What the hell! Temma has gone to King's Landing!

　Merlin's loud voice echoed through the streets of Seigen at noon.
　Merlin and the others arrived in Seigen at noon, a week after Temma and the others had left for the royal capital.

　After showing the king's letter to the gatekeeper, Merlin and his group, who had entered specially through the nobleman's entrance, immediately came to the guild to gather information, and Merlin couldn't help but shout at the content of the information he had obtained from the girl taming the two rockbirds that were there.

''Hii, I'm sorry!

　I looked at the girl who had reflexively apologized and realized that she was blind to her surroundings.

'I'm sorry, I couldn't help but yell out...'

What's going on! Amy!
What did that old man do to you?

　A group of men heard this girl's voice and came slamming down from upstairs and stood there to protect the girl.

'Hey, old man! What do you want with Amy!
'I mean, what have you done to Amy!

　The four men raise their voices as if to threaten me, but I must confess that I am not a good enough actor to challenge them.
　However, I am the one who has frightened the boy, and I can only apologize to them.

I heard that he knew my grandson, and I asked him where he was, but I was already on my way, and I couldn't help shouting at him. I'm sorry for making you misunderstand.

　As I was apologizing to him, a man about my age came down from the second floor.

He said, "I think there was a misunderstanding between us. I am Agri Monakert, the man who sort of brings these men together. It is a pleasure to meet you, Sir Merlin the Wise. Henceforth, I wish you well.

　As he said this, the man who introduced himself as Aguri gave a polite greeting.

'No, I'm sorry for making a scene. You may not follow the wise man, Mister Aguri. It's my pleasure to meet you.

　Saying that, he shook hands with Aguri, but then he realized that the guild was quiet.
　In particular, the four people just now had stopped moving and froze like puppets.

　As I wondered, Lord Aguri laughed and said

I guess they didn't know who they were messing with so we'd better get moving.　

　And Aguri poked each of them lightly on the head with the cane in his hand against the four of them.

''Momo-momo, I'm sorry!
I didn't know you were the famous, wise man.
Please forgive me!
I'm so sorry!

　The men suddenly started to move and started to apologize, getting down on their knees with great speed.

It is only natural that I am at fault in this case and that I tried to protect the child, so would you please stand up?

　I didn't want to get down on my knees for this," he said. Aguri-dono, who couldn't bear to see us like this, intervened.

He said, "Don't you think you're going to make things worse? Get up off your ass.

　With that word, the men stood up, but the awkward looks still didn't change.
　For now, at Lord Aguri's recommendation, I decided to go upstairs to a table and listen to the story of Temma in this city.

''Nannu! I wonder if it's true that Temma has made dragons his household!

　Lord Aguri and the others had told me many things. There was the speed with which he had attacked the dungeons of Temma, and how he had beaten the son of a nobleman and frightened an ogre, but the dragon's case was such a shock that it made them hazy.

''Yes! The teacher's dragon is a pretty little boy named Solomon.

　Amy told me, though.

With the doctor?

　I stared at Amy's face as she said these unexpected words.

'Yes. My teacher taught me the basics of taming, and I was able to make these kids my family.

　He called two rock bird chicks from his bag and placed them on the table and began to pet them.

'Ho~, that Temma........hmm? These kids seem to have more magical powers than normal.

　I asked Mister Aguri-dono because the magic I could feel from these chicks was large for a chick, but he shook his head and

'That's what makes us wonder too. One of our members even says that it seems to have more magic power than his own Thunderbird chicks... Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it was Tenma who hatched them.

　Those words made me think.

It's Temma, so I wouldn't be surprised if something so strange happened...

　I muttered, and those around me agreed. That alone would make it understandable that Tenma had done something out of the ordinary.

''But when I came looking for my grandson, I didn't expect to find that I had a grandson disciple.

　And then he looked at Amy.

''Haha, come to think of it, if you're a disciple of Temma, you'd be a grand-disciple to Lord Merlin!

　Lord Aguri said, laughing, but the wizards who were listening nearby turned their envious gazes on Amy.

''Merlin-sama, if we're going to go after Temma, shouldn't we leave early?

　I've been waiting behind me," advised Edgar, who had been standing behind me until then, in a reserved manner.

Well, if we go after him now, we might be able to meet him when we get to the capital.

　With that in mind, I greeted the members of the Tamer's Guild who were present and headed outside to chase after Temma.

　When I stepped out of the guild, I saw a familiar ogre right in front of me. I think it was Gulliver from the Marquis of Sammons' place....
　Gulliver caught my gaze and turned his head in my direction.
　And to my surprise, he bowed his head in greeting!

　To be honest, I didn't expect the ogre to have this much intelligence and courtesy.
　That's why I was late in realizing that the Marquis of Sammons was in Gulliver's shadow. Behind the Marquis of Samons was also his son.

'Oh! Master Merlin, why are you here?

　The Marquis of Samoens approached me at a fast pace. The knights in the guards were alarmed, but when they realized that it was me, they let down their guard and refocused their attention on their surroundings.

I was on my way to the city, but I'm a step late again.

'I don't know what to say to that.......is your grandson an adventurer, by any chance?　

　As we continued to cross paths, the Marquis changed the subject a little forcefully, as if he couldn't think of the right words to say.

I'm sure you're not the only one. It seems that you are doing a good job of it.
It's Temma!

　The Marquis of Samons was terribly surprised when he heard Temma's name. And his son, who was quietly behind him, was also surprised.... no, frightened... for some reason Gulliver seemed to be frightened as well... ...

Is my grandson in some kind of trouble?

　I was a little worried that Temma had done something, so I asked her that.

'No, no, it's the opposite. In fact, we were the ones who got in trouble with Lord Tenma...

　And the Marquess of Samonth began apologetically telling him about the events that had happened between his son ... Gary and Temma and the incident that followed.

''That's why Lord Temma was so inconvenienced and helped me in addition to causing me trouble.

　When he finished, the Marquis of Samoens glanced at Gary and looked embarrassed.

''That guy has no mercy no matter who he's dealing with.......''

No, I can't complain about what my son did, even if he was sentenced to death. Moreover, he was allowed to do so and then saved his life again.......so my son is just now getting his nature back in order.

　No wonder Gary was looking a bit peeved...

Anyway, I'm leaving now, so I'll leave you to it.

Sorry to keep you waiting. Have a safe trip.

　This time we set out for the capital, and on the way we heard adventurers who looked like four adventurers saying things like "Tenma is~" or "Tenma is~", but we ignored them and hurried out of the city.

"This time, we're going to meet Temma again, for sure~
'Master Merlin! It's dangerous, don't lean out of the carriage~~

　I was so excited that I was barking out of the carriage, and then Chris, who had a desperate look on his face, pushed me back into the carriage... remorse, remorse.



'Heck yeah!'　

Tenma, are you okay?

　On the way to the capital, my nose suddenly became mushy and I started sneezing profusely.
　Jeanne, who seemed to hear the sound and was worried about me in the governor's seat, called out to me.

Oh, I'm fine. It's just a sudden mushy nose.

　It's a nice day today, so I'm using an ordinary wagon instead of the usual magic-granted carriage.
　So I was worried as Jeanne leaned forward from right behind me.

''Oh, you look like a lover when you do that,''

　Aura has been teasing me at every turn.

'I'm used to Aura's words!

　Jeanne was becoming immune to it. When Aura saw Jeanne like that, she looked bored, but then she seemed to think of something, and suddenly her face became vulgar

''Temma-sama~, when you sleep at night, please use the magic carriage for the two of you. Of course, I'll sleep outside~........oh, don't worry. No matter what happens, you won't peek inside or listen in, Hebu!

　Before I could say it, I flicked a pebble at Aura's forehead with my finger and hit her.
　It was a lot of tame, but when she was caught off guard, she was unexpectedly attacked and Aura was on her back.

''Aura! That's enough! Don't say anything funny!　

　Jeanne's face turned bright red as she gave chase to Aura.
　However, Jeanne's throwing, which has been getting stronger with her recent training, seemed to be enough to knock Aura down.

　The firewood scattered outside and Aura turned her eyes around, so we decided to take a meal break around here... By the way, it didn't take long to collect the firewood as Shiroumaru and Solomon collected it while playing.

'Well, let's grill some meat today!

　I built the base with stones that had fallen nearby, burned some wood and put the griddle on it.
　While I was carving the meat until the griddle was hot, the gourmands, who only behave themselves at times like this, were sitting beside me, drooling from their mouths, waiting.

　I had no choice, so I wrapped the raw meat in lettuce and fed it to them, and they dexterously spit out only the lettuce and begged for the next piece of meat.

'Thunk!'
Picutre!

　They were both doing the same thing, so I gave them both a love whip (iron fist sanction) and they started chewing on the lettuce with some reluctance.

'Temma, Aura, I've noticed!

So, let's have lunch!

　The meat was just cooked and there was an appetizing aroma in the air.
　They had prepared salt and sauce to put on the meat, along with a salad, bread and milk.

　When Aura woke up, she checked the area and sat down next to Jeanne.

''Then I'll take it.''
Thank you.
"Woof.
Cui.

　In fact, there are few times in this world where people hold their hands together before a meal, except when church officials or devout laymen offer a prayer before a meal, and the rest of the time they either make a toast like the nobility, etc., or say a simple prayer verbally for each of them.
　It's unusual for people to clasp their hands together and say "Itadakimasu" like I do, but that doesn't mean they don't have a similar custom, so naturally Jeanne and Aura started doing it when they saw me doing it, too.

''Come to think of it, Temma, aren't you taking the wrong road to King's Landing? I think the sign on the billboard earlier said that King's Landing is on the right.

What do you want?

　Jeanne and Aura asked me this as we were finishing our meal.

Oh, it's a bit of a detour, but I think there are wild cows living in the grasslands just down the road. We'll have to hunt a couple of cows while we're at it and stock up on beef.

　Shilomar and Solomon were suddenly restless in response to the beef. They seemed to want to eat the beef as soon as possible.

''Well Shiroumaru, Solomon, just to be sure, they're not vermin, so you can't hunt too much!

　The two animals nodded seriously at those words, but with drool dripping from their mouths, I made up my mind to lock them in my bag if the need arose.

'That's good beef, Shilomar,'

It's been a long time since I've had anything but pork.

　Jeanne, who didn't know what I was thinking, was petting Shiroumaru, while Aura was answering as she thought about how to cook it.
　When they both agreed, we cleaned up and decided to head out to hunt cattle.

　Continuing on for an hour, there was a river running through it, and the desired grassland was about an hour along that river.

'Temma, is there a cow?'

You don't seem to be anywhere near, are you sure it's around here?

　As they entered the desired grassland, Jeanne and the others began to strain their eyes for cattle, but there didn't seem to be any as far as they could see.

'Solomon, look for the cows from above,' said Jeanne. Shilomar, let me know if you smell a cow.

"Woff.
"Kewey.

　I instructed the two animals and we were advancing through the meadow for a while in the direction of King's Landing, when suddenly Solomon came down beside me and tried to tell me something as he moved his body.

'Temma, I heard you found a cow?'

　Jeanne asks me, but Solomon seems to want to tell her something else, and she shakes her head, then looks at me.

'What, Solomon?' ...hmmm, hmmm... what! Okay, let's head out now!

'What! Do you understand now?

Somehow, yeah!

　I started to run Tanikaze in the direction Solomon had informed me.

'What did Solomon say?'

I heard there's a herd of kids being attacked by a herd of cattle on the riverbank down the road!

　But with the carriage pulled, we didn't get as much speed as we would have liked.

'Sorry, I'm going first! The carriage will take out the golem, let them pull it! Shiroumaru is Jeanne's bodyguard! Solomon, show me the way!

　With that, he took four golem nukes out of his bag and threw them on the ground.

'I've transferred command authority to the two of you, so take care of the rest!

　I removed the clasp from Tanikaze and jumped on, making sure the golem appeared before I followed Solomon.

　Once I removed the quicksilver, the speed started to double from what it was before, and the vibrations started to increase, so naturally the way I rode was like a horseman in a horse race.
　It had been a long time since I had ridden as fast as I could, so the vibration was a bit painful, but I didn't have time to be weak.

　Less than ten minutes later, we saw the children who said they were being attacked.
　There were two children, a man and a woman of about the same age.
　The children appeared to be noblemen, dressed in ornate clothing, with a few men who appeared to be their guards.
　The men were struggling, but they were completely outnumbered by the momentum of the cattle, and they were being pushed back due to their numbers.

''Seize it!''

　I let out a burst of energy so that the guards and the cows could hear me and kicked the cows around as I rushed forward, forcing them to keep their distance.
　The guards and the cows were momentarily distracted by the sudden intruder and stopped moving.

''Stonewall!''

　In the meantime, I succeeded in creating a wall between the two sides to divide them.
　However, the cows came to their senses and began to ram the wall in an attempt to destroy it.
　I don't know what would make them go that far, but some of the cows had broken horns and some were wobbling with concussions, but that didn't stop them from hitting it...all thirty or so cows outside were equally furious.

''What the hell...?''

　The scene was so bizarre that I was surprised and turned to the children who had been attacked.
　Then I found the source of the cows' anger.

'I don't know who you are, please! I need your help!

　A couple of kids noticed my gaze and came up to me with their heads down, but

　Thump, thump, thump.

　And I slapped those kids on the cheek.
　Instead of the children who were confused by the suddenness of the situation and fell on their asses, the guards who were around them started to make a scene.

'You! What the hell are you doing! You don't know who these people are!　
"That brutality cannot be allowed to stand!

　And two guards drew their swords and tried to cut at me, but my magic hit them faster than they could swing their swords, and the guards were blown backwards and unconscious.
　The other guards were badly injured and exhausted, but when they saw what I was doing, they stood up and drew their swords.

''Do you know why you guys were struck?''

　I ignored my escort and visited the two guys who were on their asses.

".........

　They shake their heads in silence. I can't help it, so I force the boy's head out of the kid and make him turn his head.

'Any creature would be angry if their beloved child was killed without a trace, of course.

　In the direction I had them pointing in, a dozen or so calves had been magically pierced through their bodies or slashed to death with swords.
　Judging by the number of cows outside, probably all the calves in the herd had been sacrificed.

'And now that this has happened. Those cows outside will continue to attack us when they see us humans... poor thing, but we have to kill those cows outside too.

　So I broke off my words and looked at the kids again.

'I'm not denying that I hunt I'm an adventurer. But I won't allow people to kill for fun from a safe position without putting themselves in danger. If such a person were to become the head of the country, this country would be destroyed.

　There were still traces of the wall that had been created by magic around that calf's corpse. Perhaps in some way they had separated the parents.......especially the male, and then trapped the calves in the gap and killed them.
　If this was something they had done to eat, they wouldn't have been this angry, but that corpse still bore the marks of a magic spree and multiple slashes with a sword.
　As we looked at the corpses of the calves, the walls collapsed under the rush of the cows.

　Many of the cows that appeared in front of us have broken horns and their heads are bleeding and wobbling, and they look like they could fall down at any moment, but their eyes are bloodshot and they're shooting a tremendous amount of murder and hatred at us.

''I'm sorry........''

　I muttered to myself and then fired a light magic at the cows. The magic bounced off the front of the cows, filling the area with light and taking away their vision.
　A moment before the light flashed, I closed my eyes, pulled my sword out of my bag and ran into the herd, swinging my sword at the killing power of the cows.
　One swing per cow, and with that one swing, I drop the heads of the cows so that they suffer less.

　As the light subsides and the area comes into view, there are a total of thirty-one decapitated cow corpses lying there.
　I summoned the golem and had it collect all the bodies of the cows, leaving their heads behind, and tucked them into a bag.

　The children and guards were surprised and alarmed to see me summon the golem, but they ignored it and dug a hole in the ground with magic and ordered the golem to put the bodies of the calves and the heads of the cows into the hole.
　After that, I fired fire magic at the hole and continued to burn the corpses so that they were reduced to ashes to the bone.

　It was more than half an hour after I arrived here when Jeanne and the others finally arrived.

'Temma, what are you burning? And these people?

　Jeanne and her guards were alerted again as they appeared with the golems pulling the carriage, but Jeanne and the others ignored the guards and approached me.

''Ah, those fools who caused this mess.

　At my words, Jeanne and the others took one look at the children and the guards, but they didn't seem to understand what I meant.
　The guards seemed to be offended by my words and were about to complain, but they were frightened by Shiroumar's glare and kept their mouths shut.

''Now that the burial is over, let's head to King's Landing.

　After burying the cows reduced to ashes to the bone, he told Jeanne and the others so, then retrieved the golems' nukes and put them in his bag, and reconnected Tanikaze to the carriage.
　In the meantime, Shiroumaru and Solomon seemed to be searching frantically for something where the wall had been.

'What is it?'

　Shiroumaru looked up in response to my words, and the horns of the cows I mentioned earlier were in his mouth.
　Not only Shiroumaru, but also Solomon had horns in his mouth as well, but Solomon had acquired a total of four horns, one in his mouth, two in his hands and one in his feet, while Shiroumaru had barely managed to get two horns in his mouth.
　Shiroumaru looked so frustrated when he saw this that I decided to keep the two horns and let him collect the horns that had fallen around and keep them in his bag.

　They seemed to understand that they could take all the horns home with them, and they scrambled to collect them with happy faces.

Well ... well ...

　As I was looking at Shiroumaru and the others, a boy called out to me from behind.

''What do you want?''

　The boy flinched for a moment at my brusque words, but seemed to pick up quickly.

'I'm sorry! And thank you!

　Then he bowed his head vigorously.
　The girl beside him was surprised by the boy's behavior, but she quickly bowed her head as well as the boy.

　The guards were surprised by their actions. They immediately started to move to stop them, but Shiroumaru blocked them and threatened them as if he had read their movements.

''Grrrrrrrr.''

　The guards had their hands on their swords at the waist when Shiroumar blocked them, but at Shiroumar's roar, they immediately removed their hands from their swords and raised their hands in surrender.

　The boy and the girl seemed momentarily frightened by Shiroumar's roar, but they quickly looked back into my eyes.
　To be honest, they have more liver than their guards. Is it the power of the blood flowing through them?

''If that's the only requirement, please excuse me. Prince-sama (...)''

　At my words, the two kids and their guards fell silent with a look of astonishment on their faces.