Hellmode ~Gamer Who Likes to Speedrun Becomes Peerless in a Parallel World with Obsolete Setting~ Vol. 1 - Chapter 32 - Playing (2)

It's the beginning of September. Next month, Allen will turn seven years old.

In this hot, sunny weather, Allen is in the yard of Kurena's house.

"I'm your next opponent, Allen.", says Dogora.

"Co on, let's go Dogora."

Dogora addressed Allen. He grabbed a wooden club rather than a sword and attacked Allen.

"Damn it, why can't I hit you?"

"I've told you many tis, you have to predict my movents."

"I know, I know!"

We're playing knights. In the early part of December last year, I got into a fight with Dogora. I won the fight easily and told him that I would co back in two days.

Two days later, I ca there to buy so groceries and found a very excited Dogora waiting for . Perhaps the round stick of the scrap wood was too hard to hold for him, and now his weapon had been upgraded.

Naturally, with his high status and skill level in swordsmanship, Allen was easily able to win. Two days later, at the sa ti of day, when he went to the comrcial district. Dogora was again waiting for him. Allen won again.

This went on for almost a month, until the end of December.

We also had enough firewood and salt in stock, because I ca to the market every two days.

When I told him that I wouldn't be coming to the store like this from January, he said, "You're a bit of a jerk!" to . Perhaps he wanted soone to play with him.

Later, I talked to Kurena. I told her that there was one person who wanted to play knight with her. I called Dogora and asked her if he could join her in playing knights. She agreed imdiately.

I inford Dogora that from that day on, we would be playing at Kurena's house.

The reason why we didn't choose my house as the playing location was because Kurena's house was much closer to the residential area. I tried to find a place where we could all gather as close as possible. After that, Dogora would co to Kurena's house every day.

"Taa! Knight Permous ! That's it?" soone said to Kurena.

"Uh... yeah!""

Out of sight I saw Kurena and Peromus, the son of the village mayor, playing knights together. Peromus and Dogora were friends. It was their friendship that had placed Dogora at the sa table as the knight captain at the banquet.

Peromus was quite unwilling to play the knight, as he was going to be a rchant in the future. He felt that Dogora was forcing him to co along with him.

Still, he cos with Dogora once every two or three days. The village mayor also wanted his son to play with Kurena. After all, he's playing knight with Kurena, a Master Swordsman who plans to serve the royal family in the future. This sends him a strong ssage to go and play nicely. There seems to be no escape.

There is another person who is also participating in this knight ga.

Mash, who just turned three years old last December is going to play with us. He was finally allowed to go outside the garden with . He has been following almost every day since we changed the place to play knight to Kurena's house.

That's why there are five of us here: , Kurena, Mash, Dogora, and Peromus.

"Mash, I'm ready."

"Yes! Yes, yes, yes!"

Mash's weapon is quite long. It's not a sword. It resembles a spear. At first, I made a normal wooden sword for Mash. But the wooden sword was about 30 centiters long and didn't fit Mash's body. That's why I made him another wooden weapon.

Mash says, "I want to play in the garden!". This is an example that he wants to be like his brother.

"I want the sa weapon that my brother has".

The sword I had was twice the length of the sword I had made for Mash.

Mash got really stubborn and he used my wooden sword. Then his movent was different. But it wasn't that big of a difference. It could have been an error on my part, or just my imagination, playing knight with a three-year-old. But I didn't miss the difference in his movent.

Mash's weapon, a spear, was the right weapon for him.

"Hey, Good job, Mash."

He poked and punched with sharp movents.

(I'm looking forward to the judgent ceremony in two years when Mash will be five years old. I'm sure it will determine what talents are most appropriate for Mash.)

"Kahn"

"Kahn"

"Kahn"

"Oh, what the hell. Is it over already?" said Dogora while playing with Kurena.

Peromus then asked Dogora to return ho.

The 15:00 bell rings. Dogora and Peromus always leave at the sound of this bell. They always ca to play at the sound of the 12 o'clock bell, so it was a three-hour ga of knights.

"See you later, Allen and Kurena," they said to us.

After they leave, we play a little more knight gas, and then I and Mash go ho too. The first ti we ca back from Kurena's house, Mash was so exhausted that he begged to carry him on by back on our way ho. Recently, he seed to be able to walk ho by himself. I am happy to see my little brother grow up.

"We're ho."

"Welco ho, Allen and Mash."

Theresia replied from the living room. She was preparing dinner. She has my baby sister on her back, who was born back in February. I start to help her prepare dinner.

Theresia had successfully given birth to a baby girl, her third child. And she seems to love her a lot.

The couple has an agreent that if they have a boy, Rodan will na him, and if they have a girl, Theresia will na her. When the baby girl was born, Theresia was finally able to na her child.

She nad her Muras.

She nad her after an herb called Mullerse flower, which had saved Rodan's life. She had decided to na the baby Muras if she had a girl. Muras was nad on the day she was born.

I think Theresia has a better sense of nas. Allen and Mash are nad after magical beasts.

Albaheron flies north in the fall, but I had never heard of the magical beast that Mash was nad after.

Rodan had told about this beast too when we had gone shopping.

He said that one of the main reasons why salt and fruits were not coming to the village was because of the trouble caused by a magical beast called Madergarsh.

The Mardergarsh is said to be a lone creature that does not have a territory or a fixed nest and always keeps moving. Its physical appearance seems to be that of a giant wolf. It is said to be about twice the size of the Great Boar, but Rodan had never seen one before.

The Mardergarsh most of the ti appears on the main roads connecting towns and villages and stays there, blocking the way. When this happens, rchants and travelers are obliged to not travel to neighboring villages and towns.

Madergarsh, is a B-rank magical beast. It is not an easy beast to defeat.

Sotis they stay for more than a month, and the supplies stop. People then request for the dispatch of knights to defeat it.

Although it is not seen in this village, there was a story that when Rodan was born in a neighboring village he rembered the request very well. He told that the dispatched knights were not able to defeat the beast because it had gone away before they had arrived.

It seems to be a very troubleso magical beast. When I heard about it, I thought it was not the type of magical beast that would be loved very much.

As I watched Mash laying around in the living room, I hoped that he would grow up to be loved by everyone, unlike Madergarsh.

"I'm ho."

Rodan is back to full health. He returned to do farming in the spring. He has resud fetching water in the mornings and works all day on the farm.

I have also been farming since early spring, learning from Rodan. However, when I tried to work in the fields for a day, Gerda told that children should play outside for so reason. I still rember the pain in my shoulders when he grabbed out of the fields.

In the mornings, I was busy doing chores and working in the fields, and from noon, I would be playing knights at Kurena's house.

We all then gather around the fire pit for dinner. Muras has just started eating baby food little by little. She eats while she drools. Mash was also hungry after a good workout. He was eating a stead potato.

"You're late today, aren't you?"

Theresia spoke to Rodan.

He ca ho a little late. Because he returned late, Theresia was worried about him. This is one of the reasons why Rodan tries to avoid coming ho too late.

"Yeah, I was called in by the village mayor."

With a puzzled look on his face, he explained that he had been called by the village mayor.