Old Knight, New Post: From Retiree to Her Majesty’s Blade Volume 1 by Hisago Amazake-no

Author:Hisago Amazake-no [AMAZAKE-NO, HISAGO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten: Rekindling Explosive Old Friendships

The Trailmarcher sped along, the sound of its many legs in operation echoing through the air as it let out a burst of steam.

Having departed Front-Edge City on the Kingdom’s Trail, the Trailmarcher continued on its way with an increase in patrol soldiers after it came to light postdeparture that a wanted criminal was onboard. A heavy air hung over the inside of the Trailmarcher, with the passengers all groaning about how they hoped the authorities would catch this wanted criminal fellow right away.

“Man, this is the furthest thing from some glamorous trip!” Watt sighed, staring up at the ceiling of the Trailmarcher.

With nowhere to stretch out his long limbs, Watt found himself in a rather tight situation with no way to relax. Anna and Meddié were there beside him, but the two of them didn’t seem to be struggling all that much with their smaller frames.

Meddié puffed out her chest, sitting atop something that clearly wasn’t a seat. “See? Told you it’d be a good idea if I came along!”

“Sure didn’t think I’d be countin’ on you this soon, though...”

“I knew we could depend on you to come through, Meddié!”

Watt could feel the rhythmic vibrations of the Trailmarcher’s legs from where he sat. There was no mistaking it: They were riding on a Trailmarcher. But Watt was a wanted man—so just how had they slipped past the soldiers’ gaze?

“Unloadin’ cargo was how I made my living, but I never thought I’d see the day when I was cargo myself!”

Indeed, thanks to the work of Socom Co., the group now found themselves not in a passenger car but a freight car along with their own cargo. Normally, people were forbidden from riding in freight cars. What they were doing was, in truth, a form of smuggling.

“Still, I just can’t help but wonder if it’s really okay to just chuck him in here,” Watt remarked.

The reason their method of choice would work was tied to the capital’s own distribution network. After all, the capital was the largest city in all of the Kingdom of Ogdenn, and the amount of goods it consumed was nothing to sneeze at. The network supporting the city was massive in its own right—so much so that checking every part of it was out of the question. That was why the usual practice was to inspect all the cargo at once after it’d been unloaded postarrival. It was hardly monitored at all along the way. Sure enough, there wasn’t so much as a hint of the patrol soldiers nearby.

Watt could feel his old sense of industry ethics whispering in his ear about how it was a problem that a wanted criminal could slip through so easily, but he decided to ignore it. They were facing an emergency now; they had to force their way through as if they were operating above the law.

“If I had to point out just a single flaw with all this, it’s the fact that cargo’s only as good as the way you haul it,” Watt said.

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