blueteamnovel Chapter 33: Proposal
Chapter 33: Proposal
chapter 33: proposal
rodan came home late. we were just ready to have dinner, so we all ate together. he said the exact same things that he had said in early october last year.
”i was called in by the village mayor.”
last year, he and gerda had been called in and they were told to include the commoners in the boar hunt. as a result, the whole plan went wrong, and rodan was mortally wounded in the hunt.
hearing this, theresia’s face changed very quickly. her face looked like a mixture of worry, anger and anxiety.
“what did he tell you?” said theresia.
rodan did not do anything wrong, but she was asking him a question that made him scared.
rodan froze, holding a bowl of vegetable soup with meat crumbs in it and a wooden spoon. it seems that he can’t answer immediately. a silence develops.
after a considerable amount of time has passed, he tells us about it.
“i’ve been asked to double the amount of boar’s meat that will be delivered in two years, that is, to twenty. to do this, he wants us to allow more commoners and serfs to participate in the hunt.”
“what! no way! last year too”
rodan was too upset to speak properly. he was talking about what he had gone through last year. allen’s mother, theresia, shouted at rodan, and little muras began to cry.
theresia hurriedly started to calm muras down.
“father, i will go and put muras and mash to bed, so can i hear the rest of the story later?”
“what?”
rodan and theresia were surprised by allen’s behavior. unlike theresia, who was upset and shouted, he spoke calmly as he brought the spoon to his mouth. he acted as if he hadn’t heard anything at all.
i finished the dishes and put mash and muras to bed. mash was so tired from playing knight in the daytime that he fell asleep very fast. i pulled a blanket over his shoulders.
i left the children’s room and returned to the living room. both rodan and theresia were looking down. the water in the wooden cup is already quite lukewarm. theresia anxiously grasps the cup with both hands.
“so, father can i ask you about the rest of the story?”
“yes.”
then he started talking about what he had been told by the village mayor today. he said that gerda was also there.
”as i said before, they want us to double the number of boars we hunt in two years. i’ve already caught 10 boars between october and december, so he wants me to catch at least 20.”
”i’ll tell you more about the conversation i had with the village mayor. this is not a request from the village mayor. it was an order from the lord.” said rodan.
rodan continued talking,
”the lord has been asking me for years if i could increase the number of great boars being hunted. the lord told this to the village mayor, but the mayor had also told me and gerda about it.”
“i have the wisdom given to me by god of creation, elmea.”
“what?”
rodan’s eyes widened in surprise. he said that allen had been given a test that even a hundred people could not accomplish. he confesses to rodan and theresia that he had been given wisdom and power by the creator god to overcome these trials.
“i hope you’ll let me solve this problem. i have a feeling i can handle it.”
allen declared that he would try to solve this problem with the wisdom that god had given him.
it was the next morning. gerda, rodan, and allen are together. the place is rodan’s house. allen said that he would discuss the rest of last night’s story while gerda was there.
without gerda’s help and agreement, the conversation could not proceed. this was because rodan and gerda were the two leaders of the boar hunters.
“allen, is it true that we can safely increase the number of participants in the boar hunt?”
he didn’t seem to trust me as much as rodan. and also it was the suggestion of someone who had never participated in a hunt before, a six-year-old child.
“you can’t be absolutely sure.”
(there are no absolutes in hunting.)
his tone of voice towards gerda had recently become the same as that towards his parents.
“what?”
rodan and gerda looked at each other as if it was still impossible.
“but i think we can increase the safety of the hunters. you can’t have a recruit playing the important role of a wall in the first place.”
(a new recruit with a low level of defense acting as a wall?)
when he was a kenichi, allen had spent many hours hunting to make one of his game characters stronger. he has spent tens of thousands of hours hunting, some solo, and some in pairs. there are many ways to hunt, depending on the location and experience of the hunter.
boar hunts are a simple method where the boar is brought to the hunting spot, held by the wall, and killed. i am aware that this method is called fishing hunting or waiting for hunting.
of course, i also have experience in hunting new recruits. i’ve also gained countless experiences on how to safely train new recruits.
“oh? you mean there’s a better way?”
“of course there is. i’ll explain it to you now and...”
“hmm? and what’s that?”
“i’m joining you on the next hunt.”
allen tells them that he will be joining the boar hunt. allen suggested to them a safer way hunt, even with the new recruits.