Breaking Off the Engagement… Just as Intended Chapter 19

And now, after having safely defeated the mocktopus, we had returned to Nan village.
I explained the matter of Chris-sama to Thoma on the way.
As it turned out, Thoma remembered Chris-sama from the past and was very suprised at how he changed from then. (1)
Just, it seems he had known that Chris-sama was a male.
Could it be possible that the ones that had made this misunderstanding had been me and my brother, us siblings only? (2)
That’s strange~
No matter how you looked at him, he had been a G.o.ddess.

The children we had saved in the forest had also been brought back to the village unharmed.
It seems like they had ventured out into the depths of the forest in search of medical herbs because their father had been injured when the monsters had appeared in the village.
The monster related uproar this time was probably because of the monkey-type and wolf-type monsters got chased out of the depths of the forest by the mocktopus and had been driven into the direction of the village, it would appear.

We left all the medicine we had brought along with the villagers and left the village behind.
On the way back to the estate I tried asking Chris-sama something I had been curious about.

“Excuse me, Chris-sama, how come you appeared in that place?”

“Aah, there was kind of a buzziness throughout the mansion so I asked that attendant of yours, was it Sana? I asked her about it and chased after Ririina and the others right away. I may know that Ririina is strong but, after all, one never knows whether something might happen, right. In fact, something had happened to you.” (3)

“Come to think of it, I haven’t given you my grat.i.tude yet, have I. Chris-sama, thank you very much for earlier. You saved me.”

“No, there’s no need for that. I went after you in order to be of help to Ririina in the first place. But yes, I do have one thing I would like to ask of you, would that be alright?”

“If it’s something I can do, then do tell me!”

“Alright. It’s nothing difficult in particular, you know. I want to go along to the capital together with you.”

Eh?
Chris-sama is going to go to the royal capital?
Sightseeing .. is probably not his intention.
The country Chris-sama is from is bigger, after all, and also floris.h.i.+ng.

“I don’t think that would be a problem, but I don’t think there is anything there that you would think of as interesting?”

“No, I’m pretty sure I get the feeling that there will be something that can catch my interest. Pretty sure.”

As we were conversing like this we reached the mansion.
Mother and my Grandparents were welcome us back.

“Welcome back. It doesn’t look like you got injured. Was the village alright?”

“Mother, there have been several people with injuries in the village but it’s alright. We defeated the monsters but there had been one that we never saw before. For some reason, in that forest there was a monster that resembled an octopus that should be living in the ocean. We do not know the reason.”

“Is that so .. I can’t say anything definite either, there is still much about monsters that isn’t understood properly. Still, we will strengthen our patrols. Thoma, work together with the other units and ensure our defenses, will you.”

“Yes! Understood.”

And thus the first monster hu
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— On the day of departure

In the end, me, Mother, Chris-sama and Sana were going to head towards the royal capital.
I was thinking that it would turn into having to use a carriage because of Chris-sama, but Chris-sama also said that rather than using a slow carriage he would rather use a horse, so we each mounted our respective horses and departed.

It didn’t look like there would be an a.s.sault like the last this time.
Well, if if there was it would be fine. Probably an instant kill, actually.
Chris-sama’s bow was amazing as well, but on top of all Mother would deal with it I reckon.
Mine and Sana’s turn surely wouldn’t even come up ..

Somehow we arrived at the royal capital in the blink of an eye.
For the time being we headed for our house.
And just like that I had quickly returned here after all.

When we reached the residence Sebastian [1] came out to greet us.

“Welcome home. It has been a while, Liesa-sama.”

“Ara, Sebastian, it really has been a while. Is Leaf in?”

“The Master has yet to return but he should be arriving any moment now I estimate. However, as for Ricardo-sama ..”

Dodododo!
Ba—ng!
As if to interrupt Sebastian and extremely loud noise could be heard.

“Ririinaaaa! You’ve come back–!”

Doka!
Without words Mother struck Brother’s head.
Amazing! To bring down that hard forged Brother down with a single hit, as expected of Mother.
Brother crouched down holding his head.

“Kuu~, eh, are? Mother? What are you doing here?”

“Ricardo .. you really don’t change, do you. You’re not even going to greet the Mother and Chris that you haven’t seen in a long time?”

“Eh .. Chris .. -sama. Deh, eeh—! Wh-why is Chris here ..”

Doka!
And Brother sunk down a second time to Mother’s fist.
He really doesn’t learn, does he.

“Ricardo, it’s been a while. Have you been doing well?” [2]

“Kuu~~, twice in the same place. Er, Chris .. a~ right, it’s been a while. But still, why here?”

“The reason? That is obviously in order observe. After all it seems a lot of interesting things are going to happen.”

Upon hearing Chris-sama’s words Brother made a displeased expression.
He was somehow grumbling in a small voice ‘Ah- this seems like it’s going to be a pain .. in the first place, if Chris appears here then Prince Leon will ..”

More importantly, Brother mine, shouldn’t you be properly greeting Mother soon ..
After that Brother was presented with Mother’s fist another 3 times.

Isn’t the Brother a treasure in his own right? I think he his. Go Brother!

[1] セバスチャン : Sebasuchyan, Sebastian. For some reason I always first mistype it as Sebastion every single time.
[2] Ricardo and Chris are using casual speech with each other

(1) One of the many hints towards the fact that our heroine isn’t actually dense.
(2) .. my point still stands *averts gaze*
(3) And naturally she will thank him for saving her now, right. That’s alright, but I can’t help but think that she would have been completely fine even if that wolf had hit her. After all, she took that action in order to best protect the kid in her arms, so if she wouldn’t be fine withstanding that impact I don’t think she would have opted for that over, say, evading. Well, that’s just my interpretation though, I just don’t like how Chris talks as if she had put herself into more danger than she could handle and needed help.