Apparently, I’m a Childhood Friend of a Saint in the World of Light Novels, and When We Meet Again After a Few Years at School, She’s Turned into Some Kind of Yandere?
Three years after Charlotte was kidnapped.
We had turned 10 years old.
It was the year we said goodbye.
After the incident, the prince came and ordered Charlotte to be adopted by a nobleman.
Incidentally, I was also scouted by the captain of the Kingsguard, who called himself Hayman.
Well, I declined the offer.
Putting my story aside for the moment, Charlotte firmly refused the prince’s order.
However, the saint was obliged to receive education at Nobilitas Academy.
As a result of mutual compromise, it was decided that she would be adopted by a noble family for five years, that is, from the age of 10, in order to acquire a minimum level of education before entering the school.
It supposed to be like that ……
“Hiksss…… I don’t want to say goodbye to you, Alan-kun. ……”
When the moment came to say goodbye, Charlotte cried a lot.
I had been with Charlotte all the time, with minimal training, for about a week before her departure, but what she is sad
I felt the same way.
“Let’s promise. Charlotte.”
“Promise ……?”
I nodded my head.
And then gently hold Charlotte’s hand as if to wrap it around mine.
“In five years, I will also enroll in Nobilitas Academy. I’m going to protect Charlotte.”
The words were the same as those in the novels.
But still, they were words from my heart.
They were the words I wanted to convey to Charlotte the most.
“But they said it’s hard to get in if you’re a commoner. ……”
“I’ll do my best and get in. I promise.”
“If Alan kun says so, I believe him. I’m sure that what Alan kun says is absolute.”
………a lot different from the book, isn’t it?
In the book, it was written in a more anxious tone, but now Charlotte says it without doubts ……
Well, I saved Charlotte, so it’s not surprising that she’s changed a little bit.
“Then let’s pinky promise”
“……Yes!”
Charlotte’s face lit up.
We intertwined our pinky fingers and did the promise
We only use this when we make a really important promise.
“Yes, promise.”
“Yeah. Alan kun,……, I’ll do my best! So, I’ll definitely see you in five years!”
“Of course! I’ll be rooting for you.”
“I’ll be rooting for you too.”
With that we hugged.
We hugged for a few tens of seconds, and when we pulled away, Charlotte was already smiling, not crying.
“Take care~~!”
I waved at her with a smile at the end.
I watched Charlotte until the carriage disappeared from sight.
When the carriage was out of sight, I put my hand down and pulled myself together.
“Now, here comes the real part of the training. I don’t know the exact strength of the enemy, so I’ve got five years of training ahead of me.”
I lightly slapped my cheek and ran off with my recently acquired serious weapon.
I need to get stronger so that I can protect Charlotte.
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〜Five years later…
“Trouble! The city gates are being attacked by several Lizardmen!”
“What?! Lizardmen?!”
“Yeah, ……, I hear the Military Police are getting ready to mobilize right now.”
Someone in town informs them of the Lizardmen’s attack, and the townspeople are shaken up.
The Lizardmen are powerful demons that are considered a threat because of their high defense and aggressive nature due to their hard scales.
If there are several of them, it is not surprising that the general public is shaken up.
“W-What to do …… should we prepare to flee?”
“Where are we going to run to? We’ll just have to hope the Military Police can do something about it!”
The city was safe because it was surrounded by walls, but once outside, there was no guarantee of safety.
Furthermore, due to certain circumstances, this town has a high encounter rate with demons in the vicinity of the town.
Going outside without an escort was like going to your death.
“Everyone! It’s all right now!”
A new voice echoed among the people in the town, who were tinged with anxiety.
Had the military police already moved?
But even so, they moved quickly.
“What’s the matter,……, has the Military Police already taken care of it?”
“No! Alan came!”
“Alan!?”
The moment they heard that name, the place fell silent.
The atmosphere that had been filled with anxiety earlier changed.
The name that came out there was special to the people of the city.
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“This city has my family and Charlotte’s family. I can’t let them break through these gates.”
I am now facing several Lizardmen.
I had finally returned to the city after completing my training, but I had no idea that the city was in such trouble.
I did not expect the Lizardmen to come to this town.
For the safety of the city, I decided to exterminate them as soon as possible.
“Come on, let’s go!”
The moment I kicked the ground, the Lizardmen started to move.
First of all, two of them. …… They are surprisingly smart to come around to the right and left sides at the same time.
The claw attacks come at me from the right and left sides at the same time.
I accelerated one more step and cut them in half at the same time while avoiding the attack.
“I knew the Lizardmen were too weak …… and too soft to train with.”
After that, I fought the remaining Lizardmen.
Looking at the results, it would be more accurate to call it an overrun, as they were completely annihilated within three minutes of arriving without a single scratch.
Compared to the demons I had fought during my training, this was a game.
“Ah, the Military Police san. Thank you for your hard work.”
“Ah, Alan san?! Why are you here?!”
“I just came back a few minutes ago after completing my training.”
“O-Oh, I see. ……”
I left the cleanup to the military police.
It had been five years since I had been in town and it was very nostalgic.
I returned home through the streets I used to run around on.
“Mother. I’m home.”
“Ah, Alan! You’ve really grown up. ……”
My height has grown a lot in the past five years.
As a result, my muscle mass has increased dramatically and I am able to fight demons more easily than before.
“Well…”
“When I heard that you were going to stay in the mountains to train in the forest of demons,……, I doubted your sanity, but I can’t believe you’ve come back so strong,…….”
Yes, ever since I said goodbye to Charlotte, I’ve been holed up in the mountains about 10 kilometers away from this town, doing survival and training in the mountains of evil.
At first I ate poisonous mushrooms and nearly died many times.
But before I knew it, I had developed antibodies that made it safe to eat them.
“Now Alan is like a hero in the city.”
“Really? Is that so?”
“Yeah. The number of demons has been reduced by half since Alan started to stay in the mountains. I thought it might be because of Alan’s influence.”
“Ah, that’s what you mean.”
The reason for the high rate of appearance of demons around our town is that there is a mountain of demons nearby.
That’s why the number of monsters flowing into the city decreased because I was defeating all the monsters in the Demon Mountain one by one.
I had no idea there was such..
“I’m glad to hear that, but I came back to Nobilitas Academy to take the entrance exam.”
“I know. I have already submitted the application.”
In the case of commoners, you need a letter of recommendation from a great person, but in my case, Hayman san wrote it for me.
In the novel, a nobleman from the place where Charlotte was adopted would write it for me, but that didn’t happen this time.
In the case of the good commoners who go to school, it seems that the principal of the school writes them.
“Thank you. Then I’ll leave tomorrow morning.”
“Yes yes. You can take it easy at least today.”
“Yes.”
I spent the night at home for the first time in a long time.
The time to meet Charlotte was finally coming.
Charlotte, I wonder how you are doing. ……
I fell asleep that day thinking about the girl with the beautiful silver hair and lovely smile.
Probably doing some yandere stuff to photos of Alan while making preparations for vixens
I think instead of praying to the god, she prefer praying to you instead, everyday.
Last chapter we learned her mother is still alive (no mention of her father). So does this mean she was forced to give up her daughter for the ‘good of the kingdom’? Also, the fact that Alan could attend the school without being adopted means that it was not required that she be adopted to attend the academy, which makes the removal of her from her family – and the requirement that she refer to strangers as her ‘father’ and ‘mother’ a bit sour.
If it was just a matter of educating her to be sure she would have the qualifications to attend, why use adoption? Why not simply foster her instead? (It is not like fostering was uncommon in European middle ages which the setting is based upon.) My guess is that the royal family (or [one of?] the nobles’ faction[s], which the royal family may be placating) want to claim that she was never of commoner descent, that she was a bastard of the chosen noble family, who was legitimized (with adoption) after her power was realized. But that is just a guess on my part.
Also, how did this happen in the original timeline? In this timeline they learned she was the saint at age seven when she used holy magic to heal Alan. But in the original timeline it is likely that Hayman defeated the bandits and the former king’s guard. There would have been no reason for her power to awaken since it is unlikely that he would have been severely wounded in the fight. My best guess is that something else happened at the age of ten (since that is when she was adopted in both timelines) which awoke / revealed her power, leading to her adoption. But in this timeline that was not necessary to occur (or was unknowingly prevented) due to the changes that have already occurred in the new timeline.
I have mixed feelings about the time skip. I would have liked to have seen part of his (and her) training / education. But on the other hand I am eager to see their reunion. Wait a minute. Did he go – by himself – into the mountains to train?! Nevermind. The fact that Hayman wrote his letter of recommendation suggests that Hayman was somehow involved with him – and therefore likely the one training him. Given he wanted to recruit / train him at 7, it makes since that he would be willing to accept at 10 when Alan and Charlotte separated.