Author: 夜州 (Yashu)
One week after it had been decided that Cain would be heading to the Holy Country of Marineford. A number of church knights and adventurers would be accompanying the bishop to Marineford as bodyguards.
“Yo, Cain. Long time no see!”
“You idiot!! Don’t talk to a margrave-sama like that!!”
It was Claude who called out to Cain casually, and Lina who hit him on the head for doing so. Behind them were Milly and Nina, smiling.
Three groups of adventurers, twelve in total, would be accompanying the bishop to the Holy Country of Marineford alongside other bodyguards. The country would be paying the adventurers, and during a meeting with the guild, Cain had suggested Claude and co. as trustworthy adventurers, and they had been chosen.
As power-wise, Claude and Lina were A-Rank, and Milly and Nina were both B-Rank, they got permission without much hassle. And especially with their achievement of protecting the princess during the attack incident in Ilstin, the four were quickly approved by the king.
“Claude-san! Long time no see. I’m glad you accepted the request.”
“Weeeell. It was a designated request from the Kingdom, and I heard you’d also be here, so there’s no way I can’t accept it, is there?”
Rubbing his head where it had been hit, Claude smiled, and Cain smiled back at him.
“Cain…-sama? It has been a long time. I’m glad to see you’re doing well.”
“Long time no see, Cain.”
Milly was confused on how to treat Cain, who was now the head of a higher-ranking noble family, while Nina’s expression didn’t change at all, as always.
“I’m coming along as an adventurer this time, so just call me Cain, as you have up until now. I’d appreciate that.”
Cain would be accompanying them as an adventurer. Claude’s group of four and Cain had accepted the request as a temporary party of five.
Milly breathed a sigh of relief at Cain’s unchanged attitude.
“Got it. I thought you might start acting like a higher-ranked noble due to becoming one. Well, I’ll just call you Cain then, as I have until now.”
“Mhm, that’s a relief.”
“Let’s introduce ourselves to the other members too for the time being.”
Claude and Cain then went around the other adventurer parties who would be escorting the bishop and greeted them.
As Cain was hiding his standing as a noble as much as he could while accompanying them, when Claude introduced him, the other adventurers made unconvinced faces that said ‘Why’s this kid here?’, but the other adventurer parties’ leaders didn’t give any dissenting opinions, since it was Claude introducing him.
When everything was ready and the signal to depart was about to be given, the bishop called Cain over.
“Cain-sama. Could you please ride in the carriage with me. I am terribly sorry for you having to ride in the same carriage as the likes of me though…”
The bishop said apologetically, bowing.
“No, Bishop-sama, please don’t worry about it. I’m escorting you as an adventurer. I’m hiding the fact that I’m a noble too.”
“Even if you say that…”
Claude gave the bishop, who had an apologetic look on his face, a helping hand.
“Cain, I don’t mind if you go in the carriage with the Bishop-sama. If something happens, you can always just get out. And you can stay vigilant of your surroundings even from inside the carriage, can’t you.”
“…Got it. Then, Bishop-sama. I’ll be joining you as a bodyguard.”
Cain also got in the bishop’s carriage, and the party departed.
They would be heading to the Holy Country of Marineford via a number of villages and towns.
The town of Silbesta, governed by Count Ragnaf, which Cain had passed through when welcoming Hinata, was also among them. Remembering the past, Cain smiled bitterly.
Ragnaf, an enthusiastic believer and Marinefordian, had zealously spoken about Marinefordism while Cain had stayed there. He had often spoken for so long that it had become unpleasant.
“…Ah, it won’t be a problem if the Bishop-dono is there…”
“What about me…?”
Sitting next to Cain, the bishop reacted to his monologue.
“Nothing, it’s just that Silbesta is on the way to the Holy Country of Marineford, and Count Ragnaf, who governs the town is quite the zealous believer. So if you could be the one who talks to him, Bishop-sama…”
“Count Ragnaf, eh. I’ve heard about him being a zealous believer. Of course I’ll deal with him for you.”
The bishop nodded energetically, smiling.
Relieved that he wouldn’t have to taste the same suffering as his previous time there, Cain used Search, staying on alert.
The party proceeded down the highway without anything happening. Thanks to the fact that the adventurers’ guild usually gave out requests for monster suppression on the highways, they eventually arrived in Silbesta without having fought any monsters.
As they had been contacted beforehand, soldiers had lined up by Silbesta’s entrance, with Count Ragnaf waiting in their very centre to welcome the bishop’s party.
Riding a horse, Count Ragnaf led the way to his mansion. Honestly, Cain thought that it would have been fine for Ragnaf to wait for them in front of his mansion, but he didn’t say so, since the bishop seemed quite impressed by his welcome to the town.
The whole town was overflowing with a welcoming mood, and residents were standing on both sides of the road, waving.
“Bishop-dono, this is an amazing welcome, isn’t it…”
“It’s my first time receiving such a warm welcome in Esfort. Even though I’m the head of the church here in Esfort, such a welcome even makes me uncomfortable.”
The carriage eventually arrived at the mansion, passing through the welcoming inhabitants.
Europa is a cool moon 
Thanks for the treat.
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Someone said yesterday claude and co. Would show up and he would br misjudhged by others again. Already starting up so the cycle repeats
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Bad writing is a cycle. Author’s too lazy to introduce new minor characters for each journey, and considering these adventurers come FROM Esfort there’s no way they don’t know who Cain is, one of the only two margraves in the country, head of the most prosperous city in the nation, inventor of many things they save their coins to get, the highest ranking adventurer in the Esfort guild.
There’s no gag order on these things, just his stats/titles. So it’s ridiculous to believe no one fucking knows. Feels like Eastern authors only ever really write underdog stories, and once people recognize the MC as a heroic figure they immediately make everyone forget or bring the MC to a place where no one knows him so they can start the cycle over again.
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> (…) one of the only two margraves (…)
Neither of which majority of the populace ever saw, let alone got to know. It’s a medieval fantasy world. There’s no photos or TV there. Knowing there is a Margrave Cain that is a child adventurer and knowing that the Cain in front of you is THAT Cain are two different things. There are MANY Cain’s in that world, just like there are many John’s, Jack’s, Robert’s etc. in our world.
> (…) head of the most prosperous city in the nation (…)
Go ahead, show your glorious knowledge in the age of internet. Describe, from memory, the looks of the mayor of the most prosperous town in your country. If you live in that town, go with the second most prosperous. No cheating now…
Yeah, you can’t, can you. In reality, it’s not surprising for people to not know how their KING looks like, let alone some noble that governs a region somewhere in the kingdom. If everyone knew who Cain is…THAT would be weird. He’d need to be a super-celebrity (well, he’s covered on that front) in the age of internet and TV. Even press with photo’s wouldn’t make him well-known across the country.
Now, if we were talking about heads of noble families, then yes. There should be absolutely no head of noble families that does not know him. People that work as nobles representatives and escorts either. But their families, regular servants etc. already do not need to know.
> (…) inventor of many things they save their coins to get (…)
Which are sold through a brand shop, so said people don’t even know the inventors name…let alone his looks. Do you know who invented Sony PlayStation 5? No. You know that it was invented by Sony’s worker. Even for things that were at some point one-of-a-kind, like the first light bulb…even if you do somehow know the inventors name (I mean, some inventions do have such an impact that their inventors names are made widely known), you won’t necessarily know how he looks. Let alone if such a thing as photo does not exist.
> (…) the highest ranking adventurer in the Esfort guild.
Again, there are many people with the name Cain in that world. Even if we’ll assume that the top adventurer being a child named Cain is known, the chances of meeting THE Cain is lower than meeting some Cain that’s a D-rank or something.
In other words, you are working under a majorly mistaken logic that Cain is some unique being whose image is spread around public. That’s not the case. Logically speaking, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to be the case. You completely ignore the fact of there being other “Cain’s” in existence, the fact of there being no convenient image-sharing method, the fact of there being a limit to how many people will go out of their way to learn about things that have completely zero to do with them (yer average person is too busy trying to live to worry about some celebrity living weeks away from them). Basically, you ignore EVERYTHING.
Now, whether it’s good writing or not is another matter. It’s certainly repetitive, and it’s hard to believe that there’s really no variety in reactions. For example, there should be someone getting surprised that such a young kid seemingly have reached some skill by the lone fact of him being there, rather than being told of that. However, this and that are two different things. Vast majority of your post is simply incorrect.
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@kiki you beat me to it lmao.
“Do you know who invented Sony PlayStation 5?”
Are you kidding? I don’t even know the current CEO of Sony or Microsoft … I wouldn’t bet on recognising Tim Cook if I met him in a bar … that I could recognise Elon Musk speaks more of his infamy than anything else.
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Esfort has exactly one S-rank adventurer. Cain. Cain stood out as a 5 year old boy. This means rumors about Cain should of been circulating for 10 years now. Cain is known to associate with Claud, a well known A rank adventurer. Rumors of that should of been going around the Capital city adventurers guild for 5 years now.
Sure, the adventurers from the capital city might not know what Cain looks like, but there should be enough clues for them to ask if this boy is The S-rank adventurer, and Margrave Cain. Cain should be a legend that gets talked about almost constantly in the capital branch. He should also be known as the bastard that stole the vice guildmaster from the capital branch to be his mistress…
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É dificil de acreditar que vc é um aventureiro em uma cidade a varios anos e vc sabe que não tem aventureiros no seu reino rank S ai do nada surge a noticia que seu reino tem um aventureiro rank S que o nome dele é caim que ele tem em torno de 14 anos e cabelo prateado….uma descriçao nada comun eu diria ai vc ta em uma missão e vc encontra uma pessoa que esta nesses mesmo requisitos mais nem passou pela sua cabeça em pergunta o rank dele?olha e não é como si essa escolta fossem aventureiros novatos tem aventureiros rank A e rank B então não seria impossivel o unico aventureiro rank S do seu pais esta la tambem e por coincidencia no seu grupo tem alguem com mesma aparencia e nome então é impossivel dizer que absolutente niguem ali pensaria que ele é o lendario caim o unico rank S da guilda……e tipo é impossivel um aventureiro não saber os detalhes de um rank S que são considerados lendario e esse rank S mora no mesmo reino e frequenta a mesma guilda que vc então concerteza vc ja deve ter ouvido centenas de rumores sobre esssa pessoa.
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I disagree, this is predictable but it’s not really bad writing.
First up, there’s this: “Cain had suggested Claude and co. as trustworthy adventurers, and they had been chosen.”
Claude’s party is there because Cain recommended them… there’s a limited number of A rank parties in the city and he’s worked with them since before he registered, it would be strange if he didn’t suggest them. Certainly he’s met other characters that might be forgotten, but he’s normally a solo adventurer so there’s not many high rank parties that he’s worked with repeatedly.
Not recommending them would make him a pretty big jerk if nothing else.
Next, they don’t recognize him … well sure, why would they, they’re intentionally not introducing him properly. Why would people meet a normal looking teenager named Cain and assume that legendary person … are we to think that any teen introduced as Cain would be treated as a margrave now? This stunt wouldn’t work in Drintor because he caused too much chaos on his first visit, but in the capital he keeps a low profile.
More to the point, the entire plan hinges on him not being immediately recognised, would the leaders of the country really think the plan woild work if he was immediately recognised?
It’s not like his face is on posters or he regularly leads parades. He doesn’t wear famous armour or carry eye catching weapons on his body. He doesn’t hang out in a popular adventurer’s bar every night. He isn’t dressed like a noble, he doesn’t act like a noble, and he isn’t introduced like a noble.
People being able to recognise him on sight would be incredibly bad writing.
If everyone knew who he was and what he was capable of, who would be stupid enough to fight him? The story would be a lot less interesting because only the big bad would dare to be bad in front of the hero. Western authors aren’t so different, they just have less plausible concealment or less powerful protagonists.
Why do you think we make fun of Clark Kent?
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I don’t mind it as much as him getting blamed for other people’s actions. He’s not only the best protection out there, but if the enemies knew he was there. They would try to prevent him from coming.
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Actually, i think it’s not the author lazy or anything. It’s the words in sentences.. how do i say this?
It’s not the translator fault! Not at all. It’s because japanese translate to english. Even if the words are translate it correctly. It can’t be the same when reading it in japanese.
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Thanks for the chapter
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Thanks for the chapter.
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thank you for the translations~
stay safe and healthy everyone!
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Thanks for the chapter.
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Thanks For The Chapter
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Thanks for the chapter
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