Chapter 51 (2/2)

Loren woke up to a light shaking.

He shook his head to get the rest of the sleep out and raised his body from leaning against the wall of the carriage and then realized that Lapis was shaking his shoulder.

“The driver says that we’ll arrive at the city soon.”

“I see. Thanks for waking me.”

“No problem.”

When Loren looked away from Lapis and into the carriage, Loren was surprised at the sight before his eyes.

Klaus and the girls, who had been sitting in front of him, were all fast asleep, snoring with their mouths wide open.

He wouldn’t have thought much of it if it was just one or two of them, but seeing that it was all four of them, Loren couldn’t help but feel there was something artificial about it and glared at Lapis.

“What did you do?”

“They built out such a pink atmosphere, I used > without thinking.”

Loren realized he made a mistake.

Because he had escaped into sleep first, there was no one to stop Lapis’ acts.

If Loren was awake, he could’ve stopped Lapis from using magic, but with extreme stress piling up and no one to stop her, she had taken hard measures.

“Don’t you think this is a bit too rough?”

“It’s okay. I used the spell secretly, so they shouldn’t remember it.”

Although Lapis said it with confidence, Loren couldn’t fully trust her.

A priestess being able to use magic was already abnormal, but to use that magic on people that weren’t even enemies was, thinking from common sense, wasn’t something tolerable.

While Loren worried that if one of them somehow noticed, it could bring about a critical result, Shayna made a large circle with her arms.

‘It’s okay, Onii-san. The red-headed person and the others fell asleep without noticing anything.’

When he asked her how she knew, after he went to sleep, she apparently pulled her astral body away from his and examined what was happening outside, and that was when Lapis used her spell against Klaus.

‘I only went out for a bit, so Lapis didn’t see me.’

He wasn’t sure if Lapis could see Shayna in her astral form, but it was easier to set up measures if he a.s.sumed that she could.

Shayna nodded solemnly when he thought they could never be too careful.

“Is something wrong, Loren?”

“It’s nothing. Just getting a slight headache from this situation.”

“I see, take care. Anyways, that’s our destination.

A long time had pa.s.sed during his sleep, with the sun’s rays slowly turning redder and redder, and from the window, Loren could see a large city in the distance.

Kauffa was quite the size when you looked at it from the outside, but this city was even larger, and Lapis told him that it was called Montelgal, and that it was a trading city.

It wasn’t that it had a local specialty or anything of the sort, but the resources and tools the adventurer training school distributed to the stores was what stimulated business across the city.

“On top of that, children of aristocrats who enroll in the school as well as their relatives come and go frequently, so merchants who target them gather as well, so there’s a lot of activity.”

“Not a kind of place I’m familiar with.”

It was common for normal residents to distance themselves from mercenaries.

It couldn’t be helped, because it was a job that made a living off a detestable action called war.

The mercenary group Loren was in was quite disciplined compared to most, but they weren’t everyone, and sometimes there were people who didn’t look any different from bandits.

That was why they weren’t welcome in lively places with normal people, so they naturally grouped with their own.

Lapis took a sharp breath as she guessed those situations from Loren’s casual remark, but immediately replied.

“You’re an adventurer now, so now it’ll become a place that you’ll be familiar with.”

“Could be.”

“Of course, it will. Oh, when we arrive, we’re going to go straight to the adventurer’s guild, so getting a room will be after that.”

She knew how tired both were, so Loren asked her.

“It can’t wait until after we get rooms?”

“Since it’s already this late, if we go to the inn first, the reception will close. We need to report that we arrived safely, and that we are the ones who accepted the job.”

“Would there still be rooms left?”

Loren guessed that since it was a lively city, rooms would be quick to fill up.

When he was a mercenary, it was common for them to race for rooms at inns that accepted mercenaries, and those who lost had to camp outside the city.

“It should be fine, but in the worst case, we can get the guild to show us alternatives. It’s a guild in a large city like this, so they should have a few places.”

“Shouldn’t we wake Klaus and the girls?”

They were on the same quest as them.

It hadn’t been long since they met, but Loren believed that Klaus the girls weren’t bad people and didn’t want them to oversleep.

“Let’s wake them up when we get a bit closer. If they start playing up again, my killing intent will start surging up again.”

“Agreed.”

Loren agreed to Lapis’ excuse, knowing that they didn’t mean harm, but it wasn’t tolerable for those who were watching, either.