Vol 2 Chapter 3.1 (1/2)

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Chapter 3.1

Chapter 03: I encountered the hero (part 1)

“Fufufu… Finally! Half a month will have pa.s.sed tomorrow!!” [Youki]

My tension was near the maximum when I woke up in the morning.

If anyone were to be near me at the moment, they would definitely be annoyed. That was how high my tension was.

After listening to Mikana’s problem and getting into a ‘binge eating contest’ with Raven, a half month pa.s.sed in the blink of an eye. Without realizing it, tomorrow is finally the decisive day fixed by Celia-san.

“I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time!” [Youki]

I finally came to understand the huge difference between ‘not seeing someone’ and ‘couldn’t see someone’.

I don’t want to go through this feeling again. That was seriously what I thought. However, it would all end today.

“Kukuku… I will be a G.o.d tomorrow!!” [Youki]

I ended up blurting out a chuuni-like line while I was changing in front of the mirror due to my high excitement level.

I do understand that I should be restraining myself, but this is a room which I am renting. It’s my own private room. Since I’m not in a public place, it shouldn’t really matter. I could release all the increasing tension inside my body as much as I wanted to.

After getting dressed, I flashed my signature pose and spouted all the incomprehensible lines floating through my head that a normal person just wouldn’t understand.

“I deny an existence like you!”

“Die by my magic!”

“I will definitely save the world!”

“It’s regrettable… but you can’t win against me.”

Far from relieving the built-up tension, it had increased at an even faster rate, becoming uncontrollable.

This is bad. I couldn’t stop myself.

“It would be the worst day for you today…”

“… What have you been babbling about since a while ago, brat?” [???]

While I was engaged in a one-sided exchange with myself, I suddenly heard a voice calling out.

When I turned around, I found Gai looking at me with sympathetic eyes.

… Yeah. Due to my escalating tension, I had totally forgotten about this stone statue that has been sleeping here all this while.

“Aaaaaaa!” [Youki]

That was embarra.s.sing. It was super embarra.s.sing.

My excitement subsided abruptly, giving me a strong urge to punch my earlier self. Regardless of how exciting it would be, to be able to see Cecilia again tomorrow, I was still being too over enthusiastic.

A strange atmosphere ended up enveloping the room because of me.

I might die if I were to remain in this room in this state. Thus, I tried escaping the room immediately from Gai who was still looking astonished.

“… Uooo!?” [Youki]

Upon opening the door, the sight of a girl standing there made me draw back in surprise.

“h.e.l.lo. It’s been a long time.” [???]

The girl who was standing outside was Tiel-chan.

She greeted me normally, looking unfazed even though I had bolted out of the room all of the sudden. Seeing that she was dressed in her everyday clothes instead of her maid uniform, it was probably her day off today.

“Aa, it has been a long time. I was just about to leave, but… do you need anything?” [Youki]

“I’m here to deliver the message from madam. Come to the mansion tomorrow in the afternoon.” [Tiel]

Though Celia-san said that the duration would be half a month, I was still a little worried and was wondering if it would really be alright for me to go there. However, with this, my concern was alleviated and I could visit Cecilia

tomorrow without any hesitation.

“Thank you for coming all the way here to deliver the message even though it is your day off… By the way, what’s that baggage you’re carrying on your back?” [Youki]

What concerned me the most since a while ago was the baggage resembling a huge furos.h.i.+ki on her back. 1

How did she manage to carry such a huge thing despite having a frail body?

“They’re books.” [Tiel]

“Books?” [Youki]

“Yes.” [Tiel]

“The entire load?” [Youki]

“That’s right.” [Tiel]

“……” [Youki]

“……” [Tiel]

I wonder… I had a feeling that Tiel-chan was trying to appeal for something from me through her eyes. It was likely that she was supposed to have come here to deliver the message from Celia-san, but her main purpose must be to meet that lazy a.s.s lolicon gargoyle.

“Erm, I’ll be leaving now but… do you want to come in?” [Youki]

“Yes, thank you very much!!” [Tiel]

Tiel-chan expressed her grat.i.tude with the splendid bow she learned from Sophia-san. “Aren’t you a completely different character from a while ago!?” ….was what I wanted to say, but I wanted to get away from Gai as soon as I could. As if we were swapping places, Tiel-chan entered the room while I dashed outside, aimlessly.

“Sigh… I won’t be able to go back to the inn for a while. No, I don’t want to go back there.” [Youki]

That was embarra.s.sing. It was super embarra.s.sing. Ah, I wish I could crawl inside a hole and never, ever come out. My tension was at the maximum when I woke up in the morning, but it has. .h.i.t rock bottom now. Besides, even though I had bolted out of my room by impulse, I don’t have any plans with anyone today.

Not to mention, I had left my guild card in my room so I couldn’t accept any request. I couldn’t return there to take it back as well.

Or, I could, on the other hand, find Clayman and pa.s.s my time by listening to his nonsense rant… but I don’t want him to use it as an excuse to slack off.

“It can’t be helped. It is fortunate that I brought my money with me so I can just wander around here.” [Youki]

A full-fledged man wasting his time. There would be such a day off at times too. That was what I thought at that time.

However, the outcome after loitering around by myself in the early hours… was dreadful.

While I was walking, my shoulders accidentally b.u.mped against a strong looking beastman, causing him to shoot a fierce glare at me.

When I entered a random shop, I was greeted by a gloomy scene of couples flirting with each other and making me feel as if they were pointing fingers at me, ridiculing a single man like me. It wasn’t as if I like being single, dammit!

When I went to my favourite cake shop (so I could eat something sweet, to compose myself due to the pent-up irritation), I noticed that the shop a.s.sistant was replaced by a nice guy with a muscular body. The sight of him in a frilly white ap.r.o.n had an immense ‘destructive power’. It seemed that the usual shop a.s.sistant was bedridden after catching a cold, so her brother was supposedly looking after the shop in her absence.

Although, I wished he could stop posing while he was carrying the cake! The contents had slightly become a mess after. I wanted to complain about it, but it would be troublesome if that muscle man were to start posing again, so I endured it and ate it as is.

And then I was at the stall, compensating a child back for accidentally b.u.mping into him, and causing him to drop his kus.h.i.+yaki in the process.

“Why am I so unlucky today…” [Youki]

“Here you go! Two kus.h.i.+yaki for nii-chan!” [kus.h.i.+yaki seller]

“T-Thank you… Here.” [Youki]

I pa.s.sed two kus.h.i.+yaki to the child who was still crying as a service.

“Uuu, sniff… Thank you onii-chan.” [child]

“Be more careful and look ahead before you walk the next time, alright? If you can’t, then don’t eat when you walk. You should do so only after you reach home.” [Youki]

“U-Un.” [child]

“See ya.” [Youki]

The child then ran off as is, with the kus.h.i.+yaki still remaining untouched in the bag.

I guess he was planning to eat them only after he reached home. Although, it made me anxious, wondering if he would drop them once more. If he were to fall and drop them again, even I wouldn’t be able to help him anymore.

“Even so, I am certainly unlucky today. I wonder why… … the hec- ouch!” [Youki]

While I was having such thoughts in my mind, I ended up being negligent and collided with someone again. The person whom I had crashed into got away from me hastily without saying anything.

“What’s up with that guy? He left without saying anything…… something’s fishy.” [Youki]

A bad feeling came over me, prompting me to search my pockets. Upon doing so, I realized that my wallet was gone. My wallet was certainly still with me when I paid for the kus.h.i.+yaki a while ago.

“That a.s.shole!” [Youki]

It is a pickpocket this time!?

I sure have had a serious case of bad luck today. He could not have run off too far yet. I began running towards the direction that the guy headed to and surveyed my surroundings.

I guess he had not expected me to notice it missing so soon. He ran off again when he realized that I was chasing after him.

The pickpocket ran into a dark alley. It was naive of him to think he could get away from me by entering such a complex place.

“《Lightning Flash》” [Youki]

Using reinforcement magic to strengthen my legs, I leaped up and launched at him with a flying kick.

“Ora-!” [Youki]

“Guhe-!?” [pickpocket]

The pickpocket was blown off while uttering a strange cry.

However, for some reason, another human came flying here as well, smas.h.i.+ng directly into the pickpocket I kicked, causing both to fall to the ground with a thud.

“What the–!? Why did a person fly here all of a sudden? Well, whatever. What’s more important is my wallet…… ” [Youki]

I retrieved my wallet from the thief’s pocket and examined the contents inside. After confirming them, I stowed it away in my pocket.

Since I had recovered my stolen wallet, there was no reason for me remain here any longer, so I turned around quickly to leave the place. However, at that instant, a sudden sense of bloodl.u.s.t that was directed at me, made me jump back.

When I entered my battle stance and turned around, what greeted my sight was……

“Hey, you there! Return his wallet back to him at once!”

Yuuga the hero standing there, with his sword pointed at me. There was an unknown girl accompanying him.

I ended up encountering the one person whom I did not want to meet the most. Not to mention, a strange misunderstanding had occurred.

For the time being, I guess I should persuade him to solve this misunderstanding.

“But that person’s a pickpocket and this is my stolen wallet.” [Youki]

“I see. So you’re not returning it back, right? Then I’ll make you return it by force!” [Yuuga]

“No, could you listen when someone’s talking to you?!” [Youki]

Since my effort at persuasion failed, I wound up engaging in a fight against Yuuga as it was. There was no way I could just receive his attacks in silence, so my resistance gradually became showy as it prolonged.

As a result, the townspeople reported to the knights about the commotion, and both Yuuga and I ended up being taken into the knight’s custody.

I have not done anything wrong at all, though. While I was being taken away by the knights, a certain unfinished line that I had uttered this morning suddenly flowed through my head.

“It would be the worst day for you today…”

That very line that I had directed to myself in the mirror had magnificently become a reality. I should seriously restrain my chuuni self for the time being.

“I’ll listen to the details at the headquarter.” [knight]

“It will be the same as what I’ve told you earlier……” [Youki]

I replied wearily to the knight who seemed enthusiastic about the interrogation. After all, considering that Yuuga is a hero, it was likely that they would just listen to his testimony and pin the blame on me.

When I snuck a look at Yuuga, I noticed that the girl accompanying him had the look of a maiden in love. I could hear the knight thanking them for their cooperation as he lowered his head.

It seemed that I had totally played the role of a ‘bad guy’ here. Well, whatever. It was something that couldn’t be helped as well that I became negligent.

I gave up and went along with the knights to the knight’s headquarter.

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“Here, we’ll begin our questioning inside. It seems like your first offense so we might release you as soon as you come clean.” [knight]

“Like I said before, I was just retrieving my stolen wallet.” [Youki]

“Rest a.s.sured, we’ll get the testimonies from the two unconscious individuals.” [knight]

How could I rest a.s.sured in this kind of situation?!

“I’m seriously jinxed.” That was what I thought when I was taken to the knight’s headquarter.

The moment I entered, the sight that greeted me was Raven running towards us in a hurry.

“C-Commander Raven!? For Commander to be in such a hurry, did something happen?” [knight]

Raven showed the knight a memo at his query; 『What happened?』

Even though the knight was the one who asked him, he raised another question as a response to the knight’s question.

Since the notes were written beforehand, I guess this was something that might happen. The knight must have been used to something like this already. He answered Raven, looking unperturbed.

“Actually, there was a commotion in the plaza. This person seems to be an important suspect who had caused the uproar at the site.” [knight]

As the victim in this, I have no recollection whatsoever of having done anything that would instead make me the perpetrator.

『Please tell me the details』

After showing us the memo, Raven guided me and the knight to the room.

Thereon, the process Raven took to handle this was a quick one.

Once he got the full story from us, we went straight to the site.

He gathered testimonies from the people around and woke up the unconscious pickpocket who then confessed to his crime.

In addition, Raven also carried out an impartial investigation concerning Yuuga being the culprit of this problem, and helped clarify that I was actually the victim of theft.

I, who had fallen into despair was finally cleared of my name.

Although, I have actually not done anything wrong from the start.

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Following that, I was guided to Raven’s office and took it easy after sitting myself on a chair.

“You sure had a terrible experience.” [Raven]

“Seriously. But, I’m saved thanks to Raven.” [Youki]

I wonder what would happen if Raven had not come.

Even if I had not done anything wrong, it would still not be resolved that soon too.