74 Chapter 4-8 Kukri Village Banquet

When the sun went down for a while, it got a little late, but me and my grandpa went to a banquet that the people of Kukri Village had prepared for us.

The delay in participating entangled the uncles who had already been able to do so, but with the support of their aunts, they gained nothing.

But those aunts are surrounding me and touching my body with pets to confirm something.

And after a glimmer of confirmation, the aunts began to weep in unison.

Uncle Mark, coming from behind, put his hand on my head as I was confused without my head following the sudden unfolding.

"Sorry to suddenly be a gudagda, Tenma. They couldn't believe you were alive."

According to Uncle Mark's story, they all waited in the garden to get ready, completely incredible, but when they just waited to get ready, this time they started having weird tensions.

My uncles, who couldn't stand the air like that, started drinking to distract me, so they were already drunk by the time we got there.

Although the aunts didn't drink alcohol either, they actually saw me and touched me to make sure that the tension thread was broken and they cried out.

"But it was really good. Tenma's alive."

That's what Aunt Martha's been saying, letting me hold one card in my hand.

"This is from Shelia... give it to Tenma..."

It was my mother's guild card, so to speak, a figment.

"Thank you, aunt......"

When I received my mother's card, I retrieved my father's card in a magic bag and went to the same place.

"Whatever, it's a happy day! We're gonna make a scene like old times!

At the head of Uncle Mark, the banquet began.

They hang soundproof magic on Grandpa's house, so everyone drinks and eats thoughtfully, sings and dances like a Kukri Village festival.

There are about forty people here right now. More than half of the villages were sacrificed in that incident, and they were about 90 initially helped.

But then, he said, more than a dozen people lost their lives because of the infections and injuries caused by zombies.

With half of the villagers dying and their houses destroyed, it was impossible to live like the original in Kukri village, so all of them temporarily moved to Russell City for survival, but since they relied on each of their acquaintances and relatives from there, only the people here chose to live in the Wang capital, my uncle told me.

"When I live in the Wang capital, I can see how my life in Kukuri Village didn't cost me money"

But luckily, the majority of the people here are former adventurers, and those who didn't have the experience of going into the woods and hunting in Kukri Village, so they say they have as much money as they can earn if they don't luxury.

While we were talking about that, it gradually became my previous story.

In the meantime, we talked about Slalin and the others, so we got out of the bag and went to the banquet together.

Everyone was quite surprised when they saw Solomon, but by the end of the day he was cooking together because Solomon had grown up.

The banquet then lasted until midnight, but at the end of the day they were all drunk and sleeping in the garden.

I never get drunk because I don't often get drunk from the beginning, but I still fell asleep with Shiloumal as a pillow because of my previous tiredness.

I was able to sleep well that day. Was it about the nostalgic atmosphere?

It seems someone futon me when I fell asleep at some point, and when I woke up in the morning, I held the futon.

The sun was already rising and the area was brighter. The cool hours of the morning are long gone and a little hot.

Almost at the same time I woke up, Shiloumal gained momentum.

"Wong!"

Shiloumal seems to be urging bait, barking out loud and waving his tail.

As I reacted to that voice, I heard groans from around me.

That was like a zombie groan, and I got up for a moment, but when I looked closely, it was the voice of my uncles suffering from hangovers.

"What a voice, you haha!

Such a voice goes up everywhere.

Apparently my aunts are scolding my uncles. I just get more groans every time.

As it is, someone who traveled nearby might notify the Knights...... that house is weird! Say something like...

I want to avoid that on the boulder, so I hand out what worked for the hangover from the medication I had in my bag.

The medication handed out something immediate, so the groan gradually became smaller.

But just to say that the headache with the hangover is lighter, it doesn't work on the bumps in my chest, etc., so my uncles lay down with a little drink of water and soup... it would just be a miracle that I never spit it out.

Against such uncles, the aunts were kerosene... Apparently, Kukuri Village is better equipped as a woman.

While the aunts scold their uncles, they clean up after the banquet, breakfast (lunch?) I'm making and doing it, and in the meantime I'm laughing and colluding.

"Good morning, Tenma... sounds like you're not hungover"

Aunt Martha peeks into my face and confirms, and serves breakfast on a plate.

"Yes, for the tenma! Bread, soup and the rest of yesterday."

When my aunt handed me breakfast, Shiloumal peered into my face from behind me.

It's like, you can use it later, so hurry up! But I said so. Solomon is also lined up behind Shiloumal.

"Shiloumal's the same, but this kid eats a lot too"

Aunties sorting meat and vegetables from the rest of yesterday for the Shiloumals.

Seeing Solomon at first, with surprise, he seemed slightly alert and quite fearful, but now he doesn't seem to care much.

"I mean dragons at first a little... No, I was pretty surprised and scared, but they're cute when you look closely, aren't they? Most importantly, she's prettier than him."

He must be a dragon zombie. I don't have a problem with having that and Solomon with me, but I wouldn't have a choice about that. Rather, as far as I'm concerned, I was surprised by everyone's adaptability.

"With that said, will Tenma live in the King's Capital from now on?

"No, I'm in Wang Capital until the tournament, but then I'm going back to Seigen to plan a dungeon offense"

Answering over breakfast, the aunts looked amazingly complicated.

"Why don't you just live in the king's capital like that!

"Yes! I could have seen you..."

"Let's all live together in the king's capital!

The aunts made a scene trying to convince me.

"Keep it down!

It was the uncles standing up with their heads down that stopped the noisy aunts.

"Tenma's not a little kid anymore! Tenma has the talent to follow dragons, and the future promises to be an adventurer like history... we can decide the future of Tenma at our convenience. Besides, this isn't exactly what Tenma means, so I have to laugh and watch him... instead of them..."

Not only did the aunts calm down on Uncle Mark's words, but the uncles we were trying to persuade together.

In such subtle air, my hitherto forgotten grandfather spoke out.

"Mi, Mizu ~"

... apparently still suffering from hangovers.

However, because of this, I feel that the air is somewhat softer than earlier.

"It's not like we're never gonna see each other again, so we'll drink and eat and make a scene like this when we get a chance. Like old times!

The aunts reluctantly convinced me of my proposal, and for now, they were to support me.

Then, after breakfast, it broke up in three ways, and at the end of the day, me, Grandpa and Uncle Mark and Aunt Martha stayed on the spot.

"So, what's Tenma going to do now?

"You'll gain experience with training and requests for a while. And I plan to participate in a militant tournament."

I have about a month and a half after the tournament.

However, preparations for the festival seem to have begun everywhere in the city, and stories of the festival can be heard in various places.

"Yes... then at least until the end of the festival you'll be in King's Capital, right?

That's what my aunt says and has something on her mind.

Then I gave a little public talk, and my uncles went home.

"Shall we go back to the castle then... Grandpa?

When I looked at Grandpa, who wouldn't talk about anything from earlier, he was suffering from hanging over the roots of a nearby tree... with a hangover...

Apparently, the medicine didn't work and the hangover didn't fit.

Now that I can't walk my grandfather, I decided to carry him inside the room and put him to sleep in the appropriate room.

Just in case, I asked Suralin to see me, and I kept the water and medicine so there would be no problem.

From Grandpa's house to the Royal Castle, there's a little over 10 km in a straight line, and if you're going down the road, there's going to be about 12 km.

The earliest thing to do is fly to the royal castle, but if you do that to a boulder, you're going to have no trouble needing it.

So when the training ran to Royal Castle, there were a lot of people just in the center of this country on the boulder.

I think people have become just a good obstacle and good quality training...... but I get too enthusiastic. When I realized it, I ran to the opposite direction of the entrance and exit of the wall closest to my grandfather's house.

Besides, the gatekeeper who was at the entrance and exit suspected me, and it took me a while.

The fact that I'm a royal guest was helpful because the Knights of the First Knights who happened to be on the street were multiple witnesses, but if they told me to let them in from a child who was sweating and disturbing my breath on a boulder, I would suspect it too.

The gatekeeper apologized but said I didn't care and dived the gate.

Later, I remembered that the Duke of Sanga had given me the crest, and I decided to use it from now on.

It was only three hours after I left my grandfather's house that I arrived at the royal castle with those happenings.

The Royal Castle gatekeeper knew me on the boulder, so he got me inside after a quick confirmation.

When we reached the entrance to the royal castle, Jeanne and Aura greeted us.

"Welcome back, Master Tenma"

"Welcome back"

It's time for the two of you to bow your heads and say hello.

"Dear Tenma, Maria is waiting for you. I'll show you."

That said, Aura leads me.

The appearance is full of discomfort and makes me worry that I ate something weird. And behind my back, Jeanne follows me in silence... honestly, it's creepy.

Are you going to be hiding nearby, or are you also showing signs of Eina?

It was Maria's room upstairs between the sights that brought me here.

The castle, apparently from the upper floors between the sights, is the room of the royals.

"Excuse me, my queen. I've guided you to Tenma."

Aura is knocking on the door. I don't know what I didn't like from nearby Aina, but I felt a slight sign of frustration.

"You can come in."

Maria gave permission to enter the room from inside.

It was then that Aina approached without sound from behind Jeanne.

"Excuse me, Maria. Dear Tenma, go ahead."

Aina opened the door herself and let me through.

"Dear Tenma, I'll borrow Aura and the others."

To Aina, who said so, Jeanne and Aura were blue-faced, but followed Aina without objection or defiance.

"Tenma, come in"

"Excuse me."

Once inside the room, Maria and Isabella were sitting in a chair there.

"Sorry, Tenma. I just wanted to ask you something."

Maria recommended her front seat to me and cut out the story as I got to my seat.

"What will Tenma do now?

"Are we going to? Start by training to martial arts tournaments…"

I tried to talk about my plans for the future while counting my fingers, but that didn't seem to be what Maria wanted to hear.

"It's not the same, Tenma. It's not about that. It's about what we're gonna do in the future. Marriage, specifically."

"Huh? Is it marriage... I haven't thought about it yet... but what's that?

She looked like Maria and Isabella said, "I knew it."

"Mr. Tenma... you, some noblemen are watching you"

"You fought noble opponents in Gunjo City... you must have a bad reputation"

You two seem stunned by my words.

"No nobleman cares about such a trinket. The fact that we are being watched is mainly because we are a nobleman below the Viscount and we have multiple daughters."

"The junior nobles are trying to use it against Tenma's daughter."

I don't like it if you ask me so much... or I can't put it away.

"Mostly in relation to Solomon and the royal family,"

Other than the officials of the Duke of Sanga and the Marquis of Sammons, my prowess as an adventurer would not be well known, so it would be Solomon, the dragon, or the guy who wants connections with the royal family, or the reformist, who wants to take me in.

"Yeah, you're right. Besides, most of them are instructions from nobles who are at the top of their faction… they must be tempered to take in the temper and strengthen their faction a little bit."

Maria seems a little angry.

"So Tenma, won't you marry me? Or you can get engaged!

"Mother-in-law... the way you put it, it's like your mother-in-law is proposing to Tenma."

"That doesn't taste good!... but Tenma. You're royal or factionless and no one has a good woman?

I was asked in such an atmosphere of witch mountain play that for a moment I thought of a woman I had ever known (celibacy only).

"... you're not there. I haven't thought about that before, and..."

That said, the moment I turned to the front, I felt like Maria's eyes lit up for a moment.

"That's right. It was a sudden story... but remember that Tenma has stepped into a world that says so, In some cases, if we don't do something about Tenma being adopted by a royal nobleman, or getting her engaged to a royal next-door wedded, we might get caught up in them."

Did you see the eye wrong earlier, and Maria and the others advised me with a soothing laugh?

After that, we spent some time talking about the lack of deflection, leaving Maria's room behind in about an hour.

"Looks like Tenma's gone..."

"Sounds like it..."

Maria and Isabella spent enough time talking after Tenma left the room to have a cup of tea just in case.

"You saw it right, the face of Tenma when we talked about women!

"Yeah, I was watching it right! That was a face that reminded me of someone!

What Tenma saw, apparently, was not a mistake.

"I don't know who it is, but I know the candidate through prior research!

"The thought of it in the course of that story must have been quite favorable!

"That means that if you think of someone, maybe Tenma can get married... so it could be!

"Yeah, I think there's a better chance than looking from scratch!

The two are thrilled by the story of Tenma. That's already, like a beginner girl...

"This is my idea... but I think Tenma prefers to be older. You see, in Kukri Village, there were only older people."

"But then you might think, on the contrary, you want to adore younger people, or something!

The two show off their thoughts with all sorts of things.

"Well... I guess the first candidate is Primera, the second candidate is Chris, and the third candidate is Leena"

"I think the first candidate is the cat's three sisters, the second candidate is Primera, and the third candidate is Jeanne..."

Each prediction will be announced.

"Doesn't Leena seem like it?

"No, in that kid's case, it might feel like Leena is pushing hard to stay put... and if she makes a mistake, she's going to be a stalker... but isn't it a bad idea to have three first candidates?

"The cat's three sisters are triplets, so I think if we were to get married, we'd have three at the same time! That's Harlem all at once!

The two escalated gradually, saying that Tenma would likely do about three at the same time, or that when we were alone, it was going to be sweet, and finally, I would name Tenma's child, etc., passing the marriage and proceeding to the children's story.

If a stranger saw these two now, he probably wouldn't realize it was the Queen and the Crown Princess.

There was something wrong with what we were talking about and the atmosphere so far.

The two stories went on until I noticed Aina, who came to see how things were going.