In case you
wondering… The players only called each other with real name when they are
alone. They called each other with their IGN when they are in front of others.
Author note:
WARNING! HORRIBLE GRAMMAR
Chapter 2: The Heaven Lords in the New World
Part 7: Cleaning Neighborhood
That morning of the 17th day of the Fifth Month of Dark-Half, at
662nd Year of the Emperor of Holy Spirit, was the same morning that
had dawned upon the small Village of Tinirese at the edge of Great Falgara
Forest for countless days. However, as the villagers woke up and getting
started to work at their fields, disaster struck.
A large group of marauders descended on the hapless village, which had been
depleted from young man who were drafted by the endless 『Eastern
Principalities 』 conflicts between petty kings. A band of vulture
preying at the opportunity that was provided by the gaps of vacuum of power, as
local nobles died or gets replaced and neither soldier nor knights were
guarding the area. They consisted of mostly defeated soldier or mercenaries
from the losing side, reinforced by thugs and ruffians and terrorize
territories that were mostly undefended. Like the small faraway obscure
Tinirese Village.
The small
hapless village garrison quickly overwhelmed, their blood stained the broken
palisade wall. The marauders quickly disposed the elderly and captured the
young who will fetch high price in the Western Slave Market. Anyone who tries
to interfere, get ruthlessly cut down as each house ransacked for captives,
valuables and foods. To discourage any further opposition, they set fire on
numerous building. The wooden and thatches house quickly subsumed by fire and sending
ominous black smoke to the sky. A silent testament of the tragedy that had
befallen on this unfortunate village.
There was
no one they could ask for help. The previous kind feudal lord had died,
murdered in power struggle by his rival who soon only saw the outlying village
like Tinirese as nuisance at worst or someplace to milk out tax at best. The
local knights had disappeared under the battlefield, replaced by mercenaries
who are no better than the marauders. They had lost most of their food, their
fields ransacked, their homes ruined. Even if they move to another village, it
would be hard for them to start from zero, as the one who were left were only
the elderly, the very young and the infirm.
As the
survivors were lamenting their dead and send wailing prayers for the Gods’
Court and Holy Spirits, they noticed an unknown group came out from the forest
and approached their ruined village. Wary and suspicious for another raid, the
remaining women and children hide, while the men made their last stand with
whatever left to arm their hand. They had nothing to lose as there is nothing
else left in the village.
However,
their suspiciousness lessened as their saw that the group wore attires that much
more different from marauders or bandits. There also young girls and even
people from another races amongst the group, dressed not in armor but with fine
dresses and clothing. The high quality of their equipment was apparent for the
villagers who soon thought that they are mercenaries, adventurers or maybe a
merchant or noble entourage from somewhere, beckoned by the dark smoke beacon.
Although
both parties didn’t understand each other as the language the unknown group
used was unknown to the villagers and the unknown group strangely didn’t
understand the 『Common
Language』, the unknown group soon helped the
villagers without being asked. At first their numbers were only dozens. But
before the Right Sun set and herald the darkless night, hundreds visited the
village. Healing the wounded, repairing the building, providing new shelter and
hot food, and even resurrecting the dead. The unknown group did so many things
that was above the villages could ask for.
Unknown to
the villagers, that day mark the day the 『Nameless State』, soon known as 『Archduchy Union of Neuschwanensee』, made their first contact with
outside party other than war for the last 700 years.
Excerpt from:
Seliosa Et. Waseno, Fp. Celebrating 100th
year of Tinirese Village’s seminal role as Archduchy Union of Neuschwanensee’s
first outside contact location. Journal of Zekria History. 762(7): 45-68.
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After the brief meeting with the girls, Yuuto decided to postpone the
Instance exploration for now and checked the settlement for the time being.
After all, Ichiko and Kiyomi was not here, and Yuuto thought to just bring half
of the Gate Knight to storm the Instance. It was good for their training he
guess.
Employing Kiyomi’s summon, Tatiana and Lacme, as airborne scout, since both
of them are fairies who can fly, Yuuto also ordered the scouts to make wide
surveillance perimeter. After all, information is important. They moved slowly
at 30 km/hour so they could deal with whatever adversaries came out swiftly.
After an hour, they arrived near the edge of the forest.
From what Tatiana, Lacme and the advance scouts reported, it seems that at
the edge of the forest there was a human settlement, with about 60 buildings
surrounded by battered and half destroyed wooden palisade wall. There was a vast
field surrounding the village and mainly concentrated on the western bank of a
small river flowed out from the forest that they used as irrigation source.
About 1/3 of the building were burned or burning and 1/3 showed some sort of
damage, the fields that look like it could be harvested in short time were
mostly ruined. Most of the populace seems to gather at the square in the center
of the village, while some were blocking the hole in the palisade with debris
or watching the surrounding. It seemed that there was a battle happened near
and inside the village with the village took substantial losses.
After they received the report about the village, Chie sent a silent glance
towards Yuuto. The same kind of gaze also was thrown towards him from Saki and
the twins. Yuuto made a wry smile and sent Stella a look. She just raised her
hand as if to saying “just do what you like” and gave a tacit agreement.
“Let’s move
up.” (Yuuto)
Judging that the village didn’t seem to possess danger for the group and
confirming that there were no any hostile near the area, Yuuto took the girls,
the maids and half of the scouts and moved towards the village. The reason why
he brought the girls and the maids was so that the group wouldn’t look
intimidating. After all, a group with young girls wouldn’t be dangerous right?
Meanwhile Tatiana and Lacme were floating atop the village unseen using Lacme’s
illusion magic.
The villagers gathered at the palisade wall that faced Yuuto’s group. Their
hands rose up makeshift spear, pitchfork, sharpened burned stick, and short
hunting bow while looking menacingly at the group. Yuuto then let the girls
walked forward before stopping about 50 meter from the wall, when the villagers
started to shout something. Unfortunately, Yuuto and the girls didn’t
understand.
This was already reported by the scouts and from several planned encounters
with native travelers. The language spoken by the native is practically unintelligible,
and although the Scholars with Linguistic skill had identified probable basic
grammar structure and sounds rule, it still far from properly understood the
language in question. Furthermore, there seems to be dialectical or even
language difference between the observed region of Mittagsland and
Morgendrotsland. So the language of Abendrotsland is even more obscure. Yuuto
hoped that the automatic language translation works, but it seems that Neuewelt
is not that kind…
‘So the
translation function really didn’t work for the natives, huh?’
While Yuuto was thinking like this, the villagers kept shouting something,
some were even swing their weapon with threatening posture.
“Hey, we
come to help! We are not bad guys, okay!” (Saki)
Saki yelled in bright voices, that soon followed by Mizuki.
“You have
injured people right? We have medicine!” (Mizuki)
Hearing both of the girls’ yells, the villagers seemed to be confused. They
seemed to have some discussion before an older man of them came out from one of
the hole in the palisade followed by the several other middle aged men with
pitchfork and spear.
The old man and the other villagers wore a simple shirt like garment albeit
without button and trouser made from wool, linen or cotton that reminded him of
the peasants’ photographs from Tsarist Russia. Based on how the other guarding
him, maybe the older man is the village chief or elder. Yuuto then stepped out
and stand before the girls.
“*foreign
language*” (Old Man)
The old man spoke with a brash tone, but as expected, Yuuto couldn’t make
head or tails of it. It sounds like European language, but it is definitely not
English, or other Romance or Germanic language… Maybe Slavic or Uralic? The
villagers have brown to red-brown hair, although they didn’t look that
European… Maybe Central Asia, so Turkic language? Even so, Yuuto thought that if
it indeed some European language it would be already translated by the
automatic language translation, so maybe it was some other kind language or maybe
it was ridiculous for Yuuto to think that it was even an Earth language. After
all Earth didn’t have two suns or red moon.
“We are
sorry, but we don’t know what you say.” (Yuuto)
Yuuto made gesture by pointing at his mouth, his ear and then shake his
hand. He repeated this gesture several times.
“*foreign
language*” (Old Man)
From the old man tone of voice, he seems to be not welcoming Yuuto and the
group.
“We bring
medicine and food. Hans, Oswin, take out your potion and ration and show to
them.” (Yuuto)
Like what he had arranged before, Yuuto asked two of the scouts to take
their potions and rations from the bag and showed it to the old man and his
group. This seems to attract the ld man’s attention as he began to consult his
entourage, there seemed to be a little discord before the old man finally began
to speak towards Yuuto again.
“*foreign
language*(point at the scouts behind Yuuto)*foreign language*(point at the
spear on one of the villager)*foreign language*(point at the ground)*foreign
language*(point at the village)” (Old Man)
“I
understand. Hans, Oswin, Lief, Gastrad, entrust your weapon to the others and
follow me. The rest establish a reconnaissance perimeter up to 5 km and search
for signs and tracks of potential hostile entity.” (Yuuto)
“Yes Lord
Highness” (Knights)
The Knights kneeled before executing Yuuto’s order. Four of the Knights
walked in Yuuto and the girls’ flank, while the other Knights dispersed to the
forests.
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The air was stale from soot, smoke and dried blood. Blackened building with
half scorched crumbling walls was the common feature of the village northern
side where Yuuto’s came. A handful of children and elderly were scavenging on
the debris were the flame had died out, trying to salvage whatever were spared
from the fire. Here and there some ember still alive and sent towering smoke
that casted somber shadow on the ruined village.
As Yuuto’s group approached the plaza, the wailing of women became louder
and louder. When they finally reached the plaza, they saw rows of lifeless
bodies, covered with blood soaked cloths, arranged in the center of plaza. In
one of the still intact building of the plaza, the villagers seems to have
established a makeshift hospital where the wounded were tended as the villagers
tried to stop the bleeding with just bandaging the wound using boiled scrap of
cloths. This sight reminded Yuuto of the scene in the Knights infirmary on the
first day they arrived in Neuewelt. Looking at the sad looks that the girls had
in their face, Yuuto guessed that they also had the same thoughts as him. Yuuto
patted Saki’s and Tsukimi’s head as if to console them, before he realized what
he was doing… Old habits die hard, not that both of the girls mind it either
way. Anyway, he showed a reassuring smile to them and then looked at his
surroundings.
The preliminary scout found about 60 set of buildings… Assuming that every
building set is a residence, and a residence is home for 5-6 people then that
mean about 300-360 people in this village. Since the dead bodies count reach
about 30, it mean that 1 in 10 people in the village died… If the injured
number was about this figure then this village took a lot of casualties. For an
agricultural based economy, this reduction of manpower would be harsh.
For an Earth medieval point of view, this village could be considered as
big. However “Medieval” wouldn’t be the right term for Neuewelt, since the
level of local technology was still unknown. Also, most of the native villages
that the scout reported back had building count between 100 and 300 buildings,
although this was only based on village in Mittagsland and Morgendrotsland. So
maybe this village could be considered as small. It is worthy to note that
almost every village had walls from wood or stone to protect the inhabited
area. Even solitary farmhouse that dotted Mittagsland plain, were composed of
several buildings gathered inside a wall. Maybe this was because as the
countermeasure for the frequent monster attack?
While Yuuto was thinking this, he observed that the old man (Yuuto called
him [temporary] village chief) and his entourage met with the some of the other
men, also middle aged men. The lack of young men or women was quickly noticed
by Yuuto. After they finished discussed something, one of the men came with the
(temp) village chief and approached Yuuto’s group.
The man looked like he had passed his prime but his appearance was
different from other villagers as he looked like an educated person. The smart looking
man greeted Yuuto with a polite tone before he began to speak to Yuuto with
words that Yuuto noticed had different style or manner. It looked like the
smart looking man spoke in various local languages or dialects to try
establishing an effective two-way communication. Unfortunately, none of the
languages were recognized by Yuuto or automatic translation program. Yuuto
pointed to his ear and shake his hand to make gesture he didn’t understand. The
smart looking man and the (temp) village chief looked troubled.
Yuuto then took out a high-ranked Potion (Pokari fruit flavored) from his
inventory. The villagers were surprised by the sudden appearance of the potion
that was accompanied by particles of light.
“This
potion (points to potion) I’ll give it to you (extend the potion towards the
men) to heal the injured (point at the house where the villagers tended their
injured)*smile*” (Yuuto)
The men looked dumbfounded, but then the smart looking man took the potion
from Yuuto’s hand and examined it. He made a surprised face before telling
something to the (temp) village chief who then made a surprised face. The
(temp) village chief then shook Yuuto’s hand with a grateful face while
repeating “Reski” numerous times. Well from the situation, Yuuto didn’t have to
guess what “Reski” means. Now that was the first step to understand the
language…
Yuuto then took out about 30 potions from his inventory and handed them to
the (temp) village chief who then passed it to other villagers. The he also
took out 100 pieces of rations box (Knight Standard Ration type 3: Rye Bread
Bun with meat and egg inside) and a large barrel containing 400 liter of fresh
water from his inventory and forwarded them towards the villagers, who received
them with a mixture of bewilderment and gratefulness.
“Florea,
Rarirea, come here!” (Yuuto)
Florea and Rarirea then step forward and bowed to Yuuto. The villagers were
not negligent in noticing this.
““Yes Lord
Highness. What can we do for you?””(Florea)(Rarirea)
“Use a
healing magic at this men (point at the village chief and smart looking man).” (Yuuto)
““Yes Lord
Highness!”” (Florea)(Rarirea)
Although Florea and Rarirea only possess rudimentary healing magic unlike
Gemirea, it was still enough for this purpose. Florea and Rarirea took out
their staffs from their inventory to the astonishment of the villagers.
“Oh Force of
Nature, be a kind steward, and grant us restoration, Natural Healing.” (Florea)
“We beseech
thee, Spirits of Yore, please aid us, and heal us whole. Minor Remedial.” (Rarirea)
A light then basked the (temp) village chief and smart looking man for a
second before it disappeared. They seemed to notice that the maids just casted
towards them with healing magic. Yuuto thought that they didn’t that surprised,
but maybe they already predicted that someone from Yuuto’s group could use healing
magic. Then this would be easy.
“They
(pointed to Rarirea and Flore) will heal (swing hand) the wounded (pointed at
the building), is it fine to you? (gesture towards the men)” (Yuuto)
The men looked confused from a moment before the smart looking man seemed to
get the gist of Yuuto’s proposal. He gestured as if asking the maids to follow
him.
“Wait!” (Yuuto)
Yuuto raised his arms up. The smart looking man stopped and seemed to be
thinking if something wrong.
“Tatiana,
Lacme. Come down.” (Yuuto)
“Alright!” (Tatiana)
“Yes,
deshu!” (Lacme)
As soon as Yuuto’s ordered them, the two fairy girls cancelled their
invisibility and descended from the sky and landed in front of Yuuto. The
villagers were surprised by their appearance and made a commotion. Well, maybe
human sized fairy was a rare sight in this place, Yuuto thought.
“Lacme, can
you go with Florea and Rarirea to heal the people in this place?” (Yuuto)
Lacme is one of Kiyomi’s support oriented summoned spirits, of course she
had healing magic albeit only low-mid rank one at her current form.
“Lady
Melbiena, have gave me permission, deshu. I will do my best, deshu.”(Lacme)
“Thank
you.” (Yuuto)
“Go get
‘em, girl!” (Tatiana)
Lacme then followed Florea and Rarirea towards the makeshift hospital.
“Tatiana,
can you go and put down the fire in the buildings?” (Yuuto)
“Piece of
sponge cake! It is an easy tasks for the great me (atashi-sama)!” (Tatiana)
Tatiana then flew towards a half burning building and froze it so that the
fire died down, albeit the building now decorated with frosts and ice flakes. Yuuto
then turned towards the rest of the group.
“Veniosa,
Vedimari, Frimari, Rutidora, Mesidora. Prepare some hot soup for the people in
this place. You can use this for ingredients.” (Yuuto)
“““““Yes
Lord Highness!!!””””” (Maids)
Yuuto took out two crates of fresh food ingredient enough to feed his
forest incursion trip party (scout team Knights and maids included) for 1 week.
So maybe it could make enough good soup for the hundreds people in this
village. After all, nothing beats the familiar comfort of hot food after a
traumatic event, and from the look of it, this village had little means of food
for the time being. The five maids do a curtsy and bowed their head elegantly.
Veniosa then took out a large pot and portable magic stove from her inventory
space, as expected from Kiyomi’s personal assistant. They soon were busy preparing
the ingredients. Yuuto then turned towards the Knights.
“Hans,
Oswin, Lief. Search the ruined house for any survivors or victims and bring
them to the plaza. Gastrad, inform the other team to converge near the village
gate, also I want a report if they find any tracks.” (Yuuto)
““““Yes
Lord Highness!!!””” (Knights)
The Knights kneeled in front of Yuuto. Since the Knights was from a Scout
team, they had Searching magic that enable them to monitor their surrounding,
so this not only useful to search for hidden enemies but also, in this case,
people buried out of sight.
“Yusis-san……”
(Tsukimi)
“Yes, what
is it Ciel?” (Yuuto)
“Don’t you
think we can resurrect them using Ankh of Life like we do before?” (Tsukimi)
Tsukimi asked Yuuto with sad looking expression. Saki and Mizuki also
nodded in agreement. However, even if Yuuto had a lot of Ankhs of Life in
inventory and could manufactured it by a tap of menu, Yuuto thought that it
better to not using Ankh of Life in this case and better let Ichiko use her
Resurrection magic instead. Why? Because Ankh of Life is a tool… That means
people would learn the existence of a tool could resurrect dead people. This
could become a troublesome thing if the native or other potential hostile
entity demanded to know about the production method or use violent conduct in
trying to secure it. After all, who wants to live forever? The answer will be, well,
most of the people. Even if Yuuto explained that Ankh of Life only can be used
by the Players ―― or Heaven
Lords in this case ―― who will believe it? So it was better if Resurrection only achieved by
Ichiko’s magic. After all, they couldn’t demand Yuuto to hand over Ichiko,
right? If they still do then… ufufufu… The story will become ‘very
interesting’.
“I think
it’s better for us to refrain from using it…” (Yuuto)
Tsukimi’s expression seemed sad, while Saki and Mizuki’s face were the very
incarnation of ‘Why?’ Yuuto would explain his reasoning to them, next time, if
the time permits. He just make comforting smile and patted the three girls’
head in succession… Before he realized what he doing… Bad hand… Why do you move
by yourself?
“Yusis, do
you think we should call Una then?” (Chie)
Yuuto nodded to Chie’s question so she also nodded as if she understood
something. Stella was… Looking at the situation with rather overwhelmed
expression. Well, Yuuto knew that she was weak for such kind of scene. Even if
she put a harsh façade, her heart is quite kind and delicate. But, she would be
mostly okay. She wasn’t a weak willed girl after all. Yuuto then turned towards
the girls and put on a smile.
“As for you
three… make sure everyone got potion and ration.” (Yuuto)
“Okay” (Mizuki)
“Alright” (Saki)
“*nod*” (Tsukimi)
“Sia,
Stella, look after them alright?” (Yuuto)
“Yes.” (Chie)
“Yeah…
yeah… leave the babysitting to me…” (Stella)
The three girls ran towards the Maids who were cooking the soup. Chie and
Stella followed from behind. Yuuto then opened his Friend window and selected
Kiyomi.
“*ring*ring*click*
Hello, Dear Husband.” (Kiyomi)
Kiyomi soft and cheerful voice greeted Yuuto.
“About the
situation in the village…” (Yuuto)
“Ah, I
already know about it from Tat-chan and Lac-chan, Dear Husband.” (Kiyomi)
Well, since Kiyomi could receive telepathic communication from her summoned
spirits, this was a given.
“Then, Mel,
can you inform Una about the situation in the village and ask her to bring
relief supplies and some of the Knights?” (Yuuto)
“As a
matter of fact… wait a moment Dear Husband……… Okay, it had nice golden color.
I’m sorry; let me continue again, as a matter of fact, I had informed Una-san
just a moment ago. She will bring the necessary supplies, the people from
medics and the engineer. Mitteherz and the Diplomatic Corps would also follow,
also Lichkeit would also bring the entire Second Regiment with them. They would
depart in 30 minutes and possibly reached the village at noon. I did the right
thing, isn’t that right Dear Husband?” (Kiyomi)
“Yes. Thank
you very much Mel. You helped me a lot.” (Yuuto)
“Hehehe…” (Kiyomi)
“Okay Mel.
I have something else to do, so I will end this call.” (Yuuto)
“Un… Alright
Dear Husband… I will be joining you later in lunch.” (Kiyomi)
Yuuto closed the phone call and observed the Maids and the girls, it seemed
that the soup was still in the middle of cooking, and the girls had headed
towards the makeshift-hospital. Then Yuuto noticed that a young boy, maybe
10-12 years old were sending him serious looks. Although he could be called as
children, a short sword was tied on his waist. Yuuto could only make a wry
smile looking at this.
“Hmmm… What
is it young man.” (Yuuto)
“*foreign
language* (gesture to Yuuto to follow him).” (Young
Boy)
The boy repeatedly used his hand to gesture Yuuto as if to ask him to
follow the boy. Yuuto thought there was no harm to follow him. Seeing that
Yuuto following him, the boy started to walk away from the plaza while looking
backwards to see if Yuuto still following him. Then they arrived at a rather
big walled house, the boy opened the gate in the wall. Yuuto and the boy then
were greeted by dozens of children and middle age women.
“*foreign
language*” (Boy)
“*foreign
language*” (Old Woman)
The boy started to talk with one of the older women. Then the other women
swarmed in to join in the discussion. Yuuto was still conjecturing at what is
going on, when he noticed the children there timidly observing him. Yuuto only
showed a smile and then several children came and start barraging him with what
seemed to be a question.
“*foreign
language*” (Children)
Of course Yuuto didn’t understand a bit. Even so, the children looked
interested to see his sword. So Yuuto showed his sword 『Yobel』 to them. The
sword that had elaborate decoration on the hilt and sheathe attracted the
children attention, after all it was coated in orichalcum so the aurora
reflection from it was very pretty. Then the children dispersed as the women
start to surround Yuuto.
“*foreign
language*” (Woman A)
“*foreign
language*” (Woman B)
“*foreign
language* (point towards forest)” (Woman C)
The women seemed to say something to Yuuto with pleading tone and gesture,
some even started to cry. Even if Yuuto recognize their emotion, he still
didn’t know what they requested from him.
“I’m sorry
I don’t understand (gesture to ear and then shook hands)” (Yuuto)
Yuuto said while gesturing in the middle of ruckus. The noises then died
down, as one of the older women seemed to request the women to keep quiet. One
of the women then took out something from her pocket, then the others followed
suit.
“*foreign
language* (showed a torn up girl’s clothes, point towards forest)” (Women D)
“*foreign
language* (showed a realistic hand drawn picture of a family, pointed at a girl
in the picture, point towards forest)” (Women A)
“*foreign
language*” (Woman E)
“*foreign
language*” (Old Woman)
The women started to show Yuuto paraphernalia for teenage girl or young
women such as accessories, clothes, pictures, drawings, etc. Some even were
begging at Yuuto’s feet while wailing. All the same, they pointed to the
direction of the forest. Yuuto could more or less guess what happened in this
place. The occasion was right too, so he was thankful for this.
“I see… I
will do something about it. Don’t worry.” (Yuuto)
Yuuto pointed to himself and then towards the forest. Soon the women showed
smile, and then they started to touch and rubbed Yuuto’s feet. Yuuto didn’t run
away or do anything, since this maybe some of the custom in this place. Dealing
with someone else without knowing the local norm was very awkward…
“*foreign
language* Reski *foregn language*” (Woman A)
“*foreign
language* Reski, reski.” (Woman E)
“Reski
jureski.” (Woman C)
Yuuto then gestured that he would leave the place, the women keep following
him and speak out “Reski” numerous times. When he reached the village central
plaza, the Maids were distributing the soup together with the girls. The
villagers originally didn’t form any lines however after being ‘ordered’ by
Saki and Mizuki’s yelling they finally reigned down the villagers to form two
neat line. While he was observing this, Gastrad came with two other knights.
“Report
from scout, Lord Highness.” (Gastrad)
“Speak up,
Gastrad.” (Yuuto)
“Third team
found tracks of large group of people moving towards northwest.” (Gastrad)
Gastrad , together with the other knight, started to unfold large sized
paper that showed the detailed topography map of the surrounding area. Yuuto
was quite impressed by the speed of their map making. Gastrad pointed to an
area of forest edge where an arrow was drawn to represent expected route. There
were sign of numerous men, expected to numbering on 3 dozens or more. Not far
away from the first sign of tracks, there were wheel marks as it followed a
dirt road hidden among the trees.
“Thank you,
Gastrad. Call Florea to meet me in the gate. Helmut, prepare the men at the
gate. Heavy equipments and armaments authorized.” (Yuuto)
““Yes Lord
Highness!”” (Knights)
The Knights kneeled and bowed before heading to accomplish Yuuto’s order.
Just when Yuuto wanted to walk towards the village’s gate.
“Going
somewhere?” (Chie)
Chie, suddenly stood beside Yuuto and asked him. He didn’t notice when Chie
approached him, even so, it was not that surprising.
“Yeah, I’ll
be going until noon, I need to clean the neighborhood a bit…” (Yuuto)
“……………Okay.
Don’t be reckless. Be safe……” (Chie)
“You too,
take care of the girls for me.” (Yuuto)
Yuuto patted Chie’s head and cat ears… before he noticed what he was
doing…… Damn you unconsciousness!
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