Marriage, Divorce, and Beyond: The White Mage and Black Knight's Romance Reignited Volume 1 by Takasugi Naturu

Author:Takasugi Naturu [Naturu, Takasugi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club

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“Here’s where you’re going today. Sorry it’s so different every day.”

The red knights that guarded Sathante had a station in the hot springs town. It was here that I received written work instructions about what I was to do and where.

I checked the details that the commanding officer—a man with an impressive mustache—had given me. I was to check and replenish the mana in the monster-repelling lanterns near the village entrance, as well as in the furthest section of the nobles’ district—around a garden with a water fountain.

“It’s no problem. High-ranking people are going to be there, right? Of course I should go there,” I replied.

“It sounds like they’ll be there for about a month in a few days,” the commanding officer said. “They’ll also be holding a festival. Well, checking the lanterns and replenishing their mana stores is always something to get done, so changing up which locations get serviced each day doesn’t matter too much. Sorry to keep you busy.”

“I don’t mind. I’ll just perform as instructed.”

I checked the locations a second time, then picked up my cane.

“Oh, that’s right—Lina, take this.” The commanding officer handed me a small paper bag. Inside were four thumbnail-sized gunpowder spheres.

“I have some already,” I replied.

“You must have had those for at least ten days, right? The insides of your old gunpowder spheres are probably damp, so switch them with these dry ones. If the ones you’ve got are damp, you won’t be able to use them in an emergency,” he explained.

His point made sense. I exchanged the ones I had in my pocket for the bag he handed to me.

The bag was for emergencies, such as if I were to encounter invading monsters. Throwing the bag onto the ground would result in a loud sound to intimidate the monsters and produce a large amount of smoke to render their noses useless. The rising smoke would also alert the red knights to my location so they could come running.

Gunpowder spheres had to be dry for the sound and fumes to work, and walking around with them in a bag would gradually let them grow damp from humidity. It seemed that to combat this problem, the red knights periodically collected the unused gunpowder spheres to dry them out again.

“There have been a lot of monster sightings this autumn,” the commanding officer continued. “There have been large monsters that have gotten into the town center before, though that happens maybe once every several years. The far side of the nobles’ district is particularly near Mt. Mulian, so be careful.”

“Understood.”

I put the new bag of gunpowder spheres in my pocket, then bid farewell to the red knights on duty and left the station.

I checked how the monster-repelling lanterns installed near the town entrance were operating, then replenished any mana that had been depleted. The lanterns were working without a problem and emitting sounds and smells that monsters hated and humans couldn’t pick up...or at least, I assumed they were. As we humans couldn’t sense the sounds or smells, we had to check the lanterns’ light to determine if they were working.

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