The Northern Duke’s Eldest Son’s Tutor

“Miss Sofia.”
“Yes, Young Master.”
While spending reading time as usual, Kyle spoke to me.
During reading time, we usually read books quietly, so I wondered what was going on.
“Could you tell me about your time as an adventurer?”
“My time as an adventurer, you say?”
“Yes.”
Adventurer…
Though it was only a short time of 2 years, it was a time that greatly influenced me.
I wonder if Kyle is interested in the profession of adventurer because he’s a boy.
It’s not even that good of a profession.
“Young Master, I hope you’re not thinking of becoming an adventurer…”
“No, I’m not..!”
That’s a relief then.
Anyway, my time as an adventurer.
It’s not a bright and hopeful story like a fairy tale, but since our Young Master requested it, I should share some tales.
With the dark parts hidden as much as possible.
What story would be good?
I thought about it for a moment.
“I once stayed briefly in Suffolk in the south. Being a true granary region, there were incredibly vast fields everywhere.”
If the northern Eristirol is a region covered with snow, the Suffolk region feels like it’s made up entirely of fields.
Probably not much different even if I went there now.
“And when I was in Suffolk, it was autumn. Since it was autumn, there were naturally many farmers trying to harvest crops they had grown for a year.”
As it happened, when I arrived in that region while wandering around, it was harvest time, so I ended up working there.
Thanks to that, I had an extremely hard time.
“It was harvest time but also right before winter, so monsters were searching for food.”
Kyle was listening to my story with concentration.
Even though it wasn’t that interesting of a story yet, I was grateful that he was listening earnestly with his eyes wide open.
“To prepare for such monster attacks, the lord of Suffolk has long favored hiring adventurers.”
He would even post requests directly to the adventurer’s guild to find adventurers.
“I accepted the request and was hired by the lord for a short period of about 3 weeks. The next day, the adventurers who had received the request, including myself, couldn’t help but be surprised.”
Besides me, there were just under 100 adventurers, and everyone couldn’t help but be surprised at the sight.
One of them probably even wet himself.
The female mage next to me didn’t wet herself though.
“What came out from the first day was grasshoppers. Of course, they weren’t ordinary grasshoppers, but sickle grasshoppers. Young Master, do you know about sickle grasshoppers?”
“What…?”
“You don’t know.”
Of course, he wouldn’t know.
They don’t live here, and they’re completely unrelated monsters.
It doesn’t make sense for monsters living in granary regions to live in the north.
“Sickle grasshoppers… aren’t ordinary insects, they have bodies almost 1 meter long and arms that look like they have sickles attached, similar to what farmers use.”
“Really?”
I wanted to ask why I would lie to you, but I didn’t.
If I had said such a thing to the Young Master, it was obvious he would respond with “I-I’m… s-sorry..!”
“Yes, people who were injured by those creatures’ arms still have scars on their backs.”
I wonder how that guy is doing.
He had a girlfriend during the adventurer days.
….
Thinking about it now, I hope he’s not doing well.
While some people can’t even get a girlfriend, the thought that he might still be dating since then makes my teeth clench.
I was a bit angry inside, but I didn’t show it to the Young Master.
“Truly hundreds, even thousands of them flew toward the field where we were. From that moment, all adventurers, knights, and mages gathered and started dealing with those pests rushing in. In the sky, there were wind and lightning spells shot by mages, and arrows and guns fired by archers. And people like me, under the hot sun, blocked with swords and shields the creatures falling to tear off the grain.”
It seemed like a fire spell would end it all, but the lord forbade it, saying it could harm the fields.
As a result, we had to kill each falling insect, which was about the size of a person’s lower body, one by one.
In the midst of it, I almost lost my mind because of that guy who was flirting with his girlfriend next to me.
That was probably when I cursed the most while working as an adventurer…
No, there was another time.
“Um…. now that I’ve talked about it, it doesn’t seem like such an interesting story… would you like to hear more?”
The thought that occurred to me while telling old stories to Kyle is that I have no talent for storytelling.
I don’t think I’ve ever tipped the storytellers I occasionally saw walking down the street… I feel a bit sorry now.
Spinning a yarn is harder than I thought.
Really.
“Yes!”
But Kyle wanted to hear more of the uninteresting story, perhaps finding it more entertaining than reading.
Even I didn’t think it was that interesting, but I was grateful for his eagerness to listen.
“Then next, I’ll tell you about the time when I was trapped in an underground dungeon with my party members. It was a party with a somewhat strange gender ratio of 1 man and 4 women, but we spent about two months resolving requests without any problems.”
I thought it was just a normal party until those two months.
It was fun spending time with a beautiful elf, a female mage, and a crazy noble girl who thought she was a princess.
Especially, that noble with princess disease was quite funny.
She really showed me the kind of noble I’d only seen in novels.
‘Hohoho!! Commoner!!’
‘Commoner! Bring me water quickly!’
The end of her, who always called us commoners, was a bit of a headache.
Until we got trapped, I was having a good time, also enjoying the sight of the beautiful female party members.
It was quite regrettable that one party member was an ordinary male knight with black hair and black eyes, but it didn’t prevent me from appreciating the appearance of the other party members.
“However, while exploring the underground dungeon, the entrance suddenly closed, and we had to endure inside for about a week. Until the guild came to find us. And inside, I witnessed something shocking.”
“What was it?”
This world was modern in some aspects while medieval in others.
The evidence of that was polygamy.
However, it wasn’t that common.
Polygamy was one of the privileges only available to wealthy nobles or extremely handsome men.
Even then, money was more important.
In fact, most ordinary people had beautiful pure love stories where they grew up with their childhood friends from the village, realized their feelings for each other as adults, and ended up married.
It was like that in the village where I lived.
I also heard that Evande, whose arm I almost broke, was dating a guy from the village when I went back recently.
In conclusion, I had never seen a harem except among nobles.
“The first day, there was no problem. We just organized the surroundings, made beds, and all fell asleep together. But… from the next day on, the relationships among the party members, except for me, started getting closer.”
I thought it was because we were staying together in a not-so-spacious place.
On the first day, the man and the elf grew closer.
The next day, it was the mage, and the day after that, the noble.
“On the night of the 4th day, when I woke up from sleep, I heard strange sounds from beside me. So I turned around and…”
“…..”
“Yes, it’s the kind of story you can roughly imagine. As soon as I saw that, I packed my belongings and left the party.”
Those crazy people weren’t thinking about escaping; they were just having sex.
That’s why they were getting along better day by day.
“Although I didn’t get paid, I couldn’t stay in the party after seeing that, so I immediately withdrew from the party in the underground dungeon and searched for an exit by myself.”
I wonder what would have happened if I had stayed in that party….
I didn’t really want to imagine it.
“…..”
“Young Master? Are you alright?”
Suddenly Kyle’s face turned red and he closed his mouth.
Why is he…
“Ah, I shouldn’t be telling you such stories… I’m sorry.”
He was listening to my story so well that I think I crossed a line.
Although I’m just a tutor, he is the son of a duke’s family.
He is in an extremely high position, and Kyle is in a place where he wouldn’t hear such stories.
To talk about adventurers having sex, it was my mistake.
“N-No… it’s fine.. Maybe we should end here for today, Miss Sofia?”
“Yes, I’ll do as the Young Master wishes.”
“..Yes.”
Kyle and I left the library and moved to Kyle’s room.
Since Kyle said he wanted to rest in his room for a while, I was about to follow him into the room as usual.
“N-No! Today I just want to take a nap alone…. Um, why don’t you rest outside for a while, Miss Sofia?”
He told me to rest outside, even though there isn’t much difference between resting outside or in Kyle’s room.
Hmm…
Is this what it feels like to see a child who wants to have a separate room from their parents?
Usually during nap time or rest time, I played the role of a guard, and at night until Kyle fell asleep, I quietly waited by the bed for Kyle to wake up.
That’s how it has been until now, but given Kyle’s age, it would be better for him to sleep alone.
“Yes. I understand. I’ll come to wake you up in about two hours.”
“Yes…”
After seeing Kyle lie down on the bed, I immediately left Kyle’s bedroom and decided to look around the mansion.
Come to think of it, it might be good to make Kyle exercise too.
I can’t let someone with such a handsome face become the kind of noble who doesn’t exercise, just eats, and has a protruding belly.