Volume 5 - CH 2

Act 5-2: The Misunderstanding of The Youths

East End―― Neo City-Ket Guy

Currently scenario: we just returned to Ket Guy from Neutral Academy city, Babel.

Originally, the school and academic life was supposed to start around one month after the combination entrance exam but, thanks to Gilbert and vice headmaster folly, and the aftermath of shock following Inea’s retirement, the entirety of departments of Babel  were paralyzed. As a result, Babel didn’t have the leeway to take care of the entrance ceremony and other academic activity and decided to suspend all academic activity for half a year.

Thus we, who had nothing to do, decided to go back to Ket Guy.

Originally, we were the only ones supposed to return, but Somni and Tetle, who decided to break free from their past, asked me to start their training as soon as possible. Zack, who was in high spirits seeing his junior disciple’s request, also asked me to train them immediately.

I didn’t have any reason to refute, so I took them with us back to Ket Guy.

By the way, Lyla and Lumine decided to stay in Babel. Lyla even told me, with a heavy tone, to visit her as much as possible, thus I would have to come back and forth to Babel fairly often during this holiday period.

It wasn’t the first time for Lyla to push such forceful demand on me either, in fact she often did that to me. Well, it wasn’t such big deal since it took only a moment for me to go between Babel and Ket Guy with Asta’s teleportation ability.

Though the two youth were dumbfounded for a while upon seeing the town being magically remodeled by Alice and co from 【Lost Forest】, they started looking curiously at every part of the town.

Surely, upon a closer look, this kind of spectacle was never seen before in Amelia kingdom.

Buildings of various shapes, stone tiles that are laid out regularly for the main road. Park with a water fountain, even a large public bath. This town didn’t fall behind Babel, the pioneer of technology in this world.

And due to its overwhelmingly small population, the structures could be placed neatly.

「This is the city governed by Shifu!」

Somni shouted a waaay off the mark declaration.

Zack observed them with a proud look on his face, he might be the one who whispered that nonsense to Somni and Tetle, I mean, they ended up calling me Shifu too. Since they didn’t seems to be willing to stop even if I told them to stop calling me “Shifu”, I had no choice but to compromise and told them to call me “Kai” when we’re outside Ket Guy. Honestly speaking, I didn’t really care about how they wanted to call me. But it was bound to cause not-so-trivial problems outside, especially when we’re close to my old acquaintances, childhood friends, or relatives.

「Nay, what kind of misunderstanding is that? The ruler of this city is ROSE, not me.」

I’m serious. Just what kind of logic that made them to arrive to conclusion that I was the ruler of this town? The one who made them think this way must be Zack. When I glared to him,

「I’m not lying to them, I just stated a matter of fact about Shifu to them.」

Zack said so with indifferent voice and then drank the specially brewed liquor he got from Nemea. That liquor was a special reinforcement agent that was jointly developed by Nemea and the drunkards. To be honest, I got the feeling that it wasn’t your average liquor since they were really fired up when they developed the thick liquid. Well, I guess there was no problem with its safety since they recognized Zack as my disciple. Zack himself seems to be enjoying the liquor.

「Then how did they reach such conclusion if you’re telling the truth…」

Hearing Asta muttered so while squinting her eyes as she looking at Somni and Tetle,

「I’m also curious about that.」

Rose shrugged her shoulders as she nodded upon hearing Asta’s remark.

「Anyhow, the master of this city is not me, it’s that chinchikurin(shorty) princess over there.」

「What do you mean by “Chinchikurin princess”?」

I ignored the princess who asked with face of someone that was on the verge of exploding from anger, something that a princess would never show in the public.

「The ruler of this East End is Rose. Not me.」

「But, I saw Shifu’s statue in front of a church-like building that over there.」

「WHAT!?」

The moment I heard an extremely ominous remark from Tetle, I unintentionally looked toward the only church in this city.

「W-What in the hell is that?」

I saw several citizens of the city praying in front of my stone statue, led by Girimekhala.

「It is just as Our Supreme Ruler-sama has said. The one who rules this city is Rose-sama. Our Supreme Ruler-sama is too great to be bound by trivial status such as king! HE IS OUR GOD! YES! HE’S OUR ABSOLUTE, INVIOLABLE SUPREME RULER!」

Seeing Lucas who heard our conversation from the side gave his opinion,

「FOOL, TAKE THAT BACK, LUCAS! MASTER IS OUR SUPREME KING!」

Suddenly, a blonde-haired man with a buzz cut took a step forward from a group of people wearing red-coloured baggy attire with tattoos of crow and sun―― Oboro.

「The same goes for you, Oboro, your remark is blasphemy to Supreme Ruler-sama.」

Seeing Lucas refuse to budge, he told him to change his remark instead,

「WE REFUSE! THE ONLY ONE QUALIFIED TO BE THE OWNER OF THIS CITY IS OUR SUPREME RULER! WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT ANYONE OTHER THAN HIM!」

Oboro glared, clearly taking an offence.

The other members didn’t give any particular reaction seeing the two people glaring at each others. Anna went with Faf and Myu to wash their hands, Zack yawned with a bored look on his face.

「See that?」

Rose shrugged her shoulders, smiling impishly as she said so.

「You…」

So this chinchikurin(shorty) princess had actually used this chance to get her revenge on me huh. What a petty girl!

Anyhow, that stone statue was clearly the source of this misunderstanding. Let’s get rid of it later.

「Anyhow, I’m Rose’s royal guard. To be exact, her advisor.」

I had no idea whether they were going to accept this explanation or not but, I’m afraid that explaining even further would be brought about another huge misunderstanding. So let’s change the topic before this talk went to the worst direction.

「So, what’s Felis doing right now?」

「Milady had to manage the city expansion in the future. Therefore, she has many things to learn.」

Guessing from Lucas’ singing-like tone, I guess she wasn’t in pleasant situation. Well,  the member of subjugation picture book that I asked to train Felis was really on fire, and Lucas had already regarded Felis as his own daughter. I guess there was nothing to worry about her.

「I want to discuss our plan for the next half year. Tell the representative of each division in this city to gather in the city lord’s mansion.」

The previous meeting was interrupted halfway due to Babel’s entrance exam. We had to decide at least one future policy.

「HA!」

Lucas bowed respectfully after he heard my order, and then vanished from where he stood.

「Well then, let’s go.」

We led Somni and Tetle who watched the previous exchange toward city lord’s mansion.