The Abandoned White Magician’s Tea Life - Chapter 17 : Their Circumstances (1)

Translator: Sunnyshies

Editor: Ryuubii

Chapter 17 : Their Circumstances (1)

At first, Amalia invited Leonardo to their house.

Amalia thought that Yugo would wait in the other room since the whole conversation was going to get messy. But Yugo said, “I won’t get in the way, so I want to stay with you.” So with her head aching, Yugo joined them in the room.

There was still some tea left from what she had brewed before lunch, so she served it to Leonardo. Leonardo took off his cloak and was still wearing his leather armor. His waist and chest were much stronger than when he was a child. Perhaps it was his physical condition, but he looked slender compared to the other young men in Polk. His body was strong and he carried a sword around his waist. He must have mastered the art of swordsmanship while Amalia was away.

Leonardo was fidgety at first, but when he drank the cold tea Amalia served him, he lowered his eyebrows and giggled.

“…it’s delicious. I remember when I was a child and Amalia-sama would make me a cup of tea.”

“…that’s true. When Leonardo was a child, he couldn’t drink without honey, but can you handle the bitter taste now?”

“Yeah, I’m all grown up now.”

As they enjoyed laughing with each other, she felt the tension that had been building up loosening a bit. She was grateful that Yugo was also playing quietly with a stack of wooden toys in the corner of the room, as he had promised earlier.

“So―how to say it. I got into a lot of trouble, I guess.”

“Yeah, well… Amalia-sama. First of all, I would like to ask you―”

Saying that, Leonardo glanced at Yugo and then cleared his throat.

“…five years ago, I received a notice from the Guild to the monastery canceling your registration. Could you please tell me about it?”

Amalia sipped her tea and made a wry face, wondering if that was the best place to start.

‘…well, I don’t blame you. Leonardo has every right to be concerned about this, and whichever story we’re going to tell from now on, it’s going to involve this―’

“…Ten years ago, I think. I was invited to leave the monastery by Alphonse and the other adventurers from the guild. Do you remember that?”

“Of course! The look on your face when you announced that you were going to follow them is what made me decide to become a mercenary for the guild in the future!”

She could not help but feel somewhat embarrassed when he spoke with such passion.

When he was in the orphanage, Leonardo had a pretty face that could have been mistaken for a girl. However, after ten years, he has become a man, and yet he still retains a neutral beauty, which is very bad. If he smiled gently with this face, he would probably steal the first love of many girls.

“I was only with them for about a year, after all. Do you know anything about that?”

“…yes. But I didn’t find out about it until after I became a mercenary and met those guys.”

“What, you’ve met Alphonse and the others?”

When she asked him back, Leonardo nodded. But his expression was grim, and he noticed that Amalia looked extremely uncomfortable the moment she mentioned “Alphonse”.

“…it was the fall of five years ago when I received your registration cancellation notice. At that time, I was working at the orphanage and training my body, but I decided to become a mercenary. While I believed in your survival, I was also working as a mercenary by myself―I think it was about a year after I started working.”

According to what Leonardo told her with a very disgusted look on his face.

Since he started working with the guild, Leonardo, who did not believe Amalia was dead, had been vigorously gathering information about Alphonse and the others. He had planned to confront Amalia about it when he found her.

Then, at a guild branch in a medium-sized city, he heard a rumor about Alphonse. Apparently, Alphonse, who had made a name for himself as the “leader of the group that defeated the golden dragon,” had retired from the guild and married Esmeralda.

“…wow, I kind of had a feeling about that, although… They were married? Those two.”

“Yes. Alphonse is an adventurer who has no identity, but because he once saved Princess Esmeralda and defeated the golden dragon with her, the king reluctantly approved their marriage.”

Although Esmeralda, the princess of the neighboring country to the west, Kyros, does not have the right to the throne, she and her husband seem to be living a wealthy life, and Leonardo decides to go to Kyros.

…when Amalia heard the story, she had a bad feeling and raised her eyebrows.

“Did you go to Kyros? But I don’t think Alphonse will allow a meeting with you.”

“I went in prepared to be rejected. But when I mentioned Amalia-sama’s name and proved that I had been raised by you, the meeting was approved much more easily than I expected.”

Since the princess and her husband were meeting with a young man who was a mercenary, security was naturally tightened. But Leonardo was able to talk to Alphonse without being tied up or held down.

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