v1c15 (2/2)

“It’s a troll. It’s not very large, might be a juvenile. However, they are really strong. It’s better if you don’t get too close to them. Seems this one was defeated after its leg was smashed.”

Are you telling me this one is a child even though it appears to be 2 meters tall?

That kind of occurrence happened several times. Each time I stored it in Items. Eight orcs, a bear, a monitor lizard. The goblins were left alone. We took 2 short breaks. We finally took lunch.

At a somewhat open s.p.a.ce, from the food’s wooden boxes bread, jerky and fruits were distributed. Took out a water barrel and each person was supplied with it.

“From here on the road ahead will get worse. Be sure to take a good rest.”

“If there wasn’t something like battles it would be completely boring, right?”

“Isn’t it a wonderful thing there’s almost no danger? It would be nice if nothing happened till the end.” [TL: triggering flags, death flags?!]

“All the spoils, if the party at the front take them all won’t the remuneration decrease?”

“Ah, there was an agreement. The defeating party gets 60 percent. You get 10%. And the other parties get 10% each. It’s a very rare thing to get remuneration by just walking, you know?”

More than the money I want experience though. Is there any way to get to the front?

It felt like the afternoon was very similar. The spoils were mostly orcs, also 4 wolves and one harpy. A gigantic green caterpillar called a Crawler was defeated, but I was afraid of what they’d want to do with it, so I didn’t ask. By the way, the wolves and harpy seems to be food too. As expected I don’t have the courage to eat a caterpillar. [TL: Yup, anything that moves is food. But WTF harpies, it all depends on how human like they look, but still. Do they taste like chicken?]

In the late afternoon we arrived at the camp site. The pavilions were taken out and the camp constructed. It was arranged that orcs were provided for dinner. The fresh orcs were skillfully prepared and their state looked gory, but the grilled meat smelled great and I gladly got some to eat.

I ended up sleeping in the same tent as Kreuk and Silver and the conversation about ‘anyone you like?’ started. Is this a senior high school field trip?!　Silver was unusually talkative and spoke what he thought of the female warrior Leeds from the same party.

“But Leeds, she likes Lazard.”

Kreuk isn’t going easy on him. Silver gets sad. It’s Kreuk’s turn to speak up. It looks like he thinks the girl who took the beginner’s training with us is a very nice one, although she ended up going far away. He says recently he’s found a new love. Seems to be a cute smiling waitress in the dining hall he frequents. [TL: Obviously the daughter of the owner’s of the inn where Masaru stays]

“A girl with a ponytail? But she’s been seen to be friendly with the cook.”

Silver says in retaliation simply because. Are you guys really friends? Well, I’m not fond of informing you the truth ahead of time, maybe because I think of them as friends.

“What about you?”

“That’s right, you start talking”

Umm. I’d talk all night if I think about 2D ones, but what to do?

If we talk about girls I’ve got to know, it’s limited to Tilika-chan and Angela-chan. It it already good enough with Angela-chan? But certainly if I think of her as cute or so, they won’t think it’s weird, could they?

“A sister in the temple…”

How cute she is. How gentle she is with children, I tell nothing but a little helping of the menu. Of course I don’t tell them about being stabbed with a knife.

“You should already confess to her.”

“Yeah yeah.”

“Hey, you guys. Listen. I started to get along with her a little, only to the extent that she smiles to me, if I were to make a confession it’s inevitable that something bad will happen. It’s out of kindness because I’m her pupil. She smiles because I bring presents every time. She couldn’t think much of me. After a month she should have forgotten about me. Suppose I try to confess. I don’t dislike Masaru, but that kinda thing… or something like that. I like Masaru but let’s stay as good friend, ok? she would reply, I’m 100% sure. I have no doubt. And somehow it would become an awkward relations.h.i.+p and be impossible to stay as friends!”

“I-I see.”

I’ve resurrected the trauma from my days as a student. It was after that I started to get into 2D.

“When I was in my village.” Kreuk abruptly speaks out. What, you’re gonna change the topic. That’s prudent.

“An old man in the neighborhood who was an adventurer had retired and came back. He came back with a bride.”

Oh, I see. And what else?

“You see, she was cute and much younger than the guy, their married life was good and were also very very happy after having children. I learned afterwards, that bride was in fact a slave. He purchased her with the money he earned as an adventurer after all.”

“Is that even possible?!”

“And Kreuk lived next door?!”

“It was unusual for my village, but it seems to be common. Look, because after being an adventurer for many years, the girls you know will all end up being married, you’ll grow old and acc.u.mulate wounds and you’ll pretty much be unable to marry.”

I and Silver were absorbed in interest.

“Because of that. I went to look. To the slave trader.”

“When did you?!”

Silver is extremely surprised. That Kreuk, did he went there in secret? We thoroughly listened to Kreuk’s detailed account.

“What I saw was around 40 to 50 thousand Gold. It isn’t a sum you can’t save if you work hard.”

I check the menu.

“I have around 30 thousand…” 31979 Gold to be exact.

Dammit, if I hadn’t already squandered 10,000 Gold in a weapon and armor!

“What?!”

“How are you carrying that much?!”

“No, wait a second, gentlemen! To get the girl you love like that, it’s no good if you buy her as if she were an object.”

“Hmmm”

“You’re right on that, but…”

“However. If you buy a big house, no, if you’re renting too. It’ll be hard to do the cleaning alone. You’d want a maid, wouldn’t you? And buying a slave could be said is one of the options. No, I absolutely couldn’t have lewd desires. I wouldn’t dare to touch her. But, we’ll be living under the same roof. It might be possible we suddenly fall in love. Yup, in that case there’s no helping it.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

“That’s a very possible story!”

“Gentlemen! I’m going to rent a big house once I return. Surely!”

“W-What?!”

“You b.a.s.t.a.r.d, are you going to betray us?!!!”

The instructor got angry from all the noise.

“You maggots, we’ll start early tomorrow too. Go to sleep now.”

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