Vol 1 Chapter 6 (2/2)
“A dungeon…”
This whole thing was like a drea eon!
“We reat place to level up”
“I see”
“I have new equipment While ill depend on your defense, it should not be too difficult for us”
“Awesome I’ll consider it”
“Oh, no problem at all Oh, hey, don’t you drink wine?”
The restaurant had given us ith our meals, but I had yet to touch mine
“Nah, I don’t really like alcohol”
It’s not that I can’t drink It’s sort of the opposite I never really end up drunk, so I guess I have a high tolerance Whenever I went to social events in college, I’d drink with other people I’d see them all end up drunk—which never happened toa distaste for the stuff
“Is that so? You could just have one glass?”
“No thanks I really don’t like it”
“But…”
“No thanks”
“Oh… All right then”
She looked upset as she retracted the glass of wine
“At least ere able to get a plan together for toht”
“Sure See you tomorrow”
We finished eating, and I turned o to my room
I remeet any sleep
I slipped out of it and flung it over the back of a chair
“…”
I then put my money pouch on the bedside table
200 pieces of silver… and we had to pay up-front for the roo me with just over 199 pieces I felt a little anxious about my finances, but I suppose that had always been my way
Just like a typical japanese person going traveling, I took 30 silver pieces and hid them on the backside of my shi+eld That settled my anxiety, if only just a little
It had been a busy day
Now I kne it felt to battle, and defeat, a monster I’d felt it yesterday as well, but I really was in another world
I was so excited It was hard to cal adventure I ht be a little behind the others, but there was a path just for oal in mind I could do whatever I wanted
I was suddenly very sleepy I could hear the sounds of revelry co from the restaurant Some people, they looked al down the hall I thought I saw the here too?
I reached out and extinguished et some rest…
Rattle, rattle
H at the bar?
Snore
Whisper, whisper… So at my clothes
“Heh, heh, men are fools So easily tricked… Can’t wait until tomorrow”
Who was that? Was it… a dream?
“Hm?”
It was so cold…
The sun was onalready I rubbed the sleep froy I rose frouess I’d slept later than I’d intended The sun was already high in the sky
It must have been somewhere around nine
“What?”
I suddenly realized I was only wearing ht?
Whatever
I looked out on the town People were running around in the streets, bustling about just like any other day There wereup breakfasts, and horse-drawn carriages clattering down the road It really felt like a dream
This neorld was so wonderful
I noticed different kinds of carriages on the streets There were big birds, like ostriches They looked just like chobos, you know, froher class than the birds And I even saw so pulled by cows
“I’d better get some food in my belly and be off”
I looked around for
… That’s odd, I couldn’t find them
The chainone too
Andthat I’d set aside was gone!
“What the…”
Could it be true?! Had I been robbed? Who would steal fro person?!
This inn… couldn’t they take some basic security measures?!
Anyway, I’d better find Myne And quick
Sla open the door and ran to Myne’s rooed heavily on her door
“Myne! It’s terrible! Our money and equipment has been…”
Bang, bang, bang!
No matter how hard I knocked, no sounds came from within
I heard footsteps approaching quickly I turned Castle knights were running up to ht in the darkness I would tell the the thief!
Besides, what kind of an idiot would steal from a hero?
“You’re knights from the castle, aren’t you? Please, listen to me for a second!”
I turned to theed for their attention
Myne, co worse by the second!
“You are the shi+eld Hero, yes?”
“Well, yes, but…”
What the hell? They sounded oddly aggressive
“The king has summoned you You will come with us”
“He’s summoned me? Okay, whatever But before that, I’ve been robbed! We need to catch the…”
“You WILL come with us NOW”
One of therabbed my collar and pulled me forcefully
“That HURTS! Listen to me!”
But they heldwith them
I was basically intreated this way?
“Myne! Please hurry!”
But the knights would not listen We left Myne in her rooed me back to the castle
The carriages I’d seen before were apparently prepared to bring me back to the castle
And so, without ever understanding why, I came to be seen as a criminal by the town