Reincarnated Young Lady Aims to Be an Adventurer - Volume 9 Chapter 151

Translator: Jasper Kadowaki | Editor: NovelMultiverse

“Married?!”

Alma and I sat at the Trundle Guild Pub with our mouths agape.

Sister Sasara was sitting in front of us, sticking out her tongue, playfully.

Sasara had retired from Judor’s military and was now solely a soldier in Grandmother’s personal army… If Trundle was its own country now, should I say she was in Trundle’s military, now? That was the current state of things.

Using the experience she gained at the School of Knighthood, she was managing the organization of new recruits and working hard to support Grandmother’s business ventures.

The Grand Temple had certified Sasara as a Holy Woman, but Eris had said, “I should be enough to fill the role myself!”, and thusly had quieted the priests. Because of Eris’s appeals, Sasara could live untethered to the temple, and she didn’t have to work as a Holy Woman. That was why Sasara was known to the common people as the “Holy Woman of the Streets”. 

Well, she wasn’t dressed as a Holy Woman would be, as Eris always was, and so one couldn’t tell that Sasara was actually Sasara the Holy Woman. 

This commonplace Sasara was the one that had called upon me and Alma to join her for a drink.

…

“Who is it, and where the heck is he from?!” 

I was shocked that Sasara was even seeing somebody!

The relationship between me and Gilan, on the other hand… The fact that we were engaged was known to the entire world around us because of that stupid book.

Alma and Nick weren’t exactly hiding their relationship, either, so our friends all knew about that. In fact, since Alma had entered the Judor military and Nick became an adventurer, all of their spare time seemed to be spent being lovey-dovey with each other and meeting up at the Pub, and so the two of them… Or rather, the four of them, including Maru and Shu, were practically an established couple in the Trundle Guild.

Sasara was a different story, though – no one could expect this!

“Hahaha… For someone to propose to you… They have to come to me and Serafi for permission, first…” said Alma.

Oh, good. Alma was on the same wavelength as me. We had no intentions of giving up the kindest older sister we had to our name in the Trundle Guild, especially to some loser guy!

“Oh come on, it’s fine. She’s about that age, anyways…” said Lu.

“Anyways! Ahh!” said Maru.

Lu was at my feet, sick of the girl talk, and Alma’s little Maru was inseparable from Lu and imitating him with joy.

“What’s with those scary expressions you guys have on?” asked Sasara, as she sipped iced tea from her straw. 

“…What kind of guy is he?” 

“Hm? He’s super cool! Hehehe.”

“And?”

“Hmm… He’s very strong!”

“Stronger than you, Sasara?”

“Of course!”

“No way!” the two of us cried out.

“Not only that, he’s very kind-hearted. He visited the orphanage with me, and he was playing with the children! He bought a bunch of snacks and gave them out to all the orphans!”

“What? So, he’s got money, too?”

“Maybe he does? But I’m pretty sure he’s got a steady income,” said Sasara.

Could such a perfect guy really exist? I asked Alma what she thought, suspiciously.

“ When we were at school, was there anyone at the School of Knighthood as strong as Sasara-san?”

“Sasara-san became a silver-rank in Trundle the other day! The only one stronger than that is Serafi.”

“Well, then, maybe he’s an older student from when Sasara was at school? Or maybe he’s a colleague in the military?”

“An older student doesn’t seem likely. Most of the students were happily bullying the female students, weren’t they? Someone from the Judor military who’s stronger than Sasara… Ah, no one comes to mind. If he’s rich, maybe he’s a nobleman? Do you really think there was someone like that in the intelligence sector?”[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

Even though he was in the same military as Alma, he seemed to be in a different field than her. Well, she had only been in the military for a short time so far, after all.

“Um, what did Eris-san say about it?”

“Hm? Congratulations! You must be so happy about your first love!” said Sasara, blushing.

“First Love!” cried Alma, her voice cracking.

Was this an official blessing from the invincible Holy Woman Eris?

“And so, we have concluded that such a man does not exist! What you saw, Sasara was but an illusion, and… Ouch!!!”

Sasara punched Alma and me in the head.

“Don’t turn my love into an illusion!” said Sasara.

“Well, I mean, there’s no way such a man could exist… (besides Gilan),” I said.

“If he was poor, I might understand… (like Nick),” said Alma.

“You two are… Ah! He’s here, he’s here! Over here!”

She had invited her fiancée to the Guild Pub? What?! How brave of her! Alma and I looked over at the door with dreadful expressions on our faces.

“Hm? What are you guys even doing, screwing your faces up like that? They’ll get stuck like that, you know, so stop it, stop it! The hell is this, calling me out here so early… Ah…” he yawned.

“What the hell?” I said.

“No way?” said Alma

“Wow,” said Lu.

“Waa?” said Maru.

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“K-Kodak-sensei! I didn’t expect this from you! How could you propose to a student?!” 

“Sensei! When I was a student, you were the only adult guy I could respect, and now….”

The two of us got up, and puffed up our faces in anger, pointing at him!

Alma put her face in her hands and drooped her shoulders.

“Oh, man… See, this is why I didn’t want to say anything,” said Kodak-Sensei, slumping back in his chair.

“Ah, the two of you are misunderstanding. It’s a misunderstanding. Sensei didn’t propose to me at all. It was me who made a move on him. Me! I’m sorry, Sensei,” said Sasara.

“Serafi, Alma, listen carefully, ok?” said Sasara, “When I was in school at the School of Knighthood, I only thought of Sensei as your counselor who has strong enough to be trusted with supporting you two. I only ever had Field Work Class with him, in the first place. After that, I quickly graduated.”

Well, I supposed that made sense. While Kodak-sensei was busy guiding us as students, he barely had any interaction at all with fourth-years like Sasara. If it wasn’t him that made a move on his student, well I guess that was okay?

“After graduating in the summer… You were attacked, Serafi. I heard about it when I was with the military, and I hurriedly ran to Elza-sama’s side. I reunited with Sensei, there. His physical condition was in ruins, and… while his arm was hanging, seriously injured, he went to Mama Elza-sama, and with a trembling voice, told her, “I’m so sorry that I couldn’t protect Serafiona-sama,” with his head hanging low, and then he collapsed,” said Sasara.

“Sasara! Don’t say that! It’s embarrassing!” said Sensei. 

I felt as though I had been hit over the head. I couldn’t… breathe…

“Elza-sama went to come up with a plan to help with your situation, Serafi, and I was left to nurse Sensei back to health. His face was twisted up as if he was in extreme pain, and I wrapped up his hand with bandages, and he was waving it about. I grabbed his hand and put it back down to the bed on which he lied. Then, my hand suddenly glowed a little, and that light traveled into Sensei, and Sensei’s face relaxed, and he fell asleep. When I think about it now, it was the healing magic that I had learned earlier,” said Sasara.

“It’s the Holy Woman’s… Mercy,” said Lu.

“I didn’t really get it at the time, but I thought that if I could ease Sensei’s pain by being there, I would continue to stay by his side. I thought he was so dumb for letting himself get so injured. But, I liked that his intentions were easy to understand, and I was jealous of you, Serafiona, since he cared for you so much. Well, I love you, too, Serafiona, so I understood why he sacrificed his health for you. These were the uncontrollable thoughts that went through my head as I watched him sleep. He was clumsy and had an aura about him that made him seem unapproachable, but he was more passionate than anyone I had ever seen, and he had the bravery to protect the people he loved. Sensei became the apple of my eye,” said Sasara.

“Give me a break…” said Sensei, burying his face into the table.

“Ah, and Alma- sorry I couldn’t tell you about the situation. Elza-sama made me keep it a secret. I didn’t even tell Eris at that point,” said Sasara.

“No, no, no,” said Alma, shaking her head with a serious expression.

“Eris became Holy Woman, and Serafi, you disappeared and an uncomfortable mood was in the air, and I didn’t know what was going to happen – it was horrible. But I wanted to do something, too. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to devote myself to helping the powerful Elza-sama, who I respected so much. In reality, when you weren’t around, Serafi, he was surrounded by men only, and I thought he might need a woman by his side, too. Elza-sama laughed and accepted me as his supporter, and I somehow made it into Trundle… And he gave me a house! He told me that he would need me around, close to him, so he kept me close to the government offices so I could quickly walk there. As an orphan, it was my first house ever! It was my own house – one that I could be free in, and not be afraid of being thrown out of! Trundle became my home. I finally had a hometown. Ultimately, though, I couldn’t protect Elza-sama, who had given me so much…”

Sasara suddenly fell into a sad silence. I shook my head.

Because of my past life, I could relate to her hardship of not having a place to return, a place to call home – so much so that it hurt. 

Grandmother had made a place like that for Sasara. In the same way, Gilan had always… wait, no that was past tense. Gilan would always have a home ready for me.

The story that I had just heard from Sasara while I was away from Judor and Trundle was so different from the story I had heard from Father and Brother. Now that I had a wide view of it all… it pained me.

My disappearance had cast a large shadow over so many people that I loved.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]