I thought and cleared my throat. The Captain started speaking awkwardly.
"I heard you have a day off tomorrow."
"Ah~, come to think of it, yes I do."
When he said that, I remembered that I have a day off tomorrow.
But, what's wrong with that?
I thought and tilted my head and the Captain turned to face me.
"Tomorrow's also my day off. I was wondering if you'd like to go to town together."
"To town!?"
Oh! I can finally go to town!!!
I haven't been to town yet.
When I replied cheerfully, the Captain recovered and smiled.
"I heard from Johan that you were secluding yourself in the research institute even on your days off. It's also important to take a breather once in a while, isn't it?"
"Is that so?"
Johan is the Director.
It seemed that the Director was worried about me.
I didn't have anywhere I particularly wanted to go and because I live in the research institute, I'm also here on my days off so I end up working anyway.
But I do spend my mornings leisurely.
"Thank you. Please let me join you."
"Well then, I'll pick you up tomorrow morning."
"Is that alright?"
"Yeah, no problem."
Yay ~!
What kind of place is it?
Of course, it'll be like a European townscape, right?
I wanted to visit Europe at least once, but I didn't end up going because I was summoned to this place.
Like that, there was a time when I was pleased……
I was looking forward to going into town that I completely forgot.
The person who's going with me is the Ice Knight-sama, who isn't cold at all.
There was a short distance between the palace and the town centre so we rode a carriage from the front gate.
It wasn't a luxurious carriage from the Margrave, but a normal carriage. It seemed that the Captain made arrangements so that it wouldn't be too noticeable.
The clothes the Captain wore matched mine. They were clothes that commoners wore around town.
Right now, the Margrave carriage is better than this one.
Because you know, the normal carriage isn't spacious at all.
I'm in this cramped carriage with the Captain, who has a good physique. Just the two of us.
He's close! Too close!
A sparkling hunk is right beside me!
Moreover, we're sitting relatively close……
A trip in a narrow space. Sitting relatively close to a hunk……
My level's too low. I can't do this!
Stop it! My life is already at zero!
"Look. If you look over there you can see Johan's main residence."
"Eh ~."
I was screaming inside when the Captain smiled and pointed towards the other side of me.
Wai-, don't get any closer! You're close, too close!!!
I couldn't look at the Captain so I looked towards where he was pointing. Woah, the Director's residence is big!
Since this was the capital, the land price must be expensive, right? And yet, the Director's residence was very big.
Is his family unexpectedly rich?
"It's very big."
"Yeah. Johan's family is really influential."
I thought that would be the case and turned my head back. I really thought my heart was going to stop because the Captain's face was really close.
I was thankful that he moved when he noticed the blood rushing to my face. Even so, the inside of the carriage was really narrow.
Despite it being taxing on my heart, the carriage continued moving and gradually reached town.
"Wow ~~~!"
It's amazing! What is this? So cute!
The landscape looked exactly like Europe!
The rooftops are red. It looked like something that had popped out of a fairy-tale.
While I was impressed by the landscape, the carriage stopped and the door opened.
The Captain got off first and lent me a hand.
I took his hand and got off. I look around and it looked close to the town centre. There are quite a lot of people.
While I was looking around, impressed, the Captain said, "The market place is that way, shall we go?" and took my hand.