About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

What else could Rosemary say? As long as the kittens asked for something, she'd be there the instant they could! This was her most basic duty as a guardian!

Whoever dares to refuse Rosemary's request, I will rush over and smash his head off immediately!

Orson clenched his fists excitedly, and then found that the conclusion he came to after a wave of analysis was "No matter who these people are, they can't be fooled."

This is a bit embarrassing.

Is it really true that the only thing we can do is to have a group of time management masters... ?

At this time, Orson, after a simple disguise, wandered around the streets of the Great Knight Casimir, observing the operation of the surrounding city while thinking about how to deal with this pile of "debts"

The previous Noon Knight incident was also beneficial to Orson. After Maria came into contact with the killer from the Sangster family, she confirmed that the other family was indeed one of the members of the "Core Family of the Justice Institute" that appeared in her grandfather's diary.

To some extent, the Council of Justice can be understood as Casimir's administrative and military agency. The knights on expedition and the mounted police in the city are all under the leadership of the Council of Justice.

The Board of Supervisors and another legislative body called the National Council both restrain the Chamber of Commerce to a certain extent. A considerable portion of the income from the "Knights' Competition League" planned by the Chamber of Commerce has to be handed over to the National Council and the Board of Supervisors.

Of course, the Commercial Union would not be so willing to be suppressed by the National Council of the Supervisory Council. The "League without Helmet" is a knight killer organization under the Commercial Union that is specifically designed to fight against the knight class.

The notes Maria found from her grandfather clearly recorded the basic information about Casimir, and the most important of them was the list of families that were allied with the Supervisory Council.

The incident with the Sangster family made Orson and his team understand that Casimir's corruption is now deeply rooted. Therefore, what Orson is doing now is to use the notebook to explore the positions of several other Ombudsman families to see if they have also been corrupted.

Orson, seemingly wandering aimlessly but actually narrowing his search, had found a member of one of the families. Half-crouching on the top floor of a nearby residential building, Orson silently watched one of the target characters, hoping to find some useful clues.

"That's someone from the Wilvi family, right? Where is his destination?"

"I don't know—Uwaaa!?"

Orson answered instinctively, then jumped in surprise. He hadn't known when one of his creditors, Ms. Platinum, had come running up to him, questioning him with a mischievous expression.

"Are you really that scared? Or are you doing something shameful and evil?"

Bai Jin raised his eyebrows and asked Orson, who sighed.

"Don't scare me so suddenly, Miss Platinum... I was just taking a breath of fresh air up high, and I was just looking around out of boredom when I accidentally noticed the knight of the Wilvi family."

Although Orson has the ability to release frequencies and monitor the surrounding environment within a certain range based on feedback, he will also automatically block out frequencies he is already familiar with. Although this can effectively reduce the load on the use of Originium skills, it also makes him easily startled from behind by acquaintances around him.

"I see—you just said 'bored', right?"

Bai Jin did not continue to ask questions, but after hearing Orson's answer, he showed an even more terrifying smile that made people's hair stand on end.

"Uh... no, that—"

Only then did Orson realize that he had said the wrong thing. After all, Platinum had invited him to something not long ago, but he had not responded yet. Instead, he said that he was "bored and idle", which was simply digging his own grave.

"No need to explain. Come on, I have something good to show you."

Bai Jin dragged Orson away from the rooftop in a tough manner. It seemed that he was a little unhappy about the fact that Orson "did not respond to him and came out to slack off."

So, Orson was dragged by Bai Jin to a room in a residential building. Bai Jin took out a suitcase from the cabinet and showed the contents.

"...Um, Ms. Platinum, what is this?"

"You said before that you'd do anything, right?"

Bai Jin smiled and stretched the women's dress in his hand, indicating that Orson should not be polite and try it on to see if it fit.

“…Hmm.”

Orson looked at the dress and swallowed. Although he had asked Platinum for help in finding Maria during the Noon Knight incident, and he had indeed said "anything is fine", which seemed to be a very bad line in hindsight, Orson had never expected that Platinum would actually let him dress as a woman.

How could a man who was less than 7 feet tall willingly endure such a great humiliation?!

"I suddenly remembered I didn't buy soy sauce, so I'm leaving today—RUA!"

After thinking for a moment, Orson turned around and ran. Of course, Orson was not the unstoppable Captain Olga. As soon as he turned around and took a step, he was nailed to the wall by two arrows that Platinum could hardly see.

"Since you're shy, Orson, I'll take the initiative to help you. Is that okay?"

Bai Jin completely transformed into a little devil. She approached Orson with a sinister smile on her face, and stretched her hands straight to Orson's pants.

"Sister Bai Jin, please don't! Bai Jin... huh?"

Orson found that his pants were not taken off. When he turned around, he found that Platinum, who loved to play pranks, seemed to have no experience in "taking off men's pants". Instead, after scaring people, he stood there with a red face.

"Ms. Platinum...?"

"Stop talking nonsense and take it off yourself!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!?"

Although the processes are different, the results seem to be the same.

60. Miss, you look familiar to me——

"I want to go home..."

"It's no use screaming at the top of your lungs now. We're surrounded by nobles from all walks of life. If you try to escape, I'll immediately shoot your wig and dress off, okay?"

"Devil, devil... 555, standing by"

In a corner of a super luxurious palace, Orson was wearing a dress with a certain chamber of commerce logo printed on it, a waist-length golden wig on his head, and boots that would most likely sprain his ankle if he ran. He had an extremely embarrassed but polite smile on his face.

Platinum came to him to "repay a favor", but what Orson didn't expect was that Miss Platinum was really rude. She made an extremely heavy request right from the start - to dress as a woman and sneak into the banquet celebration jointly organized by the Grand Knights of Northwood.

The so-called "Grand Knights" is a grouping of multiple knight orders, managed by the Knights' Association Supervisory Council and some companies in the Commercial Federation. In other words, here you can meet many high-ranking nobles and star competitive knights.

This banquet is not so much a celebration of the holding of this knight competition as it is a routine "achievement report" for each camp. The status of each company, the situation of the knights under their command, and the introduction of fresh blood will all be carried out quietly but tensely at this banquet.

Platinum's mission is to assassinate a commercial spy from the Red Wine Newspaper Industry. This is a typical assassination mission, but the stage is chosen to be a banquet filled with competitive knights and ancient knight nobles. Even Platinum needs to call for a helper to be sure of carrying out the mission.

It was obvious that this assistant was Orson, who was walking around the main venue with a plate in his hand.

"I feel a chill down there... Is my disguise okay? Is it really okay?!"

Orson had a businesslike smile on his face, but his heart was in turmoil. While enduring the strange feeling of his lower body as if it were naked, he kept asking Platinum through the communicator in his ear.

"No problem. From my perspective, he looks just like an ordinary banquet waiter with strangely stiff movements."

In the distance, in the shadows of the second floor, Bai Jin was comforting Orson while pressing the shutter button of Orson with the ultra-high-definition camera distributed by his superiors.

Coincidentally, Bai Jin originally wanted to recruit a helper who was "tight-lipped, trustworthy, about 1 meters tall, had butler skills, stable mentality, and female."

After these options were put forward, it was as if they had been decided by the emperor. Bai Jin immediately thought of a certain fool.

As for gender? It doesn't matter at all!

After confirming that Orson would not be exposed, Bai Jin quietly entered the attic of the palace, searching for the target through the surveillance camera while thinking about the mission he had received this time.

There was something strangely off about this. The target was a spy from the Red Wine Newspaper Company, but since this spy had the ability to infiltrate Casimir's largest newspaper company, why was he exposed so quickly? And why did he still unconsciously attend this banquet?

Although there was some doubt, it was only a momentary hesitation.

"Haha... This is so troublesome. After completing this mission, I think I should just run off and take a vacation. I already made back a lot of my year-end bonus from the two bets I made on Orson's victory."

For Platinum, the very act of "thinking about the mission's purpose" was an anomaly. A bow and arrow need not consider the identity or experience of the person it pierces; it only needs to consider how to pierce its intended target.

Although, the previous Platinum denied this view before his death——

"How's it going over there, Orson? How long until the party moves on to the next step?"

Bai Jin shook his head, turned his attention back to this mission, held the receiver and asked softly.

The biggest obstacles to this assassination are some troublesome jousting knights and the high-ranking nobles. The former's keen abilities might detect his assassination attempt, and if the latter witnessed the actions of the Helmetless Alliance, they would once again exert unnecessary pressure on his former employer, the "Commercial Association", and he would then have to write a bunch of self-reflection reports.

Therefore, the focus of this operation was to ensure that the knights and nobles at the banquet would not move around and to kill the target at that moment.

And this is what Orson has to do, observe, report, and when necessary, perhaps delay and stop those who are in the way.

"The maids here seem quite relaxed. I guess there's still some time before the formal speeches at the banquet. The problem is, I've run into some trouble..."

"trouble?"

Bai Jin tilted his head. Orson's voice sounded very nervous, and the simulated vocal cords even made an electric sound.

At the same time, in the main banquet hall——

"Sorry, I just went out and got separated from my group. Have you ever seen a Kuranta woman with hair similar to mine and wearing a military cap? Um...oh, her name is Whip Knight. Do you remember her?"

"Ah ha ha……"

Maria, who for some reason was also at the Northwood Grand Knights' banquet, was anxiously asking the maid (Orson) in front of her. It seemed that she had accidentally separated from her aunt.

It's no wonder. The main venue of this banquet was ridiculously large, almost as big as a football field. With so many people scattered around, finding someone was definitely not easy.

Orson was thankful that his virtual vocal cords could change his voice, while he lowered his head and tried not to make eye contact with Maria.

Last time, I somehow managed to get away with it in the Sangster family mansion, but even if I was discovered then, it wouldn't have been a big deal.

But this time it's different... If Maria finds out his true identity, Orson has decided to find a brick and beat himself to death on the spot.

"That... Miss Whip Knight? She's quite famous, but, uh, I haven't seen her. Sorry."

Orson's voice was trembling. He didn't know whether his disguise had worked or not.

"I see... Thank you anyway. If you get lost right after coming here, I'll probably get scolded by my aunt later... I'll make her pull the other ear this time no matter what!"

Maria looked serious, while the maid was trying hard to hold back her complaints, "Don't say such cowardly things when you look so determined!"

"Well--"

"Uh……"

Seeing Maria about to leave, Orson just breathed a sigh of relief, but she suddenly turned back and looked at Orson with some curiosity.

"Um... please don't look at me like that, I'm... a little shy."

Orson lowered his head desperately to dodge, and the simulated sound perfectly restored the person's panic, embarrassment and shyness.

"Oh, sorry! I'm sorry for causing you trouble. I always felt that you looked a bit like a friend of mine, so I couldn't help but take a second look."

I don’t know if it’s because Maria is also a fool, or because the equipment provided by Platinum is indeed perfect, but Maria didn’t recognize Orson. Instead, she just thought this “maid lady” was someone who looked familiar.

"friend?"

As the saying goes, curiosity kills the cat. Originally, Orson would have just nodded and run away, but he was still somewhat interested in Maria's words.

"Yes, even though we've only been together for less than two months, but... well, I don't know how to put it. Anyway, I have to work hard and move on from being just 'friends' as soon as possible!"

Maria rubbed her hair and said it a little embarrassedly, then bowed again to the 'maid lady' in front of her, and then went into the main banquet hall to look for Zofia.

"—"

Orson looked at Maria in a daze. He was a 'stranger' at the moment, but she still said these words to him, which meant that she really seemed to have "more than friendship" thoughts about him.

Even Orson, as a stranger, could understand Maria's feelings after hearing her words.

But... I won't stay in Casimir, nor can I always be the 'attendant knight of the Linguang family'. How should I respond to Maria's feelings?

Orson didn't even think about why Maria and Zofia attended the banquet. The only thing in his mind was thinking about what Maria had just said.

But soon, Platinum's voice in the headphones brought Orson back to his senses.

"Not bad, Orson. You can still have sex during work hours even when wearing women's clothes. It seems that this identity is still too easy for you. How about considering letting you sneak into an illegal bar disguised as a stripper next time?"

"I was wrong, Miss Platinum!? Anyway, that kind of profession can't be faked no matter how hard you try!"

Orson admitted his mistake at the speed of light, and did not forget to complain at the same time.

"Aha……"

Bai Jin sighed. She originally thought that she had always been a boring person who had no interest in anything, but since she was assigned to monitor this guy, Bai Jin noticed that the frequency of her sighs and (evil) smiles had increased a lot.

The girl who just talked to Orson... is the current long-rider of the Linguang family, right? Her name is Maria.

The contact with Maria reminded Platinum that Orson's current official identity is "Maria's attendant knight."

Although he had known this identity for a long time, Platinum still felt uncomfortable and even developed "hostility" towards Maria, a young knight girl he had never met.

As for Orson, he originally thought that Maria's appearance was just an episode, and that he just had to be on guard against the Linguang sisters in advance.

Orson thought so.

"Hello, please give me a glass of water——"

Another old acquaintance, the familiar green cat head sitting on the chair greeted him while reaching out to take the cup from the tray in Orson's hand.

When Kal'tsit's eyes met Orson in maid mode, the green cat's head was slightly stunned.

"—"

"Please enjoy your meal."