Sevens

I look in the mirror, I wear blue hair.

I looked terribly tired in the mirror. Some of the bandages have blood seeping in them, but the wounds are blocked.

There were no traces of burns or medications left.

"How about it, young?

I say thank you to the old man, looking back at the voice he called me from behind.

"Thank you, it's a lot easier."

The old man is a gardener who builds a hut in the garden and works in his dwelling. There seems to be a family, but since your wife died, she's been living alone in the cabin.

In the large garden of the mansion, in a hidden and inhabited place, the cabin seems to have been remodeled a luggage storage warehouse.

"That was good. It was a dangerous place. If I were a doctor at the Mansion, I would have treated you a little more carefully..."

The old man who seems sorry is still the man who was formerly a soldier. Does he also know how to treat injuries and so on? He treats them handily.

What makes it harder for him to say than treat...

"... you were totally abandoned by your parents. Hahaha, I just have to laugh"

Look at me laughing powerlessly, old man - [Zell] sat down in a chair in the room. Zell, another seventies, spends time caring for parts of a large garden.

There are a few gardeners in the mansion, but Zell was the only one who was building and living in the cabin. My parents are having trouble telling Zell, who is serving from my grandfather's age, not to stand back

I've heard Ru several times.

Zell was the one who brought me in to the cabin where I was injured and went straight to sleep for about three days to see me.

I thank you again for sitting on the bed.

"Thank you for your help, Zell. But I can't give it back."

Seeing me joking, Zell exhaled deeply.

"I was relieved that it seemed okay. But it's really strange what's going on here at the mansion these days."

The reason Zell sighed was because the condition of the mansion has changed completely in the last five years.

Sometimes I wonder too, but still often I didn't realize I was in that house.

"The same goes for this one about the young lady, such as taking over the lady... If my predecessors asked me, what did I say that made me furious?"

My grandfather, [Broad Walt], was a strict nobleman. He had the title Count and also had territory as a local nobleman.

That also means you have soldiers.

The Walt family was a royal advisor. When I was a grandfather, my father boasted to me that His Majesty and I had many conversations in the King's capital.

He was just a very tough guy, too.

Strong on the battlefield and committed to internal affairs on the territory.

His Majesty the King of earlier generations has also said that he is a fingerfolding nobleman in Bansaim. I just had a little sweetness for my grandson.

Being my first grandson, I am adored.

"I only have the impression that you're nice to me. I just don't have the face to let you meet me if you don't take over the house."

I betrayed my grandfather, who expected me to. I feel like I'm running out of all my hard work.

I've already lost everything.

"If…. It's not much to hunt yourself down. Young is still young. Live the rest of your life positively."

"Thanks. But I don't have a goal. Until now, my goal has been to become a lord. I don't know what to do when it's gone. You're pathetic."

Laughing in mockery, Zell goes to the kitchen to get up and prepare a drink. I decided to keep my face down and think about what I was going to do.

(I can't stay here anymore. Guess I'll have to go somewhere)

He began to be looked after at Zell's house, and the bandage was removed on the fifth day.

Did you use a lot of expensive medicine? It heals quickly.

But I also felt bad about taking care of Zell forever. Besides, I'm getting kicked out of the house.

I might be annoyed by the Zell I'm hiding.

That's how I cut out on the way to having a conversation with Zell at dinner. Zell's story told me about running around the battlefield with my grandfather, and other stories in the King's Capital.

I tell Zell what I heard at dinner on the third day, remembering.

"Zell, I'm going to be an adventurer."

"Are you an adventurer? Sure, noble children who don't inherit their homes become adventurers, but young people have magic and knowledge. With that amount of skill, you'll get your clerk."

I shake my head to the side.

It could be annoying for a foreman. The Walt family is a big house. That's what power is.

As much as threatening a foreman, that Ceres would have done.

"I lost everything. Then I'm going to get something from scratch."

"... right. If that's the way to be young, then I guess that's good."

"Talking about Zell, if you're a famous adventurer, you don't have trouble with money, do you? One day, I will return this favor. I'll be a fine adventurer when I get back."

"Hahaha, I hope so, young"

Zell laughs out loud.

I guess you're matching my joke. Most importantly, I don't think the profession of adventurer is that easy on the inside.

This was still a sign of the lord.

He also understood the existence of an adventurer so much that he did not like it as a lord. Challenge the unknown and take the treasure back from the labyrinth.

If you ask, your child will admire you, but the fruit of it is only a bunch of rogues.

If an adventurer names a mercenary, he is a mercenary. The mercenary is fine with raiding villages and taking food.

Adventurers are only troublesome for what they usually deal with demons.

However, not everyone is a bad person.

If you are a famous adventurer, you can be a servant with good treatment. They hire and entertain mercenaries because of their abilities, such as adventurers who work side by side.

"But are you an adventurer? When it comes to the real world, the free city [Beim] looks good."

I take Zell's words seriously.

"Baym? That was a merchant's council city without a lord. It was supposed to be a place of business with another country?

"That's why. It's not controlled by the state, and it's a land that's easy for adventurers to live in. But that's something I could tell the criminals."

Many become criminals from adventurers. When that happens, he will be banished from the Adventurer Alliance and will be the prize neck.

But when you flee to Baym, the place of business with another country, no country is able to reach the surface. I heard about it, but I was just a little carried away when it came to actually going for land like that.

Looks like Zell got a feel for it.

"You don't have to worry too much about it. Unless you go somewhere where they're hanging out, they're rarely involved."

"Oh well. I thought it would be a good idea for Wangdu..."

The Adventurer Guild also exists in the Walt family territory. But my father, the lord, can interfere, so we have to avoid it.

When that happened, I had to choose a place in the country where my father had no influence. Thinking of Sole, it was simply the king's capital.

"There are many houses in the royal clan of the King's Capital that are associated with our home. It's not bad, but it's not the best."

"Right. But there's roadblocks to get to Baim. And I just want to know how far my strengths go."

Beim is a city of merchants. At the same time, there are many adventurers in search of work. In other words, it also meant that you wouldn't survive if you weren't handsome.

"Sure. Well, maybe it's a hand to go to Wang Capital once. I wouldn't recommend a very long stay."

"If it's not Wang Du, where is it?

I decided to talk to Zell about this. With my grandfather, Zell, who ran around the battlefield, knew all sorts of places.

I had never had a conversation before, but I was an old man who told me interesting stories when I talked to him.

"How about [Darion] close to the king's capital? It's a good place to live."

"Darion? I've only heard about the place names."

"As a territory, we are lagging behind here. For that matter, it must be essential to your job."

"Work? Aren't you exorcising demons?

When I said that, Zell was a little stunned holding his head down.

"Well, you don't really have to teach the world to young people, so maybe you don't have a choice."

Zell tells me I'm an adventurer. In my image, it was primarily adventurers diving into the labyrinth and sometimes fighting on the battlefield as mercenaries.

But Zell says...

"It is a presence that does any job, such as an adventurer. It was at first that I was challenging demonic exorcisms and labyrinths, but it's still a lot of chores. Young people make money for chores and buy gear."

"Oh, really? But there will be people who specialize in chores."

"Around there, we'll put a recruit on the guild to do a day job. Well, that's good offices for work. That's how the Alliance cares about its neighbors. You can also say that you make money by being a husband."

Zell tells me the side of the adventurer he doesn't want to hear. After all, I guess everything doesn't always work out.

"But with those downloads, adventurers gear up. It's not all bad, so you'll have more trouble blaming adventurers than guilds."

"Is that what this is about? I don't know."

Having been educated to be a lord, it's definitely a world I can't imagine. Just a little bit. Zell seemed happy.

"What's up?

"No, I've served since my predecessors, but I never thought I'd talk to a young man like this. My lord today has been a member of the Count's family since birth."

On behalf of my grandfather, the Walt family is finally the Count's.

In his previous generation, he had been slapped in the pussy saying he had bought his status by doing quite a few scattering. That was something my father still regretted.

My father's grandfather, my great-grandfather, was apparently someone who took pretty dirty steps.

There is also a history of that, and my father has been educated by birth as a person in the Count family. My grandfather was the head of the Viscount family, but he still leads the army in battle.

When that happens, Zell seems to have no contact at all.

"... Sometimes young, have you had any strange experiences in this House?

"Strange experience? No...... ah!

I almost answered Zell's sudden question that there was nothing. Compared to being kicked out of the house, I feel like most things are nothing.

But I remember.

"Is it the abyss of death? I heard your grandfather. It was a nostalgic voice.... but other than that, I heard voices. I might have dreamed about it."

I was dreaming, so I started eating again.

Then Zell looked at me with her eyes open.

The next morning.

I wear the clothes I borrowed from Zell and weave my robes.

"It was the clothes my son left behind, but the back length fits."

"I'm sorry for everything. I'm sure I'll pay you back."

Thanking you, Zell shakes her neck to the side.

"No, you've already returned enough. And young. This way."

That's what they gave me, a leather bag. The palm-sized leather bag contains money.

"No, receiving money is..."

A tiny amount for me, but not for Zell, I guess. I understand you feel different about money, so I refuse to accept it. But Zell pushed me.

"You'll definitely need it. What are you going to do now without a sentence? Besides, if you can give it back, I'll take it as an investment."

That's what they say, and I'll thank you and take it.

The contents were silver coins.

"Wow, I'm sorry. From what to what"

"It's okay. Now I can finally fulfill my promise to my predecessors."

"Promise?"

When I snap my neck, Zell gives me the little crate and opens it right in front of me. There was a blue ball in it.

Silver ornaments are applied around it, which at first glance can be seen to be an expensive piece of fine work.

"No, this expensive stuff on a boulder..."

"This is the ball that my predecessors, no...... the Walt family has inherited from generation to generation. Hideki for Fine Work

They say a small amount of metal was used, the famous blacksmith worked out, and the famous craftsman finished it. "

I see a sole decorated with balls of about two centimeters straight.

"Grandfather's? I knew I did have it, but my father didn't inherit it it.

or? "

"My predecessors were decorated so that the Earl's family deserved it, but at an untimely time he died... in the stage of embedding the balls in the finish, I went to make sure and took them with me. But I didn't get to meet Master Meisel."

My father is busy too.

For this reason, even though it is not important to be a minister, we sometimes do not meet. Not to mention, if that was Zell, which was a troubled species, it would be even more so.

I take the ball necklace out of the crate.

Balls - Now that the manufacturing method has been lost, Sole is a memory of the skills that occur to individuals. Details have now been replaced and lost by simple artifacts.

One skill an individual generates in a lifetime. Even if you can polish it up, you can't increase it.

It is the balls that have remembered such skills and made them available to others.

"Besides, I can't give it to my current owner, Mr. Meisel. It is my discretionary judgment, but this is young...... Lady Lyell will take it with you. Doing so will also repay your predecessors"

When I put the necklace around my neck, I grip the balls.

"... thank you so much, Zell. I'm sure one day you'll return the favor."

"I hope so, Master Lyell"

That's what I said, I'm leaving Zell's cabin behind.

Zell looked over to see that the room he had felt narrow in the past six days had suddenly grown larger.

Once upon a time, the house where the family lived was also a lair visited with booze by previous generations of Broad from time to time.

Zell shrugs as she leaves the city to see the painting of his wife she had painted.

"Hey, grandma. I've got a load on my shoulder."

As I lay down on the bed, I wore a blanket and closed my eyes.

"But I didn't know Master Broad and his preferences went hand in hand. He liked boiled meat, too."

What Zell remembers is how the house looked when it was busy.

And I remember when Broad gave Zell such a ball that he had inherited from generation to generation. He was older than himself, and at the end of the day he slept.

Zell wept at Broad's weak appearance, which was both dignified and admirable.

"You knew you wouldn't make it to the finish. I don't know why you asked me... but now you've done your part, Master Broad."

When I was young, memories of running the battlefield for my sake can be brought back to Zell.

"But at the end of the day I could hand it to Master Lyell and it was really good...... Grandma, I'm going that way now"

The old man takes a deep breath only once and smiles peacefully.

When I left the mansion and arrived in the city, the heart of the territory, I was talking to a pedestrian at the gates of the walls surrounding the city.

After noon, I can reach the lodging town if I can get a ride to the wagon that I'm leaving now.

"Accommodation Town? Nothing good, but the arrival is at night, and I don't know if the room is empty. I have a story to tell and I can stay, but this time of year I'll be in."

The pedestrian shows difficulty, but if you take it from me, it's the land you want to leave at once.

"That's okay. Can you give me a ride?

"I don't mind, but can you fight? If you don't, I'll give you the money to get in the carriage."

The pedestrian tells me to flame my hands flat.

I've lost my Sabel, but if it's magical, I can use it. This would have shown me to be strong enough to protect myself.

"Surprised. As a wizard, are you a nobleman? No, to see the fit...... whoa, that was an extra pry. Okay. If you can escort my carriage as a priority, I won't charge you. Rather, depending on your work, we'll give you the money."

A middle-aged man admits to giving me back my hand and putting me on.

"Thank you. I was just ahead of you in Inn Town."

Then there's a voice to block the conversation between me and the pedestrian.

Looking back, someone I knew well stood there.

"Oh, that! Take me too!

Girl featuring side ponies.

"... Nowem"

Her name when she leaned down was [Nowem Foxz].

She is the second daughter of the Baron family.

And the girl who used to be my fiancée.