Episode 3 Boy and Girl
“Shit, this fucking dog!”
A boy swings a sword with all his might; it slightly hits the body of a wild dog. But due to its thick fur, the sword was hampered down so the dog dodged it just before the impact, almost giving it damage. The boy closes his distance again.
“――Guaah!!”
The boy takes aim on the dog with a disarrayed posture somewhere on his opposite, but there also a dog behind him that he neglected, and it comes to bite the boy’s ankle.
“Uwaah――!?”
Luckily the fang missed thanks to his thick boot, it prevented him from getting injured, but the opponent remained, biting it and trying to tear the boot by shaking it more and more.
Even being shaken off by him, the dog won’t release it…then he suddenly realizes, in a hurry he grips the sword with this hand and stab it in the back, this time the dog from not long ago jumps and aim for his defenseless neck.
“Uwaah…!?!”
By spontaneously bending back his posture, he reflexively shields himself with the sword so that he’s able to stop the dog’s fang, however he was being pressed down hard in this broken posture, more and more he is falling down with the wild dog putting its weight on him.
“…Hiii!!”
Now that it has become like this, he was about to be tormented to death. Those two wild dogs open their deep red mouths――In that moment, for some reason both of them separate from the top of the boy’s body like being snapped. They looking hesitantly on surrounding area, then at the moment when they stare blankly toward above,
“――Kyang?!”
Together with cries of misery the dogs running away from the spot with their tail curling up.
“…I, I was saved…?”
He mutters so while remaining faced up as he is dumbfounded, in the next instant the top of the boy body covered by a big shadow.
“A wyv…wyvern?! N, no…It, it’s an ancient dragon”
From the distant view it’s not that sort of wyvern dragon that was being rode on at the capital. It’s so huge, shining in a gold-colour and it possessed 4 limbs―To the extent that it could swallows alike of wyvern in one gulp, a really huge king of demon beasts.
The glance of its golden pupil captures the boy’s figure, the boy got goose bumps and opened his eyes wide, this time he was completely unable to stand due to fear,
“――Hi, hiiiiiiii!!”
He threw away the sword that he held, and on his wit’s end curled up like a pill bug. ――In that moment he feels a figure appear on the top of the ancient dragon, but it was probably a hallucination due to his excessive fear.
“……”
However, nothing happened no matter how long he waited, and it didn’t seems there was a change in the surrounding view either.
By any chance I was saved…?
So he thought, and slowly he begins to stretch out his head like a turtle to take a peep at the surrounding view. From behind the boy’s body, a girl’s voice that was clear like a chime is heard.
“Hey you there, an NPC? You can’t be a player right?”
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An odd girl.
That was the boy’s――a novice adventurer named Joey who become 15 years old’s ―― impression about that girl.
He turns his head and looks toward the source of that incomprehensible question,
“….a goddess of the moon”
He spontaneously spilled those words from his mouth, there stood an unbelievably beautiful girl.
Her pure white skin was without a single stain like it was covered in dissolved moonlight, her long black hair further down from her waist was like it was enhanced with the dark night and the stars by its glamour, when it came to her small face build, it makes the most beautiful girl in a yearly festival that he decided to attend looked like nothing but a pumpkin or a scarecrow.
What he was read in those fairy tales, something that describe as ‘peerless’ or ‘siren’ couldn’t even express this. Her face was so beautiful to the extent that he gulped down his breath.
“―When I’m being complimented directly like that, it’s quite embarrassing, you know”
Smiling with her whole face, her thin fingers stretched to the side of her face in embarrassment. Toward the girl gesture Joey finally realized the one in front of him is a real living person, he suddenly regained his sanity. Slowly, he stood up from the ground, he picked up his dropped sword and sheathed it, and he lightly patted his body to remove the clinging dirt and sand, this time he calmly turned toward the girl.
She seems appeared to be around 10-12 years old. What she was wearing is something of a first class which the price can’t be guessed, the black dress from her knee decorated with magnificent red rose corsairs were as if the flower is alive.
In fact the arrangement is mysteriously perfect with this girl, her hair band and pure white shock, even her black loafer which attached with the rose decoration.
Several part of the dress were shining and decorated obliviously not by a glass sphere, but by some kind of gem, no matter one looked at it.
Held in her hand, an excellent parasol arranged with plentiful frills. No matter how, her appearance is that of a locked-up princess who shouldn’t be in a place like this.
Out of place.
Only a single word couldn’t possible to describe her. There have to be a various words to say, but he leaved that aside, right now there was something that he want to confirm apart from that.
“He, heey, wasn’t there a golden colored ancient dragon flying just now?!”
Because of that words for some reason the girl was in panic for a moment,
“―Aah, that. Look like somehow it flying away in an instant, that was so dreadful right?~”
On the way she pointed, pyoooooh~, there is not a single thing in the empty distance.
“…I…I see…I was saved…”
Joey vented a big relieved sigh, for some reason the girl is making a curious look.
“Hmmm, look like his reaction isn’t different from an ordinary person. So he really aren’t an AI huh…”
She was uttered something while nodded in consent.
In different way Joey is being treated as an ‘ordinary person’, therefore for some reason he gets annoyed,
“For your information, I am a professional adventurer. Don’t consider me in the same area as an ordinary person”
He utters it while puffed in pride.
Hereupon, the girl, completely changed into one full of amazement, looking at the boy with sparkling eyes like a child.
“Heee, an adventurer! It’s amazing to directly see a real deal adventurer”
Unexpectedly the girl is really into it, so in a good mood Joey brought out his guild badge from his pocket to show it.
“That’s right. This thing is a badge that proves I am an adventurer”
It’s unknown why he suddenly bring that out, but what’s written in the thin metal board is Joey’s full name and membership, something like a level, the girl check it with her own eyes as if she was taking the bait.
“Joey Aland. 15 years old. Aara city adfend…Oh, Aara city adventurer guild member, right? F rank. Ken… Its swordsman(剣士ken ->sword) not a rock paper scissor man(拳ken -> rock paper scissor) right, since you hold a sword. No record of punishment history. Uh it’s hard to read if it’s only using hiragana and katakana――Why it doesn’t use kanji?”
“What is a kanji?”
“…It’s a well-known symbol to keep from separating words into a strange meaning”
Somehow the girl makes a sigh seeing his complicated face.
“-Oh well let’s just forget it. Aah, forgive me for the long talk. It’s my fault that I was hindering your work, I guess is time for me to leave”
The girl quickly lowered her head a little and turned back, Joey stopped her in panic.
“W, wait a minute. Where would you go from here?”
“Of course the town, isn’t it? Back then from above…ah, no, from a distance on that direction the town could be seen, for the time being I would go there”
With an oblivious face she directs the tip of her parasol toward the Aara city, while the girl spreads her parasol, but no matter how it looked like, the girl looks defenseless so Joey is greatly perplexed.
If she going from here on foot by following the sunset trail it should be a good way to reach it.
No, in the first place the girl has such a beautiful face and wore an expensive dress, she couldn’t possible reach it by walking alone.
Surely something like bandit would come up; rogue and criminal will be after her everywhere.
When that group of people sees her, before the girl eyes, they will be lured to assault her, she like a walking board with ‘please kidnap me’ written on it.
Joey still hasn’t completed his request so he worried about it for a moment, but with a determination he shakes off his hesitation.
“….Yup, that enough. Let me escort you!”
Not getting the meaning of the words that he declared, the girl cutely titled her head.
(episode 3 end)