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Chapter 8 - Adventurer's InnPart 1 After coming out from the Adventurers's Guild.
I noticed that it was because the city is inside of a crater only a few seconds later. There's a shadow cast over the city because of the high walls.
More often than not we just leave it to Ruijerd to keep watch when camping out. He can notice things approaching even when half-asleep. I wake up hearing the sound of something exploding in the middle of the night and realize it's the sound of Ruijerd fighting monsters. It's bad for my heart.
I'm hungry as well. I would like to buy something, but there's still some dried meat leftover from the other day. In order to keep food expenses low, I guess we should restrain ourselves here? Even though I say that, if our stomachs feel this unsatisfied, it makes me want to just eat until I'm full.
What is it, where should I be looking?
After the sun set, the light shows strongly.
Almost like an amusement park when it lights up at night.
However, I have to admit it was a rather illusionary view. Though, I wonder how it's shining.
"Raiden? Who is that? I think some generation of Sword God had a name similar to that or something?"
Knowing that in this world there's no one who would get those sorts of jokes is a bit lonely.
"I see."
It's an expression almost like trying to appease a young child remembering his dead father.
My fathers name is Paul. He's not bad as a father, but he's pretty bad as a person.
"It's a variety of magic stone." "What kind of effect does it have?" "During the day it gathers energy from the sun and when it becomes dark it shines like that. However, it doesn't shine even half as long as the daytime."
I didn't see anything like this in Asura Kingdom. It seems useful so they should use it more often.
"No, it is a relatively rare stone." "Eh? Then, what is over there?"
"They thought of something amazing, huh."
Eris dressed in bondage fashion yelling out, "Light is a necessity in order make me appear more beautiful!"
"Generally, it's considered a taboo, I don't know the specifics."
It's shining at a relatively high point, unless you can fly it probably wouldn't be very easy to take.
"Surprisingly, it might have been gathered for the sake of the people in the end." "Impossible. The Great Demon Emperor is famous for being quite lazy and selfish."
If they are still alive, I'd love to meet them. It's surely a Succubus-like bitch[11] older sister type I'm sure.
"Is that a saying from the human race?" "Yes, it is. For example the Supard race are really a kind race after all, right?"
Having my head stroked at this age feels a bit odd.
A mentally middle aged man in his 40s, having his head stroked by a man whose real age is 560 that sort of situation. I don't really know?
The situation would be a child with the age of 4 having their head stroked by a man with the age of 56. Wouldn't that be a situation one could gently smile at?
However, I reject that option.
"Why not?! Isn't it alright, just a bit?!"
Seeing that I felt it might be fine for just a bit. However, Ruijerd said it wouldn't be light for as long as the day. It wouldn't be funny if by the time we arrived at the castle it stopped shining. So...
"Eh? Are you alright?"
That's right. Travelling around to all these places I'm unfamiliar with is tiring, but my body also feels quite heavy lately. It's not a problem to move around while fighting monsters, but it feels like I get tired faster than normal recently. I wonder if it's anxiety?
"I see? Then, I'll be patient for a bit."
Those words would have never come from the Eris of a little while ago. Eris is properly growing up a bit.
Part 2 The Wolf Claw Inn. One room. One night. 5 stone coins. The building is pretty decrepit, but it's a fairly decent price aimed at beginning adventurers. If you pay 1 more stone coin it also includes breakfast and dinner. Also, if a party of more than 2 adventurers is staying in a single room, meals are free. Since it's aimed at beginners, there are a number of beds and the price is meant to be split evenly.
There aren't a large number, but there's both counter seats and table seats.
Even though they are young, they should still be older than me, and about the same age as Eris. All are young men. They were staring at us rudely.
It was a look asking if we should keep up with the act even here.
However, they are still children. If the place we stay is the same, then they should realize Ruijerd is a good person from seeing his actions.
"Alright. What are you going to do for meals?"
It's good that the price of food is nothing.
Converting it to stone coins, it would be, 132 stone coins.
His hair was white, well, you couldn't really call him bad looking. I'll give him an above average.
One was a rather strong built 4 armed boy, who looked like he was raised quite proudly. Another was a boy with a beak and feathers on his head. Well, yeah. I guess you couldn't really call them bishounen. The type was quite different. If the first guy was "normal", the remaining two would be "rough type" and "light type" I guess.
These kids are getting in over their heads. However, his voice is trembling a bit. I can't say it's not humorous. "We could discuss tricks when taking on jobs and such." "Haaaa."
Completely ignoring someone trying to flirt with you! Well, I guess it would be because you can't understand the words as well.
"???"
It's something Edona-san taught her in manners class. [Methods to avoid nobles you don't want to interact with. Basics chapter!]
A gentleman would fall back here. "Don't ignore me." The boy was not a gentleman. Getting irritated he grabbed onto Eris hood and pulled it strongly.
Her legs had been trained pretty well after all. The boy didn't stop pulling as he was getting annoyed. (!) Since he's an Adventurers he must be pretty proud of his strength.
The sound of Eris snapping.
The punch taught by Sauros and trained by Ghyslaine accurately landed on the face of the boy. I thought his neck would rip to the point his face twisted around in the direction of the punch. His head hit the floor while falling and he lost consciousness in a single hit.
If the "Strongest Executioner" was here right now he'd be saying "What a punch!" I'm sure.
Learning from this danger, I'm sure he'll remember not to try and hit on Eris again. Lesson learned. Now then, before the other two jump in to fight, I guess I should jump in to stop it.
The kick which she was taught by Sauros, trained and completed by Ghyslaine solidly landed in the solar plexus of the second victim.
There she finished him off with a knee kick. The boy was blown away with his jaw sent flying upwards.
Even then, he was preparing for Eris's attack by going for the sword at his waist. Going for his sword is a bit overboard. I was going to use magic to seal their movements. (!)
Even though the bird boy shouldn't even have had whites in his eyes, he showed them.
Eris just kept kicking the boy time and time and time again.
That much about me! (!) Even though it was just that cheap thing we bought because your red hair would stand out?! This old man is feeling tight in the chest!
I don't know what is what, it's too scary to listen.
However, Eris wasn't willing to listen.
She wasn't such a sweet woman. Eris does it thoroughly. That boys fate is the same as mine was three years prior, such a sad fate.
It all happened so fast I was a bit late to step in and stop it.
"What are you doing, Rudeus! Don't get in my way!"
My hands were trembling as I grabbed her chest. It was a soft sensation. However, I didn't have the leisure time to enjoy that.
The boy didn't understand. He didn't know what was what and was just afraid.
"What?! Hnnnn!"
After letting go of her, she shrugged her shoulders and walked towards Ruijerd. Ruijerd was sitting in a seat at the bar watching us as if he had seen a laughable spectacle.
"Hm? It's a fight between children right?" "It's a guardians job to stop a child's fight!"
Part 3 "Are you alright?" "Ah, ah... I'm alright."
Somehow, there was a feeling of comradery.
"Th...that was scary... Wh... why did she get angry?" "She hates being annoyed and her hood was important to her, I guess?" "I... I see? Can you tell her I'm sorry about that?"
She was making a face that said she will never forgive them. It's been a while since I had seen that face. Putting it into words, it's a face I hadn't seen since the first time I met her. A face like she's on the verge of snapping at any moment, that sort of face.
"I... I see. She's cute, but scary."
I guess she was just putting on that sort of face as a front.(!) Even though I thought she had grown a bit, it's a bit of a shock.
"Yea..Yeah... That's right." "Also, if you ever think you want to get revenge for this time, you should reconsider it. This time was an unavoidable accident so I stopped it, but next time you might lose your life."
"I'm Rudeus Greyrat. The girl from before is Eris." (!)
The two who got beaten up because of Kuruto.
"Gaburin" the bird-like type. The two said those names, walked over to Kuruto and all three took a pose.
"???"
I honestly thought it was lame. What do you mean by gang? More like band of thugs. Speaking of which, where is Tokurabu Village anyways?
"A girl who is a magician?"
The only magicians here is me. It's not like anyone is wearing anything similar to a magician as well. Hmm? Something similar to a magician?
"Yeah. After all, the ones who wear a hood are magicians, right?" "She's wearing a sword right?" "Eh? Ah, it's true."
Certainly, they are the types who only see things that are convenient for themselves.
"Well, for the most part." "How about both of you joining us?"
Me? Don't even joke about that. Rather, after Eris beat them down that hard, these guys still haven't learned their lesson?
The two of them were talking about something at the bar table. It seems like Ruijerd was instructing Eris on something. Eris was silently listening and nodding to that.
"Of course. His name is Ruijerd." "Ruijerd?? What's the party name?" "Dead End."
What kind of things are you calling yourself?
"We have the real thing's permission after all." "What does that mean?"
However, it's the truth.
It's not like we want to do the friendly Adventurers play game after all.
No, but, is it that sort of thing? They've just made their Adventurers debut in the city. Youngsters with a future full of hopes. I'm sure they received a very joyful welcoming from the Adventurers guild just now. However...
"Th...That was us letting our guards down.." "Are you going to say that same thing on the plains of the Magic continent?" "Gu..."
It's quite a good feeling. As expected, the Pax Coyote Lions of the Magic Continent Savannah Plains, their power of persuasion is different.
Part 4 After finishing our meals we went to our room. It was a room with three fur beds.
Today was tiring. My condition isn't all that great right now, but with meeting, being laughed at, and made fun of by people, I'm feeling mentally worn out now. Even if that was acting.
There was the gradually darkening view of the city.
Even so, you're going to throw it all onto me, huh. How easygoing.
The reason she's not thinking about it is because she trusts me. As proof of that, she's not really being very selfish right now, right?
What are we going to do from now on.
Three nights in this room costs 6 stone coins. Thanks to the service towards Adventurers it's 5 stone coins. For the three of us, that is 15 stone coins a day. We have to earn at least that much at the very least, if not more.
E rank jobs are all roughly 1 scrap iron coin. If it's just one person, taking one F rank job per day, it will pay for the cost of the inn, as your rank goes up the rewards for jobs increase, and you save up money.
It's that sort of system. It's well made.
It will disappear in the blink of an eye.
If we were to divide up the labor we should be able to do at least 20 stone coins per day.
Eris can't understand the language so it would be a pain for her to take on a job as well. It's the quick tempered Eris after all. She could get into a fight at the work place.
If it's combat based jobs, Ruijerd and Eris are made for them. We could quickly get onto the tracks.
If we could get to D rank within two weeks, we could probably manage it.
I missed the chance if there was some way to take on multiple jobs at once, but... It seemed like there was no method to jump up multiple ranks based on ability. The only way to progress is to follow the straightforward path ahead.
I think we'll be alright, but it is possible Eris or I could catch some illness that can't be healed with antidote magic.
We need to keep buying dyes to color Ruijerd's hair as well.
Though our clothes were originally pretty durable and I can clean them pretty quickly with magic as well. Forcing the moisture in clothes to evaporate is simple after all. However... Using magic to clean clothes is causing quite a bit of damage to the cloth. They could tear in the future. I'd like to find a change of clothes sooner rather than later.
Lately Eris and I have only been wiping ourselves down with hot water after all.
Money is here.
If we look we could probably find a loan shark even in this city. No, we should avoid going into debt as much as possible. At the very least while we have no method to pay it back.
No, that would be a final resort. It's something Eris gave me for my birthday, not something I can so easily let go.
It was a painful scene. I don't ever want to remember it again.
It seems I was a bit naive about money.
Take jobs everyday.
In order to spread the name of "Dead End" we need to raise our Adventurers rank up. Surely, it will help out in the future as well. The guild pays well for materials from monsters as well.
Putting aside the matter with Ruijerd, first we need to save up money and build a foundation for our survival, right?
The hard part is that we need to do both of them at the same time.
Part 5 Dreaming. A white place. A place with nothing. And an obscene guy is standing there.
I ask the mosaic bastard while feeling irritated. I'd prefer if you make this as short as possible.
However, consider Ruijerd's personality. Even if we had run away on the spot, he would have followed after and protected us.
Even though you call yourself God?
Let's end this as quickly as we can.
During Rudeus dreams it had become thinner, this sensation of being a shitty NEET that was his previous life that is.
My consciousness sunk while hearing that echo.
Part 6 Middle of the night. I wake up. I saw a bad dream. Honestly, I wish I wouldn't see those visions.
There's no mistake he's an evil god. A skilled evil god who is good at manipulating the weakness in peoples hearts.
I look to the left. Ruijerd is sleeping there. Rather than on a bed, for some reason he's sleeping in a corner of the room holding his spear.
Eris is awake. Sitting on the bed while holding her knees, looking outside of the completely dark window.
There's only one moon in this world as well.
"Yeah."
"Yes?" "Will we be able to return?"
I thought she wasn't thinking about it at all. She is thinking about this situation as an Adventurers with no worries at all and just enjoying it is what I thought.
She was worried as well. However, she was acting so that I wouldn't find out about that.
That's why she got into that fight. I didn't realize it. How can this be. I gently embrace her and she rests her head on my shoulder. "We will be able to return."
Eris hasn't taken a satisfactory bath in a few days. It's a completely different scent than the one she used to give off. However, it's not a bad scent. Since it's not a bad scent, it seems like my kikanbou is going to go wild.
Patience?! Until we get home I'm the thickheaded type. The situation is different from that time with Sylphy. This time, I have a reason I have to be patient.
"It's okay to feel safe. I'll make sure we can return no matter what."
I understand old man Sauros's feelings. This will make you want to spoil her.
No. Right now, it's better not to think about it.
He overheard us it seems. It's a bit embarrassing. However, he closed his eyes soon after.
Ah, he's a good person. If it was Paul he would have gone straight into teasing us. After all, it seems I can't just put off things about this person.
I wonder if everyone in Buena Village is doing well. I wonder if Paul and Sylphy are worried. I need to send a letter. I don't know if it will make it there though?
Thus, this is how our first day as Adventurers peacefully ended.
Date: 2016-03-03; view: 823
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