CH 77

ED: Lowe

“Because Arge-san was kidnapped! So I decided to chase”  (Kuzuha)

“Do you think it would be good if you get caught?”  (Arge)

“U~u ….”

Although I’m saying it like that, Kuzuha-chan is also forgiven by the council. Akisame-san say it’s okay … He is a kind person. 

It take a day to reach Rencia village with Akisame-san’s carriage. The members are Akisame-san, Habotan-san, Kuro-san, Kuzuha-chan, and me, five people in total.

“Oni Banshu, you should stay at Sakuranomiya to maintain security and so on.” (Akisame)

“I can’t let Akisame-sama go to visit Rencia without an escort” (Habotan)

Akisame-san descends from the carriage while talking with Habotan-san. Habotan-san was out from the beginning because she was in charge of escort.

Although I seems to be count as an escort but I wonder it’s okay when get off carriage after Akisame-san. I also got off the carriage.

It’s a small village. There are only ten houses in the visible range. 

The flower garden spreads really far, I guess they are for the bee farm’s honey. 

The wind carries the scent of sweet nectar.

“Hmm…” (breath sfx)

It is a nostalgic smell. Even though it should be the first time I smell this. There is a sense of security as if I know somewhere before. 

When getting a strange feeling, Kuzuha-chan is standing next to me. 

She sniffs the air. 

“It’s sweet, it’s a nice smell,” 

“Yeah, It’s Satsuki-chan’s and my favorite honey. It has a nice smell today as well!”

Perhaps, I can enjoy the smell as much as Kuzuha-chan and Kuro-san if I close  my eyes. Well, I leave the two of the sensitive to smell races enjoying and go out. Since I’m count as an escort, It would be better to stay close to Akisame-san. 

As I came close to his side, Akisame-san is smiling and looking around.

… He is smiling as he’s looking around.

His face is still smiling but his line of sight is moving. 

Even though he take it lightly, he is still a great master of the country. I can’t tell what he is watching, but I can understand he must think of something.

“Did you need something, Arge-san?” 

“No, it’s nothing.”

He suddenly talked to me and I lost it (was suprised).

I thought that he didn’t see me, but it seems that it wasn’t so.

“This is a peaceful place, isn’t it?” (Akisame)

“Ah? Yes, well, it may be.” (Arge)

“… ?”

I felt something strange because Akisame-san reacted somewhat nonchalantly.

There is such an atmosphere that seems he has been disappointed or something.

It seemed that it was not pointed at me, but what would it be pointed at?

“It seems they came”

Before I can ask, Akisame-san muttered and moved his eyes. Looking to his line of sight at the same direction, I could see a girl walking in that direction.

A girl with black hair and clear golden eyes like flower honey.

While shaking the familiar Japanese-style clothes in the Republic, she is walking here with a slow speed.

Eventually, a few steps away from Akisame-san, she bows. Her behavior was elegant, coupled with the background flower garden, she looked just like a flower fairy.

“Welcome, Akisame-sama” (Yōkoso irasshaimashita, Akisame-sama)

“Yup. You look pretty good, Renge-chan.” (Akisame)

“Geez, Akisame-sama never changes” (Renge)

The flow of conversation is friendly, so they seem to know each other.

“……….” (Arge)

“… How have you been?” (Akisame)

“Ah, no. please don’t worry” (A, ie. Kinishinaide kudasai)

As I was watching this, when he called her Renge-chan, she quickly lowered her head to me. I wonder if it was due to mind?

Recently I often saw it in commercial guilds etc, so I may have been a little over sensitive. [EDN/Lowe: are you sure Arge-chan? it seems different to me.]

“Please, go this way”

Prompted, Akisame-san and Habotan-san are walking after her.

Kuzuha-chan and Kuro-san also followed properly.

… With that big body, silently?

That’s surprising, Habotan-san’s movement. Two meters is a really tall height, but she is walking without making a sound unlike everyone else. She should be prominent, but she is not conspicuous at all.

Oniwa Banshu. I don’t know the details, after all it is a secret system from the council. If she is not in sight, people may not even know that she is moving.

While admiring her, we move and is eventually guided in front of one house. Because it is a bit larger than other houses, is it like the village head house?

“Otou-sama is waiting inside” (Otō-sama wa Chū de omachidesu) (Renge)

“Yup. I am saved. Uhm … May I ask Kuzuha-san and Kuro-san to guard outside? Their nose will be best suit for work.” (Akisame)

“Wafu, I understand!”

“I understand.”

After talking to the pair of sharp smell beastkin, Akisame-san enters into the house ahead of the other.

… They are delicately anxious. (Arge means Kuzuha and Kuro) 

Certainly, their crisis awareness seems to be high, but it seems to me that there is a different anxiousness between them. I wonder if they will be okay. (Arge mean Kuzuha and Kuro)

Nonetheless, since today I am the guardian of Akisame-san, he doesn’t bring any guard or attendant.

There are also my recovery magic if it comes to injuries, and as I have seen it, this is a peaceful village. I wonder if I don’t have to be on guard until that far.

We enter the house and are guided to the back. In the house, I see a big table, with spots for six people lined up around it, along with a man with a thin, clean cut mustache already sitting there.

“Akisame-sama, welcome, please have a seat.” (Akisame-sama, yōkoso irasshaimashita. Dōzo) (‘Dōzo’ translate to ‘go ahead’ seem weird so I change to ‘please have a seat’)

“Yup. You seems fine and healthy, village mayor. I think that it would be better to lose weight a bit more.”

Build a light word to the extent that it can be understood as a joke, Akisame-san take a seat.

As a nominal escort, I remain standing like Habotan-san.

“You come all the way from capital, please feel welcome”

“Well, it’s about a day in a carriage, and this year’s honey is more important than that.”

“Oh, as expected, you understand”

“I eat it every year. This year’s fragrance is particularly good”

“Since the climate is calm and the flowers bloom often this year …”

Although they are talking, it is a bit boring as we are standing.

It is a story of visiting, so it may be natural that it is quite hard, but as the story that is not interesting still continues, I feel sleepy … sleepy …

“…n nya”

Should not. I was completely dozed off for a moment.

The reason I wake up was the feeling in my right arm. Looking at the sideways, Habotan-san pinched my arm in a move that not make any sound.

“Why?”

“Oh, no. nothing. please don’t worry”

Renge-san who didn’t enter the talk of adults and quietly turns a strange eyes, I deviated from my role.

After that, I seemed to fall asleep on a regular basis and repeatedly woken up by Habotan-san, I continued the security work. [EDN/Lowe: even after this far i still think her name sounds weird with ‘-san’]

“By the way, village mayor, there is some trouble in the village, right?”

“…… As expected, Akisame-sama. You understand well. Actually this year, honey devourers are more active than usual, I am in trouble”

“Un … I see, I see, If that’s the case, because we have came all the way here so let’s get rid of them, both of you are okay with that?”

“Of course, Akisame-sama”

“……, yes”

I’m half asleep, so my response was delayed.

Honey devourer? I do not know what it is, but if Akisame-san says so, we have to get rid of it.

I feel troublesome. But now I am the one who has to attend Akisame-san’s visit. So it’s better if I listen to what he said.

“Well then, shall we start?”

Akisame-san sends me instructions with a smile.

Because I will get sleepy when standing still, in some sense it might be better to do something. While thinking about such things, I nodded.