E3 Chapter 32

: Holy sword Highway [2]

[Rudeus POV]

I already know that Claude will focus on the Metastasi, as I also want to search for my family, but I am thinking of bringing Eris back to Roa first before starting my search.

After bringing Eris back, I don’t even need to do so since it might already be done with Claude and Mike's cooperation.

As we continue on our path,

Geese still tried to avoid those superstitions. It doesn't seem like they're helping you since you were thrown into prison.

Well, if they’re not planning to attend the party, then it's fine if they're not.

On our journey, the number accompanying us increased by two.

We just entrusted the carriage to our steed and kept moving past the Great Forest.

It's genuinely a straightforward path.

The road goes right over the horizon. It continues straight into the capital of the Saint Milis Kingdom.

I wonder why there's this sort of path.

There are no monsters at all.

The water drainage is also surprisingly good.

Just as my doubts were coming up, Geese started to explain it.

The one who created this road was the founder of the Milis Church, the world's largest religious organization.

Saint Milis

This is the result of a single swing of Saint Milis' sword.

It sliced straight through the mountains and forest and cut down a Demon King on the Demon Continent or something.

Since that story spread around, this road was called the "Holy Sword Highway".

There's no way that can be the case, is what I wanted to think, but even now, there's still magic power from Saint Milis remaining.

As proof of that, even now, we've had absolutely no encounters with monsters.

The carriage has never gotten stuck in the mud either.

Full sails, favorable wind.

It's truly a miracle.

I can understand why the Milis Church has so much power.

However, I'm pretty afraid of the bad influence it may have on the body.

What is known as "magic power" is convenient.

However, it causes animals to transform into monsters, two children to be teleported from the Central Continent to the Demon Continent, and various other bad things.

The fact that there is a lot of magic power is also something to be afraid of...

Well, it's okay since we can take it easy knowing no monsters will attack us.

Along the side of the highway, there are points at specified distances that are made for camping.

There we make preparations to camp.

Ruijerd went into the forest and just caught whatever was convenient. There were no real problems there.

Occasionally, a beast race from a nearby village will come out to sell things, but there's nothing we really need to buy.

I don't think it even needs to be said of the Great Forest, but there's an abundance of vegetation.

Many plants that grow on the sides of the highway can be used as spices.

I gathered those using the Plant Encyclopedia I once read as a reference.

Even though that is the case, my cooking skills aren't that high.

Even if I say that my skills have improved considerably over this past year, "bad" has just changed to "slightly bad".

The quality of the ingredients in the Great Forest is much better than those of the Demon Continent.

And there are not just monsters. There are regular animals as well.

Rabbits and boars, for example, are just ordinary animals.

And then after you cook the meat from the animals, that alone is plenty delicious, but since that's the case, I want to eat even better tasting meat.

The quest to eat good food should always be done with greed.

There Geese entered the field.

He was a master of camp cooking.

He managed to use the grasses and berries I found and, almost as if by magic, turned them into spices to magnificently flavor the meat.

"I said it, right? I can do anything.

It wasn't just bragging. That meat was delicious.

Amazing! Hold me!

It was almost to the point that I suddenly embraced him.

acting almost to a disgusting extent.

I felt bad about my feelings as well.

That goes for both of us.

"It's boring."

Eris muttered that just as we were preparing for today's meals again.

Ingredients: Ruijerd

Fire and Water: Me

Cooking: Geese

Eris had nothing to do with this perfect distribution of roles.

Even Claude doesn’t do anything but tinker with his enchantment items.

At best, it would be something like collecting firewood, but this is in the middle of a forest. It's over quickly.

Therefore, she is pretty bored.

At the start, she was just swinging her sword on her own.

Since Ghislaine and I forced her to keep doing things with repetition training, she can swing the sword for hours.

Even though that's the case, if you were to ask if that is an interesting thing to do, then it seems that wouldn't be the case.

Currently, Ruijerd is hunting, Geese is cooking the soup, and I'm working on making a figure.

Just forget about Claude. He almost does nothing but tinker with his artifact.

There's still quite a bit of time left until I complete this 1/10 Ruijerd.

It should, however, sell.

It has additional value.

You will never be attacked by the Superd race if you have this. Instead, you will be able to get along with them. Or something like that, is what I'm saying.

Putting that aside,

Eris is at her limit with being bored.

"Hey! Geese! "

"What's up, young lady? It's not ready yet? "

Geese turned around while confirming the taste of the soup.

Eris was using her usual imposing pose.

"Teach me cooking!"

"No way."

It was an instant reply.

Geese just kept on with his cooking like nothing happened at all.

Eris just kept staring into space, dumbfounded.

However, she quickly regained herself and yelled out.

"Why?!"

"Because I don't want to teach you."

"Like I said, why?!"

Geese let out a deep sigh.

"Umm, you know, young lady. Swordsmen are best off thinking of nothing but fighting. Trying to cook is pointless. It's fine as long as you can eat it. "

Incidentally, this man,

It's fine as long as you can eat it. It is entirely not the level of his food.

It's at the level where you could open a shop.

It's not something that would make the Emperor of Japan shoot light out of his mouth the moment he put it in, but it's good enough that his cooking shop would be well known in the neighborhood.

"But, if I can cook... umm... you know?"

Eris was saying that while stealing glances in my direction.

What is it, Eris?

What do you want to say?

Please feel free to say it straight out.

"I don't get it at all."

Geese is being cold to Eris.

I don't really get why, but he's saying it in a pretty severe way.

Regarding Ruijerd and me, it's not really the case, but only to Eris. He seems to say things while pushing her away.

"Doesn't the young lady have talent with the sword? Something like cooking you don't need. "

"But...."

"Being able to fight is something to be happy about, you know? There's nothing more than what you need to live in this world. It will just make your well-polished talent lose its focus. "

Eris made a bit of an unpleasant face, but she didn't start to hit Geese.

For some reason, Geese's words have an odd power of persuasion.

"Though that's just my front excuse."

Geese nodded with an "alright" and stopped stirring the soup.

And then he started to serve it with the stone bowls.

Incidentally, the bowls were something I made.

"You know, I decided to never teach anyone cooking again."

It seems Geese was a member of a party that cleared labyrinths.

It was a party with six members. Everyone aside from him could only do a single thing. It seems they were all clumsy people.

The Geese of that time had a pet phrase of, "You guys really can't do anything besides that."

The party still managed to do quite well, even though it was pretty distorted.

However, one day, one of the women from the party told Geese she wanted to learn to cook.

If you want to catch a man, start by grabbing his stomach. That seems effective.

Geese said it couldn't be helped and taught the woman to cook.

Whether it be because of the cooking or whatever,

That is unknown, but as a result, the woman stuck with the man and, just like that, got married.

The two left the party and went off somewhere.

After everything, if two influential individuals suddenly drop out, the party interior becomes rough.

The party was filled with a spiral of fights and disinterest. They were unable to properly complete any jobs and quickly disbanded.

Even though that's the case, Geese is a man who can do anything.

He has no talent with the sword or magic, but everything other than that he can do.

Therefore, he thought he would quickly find another party.

The result was a crushing defeat.

Geese was an adventurer with a bit of a name for himself.

Even though that was the case, no party would take him in.

Geese can do anything.

If it's something that adventurers can do, then pretty much anything.

In other words, it's that everything that Geese can do is something that anyone else can do as well.

If it's a high-ranking party, all members will generally split up the various jobs.

Geese realized it.

He had no place other than in that party.

Since it was filled with clumsy guys, he could be there.

After that, Geese left the business of an adventurer halfway.

He decided to live his life as a player (gambler).

"That's why, you know. Women are no good for cooking. "

It's a jinx.

That is what he added.

If you were to ask me, Geese's jinx doesn't matter.

I think it would be fine if you were to teach something like cooking.

This soup is good.

Just a single sip of this soup is enough to make the inside of my mouth have a "fireworks" kind of feeling.

It's to the point where I want to be taught as well.

Since that's the case, I decided to throw out a lifeboat.

"I understand that the newbie ended up with misfortune, but the woman who was taught to cook ended up happy, right?"

Since that's the case, teach us is what I was thinking.

Then Geese waved his head.

"I don't know if the woman ended up being happy or not. I haven't met her since. "

But Geese was laughing to himself.

"As for the man, he was happy, or maybe not."

Therefore, it's a jinx, I guess.

After seeing him with a depressed expression, I felt like I couldn't say anything more.

The soup that should have been good lost a bit of its flavor.

I look at Claude. That’s somewhat stopped what he’s doing and getting closer to us.

"That’s an interesting story, but can’t you just have another job besides adventuring?"

"Nah, I’m not interested in staying in a place… don’t you see that adventuring is a man’s Roman? "

Um, I get that!

A man’s Roman!

"Why do you agree with what he said? Someone that was that afraid to come out of their home until he was brought out by their teacher wants to have an adventurer's life. Seriously? "

Claude, damn you...

Well, I can’t deny that.

"Wah? Senpai had that kind of past too? "

"What’s that? Claude, tell me more about the tiny Rudeus! "

Hey, don’t call me tiny. It hurts my self-esteem…

With that, Claude told them about my embarrassing past.

Geese, keep it on the note while Eris is laughing out loud while staring a dagger at me when Claude mentions I took Sylphy’s clothes...

Ruijerd, won't you hurry and come back?

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[Claude POV]

It’s pretty blatant to see that Eris is in love with Rudeus. While she wanted to receive more appeal and asked Geese to train her in cooking, Geese somehow rejected her.

I wonder what’s Geese reason for rejecting Eris’s request was.

I refuse to believe it’s because of his past, because Geese don’t even want to remain in the party.

I might refuse because I needed to deal with the stuff in Arbalest. Geese were, in fact, still wandering around without any targets.

However, I know that he’s still in contact with God. That doesn’t mean he’s someone safe to be with.

Although I know that Geese is kind, he’s not someone sane since he’d follow whatever human god ordered him to.

It’s an eye that Alex Cromwell knows very well.

A zealous believer sees that they will follow whatever their respected person orders them to.

Oh well, it’s not like I can do anything to him. So, I just leave him alone and deal with the magic circle formula to create a better enchantment for my weapon box.

I’ve tried to cook and help them, but my cooking was said to be horrendous enough to make even Ruijerd pass out in his seat, and Geese running around the bush for several days. So I just focus on developing my magic circle in silence from that point onwards.

There were also several times that I hinted to Eris that Rudeus had another lover in Buena, but got ignored instead.

Sigh..

Is this what a harem protagonist's luck has had?

Their woman won’t care about another fling or two.

Well, I guess Paul isn’t a harem protagonist after all since there's a quarrel in his love life.

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[Edited 06/29/2022]

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