Chapter 9 (1/2)

My pet is missing.

Morning for my muscle is an early one.

For me who have one hour average sleeping time, after I wake up I immediately start my muscle training.

To fill the part where I couldn’t train my muscles properly ever since I left the forest, my early morning training time is a very precious time for me.

“Good morning, Yuri-san. Fuwa~”

After several hours pa.s.sed, Firia raises herself from the bed while rubbing off her eyelids.

It seems like Firia is weak at morning, when she just woke up, her way of speaking become a bit childish.

“Sup, morning.”

“What are you doing~?”

Firia looks at me with dubious expression.

“This? While standing on tiptoes with one leg, I sit at an air chair.”

I answer Firia while proudly sway my floating leg.

“Really, what are you doing?”

Her dubious expression changed into an astonished one. Personally I think I’m not doing anything strange, but it seems like it’s a strange thing for elf.

“I recommend you to train your muscle more. Want to do it together?”

“Recommend…. You’re such muscle junkies as usual, aren’t you? But I’ll refrain myself from it.”

“I see, what a shame.”

Since Firia has wake up, that means the time of my adventurer activity has started.

After grabbing our breakfast, we leave the inn and go toward the adventurer guild.

Arriving at the guild, I’m intending to take the medicinal herb request as usual, and go to the quest board to pick the request paper.

But, Firia’s bell-like voice tells me to halt.

“Yuri-san, occasionally let’s take another request than gathering medicinal herbs.”

“Since you’ve listened to my usual selfishness so I don’t mind, but, why?”

“Because adventurer is a job that is useful for society!”

Firia is smiling and pointing out her thumb.

That’s indeed cute, but I won’t ever think that that’s her real reason.

“The real reason?”

“I got tired since we always fought against magical beast these past few days.”

“Hmm….”

I put my hand at my chin and think about it.

For me, I want to play with magical beast every day, but I can’t ignore my partner’s opinion.

Since if we don’t reliance at each other, we won’t become a good partner, after all.

“That’s exactly right.”

Snapping her fingers, Firia makes a wink.

“Please don’t peek at my mind.”

Firia sticks out her pink tongue, says ‘tehe’ and lightly knocks her own head.

Sly. Too sly.

But, that’s indeed right that I need to follow what Firia wants sometimes.

“Okay. Today let’s take another request than gathering medicinal herbs.”

“As expected from Yuri-san! I like person who are willing to listen to other, you know?”

“Then, which one we should take?”

“Let’s decide it together…. This is our first group work, isn’t it? Considering that, doesn’t it makes you excited?”

Firia says so with upturned eyes.

There’s no nastier person than people that aware of their own cuteness.

I avert my eyes to my own muscle so that she won’t makes a fun of me.

“I don’t understand it at all. Looking at muscles is more exciting, you know?”

“So that means I lose to muscles…!?”

The completely shocked Firia is collapsing, but that has nothing to do with me.

We were pondering and keep pondering, in the end we decided to pick ‘my pet is missing’ request.