Day 66 Nighttime, the Souvenir Store, the Orphanage Branch
Looks like we had a problem with the latest supply of goods. It seems that the procured merchandise had a middle-aged man mixed in? Back there, I have heard about cases of foreign substance contamination But dont mix middle-aged men in? Especially not in manju, thats just dirty?
Well, and he seems to have just gone back with that.
No, Im telling you, I went to restock, and was harassed in the process, and then there is a middle-aged man contamination, and even though a beautiful female thief was expected, for some reason, I was called a thief, and then the Sword-Killing Sword and iron ball direct impact?
Yeah, not a sword but an iron ball? The iron ball was swinging through the air with a terrifying momentum in complete silence, giving off no presence at all, it was basically a silent assassination, but this here is a freshly caught still alive middle-aged man.
Even if we do get a middle-aged man in stock, its not like anyone would want to buy that? What do we do? Like, its not a Beautiful Female Thief, you know? But I got lots of magic swords from him, so I sort of decided to spare him head burning, maybe its fine to just throw him away?
I mean, middle-aged men tend to multiply if you leave them be, and it seems that if they get any more numerous the underground dwellers will be bothered too.
As the rumors in the town have it, the acute middle-aged men increase issue has become a serious population problem, limited to middle-aged men. Like middle-aged men population explosion? Kind of?
The more I listen the less I understand, but Wismregzero, the man hailed as a legendary magic swordsman throughout the continent, also known as a hidden blade of the Confederation, is lying on the ground.
His eyes are X_X so the culprit must be that person! Looks like we finally have the first in history morningstar assassination! She mastered it, she mastered it to the utmost extreme! She finally mastered the sermon (Iron Ball), making it capable of murder As expected of a former dungeon emperor?
But where did McKenzie-san come from? And where Wismregzero went?
He is lying over there, you know? He probably doesnt remember his name anyway? Its so unfair that only Jugemu-san has his name memorized!
Wasnt it a master of magic swords that no one could beat? The Merchant Confederations trump card?
Well, Angelica-sans iron ball dance is too much to handle. She is performing successful combos on Haruka-kun even when he is shrouded in Teleportation magic and is repeating instantaneous movement. Even vanishing cant protect one from getting beaten up, you know?
So this man is that Wismregzero of Magic Swords. One of the Seven Swords of the Confederation Even though there is only six of them.
Why are they calling themselves seven swords if there are only six of them? Couldnt they grab one more person?
Looks like there is a grave personnel shortage everywhere. By the way, only four of them are using swords. Couldnt they go with something like One Blank, Two Fighters, Four Swords?
It sounded sort of amazing at first, but suddenly, not anymore? The seven swords, even though there are only six of them, but two arent even swordsmen Thats just a six randos group!
But they are strong. So far, they have crushed every assassin and attack group that was sent by other countries targeting the top of the Confederation. They even killed some ordinators of the Theocracys army?
The Theocracy armys strongest class of Ordinators seems to be elites on par in strength with S-rank adventurers, loaded with tons of magic equipment. And they are capable of taking even them down. How powerful is that? Yup, I have no idea.
Actually, stop just looking and start eating? Kind of~!
Lets dig in!!
Mushroom salad comes with a brand new sesame dressing, he is adding mushrooms into every meal for the children for the sake of their recovery, and he probably developed this one in secret to avoid them getting tired of mushrooms.
For someone running around sayingDont cling to me~orAnnoying~, he is surely spoiling them. Even now he is stealthily steaming potatoes.
Its delicious~.
Can I eat this? Can I eat this too? Really?
So bread could be this tasty.
We ate everything, what do we do about food for tomorrow?
The children are still crying every time they have a meal. Each time they are eating with tears until they are stuffed. They are still probably praying in their heads that if this is a dream it doesnt end yet.
Day after day, they had nothing but meager and lacking meals, living on the verge of starvation for months and years, as if it was the norm. Forced to live such lives.
Thats why Haruka-kun is going all out making all sorts of dishes and treating the children to them. The tables are overflowing with new dishes added one after another, as if he is telling them to take back their share until now, take back everything and eat delicious stuff until you are full.
This is still not enough, eat more, eat everything, he keeps cooking more and more until the children are too full to even sit. The girls are also getting hit with aftereffects of those culinary tidal waves though, what do we do? Hm, I wonder if ONE MORE SET will be enough?
He also said that there were lots of soybeans lying around the storage, so he is currently researching this and that. Is he going for tofu? Or maybe even miso?
And it seems our guest has finally woken up. Wismregzero-san is being treated like a middle-aged man, but he is an elf with an appearance of a person in his late twenties. A handsome tall and skinny swordsman. I could tell from the first sight that he is strong.
Well, he was unconscious with his eyes X_X, so I had no idea until now though.
Ah, so I got myself caught, huh. Man, what a blunder, and thats after going through all the trouble of coming all the way to the Kingdom to catch the thief.
After looking around nonchalantly he breathed a sigh Even so, he showed no openings, despite maintaining a relaxed posture. Well, he has no weapons though Since they were looted.
Long time no see~, Old Man McKenzie, was it? Dont get it wrong, I didnt capture you, it just so happened that while I was restocking you got mixed in with the merchandise, and got carried here, but since I cant sell you, I dont really need you? I mean, you are a middle-aged man? What do we do?
Should I throw you underground? Perhaps it would be better to first get permission from the underground dwellers?
At least hear him out first?! And who is McKenzie?