Chapter 29 - Fine (1/2)

—Laila—

「Gh!」

No longer a first-class adventurer, hearing those words, confusion crept into Sarveria’s face.

「What are you saying! Don’t be silly!」

Immediately, Sarveria yelled at the masked warrior.

It seemed her anger had surpassed her fear of the masked warrior.

And Margulus, with Sarveria’s angry yell as a signal, also yelled at the masked warrior even though he was still suffering from the pain.

「You hit me! It’s forbidden for adventurers to fight each other!」

Margulus and Sarveria’s voice drew the attention of the people in the guild nearby.

… Not long after that, Almast appeared from the adventurer guild and turned her accusing eyes toward the masked warrior.

「What is this uproar about? Though from the look of it, it seems you’re being violent toward Margulus-sama!」

「Almast! That’s right, this guy suddenly…」

Margulus’ face lighted up when he saw Almast.

And then, while Almast tried to shift the blame to the masked warrior…

「Even though I’m a guild’s agent?」

— The atmosphere changed greatly from the masked warrior’s remark.

Guild’s agent, they were the adventurers that were contracted directly by the adventurer guild in the capital city.

Their skill was on the first-class level or higher, they had various privilege comparable to the head of the guild branch, and they weren’t bound by the guild’s rules.

「……!」

… Now she understood who was the person she tried to pick a fight with, blood drained from Almast’s face.

「T-That, Margulus-sama, this time…」

Immediately, Almast tried to tell Margulus and Sarveria they should take the blame for now.

「Hahh- Guild’s agent you said? I don’t know how great that is in the capital, but this is labyrinth city, you see? How about you stop clinging on your past glory?」

「Like really, what? So just because you’re a guild’s agent you think we will forget your blunder? Are you being serious?」

… However, Almast was too late.

Margulus and Sarveria continued to throw insult toward the masked warrior.

They didn’t understand how much authority a guild’s agent had.

Almast tried to stop the two who still didn’t realize what they were doing.

But, Margulus and Sarveria didn’t notice Almast effort.

「Or maybe you’re trying to say that you’re adventurer from the capital and want to leave this party? If that’s so, just give up.」

「That’s right, in the labyrinth city, once you enter a party, you can’t leave.」

… And so, Margulus and Sarveria said a critical information.

About the act where they bound adventurers with a rule that didn’t exist.

Right, there was no such rule in the labyrinth city.

It was probably something Almast made on the spot in order to deceive me.

However, there was no way such a thing would be accepted by a guild’s agent.

「Wha-!」

At that moment, Almast’s face, the only one who understood the entire situation, went pass blue into white.

But it was too late.

「I see.」

While looking at Margulus, Sarveria, and Almast, the masked warrior muttered so.

「…So it’s this rotten, huh.」

From Margulus’ remark, the masked warrior didn’t even try to hide the anger he felt.

「Tha-That’s wrong! I’m pretty sure Margulus-sama is just misunderstood…」

And immediately after the masked warrior muttered that, Almast was trying so hard to make excuse for herself.

Unfortunately for her, I didn’t allow her to do that.

「Hmmm? Didn’t you explain that carefully to me back then? Is that all just a mistake?」

「Wha-! You’re saying too much…」

Almast gave me a death stare after my question, and as she was about to say something.

「Shut up, I don’t want to hear any excuse.」

The masked warrior cut her off before she let out any word.