Today, I’m only here to gather sponsors. To be honest, my funds are on the safe side, but still, having a well-known company back me up would help a lot. It becomes insurance
The young ladies here have connections to big companies, after all.
Just having a big corporation backing you up gives the possibility of using that as a motive.
Then you should’ve brought Ya-chan too
I said.
I think it’s more effective if it’s the two of them opening up to sponsors.
No, Nei’s popular with the younger girls but girls of the same age keep their distance from her
Margo-san said.
Especially if it’s a gathering of cute young ladies
Oh, some might feel hostile because Nei’s too beautiful.
I’d like to not cause trouble if possible for today. If it’s just me alone, I can convince them by saying that I’m a former bodyguard but is aiming to become a professional martial artist. Those who are convinced won’t be as hostile
But if we add Nei there.
Who’s this beauty? What’s her relationship with Margo-san? and it causes doubt and hostility.
And if there’s anyone showing hostility in that place, the atmosphere will turn sour. And once that happens, those who favor me will lose their interest
I see, anyway, for now, Margo-san’s showing off her appeal as a martial artist to get some sponsors.
As soon as they discovered that I’m just a martial artist now, the bodyguards loosened up in relief, didn’t they?
Yeah, some among the bodyguards would want to swap to another noble house.
If Margo-san was a freelance bodyguard, they might worry that she’ll take the job of being Ruriko or Yoshiko-san’s bodyguard.
But, they discovered that she’s not.
If I’m just a martial artist, then those who aren’t interested will leave me alone
I see.
With that said, Yoshinobu, do you have any questions?
Margo-san says while we walk on the corridor.
You know, I’m in a neutral position right now
She’s not like MInaho-neesan and Kyouko-san who’s doing business.
She’s not like Misuzu or Ruriko, who’s friends with the students in that school.
Then, I have one thing to ask
Earlier, Kyouko-san mentioned the bodyguards trying to promote themselves and, then, from Margo-san too.
With that said, the bodyguards who enjoy being together with their Master, those who are serious about being a bodyguard of their master, and those who want to abandon their current master and try to promote themselves to another house, the group is divided into that three groups
Margo-san laughs.
Why do you think it’s like that? I think that Kyouko-san’s right, but.
I.
Somehow, I feel like there’s something troublesome brewing up
I don’t think it’s as simple as three groups.
Well, can’t you analyze the reason why by yourself?
Margo-san peeks into my eyes.
Somehow, I have a bad feeling
I speak out the discomfort I’m feeling.
Kyouko-san had a serious battle with Michi and Edie. After that, Margo-san and Rei-chan had a beautiful fight
I saw it.
Even I can tell that the battle was high level.
But, as soon as the rest period started, the young ladies gather around Margo-san and Rei-chan, and they don’t talk about their fear from Kyouko-san, now show signs of it
Their fight is on a high level, and yet, they keep on squealing like it’s no threat.
You see, it’s because you’ve seen various people fight and so your eyes have become refined
Margo-san said.
And as for how fearsome Kyouko-san is.
Margo-san stopped and looked at the courtyard through the window.
It looks like the young ladies and the bodyguard are getting along and listening to Rei-chan’s lectures.
Misuzu’s also there.
Oh, in that table, Misuzu, Ruriko, Kanou-san, Torii-san, and Kurama sisters. Then, Michi, Shie-san, Adelheid-san, the Anjou sisters are still there.
Nobody moved away from that table, that means that Kanou-san and Torii-san think that it’s convenient to stay in that table, under Misuzu’s care.
Much better than being alone in a table.
Earlier, when Kyouko-san was fighting, she didn’t purposely send any hostilities to the young ladies and their bodyguards
Margo-san said.
Therefore, the young ladies who never had experience watching people fight and bodyguards who lack training couldn’t say that our fight was dangerous at all. To them, they see it as professional wrestlers on stage
There’s an intense fight right in front of them, though.
Yet, they think that it’s all just a show?
Didn’t Reika-oneesan say it herself that it’s an exhibition match? And so, they think that it’s nothing but a practice match. The young ladies only thinks of Reika-oneesama and Kyouko Messer as celebrities on Television. They think of it as fiction? So they see the fights happening on television as Kyouko-san and Rei-chan playing around? as Fabricated fights? Not really. People hardly care if it’s real or fiction
Hardly care?
What’s important is their relationship with them. If it doesn’t affect their life, even if the other country is at war, they only think, Oh, I see. People can’t tell the difference between real war and a murder case in a show, see?
If it’s unrelated to their life, then they don’t care if it’s real or not.
On the other hand, they feel sympathetic to anything pitiful in fiction, saying Poor -chan and such. It’s nothing but fiction, nobody died in real life
yeah.
A movie director back then carried out an experiment during a school lecture
Margo-san said.
At first, they had some old fashioned Shakespearean playwright. And in that historical drama, the names of the British nobles who were killed in action are called out. He handed the lines to one of the students and told read this
Okay.
And since we’re talking about the middle ages in Britain, the names were exaggerated since it’s a rose war. Naming them Prince and Duke Therefore, the reader laughed, and those who were listening aren’t serious about it either
Well, yeah.
It’s an old fashioned list of names of dead people, getting serious while reading it is hard.
Then, the same student was handed a list of people who died on a recent great earthquake and told to read it
People who died in an earthquake disaster?
This time, the names read Machi -san or Mura -san The student reads the names nervously and with care, the students who were listening turned quiet and listen earnestly
Margo-san looks at me.
Why were they laughing at those killed in action in a Shakespearean historical drama, but turned serious when they started reading names of those who died in the great earthquake?
That’s.
Because the great earthquake happened for real and the names of the dead have died. As for the play, it’s because it’s fiction?
Margo-san smiles gently.
Shakespeare’s work is a play, but the rose war was a real war. The names of those killed in action in the play were real people who died. It’s not fiction, they were all real people who died
Real people.
In a sense, the two are the same.
The students turn quiet when the names of the people who died during the great earthquake because it’s still clear in their memories. It might be someone in school or their family or a friend who died
Therefore, they accept it sincerely.
The names of people on Shakespeare’s age, during the rose war, were people from their father or grandfather’s era. Therefore, the names of the people who died in that war don’t seem real for the audience at that time. It’s just names of those who were killed during their ancestor’s era
People will get serious if it’s close to them at the moment.
If they think it’s unrelated to them, then they don’t pay attention, even if it’s real.