Lady Ru gave out a hearty laugh when both the princess and Tetsuya began to blush and avoiding looking at her. She expected as much from the princess, but that the Shima representative did it only made it more hilarious.   As he started to explain she crossed her arms as she stood there, pushing her breasts up some in the process but not really giving it much thought. Soon however his awkward/nervous behavior stopped being funny and her expression became one of annoyance. He expected it to have passed after the first comment and business to continue, and instead it felt like someone who shouldn't be there.  She was about to yell at him, when he managed to finish saying what he wanted to say to her.  She paused for a few seconds as she took it in and began to think back to if she had either heard anything or personally seen anything possibly connected.  After she thought it over she turned her attention back to Tetsuya before taking a step closer.

[color=00a651]"First of all Kid, you are here on behalf of your lord so stop acting so nervous. Eri lives a sheltered life, I expect it of her. You are here in armor and weapons yet stammering around and blushing, and that look at my chest was noticed too. If you want to look at it then do so, if you have thoughts on my choice of words either say them or act as if nothing happened. I know I look better than those Shima girls you are used to and I don't pretend to be a chaste butterfly, but acting shy just makes you look weak."[/color] She spoke in a tone of voice that straddled the line between playful and aggressive.   When she spoke about the actual reason for being her though, her voice became completely serious. [color=00a651]"Regarding your relics, I wasn't aware of such a thing. As you know I try to stay out of outside affairs, so I wouldn't have heard about it unless you sought me out like now. I don't listen to rumors so I simply don't know if people are talking about it, but I can assure you no one out of the ordinary has entered Ru lately. By living out here my range is extended some, so I would have felt them if they were nearby. I can have people ask around the village but I can't provide any real support in the search for it. Shima is free to pass through my lands in the search, but the most I can do is return them to you if the relics somehow end up here or with my cousin in Kenzo."[/color] The proper thing to do would be to give back anything that isn't theirs and they would always follow that rule, but she wasn't going to involve her people in a matter that only effected Shima.