The Hero and a al
With him proposing to Rokuko, he’ll probably be executed imdiately if he manages to return alive. Well, I’m not really worried about him but as expected I’d feel sorry for abandoning soone from the sa world as . I feel like doing a good thing so let’s just continue on with the campaign.
“… So, what do you think we should do, Kehma?”
“For the ti being, tell how he asked.”
“Eh? Nnn, umm, ‘would you be my partner’.”
Rokuko’s face is blushing from embarrassnt… but is that even a proposal?
Partner can have various anings after all. Though it could definitely an a partnership between a man and a woman, it could also an partners like and Rokuko.
Even I use [Partner] to describe Rokuko a lot.
… Ah, there’s a chance that Translation-san is replacing what I an with that unthinkable aning isn’t there…
“Heeey, Rokuko, did you answer him about the ‘partner’ thing?”
“Yeah, well I refused imdiately though! I have Kehma so I don’t need another partner.”
“Y-yeah. Then isn’t the problem solved with that?”
“Wait up! Umm, that’s… he’s really persistent… He invited wanting to talk and I don’t want to eat together with him. You co too, Kehma!”
An S-Rank adventurer’s request huh… Wouldn’t it usually be fine if I just refused?
No, it might turn into a bad situation if we don’t talk to him at all, so eating a al with him might be a good opportunity.
And if Rokuko talked with him by herself, yep, I definitely have a bad feeling about that. There’s the possibility that she’s already guilty of sothing, after all what did she do to make him ask her to beco his partner?
“So I was thinking about properly requesting you to be there, as my partner!”
“Yeah? Yeah… I guess?”
“Hey, do it right! Kehma is my partner after all.”
“That’s right, I’m your partner, yeah.”
Crap. With this course of events, what kind of aning is this ‘partner’? I can’t figure it out.
… The problem is that I’m trying to not be seen. Postponing my problems, it really is a Japanese thing to do huh.
Ah, maybe I could ask the hero about it directly?
*
In the end, I decided to talk directly with the hero. While eating a al together.
We’re in the suite. Right now, Kinue-san is in the middle of setting up the A-Rank special, the [Avarice al], also known as the kid’s al.
And as for , I was sitting in front of the hero with the mysterious earth mage adventurer Narikin disguise. Rokuko was next to .
Furthermore, in order for today’s disguise to conceal my hair color as well, it’s closer to a full-face helt than a mask. I made the mouth area able to be detached for the al. It’ll be convenient to hide my hair color in the future as well, so let’s go with this from now on.
“Good to et you, Hero-dono. I am Narikin. Rokuko’s partner. It is my honor to be able to et you.”
“Good to et you. I am Wataru Nishimi… umm, Narikin-san. Rokuko-san. It was very impolite for to invite you, but—it’s impossible to talk with this al in front of , I’m very sorry.
You could talk while eating though… you can be a bit loose with the kid’s al~. Well, I thought sothing like that, but it looked like that was out of the question for the hero. He’s been fixedly staring at the kid’s al and cream soda for a while now.
Maybe I shouldn’t have served the hero a al ant for children after all? The hero probably knows how much the kid’s al costs in Japan, I’m expecting him to call it a rip-off at five gold any ti now.
Then, the hero single-mindedly ate the kid’s al. Moreover, with a serious face the whole ti.
… He looks like an adult, but with him silently eating a kid’s al, the atmosphere’s pretty heavy.
In the end, he was angry about the price being too high—not. I thought he might be, but it didn’t look like that was the case.
“—Thank you for the al.” [1]
Drinking the last drop of the cream soda, the hero, Wataru, who hadn’t left a single grain of food left on his plate—shed tears.
“I’m sorry, I just recalled my hotown… it’s already impossible to return there.”
Three years. I’m sure Haku-san said that three years have passed since this hero was summoned.
Entering into high school, that would be the sa period of three years it would take to graduate. With that amount of ti, various things probably happened. I don’t know what happened, but from the way he looks right now, it’s easy to see that he’s gained a grand amount of experience compared with what he would have living in Japan.
“You can’t return anymore, is it?”
“Yeah. My hotown is in a different world, so there’s no way to return. I’m still looking for a way, but—even if I find one, I still wouldn’t be able to return there… Since coming to this world, my hands have killed many. In my hotown, that is the greatest sin.”
I see, so he’s killed people since coming to this world. So he can’t return to Japan, huh.
Murders in another world probably wouldn’t get him arrested as a criminal if he returned to Japan though, but the problem is probably how he feels about it.
“So then, why are you looking for a ans to return despite not being able to?”
“Ah, in the future, I might et a person from the other world that might want to return to their hotown—because of that; and lingering attachnts. One’s hotown is sothing to be missed…”
… For , even though I don’t feel like leaving my comfortable life here to return to Japan, I wonder if I’d want to return so day? I’m happy so long as I can sleep though.
“I understand the reason Haku-sama recomnded this inn. This place really does have a hint of Japan. I have a few questions I’d like to ask, is that alright?”
“… If I am able to answer, I will answer.”
“Then… [Rice]. What region is this from?”
Ah—a difficult question right out of the gate.
For example, even if I said, ‘I don’t know since we procured it from Haku-san,’ this hero could go and directly ask Haku-san to confirm it. Then if Haku-san answered with, ‘I don’t know where,’ or sothing there’d be a contradiction. It’d be really bad if that happened huh.
“… Well, we don’t want to leak our supplier since this is a business…”
“Please, sohow. I won’t tell anyone else. I absolutely want to acquire it.”
“If that’s the case, I can accommodate you. We don’t have so much, but we can sell you the rice that has finished cleaning.”
“Definitely! —Ah, and what kind of soil does it need?”
He didn’t bite. Well, rice is the Japanese soul food, it’s natural for him to be anxious about it.
He’ll probably keep asking if I don’t answer him. Let’s go with using that appropriate country’s na and be a bit enigmatic… Ummm, what was the na of that country Haku-san definitely ntioned? Wakoku? You could get cherries there right? Alright, let’s go with using that.
It looked like Wataru expected to hesitate and think over responding, he was waiting quietly.
“Do you know of the country nad Wakoku?”
“Yeah, I’m planning to go there. [Wakoku], its na matches it being to the east, so it’s been on my mind.” [2]
… Ah, he’s right! I didn’t notice!
“Well, Haku-san brought us things called cherries from there.”
“Ooh, so there are cherry trees in Wakuko then! I can’t wait!”
Ah, is that so? Cherries are cherries, so I guess that ans cherry trees too.
So if there really might be [Rice] too—wait, Haku-san said she didn’t know what [Rice] was didn’t she? I don’t think Haku-san would overlook a grain while knowing about a fruit like cherries. In that case, it looks like there isn’t much of a chance then.
… Yep, I didn’t say that I got our [Rice] from there, safe, safe. Even those lie detecting magic tools wouldn’t catch my white lie.
“As for our current supplier, that’s all I can say.”
“Thank you… Next, I would like you to have a look at this.”
After saying that, Wataru took out so playing cards.
“I heard that these could be obtained from the dungeon [Cave of Desires].”
“Yes, it appears that they are obtained from the first floor. We buy them for five copper coins.”
“… Narikin-san, please look at this.”
The hero pointed to the box of cards… What? What am I looking at? It’s just the normal box.
“Yeah? … It doesn’t look like anything’s different, are you trying to show a magic trick?”
“Hey, what’s that weird pattern?”
The hero smiled broadly. I suddenly understood after hearing Rokuko’s response, and imdiately my blood flowed backwards as I was attacked by chills.
… It’s a bar code. With sothing like that, it’s a complete out!
“Yes. This here is called a bar code, it’s a special way of writing a price.”
“Ahh now that you ntion it, this pattern, I’ve always thought it was sothing or another, but it was like that then?”
I promptly handed it back… This guy, he might suspect being Japanese. He might have even settled on that with my reaction just now.
Oh right. Haku-san’s surely heard about bar codes as well. So with her thinking that I had sched so super-excellent plan, she probably saw the bar codes as bait. Even though it was really just a complete fail on my part!
“… Well, this is why I ca to this dungeon. It’s a clue for returning to my hotown.”
“Is that so… Ah, it’s fine to examine it, but since this one is more or less for beginners… please don’t damage it too much, alright?”
“Yes. I understand. I am planning on staying a week for now.”
Hero Wataru said that and bowed deeply… he doesn’t seem like a bad guy.
Ah. Right. I need to ask about his proposal towards Rokuko too huh. Well, nine tis out of ten he probably ant it as a study partner though.
Footnotes:
Itadakimasu’s lesser-known brother: Gochisousamadeshita.
Wakoku = 和国 = Ancient Japan
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