Chapter 22 (1/2)
Konjiki no Wordam
“Now then, let’s hurry”
Hiiro slowly gets up and begins walking Arnold glares at him with his eyes half closed
“… If you’ve already healed, then I guess it’s alright Wait, ere supposed to be waiting for you!”
“Fufufu, let’s go!”
With Muir’s urgings, the group presses onwards
After walking a while, they found what seemed to be the forest’s exit
“Oh, Finally!”
Arnold suddenly gets faster After leaving the forest, the three found thee field of flowers
“Uwa~”
Muir stares in silence, as if she had lost the ability to speak A gentle wind causes the petals to sway back and forth It’s a ht
“This is the 【Doggam Garden】”
“So these were planted by the 『Bearnts』?”
“Yeah It’s pretty, ain’t it? The scent is also divine”
A scent sweet enough to cause one to drool lingers in the air The mixed varieties of flowers here probably carried a wide assortment of delicious nectars
“And right after this, we should reach the 『Bearnt』 village, 【Doggam】!”
Past the field, they could see a village The village was quite s to hide itself from the world
When they entered the village, Hiiro and co see the Bearnt people gathered in a wide, open space They try to see what’s going on
“What’s up?”
“Eh? O-oh! It’s been a while, Arnold!”
“Yo, Max! You’re just as fat as usual!”
They grasp each other’s shoulders as they give greetings
“Hm? Arnold… Your ears…”
“Ah? Haha, well yeah”
Arnold’s face looks pained But he quickly recovers, and takes on his cheerful persona
“Let me introduce you This is the 『Bearnt』 Max We shared a drink the last tie”
Arnold turns to Hiiro and Muir, and introduces the man Max’s smile flashes a hint of sadness
“Max, let me introduce these two”
He turns again to Max
“This child is el, my cutie flower, Muir Castrea!”
Though he says this with a determined tone, everyone stares at him with a blank expression Muir’s face slowly turns red
“P-please treat me well!”
She quickly lower her head The sight of her doing so causes those watching the scene to smile
“Yeah~ and the other one is just as he looks He’s a brat called Hiiro”
His treatment is clearly different, but Hiiro doesn’t particularily care
“The two of you are welcome here! My name is Max!”
His body is quite stalky No,it’s more like he just has a lot of excess fat
(He looksthan a bear)
(TL: So he’s like so, Half Bear-Man?)
Hiiro thinks so incredible rude, as Arnold questions Max on the reason everyone was gathered there
And then Max’s face turns serious
“Ah, the truth is that so up countermeasures”
Arnold looks like he wants to say so
“Even if we try to do soe has not the power to do anything about it”
“R-rank S? U-um, Max…?”
“What?”
“W-was that Unique Monster possibly… a Red Boar?”
“Yeah, I’m surprised you know You’re correct!”
‘More than si, we head on encountered it, and this brat killed it, you know’ Arnold screams in his heart
“Oh yeah, where did you guys coh the forest? Then luck must be on your side If you encountered it, you would have died”
“Well, so did die…”
“What do you mean?”
Arnold sighs, and then begins telling the truth
“HHWWWAAATT!? You KEEEELED the Unique Monster!?” (TL: His pronunciation is off here)
It’s not just Max Everyone in the surrounding area has surprise written on their faces
“Y-yeah The one who did it was this brat Here’s the evidence”
And he brings out the salvaged ets even more excited
“WhaWhaWhaWhat’s going on, Arnold!? What is he!? Is he an SSS Rank?”
“N-no… He’s a D Rank Adventurer…”
“WHAAAAAAAAAA!?”
Max’s s open as he stares at Hiiro
“D-dit this guy really kill it? This short, evil-eyed brat!?”
Max thrusts his finger at Hiiro Hiiro grabs it
Twist…
“Stooooop!”
“I hate it when people point at me”
The area becoers Arnold lets out a deep sigh
“I’o that far in depth, but the Unique Monster is already gone, this guy is the one that killed it, and the village is now safe Please just leave it at that”
Hiiro seehtly iic, then he would have smacked him But it seems that Arnold respects his privacy Hiiro’s impression of Arnold has improved a bit
And so the village’s crisis was averted The Monster never reached the village, and no casualties arose Hiiro’s slaying of the Red Boar earned him quite a bit of attention
The feeling of being stared at was quite uncoers made his food extra tasty, Hiiro decided to put up with it
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“But I’ht, Arnold”
Max stares at his sake as he speaks
“What is this about?”
“I heard a rumor that a beast ht that was definitely you… Your ears, did they do so to you?”
“…Pretty much”
Arnold’s ears which were firmly printed in Max’s memory were nowhere to be seen And he remembered the rumor of the beast man turned slave
“It seeh a lot The Hus”
Max did not get visibly angry, but his words see tone Arnold feels a little happy that his friend is getting angry for his sake
“Yeah, I definitely don’t want to return to that ti quite happily, Max”
“Arnold…”
“I’ve even started doing the things I wanted to I becahter”
“Oh yeah, when did you get that girl, anyways?”
Arnold squints as he looks at the s Max
“Don’t get hter, we’re not related by blood”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah A good friend entrusted her to me”
Arnold stares into the distance, and Max downs his sake in one swig He sighs
“It seeh a lot”
“Yep… Many things happened”
The two are surrounded by silence for a while
“Then what is that kid? He seeirl”
Arnold winces Currently, Hiiro is using his uise himself As a result, he has the same silver hair as Muir
“Um… It’s that! He’s Muir’s brother!”
“So that’s it? No wonder they looked so much alike!”
(I think Hiiro is going to punch me later…)
Thinking about his dis colder