Reincarnated Young Lady Aims to Be an Adventurer - Volume 8 Chapter 142

Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse

A few days after the end of the battle with Schneider and Maribelle.

In the shadows of my revival, another wild soul was awakened!

“You bastards!!! All of you big, strong men around, and you let Serafiona die? You should all be ashamed!” 

Boom! Blam! Splat! Ding! Crack!

It seems… Grandma had let her fist of steel loose. I was sleeping. I heard about it from Miyu. The queen of the four beasts, Miyu, was trembling from it. The victims of this beating were Father, Brother, Gilan, and Grandpa Sieg. Apparently, none of them resisted. I knew it – the strongest person in this world was Grandma!

And so, I was back with the Trundle Crew in the royal capital, and after Grandmother called for the skilled and trustworthy nurse Cocoa, I was being treated back to health by her little by little. The stab wound in my chest was healing slowly, thanks to Father’s all-out healing that had continued for three months. I spent my days lazily relaxing in bed, my room covered in wildflowers picked for me by Miyu. The sunlight coming in through my window seemed gentler. Spring was coming.

“Thanks to Serafiona’s healing, her magic flows through every part of my body. Of course, I would wake up hearing such a painful cry ring out from Serafiona!” said Grandmother.

When I had recovered and regained consciousness, Grandmother had already gone back to being her usual beautiful self, and her white hair lent itself to making her seem even more sacred in her old age. She pet my hair gently and told me over and over to get well soon, kissing me on the very top of my head. Of course, Lu was always by my side as I rested.

Whenever I stirred awake, Lu was always right there. I reached out to her and hugged her, and told her every time:

“Lu, I’m sorry.”

“It’s alright, Sera,” he would say, and I would go back to sleep.

My apologies to him slipped out of me reflexively. He sympathized with me completely. He was probably ready to disappear along with me. After all, I would have done the same for him.

Lu – he had always accepted me and stayed affectionate to me.

“Thank you, Lu,” I would say.

“You too, Sera. Thanks for coming back,” he’d say.

Oh, Lu, how I love you.

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“You can be quite sure that I punished him thoroughly. So… you should forgive Laruza,” said Grandmother. This was her forgiving nature. She set us up to forgive each other, too.

Brother, who had run to my bedside as soon as he heard I had come to, came in with a bruised and battered face. It was hard to believe that this was my handsome brother. This was on purpose, wasn’t it, Grandma? So that I would see that he was at least punished a little bit. She took it to a level that would leave anyone speechless, though.

“Serafiona…” said Brother, who made no signs of moving from the door he had just come through. I forced my tired body to get up and moved as if I would come over to him.

“Stop! Serafiona! You can’t move around yet!!!” Brother rushed over to me, stumbled over himself, and fell right into me. I grabbed his head and held him too tightly so that he couldn’t escape.

“Brother, I love you,” I said. I thought of the old saying to myself. All of the pain in my Brother – go fly away to stupid Schneider and that dumb little Maribelle!!!

“Serafiona… Ahh… I love you and Lu, too. Thank you for saving me… Thank you,” he said. 

My head… throbbed and trembled. That snowy day that sealed our fates as brother and sister leaped into my mind. Thank god, our feelings towards each other hadn’t changed much since that day.

Lu, who had jumped up to my shoulder gave Brother a cat-like swat on his bruised up cheek.

“Laruza, it’s over. If you’re going to mope about this any longer, come to me with something more constructive! For now, take my and Elza’s place, and take care of the issue of Trundle’s independence. There’s tons of work to be done,” said Lu.

“Lu-sama…”

“You were mesmerized by Maribelle… and I hold some fault for that, with my misjudgment. I should have talked to you, Maribelle, and Sera about being ‘from another world’. So, Laruza, you’re absolved of your sins. Alright?” said Lu. There was no denying the words of a holy beast. As I translated for Laruza, his eyes were filled with tears.

“…Alright,” said Laruza.

However, some sorrow still remained in Laruza’s face. This was… unavoidable, perhaps. My kind Brother who had dealt me a fatal injury couldn’t possibly just snap into feeling fully forgiven. It would take some time. I would have to get well quickly and show him myself that there was nothing to worry about!

“Brother, good luck with your legal work! Don’t compromise with Gil-san and the other countries! And take care of the guild for me! Go and fill the gap Gil-san and I left for you in the S-rank!” I said.

“Yes, yes! I will do my best!” said Laruza.

Brother wouldn’t let me heal the wounds on his cheeks.

As I had become unfit to rule, I thought that I would simply pass on my duties to Grandma, but apparently, it wasn’t that simple. Ah, well.

“If you made me officially take your position, people would be unsure on when you would take your rightful place again. So, I will act on your behalf as much as I can as the previous ruler, but more importantly – independence! Well done, Serafiona! What a wonderful feeling. Now we won’t have to put up with incompetent parties and clans! Laruza, look! My hands have been stilled. Hmm? Now that we’re independent, the title of Feudal Lord doesn’t make much sense anymore, does it? Trundle’s name will forever stay Trundle, though,” said Grandma.

At the end of the day, I am glad that she is happy.

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Once I was able to sit up in bed, Lu finally called for a meeting. It was to discuss the current state of affairs after the events of that day. There were things I needed to catch up on too, as I was not fully functioning enough to keep informed of everything in the hours and days after the battle. 

Those present at the meeting were me, Lu, Miyu, Asu, and Gilan. I couldn’t simply tell everyone about the gods that I had met. I would only tell the contracted holy beasts and Gilan.

“Thank you for coming on short notice,” I said, addressing them all in Marcus Products’ light blue button-up pajamas. The three fluffy holy beasts were on the bed with me. Gilan sat on a chair that he had brought up beside me.

“Sera-chama, Sera-chama!” Miyu had a burning fighting spirit recently and had been going often to Reagan Island to train with Lenza and Trundle’s Papa.  When she was with me, though, she bundled up around my waist, and wouldn’t let go. She must have been terrified when her contracted human was at death’s door. I’m so sorry, Miyu… I pet her beautiful blue scales.

“It can’t be helped. Getting stabbed with a sword of the god-killing Orihalcon sword… it’ll take some time to fully heal. Even so, you seem to have gotten much better. And Sera! What beautiful hair!” said Asu.

“Asu… You’re too kind…” I said to him.

That time after the battle, I received blood directly from Asu’s wounds. The fearsome blood from his neck, which is said to grant immortality to any who drink it! I can’t believe he got me to drink that stuff… I might have turned into a ghost… 

Because of that, though, I felt a deep connection with Asu, now. I could only think of him as a parent, now. It was as if he was in my very cells. My appearance had changed because of it, too! My black hair and eyebrows had been tinged with a red shine. I’m glad it didn’t turn into a mesh pattern… that would just be embarrassing.

“Lu’s thinking about the fact that Asu has had an even greater effect on you than I have…” said Gilan, inspecting a tuft of my hair.

“Ah, I mean, even I’m sorry about that,” said Gilan. He was one with Asu, but I had ended up sharing so much magic energy with Asu, instead.

“…Kind of,” said Gilan, twirling my hair around his finger. The red glinted off it in a dance.

“That bugs me a little, Sera! I’ll allow it, though! Cut it all off like you did in the Marsh days!”

Sigh… what a bother that would be.

“A time reversal…huh,” said Lu. I spoke of the moon goddess to everyone, and they all fell silent for a moment.

“That goddess had the divine protection of Sera’s old world’s god, and that’s why she was so unnaturally strong, I guess. Auto-something, was it?”

“So in other words, because of that nostalgic night, when Gilan wished to live with Sera, Sera didn’t disappear, and she regained her soul, and we didn’t have to get rewinded to a time where we didn’t remember all of this,”

“…I can’t make sense of what that’s going to mean. We can’t go against the goddess’s will, but… Mm, yes, good job Gilan!” said Lu, clapping Gilan on his shoulder.

Gilan raised an eyebrow at this compliment from Lu. Today, Gilan was dressed in a dark blue shirt and black pants, ninja-style. He had his legs crossed and drank some of the cocoa-infused tea he made for us.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

“Asu-sama, Lu-sama, um – why do you think Kirama-sama and Magan-sama were with the moon goddess?” asked Miyu.

“I didn’t know about that either. I always thought dying was simply dying. The death of their mortal shells, they said…” said Asu.

“It seemed Kirama-sama and Magan-sama were well-informed on everything going on here, too,” I said.

“It seems that even after death, we are fated to work,” said Asu, smiling bitterly.

“Hey, tell me, already – what is Maribelle up to, now?” I asked.

Miyu suddenly looked serious and responded, “At that time, I did as you told me, master, and I took her down. She was still alive and breathing, but being so thoroughly covered in her own curse, she wouldn’t be able to move unless I disturbed her. It would have been bad if she could control me using her thought, though, so after she fell and Laruza’s attack shifted to Asu, I made her sleep with a poison with no antidote. Then, when you were in trouble, master, I left Maribelle where she was, and ran over to you, and…”

Lu then took over and said, “As soon as you began breathing again, Sera, Tarl took up Maribelle and fled.”

“Tarl-sama? Where did they go?” I asked.

“There are two possibilities that come to mind. Tarl may have gotten rid of Maribelle altogether. Or maybe, he took her to the goddess,” said Lu.

Tarl would do that?

“No matter how much Maribelle is loved by a god of another world, she’s a resident of this world. She attacked three holy beasts of this world with the intent to harm. She won’t escape harsh punishment. Whether that punishment will be dealt out by Tarl himself, over whether he will take her to the goddess… Thinking about when the third “time-reversal” was ordered, it’s possible, albeit with unlikely timing, that the goddess ordered Maribelle be secured to ensure that this all ends without any more trouble,” said Asu.

Lu peeked over at me and said, “I think they went to the goddess. And with that, Tarl probably underwent a purification ceremony. Hearing the situation with the god of Earth, it seems more and more like dealing with Maribelle is beyond our jurisdiction. Sera, don’t worry. We’ll be alright.”

Will the goddess pass judgment? Or will she send her back to the god of Earth?…

“Ah, Tarl-sama,” I muttered.

“He seems to be sound of mind. As he left, he said, ‘I don’t have to apologize to you.’”

“I see… so right now, he’s been seperated from Schneider,” I said, recalling the last time I saw Schneider and his destroyed physical state.

“By the way, how exactly did Schneider get reincarnated?” Lu asked. I had no idea, as I was crying and dealing with my own issues.

“I was never told anything about that. I didn’t ever feel like I could ask, either… Sorry. I think he must have come under different circumstances than Maribelle, though,” I said.

“Perhaps he came over to be a ‘Past-worlder’ by chance, or maybe he was sent here by a different god…” said Lu.

“How’s Schneider doing, now?” I asked Gilan. Any news of other countries would be delivered to the emperor. A spy in every nation, as they say.

“The King of Judor has put him under house arrest. For now, he is reluctantly responding to investigations. Apparently, he is worried about you, Sera,” said Gilan.

“Is that so,” I said.

If Tarl wasn’t around, and we had three S-rankers on our side, we would be able to take him, easily. We could put our trust in Gilan. How would Judor be punished? Ah, I didn’t care much anymore, anyway. I trusted that Schneider would keep his promise to never attack us again.

“Ah…” I let out a sigh that I had been suppressing, and Gilan looked over at me with concern.

“Sera, are you tired? I’m sorry we’ve put you up to such a long discussion. Lie down for a bit,” said Gilan.

“No, no, I’m fine. This is important, and I wanted to know about all of this,” I said.

“…I hope you can move around soon… Recover enough so that everyone in Trundle would agree to have you up and about. Galle is warmer. I’ve made arrangements to have you rest and heal further at the palace,” said Gilan.

Gilan had been readying my spot in the palace since his past life. And now… because Grandma wouldn’t give her permission, he had to wait a little bit longer…

“That’s right, Sera, if you don’t get well soon, Gilan’s going to pass out from the stress,” said Asu. 

It’s true. Gilan was exhausted, and it was all due to his worry over me.

“Sorry, Gilan,” I said, kissing him on his eyelids to take away his fatigue.

Ah… it felt so good to be back together and have a routine life.

Gilan tilted his head, and kissed me, letting magic flow between us.

…Oh, why was I getting such a big refill of coffee-tinged magic? My body was being stuffed with so much healing magic of all kinds, these days.

As Gilan released me from his kiss, his eyebrows furrowed abruptly. Holding my back with his right hand, he used his left hand to brush away my bangs, letting my forehead show. 

For just a moment, everything around us seemed brighter.

“…Sera, what’s this sliver of gold in your forehead?” asked Gilan.

“Ack! Sera!!!” said Lu.

“Sera-chama!!!” said Miyu.

“…Gilan! Give Sera a mirror, now!” said Asu.

Gilan brought out a handmirror from the mirror stand and handed it to me. I confusedly looked at my forehead in the mirror.

At my hairline, there was a thin lemon-tinted line of gold running across my forehead… It seemed to continue around my head, through my hair. When I touched it, I felt a spark of electricity.

It was a shocking feeling! This seemed very bad!!!

“…Sera, you have some idea how you got this, right? I promise I won’t get mad, so tell us,” Lu said, in a serious tone.

I had forgotten… Really… I remembered just now…

“Th-The goddess bit down around my head when we parted… And a ring of gold was sucked into my head and snapped into place…” I said.

“So it is a blessing from the goddess!” said Lu.

“You took magic from the goddess straight into your head!? Or even exchanged magic?” said Asu.

“T-tears… may have fallen on my head…” I said.

“You got the Golden Rain!!!” said Lu.

“Sera-chama, that’s crazy!” said Miyu.

Seriously!?

“…Ah, Sera, this is a Kinkoji,” said Asu.

“Kinkoji?” I asked.

Asu, inspecting the thing on my forehead like a doting parent sighed, and began to explain. 

“Put simply, the goddess put a bell on you. You are under the auspices of the goddess now, and just as it was with Maribelle, whenever you are in danger, her powers will move to protect you. And…” said Asu.

“And?”

“Your deeds are now considered deeds of the goddess, and whenever you do evil deeds, that ring around your head will shrink and your thoughts will be very painful…”

“Gyahh!!!”

I was like Son Goku!

“W-well, Sera-chama doesn’t commit evil deeds, so the goddess probably did this just to protect Sera-chama… Yeah, it’s a good thing, a good thing! Don’t worry, this is good!” said Miyu.

“Mm, yes… this holy pattern will allow you to feel the intense life-force of the goddess, and it’s clear that she has taken a liking to you. Just don’t do anything stupidly mean. Sera, don’t worry!” said Lu.

Gilan squished my cheeks with both hands and locked eyes with me.

“Th-That hurts,” I said.

“Sera, getting magical energy from all over the place so easily is… akin to cheating, you know?” he said.

Hey! This was an act of God!

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Serafiona was sweating profusely, intimidated by the emperor’s true political power.

Lu and Asu were eating Matsuki’s new product – matcha flavored ice cream from the Marsh – as if to say all of this was none of their concern.

“Mmm… Lu, eat some of this to cool your jets,” said Asu.

“Mmm! They made our baby girl Sera suffer, you know? The god of Earth or something like that – I won’t forgive them… I hope they’re not thinking this will all be settled so easily…” said Lu.

“Wait, let’s deal with it once Sera is fully recovered. Let’s at least talk it over with the goddess, first. Well, she did bestow Sera with a Kinkoji. That hasn’t happened for 2000 years. I don’t think she’ll stop us. But for now…. Mmm,” said Asu.

“I know that. Mmm. Yum. You’re saying we’re not at the point yet where we can take on a whole other world, right? The goddess said that a purification wouldn’t be necessary this time around. I’ll use this time to build up my magical strength at the holy temple, and raise my sand abilities to three times what they are now… This really is good, this Matsuki stuff…” said Lu.

Miyu discreetly muttered, “Judgment!”

A blue light shined!

“Whoa! It really has gotten quite crazy… Hahaha. This is my Sera-chama, after all!”

Serafiona Granzeus (Lady Countess, S rank adventurer, Feudal Lord of Trundle, Empress in waiting of Galle, contracted to Ludalfina, contracted to Miyu Geld, blood relative of Asukaliela, under divine protection of Kiramageld, under divine protection of Tarlknight, under divine protection of Maganbalu, beloved child of the almighty goddess)

Status: Physically weakened, Magical power shortage, Blood-loss

Skills: All forms of magic, reincarnation, life-after-death, short sword, shuriken, resistance to various poisons, loved by all gods in this world.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]