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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
King Filip of the Flores Kingdom peeled his eyes away from the information provided by his own son.
“What is this?”
“What is it? Nothing, really, it’s just that Master Kousuke entered the Flores Kingdom yesterday.”
King Filip held his head in his hands as Alec repeated the same thing in a cool tone of voice, his emotions boiling over at once.
“…Yesterday?”
“Yes. It was reported to me a few minutes ago that he entered yesterday.”
“… Can I ask why the report was delayed for a day? No, that’s not it, why didn’t you tell me he was going to arrive here in the first place?”
He looked slightly resentful. If he was told in advance, he could have responded in a number of ways.
“That’s because I was prevented, of course.”
“No, no matter how much you were prevented, at least give us some information…”
“Don’t be silly. If I did that, I would be blamed. I don’t want to willingly take such a risk when we’re doing so well.”
Alec couldn’t say that he would be able to take a few risks.
In the first place, even the magic tool for long-distance communication that he was using now had been made by Kousuke.
Alec did not believe that Kousuke would tap over such conversations currently, but Alec was unable to say that he would not be able to check the communication records later.
Incidentally, Kousuke did not actually add such a function, but there were several ways to find out without going to the trouble of adding such a function.
The easiest way would be to use magic.
“You say so, but…”
He almost agreed with Alec for a moment because he understood what Alec was saying, but as the King of a country, he was not convinced.
King Filip was about to blame Alec for that, but then he realized something.
The King finally realized…
“…By any chance, will you not be able to tell me more information beyond entering the country, right?”
To King Filip’s question, Alec paused for a moment.
“Very insightful. That’s right.”
His son’s heartless reply nearly made King Filip fall down, as if it was a bad joke.
The King wanted to scream, “What the hell is this joke?”
To say that he couldn’t even tell the King which town in the kingdom to locate Kousuke would be like saying he wouldn’t be able to provide support when something happened.
“…Are you saying that he doesn’t want us to help him with anything?”
King Filip was a perceptive King Filip.
He was able to guess Alec’s, or rather Kousuke’s, intentions.
“That’s correct, Kousuke-dono is supposed to enter the kingdom as an ordinary adventurer. Identifying him would be…”
Alec was about to say that it was impossible, but he stopped.
He came up with a reason why, but he couldn’t be certain.
“What? What is it?”
King Filip asked with faint hope, but Alec showed hesitation for a moment before providing the information.
“Well. you see, about Kousuke-dono, there are times when he thinks he’s being normal, but the people around him would not believe so.”
“….What do you mean?”
King Filip’s face twitched as he sensed something disturbing about to be mentioned.
“In some cases, he will sometimes exhibit a disposition that will get into trouble more easily than normal people. Well, he is not a normal being to begin with.”
King Filip was about to retort that he was not a human, but a God, but he stopped himself just before he did so.
It would be no use telling Alec such a thing.
It was more important to get the information from Alec.
“… You mean he’s a troublemaker?”
“Well, to put it simply, he attracts trouble.”
Alec’s reply once again left King Filip scratching his head.
It was not going to end well for the Flores Kingdom, no matter how he looked at it.
“Hearing that made me think that If I could, I’d give up the throne as soon as I possibly could.”
It was a joke that could only be said with no one around and Alec as the person he was talking to.
“Don’t say that. You’re going to have a new great-grandchild soon, so stay healthy until then.”
“Wait a minute! New great-grandchildren? What do you mean?”
King Filip was more astonished than he had ever been, and Alec looked triumphant.
“It’s no big deal, Floria is pregnant right now. It’s a shame she won’t be able to show you, your great-grandchild.”
“Uggghhhh…”
Filip showed a frustrated expression at the information from Alec.
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Kousuke and his team were currently in a town called Eiren in the Flores Kingdom.
The town of Eiren served as a point of contact with the Kingdom of Ayrica, and there was a checkpoint a short walk away from the town.
Currently, the Flores Kingdom and the Kingdom of Ayrica maintained a good relationship, and war between the two kingdoms had never taken place.
Therefore, the people did not place strong importance on defense.
The Kingdom of Ayrica was the closest country to the Central Continent in the Eastern Continent.
There was also a sea route between the Central Continent and Flores Kingdom, but they preferred to take the land route.
However, since Kousuke’s group were riding on flying dragons, they took a shortcut by air.
In this world, there was no awareness of the air route, so it would have been a complete blind spot.
The reason he took the trouble to enter the Flores Kingdom was, of course, to blind the upper echelons of the kingdom.
There was no telling how they would treat Kousuke if they knew he had entered the Kingdom.
At the very least, he would be welcomed at the royal palace.
Kousuke did not want that to happen, so he dared to use a method.
Kousuke was accompanied by three members, plus one dog: Mitsuki, Peach, Wanri, and Nana.
Kouhi and Sylvia were attending to the pregnant Floria, while Shrein and Collete did not join because they had to manage their own towers.
Peach followed because she basically had nothing to do in relation to the Defrayer clan.
Haku stayed behind to escort Shrein and Collete, who sometimes patrol the towers.
Haku herself did not seem particularly interested in human activities, perhaps due to her dragon heritage, and did not seem particularly disappointed to have to remain at the tower.
Her expression did not change at all when Kousuke left her.
Kousuke’s reaction to this was that maybe she was in the rebellious phase of her life.
He was not sure if it was actually true, though.
The town of Eiren, as seen from Kousuke’s perspective, had an atmosphere somewhat reminiscent of Southeast Asia.
However, this was just the impression he got from the scenery he saw on TV, so it may not be accurate.
The buildings seemed to be made of wood rather than stone.
The view from the sky showed that there were forests in the surrounding area, so it was likely that they cut down trees there to be used as building materials.
There were many merchants in the town, which was connected to a checkpoint.
There seemed to be adventurers escorting these merchants.
From their base in Eiren, they could travel to other towns in the Flores Kingdom or to the Kingdom of Ayrica to peddle their wares.
The main street was wide, perhaps because it was originally intended for the passage of an army.
There seemed to be many merchants and many horse-drawn carriages.
At least, there were more carriages than Kousuke had seen in the town at the Central Continent.
However, the large scale merchant corps of the Crown was excluded, of course.
For now, Kousuke decided to stay at an inn and take a rest on the day they arrived.
They would start their activities in earnest from tomorrow.
First, they decided to visit a public guild in the town of Eiren.
Without first visiting the guild, they would not know how their guild card would be handled.
Just to be safe, Kousuke had already renewed his guild card at the official guild in the Kingdom of Ayrica.
Since the Continent had changed, Kousuke thought he had to make a new one, but that did not seem to be necessary.
It took about the same amount of time as the update he did in the city of Central Continent, so it was a bit of a letdown.
Since the update work in Flores Kingdom was not implemented yet, nothing would be known until they visited the public guilds tomorrow.
Tomorrow, activities in Flores Kingdom would begin in earnest, so the first important task would be to prepare a Guild Card.
