Chapter 14 - Family gathering
After picked Anna up, I returned home.
She smirked as I told Anna that I decided to live in a residential area after a short visit to a vacant house in the noble district and the residential area.
"Fufu. It's typical of Papa, right."
Is that so?
"I also prefer living in a residential area. I feel like I'm suffocating in the noble district. I don't want to further get involved with troublesome peoples outside the workplace."
"Where did Anna live before?"
"I was renting an apartment beside the Adventurer's Guild, but after I decided to live with Papa, I quickly check out."
"My bad. You're getting a little further to go to work."
"No. Don't worry. And papa will pick me up every day. It's a night road, but I'm not scared at all."
"Eh? Pick up? Me?"
"Fufu. just a joke. I'm not Meryl."
Anna smiled mischievously.
She became much more mature than before she left the village.
When we returned home, Elsa and Meryl greeted us.
Family full gathering.
It was the first time in four years.
"Papa. Me-chan hungry!"
"Dinner will ready right away."
I set up dinner in the new kitchen.
"Chichiue, can I help you?"
"Don't worry, Elsa. You must be tired from work. Just take a good rest. I'll make your favorite rabbit meat stew."
"R, rabbit meat stew...!"
"Nee. Papa. You have a pie, right?"
"Yeah, of course."
Rabbit meat stew. Meat Pie.
Whitefish Meuniere in oatmeal.
And a vegetable salad from the village.
All the girls' favorite foods lined up on the table.
"Yosh. I'm done."
"looks so delicious...!"
"Because of live alone, my meal is so simple. It's been a while since I've eaten such a proper dish."
"Waa. Papa's home cooking!"
My daughters seem to be happy.
""Itadakimasu""
We put our hands together and started eating dinner.
“As I thought, Chichiue's rabbit meat stew is the best...! After I eat this, I will not be satisfied with other dishes.”
"After I'm finished work, I have tasty food prepared by Papa at home... I think I'll be a useless person."
"Because I'm a useless person originally, I'm safe?"
What a lively dining table.
After the girls left the village, they usually had to eat alone. After all, it was more enjoyable to eat with a large number of people.
I realized that again.
At the end of the dinner, Elsa cut out.
"What will chichiue do from tomorrow?"
"Oh right... I'm looking for a job for now."
"Eeh~, Papa, you will work?! You don't have to work though, you can just live with Elsa and Anna's money?"
"Meryl. Why you are not included."
"Because I'm not working?"
I floated a wry smile
"I'll work. I can't let my daughter feed me. There's no illness, so I'll try to find a place to work."
A man in his thirties who had no career history in the royal capital had limited jobs to choose from beginning.
Was it scrap metal picking or physical labor?
Either way, I would do anything to feed my daughters.
I was willing to sip mud.
As a father, I was ready for it.
"Umm, Chichiue. It's about it."
"Nn? What's wrong, Elsa?"
"There's a request from all the Knights that they want to Chichiue give sword practice. They want you to be an instructor of the Knights."
"Eh? About it, why it singled out to me?"
"Isn't it obvious, because Papa is a great swordsman."
Anna answered my question.
"Elsa has repeatedly told about Chichiue has taught me all his swords, and I still I can't land a hit on Chichiue. In other words, Chichiue is the true Sword Saint. The members of knight want you to give them guidance as well."
"Haha"
Was Elsa talking about me like that?
She was an S-rank adventurer and the youngest to reach the knight commander position. She was a swordsman who was called Sword Saint from the surroundings.
Probably I had been acclaimed because I taught Elsa such a sword. Including a story that she could not land even a hit on me.
"But I want Papa to help me with my work, too."
"Help you... in the guild?"
"Yes. As an adventurer. Right now, We have a lot of requests, but there was no one who can do high-ranking missions due to lack of manpower. Also, Papa is an A-ranked adventurer. So it will be helpful if you can handle those requests."
"Even if you say that... I have a blank of eighteen years, you know?"
"I don't mind. Wasn't you overwhelming a B-rank adventurer in the adventurer's guild just before? Papa still can be active."
"Don't say something absurd."
"I've seen a lot of adventurers since I became a guild master, but I've never seen anyone who is more proficient than Papa."
Anna put her hands together and then winked.
"Nee~, please!"
"...Okay, as long as I can help."
"Fufu. Thank you."
"Eeh--. No. It's no good. Papa has supposed to do street performances with me. We'll start the Meryl troupe and earn more money!"
"Eeh~?!"
"Meryl. Before that, you should go to the academy properly. If you skip too much, you will be discharged from there."
"Hehehehehe. Me-chan is, a scholarship student. And full of magical inventions. I can't be discharged from there."
Meryl said, holding on to my arm.
"So Papa, let's do it together?"
"Ha ha……"
I smiled a bitter smile to Meryl.
The first day I came to the capital.
I thought it would be extremely difficult to find a job, but my daughters and the people of the royal capital had asked me and I would become busy from tomorrow.
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