The Strongest Wizard Becomes a Countryside Guardsman After Taking an Arrow to the Knee Chapter 07 - Millet’s Sister

Chapter 07 – Millet’s Sister

Translator: Ranzan

I leisurely walked back to the village.

The sun rose as I was returning.

「Damn, that’s bright!」

When I got back to Mulg, Millet was waiting for at the gate.

「Ah, Mr. Al!」

「You’re pretty lively waking up this early, Millet.」

I was tired from fighting a magical wolf late at night. I used to be able to stay up three days while fighting when I was a youngster.

I thought again that I didn’t want to get any older, when Millet said,

「I was going to invite you to breakfast, but you weren’t in your house. I was worried.」

「Yeah, sorry about that.」

Millet grabbed hold of my shirt and pulled to her house harder than I expected.

As I entered the house Millet brought to, I saw a little elf girl laying in a bed.

「This is my sister Collette. She still has a little fever, but she’ll be fine since I got the dicine back to her in ti.」

The sickness that Collette was afflicted with was dangerously fatal. However, if treated in ti with the right dicine it wasn’t such a fearso disease.

Because of the type of sickness, Millet was willing to risk danger to find the magical herbs that cured her sister.

「That was more important than anything.」

At tis like those, I’m glad I chose to beco an adventurer.

It was pleasant seeing yourself able to help others with the quests you undertake.

「Thank you very much, Mr. Al.」

Millet bowed deeply to .

Collette was lying down, but also said,

「Thanksth, sthoooo much.」

The little girl lisped her appreciation. It was cute.

「Get well quickly, okay?」

I patted Collette on the head. She still had the soft hair of a young child.

「Neh heh heh.」

Her ears, quite large for her head, moved cutely.

We ate the breakfast that Millet had prepared, and as I went ho the village chief was waiting for .

「Sothing wrong?」

「Oh, Alfred. Did you hear those wolves howling last night?」

「Yes, it was sothing!」

「It was a miracle that our village wasn’t attacked last night…could you join us in so wolf hunting in the mountains?」

The chief didn’t know about the magic wolves or how large and powerful Femm was.

Anyway, I didn’t want to have to go on a pointless hunting trip.

「Chief, to be honest, I went to take a look around the forest last night…」

「What? ALONE?! No matter how veteran of a fighter you are, that’s too dangerous!」

The chief got a little too angry.

I had only been a guard one day. This chief was thinking I was so idiot without any idea about consequences…it wasn’t a good feeling.

I hurried to make an excuse.

「No! It’s okay. I’m very good at handling wolves.」

「No matter how good you are, that’s reckless!」

「To be honest, I encountered a group of wolves, and after battle, they decided to withdraw. The also promised never to touch Mulg Village…」

The chief looked at with an obviously suspicious glance.

「There aren’t any wolves here that can talk to humans. There’s no wolf king that could speak to you around here either.」

This guy totally thought I was lying.

「No, no! Really!」

I rembered that Femm had given that huge fang.

「Here! They gave this. I asked it if there was any way that I could put the village at ease…and they gave this.」

「Whaaa?!」

The chief almost collapsed from surprise.

「Eeeeeeeeeek!」

He then scread out and all the villagers quickly gathered around.

「What? What is it?!」

「Here, this fang!」

「Whaaa?」

The villagers looked at the fang with shocked, wide-open eyes.

Then they all turned to , wanting an explanation.

「I can’t believe it!」

Millet ca bouncing along happily and appeared out of nowhere among the villagers.

All the villagers inquired where I had gotten it, and I explained what happened last night from beginning to end. Then,

「That’s…」

「No, but this is…」

「Is it fake?」

「No, it’s real.」

The villagers all talked among themselves.

Millet turned from the still gabbing villagers and said gleefully,

「Mr. Al, that’s really sothing! But, not unexpected from soone like you!」

After a bit, the chief turned to with a bowed head.

「Alfred, sorry for doubting you. I know by the sll. That’s from a wolf king, and it was just freshly removed.」

He knows by the sll? That fact surprised .

The chief must be part beast. A beast-human can distinguish a lot by sll.

「No, don’t worry about it.」

「The wolf king saw you as master and gave you its fang.」

「Hm?」

Master? I never heard it call that.

「300 years ago, there was retired adventurer that ca here. At that ti, the adventurer fought the wolf king and won, and the wolf king gave over its fang.」

「Hm…really…」

Now the story was different. And it was starting to bug .

「S…so, what happened to the wolf king?」

「After the death of the adventurer, I heard that it went off sowhere. Oh, wait one second.」

And just after, the chief took from his house a fang that looked just like Femm’s.

「This is our village’s treasure…from 300 years ago.」

Then,

「Right?」

He said and nodded…then all the other villagers nodded.

「Oh…okay.」

I still didn’t get what this ant.

Millet bounced up to and took my hand.

「It ans that the wolves won’t attack Mulg Village again! You did it again, Mr. Al!」

The villagers were all smiles.

「Alfred…BANZAI!」

While the adults were all cheering, the kids were running around grabbing my clothes.

「Wow, good job ol-man!」

「Yeah! Hez tuff!」

Anyway, I was pleased.

That day, we all had a party at the chief’s house.

For an old man, staying up all night and THEN having to go to a party is rough. But since it was a celebration, I went along with it.

Going along with things is important. Especially when you’re in the country – you can’t just say you’re tired and avoid things like this.

I got back to my house after the sun went down.

Drinking after a late night put at my limit. As soon as I got ho, I collapsed in bed.

And slept.

And…in the middle of the night…

I woke up after feeling a strange sensation.