37 – The Night Before the Storm (5)
“I should rest here.”
Melon let out the breath she had been holding back and gazed up at the sky. Even though she moved as fast as she could, it was impossible for her to get off the mountain before the sun went down.
Both horses and people had to take breaks in between.
As for Melon, she got off her horse accustomed to it, as if it was something she assumed. We dismounted after him and looked around him.
“I could go a little further, so why stop here?”
Unable to contain my curiosity, I asked Helen.
Not because she was a woman, but because everyone else was looking around or starting to prepare for camp.
“We are on a secret mission.”
“… Ah.”
It is not difficult to head to the village after the sun has set.
It wouldn’t be too difficult to reveal your affiliation and identity to the guards and enter the village.
However, it was taken into consideration that our identities could be revealed or rumors could circulate in the process.
I nodded my head at the words of Helen, who seems timid and fierce on the outside, but surprisingly has a cold personality.
“If you understand, then I’m done.”
When Helen, who seemed to be reluctant to me as an outsider to her, avoided her seat, I also shrugged her shoulders and went out to find something to do.
Even so, it doesn’t make sense for me, a former army sergeant, not to do anything based on my status as a young boy.
Approaching the knights skillfully preparing for camp and watching them carefully, I also moved my body and started to help them.
“…… You are good at it.”
“There are no tricks, but I do know how to do it.”
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Knock!
Actually, there are tips.
I said to Dell, who watched me blankly as he drove the stakes holding the tent into the ground.
“I don’t think it’s as much as you know….”
If you say that, it’s hard to answer. It is because I belonged to the military in my previous life in the first place. Can’t you say
I shrugged my shoulders in response to Del’s words, straightened my back and stood up.
“I think this will be enough.”
“Hey… Are you good at using your body, Bocchan?”
“Not quite like that.”
After completing the vigilance and tidying up of the surroundings, Melon appeared and she deftly separated the dels from me.
Apparently, he noticed that I was embarrassed to talk.
I internally thanked Melon and gave a rough answer, then looked around to see if there was anything else I could do.
“I just need help with dinner.”
“Eh. Do you even know how to cook?”
Wow, melon just looked like a narrow-eyed cat from a Japanese anime.
Of course, they have similar faces and personalities, but I didn’t expect them to be so similar.
“A little bit.”
There is no need to hide what you can do. I’ve been living alone for several years, so it’s only natural that this is enough.
Even if they think it’s strange, there’s no point. There was no way they would know that I was reincarnated.
I went over to Helen as she was cooking and walked over to her arms.
“Can I help you?”
“… Do you do some cooking?”
“Sure. I won’t ruin it.”
After answering confidently, I glanced at Helen who was cooking and brought her kitchen knife and ingredients to me.
It was an ordinary stew. It’s so easy that you just need to roughly trim the ingredients, put them in, and boil them.
As I skilfully lifted the knife and began to cut the ingredients, Helen, who looked at me suspiciously, paused for a moment before continuing to cook.
Tak Tak Tak.
I couldn’t help but admire inwardly as I refined the ingredients.
Actually, when I joined the tracking team, I took into account the somewhat uncomfortable bed and the food I ate, but even considering sleeping outside, it was a luxurious bed and meal.
It wasn’t because I was there that I made it like this. Judging from the skillful appearance of the knights, it seemed like they hadn’t done it once or twice.
Make a fire, cook, make a bed.
Although it sounds easy at first glance, this place was in the middle of this world forest.
In the forest of this world, where no one knows where and how to threaten, and where you don’t know what will emerge.
‘It must mean that I have that much confidence.’
In the first place, beings that can pose a threat to knights who have reached a certain level are not that common.
Swallowing those thoughts into my heart, I put the trimmed ingredients in a pot and started to boil them.
As the floor was stirring to prevent the water and ingredients from sticking together, the knights who had finished their work began to gather nearby one by one.
“What is it that our young master can’t do?!”
“… It doesn’t seem like much.”
“Because there are more people who can’t do that little thing.”
Hagisa How many times do young masters from rich families have to hold a cleaver and cut ingredients or cook in front of an open fire?
Laughing awkwardly at the admiration of the pure melon, he transferred the somewhat well-boiled stew into a bowl and began to distribute it to the knights.
“Thank you.”
The taste of the stew was exactly the taste of the stew.
Just a stew with no spices or anything added. However, everyone began to eat deliciously as a side dish for hunger.
After finishing our meal without saying a word, we sat around the campfire.
Melon calmly opened her mouth as Helen, who had washed the tableware she had brought and put them back in the pocket of her child’s space, and finished cleaning up after her, joined.
“I must have filled my stomach to some extent… I will briefly explain the mission.”
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Knights are familiar with it, and everyone must have been familiar with the contents of the mission before departure, so it was a consideration for me.
I nodded as I watched the still shimmering flames.
“Heren.”
Melon passed her baton to Herren.
Heren looked into Melon’s eyes for a moment before opening her mouth. Melon just smiled at her eyes saying, ‘Why do you leave the troublesome things to me?!’.
“As you all know, this mission is to find out the traitors hiding in Bürn.”
“It is said that there were a total of three groups of traitors found in Bürn.”
“‘Was it?'”
At Blue’s question, Herren kept her wry smile as if he knew it.
I guess I wasn’t the only one who didn’t know about the mission.
“I don’t know if it was originally to avoid being caught by the tail or if it was divided into groups to avoid being hit, but reports say they are now united as one group.”
“… You noticed our presence.”
“I think so.”
Confirming Helen’s low words, Helen stared at Melon.
However, Melon shrugged her shoulders and told her to continue, but she didn’t take any action.
“It is presumed that this is why the saying that the resistance will be strong. In fact, on our side, who were digging behind them, the injured are continuing to appear one after another.”
It was understandable to some extent.
In the first place, the informants weren’t made up of knights, so there’s plenty of room for them to be defeated.
“It is said that the total number of enemies is about twenty. Among them, there are about ten groups that cannot fight at all, and there are about ten groups that think they have some knowledge in combat.”
By the way, it’s pretty detailed.
The size of the enemies, combat and non-combat… It must have taken a little bit of sacrifice to dig this far.
“Four of the combat positions are said to be so strong that even informants cannot easily approach them. It is probably an escort for the leaders.”
“… Well, no matter how high-ranking I am, I’m not going to throw it away.”
“That is true, but the opponent will fight with all their might to survive. We must not be vigilant.”
Glancing at Melon, who spoke calmly, Heren spoke earnestly. Especially while staring at me.
Receiving that gaze, I smiled bitterly. He swallowed dry saliva as he clenched his fists hard enough to turn them white.
… There is no room or room to be vigilant here.
Beginners’ misjudgments have always been like that. Being careless about the opponent being weaker than oneself, being nervous about the first battle….
Mixed with a bit of hesitation at the first ‘murder’.
People here have seen people dying like that many times, so I understand that they don’t stop worrying.
‘I have no intention of dying here.’
No one wants to die.
I came here to go higher.
I had to admit it.
There is no longer a world where murder was done arbitrarily. Because this world was a world where I could protect mine only by taking the lives of others.
And I volunteered to be here in order to strengthen my resolve, to rise higher.
“You don’t have to worry. Even if they were strong, they wouldn’t be as strong as us.”
Del looked at me and said, probably thinking that my figure with trembling fists was stained with tension and fear.
I had no intention of correcting the misunderstanding, so I just nodded slightly.
“Now… ! Stop talking about uncomfortable things and don’t set your night shift first!”
Pair!
To evoke the somehow uncomfortable atmosphere, Melon clapped her hands and opened her mouth.
Only then did I raise my head and stare at them.
“I will go to the end of the gel or to the front!”
“… Don’t talk nonsense and decide fair and square, right?”
“Since I’m the captain, is it natural for me to do that?!”
“Nothing is obvious.”
I smiled as I watched the knights arguing over the order of the night watch and quietly reflected on my promise.
You have to do it.