Cursed Sword Master

"You've made a pretty good purchase, Lord."

"... n, abundance? Big fish?"

Back at the Mansion, we enter the Mansion chilling the "Sword Saint disciples" admired by the fluorescence in the garden, arranging the bought loot on the living room table. I may have bought too much for my hair clasps, barettas, kachushas, ribbons, etc. It's not expensive, though, because it's all like it's sold in an outdoor store.

The sunflowers and snow said the other women needed souvenirs, so I even thoroughly packed my bags and enjoyed shopping as much as they wanted. It was usually a combination of snow not claiming much and sunflowers claiming all over themselves, but it was a good buy because they both seemed to have so much fun.

"I think this Katyusha would look great on Mr. Green. You should keep your hair down because it moves around so hard. It's cuter."

"... this hair clasp looks good on Kasumi"

"Oh, that's pretty good taste, Mr. Snow. Then this Valletta is Yang."

Yeah, it sounds fun, but you can't keep up with me. Let it go for a while.

Maybe Xia and Yang should be getting ready to welcome customers to the reception room, so should we go see how it goes in the reception room?

That's what I thought. When I left the living room and headed to the reception room, Yang was just about to put a green tea set on the basin and enter the reception room.

"Yang, good luck. How's it going?

"Ah, brother. It's going well, I'm done."

When I enter the reception room with Yang, Xia, who was decorating the flowers inside, notices me and bows her head.

"Has Mr. Melistia arrived yet? Sir."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I think we're almost there, but we haven't. Sistina's picking us up, so she wants us to go home first, so we're the only ones who came back first."

"Really? I'm ready, so I can show you anytime."

"Yeah, thanks Xia, Yang. Sistina said she'd be fine if we left it to the two of us."

"Is it true! If so, I'm glad. Even so, compared to Sistina, we're still here."

"Yeah, well, Sister Sith is getting the job done sometime, no matter how hard we try. Even Sis has a lot of work to do."

I think both Xia and Yang, if you ask me, are such fine samurai that they are not embarrassed anywhere. Yet it's a little pitiful that the two of them are underestimating themselves because of too high a goal to aspire to.

"Yes, both of you. If you're done getting ready, you two can go to the living room because that's enough here. Looks like sunflower and snow bought me a souvenir, so look at that. Even if you're a guest, you can rest until dinner's ready because I'll pick you up."

"Yay! Thank you, brother."

"Here, Yang!... Are you sure, sir"

I laugh and nod at the naive yang who honestly expresses his joy and the disciplined Xia who is happy but cares about his position, and they both shine their faces at the same time and grace me and run to the living room.... Uh-huh, what about running in the house as a samurai, do I have to undo my earlier high ratings? I can hear you two whining in my ear laughing bitterly. It would be a cheer for sunflowers and snow souvenirs.

I'm giving them a lot of money, but we haven't given them a decent rest since they came. Well, so far, there's a chance that the Sacred Tower assassins are after you two, so I don't have a choice, but the Sacred Tower is doomed and if you give it a good rest, you'll be able to enjoy your own shopping, so I need to give it a rest soon.

If I had thought about that, my partying would have taught me that the reaction that seemed to belong to Sistina approached the Mansion.

"Well, I'll pick you up"

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"It's been a while. Dear Fujinomiya,"

"Yes, did you do it a little bit? Melistia."

Melistia, who was recommended by Sistina to sit down on the sofa in the reception room, looks a little loose in the face if she is tired. On the other hand, the dark atmosphere I had wrapped up in when I was in that village was swept away, and I also felt neat somewhere.

"Is it? Maybe so. I may have worked just a little too hard to finish the handover on your mountain a little faster."

That's how she tilts her neck and smiles, she's just a cute girl who's old enough.

"The crisis has left, so you didn't have to work so hard in such a hurry."

"No, that's convenient for me around there. I wanted to come here a little bit sooner."

Oh, well. It was originally a promise that Bertha's case would be cleared. The power of the Samurai Festival would have been better used to rebuild your mountain, so the subordination agreement was intact and Melistia was back in your mountain.

But if they had a subordination contract, I couldn't help but be restless. Then hurry up and finish the takeover and disarm... Huh?

"Take over? Uh, I came to report one paragraph today and cancel my contract... right?

"Do you remember the contract we made, Master Fujinomiya?

"Of course, I remember. The subordination agreement is the same as Sistina's, and apart from that, it's called 'Canceling the Samurai Contract if both parties decide that Bertha's case has been resolved', right?"

Melistia smiles and nods.

"So you've come to terminate your contract by deciding that Bertha's case is over at this time when Bertha is dead and the Holy Tower is practically dissolved and the rebuilding of your mountain is one paragraph away."

"Hehe, Master Fujinomiya is mistaken"

"Huh? What?"

"Though I was to protect your mountain, I used it with someone I shouldn't have used my samurai subordination contract with, and as a result I sacrificed many innocent people, causing anxiety to the world. If it's bright, it's no surprise that it's condemned as an evil offering."

Sistina brews the green tea that Kasumi and Yang had prepared and quietly serves it to us without giving a mouthful to the conversation between me and Melistia.

"That may be true, but you were working hard to figure it out at all while you signed a subordination agreement. Even after you canceled your contract, you signed with me to stop Bertha from fighting with you. As a result, I gave him credit for crusading the Second Tower. Isn't that enough?"

"Thank you. But I'm not convinced. So I'm not done with Bertha in me."

"Huh? That's..."

Melistia is blushing a little. Huh... what is this cute creature, or Melistia, with me like this?

"Hehe, you weren't honest after turning around. Please, Master Fujinomiya, could you keep me like this for your samurai festival?

He looks me straight in the eye while I put up with Melistia wanting to lay her face down in embarrassment. I'm sure there were a lot of glitches.

What will I do in the future as the leader of your mountain, the burden of being under contract with someone who might be called the Evil Festival, whatever the circumstances, if the person who entered into the subordination contract dies and I'm okay with it as it is, or if the new contract partner is like me?

You've heard from Sistina about her life here, and naturally over there...

"No...... is it?

"Oh! No, it's not! Of course, we're welcome. The power of Melistia has been shown to me in that village, and I can never be more comfortable if you'll be one of them."

In haste to deny it, Melistia looks clearly relieved. Is it okay to say that I've accepted everything already?

"Um... Sistina instructed me, so I trained properly in your mountain"

Huh? I guess Melistia, who headed your mountain at the High Samurai Festival, needs to train anything more. I do think the only thing that wasn't enough for the Holy Samurai Festival was [the art of negotiation]... except [the art of negotiation] should be fine because it would be enough if there was one Sistina.

"I worked hard, but it was this morning that I was remembered as a skill." Remarkable ""

I wonder what you trained so hard for. I'm also concerned that Melistia seems a little embarrassed to be turning the 'window' over here. Which......

"Melistia Industry: -4 Age: 17 Position: Samurai Festival (Director General Fujimiya Wolf)

Skills: Housekeeping/Cooking/Contracting/Caning/Protective/Escort/Recovery/In-room

Special Skills: Soul Ringing/Soul Ringing

Especially what's unusual...... Aah!

"Me! I have a twist on us."

"Oh, that!... because Sistina is a must to become Fujinomiya's Samurai Festival..."

Hey, Sistina! Why are you sipping green tea all by yourself? Something about forcefully remembering your skills even though it's not mandatory or anything... No, it's a good job.

Could it be that Melistia is a little upset that she was studying in-room surgery at night in addition to taking over your mountain?

"Sistina?"

"Yes, sir, what is it?"

"Why did you say that? That's not like being forced."

Sistina puts the green tea she had on the table smiling.

"Of course I confirm how Melistia feels. Your husband is undervalued."

"F, Master Fujinomiya! It's my undisguised true feeling that I wanted you to keep your contract as a samurai festival, and that I wanted to be near you as a woman. But I was wondering if a samurai festival like mine could really continue a samurai festival of great people like you. When I talked to Sistina about that, Sistina laughed and told me it was okay. If you still want me to push my back..."

"Try to get [in room surgery]...?

"Yes. Skills are not as easy to acquire as you would like to. And if you're going to get it in a short period of time, you certainly need to study and train, but they say you need to feel even stronger."

I mean, did you really want to be my samurai festival, or did you use [intra-room surgery] on a prototype stone to ask yourself if you think you could have that kind of (...) relationship with me?

Whether or not you have strong enough thoughts to acquire skills in a short period of time, plus if that is [intra-abdominal surgery], naturally that (...) is also included. Without strong feelings for me, both as a samurai festival and as a woman, I wouldn't get to acquire skills. Was Melistia herself setting [in room surgery] as a prerequisite for mentioning contract continuation here today?

"Oh! Already! I kind of did when I was in Sistina, but I can't keep thinking about it when I sign with Samurai Festival. Enough! Me, too, no. I want to (...) be with Melistia. I want it to be my samurai. That's why I ask you to come over here. Melistia, please remain my Samurai Festival."

Stop thinking about the mess. She said she'd have a pretty girl like Melistia with her, so that's fine.

"Oh, please raise your head, Master Fujinomiya! I'm asking for it. Um...... I'm still immature, thank you for your best!

Melistia smiles happily as she slightly wets her eyes. Yeah, that's it.

"I know I'll be bothering you forever, but do me a favor, Melistia."

"Yes!"

"Okay! Then let me introduce you all again. I think maybe he's in the living room, so let's do it."

When I took Melistia and went to the living room where the sunflowers were so obsessed with hair acces, apparently everyone knew this was going to happen, and I normally accepted Melistia and greeted her without any particular surprise. Why not?

Anyway, this is how I made my second samurai festival my companion, and that day, in addition to the cherry blossoms I had returned to in the evening and the "Kensei disciples" I was training, a grand welcome was held in a dish that brought together the total strength of the two samurai festivals and the two samurai.