by volume 2
“I’m really sorry for coming this early in the morning. Is it fine right now?”
“It does not matter. After all, even if Bell goes back, there will not be any customers……Then, what are you buying today?”
She, who was separated by the counter, suddenly pulled out a box from who knows where and placed it onto the table.
Inside the large box, tubes filled with different colors of liquid were arranged in an orderly manner.
“Speaking of which, where is Miach-sama? Not here?”
“Miach-sama has some personal business until evening. Today I am the only one……”
I asked and obtained this kind of response while I was comparing the tubes……the various recovery potion.
This is the
She used her hand to take out a recovery potion that seemed to have a high purity, and patiently tried to sell it to me.
“Bell, how about this. Isn’t it time for you to try this
“N…No thanks, it is still too early for me~”
While being handed a high class recovery potion that costs tens of thousands of Varisu, I politely refused with a twitching smile. It was probably because both sides were from poor
Although facing the strong-headed Naaza-san, almost all the time, it was my side that was defeated……
“Bell, how come you did not come to our shop recently……”
“Nnnn……!?”
“Miach-sama was very lonely. His stomach was also growling……Because he was hungry”
Because after hiring Lili, who took care of everything about the items, I really did not come to this shop for a long period of time. Towards Naaza-san, who seemed to be using lines to use my conscience, I tensed up.
Not good, if this continues, I will be forced to purchase some extra items……
“S…Speaking of which, I had a strange thing happened to me when I entered the dungeon yesterday!?”
I, who attempted to immediately change the subject, began to talk about the situation where I fell unconscious after using Magic in the dungeon yesterday night. Naaza-san only silently listened and then whispered “Ahhh”.
“That is Mental Exhaustion. It will often happen after people, who had just awakened magic, gets carried away…….”
“Mental Exhaustion……”
“After all, using Magic consumes this energy called Mental Power. When the consumption was too severe, it will lead to sudden fainting.”
So……Naaza-san continued to speak as she rummaged the drawers underneath the counter.
“Just drinking this Recovery Potion that recovers Mental Power, although it is still in the early stages. It was just recently made……”
“Ehh, b…but that is very expensive right……”
“No problem, since Bell is a regular customes, I will discount it a bit for you……8700 Varisu.”
Instantly, I retreated a step away.
“I understand……”
Looking at me like this, Naaza-san had her dog ears drooped from her head, then she took another two tubes out.
“If you buy this at 8700 Varisu, plus another 2 Recovery Potion, I will only charge you 9000 Varisu……How about it?”
Listening to this proposal, I widened my eyes and quickly clutched my brain and think.
Being able to respond to emergency situations was also a condition to becoming a first-class Adventurer……
“In the dungeon, it is impossible to know what will happen. It is still better to keep a hand open……”
This sentence had become the decisive factor.
The timid me weighed money and safety of the team, and chose the latter.
“I understand. Then I’ll buy it”
“Thanks, Bell. Love you……”
Naaza smiled towards me with half-closed eyes, and was not ashamed to have blurt out such words, I blushed while I took the items and hurried to leave.
“So easy, Bell……”
……Although I felt that I heard something when I was leaving, but I did not heard anything. I must be hearing voices, hearing voices.
I, who left the shop, stepped again onto the West Main Street that I walked back and forth all the time, and appeared in the central plaza.
Under the cloudless skies, the wide and round plaza also gathered many fully armed warriors today.
(Still haven’t come yet……?)
I attempted to search for Lili’s figure within the plaza, but inside my gaze, there were no beastman girl.
While thinking that it was rare, I headed towards Babel. On the way, a familiar scene appeared.
In the corner of the central plaza that had broadleaf trees planted at equal intervals. Under the sunlight that passed through the gaps of the leaves, it created a comfortable shade as the wind blew the leaves. Lili and a group of male Adventurers were there.
The three burly men surrounded the petite Lili. They stood with hideous faces while yelling something, Lili used all her effort to turn her face the other way. It was absolutely not a harmonious atmosphere.
——Could it be
The moment this thought flashed through my mind,I began to stare intently over there.
“……Enough……Give it to me!”
“Already……don’t have……it! Really……!”
From Lili and the others, the sound of their quarrel continued to spread over here.
I, who was anxious, stood situated behind the broadleaf tree in a dead angle location and was prepared to burst into the scene.
“Hey.”
“!”
However, suddenly.
As if it was to prevent such actions, my shoulder was caught. I turned around in surprise.
A male Adventurer. Equipped with a long sword behind him. A burly black-haired human.
(Huh, this person……)
“It really is that brat from that time……Forget it and listen to me. You formed a team with that shorty?”
That voice and tone, it can’t be wrong. It was the male Adventurer that I met a while ago in the alley.
“Hey, quickly give me a reply. You, did you hire that Supporter?”
“……That child isn’t the same child as the Hobbit you were chasing.”
In front of the man who revealed an irritated expression, I replied. It could also be said that half of it was based on my reflex.
Although dressing a large robe and hood that was bigger by 1 size and was difficult to discern, but Lili was not a hobbit but a dog person.
Please do not recognize the wrong person. Although I intended to say this……but the man crooked his lips and laughed.
“Idiot……I will not say it, but what you think is your own choice. Enjoy your idiotic play then.”
While being sprayed with a lot of complaints, but I was more curious about his tone.
This accusation, it feels as if I was being lied upon.
And I did not fully believe the words that the man had said……
I revealed a puzzled look. The man no longer laughed and changed his expression.
“Compared to this, kid, help me out…….to trap that shorty”
“What……”
“I won’t tell you to do it for nothing. I will not only give you a reward and I will also divide half of the money that I get from her.”
The male se
ems to be seriously saying this. I temporarily became speechless.
“You just have to pretend to go to the dungeon with that shorty as usual. Then just casually find a reason to leave for a while and let that guy fall into a trap. It isn’t a big deal right, very simple?”
The man could not help but have the corner of his mouth split open into a smile.
An annoying smile. I felt a despicable atmosphere that I have never felt before.
The chill and disgust quickly arose from inside my body. I tightly clasped my fists.
“Why do you have to say that kind of thing……?”
“Ahah? Very annoying right, but you only have to say “Yes” and nod your head. After all, you will be able to make money just like this. Isn’t it a decent proposal?”
Ha, the man laughed loudly.
“Think it over carefully for me. Isn’t that thing only a baggage? She cannot even help out and could only be incompetent. Isn’t she of no importance? Squeeze out everything you can squeeze out from her, then discarding her is enough.”
My boiling point had already exceeded its limits.
Inside my eyelids, it felt extremely hot.
It was different than the time in the alley. There was no time to even fear, the decisive anger dominated my entire body.
“Absolutely NOT……!”
“You brat……!”
The man’s face was twisted into a ghost-like momentum to scare people, but I only placed all my strength into my eyebrows.
The tense atmosphere surrounded us. As if from this overflowing anger , it began to fear, the leaves above our head trembled and rustled.
We temporarily glared at each other. Shortly after, the man turned around and walked away speechlessly.
With a sinister look in my eyes that I could not remove, I continued to glare at that far away figure.
“……Bell-sama?”
“!?”
A whisper came from behind me
As if she was deeply attracted to me and looked at this side, Lili was currently looking at me stunned, in close proximity.
“L…Lili? When did you get over here?”
“Just right now……What did you say with that Adventurer-sama?”
“That……Nothing much, I was only being picked upon……”
I do not know why I hid the truth and said nothing. In order to hurt the person in front of me, and was being negotiated upon, it was impossible to say it out loud.
Lili, who was staring at my chest moving up and down, tightly closed her lips and exposed a dark expression.
“R…Right! It seems like you were caught up by someone, are you okay Lili!?”
“So you saw……There is no need to worry. As you can see Lili is unscathed”
Lili opened her arms and quickly turned in a circle on the spot. Then, finally, she revealed a smile underneath her hood.
There was no signs of being roughly handled, it seems like she was really not hurt. I calmed down.
“Lili, those people are……”
“Lili was being picked upon just like Bell-sama. No matter Lili or Bell-sama, looks like we still look so weak, right?
It covered up my voice.
Lili, who was smiling while joking around, clearly rejected further questions.
“Then, let’s hurry Bell-sama. After all, Lili had already been dropped twice for explorations, I am looking forward to Bell-sama’s activeness today, oh?”
Passing through my side, Lili headed towards Babel. Turning around to look at this side, through the swaying bangs I saw the maroon-colored eyes. It was calm and peaceful as if nothing had happened.
I also did not continue to mention about it. I closed my mouth and silently followed Lili.
What kind of expression is Lili revealing while heading forward, despite the noise from the crowd, I continued to think.
“……Is it already that time”
× × ×
“Ara, Eina is also preparing to leave?”
“Yes. I was planning to”
Eina nodded towards her colleagues’ inquiry.
At the guild’s headquarters’s window side. The reception hall that was located on the first floor, whether it was the floor or the walls, it was covered with white marble and exuded an serious atmosphere. From the sunset’s ray that seeped in through the windows, it illuminated this spacious and organized hall.
While looking at the scene of the hall near the window-side, Eina was probably tidying up her work space and stood up from her seat.
“WAA, so punctual!? That Eina would actually end her work at this time, it must be a lie. Could it be because of a man!?”
“Why did it become like this……”
Nono, she waved her hands and gave a wry smile while she faced the lobby with her back.
Then excuse me, after saying this, she turned around and walked through the backdoor only used by employees.
“Then……”
While the plain and simple boots provided by the guild, toto, stepped onto ground, Eina took a step in the reverse direction of where her residence was. Although her residence was near the guild’s headquarters, but her destination was not.
Currently, in the North-West Main Street area that was already dyed by the color of the sunset, there were almost no mobile kiosk or street vendors. There were only giant shops that were neatly arranged on both sides of the road. As a street set up for the guild headquarters, the shops here were mainly related to Adventurers.
If the people nearby were to talk about it, in this complex street area, this street could also be called
The road was extremely spacious. Even Adventurers, who were wearing heavy armor, could still pass through without touching anyone.
(In the end, just by relying on the information from the guild about
In the recent days, Eina had been investigating about the internal situation of
Why, if she was asked about it, she would reply clearly that she was concerned. If she had to add more words to thoroughly explain it, it was because she was worried that Bell was involved in some sort of trouble.
(Even if I was to ask the person in charge of the
Even if she searched through the reference and gossips collected by the guild, there were no impressive result.
It only revealed that they had an abnormal persistence towards money, a strange atmosphere that caused the members to entered a blind state. The truth on the surface was limited to this. Eina summarized the points while she continued to advance through her thinking.
(The Main God must have incited the
It could be called as an impression of the smell of gunpowder, if you want to list out the points about the problems, it would be their dedication to money and the size of the faction itself.
Inside the
(If the reason was not the God Soma itself? No, if they were attracted by something else, the
When she had thought up to this point, Eina temporarily stopped her footsteps.
A large wine bar entered her sight.
“Nnnnn~……If I could enter this place, it would be the best……”
From ancient to modern times, when it comes to collecting intelligence, you will naturally think of bars and the downtown areas.
However, Eina was somewhat tangled about the place.
To her……no, to an elf, the wine bars that gathered numerous Adventurers was mostly gates of hell.
In other words, no matter which race it was, as long as they were male, they would be attracted to them like bees to a flower, and w
ould absolutely not ignore her.
“Ahaha……As I expected, it really won’t work.”
Probably she had imagine what would happen next, Eina gave a wry smile and passed through wine bar that exuded an adult’s atmosphere. Once she heard the rough voices of the Adventurers inside, she slightly increased her pace in panic.
(This is not considered as arrogant……)
Eina was somewhat aware of her own appearance.
Inside her body, the blood that flows was from the elves, it had a reputation for having handsome men and beautiful women. The opposite sex would instantly change their eyes and swarm over them. This was something they had to accept.
(Even though I am not the type that is a bit slow for relationships)
Remembering the moment when she left her workplace, her friend’s surprised face when she said was it a man.
Eina did not intend to live alone as an innocent girl that was ignorant of the worldly affairs. She was already 19 years old. It shouldn’t be strange if she was in a relationship. She, herself, felt that sometimes this was a slightly empty line.
Was it a mishap from being completely devastated by work.
(But, she had not yet met a person that gave her the impression of
The people that talked with Eina, half of them were robust and lean Adventurers.
To her, it felt that when they were going to hold hands, all of them would make her turn and rotate around, this overly reliable Adventurers.
Just because they were like this, Eina was somewhat fearful.
(Can’t they be a little less reliable or what……)
Maybe she wanted a type where everybody wanted to take care of, the type that was ordinary……Eina thought bluntly about this matter.
A person who was plagued by problems, and through his own efforts, and finally plodded over to her side in the end, this kind of person. Eina would smile and take care of him, while thinking it can’t be help. The two of them would work together to build up a relationship gradually, a give and take relationship.
Able to rely on their own, or perhaps a person who arouse her desire to protect. To Eina, this was just right.
