Yomigaeri no Maou

"Long time no see, Lulu"

That being said, all of a sudden we met all over the city was Patrick, the real father in this world who broke up in the village of Cadiz.

I broke up with the acquaintances in front of the arena after all the games I knew today, and then I wanted to spend the rest individually and like them, but Lulu was walking around the city with Illis.

That's when I waved like I'd found something on the other side of Central Avenue and wondered if there was a man walking this way, and when I knew exactly what he looked like, it turned out to be my father.

I knew my father had come to the King's Capital, but I hadn't seen him for a while because he was reluctant to keep busy because he was a swordsmanship guide for the Royal Knights, because it was difficult to easily ask, and he said he was a swordsmanship guide because the time was right.

If you ask me, it means I'm off duty today, so I seem to have been hanging around the city watching martial arts competitions, buying necessities, etc.

He also saw that he spent money on his hobby because he also had several books on one hand.

What you're wearing is little different from the city people around it, and you can't see the kind of weapons or protective equipment.

My father, Patrick, is basically a good man, so he doesn't look like a knight at all, who looks like a part-time knight, and if he takes a slight look away, he's even going to be unfamiliar with the view of the king's capital and unable to find it.

It just doesn't seem like that's why we can't fight.

My father's moves are far above normal levels.

Even if it's bare hands, the tiny pieces around it will of course defeat even warriors with a lot of experience, and in times of need, if you pick up even the sticks of trees that are rolling around it, through magic, you'll still be able to work with advanced classes.

The power as a knight should also be firmly demonstrated in that case.

And, in fact, the fact was well proven in what happened some time after that.

Patrick, my father, and Lulu and Illis met by chance, because they met, so we decided to talk a little bit.

Just calmed down, so I took a few peeks at the store, but it still seemed like it was only after the fight match was over and it was crowded everywhere and I couldn't sit down.

For that reason, Lulu said, "If only I had come to the house that Lulu owes me," and the three walked out in that direction.

I don't know him in the village, I want to introduce him to an unusual girl who came to this King's Capital and somehow decided to live there, because I probably saw Lulu fight at a martial arts tournament once or so, so I wanted to hear his thoughts carefully.

In that way, as we were walking and chatting, suddenly, a blurring occurred behind the street.

Unlike earlier, Patrick looked back at something, he was a sharp and neat knight's face, and Lulu is also deeply emotional about how he works in this way.

That said, I can't say that.

In the direction the three of them looked back, at the center of the stirring, a crowd was made, but a small figure pops up at a tremendous rate from a place where the crowd avoided and opened on either side of the road as if to make a path all the way.

Of course, the tremendous speed, even so, for the three Lulu's, that wasn't just a big deal of a rush, but I could understand from the way it was running, squeezing its full strength.

The person who was running was, from the looks of it, a little girl.

Around the age of seven, did I just say?

The girl, with snowy gray hair and blue eyes like a lake, ran to escape something, looked at the three Lulu's and hid behind them.

Then, as the girl asks something, from behind the Lulu's, she finds herself in the direction of her arrival - in the crowd.

"... what? Is something coming?

When Lulu looked at the girl and asked so, Patrick's voice sounded as he watched the crowd.

"Lulu!"

Looks like something has come after all.

If you think what the hell is... and you look at it, there were two guys there who looked like they were going to be inflexible, and they looked like they were going to be galloping bad.

I see, have you come running from the chimps?

That's what I thought, and if the three of them tried to stand in front of them, of the two men, the big one said.

"Hey, Amy...?

It is a voice that echoes from the belly, like a copper.

You can say the expression is also a ghostly shape, so the Lulu stepped forward harder that they had to protect the girl from them.

Then, the big man said.

"... the guardian of that daughter?

Looking at Patrick, it looks like he said:

Sure, in this, he seems to be the best.

It seems the best place to fit in, and Lulu decides to keep his mouth shut, letting his father try.

Then Patrick said.

"... then what?

It was without any tremor, a grand attitude.

It was splendid as a knight and splendid as a father.

And that's why a great deal of discomfort was felt between the words of the man unleashed at the next moment and the air of the place.

"... then you'll pay the price, won't you?

"... Huh?

Patrick tilts his neck.

I seem to have wondered what I have just heard.

The big man said it again.

"I'm telling you to pay me a fee.... See, that lady's eating apples..."

With the expression taken lightly, if Patrick, Lulu and Illis check again the gray-haired girl's hand and her mouth, she can hear the apple in her hand with only a core, and her cheeks swell slightly, and if she tries to clear her ears well.

Patrick asked the girl with a subtle look.

"... that, apple?

Then the girl said her mouth was blocked and she couldn't speak, and she nodded and answered the question.

"Uh... money, did you pay?

Probably, and he shakes his head.

"You have to pay, you know?

Then, after the girl tilted her neck slightly, she shook her neck vertically at her lack of confidence.

Then Patrick looked at the man's face in front of him,

"Excuse me, how much...?

Ask and pay the fee.

The two men seemed to be fruit shop owners and their sons.

I'm tempted to say, why don't you make a few more glittery faces, but after being eaten away, that would be something called cruelty.

After paying the fee, Patrick bowed his head with the gray-haired girl, saying he had to apologize more than named the guardian for what he'd done.

The fruit shop owners also generally understood that Patrick had named the guardian by mistake, so they went back to the store saying it was okay.

Even if I know that, should I say it was the business guts that took the charges firmly?

However, a while after that, the fruit shop son brought four extra apples and gave them to Patrick for free, so maybe the truth was that he just couldn't pull in because he yelled at him once and chased him.

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"... so what will this girl do?

That's what he whined as he stared at the girl who was consuming the third apple and walked toward home.

I suppose the four apples that were originally given to Patrick, one at a time, were given on the assumption that no matter what, the girl would eat one after the other out of the bag held in Patrick's hand.

Patrick looked at such a girl and answered the question of Illis with a little thought.

"Well, you're lost, so I guess it's best to take you to the Knights of Peace stuffing. The place is around here too... I'll be there in a minute, so wait."

That said, Patrick holds hands with the girl and takes her to the Knights of Peace Stuff building.

The Knights of Peace Stuff is a five-story building built along Central Avenue, which is packed by Knights of Peace who are guarding the security of the Wang capital.

It is basically open all 24 hours and has a wide range of tasks, from strays and directions to solving heinous crimes.

At this time of the martial arts tournament, there is no doubt that they are the busiest of all, and one very few dozen lost and hundreds brought in.

Of course, there are several branches in the Wang capital, so I'm not doing everything here, but I would still always have a job equal to overwork.

That's where Patrick went to get more work, but where he is the swordsmanship guide for the Royal Knights with that, I wonder if he's also good with the Knights of Peace.

If so, there's a good chance he'll be able to handle it quickly, and I guess he's right to go deliver the girl as a lost girl.

It may not make much sense for a girl to do that if she was a displaced or abandoned child, but as far as what she was wearing seemed unlikely to be such.

What I was wearing was for going out, but it was quite expensive and in a price range that would be difficult for ordinary city people to buy.

I mean, a girl would most likely be some kind of luxury merchant or some bourgeois daughter.

If so, parents should also be desperately looking, and if they are in the Knights of Peace more than they are, they will undoubtedly find them.

They should take it on quickly over there too......

Waiting for Patrick to think so, for some reason Patrick came back here holding hands with the girl.

He even looks like a real parent and child when he arrives at Patrick, who walks scratching his head like a Cargamo, but his hair color clearly tells him that the guess is a mistake.

to Patrick back,

"Weren't you going to keep it for me?

and Lulu asks, Patrick, as troubled,

"I was going to...... the rep asked me to keep it there for a while. He's incredibly busy, and he wants to do as little work as he can. You'll find your parents as soon as you see the outfit, so if they even say it's just a little... it's hard to say no."

Apparently, Patrick is the type who can't say no when asked.

Even if it's a joke, I guess, someone I work with told me.

My father's face seems to be quite known among knights, and I guess he couldn't refuse when asked to do so in a friendship of national service.

To my father like that, Iris,

"That said... your father-in-law will be in the Knights' quarters while you're in the King's capital, right? It doesn't seem like a place where such a little girl can be..."

and point it out calmly.

It wouldn't be impossible, but it wouldn't even be such a cozy place.

Given that, I also feel a little pathetic.

Patrick nodded to the word and has suggested it.

"That's right...... so I was wondering if you have a son or something who lives in one of the extra houses in the room...... isn't there?

etc., and purposefully, is

I mean, I guess I was going to do that from the beginning.

Lulu sighed, but didn't say no in particular.

There is already one witch in Lulu's house who is only about to eat.

About the other one, there's nothing wrong with where I have more kids, and if you look at the look on Iris's face, well, he's got a face.

She's the one who cooks meals, and if she says she's good, that's fine.

That was Lulu's conclusion.

"Yes, sir. I'm here... But what's gonna happen to this kid's parent-finding?

"Oh, that's okay. If they find me, they'll call me from the Knights of Peace. He said he'd contact me, so I'll tell him to contact Lulu's house directly later."

"Right. Okay... oh, so you didn't hear the name."

It is important.

It's something he's been eating apples for so long, Lulu decided to ask the girl who barely spoke.

"Hey, what's your name?

"... Ricole"

Saying so in a nasty tone, the girl laid her hands on the fourth apple further.

I don't seem to be the type to talk too often, but if you're coming to Lulu's house, Kyou might just as well talk the opposite way.

"Okay. Ricole, you're going to my house. I'll have you wait there until your guardian gets here, okay?

"... yeah. Daijibu. Right away, come on."

Keep eating apples if you say so.

It doesn't look anxious at all, it's an unusual vibe to get lost, but it's probably a smart kid.

That's what Lulu said to Patrick and Iris.

"Well, let's go"

So the three of them, and the four of them again, walked out toward the house of Lulu.