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?
“T-This is the royal city…..”
I was speechless at seeing the royal city for the first time.
The number of houses and people here is far greater than in my hometown, and in the distance I could see a large royal palace towering over the city.
“Let’s see,……, first I have to find an inn.”
The entrance examinations begin in three days.
Until then, one must stay at an inn.
It is said that students from outside the capital can stay at an inn near the exam site.
I immediately started walking while looking at the map.
But ……
“Isn’t the city too big ……?”
The streets are so crowded that I can’t get there at all.
I don’t even know where I am at the moment.
I was now feeling the horror of the royal city.
While I was wondering what to do, suddenly a voice came
“It’s a pickpocket! Someone catch him!”
Hnn? A pickpocket?
I looked and saw a man with a bag running and the owner of the bag fell down behind him.
Thinking I was going to go and get him, I ran out.
“I’ve got you.–!?”
“I’ve got him~”
Just as I was about to seize him, a girl came out from a different direction and seized the man.
I had noticed her running toward me, but I didn’t expect her to come and catch him. ……
The girl took back the luggage and returned it to its owner and handed the man over to the military police.
Then she comes up to me, who was watching the scene.
“Thanks for helping me! Thanks to you, I was able to catch him with ease!”
“Eh? Ah, yeah.”
I didn’t do anything.
But I felt it would be wrong to deny it, so I nodded my head for the time being.
“My name is Mary. Nice to meet you!”
The girl who called herself Mary was, in a word, a beautiful girl.
She had charming eyes and red hair in twin-tails.
“My name is Alan.”
“Alan-kun, huh,…… that’s a nice name!”
But why is this girl so involved with me?
Is it that she senses an air of bumpkin that I can’t hide from her?
Since my town is also a commercial city, I think I’m one of the more urban residents though. ……
“Alan kun, you’re going to Nobilitas Academy, aren’t you?”
“Eh!? Why did you ……?”
“Hahaha! I know. Because you have a letter of recommendation envelope in your hand.”
“Oh, …….”
Indeed, I had an envelope of letters of recommendation in my left hand.
I had completely forgotten about it.
Hmm? Do you know what a letter of recommendation looks like ……?
“Maybe Mary is ……?”
“Yes! I’m taking it too~!”
Saying so, Mary took out a letter of recommendation from her bag.
The letter contained the name of the secondary school and the name of the principal.
“So, Alan kun, why are you here with so much luggage?”
“That’s because I was looking at the map and walking toward the inn, and before I knew it, I was here …….”
“The inn is the exact opposite, you know?”
“……..”
“Would you like me to show you the way?”
“Please.”
Apparently, I was the type of person who couldn’t see a map.
I quickly took Mary’s helpful suggestion.
We started walking side by side.
“By the way, where did you go to secondary school, Alan kun?”
“I didn’t go to school. It was a personal recommendation.”
“Personal recommendation?!”
There are two types of recommendation letters: personal recommendation and school recommendation.
A personal recommendation is a recommendation not from a school but from a high ranking person such as an aristocrat.
A school recommendation is a recommendation given by the principal of a secondary school to an outstanding student.
Because of the nature of the recommendation, the number of personal recommendations is extremely small.
“Who recommended you?”
“A man named Hayman san. Do you know him?”
“Hayman sama!?”
It seemed that the name of the captain of the Kingsguard was no joke and Mary seemed to know it.
I wonder how Hayman-san is doing. ……
Hayman-san heard from my mother that I was holed up in the mountains, and often came to visit me
At that time, he was watching me train and study.
The training and studying were so hard that it was the toughest when Hayman-san was there.
But thanks to him, I didn’t have to interrupt my training to study, so I was able to devote most of my five years to my training.
“Hayman-sama the captain of the Kingsguard?!”
“Yes, that’s right. He helped me with my training and studies. He was a good grandpa.”
Hayman san was very good at teaching.
He taught me how to connect history and various other things, so I was able to understand them easily.
He was a little too passionate about some things, though……
“Good grandpa?……Hayman sama is famous for being the strongest knight in the history of the kingdom, you know?”
“Eh!?”
I knew for sure that Hayman-san was insanely strong.
During his training, he was so strong that I fainted many times.
But I didn’t know he was such a legend.
Normally, he’s just like a good-natured old man. ……
At first I spoke to him in honorifics, but we got along so well that I stopped doing that.
“How did you end up getting someone like that to train you?”
“Well, I don’t really know, but he took a liking to me before I knew it.”
The day I was recruited by Hayman san, we had a mock battle to confirm the truth that I had defeated Balzac.
I lost the fight, but when it was over, Hayman san was in a very good mood and invited me to join the Kingsguard.
After that, he often came to visit me when he was off, and eventually we ended up at the Devil’s Mountain.
“Alan kun, you’re an amazing person. ……”
“I’m not that great. I am just an ordinary person.”
“Ehh~, …… how could an ordinary person be so liked by Hayman-sama?~”
Mary said, pouting her lips.
Having said that, I don’t know anything about it, so there’s no way I can give you an answer.
Meanwhile, a large building came into view.
According to Mary, this is where the students are staying.
“The examination hall is just a short walk from here.”
“I see. Thank you very much for showing me the way. I appreciate it.”
“No. It was fun talking to you too, Alan kun!”
I left her there and checked in.
The rooms at the inn were very luxurious, and I was reminded of how big an institution Nobilitas Academy is, offering such rooms for free to students who have not yet been admitted to the school.
I spent my time at the inn finalizing my studies and doing some light exercise.
Three days passed, and finally the day of the entrance exam arrived…!
Oh. The first victim
Charlotte is not impressed with this chapter.
Why couldn’t the old man like a silly child and decided to train him a little so he doesn’t die easy? Silly girl.