Volume 12 Chapter 3 Part 4
If it was me, I may have a distant relative of my great great great grandmother back in Japan, but since I have never met them I don’t even care about finding out if I have someone like that or not.
Hmmm, isn’t it a little bit different though?
Because she’s the youngest child of her great great great grandmother’s little sister, it means tha it is a branch of her great great great great grandmother’s family.
I start going great great just thinking about it, and it makes me want to scream from the complexity of it all.
Well, I guess she is 107 years old, so something like that was to be expected.
In this world, 15 years old is the age where one is already considered to be an adult, which means that there should be nothing strange in having kids at the age of 16 or 17, so I guess that means that having grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren at the age of 107 would not be that far-fetched of a concept.
「Hmm… so that is how it is with the two of you, huh?」
「Pleased to meet you.」
For some reason she stared at me again, so I decided to play it safely and just answer her politely.
「Just to make it absolutely clear, that snot-nosed perverted brat Brocken is one of my direct grandmother’s descendant as well. It’s like that with most of the Elves right now, but I am sure that my grandmother must be rolling in her grave and despair over how unworthy her descendants have become.」
「Haa…」
Isn’t it something more typical of Elven nobility rather than of the Elves as a whole?
It seems that all the members of the Elven upper classes are somehow connected with one another by affiliation. However, from Rutina’s point of view, tha would mean that the enemy of her father and her great great grandmother are connected much more closely than I initially thought.
Who would have thought that there was still something more amazing like that to be revealed?
That’s exactly, what will be great, putting aside the fact that, like I said, such distant relations effectively make the two of them no different than a pair of strangers.
Now, how many times did great appear so far?
In any case it is amazing to have that many of them.
Is it something that comes with being 107 years old?
As expected of a living legend.
「Are you an Adventurer, boy?」
「Yes, ma’am. I am, ma’am!」
「Although you are young, you seem to be doing well for yourself.」
I can say that I’m an Adventurer now without hesitation. If you want, I can even show you my Intelligence Card to prove that I am not making any of this up.
I am no longer a fake Adventurer that I was pretending to be. I am a bona fide Adventurer.
「I am not an Elf though.」
Or rather, the thing that I am more interested in is whether or not you’re fine with a Human like me taking a girl from your clan as his slave.
「Hmmm. My husband was a human being as well. Because I was the youngest child in my family, everything good was already taken from me by my older sisters, and there was nothing good left when it was finally my turn to claim it. The third daughter got married to a noble. The fourth one got married to a promising person from the Knight Order, however he turned out to be useless man in the end. The fifth girl married the heir of a wealthy family of merchants. The business they had was once called the most thriving one in the empire, but one they have lost their momentum it did not take long for them to fall faster than a diving bird, perhaps because my older sister consumed everything they had, and the store is now effectively out of business. What I am trying to say her is that even though some people might be born to have everything they could have ever wanted, they still don’t understand how society works.」
Well, after listening to all of that, there is only one thing that I can possibly say here.
The old people’s talks are long. Too long for my liking, in fact.
「What aunt Cassandra wanted to say was that her late husband, had a decorated and colorful life too.」
Because Elder Cassandra’s story was dragging on and on, Rutina joined in and followed up.
It would seem that Elder Cassandra’s husband, who belonged to a Human tribe has already passed away.
Well, she’s 107 years old, so that kind of thing was to be expected.
「Quite right. Despite being a Human, my husband was a fine man. He originally belonged to a certain noble family. However, after being done in by a Labyrinth and failing to subjugate it, they lost all of their peerage and have fallen into ruin. Believe it or not, but such stories of downfall are actually common in the world of nobility. Having a sense of foreboding, my husband remonstrated in every possible way. Consequently, he was cut off from the family. Chased out, he arrived in the territory that belonged to my household. Later, when he earned his peerage back, his relatives said whatnot to have him come back, of course; however, being an earnest man, he refused every approach. He was the only person who adopted such an upright stance even though he had the mark to succeed. ‘Such a fine man cannot be missed. He has to be caught,’ were this old lady’s thoughts at the time. He had courage to enter the Labyrinth; he was competent in terms of abilities and he was endowed with excellent manners due to formerly belonging to a noble family. Rutina, you too better make sure to wash your hands off of your man without a moment’s hesitation if he is going to turn out to be a useless good-for-nothing.」
It seems to be common for a noble to lose peerage if they fail to subjugate a Labyrinth. Still, her story hasn’t served any purpose. It has merely been long.
Or rather, I don’t want Rutina to try doing anything strange because of the words that Cassandra has spoken to her just now.
What would I even do if it turned out that Rutina is essentially giving up on me? I’m afraid that I wouldn’t be able to do anything at that point.
「No, I have no doubt that Lord Michio is going to subjugate his first Labyrinth in the near future and become a member of the nobility as a result.」
Whoa! Rutina actually jumped in to protect me!
「Oh? Is that so?」
The old lady looked at me with a gleam in her eyes.
What am I even supposed to do with that?
「Yes, there is no mistake about that.」
「Hou…?」
「If we are talking about a subjugation of a Labyrinth with fifty floors, the its subjugation is a goal that is well within his reach. To be completely honest with you, I didn’t think that he was going to reach so far either.」
No, to say that the subjugation of the Labyrinth is within our reach is a bit of an overstatement for the time being, and saying things like that right now is useless, because we don’t even know if we’ll be able to reach the 50th floor at all.
We still have six floors to go, and I want al, of the people around me to understand that clearing a single floor when you’re so high up is not as simple as everyone is making it out to be, so I would appreciate it if you didn’t hype it up anymore then it needs to be hyped.
「Hou hou, is that so?」
Cassandra’s eyes tighten even more as she gives me yet another glint. How much more can you do that, actually? I hope you won’t say something like, 「This isn’t even my final form」?!
「We still have six floor left to go before we could talk about subjugating a Labyrinth, but the weight and difficulty of clearing a single floor now is…」
「Hou…? So you do realize that it is not as easy as a walk in the park, do you now?」
「Y-Yeah…」
When I tried to explain what I was just thinking about right now, she stared at me again, but this time in a way that was filled with understanding.
As expected of someone like her. I suppose this is something that only the people who have become successful on their own would understand, and she also seems to understand that clearing a floor in the Labyrinth is no laughing matter.
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So, if her husband was a human, they didn’t have children?