Chapter 16 (2/2)

I spend the night as such while imagining about fighting against powerful opponents.

“Fuaa, oh, Yuri-san, good morning.”

“Morning.”

After Firia woke up, we went to the guild.

Taking the usual medicinal plants collection request as usual, we immediately headed to the usual forest.

After finis.h.i.+ng the request without any event, we return to the guild to report.

“Yes, I’ve certainly confirmed that the amount is exactly as requested.”

Receiving the reward, we intend to leave the guild.

“Hey there!”

But halted by voice of a man.

When I turn to its source, I can see a frail-looking man.

“What is it?”

“I have no business with you! It’s the elf-san beside you.”

“Do you need something?”

“Would you join our party? We’re seriously serious party and becoming S ranks is our goal. You’re an elf, so I hope you’d join our party.”

“Huh?”

Slightly glancing to the man’s face, Firia gives an astounded answer.

As far as I’m concerned, I don’t want to part with Firia who can use healing magic, though.

I’ve also grown

also grown accustomed to talk with her, so I’m not too reluctant to be with her.

“Rather than sticking with such muscle-daruma, your future will be brighter with us. Please join our party. If you do, our seriously serious party will surely become S rank in the future.”

“…can your party blow up a Brokkina in an instant?”

The man makes an exaggerated surprised expression.

“Oioi, such a feat is obviously impossible. It’s a B rank magical beast, you know? Moreover we also haven’t ever fought it… but perhaps it’s not impossible for us to subjugate it in thirty minutes. Well, if you join us, our seriously serious party would surely be able to subjugate it in an instant, though.”

“Then I’ll have to refuse your offer.”

Saying so, Firia moves to leave the guild.

“O, oioi, please wait a bit, why do you suddenly refuse our offer?”

The man fl.u.s.teredly calls out to her.

Firia looks back at the man, and with a smile says…

“My companion, Yuri-san here, can instant kill a brokkina, you know? My future is seemingly brighter if I’m together with him, so I won’t join your party. That’s it, well then, bye.”

After saying so, this time she grabs my hand, and then leaves the guild. Her walking pace is lightly faster than usual.

“As if an E rank capable of such a feat. Don’t spout such a blatant lie!”

I can hear the man’s yell from my back.

“Sorry for the trouble I caused.”

When we’re about arrived at the inn, Firia suddenly says so.

“That’s not particularly your fault, wasn’t it?”

“That may be true, but….”

“Well, I do get it, though. Despite you usually saying this and that, the reason you choose me is because you’ve fallen for my muscle, right?”

“No, not in the slightest.”

“Stop lying.”

“I honestly mean it from the bottom of my heart.”

While exchanging jokes as such, I can see

I can see smile on her face.

Upon arriving at our room, as if flying, I immediately throw myself onto the chair.

“Haaa…”

“…what’s the matter?”

“I’m just wondering why no one understand the magnificent of these muscles of mine.”

No matter what people say, muscle is muscle, a very precious thing. And I also have no intention to discard such a thought.

However, almost all of the people I’ve met thus far see muscles as an unnecessary things.

“You only need the bare minimum of muscle, the rest is just a waste.”  As if such a thought is a common sense.

That makes me kind of sad. Very sad d.a.m.n it.

“That’s… because we have magic, after all. Even without training our muscle, we can reach a certain degree of muscle strength by enhancing it with magic, I’m sure the majority of people have such a thought, as well. But I’ve also heard that it’s quite common for swordsman who possess low magical energy to train their body instead. With that, seems like they can compensate their low enhancing ability. But well, I do think there will absolutely no one who train their body such as yourself, though, Yuri-san.”

“Swordsman, huh. I see.”

Now that I think about it, that swordsman called s.h.i.+nigami also had quite a trained body, huh.

His body was abnormally thin, but his muscle quality was clearly more superior than the adventurers around.

Is there other swordsman around that level, I wonder? Perhaps there is. I’ll put my hope up for the time being.

“But, seems like adventurers other than magician are usually being looked down upon. We can do slas.h.i.+ng attack even with magic, after all. But, well, although rarely, I think there should be more people as powerful as that s.h.i.+nigami.”

“…I see.”

Thinking about adventurers who aren’t magicians, I kind of pity them.

Now in the middle of magician age, the other adventurers are very unfortunate.

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