How to Replace Your Dad - Chapter 56

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How to Replace Your Dad

 

Chapter 56

 

I asked Roslin, who was shedding tears profusely.

 

“So who exactly is this person?”

 

“He’s my older brother, the Clan Leader of Alcain Merchant.”

 

“What?”

 

“My brother has been suffering from mana sickness for a long time.”

 

Mana sickness?

 

If you get mana sickness, you can’t use mana.

 

Then he wouldn’t be able to use alchemy either.

 

“Wait. If your brother can’t use alchemy, then who was the one controlling the monstrous birds?”

 

“…My brother.”

 

“How can someone with mana sickness use alchemy?”

 

“He completed a magical tool capable of controlling monsters. The reason he got mana sickness is precisely because of that.”

 

Yuise had an incredulous expression.

 

Asking me to save the person who tried to kill me was naturally absurd.

 

“Young Lady, let’s throw her out immediately and call the Imperial Army.”

 

Roslin squeezed her eyes shut.

 

As if she had expected this response.

 

But seeing that she came all the way here despite that, I must really be her only hope.

 

“Young Lady.”

 

“Wait.”

 

I lightly raised my hand.

 

And said to Roslin.

 

“First, let me check the Alcain Clan Leader’s condition.”

 

“…!”

 

Roslin looked at me with a startled face.

 

Hope appeared in her clouded pupils.

 

I got up.

 

“Please wait here for a moment. I’ll go prepare to go out.”

 

After saying that, I left the room and Yuise hurriedly followed me.

 

As the door closed, leaving Roslin behind, Yuise immediately pressed me.

 

“Why do you want to see such a guy?”

 

“He made a magical tool that attacks specific people through monsters. That’s something even Matap can’t do.”

 

“That’s…”

 

“A mage with the crafting ability to create something so incredible.”

 

I grinned and looked at Yuise.

 

“Don’t you think he’d be incredibly helpful if we brought him to Quaron?”

 

“Well, that would be true, but…”

 

“And one more thing.”

 

“What.”

 

“He’ll have evidence that the Marquise commissioned alchemy.”

 

Just by keeping him alive, a goldmine would come rolling in, vines and all.

 

Swoosh, I held out the bottle.

 

I was asking for mana so I could save the alchemist.

 

“Won’t you do it?”

 

“…I will.”

 

Yuise cleared her throat and filled the bottle with mana.

 

She really can’t resist a goldmine, it seems.

 

After finishing preparations to go out, I headed back to the reception room.

 

Roslin bowed to me so deeply it looked like her back might break.

 

“Thank you. I will never forget this kindness.”

 

“Shall we depart then?”

 

“Yes!”

 

Roslin, whose eyes had been teary, smiled brightly.

 

* * *

 

The place we headed to after leaving through the back door was a dilapidated tavern on the outskirts of the district.

 

She said the siblings were renting the second floor of the tavern to live in.

 

Yuise, who had come along to escort me, looked around the tavern.

 

“Alchemy commissions don’t pay well, I guess?”

 

“We do earn a lot of money. …The problem is spending more than we earn.”

 

Roslin said with a sigh.

 

I looked at her.

 

“You spent more?”

 

“My brother is someone who’s… obsessed with creating magical tools. Whenever he earned money, he would collect all sorts of expensive materials to make magical tools.”

 

Having said that, Roslin went up the stairs first.

 

We followed her.

 

But when we reached about halfway up the stairs to the second floor, we heard a strange sound.

 

“Oh! Perfect!”

 

Bang─!

 

I was startled by the sudden explosion sound.

 

Yuise hurriedly pulled me into her arms and watched the front warily.

 

At that moment, Roslin ran up like crazy.

 

“You fool!”

 

It doesn’t seem to be an attack.

 

I broke free from Yuise’s embrace and followed Roslin up.

 

And what I saw was…

 

Some young man trapped under a wheelchair with wings.

 

The wheelchair must have exploded because it was blazing with fire.

 

And the young man’s legs were also on fire.

 

“S-save me!”

 

“The moment I take my eyes off you, you cause an accident, you troublemaker!”

 

Roslin shrieked and threw a nearby water bucket.

 

With a hissing sound, the fire went out.

 

Only then did the young man breathe a sigh of relief.

 

“I almost died from fire instead of mana sickness…”

 

Then he grins foolishly.

 

‘That person must be Roslin’s older brother.’

 

The alchemist, that is.

 

The young man looked to be about the same age as the Clan Leader.

 

Brown hair and black eyes.

 

His droopy eyes made him look like a puppy.

 

But he was extremely thin due to mana sickness.

 

‘Seeing that he can’t use his legs, the mana sickness must be at a serious stage.’

 

The young man asked.

 

“But who are these people?”

 

Only then did Roslin stop what she was doing and helped the young man up along with his wheelchair.

 

And with an awkward expression, she said to me.

 

“This is my older brother, Ros. Brother, this is the Saint. Please greet her.”

 

Then Ros widened his eyes and looked at me with a flustered expression.

 

“S-Saint?”

 

“Yes. So hurry up and greet her and apologize—”

 

“May I draw some blood?”

 

Ros looked at me with sparkling eyes full of interest.

 

“….”

 

“….”

 

Yuise and I fell silent.

 

Roslin exploded with rage and slammed her wheelchair to the floor.

 

“Ack!”

 

I quietly offered a moment of silence.

 

* * *

 

The room of the siblings Ros and Roslin.

 

Yuise and I were served hot tea by Roslin.

 

“This is the finest tea leaves we have, though I’m not sure if it will suit your taste. If the flavor isn’t good, I’ll quickly go buy different tea leaves.”

 

Roslin looked at me with a nervous expression.

 

I shook my head.

 

“It’s fine.”

 

Then I looked at Ros.

 

Ros was leaning against the headboard of the bed, rubbing his back where Roslin had hit him.

 

‘This man released monstrous birds into the marketplace?’

 

He didn’t seem like such a vicious person.

 

He just seemed like a strange person.

 

‘Even thinking about Ros’s personality from the game.’

 

Though he used alchemy, he wasn’t a murderer.

 

Ros was an alchemist you could hire at the alchemy shop.

 

Despite his specialty being incredible alchemy like monster control, he wasn’t very popular.

 

Because….

 

[Please select a mission to request from 【Alchemist of Alkain】.]

 

▷ Assassination

 

▷ Eliminate Competition

 

▷ Search

 

If you chose ‘Assassination’ from this selection window….

 

[You have requested an assassination.]

 

Alchemist of Alkain: “Oh, what utter trash.”

 

[You were turned away at the door by 【Alchemist of Alkain】.]

 

If you chose ‘Eliminate Competition’….

 

[You have requested ‘Eliminate Competition’.]

 

Alchemist of Alkain: “Oh, decent trash. I’ll accept it if it’s just destroying a rival trading post’s warehouse or cargo carriage.”

 

[【Alchemist of Alkain】 checks the detailed request content.]

 

And 【Search】 was….

 

[You have requested ‘Search’.]

 

Alchemist of Alkain: “♡♡Oh!♡♡ Welcome! Welcome!♡ You must have had a hard journey!♡ Come, come♡ What are you looking for?♡♡”

 

[【Alchemist of Alkain】 warmly welcomes you.]

 

…It came out like this, so in the end, search was the only request he could properly handle.

 

“Why did you accept a request to attack me?”

 

When I asked, Ros, who had been rubbing his back with a sad expression, looked at me.

 

“Because of money.”

 

“But until then, you never accepted murder requests no matter how much money was offered, right?”

 

“How do you know that? Have you ever made a request to me before?”

 

Roslin growled “Tsk” and bared her teeth.

 

Ros flinched.

 

“…There’s a magical device I want to complete before I die.”

 

“What is it?”

 

“I don’t really want to tell you….”

 

Roslin glared at him once more.

 

Ros cleared his throat.

 

“A portal to another world. It’s a task my father left behind before he died.”

 

Yuise and I looked at each other in surprise.

 

‘A mage who claimed he could create a portal to another world would be Gattio.’

 

He was someone who was mentioned as a candidate for Matap master in the previous generation.

 

But the portal to another world was considered absurd nonsense by people.

 

Eventually, he was branded as a madman and buried by the academic world.

 

‘So he was that person’s son.’

 

Roslin spoke while reading the mood.

 

“I’m not trying to make excuses. But we were also deceived in some ways.”

 

“Deceived?”

 

“The request we siblings received was ‘attack the Noble Lady of Quaron in a crowded place’.”

 

“And?”

 

“The client said no one would die from the monstrous birds. They said sufficient preparations had been made.”

 

But it was a lie.

 

From the Marquise’s perspective, it would be better if deaths actually occurred.

 

That way, she could hold someone more definitively responsible.

 

Yuise frowned.

 

“You believed that?”

 

“We’re truly sorry about—”

 

Just as Roslin was bowing with a helpless expression.

 

Ros spoke.

 

“There was something reliable to believe in.”

 

Yuise and I simultaneously looked at Ros.

 

Ros rummaged through the nightstand with a displeased expression.

 

And what he pulled out was….

 

“…!”

 

“…!!”

 

Yuise and I gasped.

 

A ring-shaped seal.

 

From its form, that was Esgaroth’s seal.

 

Only three people could use Esgaroth’s seal.

 

The Marquis, the Marquise, and their son Javid.

 

‘The Marquis and Marquise were wearing their seals on their hands. Then….’

 

“The client wasn’t the Marquise. It was Javid!”

 

Then Ros nodded.

 

“That’s correct.”

 

“….”

 

“I’ll give it to you if you want.”

 

“….”

 

“I heard you nearly died in the monstrous bird incident. I don’t know if this will serve as an apology… Why aren’t you saying anything?”

 

Ros looked puzzled.

 

Of course, since Yuise and I had frozen up.

 

He was wondering why we had such expressions after securing such tremendous evidence.

 

I asked.

 

“Does Javid know this location?”

 

“Huh? No. I received the request from the upper office.”

 

“Do you know anyone at the trading post?”

 

“There’s one person. He’s on vacation, so he should have come up to the upper office today.”

 

I looked at Yuise.

 

“Yuise.”

 

“…This is really driving me crazy.”

 

Yuise hoisted the man up effortlessly.

 

“Ah, no, what are you doing…!”

 

I grabbed Roslin’s wrist.

 

“We need to go quickly.”

 

“Huh? Why…?”

 

Roslin looked startled.

 

That was the moment.

 

Crash─!

 

Something flew in, breaking through the window.

 

A metal ball-like object.

 

It rolled forward with a clatter, then made a hissing sound as it spewed out smoke.

 

It was a smoke bomb.

 

“Run!”

 

“What?!”

 

I shouted, and then Yuise followed.

 

“Bite down hard. Unless you want to bite your tongue off.”

 

“Huh, what?!”

 

And so we dragged the Ros siblings out the door.

 

Behind us, we could hear the sound of military boots.

 

After throwing the smoke bomb, assassins had invaded.

 

Roslin said in panic.

 

“Wh, who…?”

 

“Who else would it be? Javid.”

 

“What?”

 

“Giving us something like a seal wasn’t to earn our trust.”

 

These siblings probably never had dealings with nobles before.

 

Since they were so selective about the missions they took.

 

For search missions, they’d use each family’s intelligence department.

 

Would they advertise ‘I hired an alchemist’ by using monsters?

 

So they wouldn’t understand why nobles leave evidence behind.

 

“Leaving evidence means they plan to dispose of it later!”

 

“Wh, what did you say?!”

 

We hurriedly came down to the first floor.

 

Assassins were guarding the first floor entrance as well.

 

‘They attacked from the second floor to prevent us from escaping through the windows.’

 

Their purpose from the beginning was to drive us down to the first floor.

 

A man who appeared to be the captain of the assassins walked into the tavern.

 

“Well, well, there are two cute young ladies here. I’ll get more than just the commission fee. Follow me obediently and I’ll treat you nicely.”

 

When the man grinned wickedly, his yellow gold teeth showed.

 

Roslin shouted sharply.

 

“I will never follow you!”

 

“Who said I was talking about you! Your shoulders are broader than mine!”

 

Huh?

 

He said there were two?

 

‘So me and Roslin… ah.’

 

Ros and I glanced at the same spot.

 

Yuise’s face contorted with anger.

 

‘He couldn’t hear Yuise’s voice, so he thought she was a woman.’

 

He is prettier than most women, after all.

 

But there was someone even angrier than Yuise.

 

“That son of a…”

 

It was Roslin.

 

She flew forward just like that.

 

And then…

 

Crack─!

 

Her foot connected directly with the captain’s cheek.

 

“…!”

 

I looked at her in shock.

 

It wasn’t that the captain was too incompetent to block Roslin.

 

Roslin’s skills were incredible.

 

What was rippling at her toes was aura.

 

Ros shouted from atop Yuise’s shoulders.

 

“Please stop Roslin! She’ll get wanted again at this rate!”

 

“…What?”

 

When I asked, Ros said while crying.

 

“Roslin is the youngest winner of the Imperial Martial Arts Tournament! Her victory was canceled because she got arrested for knocking out all of Count Gareca’s teeth!”

 

“…Ah.”

 

“I became an alchemist to raise bail money for her…! Waaah!”

 

No wonder Ros was so terrified of Roslin.

 

But we didn’t have time to stop her.

 

She had already mounted the captain and was pummeling him…

 

“Repeat after me. We don’t judge by appearance.”

 

“Gack! Cough!”

 

“Oh my. You’re not saying it.”

 

“Cough! You have to give me time to… gack!”

 

“Repeat after me.”

 

“We don’t judge by appear, appearance…!”

 

Yuise and I exchanged glances once again.

 

It seemed Ros wasn’t the only talented one after all.

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