MSM Chapter 3

[I’m Reborn in The Frontier]

It’s been two weeks since I’ve left the power harassment of the childhood friend Sword Master Alfine who had robbed me of my dignity, and being swayed in the carriage.

The horse-drawn carriage arrived safely at Youg Hannotes, the most remote city in the kingdom.

When I parted from her, I returned all my equipment and fund, but with the money I saved when I was taking requests alone, I have some surplus for the traveling expenses.

When I arrived in the city, firstly ーso that Alfine can’t find meー, I decided to change this appearance that made her keep calling me a good-for-nothing.

My black eyes and black hair, which are the same as her, is an unusual color in this world, so if I live an adventurer life from here on and become a little famous, there is a possibility that it will reach Alfine’s ear in the capital and I would be brought back immediately.

I thought that disguise and pseudonym were indispensable to avoid it.

After liberated from the tyrant Alfine with great pains, I’ve been drifted until the frontier city where no one knows me.

On this occasion, I also decided to abandon the name Finn, which has a strong impression as an accessory of Alfine, and live as a new adventurer in Youg Hannotes.

I decided that when I arrived in the city, first of all, I’ll go to the barbershop to cut my hair and dye it.

“Excuse me, can you cut this black hair short and dye it into a blond hair?”

“Nii-chan, even though you have rare and beautiful black hair, you want to dye it to the common blond hair? It’s a waste.”

“Well, there are some circumstances.”

Even though the Oji-san of the barbershop said that it’s a waste when he looked at my black hair, but from now on, I don’t want to be reminded about Alfine and feel uncomfortable, whenever I looked at these hair and eyes color in the mirror.

As my determination of throwing away my past, I’ll shorten my hair and dye it.

“What, so Nii-chan has special circumstances? If it’s like that, you’ll just have to say so from the beginning. This Youg Hannotes is the place where various people drifted. Nii-chan must have been through a lot. Alright. Let’s stop with the common blond hair and make it the flashy red hair.”

“Red hair… it’s too flashy…”

“It needs to be about that flashy, to reveal Nii-chan’s attractive face. As the skilled person of Youg Hannotes, what I said can’t be wrong.”

“Is that so. Then, I’ll leave it to you.”

I decided to entrust everything to the Oji-san of the barbershop who showed a lot of motivation.

While Oji-san cut my hair and dyed it red, the tiredness of traveling came to me and I fell asleep.

“Nii-chan, it’s done. As expected, you are a handsome man. Hey, the women in the city will start to make an uproar.”

Oji-san shake my shoulder to wake me who was asleep.

In front of me, there is a man with trimmed bright red hair and masculine face.

Even his eyebrows were carefully dyed red.

“This is me?”

“Ah, it’s a big difference from Nii-chan, who had a terrible face when he came in. For the eyes, my acquintance fake eye expert can change the color with magic. Because you said you had special circumstances, I can’t leave it alone. If you want to change your appearance, you can’t do it half heartedly.”

Next to the barbeshop’s Oji-san, an Oji-san of similar age was laughing.

“Well, because it seems that if your eyes are also red, it will make your appearance more flashy. If you put this on, you should be able to disguise the color of your eyes as well. It’s thin, but durable, so it won’t come off even with intense exercise, so it’s fine y’know. Usually I’m supposed to get a fair amount of fees, but for those with special circumstances, I’ll make it cheap, so please be assured.”

The person next to the barbeshop’s Oji-san seems to be a fake eye expert.

He had a small, thin, glass-like object in his hand.

“Is it okay to put on the eyes?”

“Don’t worry, look.”

The fake eye expert Oji-san put the red glass product on my eyes.

It doesn’t hurt, and my vision is the same as before.

Just changing the hair color, it’s length, and eye color, made the face of Finn who was keep called good-for-nothing looked like a different person.

With this, even if I met Alfine, she wouldn’t recognized me instantly.

Even so, the difference is too big…

“How much is the cost?”

“It’s cheap, only 3.000 oz.”

Cheap! Is this the price difference between the capital and frontier city?

I thought that with such drastic changes, tens of thousands of oz wouldn’t be enough, but I didn’t think that it would only be 3.000 oz.

I immediately took out 3.000 oz worth of silver coins from my wallet and added another 1.000 oz as tips and hand it to Oji-san.

“It’s a tip. I really like Oji-san’s skill, so I’ll come back when my hair grows.”

“Even though Nii-chan is young, but you are thoughtful. I like it, I’ll treat you as my regular. I’m Loran. A little known barber in this city of Youg Hannotes. So, what is Nii-chan’s name?”

My name was asked by Loran who did my hair.

The name Finn was thrown away as a farewell to Alfine, so I have to think of a new name.

I wonder if there is any good name… Should I take the name from King Frederick, whom I adore?

Frederick is a little too aristocratic, so Frick… Frick is more appropriate.

From today, I’ll call myself Frick.

“It’s Frick. I’m thinking of being an adventurer in this city from now on. I think I’ll need Loran-san’s help from now on, so please take care of me.”

“If people ask you where you cut your hair, please do some advertising for me at that time.”

“If it’s only that, I’ll advertise it as best as I can.”

Then, when I left Loran’s shop and walked around the city, I felt that the eyes of the women were concentrated on me, unlike when I was coming.

Then, when it seems that they took a glance at me, they’ll be talking to each other in whisper, then they’ll continue whispering while glancing at me.

I was incredulous about the changes in attitudes of those women, but when I called out to those women to ask the location of the Adventurer Guild, I finally understood that what makes them boisterous is myself.

Prev ToC Next

---

Alright that’s the last chapter for today, I hope you guys enjoyed it. Thanks for reading it!