Summoned Slaughterer - Book 4

by Ido Masayoshi

  “Yea, currently there are only people who have no permission to enter our country…” (Soldier)

  As it is there’s no person in charge on Horant’s side to hand out authorization and identification papers. As one would expect, they can’t enter the country without permission. Except for the merchants, who have a permit, they will be continuously denied entry.

  “Then let the refugees heading for the territory of Fokalore pass through. Those guys will become citizens of my place.” (Hifumi)

  The soldiers exchanged glances.

  “Is it fine to do a verbal, unsubstantiated assertion?” (Soldier)

  “I don’t care. I will accept them, if they can come to my territory by themselves.” (Hifumi)

  “In such case, affirmative.” (Soldier)

  Since it’s also alright to enter the territory over there, Hifumi handed over a suitable gratuity for them to go calling out whether there are any candidates.

  One of them remained while the other ran off to Horant’s side in high spirits. Probably the awareness of the borders will fade away if I tear them down once?

  “Well, then I leave the rest to you.” (Hifumi)

  “Ha!” (Soldier)

  Once again he spurs on his horse.

  As he is steadily travelling on the highway, there are too many merchants waving their hands at him.

  People, who are living in the capital, and people, who are sensitive to information, began to spread Hifumi’s appearance and figure as well as even the strangely formed sword affixed to his waist.

  One part among them are adventurers, who have strange tastes in fashion, and people who get carried away easily. There are also people imitating him by handling a single edged sword. Of course, many of those swords are crude while being only thin making them nonsensical to use. Cases of people losing their lives during battles with monsters due to those breaking are occurring as well.

  Even a part of the newcomers in the capital’s guild are using a thin, single-edged sword, but among those people, who know about the incident of veterans being killed in the guild, there are those who regard the katana as object of dread.

  Hifumi waves appropriately and returns waves. Although young women and young women, who boarded carriages, raise shrill voices upon seeing him, Hifumi, who is travelling on horse, passes them by while ignoring them irresponsibly.

  “If I become suitably popular, it will likely gather money and people in the territory. Although I want to prepare an expedition again as well.” (Hifumi)

  “I want to make that and I haven’t touched this in a while”, while thinking about tools and weapons for Pruflas to make once he returned to the territory, he steers his horse to gallop towards Münster.

  ☺☻☺

  “Ah~… this is the most relaxing place.” (Sabnak)

  “Sabnak… no, I mean, captain. Is it fine to take your dinner at such place? Shall we have a maid carry it to your own room within the castle?”

  In the dining hall intended for knight ranks within the castle, Sabnak was enjoying dinner time with his companions, who transferred from the Third Knight Order to the Royal Knight Order, at one table.

  “It’s okay to address me without honorifics unless it’s an official place. Not using honorific language is fine, too. It still doesn’t feel real after all.” (Sabnak)

  As it’s only food eaten by nobility, the menu is picky about seasoning and ingredients, but the dishes intended for knights are plentiful in quantity as well.

  There is a relaxed atmosphere as if in a club room for extracurricular activities. If one protects the minimum of manners, it’s a peculiar place where no one will annoy you.

  While stuffing his cheeks with loads of salad and grilled fish, Sabnak laughed with a face, that has gone beyond relaxing and is now slackening.

  “The child of a maid, eh… ? Which reminds me, I didn’t hear her name yet.” (Sabnak)

  As Sabnak mutters this, his colleagues laughed while dipping bread in a tartar sauce made out of root crops and meat.

  “You are a heartless guy. Aren’t they daughters of some nobles, if you talk about the maids within the castle? It will get scary later, if she’s the daughter of some high-ranking noble.”

  “Of noble origin, eh?” Sabnak remembered the face of his maid. She has dark blue hair and pupils in the same colour. Her appearance is put in order plainly.

  “But you know… how do you call it? She’s eerie.” (Sabnak)

  His colleague lowered his eyebrows.

  “What are you saying in spite of being able to interact normally with Earl Tohno?”

  “It’s slightly different from that.” (Sabnak)

  “I don’t quite understand”, the knight at his side shrugs his shoulders. Midas came from somewhere and sat down.

  “Let me intrude.” (Midas)

  “Eh? Midas-san… no, I mean vice-captain-dono.” (Sabnak)

  A dining hall staff member came pushing a wagon, lined up the dishes in front of the sitting Midas and left.

  “Midas is okay. … It’s a bad point that there is too much of the food here.” (Midas)

  Sabnak threw a question at Midas, who put the spoon into the stew.

  “It is difficult for me to say it, but didn’t you usually go home to eat your wife’s home cooking? What’s wrong today?” (Sabnak)

  “Whose fault do you think it is?” (Midas)

  Glaring at Sabnak, he eats a mouthful of the stew. He considered his wife’s cooking to be delicious.

  “Due to the guarding of the coronation ceremony, all of the guarding outside the castle has been dumped on the knight order. I became the one responsible for that. Thanks to that, it doesn’t look like I will return home until midnight.” (Midas)

  “Huh? Haven’t you arranged for a house near the royal castle after you became a vice-captain, Midas-san? Can’t you go home for just eating?” (Sabnak)

  “Yea, more or less I did prepare it, but… my wife and me refused because we couldn’t calm down with its too big size.” (Midas)

  “Ah, I know that feeling. There was a room prepared for me within the castle, however having three rooms and even a bathroom for myself… I wondered whether I should return to the dormitory for singles.” (Sabnak)

  “Before we became aware of it, the knight order has turned into the den of the commoners faction”, their knight colleagues ended up laughing unintentionally.

  “Rather than the matter of my house, it’s more about the case of the maid attached to Sabnak you talked about before.” (Midas)

  “What’s wrong with her?” (Sabnak)

  “She is called by the name Sibylla Winger (T/N: Shibiyura Vinja). It would be better if your properly remembered it.” (Midas)

  “… Why does Midas-san know about her name though?” (Sabnak)

  Midas, who put down the spoon, closed his eyes and let out a deep sigh.

  “By chance I ran into the prime minister. He told me to convey his regards, if I meet you by chance, Sabnak.” (Midas)

  “Why does the prime minister…” (Sabnak) (T/N: Aren’t we rather slow, Mr. Sabnak?)

  “Don’t you know the full name of Prime Minister Adol?” (Midas)

  “I know at least that much.” (Sabnak)

  Even though he replied pridefully, it took Sabnak full 10 minutes to remember.

  “Umm… it was Adol Phyiol Winger-sama, right? Eh? Winger…” (Sabnak)

  “She is the only daughter of the prime minister. And at the same time she is the niece of the current head of the Marquis Winger household.” (Midas)

  “Eh… but she said something about marrying into money and power…” (Sabnak)

  His trembling fork hits the salad bowl with a clacking.

  “At the time Adol-sama was appointed to his duty as prime minister, in order to not make it seem like his family’s home is being favoured, he gave up on his family status as Marquis family. That’s why his daughter isn’t a noble to be precise.” (Midas)

  “There’s no doubt
that she would marry into money and power”, his colleagues, who heard that, laughed, though it isn’t a laughing matter for Sabnak at all.

  “H-However, I ran away from the earldom myself. It’s also not like I will succeed as the third son…” (Sabnak)

  The son of an Earl is treated as Associate Viscount, but with having a small annuity and possessing no territory, you almost can’t call them nobles. That situation is the reason why those below the second son of a noble are aiming to become military officers or civil officials. People, who became skilled as knights, were in a fortunate situation.

  “Calm down, Sabnak. With your accomplishments so far and the good will of Imeraria-sama, you have reached the problematic status of captain of the Royal Knight Order. You can consider this as being raised to the same rank as your family’s home. … With conditions attached.” (Midas)

  “Conditions… it is?” (Sabnak)

  Midas hesitated to continue for a short while, but he resigned himself when Sabnak glared at him.

  “… The condition is to marry a partner that suits your rank and settle down with them.” (Midas)

  “Well, you should be prepared that you won’t be able to idle around as single indefinitely”, while Midas warned Sabnak, his colleagues escaped in a hurry.

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  Summary of Author’s notes:

  There will be more of Sabnak since he was well received in the last chapter and the release pace will increase (T/N: though that doesn’t really matter to us).

  Chapter 70: Runnin' With The Devil

  “Damn it! Why does such strong monster appear near the highway!?”

  The adventurer was barely able to fend off the tiger-like monster with its 2-meter-length, that brandished its sharp claws, with his sword. The long sword is already worn-out and chipped at several places and his leather armour has been torn off at the shoulders and arms.

  “It should have been safe along the highway!”

  They, who were delayed in their reaction towards the approaching enemy due to their negligence, aren’t able to deal sufficiently with just a single monster opponent and have been forced into an one-sided, defensive battle.

  “Let’s escape for now! We can’t handle this opponent!”

  A female adventurer, who was in a slightly distant location holding her magic wand, shouted.

  With her robe covered in mud due to her falling down in the confusion, her expression is worn with fatigue after casting earth magic many times over.

  “Stand up and run away! What are you doing!?”

  No matter how they think about it, the monster is fast and has also stamina left.

  “Because I will snare its feet with magic one more time, during that time…”

  “If you are going to do it, be quick about it!”

  Even during this exchange, the man standing in front as vanguard is slowly getting injured.

  “… Burst open, earth!”

  Probably because the cast was done in a hurry, the monster is only stricken by a small scale of soil, but luckily it hit the eyes of the monster as planned.

  “Gyaaa!”

  Having lost its sight, the monster is shaking its head and thrashing around in agony.

  The couple of adventurers, who judged this to be a gap, ran towards the highway side-by-side after having looked at the monster’s state.

  Once they reached the highway after fleeing desperately and saw other adventurers and the wagons of merchants as well, they ended up sitting down together feeling relieved over the presence of the monster not chasing them.

  “*pants*… can’t run anymore…”

  The female adventurer, breathing heavily, clung to her wand.

  She worriedly looked at the face of the adventurer, whose breathing calmed down to some degree, at her side.

  “… What’s wrong?”

  “At the time the monster thrashed around earlier, I saw something weird.”

  “Something weird?”

  Picking up a branch of a tree, he drew a circle with a triangle in the centre on the ground.

  “It looked like this… probably some magic tool?”

  “A monster shouldn’t have such a thing like a magic tool, now should it?”

  Throwing away the branch, the adventurer looked in the direction of the woman.

  “That’s right. In other words, that means someone embedded it in the monster. It’s the first time I hear about such big monster coming out in this area…”

  Both of them look at each other, muster some energy and get up.

  “Let’s report this to the guild. I think this is quite a big problem.”

  “Right, I agree.”

  A single small woman stepped in front of the two, who tried to start walking away.

  To the vicinity she appears to be a magician as she is wearing a robe, but she doesn’t possess a wand.

  “It’s unnecessary to contact the guild.”

  Her facial expressions are lacking however she has a lovely face after taking off the hood. She doesn’t do anything but observing the adventurers with her green pupils without a change in her expression.

  “… Who are you?”

  Clasping the sword, which is riddled all over with chips in its blade, the adventurer set up his stance in order to protect his companion.

  “I’m called Origa.” (Origa)

  Doing a courteous bow, Origa looks directly into the eyes of the adventurer.

  “To be honest, I didn’t think you would end up discovering the magic tool this easily either. It’s absolutely necessary to come up with something better for the next. Also, it was out of my calculations that you would be able to use the sword better than I expected.” (Origa)

  “But then again, you are not at the level to even reach the sole of my master’s feet”, she continues.

  “Y-You have spurred on that monster!?”

  “I was simply close-by when it happened. No more than that. Though I intended for you to kill it as it is, I ended up wasting time needlessly thanks to you.” (Origa)

  Opening the iron-ribbed fan with a sound of sploosh, she conceals her mouth with it and squints.

  “Uoo!”

  The adventurer, who judged her to be an enemy due to her words, slashed at her straight away deciding that she is a magician without a wand.

  However, she nimbly parries 2, 3 slashes with the iron-ribbed fan.

  “It’s useless, you know? Although you are swinging your sword, you hips possess no stability. You are throwing your body together with the sword off balance each time. It’s something I often cautioned a close friend of mine about too.” (Origa)

  While saying this, she strongly hits the adventurer’s nose.

  The adventurer, who retreated back temporarily due to the pain and shock, clenched his teeth while blood was running from his nose.

  “One way or the other I consider it, but it is a weapon after all? I judged you to be a magician, but I misread it…”