CH 93
[Royal Capital Flagoon]
We found an inn to stay the night in the city of Bolicassa, which is a day away by carriage from the royal capital Flagoon.
This city is memorable for me as it was where I often stayed with Alfine when we were going to subjugate monster after taking the request at the royal capital; even today’s inn was the inn I frequented in those days as Finn, though I didn’t tell that to Noelia and the others.
I thought the owner of the inn would notice that I’m Finn, but it seems because my appearance had completely changed, even he didn’t realize that it was me.
In the room of that inn, I’m organizing the information about Sword Master Alfine that I gathered in the cities we stopped by on the way here alone.
According to the information I gathered, it seems that the appearance of the corpse of the woman hanged on the castle gate in the royal capital is very similar to that of Alfine’s.
The stories I gathered all says that Alfine had been acting not like herself, like, after I left the royal capital, she took a break from instructing swordsmanship to the Royal Guard Knight – which she had never done even once before, or that she took a long break and went on a trip to the northern great city Algren.
Then, she got sick after her return from the trip to the north, and since then until she was executed by Gile, it seems there were only a few people saw her face.
Because they all just hearsay I heard from the gossip of the residents, the authenticity isn’t clear, but it seems true that Alfine had become strange in various ways after I broke up with her.
Just, what the heck was she doing…
She was a noble, so she should be able to find my replacement as many as she wanted.
To lose her presence of mind just because I was gone, it wasn’t like her at all.
If it’s the Alfine I knew, she would disparage me about my disappearance, make it into a funny story, and find a new good partner——
As I’m organizing the information, I suddenly think back about Alfine, and my view become blurred.
At that time, the door of the room is knocked.
“U-uhm Frick-sama, do you have time now?”
The one who knocked is Noelia.
“Ahh, wait a sec. I’ll open the door now.”
I wipe the tears blurring my view with the hem of my clothes and open the door.
“It’s rare for you to visit at this time. Do you have a business with me?”
“…No, not really, but…”
Noelia is restlessly fumbling with the hem of her clothes while looking down.
As I thought, Noelia, too, must be very concerned about my condition being strange.
I wonder if I should properly tell Noelia about my true identity, and about Alfine.
I didn’t mean to deceive her, but it’s true that I was the swordsman Finn, the Sword Master Alfine’s companion.
On the way to here, every time I thought about Alfine, I also ended up thinking about Noelia.
My feelings after making a fresh start as Frick, and my feelings as Finn that I should’ve abandoned are mixed, leaving my heart constantly shaking.
Even though if I hadn’t heard that Alfine was executed, I would have been able to live my life as Frick without suffering like this.
Even though if I knew whether the thing that squeezes my heart right now is the trauma planted by Alfine, or conversely, it is the regrets I have left for her, I wouldn’t have had to face Noelia with this kind of expression.
I’m very sorry to Noelia who is worried about me.
“That so. Then, since we’re only one day away until the royal capital Flagoon, let’s go to bed early today and leave early in the morning tomorrow.”
“Y-you are right. I understand. I will tell Suzana that too. Well then, good night.”
“A-ahh. Good night.”
Noelia who is fumbling with the hem of her clothes lower her head a little and run down the corridor just like that——
But, she stops halfway, turns toward me, raises her face and shouts with a voice so loud that it surprises me.
“U-uhm! No matter who Frick-sama is, it doesn’t matter to me, I don’t care! So, please cheer up——seeing Frick-sama having that kind of face pains me as well…”
I can only stand still at Noelia’s words.
I remain silent for a while, but eventually I reply to Noelia,
“Ahh, thanks. Tomorrow, in the royal capital, I’ll tell Noelia everything about me. If you think you can’t travel with me after hearing my story, I’ll carry out Frontier Count-sama’s request alone.”
A lot of tears pooled up in Noelia’s beautiful ice-blue eyes, as though she holds them back from spilling over and fall.
Then, she runs down the corridor toward her own room as is.
Tomorrow, tomorrow will all be settled.
If I settled on my feelings of when I spent time with Alfine as Finn which was left hanging, I would live the rest of my life as Frick.
I return to my room, and decide to make preparation for tomorrow and go to bed early.
The next morning, after leaving the city of Bolicassa before sunrise, we have the carriage run to the royal capital Flagoon.
The road to the royal capital Flagoon, the largest city in the kingdom is packed with so many carriages going back and forth that it couldn’t be compared to that of the frontier.
However, because we left the city of Bolicassa early, we are able to arrive until the front of the castle gate of the royal capital while it is still bright.
Just that, the traffic congestion of the carriages entering the city was heavy, and when the wyvern Dimol approached the royal capital, it led to more chaos than at that time in Inbahanes, so I entrusted Suzana to take care of him and Diedur at the waiting place for carriages that is built in great numbers in the outskirt of the royal capital, and together with Noelia, I went to the front of the castle gate of the royal capital.[1]
“We’ve arrived. The royal capital Flagoon. The largest city in the capital of the Kingdom of Hartford.”
“I have not been to the royal capital for a long time. If I remember correctly, since I visited Linus-shi at the Magic Research Institute.”
It seems that Noelia who is holding on to my waist has also came to this royal capital several times.
The residents living in the economic center, the royal capital Flagoon – which could even be said to be the heart of the kingdom – are walking fast and hurriedly as though they are busy.
Even for the inspection, although the line for carriages is crowded, the line for people entering by walking or by horse is more vacant that I expected.
I’ve been repeatedly looking over the gates for a while, but I don’t see the figure of Alfine who was said to be hanged.
Two weeks have already passed since her execution.
Has she already been taken down and cremated?
Perhaps she made a guess from my line of sight, as Noelia who is riding behind me whispers in my ear.
[Frick-sama, it may be at the castle gate of noble district that is in the way to the royal palace, not this gate.]
I see… the castle gate to noble district.
There is a high possibility that it is there.
[Thanks, let’s try checking there after we enter the royal capital.]
Eventually, we pass the inspection; after entering the royal capital, we follow the road I’m familiar with and arrive in front of the castle gate to the noble district that is in the way to the royal palace.
Then, a corpse that seems to be that of a young black-haired woman hanged at the gate jump into my sight.[2]
[1] Here it actually says that they rode the horse to the front of the gate, but at a later chapter Frick says he left it with Suzana.
[2] A disrepancy, Gile said it was a head on display. I’ve re-checked his last side chapter, thinking that the author might have revised it, but it’s still the same, Gile did say that it was a ‘beheaded head’ and a ‘fake severed head’. Just keep in mind that the correct one is a corpse.
We found an inn to stay the night in the city of Bolicassa, which is a day away by carriage from the royal capital Flagoon.
This city is memorable for me as it was where I often stayed with Alfine when we were going to subjugate monster after taking the request at the royal capital; even today’s inn was the inn I frequented in those days as Finn, though I didn’t tell that to Noelia and the others.
I thought the owner of the inn would notice that I’m Finn, but it seems because my appearance had completely changed, even he didn’t realize that it was me.
In the room of that inn, I’m organizing the information about Sword Master Alfine that I gathered in the cities we stopped by on the way here alone.
According to the information I gathered, it seems that the appearance of the corpse of the woman hanged on the castle gate in the royal capital is very similar to that of Alfine’s.
The stories I gathered all says that Alfine had been acting not like herself, like, after I left the royal capital, she took a break from instructing swordsmanship to the Royal Guard Knight – which she had never done even once before, or that she took a long break and went on a trip to the northern great city Algren.
Then, she got sick after her return from the trip to the north, and since then until she was executed by Gile, it seems there were only a few people saw her face.
Because they all just hearsay I heard from the gossip of the residents, the authenticity isn’t clear, but it seems true that Alfine had become strange in various ways after I broke up with her.
Just, what the heck was she doing…
She was a noble, so she should be able to find my replacement as many as she wanted.
To lose her presence of mind just because I was gone, it wasn’t like her at all.
If it’s the Alfine I knew, she would disparage me about my disappearance, make it into a funny story, and find a new good partner——
As I’m organizing the information, I suddenly think back about Alfine, and my view become blurred.
At that time, the door of the room is knocked.
“U-uhm Frick-sama, do you have time now?”
The one who knocked is Noelia.
“Ahh, wait a sec. I’ll open the door now.”
I wipe the tears blurring my view with the hem of my clothes and open the door.
“It’s rare for you to visit at this time. Do you have a business with me?”
“…No, not really, but…”
Noelia is restlessly fumbling with the hem of her clothes while looking down.
As I thought, Noelia, too, must be very concerned about my condition being strange.
I wonder if I should properly tell Noelia about my true identity, and about Alfine.
I didn’t mean to deceive her, but it’s true that I was the swordsman Finn, the Sword Master Alfine’s companion.
On the way to here, every time I thought about Alfine, I also ended up thinking about Noelia.
My feelings after making a fresh start as Frick, and my feelings as Finn that I should’ve abandoned are mixed, leaving my heart constantly shaking.
Even though if I hadn’t heard that Alfine was executed, I would have been able to live my life as Frick without suffering like this.
Even though if I knew whether the thing that squeezes my heart right now is the trauma planted by Alfine, or conversely, it is the regrets I have left for her, I wouldn’t have had to face Noelia with this kind of expression.
I’m very sorry to Noelia who is worried about me.
“That so. Then, since we’re only one day away until the royal capital Flagoon, let’s go to bed early today and leave early in the morning tomorrow.”
“Y-you are right. I understand. I will tell Suzana that too. Well then, good night.”
“A-ahh. Good night.”
Noelia who is fumbling with the hem of her clothes lower her head a little and run down the corridor just like that——
But, she stops halfway, turns toward me, raises her face and shouts with a voice so loud that it surprises me.
“U-uhm! No matter who Frick-sama is, it doesn’t matter to me, I don’t care! So, please cheer up——seeing Frick-sama having that kind of face pains me as well…”
I can only stand still at Noelia’s words.
I remain silent for a while, but eventually I reply to Noelia,
“Ahh, thanks. Tomorrow, in the royal capital, I’ll tell Noelia everything about me. If you think you can’t travel with me after hearing my story, I’ll carry out Frontier Count-sama’s request alone.”
A lot of tears pooled up in Noelia’s beautiful ice-blue eyes, as though she holds them back from spilling over and fall.
Then, she runs down the corridor toward her own room as is.
Tomorrow, tomorrow will all be settled.
If I settled on my feelings of when I spent time with Alfine as Finn which was left hanging, I would live the rest of my life as Frick.
I return to my room, and decide to make preparation for tomorrow and go to bed early.
The next morning, after leaving the city of Bolicassa before sunrise, we have the carriage run to the royal capital Flagoon.
The road to the royal capital Flagoon, the largest city in the kingdom is packed with so many carriages going back and forth that it couldn’t be compared to that of the frontier.
However, because we left the city of Bolicassa early, we are able to arrive until the front of the castle gate of the royal capital while it is still bright.
Just that, the traffic congestion of the carriages entering the city was heavy, and when the wyvern Dimol approached the royal capital, it led to more chaos than at that time in Inbahanes, so I entrusted Suzana to take care of him and Diedur at the waiting place for carriages that is built in great numbers in the outskirt of the royal capital, and together with Noelia, I went to the front of the castle gate of the royal capital.[1]
“We’ve arrived. The royal capital Flagoon. The largest city in the capital of the Kingdom of Hartford.”
“I have not been to the royal capital for a long time. If I remember correctly, since I visited Linus-shi at the Magic Research Institute.”
It seems that Noelia who is holding on to my waist has also came to this royal capital several times.
The residents living in the economic center, the royal capital Flagoon – which could even be said to be the heart of the kingdom – are walking fast and hurriedly as though they are busy.
Even for the inspection, although the line for carriages is crowded, the line for people entering by walking or by horse is more vacant that I expected.
I’ve been repeatedly looking over the gates for a while, but I don’t see the figure of Alfine who was said to be hanged.
Two weeks have already passed since her execution.
Has she already been taken down and cremated?
Perhaps she made a guess from my line of sight, as Noelia who is riding behind me whispers in my ear.
[Frick-sama, it may be at the castle gate of noble district that is in the way to the royal palace, not this gate.]
I see… the castle gate to noble district.
There is a high possibility that it is there.
[Thanks, let’s try checking there after we enter the royal capital.]
Eventually, we pass the inspection; after entering the royal capital, we follow the road I’m familiar with and arrive in front of the castle gate to the noble district that is in the way to the royal palace.
Then, a corpse that seems to be that of a young black-haired woman hanged at the gate jump into my sight.[2]
[1] Here it actually says that they rode the horse to the front of the gate, but at a later chapter Frick says he left it with Suzana.
[2] A disrepancy, Gile said it was a head on display. I’ve re-checked his last side chapter, thinking that the author might have revised it, but it’s still the same, Gile did say that it was a ‘beheaded head’ and a ‘fake severed head’. Just keep in mind that the correct one is a corpse.
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