Vol 1 Chapter 8 (2/2)
Leticia also held her sword in both hands and lowered it, questioning Wynn’s actions.
“Well…”
“Yes?”
Putting his left hand to his forehead, he slowly looked around him.
“You. What will you do about this?”
“Aah.”
Wynn’s gaze fell on the leaves on the ground, and the bare branches, caused by Leticia’s sword strike.
After that, Wynn and Leticia ended up trading their swords for brooms, and spent an hour sweeping.
“… And that was what happened this morning.”
“…Ah, well, If you say so.”
With a speechless face, Locke looked at the still kneeling Leticia.
Since the dorm used to be the palace, there were various protective magics in place.
Since it was to be used as a school, a layer of soundproofing magic added. [7]
Unlike when it was a palace, now n.o.ble children lived there. Since n.o.body was awake as early as Wynn was during his special training, complaints about the noise from training would often reach the administration.
Since there was no damage to the dorm, and everybody knew who caused the commotion there was no problem… except for the trees. [8]
“Good grief…”[9]
Wynn was standing in front of Leticia with his arms crossed.
The Leticia that was looking at Wynn with upturned eyes actually seemed like a girl her age.
Thus, Wynn began to speak.
“De, Why the heck did you suddenly attack me?”
“It’s been a long time since we met, hasn’t it? I wanted Onii-chan to see my strength.”
“Even so, didn’t you just suddenly do something reckless!”
“Ugh…”
At Wynn’s sharp reprimands, Leticia slumped her body.
“Even if your skills have markedly improved, you didn’t see your surroundings at all, did you?”
From there, Wynn’s long tirade started– to which Locke said “you should get up now,” interrupting him after half an hour.
At Locke’s words, Leticia, who was kneeling while hanging her head, looked up at Wynn.
“Na, Leticia-sama has already reflected.”
To Locke’s words, Leticia a.s.sented with a “mhmm”[10]
With her teary-eyed expression, the Brave’s former dignity was completely gone.
“Well, since Locke said so, and it’s time for breakfast soon…”
“Un, I’m hungry.”
At the first sign that his sermon was ending, Leticia immediately thought of her hunger.
It was due to the sword match they had.
Even the Brave was hungry. [11]
Due to having been in seiza for a while, Leticia stood up unsteadily.
“Hora.”
“Nn, Thank you.”
Leticia smiled delightedly at Wynn, who was helping her up.
“By the way…”
Locke called out to the two people.
“How is Wynn so close to Leticia-sama?”
“Why? It’s because we are childhood friends.”
Leticia, who was still unsteady, replied.
Before Leti left four years ago, we were together. She’s my best friend.
“Best friend…”
For a moment, Leticia’s face clouded over, and she muttered, but Wynn and Locke didn’t hear her.
I never thought that we would meet again, but now she has returned.
“Return?”
Was it returning from the Maou suppression?
Locke interjected.
“Well, I thought that as a n.o.ble daughter, she was to be married off at ten years old. However, Leti, you married into a house that lets you use the sword? If you met a great sword teacher there, why did you return?” [12]
Wynn basically only worked and trained after cla.s.s, to pay his expenses.
Thus, within the school, he only knew several people, including Locke.
Hence, Wynn didn’t know.
At least, he knew that the Brave had defeated the Demon Lord, but had never heard the name of the Brave.
Furthermore, having never seen the newspapers of the wealthy (Locke saw the news while staying at his parent’s estate during the break), it was natural that he did not see the portrait of the Brave.
Leticia and Locke were speechless.
For Leticia, it was because she was misunderstood as having been married off on the trip.
For Locke , it was because he was amazed at Wynn’s ignorance.
Thus, he considered Wynn’s att.i.tude towards Leticia a while ago.
‘Well, in some cases, ignorance is bliss…’
Nonetheless, if Wynn knew that Leticia was the Brave, his att.i.tude wouldn’t have changed.
Translator notes
1.subject of the third question: レティのことは紹介したかな?back
2.impreciseback
3.剣気 – Sword pressure? kenki?back
4.a grunt of sorts?back
5.お兄ちゃんだって、私の剣をここまで捌ける人ってなかなかいないよ？back
6.wording in this one and the next sentence… ウィンは両手で構えていた剣をゆっくりと下ろすと、そのままレティシアに近寄っていく。back
7.not sure if soundproofing was added or removed… また、学校として使用されることになって防音魔法も重ねがけされていた。back
8.Very guessy… だから、寮には被害は出ていないし多くの者はこの事態を引き起こしたのが誰なのか知れ渡ることはなかったのだが、さすがに木々にはその恩恵はなかった。back
9.「全く……」 the idiom?back
10.wording : ロックの言葉にブンブンと首を縦に振るレティシア。back
11. 勇者とはいえどお腹は空く。back
12.「まあ、貴族のお姫様だとは思ってたけど、十歳で嫁いで行くとは思わなかったよ。だけど、レティ。嫁ぎ先でもさっきみたいに剣を振り回してたんだろう？ あっちでいい剣の先生に巡り合えたみたいだけど、そんなだから故郷くにに帰されるんだぞ？」back
cloverSK has told me that he’s too busy with uni to continue, so it’s just me, for better of for worse. I never was good at group projects… I’m either uninvolved or domineering… Anyways, this should be a more legible version. I wrote a program yesterday to create wordpress footnotes without using the anchors to show the raws, since that was getting annoying for me and some of the readers. However, it may be harder for any volunteer editors that may help me edit… maybe.
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