Volume 5 Chapter 2: The City of Drintor

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Author: 夜州 (Yashu)

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“Good morning, Cain-sama!”

“Morning, Cain-kun!”

“Morning, Teles, Silk.”

In their school uniforms, Telestia and Silk waved to Cain, greeting him.

“Morning, Cain.”

“Morning, Lil.”

Next to the two girls, Liltana smiled.

S-Class had twenty-one students in it, but in the end, only sixteen of them were to go to Ilstin.

Due to the trip taking over a month, quite a long time, some students couldn’t go due to family matters.

The academy had provided five carriages, and the students were divided up with four students per carriage.

The remaining carriage would carry the three teachers accompanying them.

“–– Why am I here…?”

Cain would be riding in the same carriage as Telestia, Silk, and Liltana.

“Weeeeell…”

Telestia and Silk looked at each other, smiling.

(Those two definitely pulled some strings here…)

No matter how much it was said that rank of nobility didn’t matter in the school, the teachers wouldn’t disagree with a request from a member of the royal family.

Not to mention the king personally asking Cain to guard the three of them.

And then, it was Duke Eric who was the supervisor of the school.

As such, it was no surprise, seeing where the instructions had come from.

Cain sighed, thinking it couldn’t be helped.

As the four of them chatted, waiting to be allowed to get in the carriage, a voice called out to Cain from behind.

“Heeey! Cain, long time no see!”

Cain turned around and smiled.

“It has been a long time indeed. Are you all doing well?”

Standing there were, Claude, Lina, Milly, and Nina.

“Oho! How’ve you been doing? So the highly-urgent designated request from the country was… babysitting you? Pffft what.”

*Slaaaaaap*

Lina hit Claude’s head from behind.

“Hey, I told you, Cain…-sama is a noble! What are you saying to a count!”

Chuckling at the two’s back-and-forth, Milly and Nina stepped forward to Cain.

Before they knew it, Cain, who in the past had had to look up at them, had caught up to them in height.

“Cain, you’ve grown up quite a lot. You were this small, and now you’re overtaking us.”

“Yeah, Cain’s grown up quite a lot. Now I can become his mi––”

Cain spontaneously held Nina’s mouth shut before she could finish speaking.

Every time she started speaking, Nina said something along the lines of ‘mistress’.

While Cain was relieved at having stopped her before she could say the word, Cain felt chills prickle his back.

Cain fearfully turned around slowly, and –– there were two evil demons standing there.

Even Liltana was looking at Cain with a cold gaze.

“Cain-sama, we need to have a quick talk.”

“Cain-kun, let’s have you sit up straight, shall we?”

“Please let me listen to a careful explanation as well.”

For some reason, Cain was taken behind the carriage and made to sit up straight as punishment.

“Those people are the ones who came to teach us at school previously, right? Cain-sama, why do you get along with them so well?”

Cain, sitting up straight, explained that they had been his private tutors when he had been little.

“–– Is that so. I have come to understand the situation. However, Cain-sama, we will be going to a foreign country. Please be careful.”

“–– Okay…”

The three of them were reluctantly convinced by Cain’s frantic explanation.

“But, she tried to say ‘mistress’ earlier, didn’t she? Cain-kun?”

At Silk’s words, the sermon resumed, and continued right up until they were to leave.

The carriage was made to seat six people.

Telestia, Silk and Liltana sat on the forward-facing side, while Cain sat opposite them, alone.

At first, Telestia and Silk tried to sit on either side of Cain, but he resolutely refused.

Cain was relieved that he was able to convince them to consider Liltana’s perspective as well without much difficulty.

“But, it’s like a dream, we’re going to spend over a month together with Cain-sama.”

“True true, Cain’s almost never around.”

“That’s… I’m the lord of a territory, so I have to go watch over Drintor, don’t I?”

“Oh, right, our first city is Drintor, isn’t it. Cain-sama’s city. I’m looking forward to it.”

The Republic of Ilstin was north of Esfort. To get there, one had to pass through many towns, but for some reason, they would be taking a detour and going to Drintor this time round.

There had been a notification from the school that they would be going to see the city of Drintor, which had undergone remarkable growth and development as of late, as it would be useful for their futures, but Cain usually walked around the city in commoner’s, noble’s or sometimes adventurer’s clothes.

While he had a lot of acquaintances, he had never shown them his school uniform.

On the way, they stayed the night in the staging outpost, and arrived in Drintor the next afternoon without anything happening.

For the past week or so, Cain, as the lord, had arranged for monster hunting requests in the vicinity, so they met no monsters at all.

“We’re nearly in Drintor. It’s just coming into view.”

Came a voice from the escorts.

Telestia’s group opened their carriage’s window, and let out amazed voices upon seeing Drintor’s outer wall.

“Cain-sama, is that Drintor? Isn’t it… even more splendid than… the royal capital?”

“Amazing! It’s the first time I’ve ever seen such beautiful pure white outer walls!”

“Even in the Empire, such a beautiful outer wall is…”

The three of them spoke their thoughts out loud.

As the city’s population hadn’t stopped growing, Cain had expanded the walls again.

He had expanded the city in all four cardinal directions, and the wall was now around ten meters high.

Taxes were paid properly to the country, not to mention a lot of taxes, and as such no inspections came to Drintor from the royal capital.

Taking advantage of this, Cain had used his vast amount of magical power to remodel the city.

With Cain’s magical power and Lula’s knowledge on architecture, Alec had already resigned himself to this.

Cain’s carriage was the fourth in the line of five.

Cain had left the arrangements for the inn and such to Alec, but he was still somewhat worried.

As the first carriage went through the gates, cheers rose from inside the city.

Wondering what was going on, Cain peeked out of the window.

And outside––––

Soldiers had lined up on either side of the wide, cobblestone-paved road, with a huge mass of citizens behind them waving flags and cheering in unison.

Likely over ten-thousand citizens had gathered there.

Everyone, from children to grown-ups had flags, and shouted cheers toward the carriages.

“W-What the hell is this––––!!”

Cain shouted unintentionally.

“Cain-sama… isn’t this a bit overkill…?”

“I’m happy to be welcomed like this and all, but this, it’s more spectacular than the royal capital, isn’t it?”

“But it’s Cain being welcomed, after all?”

Cain broke out in a cold sweat at the trio’s words.

He hadn’t been told anything about this. And not for nothing.

The teachers accompanying them were also confused.

Meanwhile, Claude, who was escorting them, went up to Cain’s carriage and called out to him.

“Cain, this is amazing. It’s your city. It’s my first time getting such a welcome.”

Claude said, roaring with laughter, making Cain chuckle weakly.

Being cheered at, the students waved from their carriages at the citizens.

Telestia and Silk also showed themselves in the window, waving, at which the cheers became even louder.

“The Princess-sama is also here! Wooo!”

“Long live the Kingdom of Esfort! Long live Cain-sama!”

While voices of welcome resounded out over the city, Cain decided to give a serious talking-to to the ones who had come up with this plan.

The carriage at the very front rolled along, guided by the lord’s soldiers.

The carriages headed through the city, towards the lord’s residence.

“––––Don’t tell me…”

Cold sweat trickled down Cain’s back.

The academy’s carriages were guided to the lord’s residence, entering the grounds.

Then, they stopped in front of the lord’s residence.

Standing in front of the building was Alec in the very middle, and, with Darmeshia at the front, followed by Koran and Silvia, who seemed to have come all the way from the royal capital, as well as the rest of the servants, all lined up.

The students and teachers getting out of the carriages, as well as their escorts all looked stunned.

Getting out of their carriage in the same fashion, Telestia, Silk, and Liltana also had similar expressions.

–– Then, Telestia glanced at Cain with a tense expression.

“––––Cain-sama, why–––– is there a castle even more splendid than the one on the royal capital here…?”

The carriages had stopped in front of –– the lord’s residence, a mansion even more splendid than the royal castle in the royal capital.

At those words, Cain heaved a huge sigh while thinking ‘I knew they’d say that’.

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TN: the ‘sitting up straight (as punishment)’ is a seiza, but as I’ve been translating dogeza as ‘xy prostrated themselves’, I englished seiza as well

also, yeah, I’m changing Drintor’s designation from town to city because it seems to fit more now

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