The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage's Carefree Life in Another World: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 3] by Kotobuki Yasukiyo

Author:Kotobuki Yasukiyo
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 3: The Old Guy Gets Seasick

Dressed in a jet-black robe, Zelos was getting ready for the guard job he’d agreed to do.

He’d be boarding a ship in a few hours’ time. First, though, he wanted to make sure he hadn’t forgotten anything—and after a while, he realized there was, in fact, something fairly important. He went back to his bedroom, picked up a certain something from the table, and slowly put it over his face. It was a mask, and a fairly elaborate one at that.

It only covered his eyes, and it had a weirdly chuunibyou design, modeled after an oni. But it was still a proper magic tool, and it worked together with the rings he’d made for his students. Specifically, it was capable of showing him a simple arrow that pointed in the direction of whoever was wearing the rings.

Now, the mask would help him to hide his identity. Though when its design was only going to make him stand out all the more, it seemed kind of like he was putting the cart before the horse...

Regardless, the only issue left now was the motorbike Zelos had made. Three days ago, the brakes had stopped working, and the bike had gone haywire. He had built in a way of bringing it to a stop, but it had failed while he was riding, and he’d gotten into an accident not long after noticing what had happened.

The failure had been caused by a combination of improper brake cable layout and a lack of durability in the housing that protected the motorbike’s transmission. And since Zelos hadn’t fitted the bike with a key mechanism to start it up, those brakes were the only real way he’d had of bringing it to a stop. He’d been left with no way of powering the thing down in the case of an emergency.

When Zelos had hit the orc king with his bike, a shard from a broken longsword had severed his brake cable. It had pierced the housing and gotten caught in the transmission too, preventing the bike from decelerating.

It hadn’t been helped by the fact that the bike was automatic—but at least Zelos had improved it by now. He’d been sorely reminded of the dangers of half-assing things.

“I sure wasn’t expecting an orc king to pop up there... Guess I should never have made the powertrain out of lead and tin. Still, though...you wouldn’t usually expect the front and rear brakes to both stop working at the same time, would you? Was I just unlucky?”

Motorbikes weren’t designed to come to a sudden stop—and crashing into an orc king was even worse. It shouldn’t have been a surprise that something failed. Still, the specifics of what had failed, all at once, did indeed come down to a lot of bad luck.

Either way, that was all in the past now, and it was Zelos’s job as the engineer to make sure an accident like that wouldn’t happen again. The root cause behind the accident

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