“Samantha Samantha, is that you?!”
“I know.”
“How dare you know me, you little brat! Who are you?”
“Aria.”
“Hmm. Is food ready yet?”
As expected of Aria. She’s not fazed at all. On the contrary, she seems used to it, taking out dried meat from her 【Shadow Storage】, which Grandma disapproves of.
“Dried stuff is no good… I want some crispier meat!”
Oh, she’s surprisingly extravagant. But if that’s the case…
“I should have brought the bandits I froze.”
“Demon Wife! There’s a Demon Wife here!”
When did I become a wife…?
But, is she really senile? I can’t tell if she’s just playing dumb. Kitty doesn’t even seem to want to deal with her, and is curled up as a black cat on Aria’s shoulder.
“Grandma!”
Just then, a voice was heard from afar, and someone approached with tremendous force, kicking up dust. They tackled Grandma, who tried to dodge, and pinned her down.
“Who dares capture me!?”
“I thought you suddenly ran off, what are you doing to these young ladies!?”
“I had a premonition!”
“What does that mean!?”
The woman, who looked to be in her twenties, turned to us and bowed repeatedly.
“I’m so sorry about my grandma. It must have been awful, right?”
The woman spoke as if assuming she had already done something wrong, and Grandma suddenly clapped her hands as if remembering something.
“That’s right! It’s time for food!”
“You ate dinner the day before yesterday.”
“Demon Wife! There’s a Demon Wife here!”
“Yes, yes, she’s your great-granddaughter. Look, your great-great-grandchildren are here too~”
“Granny.”
As if from nowhere, a little boy and girl appeared from behind the woman who called herself the great-granddaughter, and clung to Grandma as if climbing her.
“Granny, food.”
“Food, food.”
“Alright! Let’s go, great-great-grandchildren! You little brats, come eat at our place too!”
No sooner had she said that, Grandma put the two great-great-grandchildren on her back and ran off with tremendous force again, leaving a cloud of dust and disappearing in an instant.
“I’m really sorry!”
“Understood. It’s food, Snow.”
Aria isn’t fazed either…
“ITADAKIMASU!!”
With that shout, dozens of people began to eat all at once. Everyone here, from the elderly to the babies, are all family.
The entire Samantha clan lives in a mansion like a castle, and even though it’s so large, there isn’t a single servant. It seems like the younger people… or rather, the able-bodied or skilled people, do what needs to be done.
Well, in short… it’s very noisy.
“Little brat, is that the little brat you were talking about?”
Grandma, who was eating across from me, looked at me with a sharp gaze. Her glare and intimidation were truly worthy of the name of the veteran adventurer, the “Sand Dust Witch.”
…If only she didn’t have several toddlers under the age of three climbing all over her.
“Samantha. Do you understand?”
Aria, while cutting up lamb sausage, asked Grandma in return.
“It’s distorted… And you’ve been pushing yourself too hard. The “War Demon” saw it, right? It’s gotten better to some extent, but no matter how much you prolong your life, it won’t last long.”
“I see…”
Aria frowned slightly at Samantha’s words, and is giving the cut sausage to Kitty… Can the Phantom Kitty even eat it? More importantly, since the real body is so huge, is that even enough to make a difference?
“You don’t regret it, though?”
Aria glared at me at my light tone. …Fool. There’s no need for you to worry about my lifespan.
That’s as it may be…
“What’s with the huge pile of blood sausage on my plate?”
Do I look that iron deficient?
“Dolton told us to teach you… especially that white brat, the movements of an adventurer magician.”
Grandma said, pointing at me with a broken bone while gnawing on a lamb chop, bone and all.
“But you don’t need that, do you? It’s still rough, but in terms of strength alone, there aren’t many who can beat you, not just in this country, but even on this Searth Continent.”
“Then what are you going to do?”
By organizing my attributes, my life has been extended a little. If that’s the case, I want to do what I can for Aria, rather than wasting time learning strange things.
Grandma, hearing that, grinned while chugging wine straight from the bottle.
“That’s why Dolton left it to me! I’ll retrain you directly and fix your vitality from the root! I’ll make sure you don’t die before me, at least! Uhyahyahya!”
“…Is that something I should be happy about?”
Dying after someone over a hundred years old, how many years in the future is that?
Then Aria, who was listening to that, nodded deeply as if impressed by Grandma’s story.
“Snow, you’ll be able to live for another hundred years.”
“…………”
You’re joking, right?
“Alright, let’s go, you little brats!!”
“Goodbye, Grandma.”
Immediately after the meal, we set off with the entire Samantha clan seeing us off.
I thought I had trained my Mana Control, but according to Grandma, more delicate operations are needed.
Until now, I had only focused on manipulating vast amounts of Mana, but she said that by performing delicate operations, I could smooth the flow of Mana and manipulate the blood flow itself.
“Little brat, you too! Aren’t you hungry!?”
“Understood. I just ate.”
It seems like Grandma will train Aria too. If the flow of Mana becomes smoother, the consumption of Mana will also decrease, so there’s no loss.
“By the way, where are we going now?”
I asked, since I didn’t hear the destination when we left on our journey, and Grandma made a stern face for a moment.
“Where are we going!?”
“Somewhere we can train, right?”
Aria answered Grandma’s senility with a straight face. Did we really just leave on a journey with just the word “training” in mind? When I stared at her with the same eyes as Kitty, Grandma clapped her hands.
“That’s right! We’re going to Dandole!”
“Dandole?”
When Aria tilted her head, Grandma puffed out her chest as if it were obvious.
“Because a new Mead product has been released recently!”
It really seems like it was “just because.”
The journey to the viscount territory, which is a dependent of Dandole, will take another three weeks or so. …We’ve been traveling this far, so wouldn’t it be nice to rest a little?
But Aria doesn’t care, and Grandma is so healthy that it’s hard to believe she’s over a hundred years old, so my thoughts just resulted in Aria increasing the amount of medicine she makes.
“Walking is also necessary, white brat!”
By walking for long periods of time, you can get your body used to the flow of blood, manipulate the Mana-infused blood with Mana Control, and reduce the burden on the heart.
Aria, hearing that, also said that by suppressing blood lipids? It’s the first time I’ve heard of it, but it seems that it improves blood flow, so she decided to increase my meal menu and medicine as well.
Grandma is a three-attribute magician. The number of attributes is not a problem in terms of health, but that’s only as a magician, and as a warrior, she said that she would only gain enough stamina to get out of breath during long battles.
Grandma has a running fighting style, so she has been training her Mana Control since she was a child, and as a result, her lifespan has been extended.
“But Grandma? You love meat, right?”
“Demon Wife! There’s a Demon Wife here! Let me eat what I like!”
…Well, maybe the fat is consumed if you run around that much.
After that, the meals that Aria made for me were only herbal leaves and lean meat or chicken with the fat removed, but will I be able to eat proper meals and drink Mead when I arrive at my destination?
When I muttered that unintentionally, Aria opened her mouth as if remembering something.
“Gelf said that the new product in Dandole was devised by someone from the Dandole family.”
“I heard that too! The little brat who devised it married the new lord’s brat!”
“Hee…”
That’s a story I’ve heard somewhere before.
In the Dandole family, marrying the new lord?
That’s…
Is it the former prince and young lady?
Next time, the viscount territory where those people are.
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