"Hey, everyone! I'm your beloved special correspondent, Nini, reporting live while writing from the entrance of Castel Cathedral~"
"The Inspection Squad isn't around, so I'll casually write two articles."
"The lord's gone up to the roof, so there'll be a mega update today."
"The topic of this report—of course, the story of the lord and Chloe that simply has to be told! Don't call my reporting inaccurate again. The lord is hanging up there right now."
"What? Nobody said my reports were inaccurate? You just think they aren't sensational enough? Don't talk nonsense! I'm risking my life to report from the scene here!"
"And besides—hm? Is there something you need?"
Nini stopped her exaggerated antics and looked down beside herself. Someone had just tapped the scales at her waist.
The Prince stood there with a genial smile, lowering the hand he had raised high.
"Hello. Are you the famous Nini? I've seen your statue."
A statue of Nini had once been erected outside the school. It had later been lost during the Deep Sea War. After reconstruction, Castel no longer needed a school specifically for literacy, but the statue had still been put back up.
Nini's eyes lit up, and even the tip of her tail perked upright.
"It's nothing much. That was all fame from the past—I'm nowhere near as impressive as I am now."
"Indeed. There's no essential difference between standing still and being dead." The Prince nodded, then pointed upward. "What is your lord... doing?"
Quite a few people had gathered beneath the cathedral. Some were watching Nini fool around, but more of them were looking toward the top of the cathedral.
Theus was currently secured by a safety rope, dangling from the monument atop the cathedral as he quietly said something to a diary.
"That? He's