Strange Grief Wants to Retire ~ The Weakest Hunter Dreams of a Hero ~

Chapter192，Part1: 1 - Departure

Chapter 192 Departure

Part 1

And then, time flew by, and the fateful day arrived.

The weather has been nice lately, but unfortunately, the sky was filled with thick clouds today. You cannot say that it is a good day to fly at all.

Most of the preparations were done. The rest of the group――Term, Kechakchakka, and Kruz all seemed to be ready to go.

Franz-san was standing there in front of me. He has a blue vein popping on his forehead and his eyebrows *pikupiku* twitching as he says.

“…… Did I hear you wrong?” (Franz)

“………… I am really sorry.” (Cry)

The only problem was that the Thief Ghost that I made a request for hadn’t come back yet.

I asked the Thief Ghost to go back to the Imperial Capital and bring me a certain item.

I thought that with her speed, it would be enough to make it in time, but I was wrong. Speaking about being wrong, I was also wrong about the departure time as it was early in the morning. However, if I think about it calmly, I should have expected that Franz-san would want to leave the city as soon as possible since we had postponed our departure for three days.

The Emperor was preparing to leave, so he wasn’t there. So there was no one to give me a helping hand.

After all the trouble I caused Kruz the past few days, she was now quite angry, so when I look at her, she *humpf* turned her head away. Kilknight version Alpha was, as usual, standing there motionlessly.

“You want to postpone the departure a little longer, you say? I have already complied enough of your request, 《Infinite Variety (Senpen Banka)》. I have already postponed our departure by three days and the maintenance of the ship has been redone from the ground up to make sure that it isn’t broken! I have even loaded all the supplies you gathered! Although I made so many concessions so far, you are asking for more! No matter how much you want to be remembered by His Majesty, you have gone too far!” (Franz)

“No way……” (Cry)

He looked like he was ready to cut me right now. I didn’t want to say this either, you know. I knew it would make him angry.

However, if it continues like this, I will feel sorry for Liz, who did her best, if she came back when I would be gone.

But it is the first time that I heard that I would be remembered by the Emperor……? Despite me doing nothing, this is so mysterious.

“Even I…… Didn’t expect this. I know, how about that? What if you leave first and I catch up with you later……” (Cry)

My plan worked. The Rebellious Carpet, Carpet-kun, was in an extremely good mood. Apparently, it really liked the blue carpet I bought for it.

I always thought it was a male, but maybe the Rebellious Carpet was a female. You are telling me that carpets don’t have genders? Un, un, that’s right……

Even during practice, the results were quite good. I am sure that, now, she will follow the airship even if I am on her.

“You can’t! I hate this, but right now you are an escort that His Majesty picked! I won’t allow any arbitrary action! We leave in an hour! We have already given you three days to prepare, so it is your fault if you are not ready!” (Franz)

That’s troubling…… His reasoning is so right that I can’t say anything. As soon as he finished with a rough exhalation, Franz-san tried to leave the room as if the conversation was over.

At that moment, the door that Franz-san was just about to open crashed open.

“!?” (Franz)

“…… Oh.” (Cry)

What came in was the Thief Ghost that was wearing a tattered sheet. The reason why I could determine that she was the Thief Ghost was because she was holding in her hand something that I had asked for.

“!? ????” (Kruz)

“????” (Term)

“Wha-Wha-What?” (Franz)

The Thief Ghost walked past Franz-san, who was so shocked that he completely froze, ignored the astonished Kruz, Term, and the others, and came right in front of me.

I received the thing she brought with her.

I took the thing that the Thief Ghost brought with her. It was――A large staff that was as tall as I was.

Unlike the wooden staff Kruz has, it was made of metal with a large round jewel floating in the center of the spiraling tip of the staff. From its luster, the metal appears to be gold but it is not gold. This staff is――A Relic.

Apparently, the Imperial Capital was quite far away even for the Thief Ghost. But what a nice timing.

When I hugged the *furafura* wobbly Thief Ghost, I *ponpon* pat her back for her hard work. The Thief Ghost leaned against me for a moment, but kept her position as a ghost and left in silence. She is a Ghost that does the things that need to be done when it has to be done.

The doors closed. I have everything that I need. The Carpet was applauding. And then I said in a badass manner.

“Now, everything is ready. Let’s go.” (Cry)

“W-Wait a minute, are you planning just going to ignore that!? What was that right now!” (Franz)

“…… It is one of the Sheet Spirits that I can use.” (Cry)

“………… Do you really think you can convince me with that!?” (Franz)

Franz-san’s face was twitching. Kruz was looking at me with an expression that says, “See, I told you so”.

However, I push it through. I will push this through. That was just a Sheet Spirit, nothing more, nothing less. It isn’t going to interfere with the escort, so isn’t it fine!

As I grabbed the translation staff――『Round World』 that I purposely asked for, I smiled to show that I wasn’t planning on defying him.

Finally…… With this, I can finally understand what Kechakchakka is saying!

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Thanks for reading!

Hahaha Cry just ignore Franz like nothing and did a devious smile right in front of him!

I wonder what does Franz think the staff is for XD

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