Eternal Youth's Wanderer Chapter 7

When they arrived at Todai’s village, Tino visited the house where the village mayor lived.

“KON” “KON”

「Nice to meet you . . . .. , I am a traveler, is this the village mayor’s-san house ?」

Knocking at the door of the house where the village mayor lived, Tino thought that probably the people in this village when he lived here were all generations switched since I didn’t think I knew him, I decided to greet him for the first time.

「Yes! Welcome, it is unusual for people traveling to such a countryside」

「h.e.l.lo, my name is Tino. I heard that there was a grave for my ancestors in this village, and I came to pray with my son.」

The grave of the deceased ancestors is the grave of his mother who died soon after Tino was born, and a tomb filled with the remains of his father, who died when he was twelve years old.

「And, if you do not mind, I wanted to have my wife’s remains buried in the tombs of my ancestors.」

So, this is the biggest reason I came to this village.

「Oh, it’s hard to say……, do you now the place of your ancestors’ graves?」

「Yes. I listened to my father in detail so it’s okay.」

I certainly asked my father about the grave’s location, I said this while thinking that it was not necessarily a lie.

「Don’t you need a guide then? I’ll tell the villagers. How many days are you going to be here?」

「Thank you very much. We’re expecting a couple of days.」

「Since there’s no inn in this village I wonder whether can you use an empty house?」

「I don’t mind it anywhere if I can get over wind and rain because I am used to traveling」

「Let’s guide you there.」

「Please do」

The village mayor invited them to live in an empty house, and Tino decided to stay in this town for a few days.
Moreover, the vacant house that they were guided was the house where Tino lived long ago.
Compared to the time when Tino lived here, there are places that have become old and damaged, but it looks like it’s been cared for, and it is likely to live somehow.

「It’s nostalgic. Carlo, we’ll live here for a couple of days.」

「Yes. I understood.」

Tino and his son Carlo started cleaning the house.

After returning to his home in Todai’s village, he cleaned his house with his son, Carlo, and headed for a grave after eating lunch.
He went to a small church in the village and then Tino headed toward his parents’ graves.
The small-sized graves in a place slightly distant from the village families graves’ are the graves of my parents.
Thanks to the donations made by the villagers, the repairs being kept by the priest weren’t so rough.
Now that Tino buried his wife’s remains close to his parents’ graves, they offered a prayer.

「The Honourable gentleman in this grave was an ex-adventurer, who exterminated a Cla.s.s B monster who suddenly appeared in this village, thanked by the villagers, he was asked to live in this village. 」

Of course Tino knows this story.  However, it is true that my father was asked and persuaded by the villagers to stay here, but the truth is that my father fell in love at first sight with my mother who was a village girl.

「Excuse me. May I fix the gravestones with magic?」

Though it is nice because the surroundings are maintained, but these gravestones are slightly chipped and the written characters have become thinner.
For that reason, Tino asked the priest if he could fix them.

「Are you an earth magic user? Please fix it」

「Thank you very much」

“SHINING!”

Thanks to the priest’s permission, Tino repaired the gravestones with earth magic.
They became beautiful gravestones with the names of my parents and wife, and the day and age of the deceased.

Now that I buried my wife’s remains close to my parents’ graves, we offered a prayer.
For a while with my son Carlo, we were in front of the grave, so I let the priest go back earlier.

「Carlo, this is your ancestors’ graves . . . and this is your mother’s grave where she sleeps now.  Shall we come to pray every year?」

Tino didn’t even tell his son, Carlo, about his eternal youth skill.
That is because he thought that there was less risk for him and for Carlo.

「Yes.  I will come to see my mum every year」

「Here is quiet, and because the air is delicious mother’s can sleep peacefully 」

After finished a long prayer, the two returned home.