Vol 2 Chapter 1 (1/2)

The capital of the kingdom of Jirgs, Marado.

This city, with close to two hundred thousand residents, is known to not only the surrounding countries, but also through the whole continent. It is big city full of lively people crowding it.

However, the usual liveliness has, as expected, a shadow cast over them for some time now.

“That really did influence them, my impression of him was that he was just some old ordinary man, if he didn’t wear a crown on his head.”

The one, who was looking at the street from a window, was the complaining Seran.

Ten days have pa.s.sed since the award ceremony, in other words, since King Remnas pa.s.sed away. Kail and his party were staying at a famous inn within Marado.

Two days after the king died, a great state funeral was held, and the whole capital was mourning.

People didn’t believe in him, like the Holy King of the Holy Country of Shura, neither did he have the charisma of the emperor of the Gargan Empire, however, it seems that King Remnas, who was called mediocre, was still adored by his citizens.

Even the theaters, which were focused on plays where people were usually showing off, was different today, there were only bards singing songs painfully about the dead king.

“Because he was a king who didn’t make any big blunders… for the citizens that was enough.”

The one who answered, was Kail, who was looking at a brochure while laying on his bed.

From Kail’s perspective that was more than enough for a king like that, he smiled wryly inside.

Because of the king’s sudden death, great confusion was caused to the kingdom of Jirgs.

Then again, because it was so sudden after the previous incident of the magic beast attack on princess Mirena and prince Kalnas, there were various rumors that it was a conspiracy, planned by the ones who oppose royalty, and it began to flow in a weird direction, when they started saying things like that the Demon race was pulling all the strings.

But it never escalated beyond being just rumors, but the silence was only for now, for Marado, the Kingdom of Jirgs itself was turning towards a time of strain.

“However, it’s that… I hate to say it this way, but he could’ve thought a little bit about our situation. Of all the things, he just had to go and die the night after our award ceremony, because of that, our shadow became thin.”

Seran said complainingly.

Kail and his party saved the princess’s life and as a reward for that achievement, they received a medal of honor.

Normally the citizens would love such a topic and it would’ve became a hot topic among them, but now, in front of the king’s death, the topic immediately died down.

Kail’s objective is to become a hero, so Seran began to lament on how this was bad luck, just when he just started to raise his popularity.

“……. Think about it this way, if he died before our award ceremony, it would probably get postponed, it may have even gotten cancelled. He waited, if you think about it like that, we should be grateful.”

Kail said, while not embarra.s.sing himself.

“Oh, I see, if you say it like that it really is so.”

“And it will still be properly recorded, after a while, let’s just hire a minstrel.”

A minstrel goes around, telling his own stories or singing his own songs, but if you hire a minstrel, he will compose a song on command and spread it around.

It was just straight up advertis.e.m.e.nt, but it wasn’t all that rare, since they would spread songs about a certain n.o.ble’s gladiator, or the story about some adventurer’s successful adventure.

Of course, it gets dramatized a lot in order to attract public.

“I see…… Then why don’t we just go all out by hiring a troupe, and have them perform a flashy show?”

Seran said it as a joke, but Kail began to think with a serious expression, while picking up a brochure.

“That is also possible……. be that as it may, we still lack episodes. I can just think of it as something for in the future.”

“You’re really thinking about a lot of things…….. Ah, give me the cool looking role.”

“Let’s consider it positively.”

No matter how you think about it, you’re just a comedy act, is what I couldn’t say straight to his face.

“And, what are we going to do from now on?”

“That’s right, I’m thinking it’s best if we leave the Jirgs country.”

“Hmm, then to which country are we going to go to?”

“……… That’s the problem.”

Kail glances at the closed book, and sighs.

Inside of that book is written what will happen in the future.

That means that it had already been decided to which country they would travel to from the Jirgs kingdom.

The ‘great advance’ of the demon race, which will cause the human race to be driven to the brink of destruction, is going to happen in about three years from now.

Kail’s objective is to counter the ‘Great Advance’ by a.s.sembling those with great influence and strength, thus creating a powerful force in order to stop it.

It can be said that they already have a foothold in Jirgs, he had made connections with this country’s core, so it’s alright for now.

It is also possible to just stay in Jirgs and continue to gain further achievements here, but that would mean that he could become only Jirgs hero, so he had to go to a different place.

But the problem was the destination.

Having memories from the future, Kail knows to a certain extent what will happen in the future, but there’s no way that an event as useful as princess Mirena’s would happen.

If possible, he wants to create a connection with people who have authority or influence, but for Kail and his party, there are no events like that, which would help them gain fame for a while.

Since there isn’t another choice, we’ll just have to go to a big country and eliminate some bandits or magic beasts, when he was thinking something like that, a cheerful voice accompanied the opening door.

“I’m back~.”

Liza, Urza and Sildonia, who went shopping, came back.

“Welcome back, how was the situation outside?”

“Yeah, as expected, they are really down…… the state funeral just happened, so things are beginning to get lively again, is kind of how it is I guess?”

Lize, who was ordening the groceries, answered like that.

Homemade preserved food is tastier than bought preserved food, is what seems to be the case.

“There aren’t many stalls, so it is boring. If only there were some more different kinds we could’ve gotten.”

Boiled potatoes and skewered meat and a bite sized bread, Sildonia said, while holding many items from all kinds of stalls.