Chapter 33 - Volume 3 (2/2)
*Gochin*, a fist landed squarely painfully on Noel’s head, looking rather painful.
“~~~”
“Suddenly grabbing the Princess-san’s hands, what’s wrong with you!?”
Bear-san has gotten angry.
In this case, Bear-san was correct, but the instant that he brought down his fist again, I had already unwittingly thrust out my hand in response.
“Tei!”
“DuooooOOOOOOOOOH!?”
“Hee!”
After my forehead poke, Bear-san and Tina both clasped their foreheads and squatted down.
Since Noel was holding my hands, Tina approached with a strange look on her face, so I gave her a forehead poke too.
By the way, the difference in magical power put into the forehead poke between Tina and Bear-san was about 500 times in magnitude.
How dangerous, how dangerous, it would have been a huge disaster if I’d made a mistake between my right and left hands.
“Bear-san, Noel is a friend of mine, can you forgive him?”
Even though I asked so modestly, Bear-san and Tina both didn’t move from their crouching positions, and Bree-chan and Sara-chan were grasping each other’s hands in fear, it seems nobody listened to me
“Wow, as expected of Saint-sama! I haven’t received a good strike like that in ten years!”
Bear-san, who resurrected unexpectedly early, let out a hearty laugh.
Viva la Saint-sama. Thanks to that common-sense defying phrase: ‘As expected of Saint-sama,’ it was ignored.
“But, Noel, even as a friend of the [Princess] that’s no good. I apologize; this fellow is still a newbie.”
“I- I’m sorry, Lucy…sama.”
He got scolded… that look on Noel is cute.
It was an unexpected surprise, but as this mercenary troop captain, Ba-Bar…na…bas……… as Bear-san said, Noel was a newbie that joined one year ago and they had high expectations of him.
Well, that’s natural given Noel’s absurd talent.
“By the way, Noel, why did you join a mercenary company…?”
“Uh, well… I wanted… to become strong.”
Noel said while stealing glances at me.
“What’s the matter…? As a boy, I don’t think it’s shameful for you to want [Strength], do you?”
“Ah… no.”
As Noel was fidgeting shyly like a small animal, Bear-san gave a broad grin and violently pat him on the back.
“Men ought to be like that. Make sure to support Princess-san.”
“Yeah, got it. Do your best, Noel.”
“Y-Yes!”
Noel answered my encouragement with a smile, his cheeks flushing bright red.
Yep, Noel is cute. ……… I wonder if I can get him to work for me instead.
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Thus, our journey began.
Travelling to the neighboring country Shiguresu usually took about two weeks. But so as to not have me endure sleeping outside, the journey took three weeks as we went to the various inns on the way there.
Although I thought that it would be a smooth and peaceful journey, around the tenth day of our travels, our travelling party finally encountered a [Monster].
*Guboh*
“It’s a [Hippo], be careful!”
Said Bear-san, as he took the mercenary troops out ahead of us while the escort knights formed a protective line around me.
Even though Noel didn’t head out to the front lines, Bear-san had him use his support magic on the swords of the middle line of guards.
Vio had been teaching Noel holy magic and household magic during the journey.
Incidentally, I couldn’t teach him. My explanations were overly vague, and he couldn’t understand it at all… *sniffle*
The yellow hippopotamus was reasonably strong, but somehow or another they managed to repel it.
Still… it really was a hippo. I really didn’t think one would attack a traveler.
“I wonder if it was driven out by the elves of the forest…”
“……Eh?”
According to Bear-san, there’s a village of Elves in the nearby forest, and it seems they’ve been cutting down large parts of the forest for agricultural land.
We technically rule their land. Are you okay with that, people of the forest? Cut it out, you Salt Daifukus. (TL: See early chapters for reference)
They’re so different from the elves of my imagination…
Well, after another three weeks we safely arrived in Shiguresu.
It’s my first time in a foreign country. I wonder what kind of country Shiguresu is?
By the end, I wasn’t able to talk much with Noel…