Volume 4 - CH 5

cnine6-8 minutes 03.07.2021

Act 4-5: Beast Domestication

After arriving at Gilbert and co.’s table, I poured water in the jug on Gilbert’s head.

「WAH!?」

Everyone in the restaurant was dumbfounded. Strangely enough, only Faf’s sound of moving her cutlery could be heard in this unnatural silence.

「YOU BASTAAARD! DO YOU REALIZE WHAT DID YOU DO JUST NOW!?」

The knight in pure white armor, Gilbert’s escort, drew his sword and pointed it at me.

「What’s the matter? Is that all you can do?」

I beckoned him with my left-hand.

「BRAT! I’LL LOP OFF YOUR LIMBS AND DRAG YOU TO THE OFFICER FOR YOR DISRESPECT TOWARD HIS HIGHNESS!!」

The knight swung his sword aiming for my right shoulder, while spewing that unknightly remark. It seemed this guy was serious. This would be a fatal wound to any teenager, that is not considering dragging one on the road.

「I guess it just shows how much of a low-life you are.」

I caught his sword with my right-hand.

「WHAT THE!?」

I swewt his feet while he was in shock, his body spun in mid-air. He landed on the floor right on his face and the sound of his nose breaking echoed in the entire restaurant.

I kicked the young knight, who groaned in pain, to his side and trampled the side profile his face.

「Asta, give me some skewers and an empty plate.」

I gave an order to Asta.

「Roger.」

Hearing my order, Asta grinned from ear to ear. She then took an unused plate and wooden skewers and threw those towards me.

Catching the plate with my left-hand, and the skewers with my right, I used the skewers to pierce the young knight’s cheeks, and stepped on the skewer to sew him down on the floor.

The entire restaurant was stirred again when I did so, while I ignoring all the noise and picked up Gilbert’s spilled dish and placed it on the unused plate in my left-hand, and headed toward Gilbert and co.

「Out of my way.」

I glared at the red-haired youth who sat beside Gilbert, and ordered him to out of my way.

「…」

I saw the red-haired youth looking up to me without moving an inch,

「I said―― OUT, OF, MY, WAY!」

I put more pressure in my voice.

「Y-YES!」

The red-haired youth tumbled over from his chair as he tried to get away from me. It seems he had yet to understand his situation. I then sat on Gilbert’s side, who was staring at me with dumbfounded look on his face, and placed the soppy dish that he threw away previously right in front of him.

「NOW EAT, THE, DISH!」

I ordered him to eat the dish.

「D-DON’T MESS WITH ME! AS IF I’M GOING TO DO THAT!」

I seized the flushed, red-faced Gilbert by his collar.

「Now, listen clearly! I actually don’t mind if someone says a dish is horrible. Everyone has their own preference, and that will be the source of input for the chef’s growth. But, that’s only in the case where they said their impression after they TRY THE DISH. AND THAT’S NOT APPLIED IN YOUR CASE! NOW EAT, AND DON’T YOU DARE SPIT THE FOOD! DO NOT WASTE FOOD! That’s the most basic rule in society. And you, have broken that rule. That’s why you have to face the consequence. Understand? 」

I admonishing him.

「H-HOW DARE YOU! I’M THE FIRST PRINCE OF AMELIA KINGDO――」

Since his remark made me more frustrated, I let go of his collar, grabbed his head, and shoved his face right in the plate with the soppy dish.

「I don’t care. Eat first before you complain. I’ll let you go after you finish the dish.」

「MOGAGUGE!」

I ignored Gilbert’s shameful wails and kept pressing his face on the plate.

Yeah, even if he ended up suffocating due to this. A few minutes later, Gilbert, who finally realized his situation, started eating the soppy dish.

And then――

「Kai-kun, I think that should be enough.」

I turned around to the voice calling out to me with a dumbfounded look, a blue-haired man with an unshaven face, carrying a greatsword on his back was standing behind me.

「Oh, so you’re in this city too, Al.」

I turned my face as I replied raising my free left-hand.

「Yeah, this place happened to be the place for a troublesome, yet important meeting.」

Arnold replied, shrugging his shoulders.

Thanks to Arnold’s appearance, the youths who followed Gilbert couldn’t do anything but cry and hide behind Arnold’s figure.

But well, it seems there was an exception. The freckled youth was the only one who tried to stop me by properly apologizing for Gilbert’s misbehaviour, despite the fact he had been trembling for a while.

「So, can you stop already?」

「Yeah, I guess this much is enough for beast domestication.」

I really did feel that this was enough since the freckled youth did apologize properly, so I had to give him some face. In addition, around two-thirds of the dish on the plate had been eaten. I guess this should be enough as a lesson for this idiot prince.

After releasing Gilbert, I pulled out the skewers from the young knight under my feet and sprinkled an Advanced-grade potion on his wound, which healed his cheeks in no time. And since I used Advanced-grade potion, it wouldn’t even leave a scar behind. I mean, in most cases, these annoying nobles would come to find trouble with me in near-future by using these scars as a pretext.

And then, as soon as I thought so, that very young knight immediately stood on his feet, pointing at me with his trembling finger,

「Knight leader Arnold, this guy injured me, and worse of all, he disgraced his highness by pouring water on them and even dared to――」

The young knight appealed to Arnold with desperate look on his face.

「Injury? Where?」

「Just a while ago in this very place, you saw it too right! He stabbed my cheeks with skewers!」

「Well, I don’t see any of that. What about you, minister of military affairs?」

Arnold asked the tall dandy man who was fidgeting with his Kaiser beard.

「I also saw nothing.」

The other party also replied instantly.

「HAH!? Y-You people――」

「Well, that matter aside, senior knight Tamri, we received the report of your group making a ruckus in this place. You must never forget that this place isn’t Amelia kingdom! Your misbehaviour today has disgraced your motherland! Shame on you!」

After throwing that harsh criticism, Arnold carried prince Gilbert, who still had a dumbfounded face mixed with tears and mucus,

「You lot, come with us as well!」

Arnold ordered the rest of Gilbert’s followers to follow him.

「Well then, see you later, Kai-kun.」

He waved his right hand and left the restaurant along with the minister and the troublemakers.

In the end, only the freckled youth bowed politely to me before leaving the restaurant along with Arnold and the others.

===

TN: Next chapter is 26/07/2022