Studying the seal

Duke Nergiante took another moment to adjust his thoughts before revealing a bitter smile.

With that bitter smile on his face, he said, "I would thank you not to think so little of me. Even if I am someone who can be considered a coward when it comes to matters like this, I do know what is important."

He looked at the table that I was standing in front of and said, "I at least know what is important and what isn't. At the very least, I know what I have to do."

With that, he came forward to stand beside me and looked down at the documents that I had been looking at.

The only problem was…

These documents were all written in an ancient language.

So no matter how Duke Nergiante looked at this thing, it didn't matter since he wasn't able to understand a single thing. All he could do was stare at these pieces of paper with a blank look on his face.

During this time, I had been carefully looking over these things.