Practice (1)
A month has passed.
In the meantime, I focused on being with Rize thoroughly.
It was because I was more worried about Rize’s mental state than when I went to the Majeriol Heroes Cemetery the other day.
To the point where he had to sleep with me for days.
He always made sure to check if I was there when he woke up in the morning, and if he wasn’t relieved, he hugged me and whined for a while.
But now I’m somewhat better and I’m allowed to go out alone for a few days.
Rize shouldn’t try to rely on me any more like this.
Again, I had no choice but to realize my immaturity. I’ll never see you like that again.
Anyway, I had to leave the house for a while, so I went to see Douglas for a report.
“Hello, senior!”
“… … Aren’t you going to work?”
“I heard it for a while. I heard that our Rize is okay now, so why don’t we take a look at her face?”
Who is our Rize?
As soon as I opened the door of the house where Douglas was staying, seeing Scarlett greet me cheerfully gave me another headache.
If it’s fortunate, it’s not different from what I knew, but… … I was very worried that people would show interest in what I was doing.
At that moment, Douglas, who came out from inside, looked at me and gave me a chin gesture.
“What’s going on in the morning?”
“I think I will be out for a while. In the meantime, I’m here to tell you that Rize is taking care of me.”
“Hmm, yes. Is Rize okay?”
“Yes, it has improved a lot. Sorry for worrying you.”
“Sniff, what are you worried about?”
Douglas snorted and turned his head away, but his feelings of relief were evident.
No matter how much it was, I couldn’t explain the circumstances in detail, so I just told Rize that I had told her about my mother.
Douglas deeply sympathized with him, so he must have overlapped Scarlett’s appearance in Rize.
Scarlett was like that too, so she went in and out of the house often for a while and tried to make Rize feel better.
Apart from the feeling of gratitude, I couldn’t help but feel anxious about whether I would become more entangled with Scarlett.
“But where are you going? It looks like they left Rize behind, but is it dangerous?”
“Not like that.”
If I said it was dangerous, I thought he would say he would follow me for some reason, so I denied it with a single knife.
However, she took a step forward with a smile and a strange look in her eyes.
“Then what fun is it? Can I go too?! It’s just trivial things these days, so I want to learn more from you!”
“It’s not possible.”
“Ah, try thinking a little. No, it’s really fun to see him knocking it out at once like this, isn’t it?!”
Scarlett, who was talking excitedly, grabbed her head and sat down.
Afterwards, Douglas clenched his fists, glared at him, and spoke in a pitiful tone.
“Crown up, please. Irvin is not an idle person enough to play with you. If you cause such a nuisance, will I live in shame?”
“Mr. Woo, Dad always changes his words! I’m trying to create an opportunity to learn from you, but why are you blocking it?”
“If that was the case, Irvin would have asked for help first. Keep calm and gain experience by yourself.”
“Aren’t you busy calling me from all over the place? Now, even if you don’t sell your father’s name, you can get the request you want right away.”
“… … Have you ever been selling my name?”
“… … Oops.”
Soon after, he left the place, leaving the two of them alone, who started a noisy father-daughter quarrel.
I was going to say hello for a while, but I wasn’t relaxed enough to be unnecessarily captured.
Then, he rented a wagon he had reserved the day before and headed straight out of Findel to Hazel’s house.
As soon as I went inside, the five children who had been waiting huddled together stood in a line in front of me and greeted me.
“hello!”
“Yeah, everyone looks healthy. Do you know what day it is today?”
“yes!”
Each of the children answered my question with their eyes sparkling with anticipation. Even Nora, who showed little emotion, had her cheeks slightly flushed.
It’s not like I’m going to like it that much, but I felt a little sorry for him to react like this.
It wasn’t anything else, it was because I had promised to have an outdoor class with the five children.
That too for 2 nights and 3 days.
I usually only stopped by for a short time and hung out with them, but I didn’t know that I would like them this much just because I stayed with them for a little longer.
“Then, let’s start by examining the preparations.”
At my words, the five children took identical backpacks one by one, took out the items they had packed inside and laid them out in front of them.
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There were some things that were common to some extent because they had given a word in advance, but as expected, the child was a child.
“Rowen is perfect. Good job. Dellon? What’s inside, can you take it out? Why can’t I bring candy? keep it in mind Claire, should I take that off? Do you think you can use cosmetics there? Frederick is… … Take a look at Rowen’s and take care of what you lack. Nora missed some, but she did a good job bringing out the candy instead of hiding it like Delan did.”
As I was checking and replenishing the children’s backpacks, Hazel appeared silently and spoke to me with a face that seemed not to like it.
“Sniff, do you really have to go all the way to help me?”
“Hazel-sama has something you need help with.”
“Hey, you’re completely determined to pamper me. If you’re going to make such an additional request, I want you to keep your promise to me first.”
“… … .”
For a moment, I couldn’t remember what the promise was, so after thinking for a while, Hazel immediately frowned.
“You bastard, you can’t believe you forgot or something like that, right?”
“No, it just didn’t come to mind right away. Are you talking about the ring? Lately, I’ve been through a lot mentally and physically.”
“Do you think you will move on to that excuse?”
“Then I’ll bring it to you within a week without making you wait any longer.”
Hazel’s eyes widened at the sudden remark, and I just shrugged my shoulders.
In the end, Hazel narrowed her brows and spat out a word as if growling.
“I will fool you just one more time.”
“I’m not cheating at all, so please help me with my work.”
I roughly waved my hands and turned my head to see the children huddled together staring at me.
As I was tilting my head wondering what was going on, Rowen opened his mouth as the representative.
“Are you having a hard time?”
Now I see that he was worried about what I said.
I laughed and made eye contact with the children once in a while and said it was no big deal.
“It’s fine now. That’s why I haven’t been paying attention to you lately. I’m sorry about that, so I planned this camp, everyone, don’t worry about me and let’s all enjoy it.”
“yes!”
The children immediately responded with excited faces, and I, too, nodded and finished packing my luggage, which had been delayed for a while.
After all the preparations were made, we got on top of the wagon and set off right away.
Of course, I took the role of coachman, and after that Claire clung and chattered like the first time she came here, Rowen calmed the excited Frederick, Delan got ready as always, and Nora sat right next to Hazel. there was.
After a long time, I started a wagon trip with children showing various behaviors.
* * *
The way there was not too far.
Arriving at a hill about half a day away, each of us got off with our luggage and left the wagon with Hazel.
Nora saw Hazel sitting in the coachman’s seat and approached and gently grabbed the collar.
“Grandpa… … Aren’t you going with me?”
“Okay, I have to go do the troublesome job this guy gave me.”
“So, when are you coming?”
Hazel’s eyebrows twitched at that, and she immediately looked at me. Then, with a very displeased expression, he turned his head back to Nora to answer.
“Come back as soon as possible.”
Nora smiled faintly at that, and I led the children into the woods, leaving the wagon behind.
As we continued along the forest road with few signs of people, we soon saw a suitable clearing.
I could hear the sound of a brook running nearby, and the floor was flat with few stones, making it an ideal place to camp.
“Okay then, let’s put all the backpacks in one place and set up the tent first.”
He led the children and started by making a bed, the first thing to do.
The fabric for the roof was pulled out of each person’s backpack and put together, and the supports were made from nearby trees or branches obtained from the ground.
The day wasn’t too cold or anything, so it was enough to avoid the morning dew and any rain.
A cloth was laid on the pre-trimmed floor, and a temporary drainage ditch was dug around it, and a decent campsite was completed.
Although it was clumsy, it was good enough for a few nights with the children.
“If you’re just going to sleep for one day, you don’t have to do this, but if you do it once at first, you can use it for quite a while.”
After saying that, this time he moved away for a while and showed me how to set up the trap.
It was a very simple trap to find a way for animals to pass by and tie their ankles.
I also brought emergency food, but it was literally only emergency food, and local procurement was the default in places like this.
“What can I catch with this?”
“A wolf! Catch the wolf!”
“Hey, don’t you know that wolves don’t taste good?”
For some reason, after comforting the children who were enjoying themselves, they set up traps in various places around them and returned to the campsite.
After that, he taught me how to make a fire, and taught me the necessary knowledge for camping one by one.
It was explained to Rize once, but the five children will need it more.
These children, too, had no talent for magic.
“Oh, wow! It’s stuck!”
“me too!”
“Mister, this is not going well.”
There were only five of us, so it was noisy.
Still, to some extent, they were working seriously, and the child who learned first helped other children.
I smiled slightly at the atmosphere closer to a picnic than I thought.
It’s definitely better to have fun than hard learning like this.
I didn’t intend to be strict today, so I relaxed a little and enjoyed the atmosphere and taught them as much knowledge as possible.
I haven’t been caught in a trap yet, but when I caught a rabbit by myself, the children went crazy.
especially… … It is all the more so when they go together to the stream and show them slaughtering.
“Kyaaak… … !”
“Ugh, gross.”
“There, show me again.”
Claire and Delon were disgusted, but Frederick was looking closely with his eyes shining. Rowen and Nora just watched and watched the slaughter process.
Although each reacted differently, the children who ate the roasted rabbit meat with simple seasoning immediately urged me to catch one more.
If I told them to catch it, they would run into the forest at any moment.
“If you finish eating, wait… … Let’s check your abilities.”
However, at my words, the children gave a slightly nervous expression.
Although Claire struggled a little, she eventually succeeded in controlling her abilities, and she was aware that the other children were also expanding their abilities little by little.
If it is a place that is out of sight of others, children will be able to show off their abilities without being noticed.
I didn’t mean to make it grand, though.
In the case of Rowen, he wrote letters on a ball and threw it so that it could be read accurately, Claire made poison come out only from his fingertips, Dellon pulled a iron needle or iron thread out of his body and swung it, Frederick made the blood of a rabbit he had just caught move, Nora tried to move from shadow to shadow.
It was only to check to what extent each person could handle their own abilities, and since they were steadily growing, they planned to have them continue to train individually for the time being.
I will have to think more about how to grow beyond this.
After doing this and that, it was time to sleep.
And when a group of people camp like this, a moment that should never be missed came.
“Ah, number four.”
“That’s a very bad deal.”
“I wanted to go to bed early… … .”
“Nanana, I want to talk to you all night long!”
“You get scolded then.”
It was a nightly lottery.
To be honest, I didn’t have much to do here, but wouldn’t it be better to do it properly?
Of course, I naturally had to stay up all night and tell the children about what the vigil would do.
It was not easy to wake up and soothe the children who felt like they were on a picnic, but at least everyone showed an effort to follow my teachings.
I said a word while leading the children who could not hide their tiredness and washing their faces by the stream.
“Your uncle is going somewhere for a while, so review what I taught you.”
“Yeah?!”
As expected, there was a fierce backlash.
I thought we would stay together this time, but it must feel like we’ve been betrayed.
In particular, Claire’s eyes glaring at me with enlarged eyes were quite terrifying.
“I have work to do. I have to check the work I gave to Hazel. Don’t worry, I’ll be back today.”
“Yeah… … .”
The children showed a very dissatisfied reaction, but they didn’t try to hold me anymore.
I left my children like that.
I haven’t seen the kids for over two days.