CH 174

“Hey Arjan, you’re looking good.”

“I-Is that you …… father!?”

Urka used [Spiritual Art] to summon his father, who was apparently in our vicinity, so we could see him, but only vaguely.

The white shirt and square haired father showed his teeth while laughing and raising one hand, and Arjan-san ran in a panic and tried to touch him …… and fell down.

“Guah!?”

“Hey, hey, hey, I’m already dead, don’t even think about hugging me, okay?”

“Say that first! …… Wait a minute, I’ll get mother!”

“Oh, no, it’s alright, mom would faint if she saw me. I asked this kid because there’s something that I want to tell you.”

“Father ……”

He coughed, put his hands on his hips, and opened his mouth to me.

“Would you please draw that sword again and come to me?”

“What? Yes.”

I did as I was told, pulled out my sword and walked over to him. As soon as I held the sword up in front of me, the father’s eyes narrowed and he started hovering around it.

“…… You pass.”

“Pass?”

“Yeah. Processing, how to put the fire, decoration …… It’s almost as good as mine in every way. No, I think it’s slightly better?”

“…… Heh~, just a little, huh.”

He was swearing while scratching his nose with his finger, but tears were shining in Arjan-san’s eyes. The father smiled when he heard this.

“I’ve got my pride, too, after all! No, but I was disappointed that I died before I couldn’t point it out to you that you hadn’t done enough at the end …… You did a great job overcoming that.”

“It’s thanks to the teacher here, and to these guys for providing the material.”

“Hello.”

When Tigre-sensei raises his hand, his father raises one eyebrow and says.

“Hoh~ …… You’re considerably strong. I see, a man of your stature can be a good judge.”

“I just told him what I see. It was your son who accepted it and made improvements.”

Tigre-sensei shrugged his shoulders and said so, and his father smiled. Then Arjan-san muttered to himself.

“After my father died, the craftsmen left and the customers stopped coming. I rotted and wondered what was wrong with my work, but …… I guess the hardest part was not having my father look after me properly. Thank you, father ……”

“Ha-ha-ha! I guy shouldn’t cry! Sheesh, you haven’t changed your crying habits since you were little! I’m sorry, I left right away after coming back.”

“Hey, hey, you’re slipping through …… kuku ……”

The father tried to put his hand on Arjan-san’s head, but it slipped through, and the two looked at each other and laughed loudly.

It’s the same at our house, but parents and children are always close. I think it’s natural for parents to worry about their children. My father, Sorio-san, the King of Luitzar, and Arjan-san’s father. They were different in form, and there were some misunderstandings, but in the end they understood each other.

…… I’m sure Brao had his own jealousy, but he was also doing it for Ryuuze. Regardless of the means.

If I think about it, my family in my previous life probably wasn’t family at all, even though we were related by blood. We were probably just tools to make themselves feel better by making us feel lower and to bring in money. I felt as if my head had been cleared again.

“At any rate, you’re amazing, Urka. Maybe you should get another job instead of being an adventurer.”

“Yes …… but I don’t think I want this to be my job.”

“Why not?”

Urka replied to Ryuuze’s question in a troubled manner, and Makina asked back.

“That person was also wandering around here for a long time because he had regrets. I’ve recently come to understand that when you’ve been dead for a short time, you’re still conscious and can communicate with others, but when decades have passed, you don’t even know what you were. And that’s frustrating, so they turn into a malevolent ghost.”

“I see …… It’s kind of sad.”

When Patty looked down, Urka continued.

“But I’d like to help those people get rid of their worldly desires and go to the next world. I wonder we can get some money from the dead? Just kidding.”

“Huh, but what about the skeleton and ghost in the class competitions?”

Jack asked, and Urka said, confused.

“It’s Yamasu-san and Ogure-san. I look like their dead son, and they said they were going to protect me. They said they wouldn’t leave me until I had reached the end of my life. When I met them, they were vague, but I guess they have strong mental powers. I can communicate with them even in that form.”

Hmm, I think it’s a more advanced ability than Emperor Griel’s necromancy. But it might be a reassuring ally for Urka, an aspiring adventurer.

“Do you want to greet them?”

“No, no, no, no, stop it! Sorry, I’m really begging you ……! Arjan’s father is barely my limit ……”

“Oh, that’s right.”

Urca tried to call out to them, but Makina, who is not good with ghosts, stopped him and said that, a little disappointed. And while we were watching them talking, Arjan-san turned to us, smiled, and said something outrageous.

“You guys, how much are you going to make me so happy! I’ll give you guys everything you want for free!”

“Eeeeehhhhhhhhhhhh!? No, you can’t do that! You have a life to live too!”

“Don’t worry about it, it’s worth it to be able to talk to my father right now. Here, leave the materials and the paper with what you want on it!”

“Seriously ……”

Jack gulped, and Tigre-sensei put his hand on his head.

“There are a lot of eccentric craftsmen. But many of them know their true value. It’s more like his father is worth more than a million beryls.”

“Arjan-san look happy, after all!”

“I wish we could learn from him.”

Nora and brother said this, and put the list of things they wanted made on the big table.

Then Luciel and the others came into the workshop.

“We’re done!”

“Oh, I want to write a note too!”

Luciel saw Makina and the others and rushed to the table, but the mother froze when she saw Arjan-san and his father.

“D-Dear ……!?”

“M, Mom! …… hey.”

The father looked away, scratching his cheek in embarrassment. He said he wanted to go to heaven without seeing her, so maybe that’s why.

“Don’t you hey me! Why ……”

The mother runs up to him and bursts into tears. The father told her what had happened and she thanked Urka.

“Thank you. I thought I was never going to see him again ……”

“No, I was just encouraging him to say what he wanted to say in the end.”

When Urka said this, the father pondered a bit and then asked Urka.

“Hey, do I have to go to heaven right away? And how long can I stay in this form?”

“What? Hmm, you can’t pass away unless you feel like it. You’ll stay that way until I do one more Spiritual Art to erase you or pass away …… Don’t tell me ……”

“Yoshi! Then I’m going to stay here for a little while longer. Until Mom dies.”

He said something outrageous again. It’s like the father is like the son.

“Urka, is he going to turn into an evil spirit?”

“Well, I think he’ll be fine because he has a strong will. Now it’s just a matter of whether you can see him or not, and even if you can’t, he can still become an evil spirit.”

“Man, craftsmanship is awesome ……”

If it was okay with them, then the father would stay on. As Tigre-sensei looked on in amazement, someone else came into the workshop.

“I’m sorry, …… my seniors told me to leave with them, but I’m still not convinced …… I don’t care if it’s for chores or whatever, so can you let me stay!”

The young man straightened his posture and shouted loudly. As we looked on, the father called out to him.

“What the hell, it’s Qua …… I thought it was strange that no one was here, so that’s what happened.”

“M-Master!? I thought you were dead ……”

“I’m a ghost, as you can see. So, what are you going to do, Arjan?”

“……”

The man named Qua fell on his buttocks and Arjan approached him silently. When Qua-san looked up at him hesitantly, Arjan-san showed his teeth and smiled.

“It’s not like you came back for fame, is it?”

“……! Ah, yes. It’s selfish of me to say this after leaving, but I enjoyed being here with the master and the others …… I’m really sorry!”

“It can’t be helped. Will help me again? There will be no next time.”

“Yes …… yes!”

Qua got down on his knees with tears streaming down his face, and Arjan-san let him stand there scratching his head. I don’t know how he really feels, but I have a feeling he’ll be fine.

Even though it was such a chaotic event in the workshop, I’m glad that Arjan-san and the others were happy. Thanks to Urka, though. And then they accepted all our orders and we left the workshop.

–Two months later, we received all the materials that Sarge had given us and turned them into what we wanted. Not long after that, my brother and Luciela graduated from the academy.

We moved on to classes, guild clubs, competitions, practical training, camping, babysitting …… and various other events continued.

We fought occasionally, made up, teased each other about girls, all the normal stuff I never got before.

And then the fun days with everyone came to an end with the graduation–

The next chapter will be the last in the Shounenhen!

We’ll be heading to the next chapter with two requested intermission in between!

[Afterword Theater]

“That was a good story.”

I wanted to write about how a family should be at this point. In the next chapter, I’m going to focus on how Lars lives his life personally? or how will he change.

“If he’s drinking, I’ll add a surprise ……?”

No one will read it …… Will you do it?

“By all means!”

Stop it.