I, the Sacrifice, Somehow Killed the Evil God - CH 91

It’s been a week since I started doing the paperwork. Thanks to the hard work I put in every day, the number of documents I had to look through has been decreasing, and I’ve been learning a lot of political matters from Laura while I work.

She taught me how to manage my territory, and the hierarchy of royalty and nobility. She also taught me how to give orders to others.

I wondered when I would need to use it, but it ended so abruptly that I missed my chance to ask.

Laura is much more knowledgeable than I would have expected from someone so much younger than me, and her lessons were easy to understand.

This made me curious and asked questions, and I’ve had more conversations with Laura over the past few days.

Her cold demeanor was still the same, but I resigned myself to the fact that it was due to her personality.

Today, I’m going to visit the office to learn something from her while I’m taking care of some paperwork….

“Our plans for today are to attend a hunting festival organized by Prince Dogeu.”

When I opened the door, Laura was standing in place, flipping through some papers.

Then she took one look at me and told me the plan for today, which I had never heard before.

“No, what do you mean?”

“There have been a lot of people who have asked me to ‘match’ with you, or they throw a party and they want you to attend. I’ve been turning them down because I’ve prioritizing the document verification, but it was getting hard to turn them down…’”

Alice had told me that there would be more invitations to parties and such. I had been thinking as I read the documents that I hadn’t received any invitations at all, but apparently Laura had shut them out.

I was bored with the paperwork, which was fine, but I wish she had told me a day before.

“…What’s a hunting festival anyway?”

It’s not that it didn’t happen when I lived in town. The hunters from the town would come into the forest and kill animals and come back. It was customary to compete on the weight of the prey they hunted at that time.

“Why not some other kind of event?”

I was a citizen, so I had never hunted before.

“If you don’t like it, we can change it to a tea party for princesses and noble ladies.”

I imagined myself at a tea party full of women, holding a teacup.

“No, the hunting festival is fine.”

“I’ve put together the profiles of the participants here, so please take a moment to read through them before you leave.”

I flipped through the stack of papers that Laura had given me. It was quite thick, but on each sheet, there was a description of the participant’s country of origin, friendships, hobbies and specialties.

It was written in beautiful letters. I’m sure it was Laura who wrote it, since I see her writing every day.

It must have taken a lot of work to prepare the profiles of the participants so that I would not be embarrassed.

“Thank you.”

I tried to express my gratitude.

“It’s my job. Don’t worry about it.”

But she was still as unsociable as ever.

“This is the Hero, Elt. Thank you for accepting my invitation to the Hunting Festival among the many other events. I hope you enjoy it, since I’ve gathered a group of people close to your age today.”

He greeted me in an exaggerated manner. I remembered the profile of the man in front of me.

He is the second prince of the Galaseya Kingdom and his name is Dogeu.

The kingdom is of moderate size, but it has a strong diplomatic policy of neglecting its people. He seems to have a bad habit with women, and there are always rumors about him.

I greeted him politely, but he looked at me with a somewhat condescending gaze, and the people behind him smirked at me.

As I watched, Laura poked me in the back. Apparently, she was also going along on the hunt, and unlike usual, she had her hair pulled back into a ponytail, making it look way easier to move around in.

“Thank you for inviting me to this hunting festival.”

“”

Ignoring the smile on her face, I put my hand on my face and leaned my upper body forward a little as I learned from Laura, and gave a noble greeting.

When I gave a polite greeting, Dogeu said,

“I couldn’t sleep last night, thinking that I would be able to see the prowess of the famous Hero.”

Basically, royalty does not bow down to others. In terms of status, it was explained to me that I would be higher than him, as I was supposed to receive the title of the Saint, but Dogeu did not return my greeting, perhaps because he had not received it yet

.In the background, Laura was annoyed. It seems that she was annoyed by Dogeu’s lack of courtesy.

“The bow, by the way, may be a commercial product?”

“Yes, it is, but what is it?”

It was only a few minutes ago that I was informed about the hunting festival. Even this bow was hastily lent to me by the Erivan Kingdom.

“You are a hero, aren’t you? And you’re bringing a commercial weapon to hunt with?

”No, no, I just got the message and I didn’t have the time to choose a weapon.”

“You’ve already defeated the Evil God, so I’m sure you don’t have to choose one.”

The cronies behind him laughed in unison at his mockery.

“”

I can see it clearly now. It seems they want to humiliate me and embarrass me.

There are people like this everywhere. I guess they wanted to get involved with me, especially since I stood out for my achievements in defeating the evil gods.

“Isn’t it rude of you to suddenly announce your plans a night before!”

I heard an angry voice from Laura. It seems that the reason why she didn’t tell me the day before was because we were forced to participate.

“Then again, it’s the kind of bow a common soldier would use. Look at mine.”

Dogeu said, showing his bow.

“This is a bow made by a master craftsman and is called the Sylphid. When I release the arrow the wind spirits assist me in thrusting it into the target. It’s a weapon worthy of me, don’t you think?”

I looked at it and sure enough, wind spirits were flying around the weapon. They seem to be reacting to the jewels scattered on the bow.

“It’s not all about the weapon. No matter how good your weapon is, if you’re not a good hunter, you won’t be able to kill your prey, right?”

“Wh, what did you say!?”

Laura was indignant and threw it away. Dogeu was furious.

“Hmph! You think you can hunt better than me with a store-bought bow? Then let’s make a bet.”

“”

“A bet is it?”

I don’t want to take it if I could. I frowned.

“If hero-dono loses…. How about having the Ilkut Princess stay with us for the night?”

In this case ‘a night’s company’ would be a nobleman’s secret phrase. Dogeu stretches his nose and looks at Laura.

I’m not going to accept this kind of match.

“That’s fine.”

Laura replied first.