Half a month was not a long time, but Uta had seen Sephiroth doing good deeds with the Knights more than once during that period.
That really struck a chord with her.
"Lord Sephi, you're just too modest."
Stop praising me! Stop praising me!
Uta's innocent, kindly expression made Sephiroth feel like a vampire exposed to sunlight.
Nami and Carina, who were rather more "in the know" in a certain sense, watched the fun from the sidelines.
As always, Baby 5 busied herself like a hardworking bee, preparing tea and refreshments for everyone.
"But what's 'Elf Deputy General Ma Guocheng'? Is he someone famous?"
Yamato raised a new question.
Sephiroth had not kept things like the situation codes secret from them.
How he was supposed to explain them, however, was another matter.
"You could call him famous, I suppose..."
...And he had plenty of backbone, the sort who opened with TOM at frame zero.
There was actually another special situation, code-named "Commissioner Smith" within the Happiness and Peace of Mind Committee.
It meant "a problem with an insider."
But nothing of that sort had happened yet.
For one thing, Babylon had only been formally established four years ago. It was a little early for anyone to start causing trouble.
For another, although Sephiroth formally operated under an "offline monarch system," that was only a formality.
In practice, he combined military, political, legal, and religious authority with strategic-level personal productivity and combat power. He really was a six-in-one super robot...
When a monarch with all six endgame items equipped claimed he was running an offline system... would you believe him?
...After lunch, everyone went off to attend to their own business.
Nami drew nautical charts in the Chart Room, Yamato wanted to record the day's events in her diary, and Carina