Grandfather's Congratulatory Gifts

A Ke's usefulness was so immense that even Liszt sometimes felt it was simply too great. What he could give A Ke and what he received from her were utterly incomparable—truly a business of ten thousand profits for one investment.

Now.

The crashed Skyship would once again have to be entrusted to A Ke for salvage. Any good finds could be sent directly to the Seaview Villa in Flower Town.

Then he himself could return to Flower Town without concern and prepare to attend Tulip Castle's New Year banquet. Though they had already been granted fiefs, the family ties remained, so when the New Year came, all descendants of the Tulip Family had to return to Tulip Castle for the banquet.

Unless there were special arrangements—for instance, last year they had spent the New Year at Long-Yam Castle.

This year, there would be one more person at Tulip Castle's New Year banquet. No, two more people—Rolia Golden Wheat Ear had successfully become pregnant, and Liszt would soon have a younger relative born into the family. He looked forward to the little baby's birth. Perhaps witnessing the arrival of a new life would help him become more deeply integrated into the Tulip Family.

On the 29th, he presided over the year-end review in Port Town.

On the 30th, he presided over another year-end review in Flower Town.

On January 1st, Sapphire Calendar Year 153, the morning of the New Year, Liszt rode the still-evolving Loki and set off for Tulip Castle with his Blizzard Beast squad. He also brought along Mickey, the Corn Little Elf, because the Count and Lady Penelope both wished to see the little elf.

The birth of every Little Elf was a tremendous honor to the Tulip Family.

Loki was incredibly fast, far too fast for the