“The dude over there, do you wanna party with me?”
“……eh, Me?”
The day after I started exterminating goblins by myself, a spritzy-looking guy invited me to form a party.
“To tell you the truth, I accepted a subjugation quest for the Goblin King but the guys I was meant to go with suddenly disappeared…… And then you came along with so many goblin ears. I’ve only just come to this town so I don’t really know my way around.”
“Ah, if you’re fine with me then okay.”
After all, the guys from the adventurer class won’t party with me anyway……
“Oh, really!? That really helps. I heard it’s hard to fight the Goblin king with just newbies so it really helps!”
“I’m also a new recruit who just registered yesterday though……”
“………Eh, but you defeated so many goblins yesterday though, right?”
“Yeah, I went to fight them right after registering yesterday.”
“Ehh……”
His voice was obviously filled with dejection.
“……I’m sorry?”
With this, there’ll probably be no more talk of forming a party. Even though I thought I would finally get to do a quest in a party……
“Then we’ll need two, three more people.”
“……Are you still continuing the talk of partying by any chance?”
I was thinking about maybe taking the goblin quest again but the boy spoke in an extremely natural manner.
“Er… If it’s alright, I’d like your help.”
Come to think of it, he said he also just came to this town recently so as fellow rookies, I’d like to get along.
“I’m fine with that, so let’s go find a few more people.”
“Yeah!!”
We started to search for the remaining members of our party.
――――――[King POV]――――――――――――――――――――――――――
“Sigh.. Is there someone who can heal my wife and daughter anywhere……”
It’s been a few days since I summoned the top recovery magic users, and I have been continuously doing my job as King.
In the end, those people couldn’t heal my daughter, and I now have my subordinates searching for other recovery magic users.
However, I don’t believe someone else can heal a disease that my daughter wasn’t able to cure.
With a heavy hand, I grasp my pen and continue working again today.
*Knock Knock*
Suddenly, there is a knock at my door.
“……Who is it.”
I’m on guard against the one coming at such a late hour but I still call out anyway.
It could be that they found an excellent healer.
Filled with both uneasiness and hope, I await the response.
“――――Darling.”
“―――――――――――Huh?”
Just now.. Whose voice was that?
I’ve had her conversing beside me over the span of many years. Right, that voice was――
“―――――Father.”
Wait, am I hearing things?
It can’t be, I’m familiar with this one as well. This voice is――――――――
I rise from my seat and open the door with a trembling hand.
“Aaahhhhhhhhhh!!!”
I’ve been constantly worrying. About the possibility of the two of them dying as they were.
Right now, before my eyes were my beloved wife and daughter――.
“Wh-what happened!? Is your illness alright!?”
The two look to be in good health no matter what, but I still ask.
“Yes, it’s fine now, darling.”
“Right, as you can see, we’ve been cured.”
“That’s great!! That’s rea-lly great!!”
My vision blurs.
I can’t show my subordinates this appearance of mine but at least for today…. No, today I will allow it.
I embrace the two and continue crying in a loud voice――
Hearing my voice, the guards come running.
Seeing our figures and guessing that my daughter and wife were cured, everyone also starts crying and shouting together.