Chapter 38 (1/2)

Translator: Kurehashi+ Aiko

VOLUME 2 CHAPTER 5: Dragon-san Smooth-Talks

We continued our work, and when the sun was little past noon we ather all the herbs we needed, so we decided to take a short break

「Noct-san, you are a rather peculiar person, aren't you?」

We ate the sandwiches we bought while ere still in the city, and Elvie said that quite abruptly, much to my surprise

「Why do you think so?」

「Despite being the highest rank Hunter, you don't belittle others Moreover, you try to act friendly towards people, but at the sahtly difficult to approach I get a feeling that I could talk to you pretty 」

I wonder why he said that toless」

「True, but that doesn't change the fact that you stand at the very top of the ladder」

「Best not to dwell on the small details」

「You truly are a peculiar person, Noct-san」

Elvie s to recall so for a while, he opened my mouth

「Noct-san, you had to take down lots of deht?」

「Yeah, you're right I wasn't only dealing with normal monsters, but demons as well」

「So, have you ever encountered one of them? Evil spirits that devour ht now Elvie was looking at me with a very serious look in his eyes

I could see it in his eyes that there was a reason behind that question, so I answered hi curios myself

「…… I have heard the stories, but why do you want to know about an evil spirit like that?」

'Demons' doesn't have one particular shape or physique

Even though they do have some common properties, they must always be looked upon as individuals with their unique sets of properties

However, sorow so twisted or powerful that their propertiesthem unique names as a result

Such de so strong that they would autoerous Beast on the Guild's scale Many deh there were information on some of them in the Guild's records, there were far more demons out there that may have been still unknown or undiscovered

But the evil spirit that Elvie was talking about was even beyond that scale

Also, I believe that there is no illustration of evil spirit in Guild's reference books

「Would you believe me if I told you that I have encountered this creature?」

There was definitely so in his eyes that wanted to know the answer, but when he hesitated to speak up, instead he only suely

「I'et about it」

「No, I mean……」

「Well then, Noct-san, shall we head back?」

Elvie said that despite the fact that he didn't even finish his sandwich, and so it was so sudden that I had no other choice but to nod my head and drop the subject

「There is still soh for your materials collection?」

「Not really, but with this much I can procure the rest in town I would like to avoid staying here until it gets dark if I can help it Safety comes first, as they say」

That much sure is true, but I still can't help it but look at him with curiosity

「Well then, why didn't you try to buy those things in town to begin with?」

「Us are a little bit pricey, but that's perfectly okay!」

「You told that receptionist earlier that you wouldn't have enoughexpenses, so wouldn't that be bad?」

I let out a heavy sigh, hearing how hard those words cah his mouth

「Listen, you and I are Hunters, so it ive you an appropriate award, and in turn you ive you evenlike you are sorry about it I judged that under that condition this request can be easily cleared So you don't need to hold yourself back」

「…… I'uilty about that situation

U's fine

「Right, so, what do you need?」

「Umm, it's the roots of a plant called Cassia I'll need about three portions of it」

「Hthen some metal?」

Cassia's roots were supposedly used by both blacksical tools I re so herself

「It seems that you know your stuff You see, for ical et money out of it」

Actually, I didn't needed to know a detail that was this depressing

「So that's why, huh?」

「I hed while looking a bit embarrassed about that explanation of his Oh well, looks like the Cassia herbs are now our ut for the sake of your living expenses」

「Thank you so roups and is difficult to find What's uish, so it will be a le one of therow around here souess Umm, Noct-san?」

I heard Elvie's distressed voice, but I was too busy with squatting down, putting hts to pay that any ht now

As usual, when I connected ical energy that were connecting with every plant in the vicinity as clearly as day

Noould be able to find the real thing by following its ical waves' pattern

Let's see…… Cassia, Cassia……

「…… Found it One it as your ten, the other one is at my three」

「Eh, you have found it? How!?」

Elvie sounded surprised, to which I laughed cheerfully

「Well, that is lad that it is not all that far away Let's go do soh it seems that Elvie was somewhat suspicious of h, e discovered Cassia leaves on the ground, his eyes began to sparkle with both joy and surprise

「That's a ready to procure some tools from his backpack, such as shovel and a s stick, but I stopped hiround that surrounded Cassia and said:

「Excavation!」

I say the words in ancient language and infuse theround around Cassia softer and easier to re the roots

「Soul words……」

I was surprised just how lonely that voice sounded

Looking at it now, Elvie was looking at me with envy clearly visible in his eyes

「Boy?」

「…… Ah, no, Noct-san, I see that you can use Soul Words」

「Yeah, that is why they call ical words」

I indeed usedlike that, right?」

「Right, thank you very much, now then, Noct-san, I can take care of this plant here, so could you go to that other one and collect it? It will be faster if each one of use work on our own plant」

「But……」

「It's alright! I can take care of myself if need be!」

I was initially hesitant to leave him on his own, but Elvie just stood up and started to ith the shovel on his own, so the conversation kind of broke off at this point

「Do you have a whistle or so unforeseen happened?」

「Yes, I do have so like that」

「Please use it if you happen to wonder into some wild animal If worst co Snow Grass grows, okay?」

「Right! I'll catch up with you soon」

Then I took another shovel from Elvie's backpack and went to the other point with Cassia

There I again used the ancient language to soften the ground, and dug the shovel into the ground and started excavating the roots with great care

Then I sensed so net that I secretly erected around the place where Elvie was

Froe

It's bad, it's really bad! Elvie was still there!