Undesirable Friend

AN:

I somehow managed to finish this chapter, and this is also the third chapter in a row. Please take note. Thanks to all of you, I was able to take this webnovel to the 11th place in the daily ranking. Because I was happy, I worked hard. Really, thank you very much!

TN: Remember, I’m just translating author’s note above. I said nothing above.

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"But, well, I didn't expect you guys to come down from the mountain. I'm glad you wanted to see my face so badly."

“I didn't come down here just to see you.”

“Exactly.”

Sazaki, who had stayed overnight at the inn, smiled at Ferad and Elrika while walking around town, thinking that their friendship was worth it, but the two of them were a bit sloppy in their reply.

"I know, I know. You wanted to see me as much as right after your great-grandchildren. Being at second spot is good enough."

Sazaki, however, did not seem to mind at all, shaking the sake bottle in his hand.

"You want to see Lara the most, don't you?"

"Ohhhh... you've really got me stumped... what kind of face should I make now? Seriously embarrassing."

But Ferad's reply almost made the laughing Sazaki sneeze.

"Why did you start talking about inheritance in the first place?"

"It's my lifetime mistake. I entrusted my disciple with a will that wrote about my inheritance and so on, but I completely forgot to convey the important part of the will. That's why it went straight to Lara as a letter. She sent me a magic message and told me that a will is supposed to be sent out after death. Do you know how I felt about that? I don't have any memories of blowing out all the booze I was drinking or anything like that by the way."

(It's not just about the inheritance it seems.)

(I'm sure he wrote something about loving her.)

Sazaki answers Elrica's question with a look of utter weakness on his face.

However, Ferad and Elrica, who did not think that Sazaki would be so distraught simply because he had written a suicide note, conversed with each other via eyes only, and deduced the correct answer.

The old woman, Lara, and Sazaki have a rather strange marital relationship, having remained together for a long time and now living in different cities. They certainly love each other, and Sazaki even wrote in his will that he loved her.

However, Sazaki wrote the will because he thought he would be dead by then when the will was delivered. Even if it was read, he could only say that he was ashamed.

(Did Sazaki actually have a sense of shame too?)

Ferad feels a little fresh when he sees his friend in unusual agony. That was the biggest mistake of his life for Sazaki.

“It's good that husband and wife are getting along so well, isn't it, grandpa?”

"Yes, it is.”

"Hohoho!"

"Hoh hoh hoh!"

"You two have been talking whatever you want...!"

Elrica smiles elegantly and Ferad smiles cheerfully, but only Sazaki sports a pouty look on his face.

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"Hey, it's me. Give me a ride."

Sazaki left the city and approached a horse-drawn carriage he sometimes uses to travel to the city his wife is at.

"Yeah? It's been a long time, old man. I thought you kicked the bucket."

"Hmph...As if I’ll die so easily. Oh, and take my friends for the ride too."

“You got friends?”

“Comrades that going to die soon.”

“I see.”

“I’ll trouble you.”

“Pleased to meet you.”

“Welcome aboard.”

Together with Sazaki, who is exchanging pleasantries with his familiar coachman, Ferad and Elrica also get on the coach. The horses in the carriage are also golems.

"This carriage is also using a golem horse, isn't it?"

“The heck, so you knew. Oh right, you mentioned you rode one until here.”

“Yeah. As expected, it’s a good era now. Don’t you think so, Sazaki.”

“...hey, Ferad. Can I just say what just crossed my mind?”

“Hmm?”

“I feel very uncomfortable with your old man's way of speaking. It’s to the point I feel sick.”

"Leave me alone. You've hardly changed since we first met, and you're still the same."

“I’m youn-”

“You’re not young at heart, you just haven’t grown up at all.”

“Th-that’s the only think I could say.”

“Don’t you get it. As expected, you still haven’t matured at all since you’re so easily read.”

“Then let me return your words exactly. Leave me alone.”

Ferad and Sazaki’s jokes are this trivial.

The two of them, best friends and comrades-in-arms, have survived the dark ages together, and have overcame them until now, but the exchanges are just like back in those days.

"Ahahaha. You haven't changed at all."

Despite becoming wrinkled old men, Ferad and Sazaki, who remained unchanged from the past mischievous brats. Elrika reminisced about those times as she laughed elegantly.

『Watch this, Elrika! We'll bring back that clear blue sky! Right, Sazaki?』

『I have to create a world where all the alcohol artisans can work after all.』

『You were drinking again, weren’t you?』

『I have no such recollection.』

"Hohohoho."

While remembering the youthful days of running recklessly.

"Well then, let's set off!"

While the two old men were playfully wrestling, the other passengers got on the carriage, and as the scheduled time arrived, the golem carriage began to move.

The destination of the group is the magical city of Margard.

It's a city where golem carriages were created and a scholarly city where cutting-edge magical technology is researched.

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Bonus

Clovis the “Swordsman”

Is the completed "self" or the inherited "tradition" better? Different warriors might have different answers to which is right. But at the very least, among his disciple siblings and disciples, no one underestimates Clovis.

Carl the “Potential”

The future. The potential. Ah, what wonderful words. And what tremendous ones.

Sazaki the "Godspeed Sword Saint"

The young Sazaki brandished an empty bottle as if testing a child's hypothesis. If one could swing a sword faster than anyone else, could that not be one of the strongest? It turned out to be correct.

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Author’s Note(AN) :

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