Volume 1 Expulsion and Situation. Chapter 2 Left behind
[TL: By Mr Max]◇[PR: BY ACE]
“… Stop the carriage !”
I heard such a voice coming from the outside .
Escorts … Theses voices belong to the knights of the Olipiage family.
I had been kicked out of my house a few days ago and was being sent by carriage to “a far away place”.
I asked him where I would be taken, but he didn’t tell me anything about that.
In the case of my father, when he would be asked by the church later about my whereabouts , he would be able to say, “I don’t know his current location because I told them to throw that thing away properly,” and it’s best not to say where I would be thrown it even if he was demanded by the church to gave detailed instructions.
After all, there are magicians and psychics present in the forces of the church.
The place I would be thrown ton … It’s possible that no one will be able to reproduce it’s location in detail from the conversation that took place in the office of the father of the Olipiage family a few days ago.
It is whispered among the escorts that there is noone who can do that.
I asked the soldiers, but they just kept silent to me.
It’s a little saddening that these escorts are the same people with whom we had a friendly conversation when I was at my parents’ house, but they also have a family to look for and being friendly with an apostate will always lead to doom, and in the first place they have to continue to serve the Olipiage family and continue to work for the duke house .
In other words, after leaving me somewhere in the wilderness, they have the task of returning to that house and answering the tough interrogation from the Astral Church.
Even in that case, it is easy to imagine that the church is will try to use various ways to get my location and even the mind-reading spell may be used to read their minds.
I do wonder Is there even a person with such special abilities who can do such a thing like mind reading?
I feel like there isn’t, but … I’m sure there has been record that it was used once.
A dignitary’s child, who was declared to never be lost by the dignitary, was rescued by cross-examinating only one man.
They didn’t speak a single word.
Thinking about that, the hood of the carriage opens.
After all there is no choice but to be vigilant add after knowing of such tactics employed by the church.
A familiar face could be seem from outside .
Bach Rogue, the leader of the escorts of this carriage and the knight leader of the Knights of the Duke of Olipiage.
He is also a teacher who taught me swordsmanship.
A serious look was their on his stern face .
For some reason, I used to have a pretty good relationship with him …
“… Noah. Get out.”
He ordered me in a stern voice to get out of the carriage.
It wasn’t the first time he had told me something in a commanding tone, so I didn’t get flustered or sacred .
When I was practising swordsmanship, he always had a strict command tone because he believed in being strict with his students
However, he never missed my honorifics at other times, and his calling of my name without any honorific shows how the situation has changed but it still feel unsettleing for the least
I should have accepted the whole situation before.
But more than what I believe I could be accept in this way … it feels sad, isn’t it?
No, it may be perhaps feeling ofn emptiness and loss …
By eviction from that house, the minimum safety of my parents and younger brothers is protected.
I’m glad I made this necessary sacrifice.
But I can’t go back anymore.
It seems that something has been sentenced …
I can’t go back into the light and warmth and live a life that makes me smile and feel safe .
Moreover, from now on, I will be left somewhere in the wilderness.
It’s like being told to die, it’s just that.
I feel sad and it’s frustrating …
When I was pulled out by Bach and went out of the hood, it was in a deep forest where there were almost no roads connecting this place to other anymore.
Only the ruts of the carriage I got on and the horseshoe marks of the horses Bach and his friends got on were carved on the ground, but other than that, the surroundings were covered with moss and the roots of the trees were running around all over the place .
Perhaps it was a road in the old days rather than a recent road, but it was abandoned long ago and maintained with beasts and less complimented professions like hunters .
Probably it’s such a place.
Or rather, do they intend to throw me away in such a place?
At least I wasn’t sure if the place I was going was a village or something like that, but I wasn’t expecting it to be brought to a place that wasn’t really populated at all.
I’ve heard that the exiled aristocrats are at risk of being beating in the presence of people, but if they endure it and work hard for a while, they will be recognized as members of the village.
That’s why I had a single hope around that area of working hard and becoming a villager … but it was completely wrong.
What should I do?
What will happen?
Bach explains as such an idea goes too far in my head.
“… This is the western part of the kingdom … Strictly speaking, it’s a place that doesn’t belong to the Kingdom of Oracle, commonly known as the Purgatory Forest. Noah, do you know about that ?”
“Well, Purgatory Forest !? Seriously … If you leave me in a place like this, so you wanted me to die …”
I was really surprised to hear “Purgatory Forest”.
Even though I was brought to an unpopular forest, I expected it to be a small forest far from the center and a little crowded land.
However, this is the famous Makyo*.
[TL: demon beast dwelling or simply wilderness]
There is no doubt that there are no people in Makyo, and it is a land that is out of the map of the kingdom, and it is true that it is a remote area.
But the problem isn’t there.
The bad news is that this is a land where powerful monsters live, and it has been certified over the years that this is a place where humans cannot live.
There are only warriors and magicians who are powerful at the top level, and humans who were exiled due to some dire crimes and live in such places.
And yet … I’m here! ??
I thought it would be bad for me, so I stumbled upon Bach and others who started preparing for their return.
“Wait a minute! Will you brings me back to the front of some village a which is somewhere close to here
But Bach mercilessly pulled me off and said
“… Noah. This is the instruction of the mansion. I can’t go against it. Give up your useless resistance.”
I just signed heavily.
The method of peeling off was not vicious, and it was redemption that I felt such kindness that I could tell not going to church was a grace , but in reality, there is no salvation and my only choice is death.
Then Bach
“… I’ll leave a few days’ worth of food for you and a dagger. This is the farewell gift from me … Noah … Don’t give up. Survive. You don’t want this to be our last meeting … … don’t you? “
With that said, he led the carriage and left far away towards home.
I was at a loss for a while.
Do I give up?
When I chose not to give up in this situation … Isn’t it just extending my life and dying after some days?
Only such a question was running around in my head.
[TL: By Mr Max]◇[PR: BY ACE]
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