“…Should I return?”
Anyway, he wasn’t in the mood to search for Hillock Herbs anymore after all that.
Because there were jewels among the bones, so he collected them before he left.
After Shin got out of the forest, he began to walk toward the gate and thought that he had better to report about the Skull Face case to the guild.
Without knowing that the greatsword caused a commotion in the kingdom,
Shin left the northern forest and had returned to the east gate.
He noticed that the gate area was noisy as he walked closer.
“Is there something going on?”
No curious spectators gathered like yesterday, it was just the guards who seemed to be asking for information from the passerby. Seemingly, only the people entering the country got questioned.
Although he could enter without waiting in line as adventurers have guild cards, he wanted to listen to the story one by one. So he lined up and waited for his turn to come.
When the distance to the gate gradually decreased, he could listen to the guards’ and adventurers’ voices.
“Northern forest…eastern forest…shadow, flew…?”
Only a fragment of the conversation could be heard, but he couldn’t expel the bad feelings from his mind.
As the distance diminished, he summarized the story he heard clearly together. The residents of the town witnessed a mysterious object flying in the sky. Furthermore, it seems to have fallen into the royal castle. The eyewitnesses saw it was flying, but couldn’t determine if it came from the northern or eastern forest and no one knew what circumstances behind it as the investigation proceed.
(Mysterious flying object…it is the sword after all…)
He remembered the greatsword that was blown away. But he didn’t know which way or in which direction it flew as he concentrated on the battle.
His feet were getting heavier the closer he got to the gate.
“Yo Shin.”
“Yo Beid, has something happened?”
He replied to Beid as if nothing had happened. He wanted to believe that the mysterious flying object was not the greatsword.
People called this an escapism.
“To tell you the truth, a sword has flown toward the royal castle. From the investigation we had, it was either from the north or from the east. Didn’t you go to eastern forest? Did you saw anything?”
“…No, I didn’t see it. Were there any injuries?”
From the story, no people were hurt, as the sword fell and stuck to the castle wall. Good grief, it was absurd that a sword flew over the rampart.”
“It’s a good thing that no one got hurt.”
He breathed a sigh of relief at the words of no human injury.
“Let’s confirm the direction firmly.”
He made a promise to himself at that moment.
“Huh? What?”
“No, It’s nothing. May I go now?”
“Ah, Please tell the soldier who does the investigation if you remember anything.”
“Roger that.”
He left the gate with a quick pace while maintaining his poker face. He walked until the gate was out of sight and loosened his pace as he let out a sigh.
“Haa, why did it land at the royal castle out of all places?”
Already on the third day in this different world, he had a hunch that the country was already determined to be his opponent. It was very likely that he was gonna be charged with treason for attacking the royal family. Frankly speaking, it was very bad.
Even though there was no evidence that lead to Shin, when he reported about the Skull Face to the guild, the doubt would be shifted toward him somehow.“Why did it happen this way…”
It wouldn’t always go the way he wanted in life.