Chapter 92: Rocking carriage

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The time to say goodbye was approaching soon.

It was finally time to leave this village and head for the imperial capital, Lulu Sanjion, since the purpose of this trip was to return the Staff of La Messeine to the Empress.

The village chief kindly agreed to keep my ship at the port of the village. I was really grateful for that, since I knew that from here on it would be an overland journey, and if it weren’t for the offer, I would then have to sell the ship somewhere, or in the worst-case scenario, sink it.

Since the Iwaos are slow-moving, and the Cimas can’t travel on land, I’m going to leave them here with the ship. After doing maintenance on each of them, I then put them to sleep mode, until the time they will be awoken for their next assignment again.

“Okami-saaan! We’ve finished attaching the carriage!” Miina informed us that she has completed tying the carriage we’ve purchased to Silvers.

It’s a large four-wheeled farm wagon, so there’s plenty of room for the four of us and our stuff. It also has a cover, so it seems we would be able to withstand slightly bad weather. Silver has several times more horsepower than an ordinary horse, and he is powered by magic, so he never gets tired. With two Silvers pulling the carriage, we should have no problem of traveling long distance.

“Please forgive us for only able to provide you with such meager carriage.”

“Please raise your head, Pell-san. Such carriage is wonderful enough for us.”

“But, it’s such a shabby carriage unbefitting for the holy saint to ride in…”

It’s actually alright, you know. Since I’m already planning to do a magical makeover using my creation magic once I left the village!　

There are many things to consider: air conditioning and heating, high airtightness and robustness, and the ultimate suspension for quietness and stability. Also, we’ll need to replace the wheels with rubber tires, and I’ll want a comfortable bed, too.

Also, having a little space for cooking would be useful too, and I’d want to install a shower room since it’s cold outside. And then a tarp could be attached to the side of the carriage so that it can be put up at any time… Wait a minute, isn’t this becoming a camper van?

I guess it would be, but I think that’s the kind of improvement that I want to have.

Suddenly, it’s looks like fun. I’m looking forward to doing the makeover!

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On the day of departure, all of the villagers were there to see us off.

“Saint-samaa, please come agaain———!” Anne, who had recovered completely, was waving her little hand with all her might.

Please eat a lot and grow healthy, okay.

“Saint-sama, please be careful out there.” Recoa-san, the temple head, also called out to me.

“Please don’t call me that, temple head-sama. I’m not a saint. Please just call me Shirou like you used to.”

I don’t know why, but before I know it, even Recoa-san started calling me as saint-sama. Don’t tell me, this is also the effect of the cosplay?

“No. I have witnessed myself many miracles from you. I know for sure that any doctor’s medicine would be incomparable to the effectiveness of yours.”

In this world, the development of medicine seems to be very slow because of healing magic. There are doctors, but they seem to provide only unreliable treatments. The problem is, there were so few people who could actually uses healing magic.

“I leave the medicine in the first-aid kit to be managed by you, temple head-sama. Please make sure to observe the dosage and administration.”

 I left the first-aid kit with Recoa-san, which looks just like a Japanese medicine cabinet. Inside of it were the medicines and bandages that I had been diligently making over the past three weeks. I’m sure the diligently working temple head would not use them for personal gain, only for the benefit for the villagers.

The villagers then followed us seemingly forever, until we finally stopped at the bridge that serves as the boundary of the land. It was the first time anyone had accompany me for 8 km just for seeing me off, and I was really moved by it. If only my butt wasn’t in pain because of all the rocking and bouncing of the carriage.

The carriage was not equipped with springs, and the road was not well maintained, so the rocking hits my buttocks directly. I forced myself to composedly sit down and maintain my smile because I couldn’t afford to look bad while they were seeing me off.

Really, I didn’t want to ruin everyone’s image of me as a saint, you know?

…

“Cecily, please tell me, is the villagers still looking at us now?”

 “Yes they are. Why?”

“I can’t take it anymore. It’s my butt…”

“Y-your butt?”

I already used a thick material as a cushion, but it still hurts. I have no idea how the girls are still able to sit calmly with all the rocking and bumping. I guess the buttocks of modern Japanese people are just too fragile.

“Shirou-san, it’s alright now. The villagers are already out of sight.

The moment Rouge, who was sitting in the last row, told me, I dived onto the mat that had been laid out.

“It really hurtss… Nobody look this way, okay?”

I took off my lower body clothes and checked my buttocks in the mirror that Goku passed to me. My skin was already pale, but my buttocks, which usually did not get much sun, were even whiter and looked redder because of it.

“Uwaah.. this looks just like the buttocks of a monkey…”

“It sure is. It looks painful…”

“It is… wait a minute, Rouge, why are you blatantly look this way!”

I was on all fours, which means she was able to some my important parts, wasn’t she!?

“Aah! That’s not fair! I won’t allow you to jump out of turn, Rouge-san!”

“Unforgivable! §ΛΖΛΦΓΔΧ¶ΣΓΔζ”

“Uwaah! Cecily you idiot! Don’t use Explosion Magic inside of the carriage!”

Just like that, the moment the villagers weren’t with us we started doing idiotic things. Well, we were all nervous since we constantly behaved ourselves and tried to do our utmost best to act refined, so it would be befitting as the saint and his followers.

Now that the girls are finally able to leave the village and no longer have to keep up the façade, such commotion is just their way of letting off some anxiousness and stress.

“There’s no other choice… Cecily, please help.” I handed Cecily one of the wound medicines that I’ve created.

“W-what is it?”

‘I’m sorry, but could you put this on my butt? I’m sorry for asking something weird…” When I half-assed ask Cecily so, she froze up again.

And Rouge used that moment of hesitation to snatch up the wound medicine from her hand. “If you’re not doing it, Big-sis, then let me do it. Alrighty then, Shirou-san, please lay on your back.”

Hey now, it’s my buttock that I want you to apply the medicine with. Ergo, I should be lying on my stomach instead, you know?

“That’s not fair! I want to apply the lotion too, Rouge-san!”

It’s not a lotion, Miina, it’s a wound medicine… I don’t know why but I think Miina somehow knows about kinky plays. Oh wait, I think I’m the reason why she knows such things… [1]

“Don’t make a fuss in the carriage anymore, the carriage is rocking too much! Stop fighting and just apply it in turns!”

I’m aware that what I’m saying is stupid, but I had no choice since this is for the sake of ending a pointless conflict.

What’s that? I should just let Goku do it, you say? Nay! I’d rather have a pretty woman do it for me!

…

After that, there was a bit of a dispute over who gets to apply to which part on my body, but in the end the noisy treatment was finally over. Anyway, my butt keeps getting hurts easily, I don’t think we could travel properly so I’m already started working on the underside of the carriage.

Right now, it only has wooden wheels wrapped with thin iron plates. I think I could reduce a lot of shaking just by changing it into rubber tires.

“I don’t think I could travel more for the day, so can we just camp here? I want to make slight change to the carriage in the meantime.”

“We’ll follow what you want, Shirou.”

Everyone had agreed, so I used my Creation Magic to change the carriage that was originally made for transporting goods, into something which has suspension and rubber tires. It will take 22 hours to make, so it will be completed tomorrow morning, but it’s something that needs to be done.

From now on, let’s use the day for traveling and the night for remodeling the carriage.

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It was still early in the afternoon, but we decided to make a leisurely camp next to the road today. We sat around the campfire and talked over coffee and roasted marshmallows.

“Oh, that reminds me. Cecily, could you teach me how to use a sword?”

“What’s the matter, all of a sudden?”    

“I get you, Shirou, you must’ve wanted some self-defense technique to repel women who would approach you in a disgusting manner, right?”

Rouge, I don’t think you’re in the position to say that, since you’re the one who always made remarks which easily fall into sexual harassment…

“It’s nothing like that, I just thought that it might turn useful in an emergency…”

When I equip Eminence Rock, I become able to unleash a weapon called Light Blade.

Since Eminence Rock multiply my ability by several folds, I’m sure that any improvement in my base ability would be significantly boosted when I’m wearing the armor. Until now, it was fine because I’ve been living on an isolated island faraway in the ocean, but from now on I’ll be going into a big capital city full of people, so even if it’s just a little, I want to be more prepared.

And also, time to time, the image of Cecily’s broken form with limbs torn off keeps springing on my mind, and I don’t want it to happen ever again.

“Alright. I’ll teach you a thing or two about swords. First, let’s start with how to hold it.”

Now that I think about it, I never had a clue about how to handle a weapon. And so after lunch, I started the sword training session with Cecily-sensei.

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1 I think Miina and Shirou were having plenty of play-scenarios during that one night stand on the Western Island.