Satou's here. People have different sense of values, but the saying, "The grass is greener on the other side of the fence." exist in any country. Of course, even in the parallel world.
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"Hou? 『Tempura』 huh."
That's the first word from the hero who comes to the banquet while taking along a lot of beautiful women. Looks like he deliberately used Japanese language for the tempura part.
"No, this is a dish called tempura. It's a secret specialties of the people in the know from the northern part of the dukedom."
"Hey, Sato."
"It is an honor to have my name remembered by hero-sama, but my name extends on the end, so please call me Satou."
"That so, sorry then. Satou."
"No, no, please do not mind it."
I don't mind if the hero finds out that I'm a Japanese when I'm as Satou, but it'll be troubling if it gets exposed with all observing eyes here.
The hero receives the tempura that Lulu presents on the plate.
"This is, I'm surprised. I've gotten used with beautiful women around me, but this is the first time I've seen a girl as beautiful as you. Wish I met her five years earlier."
As expected, even the hero was tactful enough not to say the "Five years earlier" part out loud. I didn't think that I got to read it with lip-reading skill.
Lulu's face is turning pale as if she's been insulted with an indirect sarcasm in public. It seems the hero gets secretly scolded by lady Ringrande. The two people beside the hero are smiling, but their eyes aren't.
I pat Lulu's head lightly, and ask her go to the kitchen to get some ingredients.
I'll follow up properly later.
The hero hardens when he sees Arisa who comes as the substitute.
"My honey!"
"Oh my, hero Hayato-sama, it has been a while."
Arisa who understands TPO talks in prim and proper manner. Still, honey he said.
Lady Ringrande, and the imperial princess Maryest confirm with each other that they don't know Arisa in low voices. The other hero's party members don't seem like they're interested with the hero's love life, they're busy eating the tempura and the aspic jellies. Aren't they the hero's harem?
"I'm really happy that you're alive, princess Arisa."
Noises like, "Princess?", or "Who is that maid talking with hero-sama?", are coming from the outfield.
"I thought you had died after getting rolled up in the political strife--"
The hero approaches Arisa while looking very happy, but then his expression freezes.
Ah, I have a bad feeling about this.
We move for a bit, and now there's a table between me and the hero.
"Oy, Satou! Have you forgotten the spirit of YES lolita, NO touch!"
So he really saw Arisa's title, [Satou's Slave]. Even so, I'm not interested in the young ones enough to be needing such spirit.
"Hero-sama, what exactly are you talking about?"
"That's right, Satou-sama was the one who saved me from predicaments. The reason why I'm a slave is because I've been put on Geass magic during the Yowok kingdom invasion."
She whispered the matter about being a slave to the hero so only he could hear it.
The hero confirmed something to the imperial princess Maryest, and the priestess Loreiya-san, but both of them waved their heads. Even the hero's party cannot remove the Geass huh. Just how strong it is. Come to think of it, I also asked head miko-san about it through Sera, but she couldn't do it too after all.
In the end, I proved them that I hadn't touch Arisa to he extent of getting myself checked with Loreiya-san's Truth Judgment magic. From my standpoint, there was no need for me to be subjected with Truth Judgment magic, but since I didn't want to be misunderstood of being a lolicon, I accepted it.
"Is that so, you didn't touch her! Well well, I really want to drink some nice liquor with you."
"I'm afraid I cannot."
It seems like he'll talk about little girls all night long until I vomit.
There were some things we needed to talk about, but since I couldn't keep monopolizing the hero, we promised to meet again later, but there was no opportunity to talk with the hero again today.
The women who followed the prince back then were trying to butter the hero up, but lady Ringrande, and imperial princess Maryest overwhelmingly rejected them.
Girls of 12-13 years old were also talking to the hero, but he acted normally with them, maybe they were out of his strike zone.