An Old Country Bumpkin Works Up a Sweat

“Hey, everyone. Hard at work?”

“Sensei. Good morning.”

“Morning.”

The day after Lucy and Fissel came to visit...

I showed up at the Knights’ headquarters training ground as usual. Allucia noticed me and returned my greeting.

Whatever came of things at the Mage Academy, my usual duties wouldn’t change. So, as always, I spent my days training the knights.

And training myself, too. At my age, if I spend my time eating and sleeping, it shows on my body right away. I’m already an unremarkable old man, so I’d like to at least take the bare minimum of care with my appearance.

“Sensei, what happened to your sword?”

Allucia asked curiously when she saw me.

Hmm, it felt like every time I ran into someone I knew, they asked about my sword. Was that red sword really so conspicuous on an old man like me...