Chapter 7 (1/2)

It seems that it takes two days on foot to reach the border town of Notos from the outer edge of the Forest of Abyss.

There seems to be a town relatively close to the dangerous forest. Although Forest of Abyss has many dangerous monsters but accordingly yields many precious materials.

After cleaning up, as the sun was setting, we have moved to a place separated from the Forest of Abyss, spend the night in a camp, and walked towards the town of Notos along with the two bandits the next day.

Carriages apparently don’t drive near the Forest of Abyss, and the girl has apparently came on foot too.

「Which reminds me, I didn’t ask your name, didn’t I? Please, tell me your name」

Somehow, it feels as if she’s forcing herself and pretending to be tough.

「My name is Kaito. I’m fourteen」

「Eh! You are still only fourteen? I thought you would be at least the same age as me since your body is big. Oh well, my name is Elrain. You can call me El. Nevertheless, you are strong for being so young, aren’t you? Are you a high ranking adventurer?」

「I don’t know what high ranking adventurer is, but I’m not an adventurer」

There, Elrain asks Kaito as if recalling something.

「…… That reminds me, Kaito, didn’t you come out from the Forest of Abyss?」

「Yeah, I didn’t think the forest would be so vast. It took me seven days to get out from that forest」

Are? There are no reactions coming from El.

「…… I misheard you, didn’t I? That’s right, there’s no way a person could live in the depths of the Forest of Abyss」

El is grumbling something under her nose, but I can understand her feelings. I also thought that I’m going to die several times, I would like to excuse myself from living in the forest for more than a week.

The speed of Kaito’s development is a special trait of visitors from afar, but when talking about defeating S-rank monsters, high leveled ones at that, Dolfares’ training has a big impact.

The higher the level of the opponent is, the more fighting experience it has. Kaito doesn’t notice that.

On the middle of the way, they made a camp and arrived at the town of Notos before the second day ended.

The town of Notos is encircled by high walls, it’s a fort city.

The northern gate pointing in the direction of the Forest of Abyss is without people in the evening, so they were able to enter without lining up.

Naturally, because I have no social identification, I had to pay a fee of five silver coins. About fifty thousand yen? I don’t know whether it’s expensive or not.

When we handed over the bandits to the soldiers, we were given four gold coins. When I consider I was given 200,000 yen per person, I realize the inexpensiveness of crime slaves.

「…… Kaito, I have a little request, but…… could you lend me some money?」

El embarra.s.sedly asks to borrow money.

「No, didn’t I tell you that it’s fine to split the gold coins by half?」

「That’s not good! I was the one who got saved and didn’t do anything」

「Then, El should guide me around this town. I will give you a guide fee of one gold coin for now」

Saying such, I forcibly stuff a gold coin into El’s hand.

「Is that alright? You could live for twenty days with one gold coin」

「It’s fine, I still have the money the bandits had on them, after all」

After that, I had El introduce me an inn. We had a dinner together in the inn’s dining room.

「So, Kaito. What will you do tomorrow?」

El asks me about my plans tomorrow while drinking after dinner tea. I have requested El to guide me around the town, but I have to decide the proper order.

「In that case, am I able to get status plate from any guild?」

「It’s fine from any guild, but the Commercial Guild and the Worker’s Guild have difficult conditions to join, so I think you rather go to the Adventurer’s Guild」

Is that so? I wanted to do some smithing tomorrow, but, let’s go to the Adventurer’s Guild in the morning then.

「Then, I will register at the Adventurer’s Guild in the morning, hand over the bandits’ status plates and receive the reward. If possible, I would like to buy underwear and clothes after that, though」

「Now that you mention it, Kaito. You don’t have any bag on you. …… Are? Then, what happened to the money you collected from the bandits? Are?」

Did she notice just now? Is El surprisingly an air head?

「I will talk about that later, so come to my room」