Chapter 50 (1/2)

Ch. 50: Accepting the Job

“By the way Loren, I forgot to mention something important.”

Loren moved away from Lapis, who was still leaned towards him, telling him that she wasn’t done talking, and ordered another drink from a pa.s.sing waitress.

She gave him an awkward expression when he put the coins that paid for it in her hand, but immediately switched to a customer service smile and walked away across the counter.

Loren was shocked at the fact that even the waitresses might be thinking that it was weird for him to pay, but Lapis reached over, grabbed his shoulder, and forced him to turn and face her, not giving him a chance to be upset.

“Are you listening?”

“Yeah. What did you forget?”

“As you may know, I have a mission.”

Lapis sat back down in her chair, satisfied that Loren faced back towards her, but Loren had no idea what she was talking about, and c.o.c.ked his head with a suspicious look.

“What are you talking about?”

“My arms and legs and eyes.”

When she said that, Loren remembered that her limbs and eyes were prosthetics, but c.o.c.ked his head again, wondering if it was as extravagant to say that it was her mission.

“Other than my mission to gain experience in this world and become a great person, I had a mission to recover my body parts.”

“You were searching for them?”

“Yes…but sometimes I think maybe it’s fine even if I don’t.”

Shayna tripped when Lapis said so nonchalantly.

Loren worried that if this was enough to make her trip, she would hurt her knees or her waist, but then remembered she was astral and there was no need to worry about that.

“Anyways, I’m looking for parts of me.”

‘Umm, what exactly is Lapis?’

Shayna asked Loren, who was looking at Lapis, who was emphasizing what she said by raising her fist.

Loren thought about how to explain it to her but guessed that since the girl in front of him was in fact a No Life King, and even if she found about Lapis’ ident.i.ty, she wouldn’t go around telling people, so he silently told her what Lapis was.

‘Demon kin, I see. It makes sense. After becoming what I am right now, I can see that she isn’t human, but she wasn’t anything I’ve seen before, so it makes sense that she’s demon kin.’

Loren was impressed that she found out so much by herself.

Shayna gave him a proud look, then pointed at the great sword next to him.

‘That’s not an ordinary great sword, either. I’ll have to observe it more to know details, but it seems to be able to easily break through the defensive barriers of a No Life King, as well as heal you.’

Loren looked down at the great sword, thinking if what Shayna just said was true.

When he fought the Shayna before, his attacks reached her without any problem.

This was against a No Life King, which had strong defenses against both physical and magical attacks.

Loren had figured that the curiosity-filled demon in front of him had something to do with it, but when he thought that it was something Lapis had readied for him, he also thought that if it was from Lapis, it wasn’t strange for it to have such abilities.

Loren then unexpectedly felt soft hands on his cheeks, and his head was forced in the direction of Lapis.

“Loren? Are you listening?”

“My bad, I wasn’t.”

Loren decided that being honest was better than telling her that he was listening, then have it backfire on him. Lapis let out a discontented growl, but immediately released him, put her hands on the table, leaned over close to his face, and said with a stronger tone.

“I’ll say it again, okay? I’ve located a place where a part of me might be.”

“Which means that our next job has something to do with that place, right?”

“Exactly!”

Lapis showed him a quest form that she must have gotten from the quest board with a beaming smile.

She rotated the form towards Loren, and after looking through it, Loren stared at Lapis’ face.

“It’s a bit embarra.s.sing if you look at me like that.”

“It’s nothing like that. You sure this is really a quest meant for adventurers?

The explanation on the form was indeed something that would make Loren stare at Lapis suspiciously.

Seeing Lapis smile and nod, as if to say of course, he went over the form again to reconfirm what he had just read.

This is what it said.

‘By Volf Adventurer Training School

This year’s graduate practical training will be combat training in the school’s underground dungeon. We have put out this quest because we want adventurers to accompany them. The reward is thirty silver coins per person. We request that you accompany this year’s graduates into the dungeon. At the same time, escort them when needed.’

“Adventurers are trained?”

Loren looked around at the adventurers sitting near him, finding that hard to believe.

Not that he was any better but seeing them drinking and babbling first thing in the morning, it was hard to believe that they were trained.