Chapter 5 (1/2)

Adulthood and Magic

Morning, I threw my eyes open and felt the cold air.

I separated from Rin and my younger brother hugging me, yawned and went outside.

There was snow here and there outside.

It seems snow began falling last night.

Today will be the winter season, then it’s the moment for my adulthood

One big house and two smaller houses next to father’s house were prepared for today.

The next day after the adulthood training, ingredients were gathered and prepared, it’s already done by now.

I’ll start living here from now on. I understood that enthusiasm must be confined inside my body.

Even if it’s winter season the girls’ mornings don’t change.

They went to draw water with the jugs.

Since it’s early in the morning there are some girls still half-asleep, there are dazzling ones too.

But the girls wearing thick clothing is such a letdown.

I sat face-to-face with my younger brother.

「Nii-sama、I’ll be fine。 So please rest a.s.sured。」

「Yeah、if it’s you then you’ll work up to expectations。」

I handed the crest crafted using wood to my younger brother.

This thing indicates the person in charge of the house’s horses.

He received it with both hands and put it into his pocket.

When the snow season comes, everyone born during this season became 1 year older all at the same time.

The men who become adults from today on gathered before the Patriarch’s house.

The guys who gathered here will become Fighters or Warriors from today on.

Standing next to me, Obudai is also listening to the Patriarch.

The Fighters who were baptist by the Patriarch returned home.

When the Fighters all went home it’s our turn to receive baptism.

The Fighters were finished all at once, but us Warriors went one by one carefully.

After everyone was baptist, the Patriarch held me back as everybody went home.

I was recognized and baptist to become a Moderate Warrior by the Patriarch.

When there’s celebration, there’s also separation.

Many men died on the battlefield, many women also died of fecundity

(TN: I might be wrong here – 女は多産が元で死ぬ者も多い。)

There’s no hygiene management in this world so people with long lifespan are very few.

All the people who turned 50 today headed towards the sacred mountain.

This is called ‘abandoning 50 years old women in the mountain’ in my previous life

(TN: WTF is this? Is there any tribe that does this??)

Though it’s depressing, this is also one of gra.s.sland laws, I can’t accompany them.

The exceptions are active Moderate/Great Warriors, active Moderate Fighters, active Chiefs, inexperienced successors of a family head, midwives, and patriarches.

Their family and relatives saw them off as those people departed to the sacred mountain.

I returned to my house seeing everyone already gathered.

As my father sat in the middle, my siblings circled around him.

「From now on you’re also an adult」

「Yes」

「Who are you taking with you？」

As an adult I’ll be living in a different house now.

I’ll come over to father’s house to eat, but there’s personnel for cleaning, doing laundry, and maintaining the house.

I can take the slave wives’ kids with me as my personal follower.