TL : Cnine

ED :

When she asking that middle aged adventurer later, it really not just to become a baggage holder for Lorraine, since he know by looking at the way she move her body and her action when she’s leaving for the commission the fact that she have no experience, so he added Lent as her guide, and that was the truth of the situation.

For this even Lorraine is perplexed since it doesn’t seems like that Adventurer Guild(Guild) will go that far for a mere novice adventurer.

But, maybe Lent and the middle-aged adventurer is suddenly catching the sight of Lorraine when looking at the situation of the adventurer from the bar-room which is annexed with the Adventurer Guild(Guild) , if she gows just like that, it seems that it’ll come to something that can’t be undone.

That’s why, in order to not hurting Lorraine pride, they decided to accompany her with following scenario called “Making use of Lent as a baggage carrier“, It seems that Lorraine is skillfully appreoached by those two.

“It was complicated matter”, Lorraine felt that way while feeling grat.i.tude for their concern.

　“As expected, the world I was looking at was narrow”. 

After all, she couldn’t see anything but what she held at hand. Lorraine is.

Despite she thought that there’s things that she know and a lot of things that she doesn’t know, she used to think that though she doesn’t know, it’s just few in number.

She didn’t even know the reality.

It seems that way.

And then, when it comes to Lent, it was because he’s the one who taught that middle-aged adventurer.

Lorraine was in Malt city for a short while after that.

That is, she’s enjoying the everyday life which she think as grey life up till now, it was the first time in her life that she felt a difficulties to leave this city.

But, Lorraine was originally coming to this city of this country by abandoning the duties that she should accomplish in her original place.

How many days and weeks have elapsed, the pestering from the people who get into a contact with Lorraine is acc.u.mulating, so she made a decision.

To go back for the last time.

And then, returning to this place again.

She already have no attachment to that place in the first place.

Though she love to life a live as a scholar herself, there’s nothing special she can do in that place.

That’s why she’s going to tidying everything, and then she must go back to this place, Lorraine departed to Malt city on a certain day.

But, when she actually returned, it seems that place is not dull like she previously expected.

When she’s trying to have a better look with open eyes, her friends and coworker is unexpectedly worrying about her, she understood that the place she was up till now wasn’t an empty position.

She might be not even see this scene again if she didn’t meet Lent.

Lorrain inner eyes is opened because she meet him.

That was what she feel.

But, even with that.

She wanted to go back to Malt city.

Though she feel bad for her coworkers, she want to go back by all means, a new friend, even if he’s old.

When she tell them about that, though they showed a desperate expression, they eventually accepting it.

Maybe because they feel it in their own ways that something has changed inside of Lorraine.

But, they attached few conditions instead.

Though they don’t mind her leaving the inner citadel to Malt city, they wish her to return at least once a year.

To deepening her friends.h.i.+p with them and, to announcing the result of her research in that one year.

And then, of course to not cut her contact with them.

She is easily accepting it if it’s just that much, and practically started that kind of action.

But, after she buy a house and starting to live alone, she understood just how much of a lazy person she is with that process.

Though she is diligently did her research since it’s her hobby, though at first she was regularly contacting the friend of her own country, she become sloppy as time goes on.

Wrong, though the other side is sending letter periodically, Lorraine reply is just when she feel like to replying it.

As for the matter of coming back once a year, this was her line of thought, “It’s almost the time, I wonder if I should be back this year”.

But, when she noticed, whether it’s replying the letter or going back, she making sure to do so after being pestered by Lent.

Why you ask that Lent know about such things, it’s because one of her friend send a letter to Lent and asking him to taking care for Lorraine.

It seems that her friend know very well that Lorraine won’t move unless someone told her to do so by someone else.

Practically, starting from when she begin to live alone, she’s ended up being taken care by Lent.

Maybe bacause Lorraince didn’t understand almost all of how and what she should do.

She receiving a teaching in everything and can do the common things, but even since she’s neglecting it, Lent is often coming for supervising Lorraine, it reaching the point which he comes so many times while saying “it can’t be helped”.

Though he said that, it doesn’t mean just like that.

In exchange for him to do various things for her, Lorraine teach various things to Lent.

Even is she’s degenerating, Lorraine is a scholar.

Moreover, quite excellent one at that. 　In short, the research she did usually paid with quite handsome amount of money, thus, she could make a request for Lent to taking over her ch.o.r.es.

Of course, she don’t have that kind of intention to Lent.

Or to be exact, Lent don’t even care about Lorraine past or personal career.

but, he came to believe that she’s a worthless scholar who left the capital, Lorraine also explained that way to him.

It’s not a lie either.

It’s just that she’s quite restrained when it’s the matter about herself, she still have influence left in her own country, and, she just not mentioning that she’s at the extreme top as a scholar.

Well, as for Lent.

Though she don’t know how much he understand with that explanation, for ten years he certainly didn’t notice about various things.

Lorraine thought that it was okay okay to continue with this kind of relations.h.i.+p.

Right, till she died.

Lent might be keep becoming adventurer till the end, she’s fine as long as she can look at him that way by his side.

While doing research which she love by his side, have a meal together once in a while, chatting about trivial matters, she didn’t doubt that kind of days will keep going on.

But.

One day, Lent Fayna disappeared.

It’s rare for him to not coming to supervising Lorraine for several days, maybe something has happened to him, she felt anxious.

Or maybe, he’s killed by demon.

If that was happen………..

She felt that her heart is shaken like she never felt before.

“It feel as if I want to going around in the down town looking for him while shouting his name even now”, it was that kind of feeling.

But, maybe deep inside, she’s clear just how meaningless her action is.

It’s by this means, she should just looking for him with another means.

It should be okay to submit a commission to the adventurers.

She will spend money as much as she want for it*. [TL*: an idiom -金に糸目はつけない/kaneniitometsukenai= she will spare no money for that. or the likes along those lines]

She have that much saving.

　“Well then, now is writing the applica………..”

When she thought about that, she heard a rythmical knocking sound of her house door knocker.

This is.

After spending more than 10 years, even Lorraine have many acquaintance in Malt city.

There’s possibility that some of them was coming to visit her.

But, she was familiar with this sound.

Lorraine who love to researching about every single things was remembering, and then finding the law-of-habit to the one who’s knocking.

And then, this way of knocking is――

Was that of Lent Fayna.

By the time she convinced about it, despite wanting to leave her bed and leaped out to the door, doing that might feel strange to him.

In the first place, he’s alive.

Just knowing that was enough for her.

But, as for why he didn’t even knocking the door this few years, maybe he have been rarely knocking is a rare things but, she expected that he’ll directly entering the house which he become familiar with if she just left him alone*. [TL* :Not too sure–なぜここ數年は叩くことすらなかったのに、珍しくノッカーなど叩いているのかは謎だが、放っておけばそのうち勝手知ったるなんとやらで扉を開けて入ってくることも予想がついた。]

That’s why, she decided to meet him as if nothing happened.

If it’s the usual case, Lorraine is sleeping on the sofa during this time.

That’s why to make sure of that.

She’s disarranging her hair and throw herself on the suitable position on sofa. [TL : Background chapter is scary]

She hear the sound of the door being opened.

He’s walking steadily―― And said.

「…………Oi ……………… Oi. WakE Up」

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