Yuusha-sama no Oshishou-sama Chapter 37

 

GDoc . I don’t think I’m gonna aim for Friday anymore&h.e.l.lip; I’ll aim to release things before the weekend ends.

 

 

First Day

 

The army of 500 knights began its orderly march towards the Imperial Capital’s arch.

 

 

The silvery armour gleamed as the morning sun rose above the silhouette of the mountains. At their waists hung the steel longswords, and on their backs were s.h.i.+elds that were also made of steel.

 

 

The crest of the Imperial Knight Order, a double-headed lion, looked exactly as Wynn remembered seeing it in his childhood.

 

 

Even though Wynn wasn’t wearing the s.h.i.+ning silver armour, he did have the same two-headed lion emblem etched into the chest part of his leather armour, and was riding a horse, wearing a majestic mantle, with the rest of the departing knights.

 

 

The residents of the capital, in order to catch a glimpse of their gallant figures, were crowding the roadside, creating a loud stir.

 

 

Wynn saw his younger self in the children, who were enthusiastically watching the knights with gaping mouths from the crowd, and couldn’t help smiling.

 

 

‘I guess that one day, those children will come knocking on the doors of the Knight School, just like I had.’

 

 

Wynn’s former self seemed to overlap with those of the children.[1]

 

 

Since the day that becoming a knight became his dream, he made good use of the spare time in his work to watch the knights as they set off.

 

 

In the beginning, he watched them alone, but eventually , Leticia could be seen standing beside him.

 

 

The pair snuck out of work, for which Hanna scolded them thoroughly.

 

 

‘Will these kids become even a little closer to the knights they admire?’

 

 

Right now, though he could not call himself a knight, here he was.

 

 

Along the way, he could see the Wandering Bird’s Roost inn. There was a crowd in front of the inn was, just like everywhere else.

 

 

It was the place where Wynn had set his eyes on becoming a knight and taken his first steps towards that goal..

 

 

He could see Randell and Mark.

 

 

They were leaning out of the window of the second floor.

 

 

Wynn couldn’t see Hanna and Abel, but when he lightly raised his right hand, Randell and Mark gave him a big wave in return.

 

 

He was proud, but slightly embarra.s.sed, at being seen by people he knew, but he straightened his back, puffed his chest out, and looked forward.

 

 

‘I also wanted Leti to see this&h.e.l.lip;’

 

 

In the end, Leticia was nowhere to be seen, even up to the start of the march from the Knight Order headquarters.

 

 

He was disappointed that he couldn’t show Leticia this moment of triumph, but it was Leticia who believed more than anybody else that he could become a knight. She probably encountered some unavoidable situation.

 

 

She held the t.i.tle of Brave, so by all rights, she should have a lot of work to do.

 

 

Anyways, Wynn wasn’t even setting off as a full-fledged knight.

 

 

In that case, it wouldn’t be too late to show his triumphant appearance by becoming a full-fledged knight by accomplis.h.i.+ng meritorious deeds in this mission.

 

 

In order to do that, he had to come back alive.[2]

 

 

He couldn’t rest on his laurels forever.

 

 

Wynn and the others, under Royce, would carry out reconnaissance.

 

 

They would scout out the enemy, one misstep could lead to the risk of being the first combatants. If he rested on his laurels, he would die before being able to do anything.

 

 

Wynn tightened his face, and sharpened his gaze.