EP1. It all started (9)
This morning, as soon as Sean opened his eyes, he thought.
‘Maybe today will be the best day of your life?’
The reason I think so is that the recent days have been so much fun for Sean.
Even though those days ended today, he was confident that he would be happier today.
It’s been a week since Sean learned to hunt.
He met and hunted with Luke every day, and now Sean tried hunting alone.
For the past few days, Shawn has been meeting at Luke’s house, not at Luke’s house.
It was because I was completely used to the outside of the forest by now.
At first, Levy was quite upset because Sean was out hunting and couldn’t play with him.
But on the third day when he got used to hunting, he returned to the village right after the hunt was over and played with Levi more than usual.
Levi finally let go of his anger and laughed.
Today is the last day Sean learns to hunt from Luke.
When Uncle Joe returns, Luke will tell him that he wants to be an adventurer, and if things go well, Sean will now be taught by Joe.
Though he felt a bit sad at the thought of Luke leaving, Sean was willing to support Luke since he was leaving to fulfill his dream of becoming an adventurer.
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Uncle Joe will be coming late tonight.
So Luke started hunting a little late, and he stayed until Mr.
So today, instead of breakfast as usual, we should eat lunch and go out slowly, but Sean thought that now that it’s like this, he should spend the morning with Levy.
With that in mind, Shawn left the house.
Looking up at the sky, the weather was quite gloomy.
‘Is it going to rain?’
Today, neither Shaun nor Luke had any intention of hunting in earnest anyway, so it wouldn’t matter much.
So Sean went to the grocery store right next to his house.
Perhaps it was late in the morning, it seemed that Mr. Paul was already working in the store.
Sean opened the door and entered.
“Hello Mister!”
Paul was cleaning the store when he saw Shawn greeting him as he came in.
“Oh, welcome. Shawn.”
“Is Levy still sleeping in the room?”
“I’m sorry, but Levy isn’t here right now.”
“Yes? Then where did you go?”
“I have something to tell the chief today. I sent Levi on an errand.”
“Aha, then you must be at the chief’s house right now?”
“Yes. Wait a little bit He will probably come soon.”
At Paul’s words, Sean thought about waiting for a while, but he shook his head and said.
“No. I’ll just go for a walk and go to the chief’s house. It’s not that far.”
“Well, it doesn’t matter to me. Levy please take care of me.”
“Yes, mister, I’ll be back in a little while.”
“Yes, please be careful.”
It’s the chief’s house. The chief’s house is in the middle of the village, so it’s not too far from here.
‘How about lunch? Wouldn’t it be better to eat with Levi?’
While walking down the street with that thought in mind, Sean found it.
The old man from a week ago, he looked the same even after a week.
When Sean saw the driver again in a week, he approached and said happily.
“Hello. Knight! See you again?”
“Hmm? Ah, it’s Mr. Sean. How are you?”
‘Wow! The driver remembered my name!’
“Of course! By the way, knight. Did you decide to live in our village?”
At that, Wilhelm nodded his head and said.
“Mmm! That’s right. I looked around a few other villages, and I thought this one would be the best place to live.”
Oh my God! A knight lives in our village. Sean’s mind already seemed to picture the knight telling him and Levy an old saga.
“That’s why. Could you give me some directions? It’s my first time in this town, so I don’t know where to go.”
“Of course you can! Where can I take you, driver?”
“Please go to the place where the chief of the village is. I’ll have to ask if it’s okay for me to stay in this town.”
The destination the knight was going to was exactly the same as himself. I even had a trivial thought, ‘Could this be fate?’.
“I was also on my way to the village chief!”
“Really? That’s great! Then let’s go.”
While Shaun was walking to his destination, he spoke to Wilhelm.
“Mr. Knight, since you are a knight, you must count a lot, right?”
“Hmm, well, people are always imperfect, and so am I. Fortunately, God gave me a skill with a sword.”
“Then, then. Did you just defeat the bad monsters with your sword?”
“I have always made defending the realm a priority in my life. Catching monsters wasn’t the main thing, but it’s not like I’ve never caught them.”
Wilhelm, who was having a conversation with Sean, remembered what he had heard a while ago and asked the boy next to him.
“I heard from another town, have you heard the rumor that many monsters are invading from the nearby city of Laes recently?”
“Oh yes! I heard from a merchant from the city last week too!”
“Hmm, that’s a big deal. A sudden increase in monsters doesn’t seem like a good sign…”
“Wouldn’t that be okay? The merchant said that many adventurers will come to Laes. Maybe the adventurers will defeat the monsters and protect the city!”
“Yes. You have to hope they make it.”
Having said that, Wilhelm looked at the boy next to him for a moment.
Sean didn’t notice, but Wilhelm’s eyes looked at the boy quickly, up and down for a moment, then there was a slight shake.
“…Are Sean-kun not interested in things like adventurers and knights?”
The sudden question from Wilhelm and what it contained made Sean pause for a moment in bewilderment.
But Sean laughed right away.
“hehehe, of course I really like and long for stories like that of adventurers, knights, and heroes. Still.”
“·····.”
“I have already decided. I will live in this town forever.”
“Hmm, I guess you already have a solid dream?”
“Yes. I will live with you in this town forever. We are already hunting.”
“Whoa. Hunting already at a young age? Great.”
“Hee hee, I plan to go into the forest today and hunt with my older brother Luke. Ah, we have arrived.”
After talking, the two arrived at the village headman’s house before he knew it.
“Chief, I’ll go in!”
Watching Sean open the door and enter without answering, Wilhelm pondered for a moment whether it was because Sean was still a child or because he was in a rural village and didn’t pay much attention to such pretense.
“Hello Chief! But you won’t go home, what are you doing here?”
Wilhelm, who carefully followed Sean, saw two people sitting side by side drinking tea inside the house.
One, still a young girl, looked surprised when she saw Sean walking in front of her, then smiled and waved her hand.
Wilhelm didn’t show it off, but he was quite surprised the first time he saw the girl.
Wilhelm lived as a knight in the capital for a long time, and she was able to see various women from a distance. Among them, there were women who received many grandiose titles, such as the queen of society, the beautiful appearance, and the apostle of beauty.
However, the girl in this small rural village was not lacking at all compared to the famous beauties in the capital city, or rather, she seemed more beautiful than that.
Especially, this girl had an innocence that they couldn’t see and a mystery that seemed to brighten just by looking at it.
‘Huh, this is true.’
Wilhelm knew that a beautiful appearance is a great help in living life, but if it goes beyond it, it is likely to become a major obstacle in life.
Wilhelm, who wanted the girl to live a safe life for a while, stopped his wandering thoughts and continued his original thoughts.
Anyway, the little girl who is dragging Sean over and inviting him to sit down and drink tea can never be the village chief. Unless the girl uses some mysterious magic.
Then the village chief is the one left of the two, but the rest also seemed quite awkward to Wilhelm.
Not as much as that girl, but after all, she was quite young.
In addition to that, if I was simply young, I wouldn’t have paid much attention to it, but the important thing is that it was ‘she’, not ‘him’.
Of course, Wilhelm said that the village chief must be male. He was not one of those rigid minds. Right now, even in the knights he belonged to, there were quite a few knights here, and there were also female knights commanders.
However, the young female village chief was completely unexpected for Wilhelm, who knew that village chiefs are usually old people with dignity, and that when a village chief is handed down, a lot is given to his son.
‘Hmmm, it shouldn’t be like this. It could be a big disrespect if I show those thoughts out, even with facial expressions.’
Sitting down and drinking tea, she saw Wilhelm and got up and approached him. Thanks to this, Wilhelm was able to see her.
The look on her face, with her hair tied back against her beautifully tanned skin, gave off a sense of responsibility that might be reserved for loyal knights.
Looking at her appearance, Wilhelm was able to understand. She said that this woman is the village headman that this village desperately needs.
She looked at Wilhelm and said.
“This is the first time I see you. From the looks of it, you don’t seem to be an ordinary person. Why did you come to our village?”
“Hello. I see you are the village chief. Say my name is Wilhelm. He is an insignificant retired knight. After retiring, now that I’m living in peace, away from fighting, this village looks really nice. Would it be okay for me to live in this village?”
“Hmm, hello. Mr Wilhelm. I am Epinel. As you said, he is lacking in body, but he is the chief of our village. Did you say you would like to live in this town? Hmm…”
With that said, Epinel looked at Wilhelm for a moment, then she spoke slowly.
“…As you know, I don’t mean at all that Mr. Wilhelm is a bad person. But I have a duty to protect the village. So, can we hear what kind of person Mr. Wilhelm was and what kind of life he lived? He said he was a knight, so I don’t think he would lie.”
“I know, of course, that this is a very natural thing. Feel free to ask. I won’t lie to you for the rest of my life as a knight.”
At that, Epinel turned her head and said to Shawn and Levy, who were watching the conversation between the two in the middle of the day.
“····Is that so, guys? I think you guys should go and see.”
“Yes? Do you want to hear more about that grandfather and the village chief?”
“Chief! I’ve just arrived, I haven’t even had tea yet, so can I just stay with the driver?”
Epinel, who was worried about the children’s reaction for a while, soon winked and handed over a sweet proposal that he couldn’t refuse.
“I’m sorry. Guys, instead, Chief Lee will give you something delicious later. Actually, the last time the peddler came, there were candies, so I bought them all.”
“Whoa, candy!? Can’t you give it to me now? Yes!?”
“If Sean and Levi listen to the chief, I’ll give it to you next time we meet. Understand?”
“hehehe. Yes!”
“····I want to be with the driver more…”
“Come on, let’s go. Shawn! Let’s get out quickly! hehehe.”
***
So the two of them left behind Epinel and Wilhelm.
“Shaun, aren’t you going hunting today?”
“No, I’m going to go after lunch today.”
“Then can we go hunting Sean and play?”
“Um… I guess I won’t be able to come back a little late today?”
Levy was so disappointed with Sean’s words. It was because he thought the two of them could have fun together today since Shawn wasn’t out hunting.
“Eh…? So you can’t play today?”
“Well, you played hard yesterday. Is not it?”
“···Even so···. Still···! It would be better if we played yesterday and today too!”
“Hmm, then let’s play now.”
“Now?”
“Yes, we can play now before lunch. You’ll be fine because the old man never asked you to come. Maybe.”
“Yes! Let’s play now! hehehe.”
Even though it wasn’t that he couldn’t play to his heart’s content, Levy was satisfied with being able to play with Shawn.
“Then what shall we play?”
“Ummm, um. Oh right! Shawn!”
“Huh?”
“I was there yesterday. I was staring at the ground…”
“Land? Uh, so?”
“Suddenly, the mole is wide! And come out.”
“Uh, but why are you talking about that all of a sudden?”
“Let’s dig our land!”
“The land? Suddenly?”
When he asked to decide what to play with, he suddenly started talking about moles and then digging. So, does Levy want to play digging now?
“Why are you digging? Are you sure you want to catch a mole?”
“No! Of course, that would be nice, but how do you catch a mole?”
You didn’t bring it up to catch a mole?
‘Then why did you talk about the mole?’
“Then why are you digging?”
“Something might be buried in the ground! If you dig, you will find something amazing!”
“Ah, there is something underground in this rural village. Even if there was, only trash spilled by someone would come out?”
“No. This Levi-sama’s intuition is telling me! There must be something huge sleeping down here!”
In the end, Sean diligently dug the ground in the village until he had lunch that day, as Levy wanted.
But there was nothing in the ground. Nonetheless, after digging for a while, he was finally able to find one.
It is…
It was garbage.
“Did I tell you? If you dig, only trash comes out.”
“···Issang! Obviously this can’t be! There must be something great hiding down here! Wait and see!”
That’s how the two of them ended their play that day.
Soon they went back to Paul’s shop and the three of them had a delicious lunch together.
Sean went into the woods on his last hunt with Luke.
Above the image of Sean going into the woods like that.
The dark clouds in the sky gradually thickened.
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