Chapter 46 (1/2)
The Story Of A Certain Family (4)
“I hope this is fine, Hardt-dono. I fulfilled the promise”
The man who wore gorgeous clothes who speaks to the robed man who’s in front of me. The robed man ignores the fact that he’s being spoken to and looks at us doubtfully.
“Hey, why are there only males in this family? What about the father, mother, siblings?”
“……These fellows are orphans who live in the slums. Amongst that, we brought them from a place where only they were living”
“Fhu~n?”
It seems the robed man doesn’t believe in what the man who wore gorgeous clothes said. Besides, it for some reason turned into a situation where only us males were living there. What’s this about?
When I’m thinking about it without knowing what’s going on, perhaps he couldn’t stand this gloomy atmosphere, Tel who’s still 5 years old started to cry. And then
“Our family members are not just us! There are also Emmoneechan and Tierroneechan and the others!”
, he shouted at the men. The man who wore gorgeous clothes tries to make Tel stop shouting but, the robed man gives his instructions and, a wall of light that s.h.i.+nes translucently appear around us and we were enveloped by it.
“Fufu, have you lied to Hardt-sama, King Mestoa?”
Even as she smiles, the beautiful golden-haired woman was glaring at the man who wore gorgeous clothes. Rather, that person was the King huh. Looking at it like this, he looks no more than some ordinary old man.
“Heh, the king was trying to deceive me?”
“Th, that’s not it! Oi, what is this about!?”
The King who suddenly gets into a panic. Ignoring that, the robed man walked towards where we are. The robed man went straight to the crying Tel.
“So, you guys have other family members as well?”
“……gusu1……un, there were Onee-chan and the others but, they were taken away by a weird bunch of Oji-san2……”
“Tierroneechan was taken away as well!”
The children speak to the robed man one after another. The robed man came to me after he listened silently.
“Are you these kids’ leader?”
“……I’m not their leader. They are my precious family”
When I say it honestly, the robed man looks at me radiantly for some reason. The golden-haired woman who moves closer next to him as though to snuggle beside him.
“Well, whatever. For the time being, let’s bring them along. Mylene, Fia, bring them along”
“Understood”
“……Understood”
We are lead by the golden-haired woman and red-haired woman out of the room. At the front is the robed man. I’m bothered by the polar opposite expression of the golden-haired woman smiling and the red-haired woman showing a terribly uneasy expression.
Where we were lead to while I was thinking about something like that was, a bas.e.m.e.nt. I think it’s probably the castle since the King is around but, who would’ve thought that there was such a place under the castle. And above all else
“You have returned, Creator”
it’s also my first time seeing monsters, a skeleton who wore a robe and zombies were all over the place. Those rumours that the country was a.s.sailed by monsters were true huh.