Chapter 143
#10 Other Stories: An Old Man’s Story
“Not this, not this, not that…”
I threw the paper on which I had written the plan to ask Merln for a fight, as there was no good way. Was this the way I should be treated since I retired? I thought it implausible, as I had been the strongest swordsman there was with only a stick. Merln was the weird one from the start.
“I’m weird too.”
Me asking an ordinary farmer for a fight was weird, but I could not give this up. I began to write down new things on a brand piece of paper.
“It’s the season where the benevolent autumn goddess gives her blessing…no not this!”
I threw the paper away, as I had been writing a letter to ask for a challenge! Merln has to want to fight me the moment he reads this!
“It’s so difficult…”
I had not realized that this was such a difficult task, and I regretted not having fought those who had written me letters.