Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 266

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 266

172. Eastern Territory, Land of Fierce Battles (1)

On the way back.

I considered stopping by our Count’s Castle, but with so many people now, and the possibility of problems arising, I decided to just keep going straight.

Food wasn’t a concern.

Since I had already stocked plenty of dried rations and ingredients in my subspace, it was enough to feed nearly twenty people.

And perhaps because they had lived only deep within the jungle until now.

They gave thumbs up even to foods that were nothing special to us.

Especially the desserts were incredibly popular.

“…Is there any more tart?”

“I don’t even have enough for myself.”

“It’s so delicious…”

“There are other things besides tart.”

“Really?”

Due to the jungle environment, it would be hard to obtain things like sugar, and even livestock would be small-scale.

Therefore, it would be difficult to get milk or butter derived from it.

Naturally, desserts loaded with butter and sugar were a whole new world to them.

“Can we eat things like this every day when we go to the Empire?”

“If you work hard and earn a lot of money.”

“I’ll definitely have to do that.”

They’ll probably be quite plump the next time I see them.

Well, tart is always right.

There’s nothing in the world as delicious as tart.

Anyway, the Apostles were surprisingly well-behaved, maintaining formation without any incidents as they traveled with us.

Thanks to the Female Apostle who led the departure doing a good job leading them.

“Dane… is that what I should call you? Your name? Anyway. I have a question. Will the Empire really not drive us out?”

“It depends on what you do. They don’t particularly discriminate. As long as you’re not a different race.”

“I see. That’s different from what I heard. Mother… said the Empire was very cruel and merciless.”

I chuckled at those words.

Well, depending on the situation, that can be true.

“And you’re mages. Mages aren’t common, and mages who enter the Magic Tower are even rarer.”

“Is that so… Mage. Magic. It really doesn’t roll off the tongue. We’ve lived our whole lives thinking it was sorcery.”

“You just need to learn from now on.”

They get to see the outside world they so desperately wanted.

The Magic Tower gains new personnel.

Sidrain is thrilled to death because of it.

And I owe Sidrain another debt.

This is truly killing two birds with one stone, good for everyone, getting magic stones and bringing in the pharmaceutical business – isn’t this a win-win?

This adventure has yielded a lot.

“We… are indebted to you, Dane.”

“Good thing you know that.”

At my reaction, the Apostle fellow was momentarily dazed, then chuckled.

“I’ll repay that debt in some form. Thank you for letting us go outside and providing us with a place to stay.”

“You can thank Sidrain for the place to stay, and yes, well, I’ll collect someday.”

By the way, I suddenly realized one thing.

“Oh, by the way, what’s your name?”

“…”

At those words, the Apostle fell silent for a moment.

Then opened her mouth with great difficulty.

“In childhood, I was called ‘Diwena.'”

“In childhood?”

“Yes. And after being taken in by Mother… I was called ‘Number 2.'”

Damn, what a useless old hag.

Calling someone by a number instead of their name.

It’s not like this was the military.

It means she didn’t treat them as human at all.

And yet she made them call her ‘Mother’ – this makes her even less deserving of sympathy.

“Now that you’ve come out into the world… you’ll need a new name. Using the name from the village would be difficult since those are memories you want to forget.”

“Don’t you miss your family?”

Diwena, or rather, the fellow who hadn’t decided on a name yet, let out a bitter laugh at my question.

“Not everyone had their children taken away like Reutakera’s parents.”

“Then…”

“Some voluntarily hand them over in exchange for promised compensation. Like me.”

She sighed.

“So not really. I have no regrets. If I had regrets, I would have stayed in the village.”

“I see.”

She’ll need a family too.

Though that’s something I’d have difficulty helping with.

“Next time I meet you, I’ll definitely help.”

“Tell me when the time comes.”

“…Alright.”

Anyway, thanks to them, the journey wasn’t boring.

The other Apostle fellows also seemed to ask our party various curious questions.

“Oh, is this a bow? It’s different from what we used.”

“This is such an amazing item. Look, the elasticity is really…”

“Ohoho.”

Thanks to this, Ernest, who loves explaining things to others, seemed very excited.

“Divine Power? God? What god does the Empire worship?”

“There is one. A fellow who’s great and troublesome in many ways.”

“…Is it okay to blaspheme against god like that?”

“If he was upset, he would have struck me with lightning by now. I’m fine, aren’t I? He’s a bit like that, but he’s a good fellow, so I believe in him somewhat.”

…Priscilla was making statements that risked creating atheists.

Some seemed interested in the Academy.

“So it’s an institution for learning. How do you get in there?”

“First, you need a clear social status. You also need money.”

“Ah… Then it won’t be easy for us.”

“If you work hard at the Magic Tower, you never know.”

“Really? I’ll have to work hard.”

Suddenly, such a thought occurs to me.

If in my previous life…

If I hadn’t died and had received the special knight appointment, then been able to go out into the world, would I have looked like that?

Making assumptions now is meaningless, but I was just curious.

In this life, I’m fulfilling all the regrets from my previous life, so it doesn’t matter.

“But what exactly are you? How did you… make Mother, whom none of us even thought to oppose, cower so easily? Was Mother perhaps weak by Empire standards?”

“No, she was actually on the strong side. The person you called Mother was skilled enough to be respected anywhere in the Empire’s Magic Towers.”

“…Then that means you’re someone even more amazing than her.”

Did that sound like bragging?

Well, so what.

It’s something worth being proud of.

“I’m becoming more and more curious about the Empire.”

I shrugged my shoulders at his words.

It probably won’t be as interesting as all that.

Life isn’t easy, after all.

Especially for a foreigner.

Still, since he seems so excited right now…

I should keep it a secret that Sidrain is extremely excited about the prospect of working novice mages to the bone.

The apostles could barely ride horses, which delayed us somewhat, but we were able to meet Sidrain not long after passing the Count’s Castle.

“Look at this precious little rascal!”

As expected, Sidrain was ready to embrace me and shower me with kisses the moment he saw me.

Somehow it reminded me of the chase when we first met.

“Well done, well done! What kind of fellow are you exactly? So many mages coming to our Magic Tower all at once! This is a blessing!”

“It’ll take some time to make them useful.”

“What does that matter? With just a little effort, we’ll have 10 mages joining our Magic Tower!”

“Well, if you think of it that way, that’s fortunate.”

Afterward, since Sidrain was curious, I gave him a concise overview of the key points of the situation.

Sidrain naturally, very ‘naturally’ focused on Annabel’s research.

“…Is that really true? Huh? There’s potential for it?”

“We’ll have to try it later. The key ingredient is the problem.”

“…”

Sidrain suddenly grabbed both my shoulders with a solemn expression.

“If you manage to create that… I’ll listen to anything you say from now on.”

Why was it?

Was it because the sunlight was particularly bright today?

Sidrain’s smooth head looked especially dazzling.

Though I didn’t fully understand his feelings, I became solemn as well and nodded.

“Let’s give it a try.”

“…Good. And once that’s completed, you won’t have to worry about money for the rest of your life.”

At this rate, I might really accumulate enough money to establish a country.

Anyway, I should consider selling it once it’s completed. For now, going to the Eastern Territory is more important.

“Let’s meet again in the capital soon, little one.”

Sidrain took the ten apostles, no, the jungle-born foreign mages who would now belong to the Magic Tower, and returned.

And our group also decided to split up temporarily after arriving at the capital.

“I’m absolutely okay with it. I’d be fine staying together the entire vacation.”

“Hmm. I think it’ll be difficult for me to continue. I need to go to the Grand Temple.”

“Me too. I need to return to the Academy and start preparing my graduation thesis.”

“I… think I need to visit my family briefly.”

Ernest decided to come along, while Priscilla, Altur, and Jenna decided to part ways here.

Same with Dorian and Griffin.

“Teacher, I need to go back and look after the kids in our Bodybuilding Club.”

“Covering the Eastern Territory would be interesting too, but I also need to visit my family briefly.”

Thus, the original three members were gathered together after a long time.

“It’s been a while since the three of us moved together, hasn’t it?”

“That’s right. This vacation is so much fun, isn’t it? But after we go and meet Leila’s big brother, then what?”

“Let’s just sightsee around the Eastern Territory and come back. I heard there’s a huge ravine there, so it might be good to see that too.”

The purpose of this trip is to briefly visit Leila’s big brother.

By the way, the Eastern Territory is currently a battlefield where localized warfare is taking place.

So naturally we can’t go deep into it, and we decided to meet briefly in a nearby village.

My feelings are a bit complicated as we get closer to Drenik, but that’s that and this is this.

“I’m really excited. It’s been years since I’ve seen big brother.”

“You said he left right after graduation?”

“Yeah. He said he’d rather contribute to the Empire than inherit the family…”

What a patriot the Emperor would covet if he heard that.

I’m not being sarcastic, I mean it sincerely.

How could it be easy to make such a choice as the eldest son of the Empire’s greatest noble family?

“Of course, Father is determined to call him back to the family. It’s too dangerous there.”

“That’s right. I can’t really imagine it, Leila. What kind of place is a battlefield? Don’t you think so too, Dane?”

Instead of answering, I gave a vague response.

“I wonder.”

I’m not sure.

It’s the place where I was born and raised in my previous life, but…

This is the first time I’m facing it in this life.

So I’m not sure what kind of feeling it will bring.

It would be better not to see it if possible.

Still, it is a battlefield.

“But then the war isn’t over, is it? If localized battles are taking place?”

When Ernest asked this, Leila shook her head.

“Officially it’s over. But I heard they’re maintaining moderate localized warfare. Both sides are trying to find an excuse.”

“Why do they do that? Shouldn’t it be over when it’s over?”

“Well. There are barbarians there, so it’s good for finding justification, and there are people who would be happy if the war doesn’t end.”

Leila has become much sharper too.

She’s right.

Even if they throw parties in the capital saying the war is over, the front lines are always different.

Localized warfare is often dismissed as mere ‘scuffles’…

Most importantly, there’s the good justification of the ‘barbarians’ who are enemies of both empires.

Of course, even if it’s a combat zone, we probably won’t get involved.

No, we shouldn’t.

Even if it’s localized warfare, war is on too large a scale, isn’t it?

We just need to go see Leila’s big brother, do some moderate sightseeing in the Eastern Territory, and come back.

By the way-

“Aren’t you all tired?”

“Huh? Tired? Dane, are you perhaps tired?”

“My goodness, Dane mentioned being tired?”

One fellow is excited about seeing her big brother.

The other is so excited about ‘exploring’ the Eastern Territory that he’s forgotten his fatigue, which makes me laugh.

I’m the same way.

“How could I be tired?”

By the way-

What’s with that fellow who’s been following us since we returned to the capital?

I don’t sense any intent to attack, but I think I need to find out who it is.

“Dane, what’s wrong?”

“Nothing. Nothing at all. Let’s go get ready.”

I smirked at the gaze I felt from behind.

Well then, shall I see how far they’ll follow?

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