Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools ~Side Stories~ [Parts 1 to 5] by Hisaya Amagishi

Author:Hisaya Amagishi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, magic, fantasy, isekai, reincarnation, business, knights, romance, j-novel heart, female protagonist, crafting
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

Grato Bartolone was the captain of the royal Order of Beast Hunters, the head of the Marquisate Bartolone, and the master Gismondo had spent his adult life protecting.

Gismondo’s family had served the Bartolones as bodyguards for generations. His father had served the family head before Grato, and Gismondo had grown up expecting that he, too, would serve one of the Bartolones upon becoming a knight himself.

He’d earned good marks in primary school, and once it was decided that he would be studying chivalry in college, the head of the Bartolone family assigned him to his eldest son, Grato.

Gismondo’s father was over the moon that his son would be guarding the next family head, and Gismondo had no authority to refuse. Given the choice, however, he would have preferred to be assigned to the younger son, reputedly the “epitome of a civil servant,” and not the “no-good, sword-obsessed” older son.

At the time, many people within the Bartolone family were speculating that the younger brother would be the one to succeed to his father’s title. Grato was a skilled swordsman, but his grades in college left much to be desired, as did his personal conduct. He would skip class, get into fights, and disobey his father. Gismondo felt less like a bodyguard and more like the caretaker of an unruly child.

And his first impression of Grato could hardly have been worse.

“I don’t need a bodyguard,” Grato had said with an unpleasant sneer. “But if I have to have one, then let’s have a bout.”

Together, then went out onto the grounds of the Bartolone estate and sparred with practice swords. Grato was strong, but Gismondo had also gone through strict training with his father and older brother ever since he was a child, so he managed to keep pace with him.

“Not bad for a kid!” Grato exclaimed with a loud laugh, and regardless of how he felt about it, Gismondo officially became his bodyguard. It wasn’t until later that he wondered why he hadn’t thought to hold back during their bout.

From the next day onward, his life as Grato’s bodyguard was nothing but trouble.

As he’d heard, Grato was a poor student and even struggled with reading. When teaching him the basic subjects orally, Gismondo had to do everything he could to seize his attention; outside of lessons, he pacified his master with sword practice in moderation, with Gismondo or Grato’s friend, Gildo—now the head treasurer—acting as his sparring partner.

The troubles didn’t end with academics. Grato kept him on his toes at home too. As a college student, Grato was prone to emotional outbursts; once, he quarreled so badly with his father that he was threatened with disinheritance. And then there was the time when Gismondo, Gildo, and Gildo’s own bodyguard had to go looking for Grato after he ran away from home.

When Gismondo heard that Grato had even gotten into a fistfight with Gildo at school, all he could do was cradle his head in his hands.

When Grato broke a bone in a fight, Gismondo lent him his shoulder to lean on and hailed him to the temple.

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