Volume 5 Chapter 96 (2/2)
”For now let's turn around and drop Luna back at Enol. It should be noisy over there now.”
”Awawawa! I'm, I'm sorry! I got c.o.c.ky! But, don't worry, since I've properly left a letter saying that I'm studying abroad together with oneechan. And Luna will be super helpful. So please let me stay, okay, Luton!”
”Cut it out! You are really only causing trouble for everyone around you! When we get back, I will have father scold you plenty!”
As expected, Lyss was super angry.
Luna shrank from that outburst and begged me harder.
”Wait! Luna will really be useful! Here, look!”
”What's that? The empty cartridge that Lyss shot?”
What Luna had taken out of her pocket was an empty cartridge from the general purpose machinegun PKM that Lyss had used to drill holes into the dragoons.
The maids and soldiers should have picked them up, but it seemed that some had been left behind.
”And so, with the magic liquid metal I found in the storage room―”
Luna put both of her hands into the magic liquid metal inside of the mini barrel and pumped in magic.
When she did that, a lot of empty cartridges exactly like the one she had pulled out appeared in her palms.
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”What do you think? Amazing, right!”
We made guns and bullets in the house by the lake, and Luna, who came every day for Chris and snacks, knew that.
However, I hadn't taught her even once.
Bewildered, Meiya and I took the empty cartridges in her palms to check for ourselves.
”......There's no problem. These can be used immediately.”
The empty cartridge shape, thickness, quality, hardness, length…… everything was perfect.
If you stuffed primer, powder, and a bullet core covered by a jacket into it, it would become a usable cartridge.
Even the genius magic tool developer Meiya, with my direct guidance, took many years to reach this level, and yet…..
”How did you learn the method to make it? Or could this be the power of your spirit's blessing or something?”
”No, this girl isn't 100 years old yet, so she doesn't have a spirit's blessing.”
I recalled that the condition to obtain a spirit's blessing was to be 100 years old.
Then, how had she made it?
My new wife, Lyss, told me.
”Since long ago, Luna was a child who wouldn't forget anything she saw once.”
Photographic memory!?
”No, even if that was the case, what about the strength? If you don't pour in the determined amount of magic power, you can't get this strength, you know.”
Pour magic into magic liquid metal and it would become hard.
However, if you poured in too much magic, the metal would become brittle. It wasn't as simple as just pouring in magic.
Luna answered my question cheerfully.
”It's simple. Just pour in magic until it makes this sound.”
While explaining, Luna flicked the empty cartridge with her finger, and a metallic sound rang out.
You even have perfect pitch!?
I was totally stunned by Luna's high specs...
Meiya, who had gone through many hards.h.i.+ps to learn the technique―
”E, even though I went through such hards.h.i.+ps”, said that as she fell into depression.
Her sister, Lyss, on the other hand―
”That's right. Since long ago, both elder sister and Luna were excellent…..except me in the middle, who was called the ”disaster princess”, had no talent, was clumsy….... I wonder why there is there such a big difference, even though we were born from the same parents. There was even a time when I thought that maybe I was the only one who wasn't their real child.”
It became a trauma for her.
Still, this brat was surely talented personnel that anyone would want.
She also had a large amount of magic power, if I had her learned how to make smokeless gunpowder, we would be able to make a large amount of cartridges.
Since we had the general-purpose machinegun PKM, there was no need to worry about surplus of ammunition.
After seeing my admiring face, Luna tried to clinch the deal. She jokingly act flirtatious and sent a wink my way.
”Luton, if you let me stay, I don't mind becoming your wife, you know? I'd be so cute together with Chris-chan~♪”
[That won't do. It's one thing if you really like oniichan, but selling your body just to stay is a no-no.]
As expected, even Chris had to rebuke Luna for that kind of remark. Luna meekly apologized, possibly because she had been reprimanded by her best friend.
”Sorry, Chris-chan. Luton too, I'm sorry for saying weird things.”
”No, I don't mind. Anyway, what do we do now?”
”Of course, we return her to the kingdom. Smuggling yourself in, deceiving Lute-san and everyone, that is unacceptable as a royal of the High Elf clan.”
”Wait, oneechan!”
Luna raised her voice in objection, but Lyss' judgement was right.
However, that was when Luna played her trump card.
”If it's deceit, then oneechan has also deceived Luna!”
”Eeeeh! Th-there shouldn't be any instances when I deceived you!”
”There was! The day you went on the trip to defeat the Giant Scorpion――”
――Haah… After this incident is safely resolved and things have calmed down, I will ask father to let us go on a little trip. That's why, please obediently stay at the castle this time, okay?
She promisedーーー!!!
There was a lot of trouble after the extermination, so we completely forgot about it.
Lyss, who looked like she had remembered her words, was dumbstruck. As expected of the clumsy princess. To be beautifully overturned by her little sister, with her own words.
”Luna, since then, has been looking forward to it…...”
”Er, erm… i, it's not like I forgot, you know. It's just, I was busy with many things, so it just kept being postponed, or should I say…...”
”It's unacceptable for royalty to deceive people, was it?”
”Ugh….!”
It looked like the winner had been decided.
As for how to deal with Luna―for now, it was decided that she would also be hypothetically studying abroad.
However, it was only under the condition that, if she caused trouble, didn't listen to us or something similar, she would be sent back without any arguments.
For the time being, we stopped by a nearby town and used a fast messenger to inform the kingdom of Luna's safety.
After we were done finished taking care of business, the airs.h.i.+p took off again.
Our destination was h.o.a.rd, in the Algio territory, and the orphanage where Eru-sensei was waiting.
The plan was to inform sensei of our marriage.
There were many problems along the way, but the airs.h.i.+p just kept flying forward, to the place where I had been born and raised.
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Next time
Chapter 6 - Juvenile period - Ordinary Days chapter―Beginning―
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With that, new members were added, and the family name and crest were decided.
Since chapter 5 has been battle×battle all the way, for chapter 6 I will focus on the characters, take it easy, and write something funny. Chapter 7 will be battles again, or that is the plan.
TL Note : Chapter 5, Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 are Volumes respectively. - rei
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