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Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World – the Apostle of the Gods Who Know No Self-Restraint (Web Novel) - Volume 2 Chapter 47: A Year Later … and Then
Volume 2 Chapter 47: A Year Later … and Then
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Today is the anniversary of his death.
That day during the summer holidays a year ago. The anniversary of the death of Kazuya, who died protecting Aimi.
Aimi has now graduated from middle school, and enrolled in the same high school as I go to. I too, have advanced a year, and am now in my third year of high school.
During our second year, Kazuya’s seat in the classroom was kept out of respect, but now that we’re in our third year, they obviously didn’t prepare a seat for him.
A whole year has passed now, and nobody talks about Kazuya any more at school.
Although at home, I still talk about Kazuya with Aimi and my family, usually while looking at pictures taken of us together when we were still little in a photo album.
Today, three of us went to visit Kazuya’s grave.
Even though it should have been only the two of us.1
“Heey, Saori, c’mon, let’s finish this grave visit already and go hang out.”
The person who called out to me like this was Gou Taniichi, who had been my classmate since our second year.
He called out to me, asking if I needed anything, when I was constantly depressed because of Kazuya dying. He had also originally been Kazuya’s classmate, and he even came to visit his grave.
“Oneechan, it’s been a whole year now hasn’t it?”
Aimi asked while lighting an incense stick in front of the grave.
Aimi too, is now a high school student, and she now seems a bit more grown-up. Her hair, which during her middle school years had only reached her shoulders, now stretched all the way down to her chest.
“Yeah, now that I think about it. The year went by so fast.”
Aimi gave me an incense stick, and I put it down at Kazuya’s grave, dedicating it to him.
“I’m sure Kazuya-niichan went to heaven, right? He did save me after all.”
In answer to Aimi’s question, I could only nod.
Having offered flowers and incense, we left Kazuya’s grave.
“Hey, it’s been a year already, right? I know you had a crush on Kazuya, but there’s no point in thinking about a dead guy anymore, so why not look for the next guy?”
Taniichi’s words made both me and my little sister frown.
“– – shutup…”
I involuntarily put my thoughts into words.
Although I knew that I wouldn’t be able to meet Kazuya ever again, I hadn’t been able to organize my thoughts even after a year.
Both me and my little sister were irritated by Taniichi’s insensitive words.
“We’ll be going home now. See you.”
“Goodbye, Taniichi-senpai.”
Coldly saying that to Taniichi, Aimi and I returned home.
I heard Taniichi saying something behind me, but I ignored him.
After having returned home, I laid down on my bed and looked through the messages I had once exchanged with Kazuya on my phone.
“Kazuya, you, you really did go to heaven, right?”
I murmured, holding my phone in one hand.
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“A-a-a-achoo!”
“Cain-sama, did you catch a cold?”
“Cain-kun, are you okay?”
The two of them became a bit worried at Cain’s huge smeeze.
“Maybe someone’s spreading rumours about me?”
The two of them were amazed at the reply Cain gave while laughing it off.
“Yes, that might actually be true. Cain-sama does tend to to all sorts of unexpected things, my father is always worrying about what will happen.”
“My father always starts laughing when he hears about the things Cain-kun does.”
Cain sipped his tea while thinking he hadn’t done anything too extreme.
It was after school, and Cain was having a tea party with Telestia and Silk on a terrace of the royal castle.
The terrace looked down upon a beautifully maintained garden that surrounded the royal castle.
Also in the vicinity of the table the three of them were sitting at, there were three maids who worked at the royal castle, preparing a second serving of black tea and sweets.
“Cain-sama, as you’ve been so busy lately and we thus haven’t gone out anywhere together, I’ve been feeling quite lonely.”
“Cain-kun, you’re only ten years old but already a viscount. My father told me that we only need to wait a little bit more, and then our engagements will be made public.”
“I too, want to be able to proudly say ‘Cain-sama is my fiance’ as soon as possible.”
As he had been extremely busy directly after being appointed the lord of Drintor, Cain hadn’t had the time to just relax and drink tea, just the three of them.
But now he had gotten Alec appointed as the deputy governor, and Letia was taking care of the guild, so things had calmed down quite a bit.
However, this was but a brief respite, as he was planning on earnestly working alongside Alec and Lula on the internal affairs once the summer holidays came around.
“If possible, once the summer holidays are over would be a good time. Drintor will probably have quietened down by then.”
Cain wanted to expand the town of Drintor with the help of Alec and Lula doing internal affairs.
As during the summer holidays he’d be able to focus wholeheartedly on internal affairs, he wanted to get everything done all at once, while he still had the time.
“Silk and I will be going to the Malbeek territory during the summer holidays. It would be nice if you could accompany us, but seeing as it’s impossible, I’ll just have to put up with it.”
“Ah, I can’t accompany you on the way there, but I will be going to the Malbeek territory. It’ll probably only take two days. Anyway, I’ve got some things I made for you, so here, take them.”
Cain took out two boxes from his [Item Box] and handed them over to Teles and Silk.
Opening the boxes, their eyes widened in awe.
“What a lovely necklace…”
“Yeah, truly beautiful…”
Teles and Silk picked up their necklaces and stared at them, enraptured.
He had gifted the two of them a necklace made with [Creation Magic Production] out of magic stones and platinum each.
There was a beautiful, oval magic stone, about two centimeters long arranged on the platinum chain. The magic stone on Teles’ was red, the one on Silk’s green.
“I made them from magic stones and platinum. If you like them, go ahead and put them on.”
The two of them blushed.
As they had not yet officially announced their engagement, Cain was not allowed to touch Her Highness the Princess directly in public. So a maid put their necklaces on for them instead.
Looking at themselves in a pair of hand mirrors given to them by the maids, the two of them were at a loss for words.
“As those necklaces have my magic power inside them, if any danger were to befall you, just hold the magic stone tightly and put some of your magic power into it, and I’ll be alerted.”
As they were something made with Cain’s creation magic, they were things that not even the country’s best magic tool craftsmen could replicate, or, to put it another way, they were basically national treasures.
Nether Teles nor Silk understood just how valuable these necklaces were. Of course, neither did Cain.
The only thing that got through to the two girls was having received a present from Cain.
As for Cain, he’d only made them to lay his worries to rest.
The surrounding maids, on the other hand, broke out in cold sweats at hearing the three’s discussion.
After the tea party, walking home from the royal castle, someone called out to Cain from behind.
Looking back, Tifana smiled at Cain gently.
“My husband, it has been a long time. Lately, I haven’t had any mock battles with(f e l t l o v e d b y you, so I’ve been feeling quite lonely. As I still have a little free time, let’s go.”
Naturally, Cain had no reason to refuse, so he went to the training ground with Tifana, the Combat Maniac.
The maids reported everything to the Prime Minister, and a few days later, Cain was once again summoned to the royal castle.
1Aimi and Saori(from whose perspective this is) in case it wasn’t clear
