Vol 1 Chapter 9 (1/2)

“What I’m trying to say is I will be going on a journey.”

“Hmm a journey…”

Leila received Kail’s report about his departure at her home.

“Did you tell Seraia?”

“Yeah, she cried a little but I managed to convince her.”

Leila made a wry smile.

“Since she’s overprotective…. What did you say to Roel?”

“Roe… Ah, you mean dad. What? When did he get back?…. Rather he was already back? Well I’ll tell him if I meet him.”

“Don’t say it as if it’s just an extra… Well it’s good to learn more about the world. With how strong you are now you’ll be able to beat most of your opponents….. By the way take Seran with you while you’re at it.”

“I was already planning to do that, but is it really alright?”

“Oh, he’s perfect for being a s.h.i.+eld for magic or arrows. There are also other uses, like a sacrifice or scapegoat.”

“That’s just wasteful. It’s alright if he can take the hit and die for me when it counts.”

“You guys, don’t say something like that in front of the person himself.”

Seran who heard us began to complain.

“What about what I want?”

“Of course there isn’t anything like that since the beginning. In the first place I was planning to have you go on a journey in order to train your spirit and learning about how severe the world is.”

Actually, according to the flow, Kail knows Seran will be forced to go on a journey one year from now.

And Kail joined him to journey around together.

Many things happened at that time, but Kail thinks that all in all it became a good experience.

“I was thinking about whether to leave you to mercenaries with influence of the old, or putting you at the frontline against the demons…..”

“Hey!?”

“It’s alright, unlike in the old days there are only a few skirmishes now. Seems like even rookie’s can survive…. But it’s alright since Kail is with you right? Since you aren’t planning to do anything meaningful with your life, are you.”

“What the h.e.l.l are you saying! Even I have a future dream I want to accomplice.”

“Hoh, how about saying it?”

“Obtaining a beautiful, rich and virtuous wife, a cute maid to whom I can do with whatever I want whenever I want. I want to live a frivolous life surrounded by two or three women!”

Leila who was clenching her fist with a lot of strength spoke while ignoring her son.

“For now it’s alright as long as he’s alive, if he were to ever give up and come back it’s alright to ignore him.”

“It’s not like I feel pressed or something…. Well he should have a lot of uses.”

“Initially, the plan was to have a dozen maids, so I it’s reduced it quite a bit….”

As expected, raising Seran while ignoring him was a failure on my part as a parent, Leila says while sighing. No, this guy was absolutely born with this personality, Kail says comfortingly.

That evening, Kail was training with the sword in the usual ruins.

Since I finished my training my muscles were aching, while I was thinking I had to go back soon, Lize appeared.

“…………”

“What happened?”

I look curiously at Lize who doesn’t have her usual cheerfulness.

“Just now Seraia-san came to me, and said while crying “Kail-chan says he’s discarding me.””

“I deeply apologize about my mother. No seriously.”

Kail bowed deeply.

“And, is it true that you’re going on a journey?”

“Oh… Including the preparations for the journey, we’re planning to leave in two or three days.”

“Destination?”

“First city will be the capital Marado. There’s a lot to prepare for, but after that I mean to earnestly begin work.”

Kail and the others live in the country of Jirges, the capital is Marado which is about 5 days traveling from the village.

“I see….”

Then Lize says with a determined look.

“You know Kail….”

“I’ll say it bluntly but I have no intention of taking you with me.”

Kail interrupts her knowing what she wanted to say.

“Why!? Seran’s coming with you right?”

“Unlike you that guy doesn’t mind how he’s treated.”

“I won’t become deadweight!”

“I know it well, that strength of yours.”

Actually her strength is enough to make me strain my body.

Especially these past few days, I unconsciously hold my flank.

If Kail’s a genius with the sword, then Lize her talent is close combat, from a young age she trained together with the armed priests of the Earth G.o.ddess Karis’s church.

Even though I say talent she doesn’t have as much as Kail, so she works hard.

Working harder than anybody, in exchange, she raised her skills a lot, she always said she’d make a fortune with this in the future.

But Lize’s mother who lost her husband in the war before Lize was born, had to raise Lize all by herself and even though she never said it she always wanted her daughter to walk a path of peace.

And Lize probably also thought something like that two years ago, when her mother who was always weak died of illness.

Since then Lize was helping around in the house of her aunt and the aunt’s husband.

Even now she still continues training, but she never hit anyone other than Seran or Kail.

That Lize couldn’t sit still when she heard that Kail was going on a journey.

Certainly, if let alone Lize would probably be force to reckon with.

“If it’s about mother…. I’ll apologize as many times as is needed in front of her grave….But.”

“It isn’t just that…. Simply put; it’s a little of my own selfishness too. I want you to stay in a safe location, I don’t want you to encounter any danger… Absolutely.”

I remember the time when Lize gradually lost her life in my own arms.

I don’t ever want to feel like that again.

At least this town will be peaceful for another three years.

I don’t know what kind of changes my actions will bring, even so it’s safer here than having her coming along.

“Also I have to ask…. I need a hometown. If I have a place to return to, the weight on my heart will be lessened.

Kail says while looking into Lize’s face from the front while grasping both of her shoulders.

“Before anyone else I want to tell you I’m back first. And I want you to tell me “Welcome back.” That’s why….. Please believe in me and wait here.”

“Kail….. I….”

Kail slowly closes his face in on Lize’s face, and with a little distance, they kissed just like that.

“Auu ……”

I look down to see Lize’s blus.h.i.+ng face.

“Kail changed after all…. You became more cunning….. If you do something like this…. I can’t refuse.”

“Just say it’s the freedom of an adult.”

“Aren’t you the same age as me…”

“….. It’s something mental.”

Kail smiled gently.

It was a gentle smile Lize had never seen before.

Even I, myself understand I’m being overpowered, but it’s a smile that lets someone follow obediently.

Kail hugged Lize’s body, unlike before she obediently entrusts her body.

“You should come back safely…. Absolutely. Since waiting is hard you know?”

“Don’t worry it’s not like I won’t come back, also I won’t overexert myself.”

Only this was a complete lie. in order to accomplice his goal, Kail is prepared to go through any danger.

“Yeah…. I understand.”

While embracing the feeling of guilt Kail continued to hug Lize.

“Well, Let’s go home”

While saying that Kail holds out his hand while Lize hesitates a little before taking his hand.

In order to go back, we’ll have to walk through the main street, we’ll probably be seen by our friends of the same age.

In this small town I predict this rumor will be spread before the end of the day, Lize was a little shy but couldn’t care less.

“Yeah lets go home”

Lize strongly held Kail’s hand with a superb smile.

(Now that I think about it, last time my first kiss was when I was eighteen wasn’t it….. I was a late bloomer, ironically.)

Kail was walking along the road while remembering unimportant things.

The main street of the town of Rimase near dusk.