Chapter 16: CHAPTER 16 ROYAL CAPITAL

I arrive by the fringes of the Royal Capital. Leaving the flying carpet, I see the magic item freely flying back to the grimoire tower from a distance. That carpet is amazing. I was being greedy for wanting it.

Standing in the waiting line, I see all kinds of peasants waiting in line. Beggars, families, merchants, and all sorts.

Nothing to see there, honestly. After two hours of waiting in line, I finally enter the capital. I was thinking of eating the very same lizard fritters from the anime, but I don’t see any old lady here. Ooops, the old lady!

On a lone corner, a short old lady is selling her nasty street food. I swear that thing is disgusting as heck! I know just by looking at it how disgusting this thing is, but I will be still eating it!

You are not a true Black Clover fan if you don’t eat it! “Ma’am,” I hand out some yuls to the old lady. “Give me ten!”

“That’s 200 yuls, young man!” The old lady kindly says in her weak oldie voice.

I smile at her, and with one mouthful—

I… I had second thoughts and didn’t eat it in the end. Look at it. It is violet which reminds me of the disgusting Purple Orca. It smells sour it reminds me of spoiling Purple Orca. Even though its face looks pitiable and worthy of sympathy, it still reminds me of Purple Orca.

I was just blankly looking at it. My eyes alternate to the old lady, then to the fritters.

Hmmm… If my memory of Black Clover is correct. Isn’t the old lady in front of me Julius Novachrono, the future 28^th Wizard King? The old lady has red fabric and a linen headdress, she’s very likely that old woman disguised with magic in the anime.

If it were really the disguised Julius, I have to be careful. Hmmm… The most problematic of all is Julius's ability to see through people. Julius really has nasty habits. Pranks like selling this junk aren’t really that bad. If Julius suddenly decides I am the person his squad needs, I'd be dead meat.

“Hey,” An irritating voice. “What is that weakling doing here?” A familiar group of three. It was Neren and his two lackeys. Neren, I was able to remember his name because of his joke back then. What was that? He’ll become the strongest shadow magic user, I think?

The three idiots’ posing and talking is kind of weird. ‘Ooh, look at us!’ ‘Ugh, I am so handsome,’ ‘Look on my waist, ain’t it nice,’ They are like peacocks in heat.

Then it hits me. They are showing off their chic satchels. Looks like good leather, and is stylish too. This is the kind of grimoire satchel that only the rich can afford.

Tsk. Why are these fools targeting me? Don’t they already know I have a magic captain supporting me? I’d love not to cause a commotion now, Julius is watching, damn it!

The three fools immediately become stiff, then they hurry off not even letting out a word. That’s weird, why?

I feel a presence behind me. I look back only to see Yami Sukehiro. Hmmm… Those three fools were escaping because of him. I recall my first encounter with Yami. Isn’t Yami the ‘weakling’ for not being able to react back then?

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Young Yami is now a bit taller than me. It is only a month or so, and he is now like that… Taller, more manly, and even handsome? Young Yami is actually a head-turner, huh? His genes are weird. Damn, your destiny is to be the uncle type! So enjoy your youth while you still have them.

Anyway, “Yami, correct? What did you do to scare them off?” I ask him. Asking simple questions like this won’t do harm to the original story, right?

Yami’s eyes are calm and distinct. The kind of not-so-serious calm. “When you left, eggplant also left. With no one to deter them, they attacked. I had no choice, but to kill them.”

Eggplant? Wait, kill? Don’t you mean retaliate? They are still alive, right? They were literally about to bully me a second ago. Sheesh, so that’s why they were targeting me. Because Yami made a dent in their pride, they were thinking of relieving their stress to me, an old acquaintance with relation to the incident.

Anyways, this proves it, Yami is a badass. Yami must have been long capable of Ki in his youth to be able to deal with those three noble idiots.

I warily look at the old lady who is smilingly watching from the side. Uuummm… I have a bad premonition about this. “Y-ami, what squad will you be joining?”

Yami frowns at my question. “What do you mean? I wasn’t planning to join any squad. I only came here because I was curious.”

What the fuck? I look sneakily at the old lady. Julius, you ain’t inviting him yet!? What are you doing, man?

Wait, what if that incident a while ago leaves a bad impression on Julius, and decides not to recruit Yami? The disguised Julius is watching as a bystander, thus increasing the credibility of what he is seeing now. Yeah, Julius is a pretty reasonable guy, but he’s still of noble born. Without any idea of the inside story, he might misinterpret Yami’s words.

I have to think, what should I do? “Yami, have this. Consider it a reconciliatory gift! We didn’t really leave on a good note to each other back then.” I give him the ten lizard fritters in my hand.

“Do you want to die?” Yami is giving me that scary glare. Y-yeah, it is unreasonable, right? I mean, look at these things.

But Yami, you are a protagonist-type, you won’t hurt an old woman’s heart by refusing her only avenue of income, right? “Yami, this is from—”

Before I was even able to explain, Yami takes off the lizard fritters from my hands and then he eats them all. “Itadakima—”

Oh, shit.

“Blegh!” Eating ten all at once, you are a legend, Yami.

With impressive reflexes, I was able to dodge the fountain of rainbows. I cannot believe it. How in the world did its trajectory even become like that? It’s like a geyser out there.