The Heavily Armoured Noble Girl Monette

With that, I laid out two pieces of parchment. The first piece was the one drawn on by Alexis and the second one was the the drawing that I had done earlier. Comparing them both, I could easily understand the difference in skill, and I wonder if I should make a few repairs here and there………I could steal a few notes from this. I should be able to make kitty-cats that are even more beautiful and lovely from now on.

I have to admit, if a third party were to look upon these two drawings, they might not recognize that this is the same cat at first glance.

After doing an in-depth comparison of the two, Alexis seems to have finally been persuaded that I was not just humoring him, and he seems to be happy since his drawing is being praised for the first time. Meanwhile Percival was silently looking at the parchment in his hand.

I turned my gaze onto Percival and had him hurry up. It was his turn to show off his cat after all.

”Percival, please show it quickly.”

”……..N, No. It’s not that interesting.”

”It doesn’t matter if it’s interesting or not. The only thing that matters is cuteness.”

Pushed forward by Monette’s urging, Percival slowly placed his drawing next to the other two already laid out ones.

”…….this is.”

”…….somehow.”

Monette and Alexis muttered to themselves.

What was drawn on Percival’s piece of parchment was certainly a cat.

Yes…….it’s a cat. That much is obvious.

But how to say it…….it’s just a cat. There’s no liveliness that a real cat would have in the drawing, but it is definitely a cat. I’m not saying it is not cute, but rather it is not so cute that you would really give it a second look.

If you think that a man who devoted his entire life to nothing else but the sword had drawn this, I suppose you could call it good, but it would be very easy to find someone else who could do a better job. With that being said, it is not so bad that you would laugh at it either.

In the end,

”It’s so plain and boring that it isn’t fun.”

It’s just that.

”See! I told you!”

”No, it’s not a bad job! It’s just ……… so plain that no real words come to mind.”

”If you’re just going to trail off like that, then you don’t need to say anything!”

”Percival, do not mind this so much. See……. um……… it’s like…….”

While Alexis was fruitlessly trying to comfort Percival in his own, inefficient way, Monette started releasing verbal abuse from the side such as, ”A man who draws for all ages.” It is a stance where she wishes to undermine all of Alexis’s efforts, but harassing Percival is also a nice benefit.

Then, while the three continued to observe the three pieces of parchment for a while and berate each other, the carriage began to sway and stop with a *gattan*.