Kingdom of Ringle.

A place where commerce is thriving and vibrant and under threat from the Demon King's Army.

And the country where my master, Mr. Usato, belongs, has a lifeguard.

I was put in a merchant's carriage, and when I came, I took a doggy but firm stride into the land I visited for the first time, diving through the gates of the kingdom of Ringle.

"Thank you for taking me so far"

"It doesn't matter. It's been a long time since I've had any fun with you two."

I give thanks to the merchant for bringing me here from Lukvis, and I step into the city of the kingdom of Lingle with a tight heart.

"Finally, you're here..."

It didn't take long to get here.

I quit school by handing the school discharge report directly to the dean of Gladys School, sending out a thank you and marginal letter to my parents, who are a single family, for raising me so far, and discussing it only a little with the last Meena I called in.

What was surprising was that the director of Gladys School just knew that he had received my drop-out report. And she apologized to me for not being able to do anything.

All of a sudden I was surprised that he apologized, but he was the head of the school who accepted me, and I know very well the power of the aristocracy, so I pardoned the school director, even though I was in many ways. I wish that was over, but then I was sorry, the school director arranged for the merchant with the kingdom of Ringle to carry me with him.

Before I was thinking about looking for it myself, it was a pretty happy story.

And a discussion with Meena.

This... I don't think it meant anything to me. We ended up fighting goodbye...... we wouldn't even have a fight goodbye because we weren't close.

Speaking of the only remainder of my heart, I guess I just wanted to be with Mr. Kyou and the others a little longer.

They were the first people I came to this country to discuss for real, so when I left Lukvis, I cried with no shame or outrage.

"Ooh..."

There was a vibrant city sight in sight, and unlike countries like Lucvis, where the proportion of children was high, the number of adults was higher.

A smug, free place: nobility and civilians, different from their homeland. I feel the air of the kingdom of Ringle on my skin, and I breathe deeply to contain my uplifting feelings immediately.

... shouldn't, I didn't come here to enjoy the view.

I take out the letter I put in my bag and put it away, and now I remember once and for all why I came here.

"... All right"

A letter of introduction given to Mr. Usato.

The first thing to do is give this to the head of the life-saving corps. To do this, we must first know where the lifeguard is.

In the meantime, I go near a store nearby and talk to my young brother who sells fruit to tell me about the place.

"Um, excuse me"

"Hmm? What's up, kid? From what I've seen, it looks like it came from the outside..."

"I'm from my neighbor, Lukvis. May I ask you the way?"

"Ha, you don't have to be afraid of that. So, where do you want to know?"

Speaking up to the nervousness, your generous response came back from your brother.

Though I will illuminate his words, I will ask where I want to go.

"Where is the lifeguard?"

Lifeguard? Is something wrong? "

"No, that's not what..."

"Then does anyone want to be cured? Then the clinic is closer than the lifeguard?"

Apparently, I've been mistaken for a traveler who came looking for healing magic.

It's important to clearly assert your opinions at times like this...

I'm not very good at it, but let's try to squeeze some courage. I'm not like before.

"Um, me, I want to join the lifeguard, and I want to know where it is. So what happened to the lifeguard place instead of the clinic?"

The next moment I said that out loud besides my thoughts, my brother, who had a grinning smile in front of me, also stopped the movement of the people around him perfectly.

To the peripheral anomaly: "Huh? Huh?" I don't know why. When I'm confused, your brother grabs both shoulders hard. To go with that, the people around me stuffed up fast.

"Boy, you should stop"

"I'm still young. I don't want to hunt myself down without a cannon..."

"If you're looking for a place to work, I'll hire you... eh. Don't abandon yourself."

"Boy, you're a brave kid. But you don't have to go down Shura's path."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!?"

The man I was talking to now, the old man sitting silently nearby, the woman who was the store number, the knight who passed by, he gets stuffed from the people around him who asked me what I said and I can be stopped to an unusual extent.

Everyone, I know you say it out of pure kindness - - Mr. Usato!? What perceived lifeguard?!? This, that's it!? It's enough momentum to stop warriors heading to the dead place. Oh!?

"I know the boy admires the lifeguard. They are like heroes to us, the people who live in the kingdom. But they live in a different world than we do.... do it. Run with a warcraft on your back, do it. Run with a strange roar, or, at the end of the day, Master Rose, a rabbit blowing up with the fist of the lifeguard, not a child who saw the sight of you."

I have some familiar behaviors.

I almost said Mr. Usato, didn't I?

Again, even in the kingdom of Ringle, I nod as I fought against Usat, who was running with a burlin on his back.

"Um, do you mean Mr. Usato?"

"Right, you know what?... Him... Master Usat is particularly out of common sense. That was so awesome that I couldn't say it anymore. Really, he was a disastrous boy..."

Some far-eyed brother.

What the hell did that guy do? I care, but don't ask because if you ask, the common sense that barely remains in you is going to break apart even brittle.

"Who did you introduce me to? I didn't know I would recommend a lifeguard to a kid like you in a prank... I can't forgive your courage or trying to make fun of the lifeguards..."

My angry brother also saw people nodding to agree with him and I just thought once.

After all, Lifeguard is a great place.

But don't keep misleading me like this.

"Usat is the one who introduced me!! Besides, I'm a healing wizard, so the..."

I ran out of words and got stuck in words. Because I've torn myself away from being a healing wizard.

Returning both in my hometown and in Lukvis was a cold glance that I just said was disdainful and unexpected.

If I still get that gaze here - and I'm afraid and terrified of the reaction of the people in front of me, the reaction I returned was an unexpected thing for me.

"Introduction from Master Usato!? is - Oh, yeah, I'm sorry, I made a weird mistake"

"Uh... Ah, yes"

I was surprised, but that direction is completely different from that of Lucvis.

Instead of being scorned, they are not looked down upon, but rather turned towards feelings close to joy and bewildered.

Looking around, the people in the city who found out I was here with an introduction from Usato had loosened their desperate expressions until earlier.

Not that I didn't believe what Mr. Usat said about the kingdom of Ringle, but I had feelings of anxiety. What is the treatment of the population around which healing magic works?

Seeing as the people in front of me actually took it seriously, I thought this country was a kind place to embrace healing wizards like me.

"I should have seen Master Usat and knew that people didn't see it. You mean I was still trapped in common sense too..."

"No, I just didn't have enough words..."

I think you can stay trapped in common sense. I haven't been here long enough to know how unclamped the lifeguards, including Usato, are usually.

While confused by your brother's words, if you look around, all the people in the city uniformly loosened their desperate expressions until earlier and lowered their breasts to appease them.

"Don't worry if it's an introduction from Usato."

"If Master Usato admits it, he'll be fine."

"That's normal for that. No... sooner or later, like them -"

Surprisingly, misunderstandings are solved.

Usato, how much did you really do in this country...... I even feel like I'm winning some kind of trust in another direction.

"Hey, you want to go to the lifeguard?"

"!... Yeah, yeah. Yes, sir."

A voice that speaks to me without confusion about the reactions around me.

Turning to you, a woman who looked about the same age as Usat, who sparkled her eyes all intrigued, approached her right next door at some point.

She nodded at me when she answered me. She turned to her brother in front of me.

"I'm sorry. I'm sending this kid to the lifeguard."

"Hmm? Oh!! That's Olga's sister! Don't worry if you take me. [M] Good luck, kid!"

? Based on this person's reaction, what kind of relationship does the woman next door have with the lifeguard?

I'm no more than a kind person to show you around.

"Sa, let's go!"

"Yes, sir"

But now we can even get to the lifeguard.

Though I thought so, I followed the scene with a wave to those who were there.

●

"Hello! I'm Uluru, 18!! What's your name?"

As soon as she walked out, she - Mr. Uluru - had asked for her name along with an introduction.

"Oh Nah, Nak Arga...... no, I'm Nak, I'm 12!!"

Argareth, I almost said my name as a nobleman, but I'll say it back soon.

I threw away my name as a nobleman, so now I'm just a knack. Even as she became a little more vocal, introducing herself, Mr. Uluru began to gently stroke my head as she walked with a garlic and full grin.

"Hmm, Nack, you're 12. - You're great."

"Hey, hey..."

Step aside from the hand placed on your head, while completely illuminating your reaction to the child.

"Mm, I'm sorry. Kukuru stopped letting me stroke her lately, so..."

"Kukuru?"

"Yeah, Talk Over Here Talk Over Here"

Mr. Uluru waves his hand sideways to delude him.

"Usat, you introduced me to you and you came to Ringle, didn't you?"

"Yeah... were you listening?"

"Well, hey. If I'm walking through the city, I want to join the lifeguard! It's stranger not to be interested in hearing a child who feels like that."

Were you shouting that loud?

Now I get a little embarrassed and my cheeks get hot. Seeing me like that, Mr. Uluru smiled and nibbled, he goes on and talks to me.

"Usat, you must have been a funny kid, right?"

"... Yes. He was a very amazing man. And he's also my benefactor."

"Benefactor? What did he do?"

"You worked me out. I've already been told a lot about being chased around, kicked, cursed, but now I'm thankful."

"Hey, hey, my sister doesn't know how to thank me in the process..."

Shit, just the content of the training conveys like someone who does something terrible to Usat.

"That, Usat, your training policy is similar to someone else's..." murmurs Uluru, pulling.

Wow, we need to change the subject...

"Wu, what is Mr. Uluru's relationship with Mr. Usat?"

Unlike the way you call them, or the kind of names that people in the city call them, they seem to be intimate, so I ask them thoughtfully.

"Relationship? - You can count on your sister? I guess that's too much...... It's not like we're friends."

"Really..."

"Even so, it hasn't been six months since I've known you. Truth is, you've grown to look so different in no time. Sometimes the Demon King's Army attacked me, and I had to hurry and get stronger."

Demon King's Army, an army of demonic kingdoms controlled by demon kings about to invade the kingdom of Ringle. In the battle that took place before this, Mr. Usato, along with his master, the head of the Lifeguard Corps, was running the battlefield and healing many.

Mr. Usato and his lifeguards fought as a lifeguard in a place that didn't last three minutes for me, only about three days of training.

I'm about to go in there.

"Does Mr. Uluru think I deserve to be part of the life-saving corps objectively?"

I made a less anxious, pitiful question for Mr. Uluru.

Mr. Uluru, walking next door, answered the question with an irresistible grin after he had put his arms together and roared like a troublemaker.

"Hmm? I don't know."

"... is that right..."

I should be glad you didn't tell me you couldn't join the Bassari lifeguard here, huh?

"But, Usato, I think what you recommended was because you decided that you had a chance"

"Is it expected…"

"That kid knows more about the rigors of Mr. Commander's training than anyone else. With the same healing wizard as the captain, he still has the strength to survive that man's strenuous workouts. He sent you out here because he decided he had enough heart to withstand the training of the captain."

I can just stand the training...... mind.

"I still don't know you well, Nack. But, Usato, if you pushed for a lifeguard, I think you're gonna be fine. You should decide for yourself if you're worthy."

Yes, Mr. Usato is the only one who pushed me.

That guy even wrote me a letter of introduction, and I don't know what to do with it until hours. I can't go back, I'm already here.

"If you want to worry, you should worry about it now.... I guess now is the only time I can afford to worry about it"

"Huh?"

"Hey, it's time to get there, Mr. Nack!"

Hey, didn't you whine about something subtle and scary right now?

I have to be prepared for this later development in some cases!? Follow Mr. Uluru down the road to cross my nose with room for my haste.

The streets that were overflowing with buildings gradually dwindle each time you go down the road, with more green trees. Beyond it stood a path leading into the woods, and a gate made of trees that separated the city from this place.

The gates made of that tree are short and carved with letters, and there -,

"Life-saving... regiment"

- And it was noted.

Mr. Uluru, who nodded joyfully at my whining, widened his arms wide as if he would welcome me through there as he walked over to the gate.

"Come on, welcome to the lifeguard, Mr. Nack. I'd really like to show you a lot of places, but that's it for me! Looking forward to seeing you next as part of the Lifesaving Corps!"

"... buddies? Oh no!?"

"See you later ~!"

Before I give my voice back, I'm going toward the city, Mr. Uluru. I was flabbergasted at her for being gone in no time, but I remember the conversation earlier, and I laugh unexpectedly.

"Ha ha, I wonder how many lifeguards have a thick personality..."

Usato, who looks normal at first glance, also radicalizes his words and behavior like people have changed when it comes to training.

- Wait a minute. Now, Mr. Uluru said, "Say hello later," right? Is that what you told me? One way or another, like the words you said behind me -,

"Hey."

!?

Looking toward the city, he suddenly lifts his collar to someone approaching him from behind. As if pinching a cat, I look behind, freaking out at the wild voice from behind.

There's...,

"Kid, you lost?"

"I shouldn't, I shouldn't... a kid like you should come to this place"

There were two men with terribly thick faces.

Both were unusually physically fit and their atmosphere and shapes were not decent.

Whether the man with the collar lifted is going to be grinning at this one, or distorting and talking about the corners of his mouth no more, he doesn't have much voice in the force.

"Hih... Yeh..."

Someone with a thick face came before his personality!?

Wow, you scare me!?

You're just as scared as Mr. Usato when you're angry!?

"Mill, your face is even tough, so don't scare me any more."

"How dare you!? Even Temae like that isn't so different from me!!"

"It's okay because I'm aware, idiot."

And I'm aware and no!?

Shaking my shoulders gushing, but remembering the letter I held in my hand, I decided to show it to the strong people in front of me for now.

As Mr. Uluru said, if this is where the lifeguards are, I'm guessing these people are from the lifeguards too. Besides, the atmosphere of these people is slightly similar to that of Usato...

"Oh, um... here, here, here, here."

"Amen? Letter? Did you bring this on purpose? ……!

A gentle man receives the letter for his face.

He had an astonishing look on his face, but when he saw the name in the letter, he opened his eyes.

"What's up, Alec?"

"It's from Usat. To the captain."

"Oh, how are you doing? He's fine. I'm sending you a letter. Are you sure you're okay?"

Hands are removed from the pampered, grabbed collar and lowered to the ground.

I managed to land on the ground, and the man known as Alec crouches to his gaze.

"I saw Uluru send you, but you... are you a prospective joiner?"

"... Yes!"

"Okay. Then you should give this directly to the captain."

Alec, who sent the letter back to me, said just one thing, "Follow me," and he kept going.

The other guy, called Mill, prompts me to walk lightly through my back.

The road leading to the back of the forest, ahead of it, is the head of the life-saving regiment that Mr. Usato was talking about.

I kept my mind together, spitting. [M]

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"This is what lifeguard quarters are like..."

The place where Mr. Alec and Mr. Mill led us was the lifeguard quarters.

When the two of them said, "I'll get the captain, so wait," I had to wait alone in front of the entrance to the dormitory because I walked away to another side of the road that came, not inside the dormitory.

"Kind of like Mr. Kyou and the others."

Looking at this building, which is somewhat old, it seems similar to the dormitory where Mr. Kyou and the others lived in Lukvis.

Not so long after leaving there, immersed in nostalgia, someone comes from the direction Mr. Alec and Mr. Mill walked away from.

Did you two come back? I thought, and when I turned to you, it wasn't the look of two big men, but a long-haired woman approaching me as I dragged something.

"... ooh"

I have chills.

This is similar to what Mr. Usato felt when he really tried to train me.

I watched the woman, even though she was agitated by the vague chills, but the moment I saw the woman come out from the shade of the tree to where the sun hits, I accidentally raise my voice of amazement.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!?"

White team clothes identical to Usato's in beautiful green hair - and a gray hair, brown girl's collar grabbed right arm.

What a woman was pulling away a girl who seemed to be a demon who was fainting out of her white eyes.

Forehead covering his right eye and sharp eyes like shooting this one. The most surprising thing is that, as Usato said, it emits an atmosphere like a carnivore.

This is him... definitely. Around somewhat similar to Mr. Usato, I can assure you that this is certainly the case.

"Oh, you're the one who wants to join the group."

Head of the life-saving corps, Rose......

Mr. Usato's master and boss, and who's putting together a life-saving corps that I'm going to be in now.

When she speaks to me, she throws the girl with one hand unconstitutionally on the nearby lawn.

"What, what is this place? Ugh, I can't remember..."

Did you notice at the same time that she was dropped on the lawn, a demon-like girl getting up while holding her head down?

From what I've seen, he seems puzzled, but regardless, the captain opens his mouth looking troublesome at the girl with only his gaze.

"Get some rest."

"!? is, HA YES!! I will rest with all my might!!"

Rest, the girl with the unexpected look on her face just for a moment on the word, but fortunately for all this, she sits on the lawn and weakens.

Are you going to rest with all your might...? No, no, not if you care about that.

In the meantime, the first thing I did was stick out a letter in my hand to the woman in front of me.

"Na, my name is Nak!! Chi, healing wizard...... I came here to be introduced by Usato!!"

……

However, in response to the letter I gave, I did not respond.

Could it have been some kind of crude phase? Trying to raise his fearful face, a tremendous shock runs on his forehead, blowing him back out of his mind.

"Gih...... ooh!?"

As I landed holding my forehead, I saw Mr. Rose laughing happily with his fingers open.

Is this Deco... Pin...? You're lying, it was powerful enough to think I'd blow my head off.

"Hmm, funny. Looks like the foundation is ready. Did Usato train you to do that? When that happens, what's in it is your letter of introduction."

She laughed joyfully at me for fear, a letter held in a different hand from the one who did the decoping - showing off the sole she took from my hand at some point.

Then the girl who was resting nearby (?) got up bah and stuffed up to Rose.

"Wu, what's wrong with Usat!? Is he coming back?"

"Ugh. Later."

"Buuuuuu!?"

Decopin bursting into a girl.

Taking a blow that was obviously more powerful than what I had eaten, she fell to slip behind her head and passed out.

At this moment, I come to understand that inadvertent remarks = unreasonable.

The captain, who ignored the blown up girl, can't move with fear. When he approaches my present, he gazes at me just like Mr. Alec.

"I'll tell you one thing, I'm no nicer than him. Whether Temei cries out, begs for his life, or falls, there's no words of mercy. Life-saving corps in charge of saving people's lives won't allow it to be easier or compromised. So if you don't mind, Temehe's part of the life-saving corps from today on."

No lies, no exaggerations.

This man doesn't give me any mercy, as he says. I looked her in the eye and was made to understand it even if I didn't like it.

... but what happened to it?

That's what I knew with Mr. Usato's training.

I'm ready now.

"Thank you from today!!"

Coming up.

Not as a nobleman, not as a student who was being abused in Lukvis, but as a Lifeguard Knuck.

From now on - my, my only life can finally begin.

 

Chapter 4 begins with the next episode.