Until I, A Fallen Nobleman, Was Called the Great Sage With My Hazure Skill “Super Jack-of-All-Trades

“–Won’t you come to the capital?”

His Majesty’s words quieted the place down, and all eyes focused on me. The teachers smiled and nodded, and his majesty never lost his smiling face.

Dad and Mom is–

“…… Lars, I will respect your wishes. I will miss you, but this is a great honor, you know.”

“I’m …… proud that you’ve been recognized by his majesty. I think it’s great that you work for his majesty in the capital despite your failure skill of [Jack-of-all-Trades]. I’ll miss you, though.”

Dad and Mom seemed to be in the affirmative. But the fact that they both said they’ll miss me is so honest that it makes me laugh. But I had already made up my mind when His Majesty told me.

“–I …… will not go to the Capital. I’m sorry.”

“…… Mmm, can you tell me why?”

I nodded at his majesty’s words and began to speak.

“I am still quite inexperienced. I did what I did for the best of reasons, but it ended up worrying my parents and other people. It’s great to have power. But I realized that it can be a terrible thing if you use it in the wrong way. If I had made one wrong move, Ryuuze, Brao, the prince, and the king might have died. With me like that, I don’t think I’m ready to go to the Capital.”

I think I was drowning in the fact that [Super Jack-of-all-Trades] is a tremendous skill this time around.

In the end, it is not clear what would have happened to His Majesty and his family if the unplanned Tigre-sensei, the headmaster, and Hauzen-san had not come. That was also thanks to what Ryuuze told Tigre-sensei, and I feel like all I did was get the evidence and scratch around.

The only thing I was able to do was to defeat Retzel. The impact of that thing was so great that I was scouted. If I think back, with me alone …… I can hardly do anything.

Why did I end up like this even though I have the power? I’m sure it has something to do with my previous life. I was a man who had no friends, who carried himself alone and did things in silence.

My younger brother can do it without depending on others. Why can’t I do the same? I guess it’s because I’ve been told by my parents that I can’t rely on others, which is a very natural way of communication.

So–

“This is not an achievement. Rather, it was a failure ……. That’s why for now, I want to spend my time studying, competing, and sometimes worrying with everyone at the school.”

When I said this clearly, his majesty, who had been listening with his eyes closed, groaned again, opened his eyes, and then stared at me. Eventually, he exhaled a sigh, shrugged his shoulders, and said 

“Phew …… Are you really ten years old? If you’re a child, you’re going to be lured to the royal capital. If you’re a child, I would have thought that you would have said yes if I invited you to go to the Capital. But that heart, I completely received it …… But you said “for now”?”

“Yes. When I graduate from the academy at the age of fifteen, if I can be of any use to his majesty, I will gladly go!”

“That’s all I need to hear. Well, Orden is there too, so you are welcome to come and play.”

“Even though you say that, please don’t surround me as it is, okay, his majesty?”

“Libre, you really have always been a man of many words ……”

“I’m just giving you a friendly warning.”

“!? This Headmaster is friend’s with his majesty?”

“Fufufu. His Majesty is a bad guy, though ……”

“S-Stop it, you idiot!?”

I didn’t think that the headmaster and his majesty were friends of the same generation but it seems that his majesty was a bit of a naughty boy. It seems like the headmaster was having a hard time being a stopper, I guess?

“Then I hope you raise him well, Mr. and Mrs. Irving.”

“Oh, definitely.”

“Leave it to us! We’ll just watch over him, scold him and praise him, though.”

Satisfied with my dad’s and mom’s words, his majesty stroked his beard and spoke, dispelling the tense atmosphere.

“I can’t believe that the [Jack-of-all-Trades] that’s said to be a failure is able to display such strength. Libre, how could this be a failure?”

“It says here that “Jack-of-all-Trades” is “the ability to do anything, but only as a degraded version of other skills”. Maybe Lars-kun’s is(the skill) something special or there is another secret to it. A hundred years ago, it was said that some royal family received it.”

“That’s right. I’ve heard that the man could not become anything and was banished from the country. It’s mean that it’s still in the literature, but should we assume that he couldn’t use it well?”

“It was a time when they didn’t want any failure from the royal family, after all. I think it is possible that he dared to spread the word in order to keep the man out of his life.”

A Royalty …… I see, the priest said that it was a rare skill that could only be given once in a hundred years, so I thought it was rare and that’s why it was passed down to everyone. But if the royal family has been talking about it, there are probably more people who believe that it is “useless”.

If so, can’t you give his majesty my opinion that I’ve been using for the last ten years and get rid of it?

“I’m sorry to interrupt you from the side. As the person in question …… I think this skill is “Difficult to handle”.”

“Please continue.”

“Thank you very much. I think that it takes a lot of effort to learn something. At first, I was almost as good as my brother and Nora at magic, and sometimes I even lost. However, by doing the same thing over and over again, I got better and better. In my opinion, [Jack-of-all-Trades] is a skill that grows slowly instead of being able to do everything. There is a saying, “…… poor, no time to spare,” and I think the name “poor” in Jack-of-all-Trades may be a way of saying that you should work so hard that you won’t have a spare time.”

(T/N: [Binbou] for poor, [Kiyoubinbou] for Jack-of-all-Trades. You can see the “poor” word in Jack-of-all-Trades if it’s written in japanese word.)

Maybe, that’s what I meant by Jack-of-all-Trades when I said that.

This is something I’ve been thinking about since I came to this world, but I thought that the reason why I can do everything but can’t be the best is because it’s telling me to “find what I want to do out of it”.

I can do a lot of things and find out what I want to do from those things …… Maybe that’s really how Jack-of-all-Trades is used?

“That’s an interesting thought. If that’s the case, then the royals who banished him were blind.”

“No, not exactly. It really takes a lot of effort, and if you break down because you think you can’t do it, that’s the end of it. That’s why I’m hoping that for his sake as an outcast …… that he would hone this skills and pass on to future generations that it’s not a failure.”

I laughed after saying that, and everyone in the room nodded and applauded. As it was, the meeting was over, his majesty went to the castle, Verna-sensei was taken to the staff room by Tigre-sensei and by the headmaster, and Dad and Mom also went home.

…… I vowed to do my best so that there would be no disadvantage to those who would one day receive the [Jack-of-all-Trades], and went to class.

Lars had a lot to think about, huh. This is an example of how even at the age of 27, there can be problems with biased thinking and living.

Thanks again for reading!

[Afterword Theater]

“Hurry up, next!”

You should work and don’t slack off, okay!?

“Ehhhhh, there’s no more work for me to appear in.”

It’s no good …… I have to do something about this guy ……