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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 54: The Malbeek Territory 1/4
Volume 2 Chapter 54: The Malbeek Territory 1/4
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“Thank you for taking care of me.”
Cain thanked the people seeing him off full of energy.
They were the Geletta family, with whom he’d stayed the night.
“Then, I’m counting on you for the letter. But still, are you sure you don’t want to go by carriage?”
Cain shook his head in response to Santos’ question.
“I’m currently an adventurer, not a noble. Also, moving on my own would be faster anyway. I’ll definitely give the letter to my parents.”
With the letter addressed to Sarah and Garm safely tucked away in his pocket, Cain bowed his head in gratitude for a final time, saying ‘Next time, I’ll come with my family,’ then turned and walked away.
When he had arrived at the mansion, he had been in a carriage, so he had not had a chance to see the town, but walking through it now, it was quite obviously prospering.
People were coming and going from the morning, and many street vendors could be seen.
“What a nice town… Next time, I’ll bring mother and Reine-nee-sama with me.”
Cain murmured to himself while passing through the town towards the gate.
Having gone through the gate, he began walking along the highway that led to Malbeek. Then, after confirming that there was no-one else around, he rose up into the sky with [Fly].
Cain flew along a couple dozen meters above the ground, following the road.
As he neared Malbeek, more and more carriages accompanied by knights could be seen coming and going along the highway.
Then, his destination, the capital of the Malbeek territory, came into view.
The town was surrounded by mountains, which encircled mainly its opposite side from Cain’s location, and columns of steam rose from all over the place.
“Don’t tell me those are… hot springs?”
Cain possessed memories of his previous life, where he had been a Japanese person, which meant he liked baths more than the average person. He was also a sucker for hot springs.
Thinking that maybe, just maybe, he might be able to go to a hot spring, Cain landed a short distance away from the town and began walking towards the gates.
The guard at the gate was inspecting the cargo being brought in, only letting people pass after giving them permission.
Cain went and stood in the end of the queue, which slowly, bit-by-bit, progressed onwards toward the gate.
“Aight, next! You’re new, arent’cha? With that outfit, you must be an adventurer, right?”
When Cain finally got to the front of the line, the guard asked him while looking at how he was dressed.
“Yes, I’m an adventurer. I’ve come on a trip to see this town on my own.”
Cain pulled out his guild card from his pocket and showed it to the guard. As soon as his eyes fell on the glittering golden guild card, the guard was shocked.
“A-Rank at that age… Your luggage is…just that. Aight, go on.”
Being approved by the guard, Cain passed through the gate.
Compared to the fact that it was the capital of a duke’s territory, the town wasn’t all that large. On the other hand though, as Cain was walking along, he went past numerous inns that seemed to have hot springs.
There were many inns with people standing in front of them, calling out to potential customers.
“Dear customers! Our hot springs are the best!? Do come in!”
“Our hot springs are better!”
Cain ignored the people shouting advertisements for their inns, trying to attract customers, and continued along while looking at the town.
“With this many hot spring inns, I can’t tell which ones are good and which ones not… ”
He had already passed by some twenty inns.
“Hmmmmm. I don’t know which ones the good inns are. Ah, maybe I can go ask the guild…”
Thinking it would be the best course of action to ask the locals about which inns were the best, Cain asked a passer-by the location of the guild and jogged over to it.
The guild turned out to be a building in the center of the town, with a signboard with a sword and shield on it hanging over the doorway. Although it didn’t measure up to Drintor’s guild building, it was still quite impressive in its own way.
Cain opened the double doors and went inside. Instantly, the gazes of all the adventurers inside gathered on him, but after seeing he was just a child, they turned back soon enough.
Cain went up to a currently free receptionist lady, and asked her a question.
“I’m sorry. I only came to this town today, so could you please tell me where I could find a hot spring inn you would recommend?”
The receptionist lady had at first assumed he wanted to accept a request, but smiled when it turned out he was just there to ask about a hot springs inn.
“– – A hot springs inn, you say? Depending on your adventurer Rank, there are various inns I can introduce you to, but…”
“I’ve already registered, if that’s what you’re worried about. Let me just get my adventurers card out of my pocket – – ”
“You’re in the way brat. An Iron wants a bath, you say? That’s too good for the likes of you! If you want a bath just go ask that annoyingly loud bunch outside.”
Just as Cain was about to get his guild card out of his pocket, a voice that could only mean trouble came from behind him.
Wondering whether this would be another template entanglement, Cain sighed and turned around. Standing there was a large man, resembling a warrior, who seemed to be a little drunk, as his face was quite red.
“…you should probably get out of his way.”
Ignoring the receptionist lady calling out to him from behind, Cain answered the man expressionlessly.
“I’m currently having a conversation, could you not intrude? I’ll be leaving as soon as I’m finished, okay.”
Dismissing the drunken man, Cain turned back to the receptionist lady.
The man’s face, which was already red from drinking alcohol, turned even redder as he became more and more furious.
“You fucking brat!”
As the man raised his hand, Cain turned around in a split second and knocked his feet out from under him. Then, holding his fist in front of the man’s face, he asked.
“You still wanna go…?”
The adventurer, who couldn’t comprehend how he had just ended up on the floor, was dumbfounded.
Of course, so were the adventurers who had been observing the whole thing.
Cain then took his guild card out of his pocket and placed it on the counter.
This young boy in front of them all, who still looked like a child, had taken out a golden guild card.
“A- A- A-Rank!? Please forgive my rudeness earlier.”
Naturally, the receptionist lady couldn’t hide her surprise. Her voice echoed in the suddenly silent guild hall, which had become deathly quiet.
Both the adventurer who had picked a fight with Cain, and the onlooker were equally shocked.
Cain sighed at the fact that his being A-Rank was revealed.
Hearing the surrounding adventurers start discussing the current situation in whispers, Cain started talking to the receptionist lady once again.
“I don’t mind if it’s expensive. I’d just like to go to a place with a nice bath and good cooking, please.”
“Y-y-yes! Please wait just a second. I’ll have the information for you in a moment.”
The receptionist, suddenly speaking formally, stood up from her seat and went to get some materials for explanation.
She came back soon enough, and began explaining to Cain.
“As you’re an A-Rank, I would recommend this inn… It has an open-air bath, and they also have a reputation for making good food. Just show them your guild card, and you will probably even get a discount.”
“Yeah, I’ll go there then.”
Feeling all the gazes from his surroundings on him, Cain took a town map with him, and hurriedly left the guild.
“Why would anyone pick a fight with a child if they’re drunk…”
As the inn he had been referred to was a little way away, Cain walked around the town as if looking for something.
Then, Cain entered an alley within sight of the inn.
Yes, for he had indeed been followed by a number of people.
Turning around, Cain smiled at the people who had followed him into the alley.
“You need something?”
Unsurprised, the adventurers stopped and pulled out their swords.
There were five of them, including the soldier-like man he’d knocked over earlier.
“This brat is A-Rank, you say? Don’t screw around with me. That was either some trick to fool our eyes, or you stole it from someone. Which is it? And how dare you embarrass me?”
“If this brat was going to stay at a good inn, he’s gotta be loaded, right? C’mon hand it over. If you do, we’ll only beat you half to death, cos’ we’re forgiving, see.”
The five of them drew closer to Cain, smirking.
Driven by the desire to get into the open-air bath in the inn as soon as possible, Cain decided to finish this quickly.
However, as his enemies had already drawn their swords, he had no intention of letting them off easily.
In a split second, Cain was standing before one of the men, whom he then punched in the gut. Cain, possessing a status so OP it could be thought of as a bug, was now able to move at such speeds that the human eye could not keep up with him.
“Oof”
The man, punched by Cain, flew all the way out onto the main street.
As a person had just suddenly flown out of a side alley, there was a commotion on the main street.
“Okay, next!”
Saying so, Cain sent a roundhouse kick at the next man.
“Oof”
And like that, he removed the adventurers from the alley one after the other, until only the man who had picked a fight with him in the guild earlier was left.
“Now then, it’s just you left, eh…”
Trembling at Cain’s overwhelming strength, he swung his word at Cain’s head.
The moment he thought his swing had connected, it turned out Cain had stopped the sword by holding it between his index and middle fingers.
“You want to kill me with this old thing?”
At those words, the man let go of his sword, and, falling on his behind, started backing away from Cain.
“Mo-monster…”
“What a monster indeed, picking a fight with a simple child… Horrible, right?”
As the man was sitting on the ground, his face was at just the right height for Cain to kick it. So he did, sending the man flying out onto the main street.
“Honestly. The hot springs are waiting for me, y’know…”
Quietly complaining to himself, Cain returned to the main street.
Coming out of the alley back onto the main road, just as he was about to head to the inn, someone called out to him.
“Oy, you there! Did you do these people in?”
Cain turned around, only to see the guards approaching him.
“That lot followed me here from the guild, told me to hand over my money, and then finally pulled out their swords and attacked me with them, all right? It was legitimate self-defense, okay? Go ask them about what happened.”
Cain explained, all in one breath, as he now really wanted to go to the hot springs. Then, turning around towards the inn, he noticed that the guard’s reinforcement had arrived.
However, they weren’t guards, but knights. And among the five of them, one, who was wearing luxurious armour stepped up. He was a young man with light purple hair, and he looked like he had only just become an adult.
Hearing about the situation from the guard, he approached Cain.
“I’m Deleeta von Santana. No matter the circumstances, I will not tolerate violence in this town. So, you’re coming with us.”
He could have escaped there and then, but hearing the name ‘Santana’, Cain nodded obediently.
(This person is definitely Silk’s family…)
Deleeta seemed satisfied with Cain having expressed his intention of coming along obediently.
“All right. You saying so certainly saved us some time. Oy, carry that lot on the ground over there! We’ll be taking them with us too.”
At Deleeta’s orders, the guards picked up the unconscious adventurers from the ground.
“Well then, you come along too. And, now don’t take this the wrong way, but I’ll have someone walk along on either side of you.”
A knight went and stood on each side of Cain, and, under Deleeta’s leadership, they began walking.
(I wonder if they’ll let me enter a hot spring…)
Cain’s head was now filled with nothing but thoughts about hot springs.
And, a little while later, Cain was in prison.
