Chapter 117
Otomege Volume 4 Chapter 7 Chapter 7 – The Descendants of Adventurers Part 1
A packet from Leon arrived to the academy in Hohlfahrt Kingdom .
The recipients for it were Ange and Livia .
「That Leon, just when I wondered why he didn’t contact us for a while, he sent us souvenir like this instead . 」
When they happily opened the box, they found things like tea leaves or female-oriented products . It was just like Leon to send them this kind of things .
There were also letters inside . Livia got surprised when she read the letter for her .
「Ange, it looks like Leon-san got into trouble there . He wrote that he wanted us to hand his letter to his majesty and the queen!」
「What?」
Ange read the letter too . There were a few words about how he loves the two of them before he wrote about there was a problem occurring in the commonwealth .
In order to deal with the problem, the letter asked them to hand some letters to Roland and Mylene .
Creare was floating inside the room looking lonely . Ange turned her gaze toward it .
『──There is no souvenir for me . Even though I’ve been working so hard for master’s sake . 』
「Creare, have you heard anything? Previously Leon would contact us with mail through you, why didn’t he do so this time?」
『There is no word from Luxion so I also don’t know . Perhaps something happened?』
Ange placed her hand on her mouth and fell into thought .
「Something happened? What’s the reason Leon intentionally wrote two letters like this? I’m also curious why he isn’t giving us any more explanation . 」
Livia took the letters inside the packet with a troubled look .
「Should we read them?」
「I want to, but Leon intentionally prepared them separately . There must be meaning in it . I will deliver these letters right away . 」
Creare was spinning around in the air .
『H~m, I wonder? This is master we’re talking about, so perhaps there isn’t any deep meaning to it . Surely master separated the letters into one that is full of complaints to Roland while the other is a love letter to Mylene where master is trying to act cool . 』
Expression vanished from Livia’s face while she looked at the two letters .
「That’ll be a bit problematic if that’s the case . 」
Ange laughed .
「I’ll want to praise him instead if he has the guts to write a love letter to the queen while he already has two fiancées . What’s more he is asking me to be the one delivering that letter . ──That’s very promising . 」
She was laughing, but she was making a face that showed how she absolutely wasn’t amused at all in the inside .
Creare tried to defend Leon a bit .
『It’s impossible for that indecisive master to do something like that . In any case, perhaps I also should make some preparations just in case something happens over there . 』
「What do you mean by preparations?」
Livia asked . Creare answered her in delight .
『Do you want to know? Then I’ll tell you . Actually there are these spare parts for master’s Einhorn lying around . They can be used to create a second ship . The second ship of Einhorn class──let’s see, should I call it Licorne? Also, actually there is this interesting device among the things we collected . I want to install it into the airship too . 』
「I, is that so?」
Livia couldn’t follow what Creare was talking about so happily . After Creare finished talking, Livia handed the two letters to Ange .
「Let’s send them quickly . ──I hope nothing bad happens to Leon . 」
Part 2I think the packet that I sent to the kingdom should have arrived around this time .
As for me, I was taking several days off from the academy .
I had no interest to go there just to get bullied . The academy also wasn’t saying anything to me .
I came to Marie’s mansion in one of those days off and talked with Brad .
「Sorry . I’ve caused you a lot of trouble . 」
「You’re recovering quickly for someone so heavily injured . 」
「This is thanks to Marie healing me every night . I feel bad for everyone, but this is what they called side benefit . 」
「I don’t want to hear you going on about your love affair . 」
「Oh, that’s too bad . 」
He must be feeling better already if he could make this kind of talk, but his current condition still cut a sorry figure .
According to Marie, 「It was really dangerous . He only barely made it even with my healing magic」 .
It made it clear just how merciless Pierre and his gang were .
「──Brad, are the guys who did this to you strong?」
When I broached the main topic, Brad made a slightly troubled face .
「If I can be honest, I thought they were weak at first . They were weaker than even me in close-quarter combat, and even their skill in magic was crude . I thought that there is no way I’ll lose to them . 」
Brad’s specialty wasn’t in close-quarter combat . He was weaker than even me in that .
For them to be even weaker than Brad, was the nobles of Alzer alright?
「They used magic in the middle, so I also used magic back . But midway I became unable to use magic . 」
「You couldn’t use magic? It wasn’t because of a blunder in your part?」
「It felt like the magic reaction was suddenly gone . Even though the magic should activate without problem, at that time it felt like something forcefully stopped the process . In exchange the power from the magic of that guy called Pierre shot through the roof . He freely controlled plants that grew out from the ground . If he is a magician than he is very high leveled, but he didn’t look anything like that from his appearance . It was really puzzling . 」
「Was his right hand glowing?」
「Right hand? Now that you mentioned it, there was some kind of glowing crest on his hand . It didn’t look like magic circle but──as I thought, is there some kind of secret there?」
Brad didn’t seem to know about the divine protection of the sacred tree .
「I see . Well, I’m glad I can ask you about all these . For now just focus on getting better . 」
「Bartfalt──are you perhaps, scheming something?」
Brad asked me just when I was about to leave the room .
「Why do you think that?」
「It’s not like you to just accept this situation and stay quiet . If you’re really planning something, then the only thing I can say is that I have this feeling that they are still hiding something . 」
「──I’ll be careful . Get better quickly . 」
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When I left the room, there was Marie standing in the corridor hugging a single notebook .
Part 3Marie got dark circles under her eyes . She handed me a single notebook .
It seemed she was writing in this notebook for the whole night . After handing the book to me, Marie talked without looking at my face .
「I-I wrote everything that I can remember into that notebook . 」
I wanted to tell her that she should work this hard right from the start, but I found several interesting information when I took a brief look at the book .
「──Seems like you’ve been working hard . 」
「I did my best!」
There was a lot of information here compared to before we arrived in Alzer . Looked like she went all out to make an appeal that she was doing her best .
For example, there was information regarding the oath to the sacred tree .
By swearing an oath to the sacred tree, one could draw out more power than usual from the sacred tree .
The practical application of that was for something like the unreasonable duel that Pierre forced on Marie and others .
And then the notebook also mentioned about the crests that the sacred tree bestowed .
The guardian’s crest was the strongest, followed by the priestess . Then below them was the crest of the six great nobles .
The note kept mentioning other crests below that . The status of these crests also influenced the standing of the nobles that had them .
They were nobles because the sacred tree recognized them──it was really easy to understand .
「──There are interesting information here . 」
There was also information that could be used for taking revenge to Pierre written here .
「B-big bro, what are you going to do now?」
Marie asked me anxiously, so I answered her with a smile .
I teased her too much that she became this fearful now, so I tried to reassure her .
「What am I going to do? That’s obvious . I’ll make Pierre pay . I’ll also need to teach Alzer their place while I’m at it . I’ll tell them firmly, don’t keep getting cocky . 」
I couldn’t just run away home like this .
After all the danger to the world was still remaining as before .
But, even though I was trying to reassure her, Marie was starting to tremble fiercely instead .
Tears gathered in her eyes and she kept repeating 「I’m sorry . I’m sorry . I’m sorry」 .
──Why is she reacting like this!?
Julius saw Marie trembling in front of me and ran toward us .
「Marie, are you alright!?」
「So you show up, you stupid prince . 」
After I said that with a weary expression, Julius pulled Marie to behind him .
「Bartfalt, certainly this situation is also our responsibility . But, stop cornering Marie like this! If you have something to say then say it to me!」
What a manly prince .
If I was a girl then surely my heart would throb──no, I guess it wouldn’t .
「I see . Then I shall ask you to work . 」
「W-what?」
Next it was Jilk who showed up .
「Your highness! Marie-san too, both of you are safe!」
「Yosh, you come too green head . 」
「Eh?」
After that Chris who didn’t wear anything above his waist peered into the corridor curiously after hearing the commotion .
He was sweaty . Perhaps he had just been practicing swinging .
「What is going on?」
I looked at Chris while thinking which would be better, Greg or him .
I concluded to leave Greg behind because he wasn’t here anyway .
「Yosh, I’ll take you too blue head . Marie, I’ll borrow these three . 」
After I said that, the three of them spoke angrily「Just what are you talking about!?」, but Marie nodded . She looked like she didn’t mind if that was all I’m asking .
「I don’t mind but, what are you going to do?」
「M-Marie!?」
I ignored the shocked trio and tapped the rolled up notebook on my shoulder .
「I’m going to raid the commonwealth’s dungeon . It’s treasure hunt . 」
Marie’s eyes brightened when I said that .
「Treasure!」
Julius and others also had the same reaction .
Even rotten like this, they were still descendants of adventurers .
Their mood brightened when they heard the word treasure and they looked excited .
「I don’t know what you’re planning but, there’s no way I can’t just stay quiet after hearing the word treasure . 」
「Your highness, let’s quickly prepare . 」
Jilk was also looking really motivated unlike just now .
Even Chris looked like a kid before an outing .
「I’ll prepare the sword I have been keeping in secret . Bartfalt, when will we depart?」
──These guys are looking excited . I envy them .
「Wait for a bit . I’ll make some preparation in the academy . I also want to secure a guide for us from there . 」
Marie tilted her head and asked me .
「Guide?」
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「There is this teacher who is an expert of Alzer’s dungeon right?」
Part 4When I came to the academy after not coming for several days, the students and even the teachers looked shocked before they averted their gazes from me .
I understood well that the six great nobles were holding great influence in the academy .
Because of that I was walking right in the middle of the corridor .
Everyone on my way stepped aside and opened the path . It made me felt a bit better .
「Now then, where is this Mr . Narcisse?」
My objective for coming to the academy was to make a request to Mr . Narcisse .
Narcisse was a capture target in the second game and the only teacher among the targets .
He was a teacher who loved to investigate dungeons and ruins . In the academy he had a class that put importance in field work .
The class was an optional special class . The person was more of a scholar than a teacher .
He wanted to live as an archeologist, but he was unable to live freely because he came from the six great nobles .
He was also a teacher who gave his help to the main character in that game .
Then I should ask him to help me .
I was walking toward the special classroom . Midway I accidentally came across Louise-san .
「Leon-kun!?」
I waved my hand to the surprised Louise-san .
「Long time no see . It was a disaster~, my airship got taken by Pierre . 」
After I said that casually without much seriousness in my tone, Louise-san’s gaze turned sharp .
「──Come over here . 」
She grabbed my arm and led me to an empty classroom .
「Just what happened? I wanted to ask about the story in detail, but none of you came to the academy . In addition even Noelle stopped coming . Are these two things related?」
Louise-san asked me for explanation, so I explained it simply .
「That scum Pierre stole my ship using this oath to the sacred tree thing . As for Noelle, apparently Loic came to her bringing a collar and blabbered about love or whatever, so she took refuge in my house . 」
Louise-san looked somewhat relieved knowing that Noelle was alright .
「I see──then, I’ll talk to father . Just leave these matters of Noelle and Loic to me . 」
This villainess was more caring than I thought .
Setting that aside .
「Please don’t . As things are we will keep getting underestimated . Even though I look like this I’m the hero of the kingdom, while Brad who was injured is the former heir of a prestigious noble house in the kingdom . ──There is also the former crown prince among the people who got marked with the crest among their neck by that scum Pierre . 」
When I remembered the crest collar that was engraved on Marie’s neck──I felt irritated .
Louise-san’s expression stiffened slightly .
「──I understand your feeling . But Pierre is also from the six great nobles . He isn’t an opponent that you can win against . 」
I listed a lot of reasons, but to be honest not one of them was my true reason .
「Let me rephrase it . I can’t forgive that bastard for picking a fight with me . That’s why I’ll make him go through something horrible . To do that, can you help me a little?」
I tried asking because I got nothing to lose, but Louise-san unexpectedly agreed after worrying for a while .
「──I wish that you won’t do anything dangerous though . 」
「I’m used with fighting even though I look like this . 」
「──I see . Then, what do you want me to help with?」
「Please introduce me to someone . Also──」
Louise-san looked really surprised when she heard my second request .
Part 5I was shown to the building where the special classroom was located .
There, I found teacher Narcisse Calse Granze sleeping on a sofa inside a place that seemed to be a preparation room .
The preparation room was largely crammed with documents . There were few places to step on .
Louise-san who brought me here looked exasperated and knocked the door loudly to wake up Mr . Narcisse .
「Are you awake, Mr . Narcisse . 」
Mr . Narcisse sat up hearing that sound . His hair style was a simple one where his gray hair was left to flow behind .
He got stubble on his face while his shirt was wrinkled and stained .
He was tall and slender but with muscles on his body .
His appearance was a bit worn out, but this teacher was handsome enough .
He put on the glasses that was placed on the low table before looking our way .
「Oh, Louise . It’s unusual for you to come to this kind of place . 」
The two of them were apparently acquainted .
「I came bringing a guest today . 」
「A guest for me?」
I greeted Mr . Narcisse .
「Nice to meet you . I am Leon, an overseas student . Mr . Narcisse, actually I wish to consult you about dungeon──」
Mr . Narcisse suddenly got up from the sofa while I was talking and hugged me .
「I’ve been waiting, adventurer!」
「Ha? Eh?」
Mr . Narcisse who was reeking of alcohol strongly hugged me while I was in confusion .
Louise-san forcefully separated me away from Mr . Narcisse .
「Narcisse, what are you doing!?」
Louise-san stopped treating him like a teacher, but Mr . Narcisse paid it no mind at all .
「No, I apologize . I was looking forward to it when I heard that overseas students from the kingdom would come here this year . After all I heard that the students in the kingdom’s academy are all adventurer . I was hoping that you will be able to help me in exploring dungeons . 」
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Looks like he was a person who would become high-tensioned when it was about his hobby .
「More importantly Mr . Narcisse, you are going to have spare time for a while aren’t you?」
「Hm? Well, I guess . I had just returned from a ruin after all . But the academy might be lecturing me if I don’t hold a class soon . 」
「──The number of student who wish to take your class is zero you know? You should take care of that problem first before figuring out when to hold a class . 」
「Eh, is that true? What a problem . Even though I could only continue being archaeologist because I’m a academy teacher」
It seemed he was a very easygoing person .
He also seemed uninformed about the situation in the academy .
「Forget about that Mr . Narcisse . Can you listen to what I have to say?」
「Ah, wait . I’ll prepare some tea first . If I remember right, there should be a tea set around here──」
Mr . Narcisse fell down inside the room after saying that . Then he got buried under a mountain of documents .
「──H-help」
I looked toward Louise-san .
「This person, he is really from the six great nobles right?」
「That’s right . The eccentric Narcisse . He often got made fun of among the young generations, but I heard that he excelled as a scholar . 」
When I looked at Mr . Narcisse who was buried under the documents, I could certainly see why he was called an eccentric .
We helped Mr . Narcisse out of the mountain of papers .
Part 6I explained about what had happened until now to Mr . Narcisse after digging him out .
Mr . Narcisse made a pained look when he heard about Pierre .
「What should I say here, what happened was truly inexcusable . Let me apologize to you as a fellow six great nobles . 」
「Could nothing be done about Pierre? From what I heard, he has been a problem student like this from a long time ago . 」
Mr . Narcisse looked troubled from my obvious question .
「We introduced ourselves as six great nobles, but each of them is like a royal family of their respective domain . This might sound like exaggeration but, it might be perceived as interference to the affairs of another country if I give him a warning . 」
Perhaps it couldn’t be helped because the commonwealth was a gathering of countries that gathered under the sacred tree?
Well, it wasn’t really my business .
「I’ll take care of Pierre . Putting that aside, can you help with the other matter?」
「──You mean about exploring the dungeon in Lespinasse territory? I’ll be happy to do so, but it will be very dangerous . In Alzer, the closer the dungeon is to the sacred tree, the more dangerous it tends to be . The dungeons in Lespinasse territory that is right beside the sacred tree are all dungeons with high difficulty . 」
「There is no problem . 」
Louise-san seemed to be worried for me .
「I wish that you won’t do anything dangerous though . It seems you have confidence, but it’s not good to be overconfident . 」
──It would be great if this person was really my big sister .
If it was my big sister Jena or my little sister Finley here, the most they would say would be 「Don’t forget to bring back souvenir」 .
I felt like crying .
「W-what’s wrong!? Why are you crying, Leon-kun?」
「No, I just feel that it’s wonderful there is a girl who will give me such kind words . 」
Right now I had Ange and Livia, but that one year I spent in the kingdom’s academy was really horrible .
──It was really horrible .
I wiped my tears with my sleeve while asking Mr . Narcisse to be our guide in the dungeon .
「Will you accept my request?」
Mr . Narcisse folded his arms and looked like he thought about various things──then he nodded .
「Got it . I’ll be your guide . However, I’ll have you pay me the promised reward properly . Recently I’m troubled because I don’t have enough research fund . 」
「Please don’t worry . I will pay you the proper reward . After all the dungeons in the commonwealth is reputed to be profitable . I’m looking forward to it . 」
I was really looking forward to it .
This would be a good chance to secure a lot of resources, like the magic stones with exportable quality .
I could also make those five idiots work with this .
「Then let’s depart immediately . 」
「──Eh?」
I grabbed Mr . Narcisse’s arm with a smile and made him stood . I then dragged him with me right away .
Before I left, I turned a smile toward the astonished Louise-san .
「Please help me with that other thing too when we return . 」
「Y-yes . 」
Then I left the room with a faint smile on my lips .
──Pierre, I’ll make you regret making me angry .
Part 7The location was the academy’s courtyard .
There were many lovers who spent their lunch time there .
Lelia was having lunch together with her lover Emile, but from her expression she looked distracted .
The reason was her big sister Noelle .
(Just where have she gone to)
She was worried for Noelle who didn’t come back . She was also annoyed at the same time .
(Even though she just needs to go out with Loic immediately, what is she hesitating for?)
Emile was worried seeing Lelia’s distracted look and talked to her .
「Lelia, Noelle-san still haven’t returned home yet?」
Lelia smiled toward the kind Emile .
「Ye, yeah . I think she is alright though . But I wish that she would tell me where she is staying at least . 」
Then Emile made a worried face .
「There are many troubles recently after all . I want to believe that even Pierre won’t do anything horrible to Noelle-san in consideration of Loic . 」
「You’re right . This is because big sis is stubborn . Even though all the problems will go away if only she go out with Loic . 」
Lelia was trying to get her big sister Noelle hitched with Loic .
In order to make that happened, she did various things like giving Loic advices . Emotionally she was Loic’s ally .
「──But, recently Loic is somewhat strange . It feels like he has this scary aura around him . 」
Emile was feeling danger from Loic, but Lelia didn’t agree with him .
「Really? I think he is just impatient because things don’t go that well with big sis, but he isn’t that scary . Though it’s a problem that her desire to monopolize is a bit strong . 」
Emile made a conflicted face at Lelia’s words .
「It’ll be great if it’s really just a bit . ──Eh?」
Emile took off his gaze from Lelia toward Leon who was pulling Narcisse’s arm at the distance .
「It’s unusual to see the overseas student coming to school . Where is he planning to bring Mr . Narcisse?」
Emile was looking puzzled . In contrast Lelia’s eyes widened and she stared at Leon in fixation .
She dropped the bread that was her lunch, but she didn’t even notice it .
「──Those guys」
Part 8I dragged Mr . Narcisse to a cave in former Lespinasse territory that was also a dungeon .
We boarded a small ship to come here . When we arrived at the entrance, I removed the plank that had the writing ‘forbidden to enter’ .
I had properly asked for permission .
You could enter even the restricted dungeon if you brought up the name of a six great nobles . It was convenient .
It was what I brought Mr . Narcisse for .
「What refreshing weather! This is the perfect day for an adventure!」
「Indeed your highness!」
Julius was high-tensioned from the morning . Agreeing with him was Jilk who had a rifle on his back .
Mr . Narcisse who was dragged here half forcefully looked up to the sky while carrying a large rucksack on his back .
「No, today the sky is cloudy . 」
Julius kept smiling even after hearing Mr . Narcisse’s retort .
「It’s the problem of feeling, teacher . 」
「No, you were talking about weather just now weren’t you!?」
What a happy-go-lucky bunch .
As for Chris, he was comparing several swords that he brought here . He was hesitating to choose which sword to bring .
「As I thought perhaps it should be this one? No, it’s hard to discard this one too . Eei! Then I’ll bring them both!」
──Are these guys misunderstanding dungeon exploration as a picnic?
I wished they would think about my feeling for having to lead this bunch of idiots .
「Let’s go in already if you guys are finished with the equipment check . 」
I was bringing a device that looked like a smartphone with me . I used it to confirm the map of the area .
There was a bit of noise running on the screen . It might be due to the influence of the sacred tree .
「Oh, the kingdom has some strange tool . 」
Mr . Narcisse peered onto my device .
「Aa~, this thing is a lost item . I’m using it because it’s handy . 」
「Lost item! That’s amazing . Please let me take a look at it . 」
「It’ll broke if you disassemble it so better not . Anyway, let’s get inside the dungeon already . 」
I was carrying a shotgun and a heavy rucksack .
Mr . Narcisse looked puzzled seeing that .
「Leon-kun, why are you bringing explosive with you?」
We tilted our head hearing that question .
「Eh, it’s necessary isn’t it?」
「We also have the proper knowledge of explosive so please don’t worry . We won’t allow the treasure to be damaged . 」
The one who agreed with me was Jilk who was also skilled in handling explosive .
「No, the interior of a dungeon is also a part of the ruin! You must not use explosive inside such place!」
Chris laughed .
「It’ll be fine . We will keep the destruction to the minimum . The value of the treasure will decrease if it got damaged after all . 」
「By value you mean the historical value right!? Do you guys really understand how important the ruin here!?」
I laughed while persuading Mr . Narcisse .
「Please leave it to me . I will stop them if they go too far . Besides, this time our objective is more of something else rather than the ruin . 」
My objective was a key item that originally didn’t have any effect in the game .
It was a necessary item for the story progression . It had no value at all as a tool in the game .
But, it would become an item with absurd value when it was in reality .
「Something else?」
Mr . Narcisse was confused, but I ignored him and entered the dungeon .
「It’s dungeon exploration in Alzer . Put some spirit into it you guys!」
After I raised my voice, Julius, Jilk, and Chris also raised a gallant yell in respond .
「Will it really be fine?」
Mr . Narcisse hung his head down seeing us acting like that .