Pens Down, Swords Up: Throw Your Studies to the Wind Volume 3 by Mao Nishiura

Author:Mao Nishiura [NISHIURA, MAO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Mimosa

The door rattled as it slid fully open, and two people stepped into the restaurant. The man entered first, his expression grim, though the woman who entered behind him seemed more composed. To my surprise, they’d left the bodyguard outside.

“What do you want, Mimosa? Pretty sure it was just the other day you were here saying, ‘This is my final warning.’ Or is my memory going?”

At first glance, the woman seemed to be in her mid-twenties, perhaps more toward the latter half. But when I took a closer look, while her tanned, glowing skin and glossy black hair lent her a youthful visage, something about the way she carried herself made me think she was probably easily in her thirties.

The beautiful woman—Mimosa—glanced idly at Cap’n before replying. “You’re more stubborn than I thought, old man. Not knowing when to give up isn’t something to be proud of, you know? Anyway, I’m not here for you today. I got a report from the Solcoast branch saying ‘Mad Hound Lenn,’ the B-Rank explorer, is in the area at the moment. As the face of this town, I thought it would only be proper to offer him a greeting and make sure he knows the lay of the land... But we’ve been waiting so long, I started to question whether he was even inside. Thought I should come in to check.” Her eyes snapped to mine, full of confidence. Nothing in her gaze indicated she was mocking me, twelve-year-old boy that I was.

So she’s even got the local guild branch on her side, hm? She’s more dangerous than I thought. Well, I don’t know what tricks she used, but if she’s basically running a town this size, she wasn’t just gonna be any old hotheaded upstart. Also, I can’t believe my stupid nickname has spread all the way to this backwater port town! The gossip mill in this kingdom runs way too quickly.

“Wait, you actually were a B-Rank?!” asked Cap’n, looking somewhat flustered. Apparently, he hadn’t believed me in the slightest.

“Well, you found me. I’m Lenn. Not sure about that ‘Mad Hound’ business, though. I don’t recall anyone ever calling me that,” I lied, knowing it was probably in vain. “I’m a complete gentleman, after all. How’d you know I was here?”

Mimosa shrugged. “It was easy enough to figure out. You asked the guild to recommend a lodging house. I went there, and they said someone matching your description headed out to eat and that you’d gone eastward. I figured you came to this district, so I followed you here and asked around. Didn’t take long to find out you’d chosen this restaurant—of all places—but I reckoned following you inside might make the conversation a little trickier, so I’ve been waiting out front.”

First the guild, and now the lodging house too... Does anyone in this kingdom care about personal privacy?! Well, I guess in my past life, people only really started caring about keeping personal information private after we started to enter the digital age, so I’d be stupid to expect much respect for privacy in this world.

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