Chapter 24 - Festival

TN: Many thanks to Abbie for editing this!

My territory, Tokumo, was a land inhabited by 2500 people.

That meant this territory was able to produced enough grain to eat for 2500 people in one year.

“The actual yield is another thing, it is different each year.”

I was a new lord, so I didn’t know much about it, so I was receiving a lecture in the shrine from Yoshioka Tozo.

“Then… first we need to grasp the harvest this year.”

“Well, I already did that some time ago.”

It was at that moment.

“Waa!!”

From the priest lodging of the shrine, I heard the loud voices of many men.

“What is that?”

“Young men from the village.”

“Isn’t the festival tomorrow?”

“They will enter the shrine the day before the festival.”

“Washoo! Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!”

The singing voices of the young men echoed again.

“They seems to be busy”

Tozo said,”To tell you the truth, I’m also busy right now.”

The festival was tomorrow, so it couldn’t be helped.

“Then I’ll see you again later. Sorry to disturb you when you are busy.”

“No, no, it’s nothing.”

I left the shrine, after Tozo said that.

When I came back riding Kokuoumaru, I saw smoke rising from my house in the distance.

“Mokumokumokumoku ……”

No way! I was so nervous for a moment, but when I got close enough, nothing happened.

“Pachipachi … pachi! ……”

“Here, eat while its hot! Glico-san”

Garcia was grilling seafood outside.

“Umu”

Glico, who received the slender fish and seemed to be wondering where she should start from.

This person stayed at my house yesterday, so she was still here.

“Aiga-sama, there is a magic news.”

When I looked at the two, Igarashi-san, who suddenly stood behind me, handed over a note to me.

Magic news was a technology that allowed someone to send messages upto 20 characters from a long distance.

The note said,

≪I’ll come quickly≫

I took a deep breath and put the note in my pocket.

“Pachipachi! …… Pachi ……”

Then once again, I looked at the seafood placed on the outdoor grill set.

“Rather than that, what is this?”

I asked Igarashi-san.

“Someone from Isomura gave it as a gift. ”

She said.

“Master! Here, here!”

At that time, something light was leaning on my arm from the side and a woman holding a grilled fish stared at me.

“Momu … Mugumugu …”

When I ate the fish directly from Morrier’s hand, he laugh innocently.

Right.

I couldn’t scold him yesterday and now wasn’t the right time …

“Hahahahaha! Aiga Janies. As I thought, Pacific Saury from Tokumo is delicious!”(TN: It’s name of a fish.)

And then Glico said something I didn’t understand and hugged Morrier from behind.

“………♪”

Hah …

I sighed as I look at Morrier’s smiling face.

Well, it seemed that they were enjoying it.

I would just keep a watch on them for the time being.

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The next day.

The autumn festival began.

To be precise, it was a festival of Nakamura, but it seemed that many people from other villages also participated in this festival, which made it a significant festival for the entire territory.

I was walking to the shrine with Garcia, Igarashi-san, Morrier and Glico.

“There are some others festivals in the territory, but the biggest one is this autumn festival.”

Igarashi-san whose hometown was Tokumo explained.

“Ohh.”

“Is it a festival today?”

“Yes.”

“This is my first festival!”

“This gi, boy is cute! Hahahaha!”

When I looked to the side, I saw Glico who was different from usual.

Today, Glico was wearing a navy blue one-piece.

Everyone in the village would be surprised if she wore a bikini armor, so Igarashi-san lent her some clothes.

“Hmm? What?”

This was surprising.

The thin cloth couldn’t hide her figure, and her silver hair adored with jade ornament were swaying.

Maybe it was thanks to Igarashi-san, but it was strange that when I looked at Glico, she looked just like a normal woman.

Speaking of which, Morrier also stared at Glico with shining eyes.

“Wow … so pretty.”

“Morrier, why don’t you try it too?”

“Eh, no … I won’t look good with that.”

Morrier’s cheek became red.

“?”

Glico looked at him with a cheerful face.

When we arrived at the shrine, the sun had gone down to the horizon.

On the stone pavement, the fire from burnt paper and oil made the dusk look fantastic.

“Gayagaya gayagaya ……”

Many people in the territory had gathered here.

Standing in front of the shrine, everyone was looking at sky which was bathed in a golden hue.

After a while, young men came out from the shrine.

“Washoo! Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!”

They lifted a little house on their shoulder.

Intricate wood carving decorations were made here and there, and the cloth covering it was embroidered by gold and silver.

“Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! Shooooooooiii!”

“Zawa ♡ … Zawazawa ♡♡”

The village girls were whispering about the young men’s loud voice and movement.

The story that “God” was inside the house shouldered by the young men had spread amongst the people.

At night, bonfire was lit everywhere in the village, the sound of drum rang, adults were served sake, and children were served amazake.(TN: amazake is a traditional sweet, low alcohol japanese drink made from fermented rice.)

Eventually, the young men would stop at the entrance of Nakamura village.

The main purpose of this festival was to stay with God in the village today, celebrate the harvest, and thank the God.

Influental person in the territory was invited to the house of the elder.

Of course, I who was the lord also came.

A lot of sake and foods were served here.

Garcia, a food lover, was very interested in raw fish dishes, and Glico looked a little embarrassed wearing an ‘unusual’ outfit and others praised her for it.

Meanwhile,

“Lord-sama, is the extermination of monsters in the west side of the territory going as the rumor says?”

Asked someone.

“Ohh, I also heard that from the young men in my village.”

“Me too.”

The other elders also asked.

Yup.

This was the right time … I thought.

After all, the influential people in the territory were meeting here together.

“It is difficult to eliminate the monsters completely. However, the number has decreased considerably. Thanks to everyone’s cooperation from each village.”

Many people were starting to pay attention to me.

“And then ‘we’ even defeat the Great Monkey in Okuga. You had heard about that right? It even appeared in magazine.”

I emphasized ‘we’ and opened the article on Adventure King that Aqua wrote.

“What! Tokumo is in a magazine!? ”

“I can’t read but … that’s a great thing!!”

So they couldn’t read magazines written in Adventurer Standard, just like I couldn’t read Far Eastern letters?

I will ask Igarashi-san to translated it.

Well, the fact that it was published in a magazine still seemed shocking to them.

“From now on, I’ll register Tokumo in adventurer guild as a territory. Then, if we can carry out a higher quest, the ‘world’ will surely know the name of Tokumo.”

This time, I said so while emphasizing ‘world’, everyone, including the elder, looked at me with sparkling eyes.

It was important to let them knew what I wanted to do and keep everyone motivated.

Afterwards.

After finishing the speech, I had a chat with the elders of Nakamura and other village and then went home.

I felt tired of being with a lot of people for so long.

“Kyakya♪♪”

When I went outside and lit a cigarette, I saw young men and women who were laughing around a bonfire.

It was a festival so I wonder if they would sleep late…

“I’ll show you how to use it!”

I found Morrier at the center of the group of young people.

“What are you doing?”

He pulled his sleeve and made a small ball of elementary magic on his index finger.

Then, a total of 6 balls from attack magic attributes were floating around his fingertips.

In front of Morrier beautiful face, balls of magic of “fire,” “explosion,” “water,” “ice,” “earth,” and “wind” attributes floated, radiating the colors of their respective attributes.

“Woahh!! ……’

Said the flock of people.

“Here!”

As Morrier said so, the six magic ball spun around his hands.

“Woahh!!! …… Pachipachi”

The young people cheered and gave a round of applause.

“Haha ♪”

But when I laughed like that.

“Poro …”

“Ah!”

It was rare.

Morrier lost control of his magic power.

Then, the small magic balls with various attributes fell on the ground, and it made a tremendous noise.

“Kyakya♪ ♪ …… Ahahahaha!”

The young people of the village seemed to think that it was funny.

They were excited by the loud sounds and the strong light.

“Mu …”

However, Morrier looked dejected.

This was different from the laughter that he had wanted.

When I looked at him like that, Morrier noticed me.

Perhaps he was ashamed that I saw him fail, and he suddenly rushed to me.

“Master ♡”

‘Mukyu …”

I was a little surprised as he hug me.

Lately, we hadn’t hug each others so what’s wrong with him?

I thought.

“Fuhihihi”

I see, he was drunk.

“Fufu. Getting drunk just from amazake, you are still a child.”

I said that and laughed … I was terribly confused when I noticed a slight bulge on Morrier’s chest when he hugged me.

(TN: now I’m the one that’s confused…)

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