Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

Year 7447, Month 4, Day 28

Seeing almost all of the {Slaughterers} gathered together Zenom took a step forward as Sean and I were surprised.

"Well, since we have the chance. Bring along these fellows when you make deliveries at the castle this time. Outside of the {Saviors} the only who's entered the castle before is Rodrick after all. There's a bit too many people but they should at least let us past the middle moat right? Let them see the castle. I want to see it for the first time in a while too."

Certainly there's quite a few people..including me there's about 20 people from just the {Slaughterers} here. If we include the caravan from Bakuddo and Ressegu the head clerk then it'll be close to 30 people. Even then it's just said Zenom said, everyone is registered as employees of Greed Company so I don't think there's any problem. Probably they should be fine making it past the outer moat into the third outer citadel. In order to enter the second outer citadel you have to go past the middle moat but whether they're armed or not it's questionable if they'd be let it..I don't know.

There's some slightly deformed parts to it but the castle is more or less in the hirajiro(TL: built on flat land) Japanese style with a layered structure. Putting it simply it means that there's several circular rings of land of different sizes and moats in-between. The outer moat runs around the very edges of it and then there's three citadels inside of that covering a considerable area. There's bridges across the outer moat in several places but they aren't drawbridges but very sturdy fixed bridges. There's large gates at every end of the bridges on the side of the third outer citadel and that acts as both a guard station and lookout tower. If you were to have a weapon on you then you'd leave it there when going inside.

In the third outer citadel there's the stables and lodging for the stationed guards and there's also lookout towers in a number of places other than just the gates. I guess it's taking into consideration the possibility of a siege but the considerably vast vacant land stands out. It's simplistic compared to the castle tower but what I guess you could call the castle of the third outer citadel acts as a more serious fortress and lookout tower as it continues past the middle moat into the second citadel, it's placed to protect the sole drawbridge that leads inside.

If you pass that drawbridge and go over the middle moat then you'll be inside of the second outer citadel. Here other than the defensive lookout towers there's a bit of a garden and such. Just the same as the third outer citadel it's got three layers of lookout towers to protect the drawbridge leading further inside. The various ministries castle branch buildings are located in this area and each of the knight groups from the first to the fourth have their headquarters here as well. The leader, vice-leader, and headquarters personnel of the knight groups all come to work here. Sister is a member of the first knight group but the actual station grounds of each of the knight groups including the first are in a different location from the castle so she isn't normally here.

Normally, the delivery of armor takes place in a room in one of the lookout towers of either these second or third outer citadels. If you were to ask which, it takes place in the third outer citadel more often. At first we even took care of the deliveries and orders in a vacant lot of the third outer citadel but in the past 2~3 years it's had a feel like going to the second outer citadel when a convenient room isn't open close to the castle in the third outer citadel. In other words I've only gone in a number of times that can be counted on one hand myself.

And, finally there's an inner moat and that leads to the inner citadel. Obviously the castle tower looms over that area. Obviously I've never entered there either and I've only seen it from the outside so I don't know what's going on inside.

"Just a bit, we thought we'd take a look at our future objective."

Ginger took a step forward beside Zenom while saying.

Fu..

I don't know who brought it up but I guess it was that sort of thing.

"..Well, that's fine. But, I think they'll only let you in up to the "third outer cit"..up to the outer perimeter?"

"That's no problem. I just want to take a look at even a portion of the castle that I've heard about."

Sanno said while shrugging his shoulders.

Ah, that's right. I need to say this.

"Also, Miduchi, Zenom, Toris, Bel, and Rodrick you guys stay behind this time. You've all seen it before and as expected there's way too many people."

"Eeh~~""

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Leaving behind the five who were grumbling that they went to the trouble of coming, even then we took along a total of over 20 people to the castle and took care of the deliveries. We were able to enter the third outer citadel without problem but after all we weren't allowed into the second citadel.

Even then everyone seemed to be impressed by the delicate and splendorous ornaments around the building and the magnificently mowed lawn in the vacant land. I was a bit nervous that Rokko or Jeru might start making too much noise but as expected even they were impressed as they just looked around occasionally saying, "Ha~" in a whisper.

Supposedly this Rombert castle was completed for the time being and started to function as a castle 50 years ago from now. Including the ornaments and such the building was only completely finished 40 years after that, a short 10 years ago. Prior to that, Rombert castle used to stand a bit to the North from here in what's currently considered the low-ranking noble district. The grandfather of the current King who was the King at that time had just finished an 80-year project to complete the new Rombert castle 10 years after he took the throne so he spent another 20 years moving castles and tearing down the old one.

I smoothly gave everyone an explanation of that sort of hearsay.

We left the castle after finishing up the delivery and sightseeing and I talked with Kamu on the way back to the company.

The one who proposed sightseeing at the castle with everyone this time was Toris. Supposedly Toris told everyone he wanted them to understand my objective to make a new country after this even a bit better. Hearing that they thought it would be good to see the castle at least once. Of course, it seems like there was also the reason of wanting to see the interior of the castle together with everyone at once as well.

On our way of slowly returning to the company headquarters I listened to what everyone was saying.

"Really~ it was amazing right~"

"Yeah, I've only heard about something like that in stories."

"Sean-san you've gone in a number of times right? Have you ever gone even further inside?"