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Chapter 13 – A Tiny Thorn in the Journey

Synopsis of the last chapter:

A farewell with Mikihiko.

After parting with Mikihiko, we went back south down the road leading to Selatta.

Our travel went smoothly and without incident.

During our march north, we had traveled with a large army, so our travel speed was inevitably affected, and we often discovered monsters. This, however, proved not to be the case this time.

As we had no reason to stop at the villages except for replenishing supplies, the travel time ended up being a third of what it took us before.

Silane had received quite a shock after hearing about the dissolution of the Knight Order, so a part of me was worried about her, but this turned out to be a needless worry, it seemed.

The day after we separated from Mikihiko and his group of knights, Silane appeared to be regaining her composure.

Or perhaps my mission to take her to the pioneer village was merely rousing up a false bout of courage.

Once, when we discovered a monster far ahead, she rushed out and killed it in the blink of an eye.

Her sword was still as sharp as ever.

I felt some relief at that fact, and still found her to be as reliable as ever.

We soon arrived at a big inn town, though not as big as Selatta, where the road leading north and south intersected with a road going west to east. We purchased some supplies there before changing our course to the west.

To the southwest of Earl Lawrence’s fief lay Kettles, one of the Northern Five Countries.

The steep Kettles mountain range ran down the border line separating Earl Lawrence’s fief (a territory of the empire) and Kettles, and within the mountain range existed several mountain paths.

The aged mountain paths.

In the war between the Empire and the Alliance held long ago, the two armies tried to cross this area and clashed, apparently turning it into a battlefield, but now the paths were rarely used.

Locations near the Sea of Trees carried great risk of monster encounters. No merchant would go out of their way to sell their goods in a country so remote that you had to cross a steep mountain range to get to it.

As there was no need to, no one went out to subjugate the monsters.

As a result, the Kettles Mountain Range had become a dangerous place where many monsters ran amok.

That said, for a Monster Tamer like me, this was actually a little reassuring.

Dangerous lands meant that many fewer people could see me.

Right now, I was atop the coachman’s seat, slowly driving the car.

The road was narrow, weaving in-between the trees

The disuse of the road had led to deterioration in the road’s condition, and little bumps and rattles shook the vehicle.

Though the road to Fortress Tilia had all the characteristics of a military road, the roads branching off from it were laid for the transportation of insufficient resources to the pioneer villages, located at the very edge of the human world

I suppose it was only inevitable that they were a bit worse for wear compared to the main road.

As I listened to the rattling of the wheels, a part of my consciousness naturally began to drift.

What came to mind was the face of my friend I had left ten days ago.

…I wonder how Mikihiko and the knights are doing.

They should have reached Selatta by now.

Half a day to reach the inn town from where we parted ways, and another half a day to reach the city from there. He might not be too lucky and could be ambushed by monsters, but he had two knights with him, and even Mikihiko himself could fight a little now. I had no reason to worry.

If he was successful in joining up with Leader-san, then they could be escorting her to the Imperial Capital from Selatta

Mikihiko was quick-witted. The possibility was small, but Taichi Miyoshi and his gang might be on their side, and possibily even the other transferees staying elsewhere .

“Oh, Master. Isn’t that it up ahead?”

Lily, sitting next to me in the coachman’s set, spotted a fork up ahead with her sharp eyes and cautioned me accordingly.

It seemed we had arrived at our destination.

Before treading into the Kettles Mountain Range, we decided to visit a certain pioneer village first.

Unlike the pioneer villages along the road connecting Fortress Tilia and Selatta, this village was small and no soldiers were stationed within.

According to what I heard at the village we stopped by at earlier, this was apparently the closest village to the mountain range.

There were no villages after this one.

This meant that this was the last place we could resupply. Crossing the mountain range would take quite some time, so I wanted to secure as much food as possible.

“I hope our stuff sells well. Back at the other village, they had money, but we couldn’t sell anything…”

“They had their own circumstances, you know. Don’t get all sad if it turns out we can’t. If push comes to shove, I can hunt us a day of food.”

“I’d really prefer to not go back to my life of dried Fire Fang meat…”

Lily, Kei, and I decided to leave the car behind with everyone else, and head to the village on foot to replenish our supplies.

If we were to line up the strong fighters in our group from strongest to weakest, the order would go Gerbera, Silane, Lily, and then Rose.

The only ones among them who could walk amongst humans without issue, however, were Silane and Lily.

By splitting the two into separate groups, they would be able to fight off a monster should one attack without having to worry about someone seeing them.

Kei was bringing the translation magic stone with her, as she was the only one who could use it besides Silane.

Wrapped in an overcoat, she followed behind us with the hood half-hanging over her head.

I wanted to learn how to use the translation magic stone soon, but it took time to learn, and doing so wasn’t exactly a pressing concern at the moment, so I’d been delaying it.

“Huh? Master, there’s someone running this way.”

After hiding the car within the forest alongside the road and parting from our allies, an incident occurred shortly after we began our walk down the narrow path to the village.

We came across a man running this way with a panicked expression.

“O-Oh. From your appearance, you must be travelers. But what misfortune, for you to come at a time like this…!”

He called himself one of the villagers of the pioneer village, and according to his story, he went out with some of his countrymen to chop down trees in the Sea of Trees but ran into monsters. He then ran for his dear life all the way to here.

The surrounding forest was a plain old forest—no magical power dwelled within.

That said, it took about an hour of walking to reach the Sea of Trees. Encountering a monster as you walked was not all that uncommon.

After persuading the man screaming “Run away, run away!”, we rushed to the pioneer village to find a Wild Ogre, spanning over three meters in height.

With small legs but huge arms, it had a burly gorilla-esque body. Patches of pale green skin could be seen as well as body hair on its muscular body, and the lower half of it was wrapped up by a beast-skin pelt.

Its bald head, tiny compared to the rest of its body, was similar to a human’s. Its ears were tapered, and its canine teeth had grown out from its lower jaw and were protruding out its mouth.

The Wild Ogre wandered around the outskirts of the village, as though looking for a gap in its defense, and occasionally tried to rush at the protective wall surrounding it.

Each time it did, magic was concentrated and poured on it from above the stone bulwark.

Each shot was second grade—mid-range magic, so to speak. If focused, it would prove powerful enough to wound the Wild Ogre, making it flinch.

Arrows rained down incessantly from the protective wall encircling the village.

They, too, were slowly damaging the Wild Ogre.

However, it wasn’t enough to be a finishing blow.

Wild Ogres were quite strong compared to other monsters, such as Green Caterpillars.

Wild Ogres were considered high-ranking monsters in the Surface layer of the Sea of Trees

It’d be nice if it just gave up on assaulting the village and went elsewhere, but there was a chance it would lose itself in rage over its injuries and charge at the village. Even if they managed to kill it, it was highly likely they would lose several people in the ensuing melee.

Despite that, each time it broke a tree with its burly arms and threw it, the protective wall—the lifeline of the village—was damaged, and it looked like some people were injured.

Though we were completely unrelated to the village, that didn’t mean we would just let it be destroyed.

“Lily. It’s a bit far, but could you?”

My words also implied to not close the distance.

Even if she jumped into the area being carpet bombed by arrows around the Wild Ogre, she would escape with only superficial injuries. However, getting out unscathed would be a bit too eye-catching.

“Yup. I’ll take care of it.”

Surmising the words I’d purposely left out, Lily nodded encouragingly and turned the spear in her hand.

“W-What are you going to do…?”

The villager, having guided us to here, looked dubiously at Lily as she prepped the black spear in a backhand grip.

“A-At any rate, it would be best to flee…”

“It’s all right. You don’t need to worry.”

Lily calmed the man, and a magic circle appeared on her right hand.

——Second grade wind magic.

The reason it wasn’t third grade was because it was viewed as the highest grade of magic a human could feasibly use in this world, so we decided to keep it under wraps so as to not attract unwanted attention.

Of course, should an emergency occur, those precautions would be thrown out of the window.

On the other hand, that meant Lily had judged this to be sufficient.

Lily broke off into a run, and threw her body forward with all her might at the end.

“YAAAHHHH!!”

She threw the spear.

Guided by the power put behind it, the spear plunged forward guided by the wind.

The spear, wrapped in wind, flew in a straight line, knocking aside the arrows in its path, before scoring a direct hit on the Wild Ogre’s face.

An ear-deafening cry came from the monster.

The spear’s sharp tip pierced the monster’s eyeball, and the sharp winds encircling the grip only served to further gouge into its face.

Blue blood spewed out from it like a fountain.

Its vision now crippled, the Wild Ogre staggered from the severe damage dealt to it.

Though stunned by the sudden attack, the villagers soon realized that this was their chance.

Armed men jumped out, shouting out a war cry.

As he watched the event unfold, the villager next to us remained sitting on the ground from surprise from beginning to end.

When he finally looked up, Lily flashed a peace sign at me and grinned.

The villagers were grateful to us for lending a hand during the monster attack.

As a result, we were able to safely acquire supplies.

We purchased potatoes and dried meats. I was grateful that we were able to get even the tiniest amount of food.

“Thank you, really.”

“You saved us, it’s the least we could do.”

The old man, the village head, promised to see us off to the village entrance when we mentioned that we would be leaving soon.

“Though, for such a powerful blow to come from a pretty lady like yourself…”

A pleasant smile showed on the village head’s wrinkle-covered face as he praised Lily over and over.

Out of all the villagers, he was the most grateful to us.

Our conversation lasted a long time, most likely due to his courtesy. Somehow, the duration of our stay was longer than planned. However, there were many things gained.

Our supplies remained the same, but we now had a lot of information.

According to what I heard, the village head had apparently used the mountain path that we were about to travel on when he was young.

We were able to learn some things that could be used as landmarks.

This was decades-old information, so there was no guarantee they remained now, but it was better than nothing.

Also, a special thick fog apparently sometimes hung over the mountain path.

The village head himself hadn’t actually run into the fog when he used the path, but he told us he’d been warned by his ancestor.

His warning was “Beware of the fog on the mountain trails”.

…Well, that was obvious enough. It was dangerous to travel on a narrow mountain path when you couldn’t see ahead of you.

Of course, being told this information beforehand was still beneficial.

Which was why it may have been inevitable that I satisfied his curiosity a bit as thanks for it.

“I apologize for asking, but are you perhaps from the north…around the Imperial Capital?” The village head asked, quietening his voice to an exaggeratingly low volume.

As though we were having some sort of secret talk.

“Why do you want to know that?” …I wasn’t going to ask him that.

This wasn’t the first time someone had asked about that since I began travelling around the human world whilst concealing my status as a transferee.

“…Well, somewhere around there.”

I returned a vague answer, and the village head nodded deeply as if in understanding.

“I presumed that might be the case. Then, you must be relatives of the grace, correct?”

“No, it’s not like that”…I held my tongue on those words, and made an expression somewhere between a forced smile and a bitter smile.

The relatives of the grace that he mentioned were the descendants of transferees.

We called the characteristic abilities that transferees had “cheat abilities”, but in this world there was a name for it used since the days of yore, “grace”.

And from it spun the name “relatives of the grace”.

For centuries now, transferees would appear once every one hundred years in this world.

Some of them had fallen in battle and left behind no offspring, but others lived a full life. Naturally, their descendants still lived here, especially around the Imperial Capital.

As may be apparent, our looks were different from the humans of this world.

However, some of the previous heroes originated from Asia. Thanks to that, I hadn’t been identified as a transferee from my appearance during our travels.

Moreover, it was near certain that the information regarding the new coming of the heroes had yet to reach such a remote region.

They would never in their wildest dreams imagine that a group of heroes would travel in a small group without taking any attendants with them.

“But, why would you travel so far out this way? Are you perhaps…”

The village head began speaking before the words caught in his throat, as though he’d noticed something.

“…Nevermind. Forgive me. I wish you a safe journey.”

“Thank you.”

He seemed to have a misunderstanding. I smiled wryly.

Many of the descendants of the grace were nobles with titles.

The heroes themselves were without title, but they had many opportunities to meet with high-ranking individuals. Empire nobility apparently were very aggressive when it came to securing a bloodline, and as such many of the descendants of the grace were nobility.

In reality, there seemed to be a fair number of people who were not, but it was rare in itself to see a descendant of the grace in a remote land like this.

The descendants of the grace, nobility… It wasn’t strange for him to recognize us as such.

In our case, he might have thought us to be people of important status that were disguising themselves as travellers for some reason.

If we were nobles that received high-grade combat training from an early age, or the escorts that protected those nobles, it would only be natural for us to deal such a heavy blow to the Wild Ogre. I was thankful that he ended up making incorrect assumptions over us having to lie to him.

Being assumed to be a noble wasn’t exactly fun, but it beat being praised as a hero.

“Well then. It’s about time we get going.”

Seeing this as a suitable time, I wrapped up the conversation.

Gerbera and everyone else would get noisy if we took too long. Hearing them complain wasn’t too bad, but I’d feel bad if they sulked.

“All right, let’s get going. …Hm?”

I called out to my two companions only to realize that Kei wasn’t responding to my call.

“……”

She was looking sideways, so I couldn’t see her expression due to the hood, but she appeared to be gazing at something.

Matching her gaze, I found her to be looking at the Wild Ogre as it was transported into the village.

Having already dug a hole and buried its corpse halfway, they were now piling straw around it.

The evil must be burned and purified.

With that in mind, monsters’ corpses were speedily dealt with according to the ritual.

Save a few subtle differences, this was apparently a common practice in the villages in this world.

In reality, this was not the case when the fur could be used and meat could be eaten, but the Wild Ogre was not one such case.

For Kei, this shouldn’t have been that strange a sight.

“…Kei?”

“Ah, Y-Yes?”

After I called out to her again, this time by name, she finally noticed and looked my way.

“I-I’m sorry. I spaced out a little.”

An apologetic expression showed on her face, possibly because she thought she made a mistake.

A smile appeared on her childish face, as though to smooth it over.

A small shade of surprise could still be seen on her face.

Then, without any warning, a small boy began running to us.

He looked to be about five, maybe six?

Instead of looking after him, his parents were likely busy disposing of the Wild Ogre. With glittering eyes, he ran towards Lily and I while staring at us.

Watch where you’re going.

The moment I thought that, he did exactly what I thought he would.

“Ah.”


There was no time to warn him.

The boy’s foot caught on something as he ran this way and he toppled over.

“A-Are you okay?”

The closest to him, Kei ran up to the boy.

Kei got on her knees, and helped the boy get up.

I thought he might cry, but the boy didn’t shed a tear.

The five year olds I was familiar with were fundamentally different than the village children, it seemed.

However, children were still children.

“Thank you, miss.”

He looked up at Kei from under the hood and innocently thanked her with a grin on his face. The act warmed our hearts as we watched.

“Huh?”

But suddenly, his eyes went round.

He looked back blankly at something behind him—the Wild Ogre’s corpse.

“Huh?”

The boy looked back at her and let out a voice of confusion, and then looked closely at Kei’s face hidden behind the hood.

“Your ears are weird, miss. They look just like a monster’s.”

The boy spoke with only pure intentions in mind…yet Kei’s smile froze at his words.

We soon resumed our journey after leaving the village.

We were unable to reach the mountain path by the end of the day, so we began to prepare our camp before the sun set.

“…My apologies, Takahiro-dono, but could I ask you to spare me some time?”

During that, Silane called out to me. Her expression was slightly grim.

At her insistence, I took some distance from everyone else.

Lily spared a glance at us for confirmation, but I waved my hand to tell her not to worry about it.

Once we were far enough to be out of earshot, Silane began speaking.

“Kei looks a bit weird, did something happen in the village?”

“Ah… Well, sort of.”

Kei was currently preparing to put the pot over the fire, but a quick glance at her expression made it clear she was lacking her pep.

Ever since we returned from the village, even an outside could tell she was depressed.

It was only natural for Silane, her guardian, to worry about her after seeing that.

I briefly explained what happened in the village.

“So that’s what happened. I see.”

A sigh of understanding came from Silane after she listened.

“I don’t believe there was any malice in his words.”

The village boy had gone back after saying his thanks to us.

That was why he’d come over. What a good kid, I thought.

He simply spoke what was on his mind in childish purity when he saw Kei.

It would be hard to blame him for his lack of consideration.

Strictly speaking, wrong person and wrong time. Nothing more.

“Honestly speaking, though, I didn’t think Kei would be that shocked.”

On the other hand, that was exactly what I was worried about for Kei.

Though normally cheerful, she was spacing out before that, perhaps because she was staring at the Wild Ogre’s ears.

If that was the case, then it really could only be called “bad timing”.

“There are many monsters in this world which closely resemble humans” Silane spoke, an expression of melancholy on her face.

“A majority of them have ears similar to the Elves’.”

Silane gently touched her tapered ears.

The proof that she was an elf. The Proof that she was not human.

“There are some who slander us due to them.”

“Yeah, that’s true. Then, Kei is anxious about them?”

“Precisely. To some, We Elves are strange monsters that speak words.”

Silane’s eye went wide, realizing what she just said.

“I misspoke. I apologize.”

Strange monsters that spoke words. That also could refer to my family.

Silane lowered her head at her poor choice of words, but I waved my hand. She was reading a bit too much into it.

“Don’t worry about it. I know you didn’t mean for it to sound like that, and you don’t look at the Elves with hateful eyes either.”

A person like that would not be aware of my family. Her words were merely an insult which clearly described the “human supremacists”.

In any case, it was unreasonable.

They were just discriminating against them.

In the first place, there were also monsters with round ears among the monsters closely resembling humans.

Gerbera herself (who was currently playing with Ayame) was such a case.

She could be considered an exception since she was an Arachne and all, but there were other monsters with similiar physical traits, though only a few.

A person throwing heartless words at the Elves would not be willing to look at those inconvenient parts of their argument.

Or maybe, they had no reason for it at all.

Many people found “different” things to be weird—including me.

This wasn’t limited to just the Elves.

The cattlemen wandering the southern part of Earl Lawrence’s territory, for example. I heard rumors that they were being regarded as sub-humans.

Feelings of rejection towards those whose roots were different from your own…it was extremely physiological, so it wasn’t surprising that their claims were irrational.

For them, it didn’t matter so long as they could find fault with someone.

As a result, Kei had become very sensitive over her physical traits.

The essence of the problem wasn’t in what the boy had innocently said.

I knew that, and the difficult situation made me wrinkle my brows. Silane, on the other hand, looked relaxed.

“In any case, it doesn’t seem to be worth worrying about.”

“…Are you sure? Kei looks pretty sad.”

Silane seemed to be pushing the problem away, and her attitude surprised me.

Despite her harsh words, she acted sweet towards Kei. After seeing how down she looked, I thought she would say something to her.

However, Silane shook her head at my question.

“She was born as an elf. She won’t make it in the outside world if she gets depressed over something this small.”

Her true feelings were in those words, which made me hesitate momentarily.

“…So you’re already over that?”

“It’s a bit special in my case.”

Silane smiled wryly, as if thinking back to something.

“I was enrolling into the Knight Order around that age, as well as coping with my brother’s death. While I struggled to become as good a fighter as my brother, I had no time to worry about petty things like how other people viewed me. Thinking back on it now, though, I think I made Leader worry…”

Her brother…in other words, Kei’s father.

If I remember correctly, he died fighting at Fortress Tilia. I hadn’t heard much about him, but I could tell from Silane’s attitude that he’d had a profound effect on molding her character.

“At any rate, if she wants to finish her village life and begin to live as a knight, this is a necessary thing.”

“I understand you can’t do much, but isn’t simply talking to her okay?”

I wasn’t contending her because I believed her point to be wrong.

Her view was correct. Not at all wrong.

But, doing the right thing was sometimes difficult.

Staying strong alone.

I knew all too well how hard that was for ordinary people.

I myself was one of those weak people, after all.

I could only clench my teeth and tell myself to be strong because Lily and the rest of my family were there.

Silane may have not been like that, but someone as young as Kei would still need another.

The one best suited to support her was Silane.

That’s what I thought of it, but Silane had a different view.

“I won’t always be there for her.”

There were hints of a north wind in her voice as she spoke.

Those cold, fierce winds seemed to be blowing not at Kei, but rather Silane.

“…However, there is probably no need to worry so much.”

Silane did an about-face, and a smile showed on her face.

A warm, happy, sunny smile.

As I slipped into perplexion over what made her so happy all of a sudden, Silane began speaking.

“Today hit me by surprise. I was shocked to see an event like that affect you so.”

“Me?”

“She appears to have a certain degree of trust in you. Which is why you don’t want her to see bad things like that, right?”

Is that…how it was?

It felt like a joke I didn’t quite get.

From my perspective, Kei was really attached to Katō-san, and she saw Gerbera as a friend.

Seeing that I still couldn’t get it, Silane’s smile grew bigger

“Besides, it seems I have no reason to move.”

“…Why is that?”

“It looks like you aren’t the only one worrying about her” Silane replied, her eyes fixed on something. I matched her gaze, and saw Lily starting to cook alongside Kei in front of the fire.

The youngest girl in our troupe (excluding Ayame and Asarina) was feeling down, and apparently I had not been the only one to notice this.

As she made preparations for the evening meal, Lily was asking for this and that.

Lily was fairly good at general housework, though it remained unclear whether Miho Mizushima was like that.

For outdoor-related tasks like camping, the necessary “technology” seemed to be different, but they also matched accordingly. In fact, a part of her appeared to enjoy things like that, and recently she’d been taking the initiative in preparing our meals despite the lack of human resources.

Lily and Kei began to cook, and Katō-san joined in. I, however, was politely driven away, so I decided to have a mock battle with Rose whilst part of my mind worried about Kei.

When she selected her weapon beforehand, Rose had changed it.

Her hatchet was larger than before, and had now become two-handed in favor of one-handed.

A bardiche…or in other words, a type of pole axe.

At the end of the long handle an unusually large curved blade was attached, extending almost one-third down the handle, but a cloth was wrapped around the blade for our mock battle.

In addition to the fact that the gap in power between us wasn’t as large as the one between Gerbera and I, we were using weapons we were familiar with so we wouldn’t accidentally injure one another.

I barely managed to parry the thrust out edge of her axe with my shield, and she narrowly avoided the protruding tip of my spear.

Rose was now saving her power and swinging her weapon in order to review each one of the forms she’d been taught, meanwhile I still had a long ways to go.

Nearby, Silane watched our back and forth battle with her arms folded.

She did not directly cross swords with me, but instead coached me on things she noticed.

That aside, she looked a bit distracted today.

I knew the reason why, so I didn’t blame her. Say what you want, she wasn’t as harsh as her words led you to believe.

By the way, in addition to my practice with Silane, I was also still doing combat training with Gerbera in the early morning.

Therefore, during the evening time, Gerbera usually played with Ayame.

Though not exactly on topic, Gerbera couldn’t cook.

Save for when it was sewing-related, Gerbera wasn’t very dexterous, but the biggest reason for her lack of interest in it was because she didn’t understand the necessity of cooking as a whole.

If you thought about it, that much was natural, as she could eat her prey raw.

This held true for Ayame, too. Still, the human group in us would lose our appetites, so they tended to match us.

When dinner was ready to eat, I finished my practice.

After everyone ate their meals together, it was study time.

I received a lecture over the magic of this world from Silane. Katō-san joined in on this, too.

After a while, a cheer rang out from somewhere a little ways away.

When we went to investigate, apparently Rose had taken out something she made as part of the trial and error process.

The object? A simple telescope.

“So she made a telescope?”

“The magnification doesn’t seem to be all that great.”

I muttered, staring at Lily as she gazed at the moon through the telescope. Katō-san replied to me as she sat nearby, apparently having heard about it from Rose beforehand.

“By the way, the lenses used were ones I’d purchased at Mikihiko’s request when we went shopping for dyes,” Silane chipped in.

“Figures. I didn’t think they were hand-crafted.”

“Yes. However, the quality of the lenses are not as good as the ones from where you’re from, so I’m happy it was a success.”

“Are there telescopes in this world?”

“Yes, there are. The good ones are used as military equipment. They’re rather useless in the Sea of Trees for obvious reasons, so they weren’t used much in Fortress Tilia. I have never held one.”

“Then, why don’t you go look at it with them?”

As was her habit, Gerbera was the one most excited, but Kei looked to be having a lot of fun, too.

I proposed that idea to her as she stared at Kei with the face of a parent.

“You don’t have to worry about us missing a lecture for a day.”

“Yeah, it’s fine.”

Katō-san indicated her approval as well.

“…No. Let’s end this conversation here.”

However, Silane shook her head.

“The time she spends with your family will surely become her foundation. It would be best for me not to get involved.”

“…That so?”

Somehow, I felt like I could understand where she was coming from.

For someone as young as Kei, interacting with a being different from herself could change her sense of values and rid of the inferiority complex currently plaguing her.

Besides, interacting with a youngling like Kei would be a good experience for my family, too.

It would be best for neither Silane nor I to be there.

It felt a bit lonesome, but this, too, would be watching over their growth.

As I thought so, I suddenly noticed something.

“……”

That something, was Katō-san’s gaze.

While Silane and I were watching Kei and them, her gaze was fixed on Silane.

“Is something the matter, Katō-san?”

“…No. Nothing’s wrong.”

I asked her, worried, but Katō-san looked away from Silane and shook her head.

“I seem to have misunderstood…”

Around noon the next day, we set foot on the mountain path.

I expected no pursuers would come from the Empire at this point.

It would be quicker to send someone to pursue us from Selatta now.

That possibility was low now, however.

My belief of that was firm.

…So long as they weren’t someone not from the Empire, anyway.

I’ll try to get another chapter out soon. I’ve been finishing up the new LN I’ve been translating, so my focus has been elsewhere.

If you guys notice anything wrong, please let me know!

-Thy Unsus





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