Chapter 22 (1/2)

22.LITTLE GIRL MAKE PREPARATIONS

“Really, there is nothing to do.”

Borudo muttered. Borudo was at the back of the wagon the machiinis were loaded in. He was watching over it by himself.

“Are you by yourself there? I am also here on guard duty. It can´t be helped both of us have nothing to do.”

“You´re not wrong.”

Borudo was at the storehouse that was located next to the inn Kooza recommended. It was the machiini garage of the customers that went to stay in the inn. [Iron Dinna] and [Musas.h.i.+] were both inside the garage, still on the wagon. Together with them was Borudo, watching over them.

The one that came to talk to Borudo seemed to also be a slave from a mercenary group that was staying at the inn. Seeming like the mercenary group had eight machiinis, and moreover, was a big mercenary group by itself. And so, other than the slave that came to talk to Borudo, there were other three slaves.

“That´s a face I´ve not seen yet. Did you just arrive here?”

“Yes, we´ve just arrived from Colossus. Looks like your mercenary group is a really big one though.”

Hearing Borudo say that, the slave said “Well, I guess”.

“It is Jairo Don-sama´s mercenary group Don. What is yours?”

“Mine is… Hm, Bela mercenary group, Heiroh mercenary group? Maybe…. something like that?”

“What´s with that?”

Saying that, the slaves laughed while Borudo made a wry smile. Borudo still didn´t know that by this time Bela had already decided that the name of her mercenary group was going to be Beladonna. After finis.h.i.+ng his friendly chat with the slaves that had come to talk to him, a voice came from outside.

“Those big inns are really at a different level.”

“How has it been on your side?”

“We´ve been alternating between camping outside and living in the city. We were planning on going back to the front lines right away after all. But then, I´ve heard about you from Kooza-danna and waited for you, you see.”

Hearing that, Borudo made an bitter face and said “Oh, so they came”. Seeing his expression, the other slaves also understood it was his master that had come.

“It seems that my master arrived. Now then, I will going back.”

“Yeah. If you wanna talk about something, I can lend my ears anytime. Work hard there.”

Borudo went to meet his master while waving his hand to the cheering of the other slaves.

“Yoh, it seems you´ve returned very early, mast…”

“Gimru.”

“Gyyaaaahh.”

Receiving the restraining curse of his slave mark, Borudo fell down, rolling on the ground in pain.

“Yes, that´s a nice voice. I came back. You properly did your job, right?”

“Ah, yes, no problems. By the way, why did you use the….”

Having the restraining curse activated, Borudo sent a gaze of protest with his teary eyes.

“I had the feeling that you were chitchatting with some other people without watching over the machiinis. Am I wrong?”

Hearing Bela´s words, Borudo´s mouth was shut into the letter ”へ”. Bela wasn´t wrong. However, Borudo thought that it hadn´t been to the point she would need to activate the restraining curse. However, if he was to answer back to her, more punishment would be waiting for him. And so, Borudo endured it with his mouth shut.

The slaves of the Don mercenary group were watching Borudo suddenly getting attacked by a little girl with their eyes wide-open.

“We-well, alright. More importantly, master, are those people the mercenaries master has hired?”

“Yes, she is Maia, the leader of the Rozen mercenary group, and this guy is Gauro, the vice-leader. Both are machiini pilots. Now, this guy is…”(TL: So Gauro is the vice leader? my impression of that mercenary group got a bit lower -.-)

When Bela glanced at Jadan, he stepped forward and lowered his head.

“Hihi, are you Borudo-senpai? I am Jadan. I will be on your care.” (TL note: Seeenpaaaai T.T)

“Ye-yeah. Me too.”

As the pressure given by Jadan´s inflamed left part of his face made Borudo´s face slightly twitch, he returned the greeting while trying to make a senpai-like friendly smile.

“That guy uses a bomber model. I will be grouping you up together with him, so be good friends.”

“Geh, ah, no, understood.”