Our wedding ended well. The next day, I woke up without much motivation.

Crook and Silva visited our house, prior to dinner.

The two people pa.s.s through our living room. My wives, knowing what to do, went and prepared the dinner. Recently, Ellie also gave a helping hand. I’ll appreciate her cooking skills. But that’ll need to wait, for a long time.

“It’s really been a while. How are you doing now?”

“Yeah, I was really surprised to hear that Masaru san already gotten himself married, but the you right now don’t look any different.”

Crook shifted his position slightly, and said such thing to me.

“Just how you did it, Masaru san?”

“No, that’s not it. We can’t even deny the fact that you married all these 4 girls at once. Masaru san, no, please let me call you Masaru aniki.”

Silva nodded.

“What are you guys saying? We’re friends, no? Didn’t we already confirm our friendship long time ago?”

“What ‘friends’. You’re so mean.”

Silva also nodded.

“Oi, stop it. I’m just your everyday friend, Masaru. I don’t even care if you call me Masaru chan, for Pete sake.”

“No, we won’t go as far as to call you Masaru chan.”

“Yea, no way.”

As usual, Silva retort such. This son of a b.i.t.c.h.

“I see. I thought I was not saying that.” (need revision)

“Well, jokes aside, congratulations for your wedding. The monsters in my heart whispers that I should kill you, but I will bless you for today.” pg. 10

“Congratulations, Masaru.”

“Ah, this is kind of a surprise, but thanks, both of you. Even so, it’s been a long time now since I last see you guys.”

“We accepted a long-term escort mission. Our client is going to Empire.”

“Ho, that’s nice. I’ve never been to Imperial City before.”

I have never been to the capital of the kingdom. Since I’ve came in this world, the only place that I’ve been to are only here and Gorbas Fortress.

“The mission is not so good you know.”

“Why? It’s the easy escort mission. Compared to you guys, my situation at the fortress are much dire.”

“It’s too easy.”

“Isn’t that a nice thing?”

“We heard about Gorbas Fortress and the urgent mission just one day after our departure.”

“We don’t know if the timing is good or bad.”

Perhaps, the timing is really good. On all days, it might occur during the Harpies raids last time. These guys, maybe they have some special ability to avoid dangers towards themselves. I really want to make them my slaves, and examine this skill thoroughly… Pg. 11

“It’s a bad timing, really. Lazard san is super p.i.s.sed.”

“Why?”

“He wanted us to help in the rescue mission. Since we’re in the middle of escort mission, there’s no way we can abandon it halfway, right?”

“That’s true.”

“That’s why I desperately tried to persuade him to let us go. If we deliberately abandon the quest halfway, then the penalties imposed will be freaking heavy. Even though lots of adventurers are partic.i.p.ating in the relief mission, our strongest leader, Lazard san are unable to.”

“So, that’s the reason for his bad mood…”

“That’s not all. On the way to the Imperial City, we saw the army troops are going down. Of course, they are the Kingdom troops and the Imperial troop

s.”

“Eehh…”

“Seeing that the kingdom is sending their troops to the fortress really helped me calm down my nerves. Besides, there are no more monsters on the road that the army has pa.s.sed through.”

“That’s why we’re so relaxed.”

“There really are nothing. Even when night comes, there are no sign of monsters approaching whatsoever. Our client, the merchant even said, [If I’ve known this from the start, then I don’t need to hire escorts!] something like that.”

“Hahah…”

“Without Reed san interference, the head merchant head might get chopped off flying already. He doesn’t even notice whenever he is in the situation where he might die at any moment.”

“Wow”

“We’re really scared you know!”

Silva too, shown an exaggerated move to emphasize their story.

“I see. You guys also faced some kind of difficulties on your ends.”

“How is the situation at your side? We only came back today and I only heard about the fortress.”

“Ah, at that day, we―――“

I begin with our first day, when we’re on the journey towards the fortress, then about what happened at the Pioneer Village like what I heard from the people of the Order, and about what happened inside the fortress.

We continue talking while eating our dinner. Ellie also complemented me from time to time. Since Ellie had been dispatched earlier to Pioneer Village for quest, she is more knowledgeable about the whole situation than me.

Both of them excused themselves after dinner.

“We don’t want to disturb you guys, you newlywed.”

“I see. I really want to talk more with you guys.”

“If so, come to the guild training ground tomorrow morning. We can continue there.”

“…just talking?”

“Of course I am. There’s no way I’m thinking of killing you in disguise of training now, right?”

“Oi.”

“Just kidding. Well, half of it at least.”

“Whatever, I just felt a chill down my spine. If you’re fine, I can be your partner(sparring) you know.”

“Ho―. Then, see you tomorrow.”

“Oi, don’t you even dare to call out Lazard san.”

“――It’s okay, I won’t call him, I promise!!――“

It goes without saying that next day, I beat them both ragged with the bokken (wooden sword).