Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshou!

The author uses zokusei ryuu when talking about the species of Grade Grande which could be translated as dragon attribute. It doesnt make much sense in my eyes unless it would be some other kind of race/species which possesses that attribute while not being a dragon itself. I am not quite sure whether this is the case here but I dont think so, thus I will just call the thing dragon.

Burkart calls Wendelin bozou which is a rough way to call someone a boy, Armstrong calls him shounen which means boy as well. I have translated bozou to boy in the previous chapters, so I will use lad for Armstrong calling him boy to make the difference apparent.

Ooh! This boy is Alfreds disciple, the yuusha-dono who subjugated the ancient corpse dragon, huh?! I see, he doesnt possess the carelessness one would assume considering his age! (Armstrong)

(Ano, Burkhart-san?) (Wendelin)

(As usual, a sultry guy.) (Burkhart)

(He is an important person, isnt that right?) (Wendelin)

(Ah, he is the kingdoms head wizard.) (Burkhart)

The next day after everyone went shopping in the shopping streets, I was suddenly visited by a messenger from the royal palace along with an entourage of several knights. They pushed me into a carriage and ended up taking me straightaway to the army garrison in the suburbs of the royal capital.

Although it gave of the feeling of something like a kidnapping, it wasnt quite the case since the knights were holding onto a decree by His Majesty.

At any rate, even though I wasnt certain whether I was really loyal to His Majesty or not, it still remained a fact that I was a retainer of the kingdom.

The garrison I was brought to, was apparently the place where the troops stationed in the capital always did their training.

Simply made log cabins, watchtowers in order to guard the area, and a large tent.

Really, it was a structure of an army garrison as youd expect from the style of a fantasy world.

It was regularly servicedby the army without being discouraged by the recent tendency of disarmament which was quite unexpected.

Most likely it was something like a salvation for the young nobles who werent able to find any other work.

However, because they would end up receiving a label of simply spending their time idly eating and drinking, apparently the training was constantly strict and severe. As it would be unreasonable for the entire army at once to practise there though, the troops stationed in the royal capital established a function of alternating between their divisions to use the outskirts for performing maneuver exercises outdoors.

The carriage I was stuffed into arrived in front of a log cabin within the garrison.

When I entered it, after being urged on by the guard standing at the entrance, I immediately recognized Burkhart-san waiting inside.

Furthermore there was another person next to him, a muscular middle-agged ossan who easily exceeded a height of 2 meters.

Moreover, this ossan

Despite being a lump of muscles, the clothes he wore was a robe and he held staggering large unrefined wand in his hand.

In other words, rather than calling him a martial artist or warrior, he was a magician.

Other than being able to use magic as well, he seemed to be the type who likewise could easily beat his opponent to death with that wand.

Fortunately it was affirmed by Burkhart-sans earlier talk that he was a magician.

Furthermore he was named as the kingdoms head wizard earlier with certainty.

Due to the sudden appearance of such magician loaded with muscles, I involuntarily ended up being struck speechless.

It was mostly because that person was the exact opposite of my master.

(The kingdoms head wizard, Burkhart-san?) (Wendelin)

(As for that) (Burkhart)

Whats the difference between a magician and wizard?

After questioning in such way, apparently it was no more than a mere variation in calling him.

However, both things possessed a huge difference.

Wizards were chosen among the magicians serving the kingdom, they were the ultimate elite.

Considering the person himself didnt put any value into the huge significance of serving the court, it was quite a ridiculous story. Nevertheless, from the viewpoint of the society a wizard was no less than a person with a very high social standing.

Even though the kingdoms nobles such as the cabinet ministers held an exceedingly high social standing, one could think of a wizard being a cut above them.

Besides, it wasnt particularly necessary for a wizard to be a noble either.

No matter how much one was a noble, if they didnt possess the essential magical talent, they wouldnt become one at any rate anyway.

Therefore it was obvious that society looked upon them with eyes of reverence.

To top it off, the ossan in front of my eyes was the kingdoms head wizard.

This amazing and remarkable difference was nothing to jeer at.

Going by his appearance he was a beefy middle-aged man (ossan) though.

Are you by chance nervous? If thats the case, its not really necessary. After all, you will fight alongside me after this. (Armstrong)

Fight? (Wendelin)

Thats right. In order for the kingdom to prosper even further, we will liberate the Palkenia Grasslands from the one occupying them for a long time, Grade Grande. (Armstrong)

Grade Grande at the Palkenia Grasslands.

It was a sorrowful situation I had just heard about from Erich-nii-san yesterday. And now I finally understood why we were summoned.

However, to call me for fighting a monster now ought to be foul play.

Why? Because I am just a minor with my age of 12 years.

For minors it was not allowed to enter the domain where monsters dwelt.

That was reason why we trained in the prep school by hunting ordinary prey everyday.

Ano~ I am an underage pupil (Wendelin)

Intending to use the reason of underage, I tried to refuse the participation in subjugating the Grade Grande.

In the first place it couldnt be helped that I had to fight the ancient dragon as I was forced to protect the magic airship I had boarded in order to protect myself in the end.

It was nothing else but legitimate self-defense; an emergency measurement.

Any kind of reasoning is fine, because that was my first battle I just want you to spare me from fighting yet another dragon after such a short while.

Who would be fond of being summoned just for being told to fight a dragon next?

At the very least, I am not such a masochist.

Those worries are totally unnecessary! (Armstrong)

Ano What do you mean by that? (Wendelin)

The meaninglessly high-tensed ossan declared that me being underage was of no concern at all.

It is indeed against the rules for a minor to enter a domain where monsters are dwelling! But! Since the lad is a noble, its absolutely fine! (Armstrong) (T/N: His name is fitting, butcouldbe called Headstrong! :p)

Ah, thats what this is about, huh (Burkhart)

It seems like Burkhart-san, who was to participate alongside as well, had some kind of an idea.

For no more than an instant he faced towards me displaying an expression ofWhat a pity.

Lad, you are the head of the Associate Baron Baumeister household! Even though you are an under-aged noble, it has never happened before that a decree for a campaign by His Majesty wasnt followed! This time time His Majesty ordered the military troops stationed at the royal capital to subjugate the Grade Grande! (Armstrong)

(Wendelin)

The matter the muscular ossan was talking about, apparently was an affair of utmost righteous importance to the kingdoms nobles.

For me who just obtained the peerage a short while ago, it was a bolt out of the blue.

Give it up. By my lord I was ordered to to follow the army decree as well.1 (Burkhart)

Burkhart-san is quite pitiable as well it would appear as he was ordered to follow the decree by Breithildes margrave and thus has no way to decline the participation in the subjugation of the Grade Grande.

Burkhart-san seems to unexpectedly have no luck either. (Wendelin)

Boy, your predisposition of attracting misfortune appears to have infected me. (Burkhart)

What are you talking about? Dont go making such jokes (Wendelin)

Half of it is serious though. (Burkhart)

(Wendelin)

Completely losing all means to escape the situation, I am forced to once more head towards a dragon extermination together with Burkhart-san.

I dont think it is wrong to wish and hope for someone to switch places with me, is it?

Fuhahahahaha! As usual the scale is huge! (Armstrong)

Huge (Wendelin)

The ancient dragon wasnt small either. Even so, this one is big. (Burkhart)

One week after the fateful meeting with the muscular doushi, Burkhart-san, Armstrong-doushi and me were flying in the skies over the plains of the central part of the Palkenia Grasslands using Flight magic.

The strategy this time was to attack with one sixth of the troops stationed in the capital of the kingdoms army, namely mobilising 10000 troops. After moving the necessary supplies to the garrison in the suburbs of the royal capital in preparation, the troops were encamped close by to the domain.

As for this, because the army entering the domain in force would end up provoking a large amount of monsters and thus end in a large-scale battle, the strategy was for them to wait atthe entrance to the domain until Grade Grande was defeated.

Apart from that, even though the great number of demons wouldnt change at all once the Grade Grande was defeated, it still remained a fact that Grade Grande was an existence unifying them as boss of the domain. Although it simultaneously reigned at the top of the food chain, it apparently likewise instilled such a fear into the other monsters that they werent able to move about freely either.

Therefore, if Grade Grande died and thus was missing in the lineup of the monster group, it would become possible for the army to safely crush each and every monster afterwards.

Even though it would be impossible to get away without receiving any damage at all, it was obviously still far better than during the time when the boss is still going strong as ever.

And, in contrast to a forest area, a mountainous district and such, these plains were potentially much more advantageous to a mass deployment of an army, degrading the monsters in the Palkenia Grasslands to a matter of relatively weak resistance.

Hunting as a small group of adventurers here, it can be called as as a spot for beginners in comparison to other domains.

Now then, lets not waste any seconds andperform the last rites for the Grade Grande! (Armstrong)

Already looking down on the shape of the Grade Grande while using Flight magic, Grade Grande wasnt overly pleased with us looking down on him at all.

With a roar to the degree of almost tearing our eardrums, it greeted us with a severe threatening.

Doushi? (Burkhart)

Well then, I suppose this is the start! All that remains is to clash power against power! (Armstrong)

In the end the strategy was for only three people to defeat Grade Grande, in other words the contents of the strategy werent overly complex.

Against such an imminent, overflowing violence, minuscule strategies were useless any way.

In the first place, besides the stationed troops from the capital there were was an unit of approximately 2000 adventurer mercenaries temporarily recruited by the adventurers guilds headquarters stationed outside the domain. But they wouldnt absolutely participate in the battle with the dragon as unskillful participation would just pointlessly increase the count of victims.

Receiving a dragons breath from the front, it would spell instant death for most people.

Therefore, people who werent able to prepare for several such breaths would just pointlessly increase the corpse count if they participated.

Thus it was arranged that the few of us would challenge Grade Grande to a fight as elite assassins.

As an after effect, the poor group of Erwin, in their duty as my retainers, participated in the assembled forces to subjugate the monsters as the Associate Baron Baumeister households armed forces.

As for the reason, it was apparently due to the peculiar complicated circumstances of nobles.

During the sortie preparations in the garrison, Erich-nii-san visited claiming that the sortie of the Associate Baron Baumeister households armed forces was indispensable and begging to be allowed to provide the necessary funds for that.

Afterwards, given that Erich-nii-san was likewise participating holding both roles of being second-in-command in addition to being a staff officer, I was at ease entrusting him with a treasure of the degree of 100 platinum plates.

If its Erich-nii-san, he wouldnt try something like pilfering the money he was given.

Lad, you will focus solely on saving mana for the Cutter Tornado(T/N: >> Katta Torunedo 2and noted them down. Quite a few books with those notes are still remaining from that time.

For example, in the case of magic from the fire system, there would be only few magicians who wouldnt be able to think up a Fire Ball(T/N: >> Faiya Boru 3within the Associate Baron Baumeister households troops. Everyday they departed while experiencing stomach pains.

Translation Notes

1It isnt quite clear whether he means that he was directly ordered by the margrave or indirectly in his duty as proxy of the margrave who is likewise a vassal of the kingdom and thus as vassal of a vassal so to speak. Both lead to the same conclusion though, so I chose to word it as I did.

2The author used mahou here so basically it would be magics but I kind of imagine it as magic formula if you want to note it down as the word magic describes the effect and not so much the process which he is talking about here.

3Their post iswhich is mikoshi in romaji. Translates to portable shrine so dont ask me wtf they were doing. I left it out because it sounds odd no matter how you look at it Following additional information has been provided by Nguyen Gia Thai regarding the mikoshi used in the context:

Japanese mikoshi is a type of activities where a lot of people (mostly males) drag a portable shrine from one sacred location to another for some certain spiritual purpose. Therere a lot, forming front group and back group to drag it, and its pretty much taboo to let the portable shrine fall to the ground or for it to be damaged. The context is that, the retainer group of Wendelin must/should have been/supposed to be situated in the center of their army, letting others fight for them, and not expose themselves to danger no matter what (as said in the following interlude). But Ina and Luise are full of fighting spirit, so they dont let Erwin remain behind and continuously advance to the frontlines.

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