「Chief.」
Chief Bashbal jumped up, startled, and let out「Uhyoo!?」 in a pathetic voice when I called to him from about two metres behind.
Very, very slowly, the chief turned over to my direction somewhat timidly.
When I grinned and smiled at him, chief responded with a stiff smile.
「Hey~. What, are you doing?」
「O, ohh… This, this is, well, you know…」
「People who don’t answer immediately, I… hate that kind of people.」
「Hii!? P-please, pardon me!! It is regarding Nervidono, I’ve come here to make a request to Sefi-sama about her!!」
「… A request?」
As I inclined my head, chief repeatedly nodded his head while cold sweat dripped from his body.
「To be honest, I wish to talk ro Nervidono!」
「No.」
「Instant reply!?」
For some reason, he squeezed out a hoarse voice while trying to appeal earnestly. [1]
「I, as a devout believer of the Hero’s Creed, wish to have a talk with Knight-dono from the military order!」
「Then, you will not babble anything about me, right?」
「… Of course not!」 [2]
Wasn’t there a bit of a time lag just now?
…… Well, I have already shown my true self to Nervisan, so it will not cause much problems if she has a talk with the Chief.
Since I kept the secret that I could wield magic from Nervisan and also chief, I suppose it would not be troublesome.
I stared at the sky, pretending I was giving it a thought. [3]
「Hmm. I guess it’s okay.」
I acted like I was still reluctant about it, then gave him my consent.
After expressing his gratitude with a「thank you very much!」, he immediately rushed into my residence. What a lively gramps.
Well, though he always causes me trouble, normally he is a kind gramps. I quite like him.
Moreover, he treasures everyone in the village and his judgment is always spot on, and that very judgment has saved this village from not a few dilemmas, or so I’ve heard.
… Regarding him losing control of himself, it’s not really that different from my mother.
As I thought those thoughts, I stood still for a moment, hesitating whether I should go back home or not, but in the end I slowly shuffled towards the house.
Then, the curiosity towards Chief and Nervisan’s discussion led me to eavesdrop on them from the entrance door.
And,
「… Ye-yes. So, the Creation Goddess giving a power to the chosen one, that kind of theory is the most likely… 」
「Then it means that the power dwells inside Hero-sama’s soul itself, could it be, it might not mean that it’s repeatedly reincarnated!?」
「Yes. So, maybe it is not impossible to have two people who bear the power of Hero-sama. 」
「 I see! In short, rather than being a “Hero-sama’s reincarnation”, Sefirisama is the Goddess-sama’s newly chosen one. He is “Hero-sama’s successor”, isn’t he? Ha ha ha~!! 」[4]
I violently opened the door with 「Ban!!」 sound, with a wide grinning smile and sunlight as my background. [5]
Then I pointed outside using my thumb and I said this with low voice.
「Bashbal. Come with me for a moment.」[6]
It seems that everything I had done before was still not enough to rehabilitate a religious fanatic.
… while giving Chief’s ●●● the ×××, I added some more △△ and then ○○○○ , since it wouldn’t be enough if not to that extent
On that day, Chief’s troubled voice resounded throughout the village all day long.
Notes :
[1] (TLC: Appeal as in request earnestly.)
[2] (TL: …….. RIP)
[3] ( TL : I found this line weird , because I TL this at night at rain)
[4] (TL : RIP) (ED : You dug your own grave, gramps.)
[5] (TL: or Crash! ! , BAM ! ! or Boom! ! …. the last one didn’t count.)
[6] (ED : Like a teacher giving punishment to his/her student.)