I’ll Live My Second Life! - Chapter 149

Chapter 149

Translator: Black Lotus 

Editor: imsara 

In the morning, when the gentle morning sun was shining, Kooine was up early and was reading in his study.

“Boy, your breakfast is ready,”

Kooine looks up when Cassandra calls him from behind the door. Cassandra is an elderly woman who has served the house as a servant for many years.

He answered her call and walked out the door and headed to the dining table.

She still calls him a little boy, but Kooine’s position was already that of a master. He’s been called that since he was a child, so it doesn’t feel strange. He’s still young and immature.

When he went to the table, potato soup and bread were prepared on the table.

“Good morning, sir.”

Benno, standing beside the table, greeted him. He is the steward of the Kooine household and Cassandra’s husband. He is an elderly man with a white beard.

“Good morning, Benno-san,”

Kooine returned the greeting to Benno and sat down at the table.

They ate while asking Benno about his estate and other matters.

Kooine’s family’s title is a viscount, but the estate is very small. It’s a countryside where there are almost no people living in the woods and mountains. There are only a handful of towns.

Benno has been managing the estate in place of Kooine, who used to be a sword trainer and is now an apprentice knight and has been absent from the estate for a long time. Even though it’s called administration, it’s a small and sparsely populated land, so he receives very little tax revenue and only what he pays to the state.

Kooine’s father had built his livelihood by investing the wealth he had inherited as a nobleman, but Kooine was aware that such a thing was impossible for him to do so. That’s why he decided to become a knight.

When the meal was over, he asked, “Do you have any plans for today?” Benno asked. 

“I’m off to visit my father and mother’s grave,” replied Kooine.

They left the house after Cassandra had brought flowers for them.

They passed through the trees and climbed up the hill for about half an hour until they reached a high point with a good view. The useless weeds around them have been neatly trimmed and turned into a beautiful carpet of green. It must have been done by Cassandra and her friends.

There’s also a grave there.

His parents died when Kooine was a child.

His father was the only son of a nobleman with a decent history in this country, and his mother was a woman from the far eastern country of Indilia. Kooine’s brown skin was the result of his mother’s bloodline.

They were a close couple, and the family often traveled together, and when she had died in a carriage accident, he had been very sad, but now his grief had healed to the point where he could look back on her grave and feel happy.

Kooine kneeled down in front of the grave and said a prayer.

(Father, Mother. I’m an apprentice knight and I’m doing well. We’ve had a lot of incidents, but now I’m getting along with everyone in the quarters, training and playing together and trying to become a regular knight. My studies are not so good, but I’m getting good grades in swordsmanship. I’m going to work harder and become a great knight that father and mother can be proud of.)

Kooine took a breath there, and his cheeks flushed a little.

(Then, I might have found someone I like.)

He pictured the child’s image in his thinly opened eyes.

Afterwards, he closed his eyes again and prayed to the two people in heaven for a while.

As Kooine walked home after visiting the grave, he thought about going to visit his master.

(We’d only have so much time to spend here…)

When he gets back to the mansion, he will get ready and go to my master’s place to practice his sword. When Kooine arrived at the mansion with that thought in mind, he saw a figure standing in front of the open gate.

Carrying a large package on his small back, he is checking around the gate a bit while swinging his smooth golden hair.

(Huh…?)

As I was so surprised in my mind, he muttered.

“Hmm, I wonder if there’s a doorbell or something. I wonder if it’s okay to come in.”

A familiar voice. A familiar figure.

While he was stunned by the figure, her gaze suddenly and accidentally turned to him. He looked at him blankly for a bit, and then his expression changed to one of happiness.

”Ah!　Kooine!”

“What … eh … eh … Heath. Why?”

Heath looked a little disappointed at Kooine’s question.

“Yeah, you said I could come to play!”

Then, he smiled with a big smile on his face.

“I know it’s a bit late, but I’m here to play!”