Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters! Volume 7 (eBook)
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7830-8 (ISBN)
Over the eastern mountains! Lately, Sara's life has been going swimmingly! She's been enjoying her time in Hydrangea with Nelly and her friends, with no pesky requests from the capital to deal with. However, all this changes when a pair of letters arrive at the Wolverié household from Nelly's sister Latifah, the wife of a lord in the lands to the east. One letter requests Nelly's presence, and the other, Sara's-as it turns out, there's a new Invited staying with Latifah's family, and this Invited needs Sara's help! And so, Sara and the gang head east, planning to take care of an infestation of green grass locusts while they're there. Will this journey finally be the thing to shake up Sara's quiet life for good?
Over the eastern mountains! Lately, Sara's life has been going swimmingly! She's been enjoying her time in Hydrangea with Nelly and her friends, with no pesky requests from the capital to deal with. However, all this changes when a pair of letters arrive at the Wolverie household from Nelly's sister Latifah, the wife of a lord in the lands to the east. One letter requests Nelly's presence, and the other, Sara's-as it turns out, there's a new Invited staying with Latifah's family, and this Invited needs Sara's help! And so, Sara and the gang head east, planning to take care of an infestation of green grass locusts while they're there. Will this journey finally be the thing to shake up Sara's quiet life for good?
Prologue: News Always Comes Unexpectedly
The spoon clanked against the edge of the pot.
“Phew. It’s done.” Sara wiped the summer sweat from her brow with her sleeve and happily waited for the sediment to sink to the bottom of the potion solution and for the liquid to turn clear. “No matter how many times I experience it, I love this moment.”
“I agree.” Even the apothecaries who’d tested her when she’d first come to Hydrangea had long since acknowledged her strength and were amicable colleagues now.
“I learned how fun gathering plants is from you, Sara, but making potions like this is the true fun of being an apothecary.”
Other apothecaries busily making potions here and there at the different tables all nodded in agreement.
“You learned how to handle white moonlight mushrooms and make dragon repellent this winter, so you’ve grown into an apothecary we can lend out anywhere, Sara. You even talk like a full-fledged apothecary now.”
“You really think so? I think so too!” Back in Japan, she might have been humble, but there was no need to be modest here in Trilgaia. Still, when Sara lifted her head high, one of her senior apothecaries gave her a cautioning look.
“Don’t get full of yourself!”
Someone laughed at the exchange. Sara wondered if the atmosphere would be so friendly if this were Rosa’s Apothecary’s Guild. What about Camellia’s or the capital’s? All the other Apothecary’s Guilds she’d visited had been a lot more tense in atmosphere.
“In the capital... No, never mind.” She was about to voice the thought, but she decided against it. No matter how comfortable she found her current workplace, it didn’t feel good to bad-mouth other guilds.
“It’s fine. I know what you mean.” The apothecary who responded to her with a faraway look was one who had gone to the capital last fall to help out with the dragon culling and had just gotten back. Sara had gone herself two and a half years ago when she was fourteen, but since then they’d been sending other people.
“Unlike here in Hydrangea, there’s a big difference between nobles and commoners in the capital, and there are a lot of people in the guild trying to get a better life for themselves however they can. It really wasn’t the kind of place where you could talk about how much fun you had making potions.”
It seemed Sara wasn’t the only one who’d found the air in the Apothecary’s Guild in the capital to be tense.
“I’m really glad Mona and Heather were there in the capital. And Noel too, of course. Speaking of which...” The apothecary gave Sara a pointed look. “Your rumored fiancé, Liam?”
“He’s not my fiancé.”
Noel had marched into Hydrangea last year as Sara’s new fiancé candidate, yet for some reason that old rumor was still circulating in the capital. This frustrated Sara immensely. Everyone in this guild knew neither Liam nor Noel were her actual fiancé, so this apothecary was only teasing her, but Sara had to reflexively deny the allegation nonetheless.
“I was surprised to hear he’s already the vice commander of the knights.”
“That was surprising.”
Sara and her senior apothecary were likely surprised about different things, however. Her senior, she guessed, was simply surprised that he could achieve vice commander at his age, but Sara was surprised that he’d been promoted instead of demoted despite not accomplishing much of anything during the dragon culling and the continental tortoise incident.
“I guess that’s just how powerful the prime minister’s family is,” Sara mused.
“I’m sure that’s part of it, but they probably also just don’t have anyone else who can do the—ahem, ahem.”
The apothecary had a coughing fit while answering for some reason. Sara didn’t think there was any need to worry. They were all apothecaries here, after all.
It seemed the reason Liam had been made vice commander was simply because the knights were short-staffed.
“Sara! We’re back!”
“Hey, Sara.”
The door swung open without any knocking and Allen and Kuntz strode in. They were allowed such a transgression because they showed an un-Hunter-like consideration for the Apothecary’s Guild. They never neglected to bring white moonlight mushrooms along with them to keep the apothecaries happy despite the fact that no other Hunters ever wanted to gather them. They were up-and-coming Hunters with a lot of expectations on them not just in Hydrangea but in Trilgaia at large.
“Allen! Kuntz too. Welcome back.”
They were also Sara’s good friends, and whenever they had time, they picked her up from the Apothecary’s Guild and walked her home to the mansion of the local lord, Ri, where she resided. She knew that when they didn’t come to pick her up, they were staying late in the dungeon or even spending the night down there, so she would quietly wish them well-done on their day of work and head home on her own.
Sara was one of the Invited, a guest in this world from another one, and she could use barrier magic to protect herself, so her defensive capabilities were probably better than anyone else’s in the country. For that reason, she really didn’t need an escort, but she still enjoyed chatting with her good friends on their way home.
“We saw Chris at the Hunter’s Guild. Looks like he’s finally back from the capital.” As always, Kuntz got the conversation started.
“Oh yeah? The apothecaries who went with him just got back too. I bet Chris is going into the dungeon, stuck to Nelly like a bur.”
“You ‘bet’?” Allen laughed, but how was Sara supposed to know what Chris was doing, whether or not he was another guest of Ri’s?
“Well, it’s Chris. He’s got no interest in anything but Nelly, so all I can do is assume he’s wherever she is.”
“True, he didn’t seem to notice us at all at the Guild.”
He was probably the most talented apothecary in Trilgaia, but he became completely useless anytime Nelly was around.
“I heard he only became guildmaster of the Apothecary’s Guild in Rosa because it meant he could be near her.”
“But he’s in such high demand that he keeps getting pulled here and there, so he can’t be with her all that much anyway. If you think about it that way...” The three of them all exchanged a glance and nodded. “It makes sense he’d want to be with Nelly as much as he can.”
“Even if all he can think about is her.”
Sara laughed at everyone’s opinion of Chris. As a fellow apothecary and someone who’d traveled with him, she knew very well how talented he was even with his one-track mind.
“When are they gonna get together anyway?” Kuntz asked a question that was none of his business, but everyone in Hydrangea was thinking the same thing.
“Nelly seems happy enough with the status quo, so nothing’s gonna change without some kind of impetus,” was Sara’s opinion.
“I’d be frustrated leaving the person I like somewhere someone else could snatch her away.”
Sara looked up at Kuntz. The three of them had never talked about romance or marriage before, so she was surprised he was getting so into the topic. She was surprised he thought Nelly was in a position to be snatched away too.
“Do you mean there’s someone else who...well...likes Nelly?” she asked him.
“I’m curious too. I never noticed anything like that.” Allen was just as surprised as Sara.
“Why are you two so clueless? There’s nobody who’s being obvious about it, but Nelly’s popular at the Hunter’s Guild here. There are any number of single Hunters and plenty of opportunity for someone’s interest in her to turn to attraction.”
“Y-You think so?”
“H-Huh...”
It was the moment Kuntz first truly looked like an adult in Sara’s eyes.
True, Nelly was so youthful it was hard to imagine she was over forty, and she was beautiful regardless of her age. In Rosa, her strength was the thing that stood out about her most, but here in Hydrangea, it wasn’t only her ability as a Hunter people took notice of. They liked her for her blunt and surprisingly caring personality, and her looks as well, of course.
“So—waugh!” Sara was about to ask Kuntz a follow-up question when someone tapped her on the shoulder from behind and she shot into the air. She had her barrier up, of course, so she only felt the sensation of someone tapping the protective wall around her.
“Ha ha ha. I’ve been behind you this whole time, but you never noticed. Aren’t the three of you supposed to be ‘promising young Hunters’?”
Nelly looked thrilled that she’d pulled off her little prank. Sara found her adorable as always, but this much, she had to say first: “Don’t count me as a Hunter.”
“Ha ha ha.” She was cute laughing Sara’s comment off as well. Sara couldn’t help giving her an indulgent smile in return.
“You should have said something if you noticed us. I spotted you at the Guild too.” This was Chris, who was stuck to Nelly like her shadow.
“You saw us? It sure didn’t look like it.”
“Of course I did. I’m always keeping a...
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters! |
| Illustrationen | Kaya |
| Übersetzer | Kaya |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
| Schlagworte | camping and survival • female protagonist • found family • isekai light novel • lighthearted slow life • magic and monsters • money grind |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7183-7830-0 / 1718378300 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7183-7830-8 / 9781718378308 |
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