another said.

“Are you sure? He doesn’t strike me as the kind of man who would ever be able to tame a dragon of all things. Perhaps he used an illusion spell to trick Her Highness into believing he had one?”

A fourth lady-in-waiting gasped. “I think you’re right! Look at his hair and eyes. They’re pitch black! He’s a black magic user, no doubt about it!”

“And look at his feeble arms. Even Baron Noa’s son has bigger biceps than that. I’m telling you, there’s no world in which that man is a dragon rider,” concluded the final one to speak.

It sounded like the people in the capital were under the impression that I was some mighty dragon rider who had tamed an extremely powerful dragon. Shess’s ladies-in-waiting had never met me before, and judging from their reaction, they were expecting me to be a ripped Adonis of a man, not the human beanpole standing in front of them. “Disappointed” didn’t even begin to describe how they were all feeling at that moment. They even suspected me of casting an illusion spell to trick Shess and her mother into thinking I owned a dragon.

“What are you all muttering about?” Shess said, glaring sharply at her ladies-in-waiting.

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