About 10 years had passed after the Battle of Biheiril Kingdom.
I’ll be turning 34 this year.
These 10 years were really peaceful.
Within these 10 years, there was no interference by Hitogami.
He really came to a complete halt.
The years simply passed by without even hearing the Hi- from Hitogami’s name.
Of course, I hadn’t loosened my vigilance.
While being cautious for any attack that may come from any direction, I continued to prepare for Laplace’s return just like before.
Still, because Hitogami wasn’t meddling this time, things were progressing pretty smoothly.
We were able to call out to all the countries within 5 years after the battle.
There were places that were no good, but most of the countries had accepted our request.
Therefore, I was putting my effort into researching and coaching Chantless Magic in the Asura Kingdom and Magic University.
Adding to that, we were coaching the military authorities of various countries about the countermeasures that should be taken against the tactics that Laplace would take.
And we were concealing the name 『Rudeus』 while making the name 『Silent Seven Star』 famous.
It was unclear to me whether the hypothesis Nanahoshi was talking about was correct or not.
However, 『If a friend from the previous world does end up coming here, then I wish that something be done so that he can find me.』after accepting this wish of hers, we were now spreading her name around the world.
There were some bad rumors floating around as well but I guess it couldn’t be helped.
The first priority was to increase her popularity, and if it was someone from the previous world, then the meaning or the convenience that I was using her name to do it would surely be understood.
These days, we were researching a mana recovery medicine in hopes of increasing Orsted’s mana recovery speed.
We were able to pretty much create such a potion but for some reason, Orsted’s mana didn’t recover.
I wonder if it’s because of the difference in the quality of mana between the Human race and Dragon Race, or was it some other reason?
We’ll be researching this matter a bit more, but I couldn’t help but feel that this was going nowhere.
Well, the potion itself was a great hit among the adventurers so it wasn’t completely in vain.
There were still a lot of things that needed to be done.
I had still some way to go before I could finally rest.
Our children had gotten bigger.
Lucy was now 17.
Lara was now 14, Ars was 13.
And did Sieg become 11 this year?
Every one of them were quickly growing up.
After that, our family grew with 2 more children.
Roxy’s child - Lily Greyrat.
Eris’s child - Christina Greyrat.
Both of them were girls.
6 siblings.
It’s a large family.
But the female to male ratio was higher in my family. Perhaps the Greyrat lineage is a matrilineal family.
When Lucy became 7, she started attending family councils, and decided on a broad education plan.
That is to say, she enrolled herself in Magic University. After her graduation and celebrating her coming of age ceremony, she attended the Asura Kingdom’s National University for 3 years.
It’s my ideology to not force my children into something but I did think that there was a need to guide them towards their education.
It was Ariel’s earnest request to let my child enter the National University of Asura Kingdom.
I had a huge debt towards Ariel.
I want to make blood ties with your family so make one of my child your son-in-law!
If she said something like that, I’d obviously refuse, but I couldn’t say no if she just wanted to enroll my kids.
I wanted to pay back my debts little by little.
Incidentally, Ariel gave birth after the Battle of Biheiril Kingdom.
Her companion might get a hold of too much power so she didn’t marry.
And it seemed that she had many concubines.
Ariel currently had 5 kids, on top of which the fathers of 4 of them were unknown, Luke said with a greatly perplexed blue face.
A question arises as to just how he knew about one of the fathers.....but if I think about it now, perhaps the father in question might turn out to be Luke.
It seemed that as part of her next plan, Ariel was planning on marrying my kids with one of those 4 kids.
I wouldn’t like it if she’s doing it for only political reason, but I’d permit it if the kids themselves consented to each other being their companions, or so were my thoughts.
The kids were still young but they would be growing towards adulthood with each passing year.
In particular, Lucy had already become a fine adult capable of judging things herself.
Though I say that, it’s not like she simply grew older without maturing as an adult.
Honestly, even I didn’t understand about change.
The moment one thinks that something bad has been fixed, a different bad thing might pop out.
And the one that had been already fixed would start deteriorating again.
It’s a feeling where you keep aging while thinking the same thing over and over.
Only my face could be seen to be getting older as the years went by.
These days, my face had gotten some smile lines.
Sylphy said ‘That part of you is good as well’ but Sylphy looks quite young for her age so I felt a little guilty.