Ill Never Set Foot in That House Again! Volume 4 (eBook)

Milli-gram (Autor)

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2022
250 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-1-7183-4904-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In order to meet with the Spirit King Element's old comrade 'The Proxy,' Chelsea and Glen set off across the continent to plant cuttings of the Spirit Tree in different countries. Stopping in the Radzuel Empire along their travels, Micah gets to visit her home, while Chelsea and Glen get the grand reception they'd missed on their first visit. For Chelsea's part in saving the Empire with her [Seed Creation] Skill, she's awarded a commendation, and presented a special book detailing plants of various types. She and Glen are also welcomed as friends by the Beastmen, and after eating their fill of delicious food, the group heads for the Martec Republic! Once there, they see the Republic is suffering from an unnatural mana drought. Upon hearing the pleas of the citizens, Chelsea and Glen quickly move to attempt planting the cutting. However, the Proxy's worshippers appear, and make another attempt on Chelsea's life...only for the Republic's sacred bird to swoop in and save her!

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In order to meet with the Spirit King Element's old comrade "e;The Proxy,"e; Chelsea and Glen set off across the continent to plant cuttings of the Spirit Tree in different countries. Stopping in the Radzuel Empire along their travels, Micah gets to visit her home, while Chelsea and Glen get the grand reception they'd missed on their first visit. For Chelsea's part in saving the Empire with her [Seed Creation] Skill, she's awarded a commendation, and presented a special book detailing plants of various types. She and Glen are also welcomed as friends by the Beastmen, and after eating their fill of delicious food, the group heads for the Martec Republic! Once there, they see the Republic is suffering from an unnatural mana drought. Upon hearing the pleas of the citizens, Chelsea and Glen quickly move to attempt planting the cutting. However, the Proxy's worshippers appear, and make another attempt on Chelsea's life...only for the Republic's sacred bird to swoop in and save her!

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“You being emperor makes your foster daughter Micah the princess, huh, Royz?” Lord Glen commented from beside me, seemingly having read my mind.

What? I’ve been having a princess make my meals? As my eyes widened in shock, Miss Micah cried out.

“I’m not a princess~! I’m... I’m Chelsea’s personal chef~” she said, ears drooping as she sat beside Lord Royz.

“She’s always hated being treated like a princess,” he explained, patting her on the head.

Ever since she’d become my personal chef, she hadn’t tried to go home to Radzuel even once. I’d suggested it a few times, thinking she’d like to see how her foster father was doing, but she always said she wouldn’t go home unless she had business there. And here I was, dragging her home.

“Miss Micah, I’m sorry for forcing you to come back here,” I apologized, only for the foxwoman to shake her head.

“I mean, yeah, but no~! I wanted to visit home, but I just didn’t want to be treated like a princess~ That was why I wasn’t gonna go home unless I had to. Don’t worry~!” she said, waving both hands towards me. “And I’d decided in the first place that I’d always be your personal chef—right until you tell me you don’t want me anymore~ I wouldn’t go home if I didn’t have a reason to~!”

I’d heard that most of the people who worked in the Kingdom of Chronowize sometimes took vacations to go back to their homes. But from how she was speaking, it sounded like Miss Micah had been planning on staying with me forever if she didn’t have a reason otherwise...

“Us beastmen’ll serve the master we swear fealty to until they either die or tell us they don’t need us anymore,” Lord Royz said, stroking his foster daughter’s hair.

“But I don’t remember Miss Micah ever swearing fealty to—”

“I did!” she interjected, shaking her head. “You saved Lord Royz...father’s life~!”

A year and a half before, Lord Royz was clinging to life as he suffered from an illness known as Mana Deficiency Disease. It was because of that that I created the “Elixir Seed,” a seed that could cure any status ailment and restore a person’s mana to its maximum. After drinking the liquid inside of the seed, Lord Royz’s disease was instantly cured, and he regained his position as Radzuel’s emperor.

“It’s completely normal for people to swear fealty to the person who saved their life. I swore fealty to you back then too, didn’t I, Lady Chelsea?” Lord Royz asked.

Now that I thought about it, I could remember him saying something like that back then.

“Yes, you did,” I replied with a nod.

He gave me a happy smile before looking over at Miss Micah.

“I won’t let anyone complain about becoming your personal chef. They’re actually pretty happy about that. But Micah being my daughter is another story, so she’ll have to dress up while she’s here.”

Miss Micah groaned a little before reluctantly nodding.

“Let’s get to business,” Lord Royz started once things had settled down. “I’ll ask you straight out. Why are you going to the Martec Republic to plant a Spirit Tree cutting?”

The truth was that our true destination wasn’t Radzuel, but the Martec Republic in the northwest of the continent.

“Where should I start...” Lord Glen muttered, putting a hand to his mouth. “You remember the man who caused all the trouble in Radzuel a year and a half ago?”

“You mean that swindler who tricked Bearsley when he was the emperor, got him to chop down all of the Spirit Trees in the Empire, and caused the entire mess with the miasma?”

The swindler they were talking about had attacked us with monsters called Sand Scorpions on our way back to Chronowize. Sand Scorpions were actually very delicious when eaten, so the guard knights with us defeated them in an instant so that Miss Micah could use her [Cooking] Skill to butcher them. We ate them afterwards.

“Men with the same title as that swindler—‘Worshiper of the Proxy, Driven by Envy’—appeared in the capital of Chronowize.”

One of Lord Royz’s eyebrows raised up, and he crossed his arms.

“They have two objectives,” Lord Glen continued, putting up two fingers. “One is destroying the Spirit Tree. The second is killing Chelsea. For that reason, they stole herbs being grown at a marquis’s residence in order to use them on monsters and make them go berserk.”

Lord Royz shot to his feet, eyes wide.

“We caught all of the ones that were in the capital, and neither Chelsea nor the Spirit Tree were harmed.”

“I was completely unharmed,” I said, following up on Lord Glen’s explanation. Lord Royz looked relieved to hear that, and flopped back down on the sofa.

“We used Micah’s [Interrogation] Skill to get them to spit out everything they knew.”

“They were all weird~! They were targeting Chelsea because the Proxy saw her in a magic mirror and said she couldn’t forgive her, or something~!” Miss Micah complained with a pout.

A magic mirror was apparently an object that could show you any place in the world.

“So the Proxy is behind all of this.”

Miss Micah shook her head. “We can’t be sure about that~!”

“The one who gave the orders to the men we’d captured wasn’t the Proxy, but a man who was her attendant,” Lord Glen clarified, only for Ele to finally speak up.

«The Proxy...is an old friend of mine. She is not someone who would approve of murder,» he said from his spot beside me, raising his head and looking determined. «I’d like to meet with her directly and learn the truth.»

“Since we know where she is, I think asking her directly is a good idea,” Lord Glen said.

Lord Royz looked confused at Lord Glen’s words. “What does any of that have to do with planting a Spirit Tree cutting?”

«So that’s why!»

Just as Lord Royz was re-crossing his arms, a large, bright-red bird appeared inside the room. It’s Irene, the Spirit of Fire that he was contracted to. Irene had appeared from Radzuel’s Spirit Tree when I planted it, and we were pen pals.

«It’s been quite a long time, Lady Chelsea.» When I smiled back at her, the bird-formed Spirit moved to Lord Royz’s side, opposite from Miss Micah. «As I told you before, the Four Great Spirits erected a barrier around the Demonic Forest where Her Lady the Proxy lives. Until that barrier is removed, we cannot enter.»

“Then why not just call ’em all out and get it gone?” Lord Royz complained, only for the Spirit to shake her head.

«In accordance with ancient limitations, only one Great Spirit may appear from each cutting, planted about a country’s distance away from each other.»

“That’s a pain in the ass.” Lord Royz retorted, sighing.

«This alone is something we Spirits cannot do anything about...» Ele said in response as he slumped down.

“So because of all of that, we’ve asked other countries to allow us to plant cuttings of the Spirit Tree,” Lord Glen followed up. “The Martec Republic responded immediately, so we’re headed there.”

“I see.” The dragonman nodded.

“That’s why we’d like permission to approach Radzuel’s Spirit Tree the morning of our departure, just as I’d mentioned in my letters.”

“Oh yeah, you said you’d be going to get the cutting you need to plant.”

Spirits, their contractors, and those who had the Spirit’s permission could use the Spirit Trees to go to the Spirit World, and then to another Tree from there. We were going to use that method to go from Radzuel’s Tree to the Spirit Tree of Origin in Chronowize to pick up the cutting branch.

“But why do you need to go the morning you’re leaving?” Lord Royz asked, tilting his head with a hand to his chin.

“Spirit Trees are plants too, so Ele needs to constantly be casting magic to prevent the branch from drying out or being harmed until it’s planted,” I explained, getting nods from the cat-formed Spirit.

«It is incredibly taxing to maintain this cast, so I would like to leave the cutting to the last minute we can.»

“Oh, then do you want me to take you to the border? If I bring you, the fifteen-day trip’ll only take half a day,” Lord Royz offered.

Ele immediately shot up to stand on his hind legs.

«That would be a great help!» the Spirit King said, eyes sparkling as he stretched his front legs out in joy.

Kitties are so cute when they stand up like that... I thought, watching him out of the corner of my eye.

Then, Lord Royz continued, “In exchange, I’d like for you guys to stay here longer.”

“We’ve already told Martec when we’d planned to reach the border gate, so staying longer is no problem, but...” Lord Glen put a hand to his mouth, thinking.

“I’ll get horses ready for you from the town closest to the border gate, and contact the inns that you were planning on staying at for you. How about it?”

“Seems you really wanna keep us,” Lord Glen said, smiling wryly.

“Is anything the matter?” I asked worriedly, only to get a headshake of denial.

“We’ve got no problems....

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2022
• Reihe/Serie: I'll Never Set Foot in That House Again!
• Reihe/Serie: I'll Never Set Foot in That House Again!
• Illustrationen: Milli-gram
• Übersetzer: Milli-gram
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: female protagonist • Light Novel • Mana • shoujo • skill usage
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-4904-1 / 1718349041
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-4904-9 / 9781718349049