20-3 The Meeting Came With An Impact

Before long, Lord Yamato’s party(?) appeared and encountered children wandering without homes.

As expected, since everyone had actually been professional street children, there was absolutely no sense of awkwardness in this scene.

U-um.

Yamato chanted the words and used alchemy.

As a magical-effect stage production, a splendid real house was built on the stage.

As expected, this was a feat impossible for a Japanese school performance.

The floor also boasted enough strength to easily withstand the great weight of a proper house.

Then the lord’s retainers came and picked a fight.

The ten Yamatos stretched out their hands and made gestures as if using magic.

Apparently beastfolk children could not use magic, so it was a shame that I could not have them actually use magic in this scene.

Then, using real wind magic, the retainers were beautifully blown away.

The ones playing the roles of those flying away also looked truly happy.

That part was all thanks to the results of the director’s deadly stage magic tools.

They had been designed with safety first, so no one would be injured.

Then, while Yamato was away at work, the lord’s retainers came back for revenge.

The children huddled together shoulder to shoulder.

But the one who appeared there was—

“Hold it right there!”

The Crimson Wind “group” made a gallant entrance from a high place.

Again, there were ten of them after all.

The commander of the Mireille corps was Camila.

For some reason, the girls had more presence.

It seemed the real first queen had also been quite a spirited person.

The audience also seemed to have gotten fairly used to the ten-cast system.

The wind stirred up by magic on the stage swirled backward.

The background at the back was also swapped out for one painted as if burning bright red, which had been stored in the item box built into the stage equipment.

A bright red cellophane gel was inserted in front of the spotlight, making the stage shine even redder.

The seats in the audience had sound effects built into them like Earth’s 4D cinemas, giving an outstanding sense of realism.

Dedicated magical devices had also been installed so that wind and hot air reached the audience seats.

The children playing the enemy retainers shouted, “Save us!” while being swept up in the air by the wind, but somehow they looked like they were having fun.

Seeing that, His Highness Prince Emilio seemed restless.

Maybe I should let him play with this next time I went to the royal palace.

No, maybe I should go all the way and try the original version of that game.

Though the one doing it would not be the magistrate, but the prince.

Of course, His Highness Prince Emilio would be the one whose sash was untied and who spun around.

If I told him it was a standard game in the country of rare visitors, he would surely want to try it.

Before long, the children playing the lord’s retainers rode the wind magic while saying “Oh nooo,” spinning happily as they disappeared into the wings.

Aoi-chan, the producer, also looked like she was having fun.

Before long, Yamato returned, only to be suddenly punched by Mireille.

Apparently, this was a famous historical fact.

It was the first official episode in this country’s history!

She punched him while saying, “What the hell were you doing, leaving the children alone?”

Takeshi…

Could it be that because this was the first episode of their meeting, the queens and princesses of this country’s royal family were so strong?

Or rather, the first queen, an adventurer with an epithet, was just too strong…

Takeshi was, like me, ultimately just an ordinary person, after all.

I was sure the first-ever S-rank qualification from the Alba Adventurers’ Guild, which Takeshi founded, had been presented to the first queen.

The scene progressed, and suffering people appeared on the stage.

Then Yamato reached out his hand to them.

Before long, the stage changed to a castle siege.

At the climax, I put in a flashy production where we “actually burned the castle.”

It seemed I had been poisoned by Las Vegas-style flashy staging.

Voices of surprise rose from the audience seats.

Well, true, normally even in Japan, kindergarten school performances would not go this far.

When we first did it in practice, all the little children cried quite a bit during this scene.

Even in Las Vegas, when flashy flames burst up in an attraction staged at a hotel, little children would cling to the dads holding them and cry their hearts out.

But children really did get used to that kind of thing quickly.

While watching the audience’s reaction, some children nodded in satisfaction, and others happily watched the castle fall.

Well, it was only a castle made from large prop boards, though.

Since it was something we actually burned, as expected, I did not build a real castle here.

The surrounding area was protected in various ways with magic, so it was safe.

Then a new castle was built with magic, or in historical fact, with Takeshi’s magical alchemy.

It had been a dangerous era at the time, so he had probably built a castle rather than something as gentle as a royal palace.

It was still a small one, but on the national flag raised there, a hawk was drawn on a red field.

Albatross.

That meant the fighting hawk of Chief God Ross.

Even now, on the statue of Ross in the Ross Grand Temple, a brave hawk perched on his shoulder still shared the chief god’s fate.

The country name Albatross came from that hawk.

Its name was Alphonse.

Apparently, in this world’s mythology, Ross had called it Al.

Yes, my name came from that hawk.

It was a fairly common name in this country.

Though it was just a name taken from my own name, Takahiro.

Because it was Takahiro, it became taka, meaning hawk, and thus Alphonse.

That said, it was not as though a hawk emblem could be permitted so easily.

Especially not the emblem of blazing flames that seemed to represent this country’s national flag.

The royal family here apparently valued me a great deal.

I was taught that later.

At the end, everyone danced with smiles in a musical style.

It had truly been difficult to train them this far.

The wolf songstress also smiled happily, singing as she twirled and danced.

The children on stage waved with smiles, and before long, the curtain fell.

They were sent off by plenty of applause.

Then, after a short while, the final chorus and ensemble began.

Everyone changed into cute smocks.

The piece was called “Rondo of the Heroes,” and this song also had an origin that came from historical fact.

They repelled interference from the surrounding countries and held a victory feast.

Yamato and Mireille danced happily in the hall.

So did the leading figures of the country.

It was said that on that night, the first king proposed to the first queen.

Gregory had left behind a play of the same name.

This was also a work that had gained the support of many people.

Maybe next year’s play should use this as the program.

Today, too, it was highly praised by the audience.

The children also sang and played happily.

Thus, the school performance completed all of its programs and ended successfully.