“Yo. What happened? Why here?”(renji)
“We came to look for Renji-niichan. Here.”(souichi)
[………]
“Oh, thanks.”
Taking back Ermenhilde from him, I put it back inside my pocket.
“As expected.”
“Hm?”
“The beard. You look cooler without it.”
“Well thanks.”
I can’t really be honestly happy at that.
Did it really not suit me that much? I actually liked it a bit. As if to once again check the now non-existent beard, I ended up rubbing my chin with my hand.
“Leaving that aside, Renji-niichan, I waited for quite a while yesterday you know?”
“…….that was my bad. After dropping off Aya home, I just returned back.”
[To the bar again?]
“……….”
[Rather than taking me back……you went to a bar.]
“It’s fine right, once in a while? There are times when I feel like drinking alone as well.”
“[hou.]
It seems I have angered it quite a bit.
What should I do, I started thinking. Well, it’s mood will get better soon enough though. If it kept on sulking like that, I’d start feeling bad as well. Well, it was actually my fault though.
Well I feel like being alone sometimes as well so it should be fine, right? It would be fine in villages but if I let Ermenhilde alone somewhere in an inn like that with so many people, I afraid it would get stolen instantly.
Yesterday, since I gave it to Souichi coincidentally, I just went to the bar……..maybe because I felt a bit too relaxed after talking to Aya.
While giving excuses inside my head, I thought about how to improve its mood.
“Did you guys come just to give Ermenhilde back only?”(renji)
The noise of the adventurers around us was getting irritating.
This is why I hate being famous. No matter where you go you become the centre of attention. You can’t even talk while standing somewhere normally.
“I’ll come back after accepting a request so can you wait for a bit?”
“Sure, I’ll be over there.”
Saying that, I pushed through the adventurers surrounding us and left there. Ah, irritating. I’ll have to go seclude myself in some rural village again.
[You adulterer.]
“Where the hell are you learning these words?……”
Who the hell was it that taught it these words? Souichi doesn’t seem like he’d say such thing. Was it either Aya or Yayoi-chan?
I can’t really imagine either of them doing so but it should be one of them.
[Anyway, Renji.]
“Your attitude changed suddenly…..so, what is it?”
[They seem to have decided to send the captured demon to the Royal Capital.]
“Well, sounds obvious.”
[…….You aren’t surprised by that?]
Anyone would get to that conclusion if he were to think even a bit.
The royal capital has 4 knight orders that specialise against monsters, even demons. It’s natural to give something troublesome like a demon to their hands. Those idiots at Strategy(tactics) city would probably get all riled up saying that demons have attacked, so its time to get revenge but the guys in Magic city are slow to act so would definitely hand over something troublesome like this to others.
“And the ones meant to escort it to the capital are Souichi and others, right?”
[Muu, you’re no fun Renji.]
“It’s a serious thing like a demon after all. They’d obviously make them move to be absolutely sure.”
And that demon used summoning skills. Goblins—-and he also summoned that black ogre.
It would be one thing if it was just goblins but that black ogre would be too much for normal adventurers. Well I doubt that demon would be able to summon monsters like that so easily either though. Rather than that, if Souichi and others are going to the capital, I can also stick with those guys. If they’re transporting a demon, it’ll probably be carried in a carriage with barriers set around it. Then the escort will also be either on horses or in a carriage.
If I go with these guys, the travel would also be easier for me. If I were to walk, it’d take at least 20 days to get to the capital. It’ll take half the time in a carriage.
While gazing at the crowd of people going by in front of the guild, I thought about what could be done. If I couldn’t go with them, I’ll just have to walk though. That or I’ll have to take the escort quest from the guild.
“Ah, Renji-sama.”
“I don’t think I have become great enough to need a ‘-sama’ suffix but, what is it Miss Francesca?”
While I was thinking such things, Miss Francesca came out.
I sighed at the usual call of ‘-sama’. I just defeated a few goblins and one ogre in that fight. Aya, who took doubt countless goblins with just one magic spell is more worthy of being called like that in my opinion. Well, it’s her freedom how she calls anybody.
“So, did you take a request?”
“Yes. To collect materials for alchemy at the Forest of Magical Energy.”
“Hmmm.”
Rather than the request itself, I’m more worried about her getting lost while in the forest.
She did fight Orcs with me back then but somehow she still gives this unreliable, dangerous image. Just like a noble, she has that atmosphere.