Although the night passed and I didn't get close to Rose anymore, the feelings I got this morning….
"Last night I saw a dream where some old lady was touching my whole body in my sleep…. I hope that nightmare never happens again." felt even more wrong than the nightmares I had while sleeping with Granny.
"I-is that so?" Rose's composed expression broke for a moment.
"Man…. I feel even more tired now…. Gramps when are we leaving?"
This morning when I woke up from a nightmare. I saw that Rose was sleeping soundly, she looked like she was glowing until now but after talking about the nightmare, she looked like she was choking… maybe she saw one too last night.
"Great work last night. I even heard Rose's voice!" Rin on the other hand looked delighted…
"What voice? I didn't do…." before I could say more Rose cut in.
"N-nothing! Nothing nothing nothing! Happened last night! Rekka slept like a gentleman on the couch!!" shouting at the top of her lungs she said to Rin with a threatening look.
".... yeah… nothing happened…" I Agreed nodding in agreement, Rin looked like she just saw a ghost and was now nodding too. Finally Rose sat down like nothing had happened.
"Well, you can go back now if you like, but I still have some work here."
"Ooh… alright… I will wait then."
"If you have nothing else to do, then why not help the knights train?" Rin said.
"Hmm… You mean spar? But the knights are weak aren't they? It will be too hard for them." I wasn't cocky, my combat style was so unique that hardly any knight could learn from them, not to mention I am faster than any knight here. It would be a waste of time for them to spar with me. I could hit them out of nowhere.
"No, not against a single knight. I want you to fight a full squad of them… or rather why not fight the whole order of knights here…. Even if they get defeated, they can learn the gap in power to train more ...."
"Alright, then I will try to hit one knight at a time, or their teamwork won't work."
"Hmm… good idea, a punch like yesterday would just end the battle in one go." Rin said so and got up to head straight for the knights training ground.
"A maid will come to inform you when we are ready since it's only morning, it might take some time to gather them." she left saying that…
"She doesn't go easy on her underlings.." Gramps had a wry smile. Still I wondered just what gramps was doing here. He doesn't tell me if I ask…..
"She ran even faster than I could see… although I did realize that Miss Rin is a rather good teacher. I guess the Knight order is her pride."
"Yes, Rin has single handedly made the Knight order this big. Not to mention, she is a better teacher than me." Gramps said, it can't be helped, gramps is a natural talent. He can't teach like that. Rarely anybody could match his potential after all.
"I am glad she is your successor. Your technique would probably pass on to more people thanks to her."
"Ha ha ha, those aren't that good."
"Gramps, you devastated monster at the Edge of the world without Mana and a good sword. No matter what you say, you're a power house more frightening than even granny."
"You honestly believe that?" gramps said looking with a wry smile.
"Your own physical strength is your biggest power, why do you think I invest so much time training my body? I hardly train with magic. I know that magic won't work for everything after all." honestly I might have died in my 2nd life in a battle and I might have died since I had not that much physical might... although it was just a hypothesis, this time, I invested a lot of time in my physical aspect.
"That's good. I know that you value physical strength too. It's good no matter where you are, still you being strong is enough for me as a grandfather."
As we talked about the things we thought were more important, the tea drinking ended.
"Ahhh… the morning is so peaceful…" apart from all that, Rose looked blissful. I guess she must have forgiven me for not doing anything last night.
"Rose, why don't we go around the town a bit, until Miss Rin calls us."
"Hmm…. okay, I will be your guide." Rose said, looking haughty….
"I would have preferred if you had said you would be my date….but Oh well.."
"Eh?..... That….. Slipped my mind…." I wonder if she was foreign to boy and girl relationships… Even Leila had some clues from reading novels and stories…
"Have fun!" Gramps waved us bye as we left the mansion. it was better than yesterday, Rose was at least not running from me now.
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"I have to say, I can't believe that your grandson is so adept at making girls fall for him, I don't know what he did last night, but my daughter has mellowed out a lot..." Rin who was actionist at the sudden development, where Rose as stubborn girl looked as if she really had bended her wills and now was passively accepting Rekka as her partner, of course actively accepting Rekka was too much to ask from a girl like Rose, but Rin knew just how much astonishing it was to make Rose even accept him passively.
"well... those aren't the things that I passed on to him... it was all probably from Melinda...." Merlin could only say that. in the first place, even Merlin was amazed at what he had seen this morning. Rose who was glaring and running away from Rekka, sat near him during Breakfast and was very much acting normal around him. Rose even went as far as smiling at him, thinking Rekka he had dragged her to her room while she sobbed the whole way, this outcome would have made people make hypothesis such as had Rekka really had hypnotizing powers or not...?
"I am just happy that things are going well.... Please master, help my girl when she is there with you and your grandson, she is naïve and not that good of a thinking, she trusts anything you tell her, I feel so worried to leave her alone, but I have to... I don't want her to go out of the country where I can't even reach her in a day..." Rin who never faltered around anyone pleaded to Merlin with her head bowed. of course Rekka was someone who took care of the ones there were with him, but Rin knew Merlin better than anyone, she could only say such things to Merlin.
and Merlin knowing how a mother could worry so much about her daughter patted his student on the head.
"My grandson is even better then me, he won't ever disappoint you Rin, so as you've already trusted him enough to give him this chance. trust him some more, I would have told you to trust me with Rose if you requested me like this before the empire incident, but after that, I realized that we can't hold a candle to Rekka, if he said he would take care of your daughter, I don't think I have the capabilities to give any further protection to her myself."
"I... see... master... then... I will believe you... hope your not saying this since your a doting grandfather though..." at Rin's words, Merlin chuckled sadly he could not deny the claim, Merlin really was hopeless when it came to Rekka. that's how their secret chat went down.
...…...
This town was called Ringlets. In Lord Rins domain, she stayed here. so it was kind of like a small capital. The town wasn't as big as the capital but it was beautiful.
This town was also close to the Edge of the world, among the Lords that are close to the Edge of the world, Miss Rin was one of them, that was why her domain held strong people. It was known that many ventured into the Edge of the world from here too. Although there were very few who could come back.
As I saw the town, It seems that Miss Rin really liked white colour since the town was full of white buildings…. the streets looked clean too and it had a modern touch to it. As Rose walked by me, she boasted about the cleanliness of the town. Moreover the residents looked civilized too. as it was morning, there wasn't much crowd for sure, but there still were people around, all of them looked soo civilized.... even in Brandel, people looked a bit more thuggish here and there.
"Ooh! I smell something good." I said smelling the tantalizing fragrance of bread being cooked. the scent of freshly cooked bread... I am drooling just from the scent....
"Didn't you just eat breakfast for 10 people? How can you be hungry." Rose looked at me as if I was a walking bottomless pit...
"Come on, it was just a light breakfast, I always have room for snacks!"
"Fine fine, ooh we are near the best bakery in our town. This place is called Baker's street because it is so famous. The Bakery is called Bastle's bread." As we entered through the gate, a bell rang and welcoming us there was a girl wearing a pink apron. She was cute with her hair tied in a short ponytail.
"Welcome, welcome?" Midway through the greeting, her welcoming look turned into a surprised one.
"Oh my! Rose! Did you finally get a guy!"
"Wh-why does that question pop up?!" leaving Rose flustered, the girl walked to me and greeted me.
"Nice to meet you, My name is Silvy, Rose is someone I know from childhood." looking at Rose her smile thickened even more, although Rose shirked from embarrassment, at least she wasn't denying it like yesterday. it seems somehow I had gotten her approval for the marriage...
"Ooh.. Nice to meet you too, My name's Rekka Wolford, your bakeries' nice smell really pulled me over." The girl looked friendly.
"Oooh! So you are Sir Rekka! I never thought you would visit our humble shop!!" after hearing me she got flustered…. Was that really a big deal? I mean I always visit the shops in my town. changing her welcoming greeting, this time she bowed respectfully and again welcomed me in a much more respectful manner....
"it's okay... you can just be as is... I don't think I am here with any formal reason after all..."
"Really Sir Rekka!"
"Hey! Silvy stop pestering him and give us plain bread." since Silvy was getting too close for comfort Rose pulled her back.
"Okay okay. I will get you freshly baked bread! Please wait a moment." since it was still morning, I guess they hadn't arranged any on display. So she went inside the bakery to get the bread.
"Nnnn! Why do women always flock to you!" Rose on the other hand looked angry.. Well sorry about that but I had nothing to do with it.
I could see that Rose was plenty possessive. Among the girls around me… she might be the most jealous one. It was rare to me… but also something cute to look at.
"You should stick close to me so that no one comes too close, that's what the others do too." I was telling the truth. Whenever I went on a date with my fiancées they stuck to me so that no girl came to disturb us.
Even now weird women wander around our town to meet me at least once. It was a hassle when I was alone but when the girls were with me, it was a healing moment!
"Hnn….! alright." saying so with a groan and becoming flustered, she started to slowly come close to me, and just the moment she was going to take my hand, Silvy came with a bang.
"Please Sir Rekka! Have our bread!"
"Ahhhh!" Rose got spooked by that and ran to the corner of the room. She really liked corners, didn't she…?
"Oh my! oh my! Did I disturb the mood~?" Silvy put a hand on her mouth mischievously and giggled. She was a pretty easy going girl.
"No worries, Rose is always cute so she doesn't have to flirt." I said taking the bread.
"Oh! What a lucky girl you are Rose! Sir Rekka even likes your obsessive shyness."
"Aahhh! When are we gonna leave!" Rose looked ready to leave. It looks like she was teased too much.
"Here, say aah.. Have some bread.. It looks and smells really tasty." as that was the case, to calm her down,
I offered her a small piece of bread and she ate it obediently. It's not new to her, back when I first met her at the party, she ate by hand many times… she was unusually accustomed to this…
"Ahhh…mm~ it really is good.." looked like she cooled down a bit. After that, I took a bite too..
"Hmm, it really is nice… I think this bread has milk and eggs in it too. The dough is very well made."
"Ohh! How perceptive of you Sir Rekka, we use Milk and eggs so that even while eating as is, it tastes good." Silvy boasted about her shop and looked really proud.
"I see, and you guys use yeast too?" I asked since the bread was very soft.
"Yes, your creation has already spread all around, so even small bakeries now use it."
"Wow… I am happy that everyone can have soft and fluffy bread." After eating crude bread, I had localized yeast all around so that the bread quality could improve. I guess it was coming to a nice shape. the one localizing the recipe was Cadia, we sold the recipe for a lot, I told her she could just give it away when she looked at me as if I was a dead man walking.
"Truly, you are something else. hardly anyone would let an ingredient like this out….. The bread is night and day now from before." Silvy looked happy saying that… I guess I did good work distributing those recipes. Although it wasn't for any noble cause, I just wanted good bread wherever I went. thankfully I lowered the price enough so even the smallest of the bakeries can have yeast, of course I had to travel and be Cadia's transport service for a long while after that, but it seems that was all worth it.
"You were the one who invented it?" Rose on the other hand looked clueless.
"Rose, it is extremely bad to not know what your partner does. Even if I see that Sir Rekka loves you so much, if you are so unappreciative you will cause a ban in his fanclub."
"Wait what? There is a fanclub about me?" That was the first time I heard that word.
"Oops… no worries sir, we are only here to help you, please, do not mind us." so she was a member of it too? And there are supposed to be more...
".... I will forget about this discussion …." It was for the best.
"Ha ha ha, truly Sir Rekka is a kind gentleman." Silvy looked like she was enjoying our time.
"You know silvy? You could probably make a butter bun from this too."
"What's that?!"
"It is a bread that has butter mixed with powdered sugar inside it, it will taste very good. I am sure if you try, you might be the best bakery who can perfect that recipe.'' Since I only knew how to make normal bread, a bread that had milk and eggs in it was unique and should go well with butter.
"What a novel Idea… I heard people use butter to make the bread have a nice flavour but if we can add it with sugar that too inside of it…. The result can be amazing.." it seems Silvy was natural at bread baking...
"Ha ha, it is nice, you are a talented one, only hearing of the recipe you got the potential."
"Ooh! Sir, I don't deserve your praise and thank you for giving me a nice Idea! I will strive to perfect it!" She looked a bit too excited. But this time Rose stuck to me and shooed her away… it seems she could easily get close to me if anyone else tries to get near me…
After saying our bye's and buying a couple of breads we left the shop. Our sightseeing continues.