“Ha! That’s right. Why don’t you go get a narcotic sniffing dog and raise it?”
Riley was thinking Ian’s idea was ridiculous, and that showed in his mumbling reply.
“A narcotic sniffing dog?”
“There isn’t one in this world? Well, think whatever you think it is.”
Riley answered as he shrugged.
He was innocent, so there wasn’t anything that was poking his conscience.
Riley was skilled in swordsmanship because he had been swinging it until he got sick of it when he was in his past life.
As for the mana, it was possible because Riley still remembered the blessing he received from his last life. With it, just by breathing, he could reach new heights faster than others using dedicated training methods.
“Still, I’m against this. Instead of having just Nainiae to accompany you, it would be better…!”
“…Mr. Ian!!”
Ian was going to try to convince Riley again, but his shoulders flinched.
It was because, while he had his guard down, a sharp voice flew by and stabbed him in the ears from the back.
“I was wondering where you were! You were here? Count Stein is calling for you!”
“S-Sera?”
It looked like she must have been running around the entire mansion in search of Ian.
She was sweating all over. Sera came right next to Ian and grabbed him by the sleeve.
“Instead of holding young master here, just come quickly. Count Stein is calling for you. Didn’t you hear?”
“S-Sera! Wait! You stop young master too! He is going to Iffa village, but having just Nainiae to accompany him is too dangerous…”
It looked like the roles of the junior and higher ranking officers were reversed.
Ian was starting to be dragged away by Sera who held him by the sleeve.
Sera directed her gaze toward Nainiae, who was waiting at the mansion’s entrance. She winked at her and said,
“I don’t think so! I think Nainiae alone is more than enough!”
“Kuk!”
Ian held his ground with all of his might and gritted his teeth.
With desperate eyes, he started to stare at Riley.
His eyes were pleading with Riley to take him along.
‘Young master!’
Riley looked at Ian and then moved his gaze.
When his gaze met with Sera, she said with her eyes,
‘Hurry.’
‘Thanks.’
Riley expressed his gratitude with his eyes and turned around without any hesitation.
At that moment, Ian’s face darkened.
“Young master!”
Ignoring Ian’s desperate cry, Riley went straight to get on the carriage that Nainiae had prepared and waved as he smiled.
“We’ll be back later.”
***
“You said Iffa village, right?”
Perhaps inside of the carriage was too confining for him.
Riley was sitting on the drivers’ seats and watching the sceneries passing by. With an uninterested face, he nodded and said,
“We’ll be there if we go for about another five minutes.”
“Is it the very last village we saw on the way back to the mansion?”
“That’s right.”
Noticing the carriage rumbling, Nainiae used wind magic to gently sweep away low hanging tree branches that could get to Riley. She slowed down the carriage when she saw the village gradually coming into her field of view.
“What should I do about the carriage?”
“You can park it near our destination, so take it all the way there for now.”
It appeared Nainiae understood Riley. She nodded. Following Riley’s order, she drove the carriage methodically. They successfully arrived at the destination.
“Oh, you got here on the first try?”
It wasn’t obvious if this was due to her extraordinary senses of figuring out what her master wants or her sheer brilliance.
She hadn’t even been doing this for a very long time, but she drove the carriage to the destination without asking Riley any questions. Riley looked impressed.