The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage’s Carefree Life in Another World: Volume 8 by Kotobuki Yasukiyo

Author:Kotobuki Yasukiyo [YASUKIYO, KOTOBUKI]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-12-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9: The Old Guy Explains Luceris’s Past

Despite the commotion, Zelos and Lusei eventually managed to eat dinner.

Luceris was watching them like a hawk, though—and the look on her face was starting to scare them. Although she wore her usual saintly smile, she seemed surrounded by a dark, foreboding aura. Even Zelos was getting the jitters.

This is terrifying... And somehow that smile only makes it worse, he thought. What’s even wrong? Did I do something?

Wh-Why does this feel so intense? Lusei thought. I’ve never felt so intimidated in my life. Not even on the battlefield.

They were such powerful fighters that your average person couldn’t even comprehend what they were capable of, and here they were, intimidated by this young priestess.

Luceris wasn’t aware, but she was emitting this aura out of jealousy.

She and Zelos weren’t even lovers—let alone husband and wife—but somehow, it was like she’d caught him cheating on her with Lusei. The two of them felt like little critters being watched by a snake.

“By the way,” Luceris asked, “did you come here for work, Lusei? I thought Zelos only went to help the duke build a road... I can’t imagine how he would have met you on a construction site, though. Do you mind if I ask how you met?”

I-I’m scaaaaaared! the two of them panicked. It felt like a wife interrogating the cheating husband and his mistress.

Luceris was speaking politely right now—abnormally politely, in fact—but something about her question left the Great Sage and the revered general trembling with fear.

They felt like they could very well be killed if they gave the wrong answer. And the fact that Luceris wasn’t putting on this pressure intentionally only made it scarier.

“U-Uh, you see... The funny thing is, as soon as we’d finished building the deepway, I was hired to escort a diplomat to the Artom Empire. And then once I got there, I was given another job...”

“Y-Yes! There’s...a certain mystery my family absolutely needs to investigate, and we requested Zelos’s help. That’s why I accompanied him back to Solistia.”

“Assuming this is a national issue, shouldn’t you have gone to the ducal mansion? Why are you staying at Zelos’s house? That’s the part I don’t understand.”

“Well, a lot of things happened, and...” Zelos began, hesitating. “Hmm... Where do I even start? It’s a bit of a sensitive topic.”

“Indeed. And no, it’s...more a personal matter than a national one. It has to do with a scandal in my family, you could say.”

This was an interrogation, and Luceris was well and truly in charge; there was no defying her here. With as much pressure as Zelos and Lusei were under, they were convinced Luceris could sniff out even the tiniest lie. If they tried to deceive her, they just knew their lives would be forfeit.

There was no escape. Zelos took a quiet breath to compose himself, trying to shake free from the fear.

He’d learned years ago how to get out of this sort of pressure, back when he’d had to give corporate presentations during the global financial crisis.

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