Abandoned Retired Warrior Decides to Return to Farming

The eyelids are drooping.

What time is it now? No, it was morning. How much work is left now?

Serin was sewing the children’s broken dolls with half-closed eyes.

But soon her eyes were completely closed,

bang-

Serin, who was nodding her head, quickly pinned her forehead to the desk.

As a result, one arm of the doll, which had been almost completely sewn up, was torn off.

“······Oh, no.”

Serin wept and screamed at the horror in front of her eyes.

There are still mountains of work to be done. She muttered and closed her eyes tightly.

It’s been a month since Serin came here, and she’s learning a little bit about helping the village.

However, because she had never done chores before, it still took twice as long as others. Because of that, even now, it was well past dinner time, and she could not leave her work.

“hey. What are you doing without eating?”

Then I heard Kael’s voice coming up from below.

Serin hastily hid what she was doing, but she was already sighing as she looked at the doll from behind.

She was terrified and struck before he could say anything.

“This, it’s not like that in part, no, it’s not…”

“Look, you know. By the way, it’s been over a month, don’t you get used to it now?”

At Kael’s words, she trembled.

Since I had been a member of the royal family, I was still unfamiliar with honorific words and labor.

That’s why there’s usually a price to pay for that, but today he was strangely kind for some reason.

“I’ve already prepared the rice, so go downstairs and eat.”

Serin doubted her ears for a moment if she had heard it wrong.

Normally, I would have to increase my work or punish them by hitting them in the ass, but I would rather go down and eat.

Is it some other trap? Serin swallowed her saliva and warned him.

However, Cael took the doll she was holding and started sewing it instead.

“It is already night. Eat well and work hard tomorrow. is not it?”

“Yeah, yes, but…”

why are you doing that Serin never came up with these words.

If I said yes, then you should do it, and I’m afraid I’ll hand over the doll again.

Suddenly, the smell of rice rises from the bottom.

It looked like a warm chicken stew, but when I realized I was on an empty stomach, my appetite started to rise like crazy.

In the end, Serin kept her mouth shut and went down slowly.

After seeing the sound of the dishes from below, Cael sighed.

“Yeah, eat a lot. It seems like the time has come.”

Saying so, Kael pressed his flabby temple.

*

It has been a month since Serin and Aerith arrived.

Aeris, a saint, became a neighbor of the village, and the scenery of Serin working as a public good in the village gradually became a daily life.

In particular, Serin still didn’t do one thing dirty, but now she’s aware of her position and no longer complains.

After meeting Aerith, I did my best to stop raising unnecessary things and do my best.

I guess I’ve completely given up and conformed now.

The snoring from the second floor every night proved it.

Thanks to this, I had a lasting labor force in this village, and I thought that this peace would last,

“Perhaps the Empire will come here soon.”

At my words, the village chief and Aerith had rabbit eyes and were astonished.

That’s why I didn’t want to say it as much as possible, but I can’t hide it anyway.

At least you need to know so you can prepare for it and deal with it.

But the village chief still asked with a trembling voice, as if in disbelief.

“Hey, what’s that all of a sudden? Could it be that you and the saint were discovered?’

“I don’t know about that. However, since yesterday, I feel a strange energy. I think it would be good to be prepared.”

“Huh…..”

It was a strange aura, a bit slurred, but the village chief just nodded his head.

Since I’m not a wizard, I couldn’t detect magical powers, but I could feel the strong living.

And since yesterday, I felt that energy not far from this village.

It was too powerful for an individual to afford, so it was right to see Aurelia coming here with her colleagues and subordinates.

In the first place, he was the only person who had a business in this town.

The village chief looked at me and her alternately, and then opened his mouth as if he had made up his mind.

“Then we should prepare to evacuate with the residents.”

The statement of abandoning the place of life and hometown without any hesitation. At the same time, guilt appeared on Aerith’s face.

It was the best way to protect the villagers and her, but that wasn’t the surest way either.

If there is a horseman or a wizard, it’s a one-of-a-kind attempt.

So I shook my head.

“no. For now, stay in the shelter until I signal. Serin and I are going to go talk to them.”

“Well, wouldn’t that be too dangerous? Besides, Serin’s feet weren’t all healed, but with just the two of them…”

“Well, they don’t know that over there. If you find out that the hero Serin is on our side, you will be embarrassed and your morale will drop.”

Of course, if it was Aurelia, there would be a high probability of just pushing it. No, even if the soldiers are annihilated, if only she could survive, she would still remain.

However, I have a plan I have prepared in case such a day will come someday. If Aurelia was really coming, it wouldn’t be a problem.

“Anyway, I have a plan, so don’t worry and leave it to me. We have to give them a chance to repay the kindness they have given us.”

“Huh. Kael I know you saved the continent, but it’s grace. Don’t say such sad things.”

The village chief grabbed my hands and said so.

She looked at it with a complicated expression on her face, but then she turned her head again to the next words of the village chief.

“By the way, is there no chance that Serin will be on the other side?’

“ah. What is that?”

100% g. I betrayed you once, can’t I do it twice?

Even now, they weren’t colleagues, and they were in a perfect relationship.

From her point of view, Aurelia would be seen as a savior, not an aggressor.

But that’s also no problem. Because it was all written down right away.

“Don’t worry about that either.”

“Yeah, Kael, you all have an idea. As you said, I will evacuate the residents to the shelter tomorrow.”

“yes. Then please.”

Finally, this day has come. I expected it, but when it actually happened, I sighed.

Then I glanced at Aerith, who had not said anything before.

I was concerned before, but it feels like her heart is somewhere else.

When our eyes met, she smiled as always, as if ever.

“Then I will deliver it to the residents.”

The meeting was over, the village chief went to inform the villagers, and Aerith and I went home.

She shivered slightly in the cold wind and smiled faintly as she looked up at the clear sky.

“It has already been a month since I came here.”

“Iknow, right. Time goes so fast.”

“Fufu. Come to think of it, it was raining the day I first met Mr. Kael.”

It wouldn’t be a very good memory. It was a day with many problems.

Still, she smiled as if missing her.

“Actually, when Serine came, I thought it was all over. I gave up hope that I would get caught by Serin and go back to that prison.”

“Well, I can’t get tired of a guy like that.”

“yes. I never thought that Kael could be so strong.”

“Well, now that I know, if something happens in the future, please call me.”

For the past month, we have been living next door to each other, and we have built up friendships over the past month.

It really would have been nice if I had gone on an adventure with Aerith rather than my former colleagues.

I was resentful of this world where there was no regression or risema on the subject of possession.

“It is. If I had known…”

At that moment, Aerith suddenly stopped and looked at me.

He looked like he was trying to say something with the same expression he had at the meeting.

“Is something wrong?”

Hearing my words, she was startled and then quietly shook her head.

“no. I’m worried about what will happen tomorrow. Because it was so sudden.”

“What? No problem. It was unexpected for Aurelia to get here so quickly, but she was prepared.”

And Serin, who will be the most reliable shield, also fed him a meal yesterday.

Even now, he gave me a day off, so I’m sleeping happily on the futon in the world, so I’ll work as hard as I can tomorrow.

Shall we buy some pork today? Aerith grabbed my collar from behind as I thought so.

“Hey, Kael. Would it be okay if I had a little time?”

“yes? What. What are you talking about?”

Is there something wrong with you too? I waited for her answer, and then her mouth, who had been hesitant to speak, slowly opened.

“Ah, that fact is…”

That was then.

Shush-

With the sound of breaking through the bushes in the forest beyond the village, the life I had felt yesterday was approaching at an unbelievable speed.

I sent the saint behind my back and cried urgently.

“Run away from here!”

“······yes?”

“And tell the mayor quickly. Everyone, run to the shelter!”

I said that to her and drew the sword from my waist.

And pointed the sword in the direction of the approaching enemy at an absurd speed.