V3C2

Translated by Mlzkzr Edited by Mlzkzr

“Haa……”

I, Hiiragi Seiichi, am troubled while eating breakfast at he 『Tree of Peace』.

The source of such trouble of mine was ——

“Ah……!”

——Altria-san.

Even now, Altria-san, who came out of the room, when she found me and Saria, turned away and went out of the inn quickly.

“…… completely being avoided, I am……”

Well, I suddenly did something that looks like a proposal. If I say that I can’t help it, then it can’t be helped. In addition to me being confused, looking at it objectively, I have done something very bold.

From yesterday, she didn’t even meet me in order to get rid of the misunderstanding.

However, as I thought, it is variously painful to be avoided. Or rather, sad.

“What am I supposed to do……”

When I said it out involuntarily, Saria, who had been eating silently in front of me, opens her mouth.

“It’s alright, you know. Particularly, she doesn’t hate Seiichi.”

With a smile, Saria says so, and my heart felt a little at peace.

“Thank you. But how can you say that?”

“Hmm…… Wild intuition?”

“Wild!?”

Not a woman’s!? No, maybe it’s correct because she’s a gorilla, though……!

When I was surprised at how fresh it was, Mary, the signboard girl of this inn, came over, with a seemingly curious appearance.

“Hey hey, what happened with Altria-san?”

“Eh?”

“That’s because, Altria-san is obviously avoiding Seiichi-san …… It’s more obvious to think that something happened, right?”

“That’s……”

To Mary’s sharp point, I involuntarily faltered.

Then, Mary presses a question in an amused state.

“So? What happened? Ah, as I thought, is it the troubles of a relationship between a man and a woman? Seiichi-san is surprisingly popular. Even though you have such a beautiful girl …… Although I don’t know your real face within the hood, it’s strange, isn’t it. So, why is it?”

“No, even if I told you ……”

That’s…… that was it. It’s like she’s a girl showing an interest in talking about love.

I didn’t expect myself to be the target of that, but……

“No, it was not such a big deal, though ……”

“Eh? It doesn’t look like that at all, you know? So what? What happened? Hmm? Look, you’ll say it, won’t you?”

“What the heck are you!?”

To Mary who asked many times, I inserted a quip.

In the end, as she kept asking questions, Fina-san, the owner of this inn and her mother, noticed it and gave her a warning, so Mary reluctantly went back to work.

“Fuh…… Ah, by the way, Saria. What are you going to do today?”

“Eh?”

“See, the subjugation test has been cancelled, but we have become guild members, right?”

I and Saria, got a formal guild card from Gassur yesterday, and had received an explanation the guild. In other words, we’re members of the official guild. Formally, we have joined perverts’ group!

To briefly summarize the contents of the explanation, adventurers and requests have ranks, and it seems that they are F, E, D, C, B, A, S in ascending order.

Both I and Saria, will start from the lowest rank F.

We can receive a request, with the same rank, or one level above that. And we can receive requests for up to 3 at a time.

The way to raise your rank is, 10 times if it is the same rank as you. If it’s a rank higher, it seems that you can rank up by succeeding in such requests 5 times.

Just because you’re registered in the guild, doesn’t mean that you have to accept a request. When I heard that, I was a little relieved.

Because, my purpose, is just to gather information to the end. I can’t idiotically concentrate on requests.

So, as for today’s schedule, I won’t get a request, and I was only going to collect information.

To me who has such a thought, Saria shows a pretense of thinking a little.

“Hmm …… I, wonder if I should go to the orphanage today.”

“Oh, do you mean that you’ll accept a request immediately?”

“Yup. Claire-san, said I can come anytime. Even if they haven’t dispatched a request, I’ll go.”

“Really. Well then, we’ll take different actions today. Be careful, alright?”

“Yup!”

I who was satisfied with Saria’s reply, ate breakfast immediately, and started moving to gather information right away.

◇◆◇

“As I thought, this city is booming ……”

I who broke up with Saria, and left the inn, got such an impression.

This is because I saw a lot of people doing business at stalls, and obaa-sans talking to each other.

It was impressive that everyone was smiling. It may be an unthinkable sight on Earth, which was pressed with work and study.

Even in such a nice country, is there something like a slum?

I don’t want to think too much about it, but if there is light, there is also a shadow, so I couldn’t say that there are no slums at this point because I don’t know the actual situation in this country in detail.

“Well, if I can do that today, I’ll check it out……”

When I think about such a thing, I suddenly notice that the city becomes noisy.

“Hmm? What is it?”

From the usual liveliness of the inhabitants of this city, it was a little different.

Listening carefully to it, I can even hear the screams of women.

“Oy oy, as I thought that it was a good city, it became turbulent……”

With that in mind, it was when I turned my gaze towards the direction of the noise.

“Stooooooooooop!”

“Don’t let him escape! Chase! Chaseeeeeeeeee!”

“Hahahaha! I will not be caught! Freedom is the best!”

“Freedom is fine, so wear clothessssssssss!”

The appearance of a naked, slightly overweight old man, being chased by men dressed in the same type of armor as Claude jumped into my eyes.

His appearance being pursued by force leaped into my eyes.

The naked ossan*, no matter how I see it, was the person who had a dangerous talk with the lolicon Ossan* in the guild. (TN: old man)

The naked Ossan, who runs through this busy road with a nimble run, has a refreshing smile floating on his face.

Suddenly, when I look at the surroundings, the women turned away from him with their faces red, and the men smiled bitterly.

“Today is gonna be the today!”

“We’ll absolutely throw you in the prison!”

“You’re saying disturbing things. But I’ll run away, and I’ll show you! With this unleashed mind and body, I can go anywhere……!”

“You can go anywhere, but just wear your clothes!”

“I refuse!”

“Why!?”

“My pride and soul are, screaming to be naked……!”

“Shit! Why is he uselessly magnificent ……!”

While having such an exchange, the ossan and the soldiers in armor ran past me.

………….

“Fuh…… it’s peaceful today too ……”

Muttering so, I headed to the guild. Quip, is it? It’ll be just useless to do so, you know.

Along the way, no events occurred in particular, and when I normally reach the guild, I walked inside as it was.

The surprising thing is, there were no conspicuous perverts today, and Ellis-san was standing normally at the reception desk.

However, only Gassur, was twisting his neck in various poses next to the reception desk. Does he even work? This guy……

While wondering why Gassur is the guild master, I spoke to the person in question, Gassur.

“Good morning, Gassur”

“Mu? Oh, Seiichi-kun hah! There were a lot of things that happened yesterday, aren’t you tired?”

“Well, I’m fine with that.”

I have monster-class status.

“Well, if you’re fine, then it’s better than anything else. Come to think of it, I don’t see Saria, though……”

“Saria, went to the orphanage, in which she did well during the exam.”

“I see. Then, what about Seiichi-kun?”

Gassur exactly asked that, so I decided to ask if I could get any information.

“Actually, I just want a little bit of information. So, if you’re the Guild Master Gassur, then I think you know a lot.”

“Fumu, information huh……”

In my words, Gassur made a pondering gesture.

As I thought, there might be information that he can easily taught, and information that is difficult to get.

When I was thinking of such a thing, Gassur raises his face, and says to me with a serious expression.

“How to build muscles efficiently, from introductory to advanced level, but which one would you like?”

“It’s not that information I was saying!?”

He was thinking about it unusually serious, so I thought it was a serious story! Or rather, an introductory edition or something like that!?

Staring at me who was astonished, for some reason Gassur has a strange look on his face.

“Mu? On the contrary, what kind of other information is there?”

“There is, you know!? You’re way strange!? Why am I the one looking weird!”

When I was quipping with all my might, as if the reception’s work was fine, Ellis-san came over.

“Indeed. Such worthless information, who will want it? Don’t you understand that? That’s why, a muscle daruma is ……”

“Wo,worthless!?”

In Ellis-san’s words, Gassur was visibly depressed.

Rather, he ignored the muscle daruma…… However, I’m glad that there was a person with common sense like Ellis-san. When she was swinging a whip, she looks nothing but a pervert, but she is one of the few people with common sense in the guild who can talk normally.

I am lightly grateful for Ellis-san’s appearance, and I regained my mind and asked Ellis-san.

“Err, Ellis-san. I had said it to Gassur, but I want a little bit of information ……”

“I see, I understand.”

“Oh!”

“There are SM courses, from introductory to advanced level, but…… which one do you want?”

“You too!”

I was stupid to even expect a little!

Ellis-san, who received my quip, shuddered for some reason.

“Su,such…… my overwhelmingly popular, SM course is ……”

“Am I strange? Hey, am I strange?”

I unintentionally said the same thing twice. That’s how, Ellis-san’s way of being surprised was extraordinarily abnormal.

Is there no decent person here anymore……

At me holding my head, Gassur smiles.

“Well, let’s stop with the jokes thus far.”

“Do that from the beginning!”

I wanted to hit him with all my strength, but I restrain myself. Because I’m an adult!

“You want information, don’t you? However, I’m saying this in these days, that we don’t have any unusual information, but ……”

“Then, tell me something great, or something that has happened in the last six months.”

“Half a year? Well, that’s fine, but ……”

The reason why I set it to six months is that because I was in the 【Forest of Endless Love and Sorrow】, for about half a year.

If there was a hero’s movement during in that period, I want to know.

Besides, if I ask about the heroes directly, it may seem strange. Why do you mind about such a thing, and if the heroes were not known generally, why do I know such a thing.

Gassur, who has no way of knowing what’s inside my heart, seriously told me about the big events that happened in the last six months.

“…… Umu. As expected, the biggest thing which happened was probably the Kaizer Empire summoning heroes.”

“That’s right.”

“!”

It’s bingo suddenly.

I’m surprised that the information I wanted to know so easily came out, but I very much welcome it.

“Summoning heroes……”

Really, I don’t know such a thing, you know? In a pretending manner, I mutter so.

“Nn? You don’t know about the hero summoning?”

“Well……”

“Really. I think it was quite a big event, though…… Well, if you don’t know, I’ll tell you. The hero summoning is ————”

“In order for the Kaizer Empire to defeat the allegedly resurrected Demon King, they summoned a hero from another world …… that was the details.”

“……My lines……”

Ignoring the depressed Gassur, I ask Ellis-san about the Demon King.

“What is the Demon King?”

“Ara? You don’t know that, too?”

“Err…… I’m from the countryside ……”

Even when issuing a guild card, there’s no need to write the place of origin, so I can lie as much as I want. It hurts my conscience, but……

“Right. Well, it’s fine. To put it simply, the Demon king is the King who leads the demons …… I believe.”

“Leads the Demons……”

“You can find out more about what it is by looking it up in the library, rather than by asking us, you know.”

“I see.”

Library huh…… When I was on earth, reading was unrelated in my life, but I’m somewhat interested in libraries in another world.

However, a demon huh. I met one in a forest near this city…… was it Bell? I think he and his companions were saying about the Demon Army in certainty.

I thought of such a thing, but suddenly, I noticed something.

“Err, the Kaizer Empire have summoned heroes, in order to prepare for the Demon King, right?”

“Indeed.”

“Then, is this country, or any other country doing anything for counter-measures?”

If, the Demon King was a heinous being, would it be okay to live in a peaceful mood nonchalantly like this?

Well, for me who knows the past of the Black Dragon God, I don’t get much impression that he’s evil, though.

To my question like that, the resurrected Gassur replied before I knew it.

“It’s not that the other countries, didn’t talk about the heroes’ summoning, but at least in this country we haven’t done anything like that.”

“Eh, is that alright?”

“You don’t have to worry. In this country, there are two strongest knights. One of them doesn’t leave the King, but the other is a defense genius. If by any chance, the Demon King’s army in this country …… if they attack this city, it most likely won’t lose.”

What’s that, amazing.

There were such strong knights in this country hah……

Wondering what kind of knight it was, when he looks at me at a glance as I was thinking about it, Gassur continues.

“Besides, some S-rank adventurers, were demons, you know?”

“Is that so!?”

Demons in S-rank …… Somehow, it’s cool.

Certainly, I thought it was recognized that the demons were totally evil, but isn’t that really surprising?

Perhaps because he sensed such inner feelings mine, Gassur floated a gentle smile.

“I don’t know what the Demon King is like, but wouldn’t it be strange to deny such persons just because they are demons?”

I remember the Black dragon god, where I have an image that human beings were worse than demons.

However, Gassur doesn’t seem to care about the demons somehow from the beginning.

I thought this when I was with Altria-san, but in this guild where people with too strong personality gather, it seems that they’re neither concern whether its humans nor demons.

Gassur who ties up such a guild does not seem to be working, but he may have the capacity as a Guild master.

“Moreover, the king of this country is willing to interact with different races. That includes the Demon race too. Well, the exchange with the Demons is, now that the Demon King’s resurrection is happening, haven’t been progressively done, so we haven’t formed a friendly relationship, but…… The people were haven’t been directly damaged by the demons, so I like the notion of the king.”

“……”

Normally, I thought that human beings instinctively dislike beings different from themselves, but looking at the group here, they rather have too many unique personalities, that I thought they wouldn’t mind it at all.

I, Saria, and above all, Altria-san know that they are good guys, even if they are complete perverts.

As I recall that the guild guys were looking for us who had disappeared, and being a little deeply moved, Gassur gives me other information as well.

“After that, that’s right …… speaking of heroes, in the last six months, various technologies have improved dramatically because of them.”

“Eh? Why?”

“Several technologies of the 『Earth』 where the heroes lived, spread in the Kaizer Empire. There have been technological advances in various fields, mainly in clothing, food, entertainment and weapons.”

“……”

Hey heroes! Restrain yourselves a little! …… I couldn’t really say that!

“But, didn’t the Kaizer Empire choose to monopolize such technologies well.”

I, honestly said what I thought.

That’s because, around the point of summoning heroes, I thought that it was a very selfish country, though……

As I thought that way, Gassur said with a bitter smile.

“Haha. Of course, the Kaizer Empire tried to monopolize it. Since it was, a technology that far surpasses other countries. The magnitude of meaning that one country possesses it is, everyone knew.”

“If so, how?”

“Only the spirit of business, could not be suppressed even in the empire.”

The,the spirit of business? Eh, that means ……

“Did the merchants, spread it without permission?”

“Well, in the end, that’s what I’m going to say.”

“Those merchants, have a job to sell and make a profit. Rather than competing in vain in the Kaizer Empire, where many products using new technology are on the market, don’t you think it’s definitely more profitable to travel to another country, and sell products that use that technology?”

“Ce,certainly……”

Well, rather than competing between new technologies, if they compete in a land where new technology haven’t spread, they can definitely make easy money.

“Therefore, the technology that the heroes have brought in, has spreading in many countries as well. Well, the merchants of the Kaizer Empire, to spread the technology while the empire bans it, seems that they were risking their lives but …… ”

Hmm …… the Kaiser Empire bunch, seems to be a pretty ugly country.

Well, from the perspective of protecting the people, they normally want to avoid their technology being diverted to foreign countries, though. Although I don’t know their detailed domestic circumstance.

As I was secretly convinced, Gassur suddenly remembered something.

“Ah, that’s right. Seiichi-kun ”

“Mm?”

“You, don’t have a horse yet, do you?”

“Horse?”

A horse ……is an animal, isn’t it?

Other than that, I couldn’t think of anything which was called a horse, but since this was a different world tentatively, I thought about it unintentionally.

Then, when he saw such state of mine, Gassur who might’ve guessed that I didn’t have a horse, began to explain why he suddenly said such a thing.

“Even though you’re an F-rank adventurer, you’d better have a horse. In the future, you’ll probably be traveling more often.”

“Ha? I, don’t particularly need a horse, though……”

Because, I won’t work in the guild so seriously.

Besides, I’m not willing to accept a combat-based request on my own, so I don’t intend to go out.

In the first place, it’s faster for me to run than to run on a horse. …… A’re? that’s strange.

“Umu, don’t say that. You seem to have a considerable ability, don’t you. If you have the ability, you might get an escort request in designation, you know?”

“!?”

In the words of Gassur, I became involuntarily nervous.

Wh,why did he say that I’m strong? My status should’ve been disguised perfectly……

I don’t know if he saw through such thoughts of mine, but Gassur explained the reason.

“Well, that’s what Altria-kun had said.”

“Eeeh!? Wha,what did she say?”

“Nn? Well…… 『I don’t know why, but Seiichi is probably hiding his true ability. The monster that I couldn’t win against, Seiichi must have defeated it. If that wasn’t It, then I, Seiichi and his companion, wouldn’t be able to return safely like this. 』……that’s what she said.”

“……”

“Well, your circumstance right now is fine. Anyway, aristocrats don’t leave such a powerful person alone. They may come in touch with you personally, or drop an escort request in. You may not understand it now, but if you’re really a strong guy, I think you’ll eventually find it out.”

“…… That’s not the case, though.”

It doesn’t feel like it’s too late, but let’s deceive him for the time being.

However, Gassur who doesn’t really care of whether I’m strong or not in, continues talking.

“Anyway, if get an escort request, you will inevitably have to travel a long way. If you’re attacked by bandits, you will also have to run. That’s why, among adventurers, horses are a valuable tool.”

“Hee, But, if I bought a horse now, I don’t have a place to leave it……”

“Fumu, you’re the same as Altria-kun, so you’re staying at the 『Tree of Peace』, right?”

“Yes.”

“That place, surely have, a stable behind it. It costs a little money, but if you pay, they’ll look after the horse.”

What the, is it so.

I haven’t felt any inconvenience so far, but as Gassur said, I don’t know when there will be a point where I have to use a horse.

While the surroundings are using horses, if I’m the only one running and still not tired, I’ll be treated as a monster.

“If so, I should buy a horse hah”

“Well, isn’t that okay at the time you have money? I just gave you an advice, so you don’t have to do it right now, you know?”

“No, it’s fine because I more or less have money.”

“Is that so. Then, wait a moment.”

When Gassur said so, he withdrew to the back of the reception desk, and after a while, he came back with a piece of paper.

“This is, a map to the store that sells horses. In addition, such as tool shops and blacksmiths that not only beginners but also adventurers often went to, a map of important places, were also written on it. Of course, the library, too.”

“Oh, thank you”

For thinking that you should work, I’m sorry.

“Do you have anything you want to ask further?”

“Ah, this is okay for the meantime. If, I have any questions, I’ll rely on you again.”

As I said so, both Gassur and Ellis-san were satisfied.

“I see! Then, please ask the introduction of how to build muscles efficiently by all means that time!”

“My SM course is also, always welcome for you.”

“Nah, I’m good.”

After the end of such exchange, I left the guild.

TN: Follow me on for support!!

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