Trails with Cuddle-Cuddle Osbon
Translator: Tsukii
Editor: Helen
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Chapter 044 – Fufufu, son. It’s The June Field Study② [A]
Group B met up with Toval and traveled to the town where Sara lived, where they spent the night at Sara’s house, which served as their temporary base, but……
“Instructor, why is it so dirty?”
“Sara, all you did when you returned to your hometown was to sleep?”
“I hate to say this, but even if it’s your own home, this is definitely not the kind of house you want to show people to, you know?”
The students criticized Sara as they talked about her home and how messy it was.
“H-Hey, Toval! I did ask you to tidy things up, didn’t I!”
“Well, I can’t just throw away the chance to show the true self of an instructor to her students.”
“But my dignity……”
“You have no such thing.”
Sara hung her head in despair at Fie’s words.
The house wasn’t her childhood home, but rather a temporarily dormitory-like lodging used by Class VII.
It was true that Sara’s room in the Class VII dormitory was hardly what one would call clean, but things seemed even more terrible at this lodging.
“You say you have a lot of acquaintances, but do you have no one to clean up your house? The woman from earlier seemed very close to you.”
“Err…… Actually, I came home once before the field study. Auntie did clean it up back then……”
“To think that in just several days …… no, just a single day of staying in this house messed things up to this point……”
After Toval introduced himself, Rean and the others headed together to the town where Sara lived.
When Osbon said things like [“Found the first villager of North Ambria,”] Rean noticed the resident, and when he saw the skinny but polite woman greet them, he finally sensed life in the town.
Rather, Sara was bombarded with questions such as, “Don’t you feel anything about having such a woman clean up your room?”
“Well, I wanted to relax when I got home, you see? And before I knew it, the liquor I brought with me……”
“I never thought you had the luxury of soiling your room in your hometown, despite the state of the town.”
“I just drank liquor! I only had some alcohol!”
“Aren’t liquor considered a luxury to people of North Ambria……”
“I’m just rewarding myself for my hard work!”
The solemn atmosphere was gone and the others’ eyes had already turned to Sara, as if they were looking at a useless adult. Sara, having just screamed out loud, poked her fingers and cowered.
“For the time being, let’s clean up the room first. Otherwise, we won’t have a place to sleep.”
“Are there no other rooms?”
“Unfortunately, there aren’t any spacious rooms in North Ambria. Even a former inn had been turned into a shared living place for refugees.”
“So the instructor’s room, which can sleep six people if we crammed, is actually a pretty good place by this town’s standard.”
“Boy, on the other hand, Sara is a woman who is needlessly soiling a large room.”
“HEEEEEYYYYY!”
Sara screamed and jumped at Toval, but quickly calmed down when he picked up the scattered liquor bottles.
They were aware of her bad drinking habits, but it seemed like it became even worse in her own home.
“I’ll be sleeping somewhere else, so you five can use this room. That way, we’ll have a bit more space.”
“If it’s this cramped, wouldn’t it be better to separate the men’s and women’s areas?”
“I don’t really mind. Up until now, we’ve all been staying in the same room during field studies, after all.”
“But it’s going to be hard to find a space to separate the partitions for the men and the women……”
“I guess that the men would just have to go outside when the women change clothes and take a bath…… as for us men, should we just bathe together in the small bathroom?”
“Like hell can we all fit together!”
Machias screamed at Rean for saying something stupid.
Elliot had a wry smile on as he tidied up the mess in the room…… then he froze when he picked up a black bra.
“Ah………… ah…………”
“Elliot, don’t freeze up, move your haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
Machias screamed.
Everyone’s attention was drawn to the shout, and they saw Elliot with a red face and Machias fell backwards, fainting, at the sight of Sara’s underwear.
Rean quickly closed his eyes, and Toval looked at Sara with even more disappointment in his eyes.
As expected, Sara was shaken that a student had seen her underwear, but Fie calmly took the bra from Elliot’s hand.
Elliot then came to his senses and bowed his head as if prostrating himself.
“S-Sorry! I didn’t mean to!”
“There’s nothing to apologize for, Elliot. It was Sara’s fault for leaving her undergarments there…… but even so, it’s really big.”
Fie groaned as she looked at the cup size, which was big enough for her small hand to fit inside.
Seeing this, Sara quickly took the bra, found a random bag, and threw it inside.
Even though it was only for a moment, Rean had seen an adult’s undergarments and stuttered slightly as he searched for a compromise.
“Err…… For the time being, should we just stay outside?”
“That would mean that only Sara and I would have to clean up the whole thing, so nope.”
“B-But if we see it again……”
“Well, that’s entirely that no-good woman’s fault, so you should just burn it into your mind as a good memory, young man.”
“Then let’s go with a compromise. Instructor and Fie will mainly clean the clothes, while we men will clean things like liquor bottles and other items.”
“What about that boy with glasses?”
“There’s nothing we can do, so let’s just leave him alone.”
“Rean, that’s not fair. We should get Machias to write the report in our stead.”
“You shouldn’t say such things in front of the Instructor.”
“W-well, just let him off the hook and have him be in charge of cooking tomorrow……”
Despite everything that had happened, after laying Machias against the wall, Rean and the others spent some time cleaning.
Thanks to this, Sara’s room was cleaned, with Sara and Fie sleeping in the bed and the three male students sleeping on the floor, using the futons and blankets that Toval had brought with him.
“Well then, it’s time for dinner, but……”
“Until now, the base of field studies were in inns, so meals would automatically be arranged, but how will we take care of it this time?”
“North Ambria is basically always in a food crisis, after all. We have specialists who hunt monsters to procure food.”
“Then we’ll go and procure some meat from monsters.”
“I guess we are starting survival training from the very first day……”
“Can’t we procure food by fishing or something?”
“There are some fish, but there aren’t any easy fish around, you know? The competition for food has intensified to the point that some fishes have become no different from monsters.”
“Fuh, my Angler blood is boiling.”
“Then you and I,”
“You can call me Rean, I’ll also call you Toval-san.”
“Then Rean, let’s go fishing and get some food.”
“Wait. I’ll show you to the fishing spot, so let’s go together.”
“Hahah, you’re quite overprotective.”
If we take our eyes off Rean, he’ll likely disappear after all……
It was the moment when everyone’s hearts, except for Rean and Toval, became one.
Then everyone started to take action.
Elliot, who had poor night vision, seemed to have begun preparing various things and took up the cooking duty.
Since Fie was left alone, Toval asked if Sara should accompany Fie, but Fie said she was fine and left the house alone.
By the way, Machias was still unconscious, so they could only wake him up for dinner later, but everyone silently nodded in agreement that they would just ask him to take over some task the next day.
As they headed to the fishing spot that Sara had guided them to, Rean chatted with Toval who was walking next to him.
“Toval-san is a bracer, right? I thought bracers can’t operate in the Empire……”
“It’s just that the scale of what we can do that has shrunk, it doesn’t mean that bracers don’t exist in the Empire. Even places like Legram has a Bracer Guild. The attack on the Imperial guild in Heimdallr was resolved thanks to S-rank bracers sent from another nation, but because of that, it showed the Empire the threat that bracers pose.”
“Hey, Toval, is that something you are supposed to tell kids?”
“What are you talking about, after bringing them all the way to North Ambria? Isn’t this supposed to be a field study to help students understand what kind of nation the Empire is?”
“Well, that’s true, but……”
“Going back to the topic, because of that, it seems bracers themselves aren’t very welcomed in the Empire.”
“You can’t find them in major cities, after all.”
[“Fufufu, although it isn’t a nation, it did show off the clever cooperation of the Bracer Guilds across the continent. That just goes to show how much importance the Empire places on Bracers. Especially on Cassius Bright, who solved that incident.”]
Rean recognized that name.
It was the name he heard from Old Master Yun; he was a senior disciple of Eight Leaves One Blade.
Although he might have retired from his sword, his legends would never fade.
Rean unconsciously placed his hand on the hilt of his tachi.
While chatting like this, they had arrived at the fishing spot.
As Rean prepared his fishing rod in a usual manner, it made the unfamiliar Sara and Toval stare at him with shocked eyes.
“W-Where did you take that out from?”
“Eh, I just took it out normally?”
“There’s no way that’s normal! It’s obviously——”
“Toval, if you get shocked by something like this, you won’t last, you know?”
Therein was the difference between Sara, who knew the boy named Rean Schwarzer personally, and Toval, who only knew him from prior information.
Seeing Rean continue to pull out buckets out of nowhere and tie the bait to poles, Toval’s mouth opened and closed in amazement.
Sara had heard of it while chatting with the other students in Class VII, but this was her first time seeing it in person, so she had a vague expression about it.
“Toval, could that be the power of a higher attribute at work? Maybe the spatial interference of something……”
“No, it doesn’t appear that he’s using Orbal Arts. So maybe it’s an abnormal ability? …………Hey, Rean, how many tools can you take out and put back in that manner?”
“I haven’t counted, but there are quite a few. There are a variety of recovery items and daily necessities.”
“Are you a one-man orbal car……”
“It might actually be as big as a truck.”
Having this skill, which could easily be classified as a supernatural power, so casually revealed, Toval began to understand what Sara had said about how to treat Rean.
He was a bit of an airhead and there was a huge gap of perception between him and the people around him.
“Ah~ just an advice from onii-san, I think it’s best not to show off that sort of thing. If someone finds out, they might try to capture you or something like that.”
“Ah, it’s okay. My dad once told me off too.”
“You didn’t really hide it at all, though……”
“That’s well, it’s what I call trust. I only intend to show it to people who I don’t think would have any problems with it.”
In reality, all items must be retrieved via Osbon, so the items couldn’t be retrieved without Osbon’s permission.
Therefore, Osbon wouldn’t give permission in front of anyone he considered suspicious.
“Oops, rather than that, a fish bit!”
Despite the adults’ worries, Rean continued his first fishing trip in North Ambria.
The moment the fish bit, it bit off the line and pulled, so Rean instantly countered with the Fifth Form: Morning Moon, and calmed it down.
The fish he fished was quite large, nearly an arge in size.
“It’s a fish I have never seen before……”
“Is it a new species? If you take it to the Imperial Fishing Club or Fisherman’s Guild, can they identify what it is……”
“Ah, looking more closely, I think this is probably a fish that has mutated due to its environment. It’s edible. That said, it seems that there are quite a lot of mischievous fishes here.”
“When I heard you say mischievous, I couldn’t help but want to retort……”
“But it’s a tough fish that has survived in North Ambria’s climate and the withered feeding ground. I’m sure it will be satisfying to eat.”
“I hope we don’t get food poisoning from eating it.”
“For the time being, let’s just catch as many as we need. Instructor, how many do you think we need to catch for everyone we’ll be taking care of this time?”
“Hm~ there are children around as well, after all……I’m not sure how much their numbers have increased since then too……”
“Well then, I’ll just fish appropriately.”
Afterwards, Rean succeeded in catching about five fishes.
According to Toval, most of the fishes Rean caught were species that were quite ferocious and it seemed like they were reeling in monsters.
Naturally, if fishing was like this, it would be difficult to obtain food as well.
In addition, each one was over ten torims in weight, so they would likely be difficult to transport. 2
But for the well-trained Rean, even a hundred torims won’t be a problem to carry.
If anything, the only thing that was annoying was the fish couldn’t fit into the bucket.
But thanks to Osbon, there were no problems with the transportation.
As Sara watched the large fish disappear in an instant right before her eyes, she tapped Toval on the shoulder and spoke in a serious voice.
“That’s just the beginning. You won’t last long if you get shocked by something like this.”
“Ah~ I understand now. It means we need to keep a close eye on him or we never know what he’ll do.”
Looking at Rean, who had safely obtained the food and had a relieved look on his face, the two adults nodded to one another.
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