Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshou!

Hey, teleport us, boy. (Burkhart)

Burkhart-san, youve been made to accompany us once again. (Wendelin)

Dont talk about it (Burkhart)

It is suspicious whether it is really in absolute secrecy, but all of us,Dragon Busters, got such with a partly forced request from Margrave Breithilde.

The contents of the request: The previous Margrave Breithilde involved my home, Knight Baumeister household, and sacrificed a lot of people by foolishly leading an expedition to the Demon Forest, located at the south-eastern end of Lingaia.

The death toll for that thoughtless expedition was close to 2000, but if left alone the 2000 corpses, left behind in the Demon Forest, would end up turning undead after a few hundred years passed.

As for undeads, if a long time passes after they came forth, such things as regrets, sorrow and malice would amplify in proportion and they would become troublesome existences.

If they look at the great number flawed properties in the capital, anyone will be able to understand it.

As for the Lingaia continent, with beyond several hundreds kilometers of undeveloped land after the inhabited region of the Knight Baumeister household, that is in the furthest southeastern part, it should take at least several hundred years until people try to enter the Demon Forest once again.

If, during that time, the undeads malice became worse completely like a festering venom, they would end up becoming very strong.

If the undead in the Demon Forest left, there would be countless victims amongst the adventurers. Naturally, if they were to investigate the historical reason for that, Margrave Breithilde household, being the cause of it all, should face unfavorable criticism.

Will there even be a Margrave Breithilde household several hundred years later?There is no confidence if asked this, but since the Margrave Breithilde household apparently has a 200 year-long history, the possibility of them to continue to exist should be quite high.

For the sake of the descendants, who havent been born yet, we are to cleanse the undeads, who turned undead from the former expedition soldiers roaming about in the Demon forest, as they arent very strong yet.

For that reason it was decided that we would proceed towards the actual site.

From the point of receiving such private request of an upper noble, it is apparent that Margrave Breithilde is relying on us there.

Even the reward became a reasonably large amount of money since it was also including hush money.

But, you know, is it fine with such a small number of people? (Erwin)

It will be alright. (Burkhart)

Burkhart-san immediately addresses Erws doubts.

The reason for challenging such domain with its many monsters living there with a small adventurer group is as follows.

If too many people intrude there, it will trigger a large crowd of monsters to appear in response.

It was one verified point from the failure of the former expeditionary force.

Although there are other points as well, I have decided to not talk about the for now.

If you invade with few people, the other side wont encounter you with more than a suitable number either. (Burkhart)

That is, I know we have already experienced a subjugation just recently. But, I wonder if we will be able to cope with 2000 undead. (Wendelin)

It will be fine. We have Elise-jou-chan and you, boy, for that reason with us. (Burkhart)

Id like him to stop calling meBoyalready since Im a proper adult, but Burkhart-san doesnt seem to be of the same mind.

For him Im the pupil of his pupil.

It might be inevitable for him to treat me intuitively as boy. Usually it will be a rude way of talking to me who has the official position of Baron.

As one should expect, he knows about that as well.

Wend and Elise, it is? (Erwin)

Ah, thats right. They will take care of exterminating the undead in one go. (Burkhart)

The strategy, he thought up this time, isnt to defeat each undead one by one, but it appears that he plans to gather the undead and annihilate them all at once.

Boy, are you able to use magic spread over a wide area? (Burkhart)

Yes, I was taught by master. (Wendelin)

As for magic spreading over a wide area, its simply put magic that broadens its magical effect over a vast range. (T/N: No shit, Sherlock! E: AOE Turn Undead)

Since the magical effect will be spread over a wide range, you naturally have to use a vast amount of mana. It doesnt make sense without using magic appropriate for the target.

Besides, it is also related to attribute compatibility.

Because if its magic of the fire attribute, it will spread fire on a large-scale. With this it is also possible to kill an extensive amount of monsters by burning them to death.

Occasionally, there apparently are people who end up being burnt to death because they surrounded themselves with the fire they spread.

Its the same with something like the tornado of the wind system. In reverse, there isnt much of a point using magic of the earth and water system, I guess?

That doesnt mean that simply all of it is pointless. The earth system is used for something like civil engineering magic, I think?

Since it was magic affecting a wide area to begin with, it was a fact that there was no point in spreading it over a wide area.

As for the water system, I guess it is about spreading healing magic over a wide area.

In the period of the past wars it was obviously convenient to gather the wounded and cure them in one go.

It seems the limit was healing slightly-injured people due to mana, but even so, there werent many people who could use magic to such an extent.

Those people were heavily relied on, was something I saw in a book from the past.

Can you also use other peoples magic for your magic spreading over a wide area, boy? (Burkhart) (T/N: My fingers are itching to simply call the whole thing AoE spells, but thats too game-like. Gaman, gaman!)

Yes. (Wendelin)

Then it will become an unexpectedly easy job. (Burkhart)

Burkhart-san explains his strategy.

First off Elise will use her purification magic of the holy system. Then I will extend that over the Demon Forest with my wide-area-diffusion magic.

If Elise uses up her mana midway, Burkhart-san will resupply her with his unused mana.

For Erw, Ina and Luise the main role is to eliminate the other monsters who draw close to us.

And Burkhart-san supports us. (Ina)

As you could expect with this number of people. It is a gathering of a select few. As for being support, thats because of my suitable ability and because I can keep a secret if requested. (Burkhart)

There isnt even any doubt about the success of the extermination, but you have to also take failure into consideration. I guess thats why Burkhart-san, who works for Margrave Breithilde, was chosen as backer.

Well then, lets depart right away? (Wendelin)

No, wait. (Burkhart)

From 6 years old until becoming 12 years I was also unable to advance my training in search magic to the degree to search the completely untouched, undeveloped land by casting it from the territory of the Baumeister household.

Thanks to that I didnt enter some parts of the Demon Forest, but it became possible to move throughout almost the whole area freely.

Therefore, although I wanted to finish the request by moving quickly, Burkhart-san stopped that for some reason.

Eh? Why? (Wendelin)

I think there is a place, where it would be wrong to not to go first. (Burkhart)

A place where it would be wrong to not go? (Wendelin)

More or less that Demon Forest is part of the Knight Baumeister households territory. It is normal to go greeting the feudal lord. (Burkhart)

No, well, that is certainly true, but (Wendelin)

Of course I had realized that, but, honestly, I was unwilling to do so.

Or rather, since Im going there to deal with the Margrave Breithilde households disgrace, I have ended up thinking it would even be fine if the other party has at least finished their greetings first.

Haa (Wendelin)

Please endure it. (Burkhart)

There even havent been many investigation teams sent in. Although it was only me and the expeditionary force headed to the Demon Forest that entered the Savage Lands, it officially belongs to the Baumeister household.

Therefore we have to go greet them to get permission. There is also the necessity of discussing the share spoils.

If there was an adventurers guild branch like in Breitburg, it wouldnt be necessary.

As long as you are registered as adventurer, the guild will deal with the remaining negotiations and you only have to pay the tax.

However, there isnt any adventurers guild in the Savage Lands and the Baumeister territory.

Therefore we have to directly negotiate with the feudal lord.

For example, in this case, it will be about such things as the bequest of the expeditionary force, the things that belong to the soldiers obtained during the process of purifying the undead, the raw materials procured from the monster who came attacking and medical plants gathered in the Demon Forest.

How much, from all the things obtained, will we have to pay in the end?

Will the payment be in materials?

Will we pay a fixed amount of money after selling the spoils in Breitburg?

It was indispensable to negotiate such fine details.

(Somehow I feel like doing it now as well, but) (Wendelin)

It is a ridiculous story for me, who endeavored in thoroughly exploiting the Savage Lands in his childhood a training in magic for quite a while, to talk about, but this is this and that is that.

Or I should rather say that this is my villainous part.

Even if I arbitrarily exploited the raw materials of prey and minerals in the Savage Lands, our home isnt able to do something like punishing me for it.

As for why, that is because it is necessary to have evidence for proving the crime of theft.

Even if they dispatch an investigation team, my familys home hasnt the ability to prove my crime as they dont understand where, how, and how long it was done.

People, who dont even know how much has entered my wallet, couldnt hand me over to the police for the same reason, even if they kicked up a fuss that I stole their money.

(Wendelin)

Ano, Wendelin-sama. (Elise)

I understand your sympathy. But, leave him alone for a little while, Elise. (Erwin)

It seems Erw could also understand since his relation to his family was as complicated as mine.

No matter how much it was for the sake of work, it wouldnt succeed if I were to go greeting my family that should have already abandoned me. I ended up having slightly depressed emotions about it.

Haa (Wendelin)

What is it? Are you that reluctant? (Burkhart)

After teleporting, I stood in front of the Baumeister households mansion after a long time.

Honestly, I thought it would be fine, if I didnt transfer because I forgot about such place, but the teleportation magic, having thoughtlessly trained it properly, was as successful as usual in spite of it being several years since Ive been here.

Erw and me have almost the same situation.

As children who were unable to inherit the Knight household, we have gained a social status of being independent by being successful as adventurers.

Erw has renouncedhis familys heirship at the same time he became an adult.

He obtained a large amount of money by unforeseen fortune, but since this a talk about a different household already, Erws family shouldnt be able to demand something like support out of greed.

Since it has been almost a month after that hell-like labyrinth capture, you wouldnt know what will happen from now on related to the speed of information spread and Erw was worried about this as well.

Conversely, how about my case?

Because the previous village headman, Klaus, tossed the outrageous bomb of me being the appropriate next feudal lord, I have abandoned my heirship as fast as possible.

Or rather, it was decided for me to abandon at the time of me receiving a new court rank by His Majesty.

Although I can only say that I entrusted it to the government office to deal with the practical formalities in a hurry at that time.

In addition, neither father nor elder brother said anything about this back then, it seems.

Saying that it seems like that is because I didnt actually meet them as I finished it all with a letter.

Anyway, for me there isnt much of love or attachment towards my parents, siblings and the Baumeister household.

Reincarnating as Wendelin at the age of six, my only memory from before was the knowledge I saw in the dream. Thereafter there wasnt much of a contact or should I rather say that I was obviously neglected.

Its not like I was treated particularly bad.

It would have been fine even if I didnt do something like helping the household and just spent my time studying and practicing magic. As result of that I was able to bring an amount of hunted preyto the table as food.

If you talk about it frankly, that level of relationship wasnt something that could be seen by the surroundings either, I guess.

Since they were aware of me being able to use magic, I think it had that tendency all the more.

For the southernmost remote, poor Knight household it is necessary to have as cooperative relationship in this somewhat insular community for the relatives and fiefs populace.

Therefore my real intention was to become independent as fast as possible.

At this late hour, even if its greetings (Wendelin)

Ano, I want to introduce myself to Father-in-law-sama and mother-in-law. (Elise)

Me as well. (Ina)

Me too, as third wife. (Luise)

I can can quite well understand the three that they want to extend their greetings since they are my fiances, but that alone can be deemed to be a completely disagreeable development for Kurt-ani and so on.

Different from father who has a mistress, there isnt any other wife but Amelie-sister-in-law-san for Kurt-ani.

Or perhaps I should call it the envy of men. Since the number of wives is a barometer for the economical strength, it is equal to telling the other party You are poor.

Actually Ive heard this also became the cause of bloodshed amongst nobles.

Therefore I dont want to do something like greetings.

Publicly, the boy and Artur are vassals of the same lord. (Burkhart)

I guess we will stay parent and child for eternity due to our blood relationship, but from the public standpoint we are fellow vassals of Margrave Breithilde.

Furthermore, it has resulted in us being at the same situation given that both of us are officially His Majestys retainers and likewise fellow nobles.

But in reality there is no way that a Duke and a Knight have the same position.

Since there is even a difference in size of territory and economical strength, it is normal for most of the Dukes to act self-importantly.

And, I am a Baron while father is no more than a Knight.

Even the economical strength, I guess we dont have to talk about that one.

Such an awkward feeling is a first for me.

I end up remembering my middle-aged section chief from my previous life fretting aboutNow the temporarily retired director of the department will re-employed as my subordinate. What shall I do?

How troublesome (Wendelin)

And presently this is a family having a strangely reversed phenomena of the father being a Knight and the child being a Baron.

Of course its about myself.

Give up, its work after all. (Burkhart)

Understood. (Wendelin)

Because it is as Burkhart-san has said, I knock on the door of the mansion.

It is pretty much called the mansion of a noble, but with the Baumeister household being an insignificant noble as usual, the size of the house was no more than at the level of a wealthy farmers house.

Yes, who is it? (Maid)

It was my familys home after approximately three years, but the maid opening the door didnt change.

Although she is called a maid, given that she is simply an old woman coming to help out from the neighboring farm family, you couldnt visibly see her grow old if its around three years.

By the way, she doesnt even wear maid clothes.

Because she was an old woman with an age beyond 70 years, I didnt think that I wanted to see her in a maid uniform too much either.

This is, Wendelin-sama! (Maid)

Yo, Helena. Its been a while. (Wendelin)

Thinking back, I had a lot more conversations with the servants than with my family as child.

While handing over the spoils I obtained as result of training my magic, I usually chatted with them.

As the gentlemen of the merchant group came some time ago, we heard about the rumors about Wendelin-sama. (Helena)

Such things as defeating the ancient dragon which became undead and the elder dragon having its sphere of influence over the monsters living in a domain close to the capital, also about the matter of obtaining a court rank and getting a lot of rewards and about the matter of being engaged to the granddaughter of Cardinal Hohenheim who is an influential person within the church.

Helena knew up until the martial arts tournament and the duel uproar during the stay in the capital.

I guess I should say as expected from merchants, huh?

They brought quite accurate news to the southern remote region.

Oi, Helena-san and Ooh! Wendelin-sama!

It is a small mansion. The majority of those working as servants are elder people who already retired from working on the farm. The news of me returning immediately circulated to the other servants.

Continuing on, the butler Lobus(T/N: >> Robusu > Marurene > Kurara <<). She also stared at me with those pure eyes.This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Im an oji-san as well, huh? (Wendelin) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. No, because Wend has been like this since the age of around 8 years. (Hermann) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. As a matter of fact, I knew that Hermann-nii-san had two children from before, but I wasnt aware of their age, gender and names. Meeting them, I awkwardly cherish them. I felt like complaining to dad about only that. I think it was probably correct to not get in touch with them until now. Especially looking at the current Kurts attitude. (Hermann) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Because of that man, its not unlikely that they will believe Im flattering the heir of the junior commander using pleasantries for the sake of taking over my home. This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Certainly, But, I think its already too late for that now. (Wendelin) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Its definitely too late for that already. Its fine if you want to arbitrarily worry and doubt. I, who thought like that, begin to take out presents from the magic bag one after the other for the children. Because I came home after a long time, I had also prepared the portion for Amelie-sister-in-law-san and her children. Since its not unlikely that she might say something to Kurt if I give those to her at this point of time, those remained within the magic bag. This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Anything might appear. Its a magic bag. (Leon) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. As expected, it wont come out if you didnt put it in before. (Wendelin) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. While saying this, Im giving such things as toys, like board games, and bought sweets from the capital to the children with Leon in the lead. The other part is children, but a noble must pay attention to handing out souvenirs in order as well.This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Leon is this households successor. If I exclude his younger sister, Klara, since the other children were born from other wives such as Marlene-sister-in-law-sans younger sister and the cousins, it is absolutely necessary to abide by the distinct hierarchy. Or rather I should say that I feel as if it matched the story told in my childhood about Tokugawa Iemitsu.(T/N: Third shogunofthe Tokugawa dynasty. Reigned from 1623-1651) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Thank you, Wendelin-oji-san. (Leon) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Albeit still being 15 years old, I was damaged by that way of calling me, but it isnt something unusual in this world. Since there are many siblings having an age difference due to the early marrying of everyone, it ends up like that no matter what. This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Tell us the story about defeating the dragon! (Klara) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Tell us! (Child) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. I have time and I dont want to remember a man like Kurt either. Therefore I begin to tell the tale of defeating the bone dragon to the children. The children earnest listened to the story while tasting the sweets from the souvenirs. Watching such a sight, its been a long time since I have felt like my mind being purified. I narrated for about an hour? I thought it would be fine since there was still time to fulfil the childrens pestering to continue the story, but an unexpected person makes their appearance there. This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. As expected of Baron Baumeister-sama. You are even very popular with the children of Hermann-sama. (Klaus) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Klaus, huh ? (Wendelin) This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Although its dangerous for him in regards to Kurt to join up with me and the branch family, the village headman, Klaus, turns up here.This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Ano Marlene-sister-in-law-san? (Wendelin)This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. I have ended up pushing in my way forcibly as there is something I want to request from you (Klaus)This translation is property of Infinite Novel Translations. Previously, he went as far as telling me that he will cooperate in me becoming the next family head. Since this is the branch family taking a stance of being anti-main family, they probably havent counted in something like restraining the actions of Klaus who is moving suspiciously behind the scenes. From the branch familys point of view, it would become convenient if Klaus was on bad terms with the main family, I guess. What do you want to request of me? (Wendelin) Yes, it is slightly disconnected from your work as adventurer, but it isnt a dangerous job by no means. (Klaus) Suddenly, the suspicious existence called village headman Klaus requests us for a job. Im considering what way would best to deal with this then. When I returned home after a long time, this was accompanied with nothing but the beginning of troubles.

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