Tales from My Adventurer Days
"Sophia."
"Yes, Your Highness."
While spending the reading time as usual, Kyle spoke to me.
During the reading time, I had been quietly reading books, but what was the matter?
"Could you tell me about the stories from when you were an adventurer?"
"When I was an adventurer, you say?"
"Yes."
Adventurer, huh...
Although it was a short two years, it was a time that greatly influenced me.
Since Kyle was a young man, he might be interested in the profession of adventurer.
It's not really a good job, though.
"Your Highness, are you thinking of becoming an adventurer?"
"No!"
That would be fortunate.
Anyway, about the stories from my adventurer days.
It's not a fairy-tale-like bright and hopeful story, but I should tell you some stories to satisfy your request, Your Highness.
Hiding the dark parts as much as possible.
What kind of story would be good?
I pondered for a moment.
"I once stayed briefly in the southern region of Suffolk. Given that it was truly a granary area, I saw only extremely vast fields."
If the northern Eristirol was covered in snow, then the region of Suffolk must be one consisting only of fields.
Even if I went there now, the difference wouldn't be that great.
"And when I was in Suffolk, it was autumn. Since it was autumn, there were many farmers trying to harvest the crops they had been growing for the year."
Unfortunately, when I arrived in that region while wandering around, it happened to be the harvest season.
Thanks to that, I suffered greatly.
"It was also the time just before winter, so the monsters were searching for food."
Kyle was listening to my story intently.
It wasn't particularly interesting, but since he was listening with wide eyes and enthusiasm, I was grateful.
"To prepare for attacks by such monsters, the lord of Suffolk had long employed adventurers."
He even went directly to the adventurer guild to request adventurers.
"I accepted the request and was hired by the lord for about three weeks. And the next day, the adventurers I was with, including myself, had no choice but to be surprised."
There were about a hundred adventurers besides me, and seeing the scene, everyone had no choice but to be surprised.
Perhaps one of them even wet themselves.
The female mage next to me didn't wet herself, though.
"From the first day, what came out were locusts. Of course, they weren't ordinary locusts; they were scythe locusts. Your Highness, do you know about scythe locusts?"
"Yes...?"
"You don't?"
Of course not.
They don't inhabit this area, and they're completely unrelated monsters.
It's unreasonable for monsters living in the granary area to live in the north.
"Scythe locusts... are not ordinary insects. Their bodies are almost a meter long, and their arms have scythe-like shapes like those used by farmers."
"Really?"
I wanted to say why would I lie to you, but I didn't.
If I had said that to Your Highness, he would have said 'J... I'm sorry...!' again.
"Yes, people who were hit by their arms still have scars on their backs."
I wonder if that guy is doing well?
During my adventurer days, I had a girlfriend next to me.
...
Thinking about that, I hope he isn't doing well.
Some people can't even make girlfriends, but thinking that they might still be dating from that time made my heart race.
Internally, I was a bit angry, but I didn't show that to Your Highness.
"Really, hundreds or thousands of them flew towards our fields. From that time on, all adventurers, knights, and mages gathered and began to deal with those pests. In the sky, there were wind magic, lightning magic shot by mages, and bows and guns shot by archers. And people like me, facing the scorching sun, blocked the falling ones with swords and shields to harvest the grains."
It seemed like it would all end with fire magic, but the lord had blocked it because it could harm the fields.
Thanks to that, I had to kill the bugs one by one, the size of a person's lower body.
Meanwhile, because of that guy who was clinging to his girlfriend next to me, I almost went crazy.
Perhaps that was the most cursing during my adventurer days...
No, that's a separate thing.
"Um... Now that I've said it, it doesn't seem like a very interesting story... Would you like to hear more?"
While telling old stories to Kyle, I thought that I have no talent for speaking.
I haven't given tips to storytellers I see on the streets from time to time... A bit sorry.
Telling stories is harder than I thought.
Really.
"Yes!"
However, perhaps because it was more interesting than reading, Kyle wanted to hear more of the uninteresting stories.
Even though I thought it wasn't very interesting, seeing him want to hear it made me grateful.
"Then, next, I'll tell you about the time I was trapped with my party members in a dungeon. It was a party with a slightly strange gender ratio: one man and four women, but we lived without any problems for about two months, completing the requests."
Even up to those two months, I thought it was a perfectly ordinary party.
There was an elf with a pretty appearance, a female mage, and a crazy noble girl who thought she was a princess, and spending time with her was fun.
In particular, that noble girl who had caught the princess disease was quite amusing.
I really showed her the kind of noble I had only seen in novels.
'Hoot hoot hoot!! Commoner!!'
'Commoner! Bring me water quickly!'
Every time she called us commoners, her last one made my head hurt a bit.
Until she was trapped, there were pretty female party members, so I was enjoying myself while admiring their appearances.
It was a bit disappointing that one party member was a plain male knight with black hair and black eyes, but it didn't pose a problem for appreciating the other party members' appearances.
"However, while exploring the dungeon, suddenly the entrance closed, and we had to endure inside for about a week until the guild came to look for us. And I witnessed a shocking incident inside."
"What was it?"
This world was somewhat modern in some parts and medieval in others.
The evidence was polygamy.
But it wasn't very common.
Polygamy was one of the privileges of nobles with a lot of money or extremely handsome men.
Even that, money was more important.
In reality, ordinary people mostly lived with their village childhood friends, got married after realizing their feelings as adults, and had beautiful love stories.
It was the same in the village I lived in.
I heard that even Evan, who broke my arm, had been dating a man from the village when I last went there.
In conclusion, I had never seen a harem except for nobles.
"On the first day, there were no problems. We just cleaned up the surroundings, made beds, and all went to sleep together. However... from the next day, suddenly the party members excluding me started getting closer a bit at a time."
Since we were living together in a not very spacious place, I thought so.
On the first day, the man and the elf got close.
The next day, the mage, and the day after, the noble.
"On the fourth night, when I woke up from sleep, I heard strange sounds from beside me. So I turned around..."
"....."
"Yes, it's the kind of story you can roughly guess. As soon as I saw it, I packed my things and left the party."
Those crazy guys weren't thinking about escaping and were just having fun.
Why did their closeness increase day by day, and that was the reason.
"Although I didn't receive any money, seeing that, I couldn't stay in the party anymore, so I immediately left the dungeon below and went alone to find the dungeon's exit."
If I had continued to be in that party, what would have happened...
I didn't want to imagine it too much.
"....."
"Your Highness? Are you alright?"
Kyle suddenly flushed and closed his mouth.
Why is this happening...
"Ah, telling you such stories... I'm sorry."
Because I listened to my stories too well, I might have crossed a line a bit.
Although I'm just a tutor, he's the prince of a grand duchy.
He's in a very high position, and Kyle is sitting in a place where he wouldn't hear such stories.
Telling stories about adventurers having fun, it was my mistake.
"N... No... It's fine... For now, shall we end it here for today, Sophia?"
"Yes, as Your Highness wishes."
"..Yes."
Kyle and I moved from the library to Kyle's room.
Since Kyle had said he wanted to rest for a while in the room, I had tried to follow Kyle into the room as usual.
"N... No! Today I just wanted to take a nap alone... Um, how about you, Sophia, resting outside for a bit?"
There was no big difference between resting outside in Kyle's room or inside, but he said to rest outside.
Um...
Is this what it feels like to see a child wanting to use separate rooms from parents?
Usually, during nap time or rest time, I was the one guarding, and until Kyle fell asleep at night, I quietly waited beside the bed for him to wake up.
Up until now, it had been like that, but Kyle was also of age, so it would be good for him to sleep alone.
"Yes. Understood. I'll come wake you up in about two hours."
"Yes..."
After seeing Kyle lie on the bed, I immediately left Kyle's bedroom and decided to walk around the mansion.
Thinking about it, it might be good to have Kyle exercise.
A noble like that with such a handsome face, not exercising and only eating, causing belly fat to stick out, I couldn't just leave him like that.