Mushoku Tensei:Web Chapter 46
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1 Chapter 3 - Parent and Child Fight
1.1 Part 1
1.2 Part 2
1.3 Part 3
1.4 Part 4
1.5 Part 5
2 Translator's Notes and References
Chapter 3 - Parent and Child Fight[แก้ไข]
Part 1[แก้ไข]
The inn Paul was staying at was the 『Dawn of the Door Inn』. Next door is a slightly larger than usual inn.
Inside is a circular wooden table with ten seats. I sit on one of them. Paul is sitting in front of me.
Though it's still the daytime, all the seats are filled up. The guys I knocked out were healed by some healing magician allies of Paul, and they were sitting around as well. It goes without saying, but the looks they were giving me weren't particularly good. It seems that everyone here is Paul's companion.
The one I notice in particular is the person behind Paul. Sitting there is a female warrior. Her hair is short and chest-nut colored, curling outwards.[1] Her lips are a bit pouty[2] and she gives a charming impression. Worthy of special mention is her figure. Large breasts, a slim waist, and a full butt, covered up by the so-called bikini armor. She's a girl in her late teens.
Indeed, it's the female warrior that Paul called Vera.
Even with with one look, I can tell that she's got the kind of figure that Paul is fond of.
That bikini armor isn't very unusual in this world. It's a world where a small wound can easily be fixed with healing magic. Assuming that they'd just block attacks, they'd prefer light weight armors. Things like chainmail would get in the way. There are a lot of swordsmen who think this way. It's likely that she's one of them.
Still, it's the first time I've seen someone so lightly dressed. Normally above some thin clothing they'd wear armor on their joints, like their shoulders and elbows. Even if she isn't dressed that way because we're in a bar, she could have worn an overcoat or something. At the very least, the young women I've seen up until now on the Demon Continent were like that. Isn't she cold in a get-up like that?
I've heard that because of the 7 towers in Milis, the climate is always stable here. I wonder if that's why she's fine? Well, let's just assume so for now. It's eye-pleasing.
While I'm looking at her, our eyes suddenly meet.
I was winked at.
I returned the wink.
"Oi, Rudi... Rudi?"
When Paul speaks to me, the female warrior and I break off our gazes.
"Father, it's been a while."
"What, Rudi... you survived, huh?"[3]
Paul spoke with a tired voice. How do I say this... he's really changed.
He hasn't shaved properly, his hair is a mess, his breath reeks of alcohol, and his whole body gives off a peevish impression.
He doesn't look at all like the Paul in my memories.
"Well... yeah..."
At any rate, my mind can't keep up.
Why is Paul here?
This is Milishion.
It's as far from Asura as Africa is from Mongolia.
Is he here to search for me?
No, he shouldn't have known that I was teleported to the Demon Continent.
In that case, for a different matter, huh?
What about his job protecting the Buena village?
"And so, why are you here, Tou-sama?"
Thinking that I should ask this first, in response Paul looked surprised.
"[Why?] you ask, you saw the message didn't you?"
"Message... you say?"
Message.
What message?
I don't recall seeing anything like that.
Seeing me obviously confused, Paul frowned.
Could it be that I said something that upset him?
"Oi, Rudeus. What have you been doing up until now?"
"Even if you ask that, it was pretty rough, you know."
I'm the one who wants to know what's going on.
While thinking this, I recounted my journey up until now.
About how I had been transported to the Magic Continent, I had been saved by a certain Magic race person, how I became an adventurer, and about the year I had spent with Eris on the Demon Continent.
Thinking about it, it had been a pretty fun trip. From the troubles we had at the start, as well as the half year we had lived as adventurers; we had experienced quite a lot.
It might have been because of that, but I gradually became more talkative, and started to talk more passionately about the events that had occurred while I was journeying. Everything that I had said was completely non-fiction; a great big spectacle.
I had separated my journey into three parts:
The first was meeting Ruijerd and becoming friends with him, and then the chaos at Rikarisu town.
The second was about the Great Magician Rudeus helping Ruijerd, and his journeying to reform the world.
The third was about how some cowardly Beast People had captured me, and my desperate struggles in captivity.
Though I had dramatized a few parts, I began to speak more smoothly, and gradually my gestures became more joyful and I stared to tell the story while making exaggerated sound effects.
By the way, I had left out the stuff about the Hitogami.
"And so when we got to Wind Port, what we saw was..."
"..."
Around the time when I had finished telling the second part, the 『The Journey of 3 Black-listed People Through the Demon Continent - Empathy Arc』, I suddenly stopped talking.
Paul had become sullen.
His face had distorted into an irritated expression, and he was tapping his finger on the table.
I might have upset him somehow.
Without understanding, I was about to continue my story.
"After that, we headed to the Great Forest."
"That's enough."
In an irritated voice, Paul cut me off.
"That you spent the last year gallivanting about, I understand quite well now."
I became just a little irritated at Paul's words.
"I had quite a tough time as well you know."
"Just what was tough about it?"
"Eh?"
When he had asked that in return, I let out a strange voice.
"From your tone, I didn't feel like you had even an ounce of hardship."
That's because I told it like that.
Though, certainly I may have gotten a bit carried away.
"Hey, Rudi. There's one thing I'd like to ask."
"What is it?"
"You, why didn't you gather information about the other people who had been teleported while you were on the Demon Continent?"
I stayed silent.
I had no choice but to stay silent.
Even if he asked me [Why?] I had no way to answer.
There was only one way to reply.
There was only one reason.
It was because I had forgotten.
At first we had struggled with all our strength, however even when we had room to breathe again, I hadn't even once thought that there might've been people besides us on the Demon Continent.
"I-, I had forgotten... We didn't have the time to, and..."
"Didn't have the time? Even though you had the time to help out some demon you didn't know, you didn't have the time to concern yourself about the other people who had been teleported?"
I stay silent.
I had gotten my priorities wrong.
Now that he mentions it, certainly that may have been the case.
Still, don't ask me this after it's already happened.
I had really forgotten at that time.
I can't be helped, right?
"Hah! Without searching for others, without writing a single letter, together with that cute, cute ojou-san like you were on a picnic, living as an adventurer. Not only that, you had a strong guard to escort you. And then, hah, when you first came to Milishion you saw a kidnapping, and put panties on your head and played hero?"
Paul sighs at me in ridicule, and reaches for the jug of alcohol on the neighboring table. He drank half of it in a gulp, then spat as if to make fun of me.
Because that gesture was unabashedly making fun of me, I became irritated. Though I won't tell him to stop drinking, aren't we in the middle of an important discussion?
"Even I've had to deal with one thing after another. I had decided that in a situation where I couldn't tell left from right, I would protect only Eris... Various things had happened, so it couldn't be helped, right?"
"It's not like I'm blaming you or anything."
He had spoken in a tone that ridiculed me. Finally, I began to raise my voice.
"In that case, why are you picking a fight with me!?"
I reached the limits of what I could endure. I don't understand why Paul is saying things like this.
"Why, you ask?"
Once again, Paul spits.
"I should be asking you that."
"What about me?"
I can't comprehend it. What is he trying to say?
"Was that Eris you mentioned, Phillip's daughter?"
"Eh? Ah, of course she is."
"I've never seen her, but she's definitely quite the cute ojou-san huh? Was not sending letters because you thought the number of guards around her would increase, and it'd get in the way of your flirting?"
"Didn't I just say that I had forgotten?"
I hadn't thought of anything but that.
Certainly, Eris really does have good standing.
The Greyrat family is huge.
Possibly, had we spoken to the lord of Saint Port, we might have gained one or two guards.
But I had explained that at that time I had been caught by the Beast People and so... oh, I hadn't explained, huh? I hadn't gotten up to that part yet.
Even so.
I aimed to do the things that I could, in my own way.
Though I didn't manage to do everything in the best way possible, that doesn't give him the right to blame me like this.
"Leader. How about leaving it there? He's still young so even if he had said a little too much, it can't be helped, right?"
When I became silent, the bikini warrior from before had come from behind and placed her hands on Paul's shoulders. Seeing this, I laugh in scorn.
In the end, it's this sort of thing.
Though this man speaks high and mightily, he's a man who won't discriminate when it comes to women.
He's that sort of man.
He isn't in a position to say anything to me.
I haven't laid my hands on Eris once.
Certainly there were close calls.
There were times when I was ruled by my desires as well.
But I never did lay my hands on her.
"When it comes to women, I don't want to be told this by you, Tou-sama."
"...Huh?"
Paul's eyes glaze over in irritation. I don't notice.
"What's the deal with the woman over there?"
"What about Vera?"
"Do Mother and Lilia know that you have such a beautiful