Thanks for the chapter!
Seems like Cuore is still a young maiden at heart. Girard seems to have taken to teasing MC now that he can talk for himself instead of limited preset game script. Definitely a warrior at heart since he wants to die in battle rather than slipping away peacefully in bed surrounded by his multi-great grandkids and family. Reminds me of some of the stories about Vikings where warriors had to die in battle to enter Valhalla while dying of old age or disease in bed meant going to Hel. In any case, Girard has lived an extremely long life, is dying, and should be allowed to accept death on his terms. It's a shame doesn't have long to live as seems like an interesting guy.
Any chance of changing font or something for the words when telepathy or mail/messages is used? Like italicizing telepathy text such as The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. and adding a [ to the beginning and a ] to the end of mail/messages like [The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.] As it is it's hard to tell telepathy/messages from regular speech.