Chapter 592 - Difficult Timing
"Lalala~la~♪"
The live stream ended with Mion, Sweee, and the White Dragon Princess singing to my flute performance.
Today's auto-selected song was the Ancient Children's Song
"""Good work everyone."""
The Q&A session, after relaying information about Emeraldia-san, briefly touched upon the northern part of the island.
Topics included the dangerous carnivorous plant Schennepentes and seeing something cow-like beyond the grasslands.
As for Rigel's exploits, Mion wasn't in the shot, so maybe I can put it in a short video? Or rather…
"What's wrong?"
"I was thinking it's about time to announce that Mion can come to the island, what do you think?"
"Yes! I want to do live streams with Shou-kun too!"
If Mion is also okay with it, then it's just a matter of how we do it.
I'm almost thinking it might be good to just start the stream by saying, "Today, we're broadcasting from the actual location."
As we were talking about that,
"Ah, and maybe perform one of the songs from the album?"
"I see."
We decided it would be bad if we didn't get permission for that, so Tsubaki-san was tasked with contacting them about it.
"Mion, you should come here soon too."
"Yes!"
In the meantime, I'll reheat the curry. The naan would probably taste better fresh, so I'll bake some new ones.
Yata-sensei said he wanted to watch as is, so Mion's stream was redirected to the club room.
"Shou-kun."
"Oh, welcome back. The curry's ready."
"Y-yes. I'm home."
Mion, who had just logged in, came to the table… Ah, the White Dragon Princess is asleep.
El-san gently picked up the White Dragon Princess, nodded at me, and returned to the mansion.
"Sweee-chan, aren't you sleepy?"
"~~~♪"
Sweee looked like she wasn't sleepy at all; rather, she seemed to want more sweets.
The oven is warm, so maybe I'll bake some cookies.
"Ah, yes."
Apparently, the official page still had no information.
As Mion showed Yata-sensei the World Quest details, I also opened it out of curiosity…
[World Quest: When the Devils Come]
The demons who invaded the northern Demon Kingdom appear to be moving and hiding in various locations.
What could their objective possibly be…?
Objective: Exterminate invading demons, and investigate their objective: 3%
Huh? Did the wording change a bit?
"Ah, it seems so. I've heard that several people have exterminated demons in the Demon Kingdom, though."
Probably, what Grandpa and Grandma defeated is also counted.
Apparently, there have been some other successful exterminations as well.
"The text has changed slightly."
"It has. It's unsettling how they seem to be moving from the Demon Kingdom to other places little by little."
I know it's that kind of quest, but it's scary if they come all the way to the Necropolis and then to the Southern Island.
Maybe I'll go to the Southern Island tomorrow and check on Gaju and the others.
"Sorry. Shou-kun, are you free right now?"
"Eh? Oh, Azure-san. What's wrong?"
It was unusual to receive a guild call from them so suddenly.
Well, Azure-san isn't usually one to worry about such things.
"Apparently, Emeraldia is out shopping in her human form."
""Eh?""
Shopping in human form, is that something anyone would notice…?
Is it because I talked about it on the live stream?
"Um, did she give her name?"
"Yeah. She apparently introduced herself as Emera."
No, I didn't mention her name during the live stream, so it must be someone related to 'Silver Manor.'
Just to be sure, I asked the person who gave the information about her appearance, and Azure-san's opinion was that it was almost certainly her.
"Um, what was she shopping for?"
"Apparently, food. You know, the type of Dried Papu Fruit that Shou-kun sends? She buys a lot of it."
…Dragonkin are all foodies, aren't they?
"So, seeing her flying around earlier was her going out for groceries, then."
"Probably~"
As we were talking, El-san, who had taken the White Dragon Princess to her room, returned.
She seemed to have overheard the previous conversation, so,
"Lady Azure. Shall I inform the Princess?"
"Yes, please~"
That would be when she wakes up, I guess, but she's already asleep for today…
………
……
…
I needed to ask Bell-buchou and Seth, so after logging out, I waited in the Virtual Club Room.
"Oh, Brother is waiting, which means!"
"…Something happened, didn't it?"
Something did happen, but I was just told about it, so there's no need to be so wary.
I relayed the story about Emeraldia-san that I heard from Azure-san. However, it seemed Bell-buchou and the others hadn't heard about it either.
"Perhaps it's someone we know. In any case, it's been relayed to the guilds allied with 'Silver Manor,' so it might be from that direction."
She said.
Well, I just spread the word that we needed to be cautious, so I guess they contacted me because I talked about it on the live stream.
"Did she wake up, get hungry, and go out for groceries, I wonder?"
"Yes, Azure-san said the same thing."
Apparently, Dragonkin, or dragons, don't need to eat while sleeping, but once they wake up and move their bodies, they need to eat that much more.
"From your story, Brother, she seemed to be a quite reclusive dragon, didn't she?"
"Apparently, she barely spoke…"
She just pointed to the Torotoro Dried Papu Fruit and said something like, "These. All of them." That's what I heard.
Well, if it's just that, it's not particularly suspicious (?), but she also suddenly pulled out gold coins and other things that were a bit off…
"Hmm. Hearing 'Emera,' they probably thought, Could it be…?"
"I see."
They must have told me because I asked for contact on the live stream.
For now, the awakened White Dragon Princess said, "It's fine to leave her alone," but I'm a little worried about her being hungry.
"Aren't you going to contact Emeraldia-san?"
"Ah… well, I guess that depends on the White Dragon Princess."
I feel like there's no point in contacting her unless she's awakened, and the White Dragon Princess also said there's no need to force her to come out.