Chapter 296 (1/2)

To the Mountain Where the Dragon Dwells

The Three Hour Walk to the Summit

“Maaan Kehma-san, Rokuko-san sure does love you huh”

Oi, Wataru Don’t say anything about that to Haku-san okay? Seriously, don’t Like, not a peep

Well, setting that aside, we began to ascend the mountain

There was prettyuphill and over the rocky terrain toward the su through one of those dreaded leg days Talk about tiring

“Oh yeah, I’ll say this so this isn’t oal is solely to prevent dae We don’t have to defeat it”

“I see So in other words… Keh!”

“Eh? Ah, yeah Well, so like that”

“Maaan, I didn’t even need to be here then huh!”

I had no clue why, but Wataru suddenly started acting like he could rely onto be here is true

“You can head back if you want”

“No way! I have to see Kehma-san’s secret plan with my oo eyes!”

… Which if why this sucks Oh well then Guess I’ll have to think up a better way for this hero to not be a witness

I can’t go e’d co up with a secret plan in time is a definite… probable… kind of…pretty worn out here, can we take a break?”

I proposed a rest to everyone around halfway up thefor an hour… Well, I figured as , but you have no endurance eh… oi, Wataru, carry him with this wood shoulder rack here”

“Sure Oh, hey, is that why you invited me?”

“Heeeh Now that’s a luxurious way to use a Hero-sama, haha!”

“‘Course not, chief jokes a lot Now Wataru, please”

“Your village is so great, neither Kehet preferential treat Was he an M? Maybe that trait’s why he supports wo me on his back like a stack of firewood Aaah, so co over toI’d had about this while I was being carried, sighed

“You’re really just going to let hi as an adventurer?”

“Eh? Gozoh, you’re the one that suggested it though? The slowest one a us was me anyway To put it another way, this is the ical As expected of one of our village’s adventurers”

“Seriously, Kehest person do so like that… to be honest, I prepared that to carry back an injured or dead person”

“That’s fine We’ll just ets injured, then I can do it on the way back too”

“But the ladies, Ichika and Kuro, are walking…”

“Ahahaha, what’re ya sayin’ Gozoh? Isn’t slaves walkin’ beside their master the way of it? More like shouldn’t Goshujin-sama be onin agreement

Come to think of it, ot about that

“Oi, Wataru, you say soht, it’s fine I o with it?”

“… Really Roppu, what about you?”

“I would not want to as an adventurer, but if Keho?”

“Haah, is it just me then?”

As Wataru said, at this pace, we’deveryone down