Let This Grieving Soul Retire: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 7] by Tsukikage

Author:Tsukikage
Language: eng
Format: epub

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The sun was setting, casting a thin shadow over the capital. A single carriage was in front of the clan house. It was a nondescript box-shaped carriage pulled by two horses. It lacked the First Steps insignia, proving that it wasn’t property of the clan. This meant the carriage’s passengers wouldn’t be immediately obvious.

Eva, who had gone beyond her usual duties and procured the carriage, tried to gauge my reaction.

“You said you wanted something that wouldn’t stand out too much...” she began.

“Yeah, this looks good,” I said.

Trusting Eva had paid off. Carriages usually have to be reserved in advance. The Explorer’s Association could be a bit more flexible, but this didn’t look like one of theirs. I had asked her not even a day in advance, but she delivered with spectacular results.

“It’s a rental, so there will be a fee if it’s destroyed,” she said. “While it’s not an enormous sum...”

“I won’t destroy it.”

“Okay, but how many carriages have you destroyed thus far?”

Eva looked at me with a sharp gaze. It seemed she had absolutely no faith in me.

“They weren’t destroyed, they just broke down,” I said with a cough.

It wasn’t my fault. There was nothing I could’ve done.

I once thought of carriages as sturdy things. I later learned just how frail they are. Even one reinforced with metal plating wouldn’t last a minute against the attacks of a swarm of monsters or phantoms.

Of course, we weren’t intentionally catching the ire of monsters, nor were we charging into their homes, but treasure hunting was still a dangerous job. Not too long prior, I had even been denied a carriage insurance plan specifically intended for hunters. It was the strangest thing.

Eva looked over my Relic-covered attire with a scrutinizing gaze and spoke in a fast, clinical tone.

“It would be of great help to me if you were to return as quickly as you can.”

“Mm, of course.”

There wasn’t a hint of antipathy in her eyes. Eva was wasted on a person like me.

Yeah, I’ll return as quickly as I can. You bet I will. But I didn’t say just when that’ll be.

My return would, at the very least, be after the conclusion of the Gathering of White Blades.

“When’s the Gathering of White Blades?”

“Huh? Oh, it’s the same every year, so...three weeks from now.”

Three weeks, huh? That’s further out than I expected. This is looking like it could be a long vacation. That should be more than enough time to meet up with the others. It might be nice to actually take some time to rest.

In the end, I failed to find any other clan members to join us. I guess I couldn’t complain, I brought it up out of the blue after all. Still, what terrible timing, everyone had funerals, weddings, or just wasn’t feeling well.

Depending on how you looked at it, you could also see fewer people as a good thing. It meant we only needed one carriage.

“Krai, forgive my tardiness.”

From the other side of the road, Sitri ran to us in traveling clothes.

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