Vol 1 Chapter 6 (2/2)

“I’ for a ‘companion’”

“Eh?”

“… Well… Uh, becoic… It can knock down Metal Slih…”

Soarer could not understand the conversation as the girl with braids who i herself

“My favorite food… is a strawberry jam scone, and… don’t like skeletons or spiders…”

“Hold up, wait a minute”

“?”

Companion, what kind do you mean?

Asking an envoy from an antique shop to be your husband, one that had just arrived, sitting alone, in the corner, Soarer wondered if it was a case of mistaken identity

Soarer first wondered, how did she know his name? He only knew a few people within Labyrinth City

Soarer sed so

He noticed that, behind the girl, was the hostess with crossed ar the situation with a smile

Soarer began to wonder about ritten on those notes

“…”

Soarer began to ask himself a question he had never asked before Why is this one asking for my company? Soarer had not considered this, since he had done everything by himself until now

“Well,”

Suddenly, he thought of one of master’s reminiscences

In a town in the north ten years ago, there was a goblin thief raid and Soarer was left to be killed

Master was at the time a wanderer, and he discovered Soarer as he was about to be attacked He unsheathed his flaoblins in a vortex of flale blow

After this, he was hired as a swordmaster to teach in the town

Soarer immediately beca to storied of the original dungeon his master had explored

Stories of horrible monsters in it

The treasure at the bottoeon

The many Seekers who he had seen die in the many ventures he had made

In those stories, the master ith companions at all times, with occurrences both funny and sad

Unknowingly, Soarer had begun yearning for companions to explore with

Finally Soarer realized what he was lacking

One of the eon exploration

“…What’s wrong?”

Soarer could heart the anxious voice, co This was an important opportunity, he couldn’t just clam up and call himself a Seeker

“Ye…”

“Yeu?”

“Yes, leave the skeletons to me!”

It was only good luck that he put out the right syllable Although it was quite eet to say what he needed to say Linne gave a coy smile

“Yeah! Be…st… Regards!”

“Best regards, yes!”

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“I wonder if that child did well”

“I think it’ll go well”

“Aah, we should go and secretly assist hi”

Ane the sa it out or not

Fujias more worried about the broo

“I’”

“Anemone-san, calm down…”

They looked like parents orried over their child on their first time out of the house

The suit of armor was rather suspicious, and hard to sneak around in Rather, it could instead lead to trouble

“Store Manager, you’re no good for Soarer, why are you co? A monster like you only cares about items, ould you be soft on others unless for an item That must be it, this brute”

“Hoful a thing to say”

“Aah, sorry to say that I’ht”

“Well, it’s just an unusual thing so I don’t mind it Anemone-sab sure backs him up a lot!”

“No such thing, a child like this is the type to try to do everything on their own, so for some reason I feel the need to meddle”

“Is that so?”

Fujias the sah

Anemone could likely see her old self in Soarer

Before she found company she trusted, she tried not to depend on anyone, and she had a very sad time in her life

“How did Aneeon, anyway?

“Aah? There are many captureth, and you can run away before it reforms

“It does? Can you really call that a capture method?”

Then, Fujiwara reeon alone

Her nickname is “Footsteps of Death” because of the steel echoes heard, leaving behind carcasses of

This sort of person used an obstinate, full-frontal breakthrough

“By the way, er?”

“Yes”

Ane towards Fujiwara

“It’s a she, not a he”

“…It is?”

Fujiwara slightly tilted his head, not knohat he was being told

“Soarer-kun is a girl”

“Ah, ah I thought that was likely, didn’t want to say it”

Fujiwara pretended to be cal to drop his cup

He hadn’t realized Soarer was a so-called ‘boku-kko’ (tl: female who refers to themselves as male)

In fact, he hadn’t noticed at all It was a thought, and he thought it was a boy, but they’re fairly androgynous

They were small statured for a swordsman and thin in some places, and in retrospect, the tone and behavior were soirly as well

It seeh Fujiwara vowed to have a s, too

Linne

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Discrimination Card “Fire Sword”

“Offer three hundred and twenty five drops of the descent of the people except unclean cri the world, like a bonfire in a traditional garden”

This is an i to o, it was said things entangled by that tongue left nothing behind, not even ash, inspired by an anecdote in the “Era of Superior Mages” Cast by Housten Yodenheiendary fire blade When used by a person, it’s said to give the blessing of the power of fire, cutting through rock and iron like butter The blessings of Fire’s design process was lost however, so we can only use fire to strengthen swords However, its ability to give us coood for ene it very effective The market price is inexpensive at 20,000, and it’d displayed at a secondhand weapon store as ‘The First Giving Tool they seeet for novice investigators