Chapter 108 - Thinking after Warning (1/2)

Ch. 108: Thinking after Warning

As Dia continued looking at her with a smile, after telling them what they needed to know, Sierra disappeared as suddenly as she had appeared.

Since the one who had given the test, and because it was troublesome if the interferers found out that information about them had been leaked and set up new plans, she believed she should keep contact to a minimum.

Loren thought Sierra could’ve assisted them, but it seemed that there was a line she wouldn’t cross, so the only thing she gave Dia was information.

“The information itself is helpful enough, no?”

Dia told Loren, who had a complaining look on his face, as she started walking again.

Dia was satisfied knowing the identity of their enemy, but to Loren, it was another Elder, and the only thing they found out was that she had many pawns and didn’t feel like the information helped at all.

“Dia you must like your master a lot.”

As Loren went silent, since he couldn’t tell his client what he was thinking exactly, Lapis spoke out, and Dia said happily as a wide grin spread across her face.

“Of course. Master looked after me for a long time, and she’s very kind.”

“She came to give us information on the interferer, after all.”

Lapis smiled as well.

Dia’s smile widened even further, as if she was happy that good things were said about her master.

Although Loren was concerned about the lack of vigilance, but when he thought about it, although Dia was an Elder who had lived around five hundred years, she wasn’t of age and had learned many things from Sierra, so it could be considered that Sierra was her whole world.

In that case, it wasn’t surprising that Dia trusted Sierra so much, so Loren kept silent, thinking it would be insensitive to interrupt her, as she was telling Lapis more about Sierra with a smile.

‘Onii-san, are you wary of her?’

The one who said to him was Shayna.

The girl that almost became a no life king, who was within Loren’s astral body, was currently the being that was closest to him, and seemed to be able to sense his emotions.

“Doubt anyone other than yourself and your companions during a job, that’s the mercenary style.”

It would be troublesome if Dia heard him.

So Loren muttered in a small voice that no one else could hear.

“Speaking of master, Loren. About the teacher who taught you swordsmanship.”

Taking no notice of Loren’s thoughts, Dia said to Loren in a good mood.

Although confused at the sudden change in subject, Loren decided that even if he continued thinking about Sierra he wouldn’t conclude, so he went with it.

“What about my teacher?”

“Who in the world is he?”

When Dia asked her, the image of a single man popped up in the back of hisi mind.

The man who had picked him up before he could even remember anything and raised him as a mercenary.

Although it hadn’t been long since he last saw him, when he thought about him, it seemed like a long time had passed, and Loren let out a troubled laugh.

Now that the group had disbanded, Loren didn’t know where he was or what he was doing, or if he was even alive, but he felt that the man who had raised him was still alive.

“I was a mercenary before an adventurer, and he was the leader of the group that I was a part of. I learned it from him. Although he said I don’t have the talent, so I only learned a bit.”

It was also because of him that Loren had started using the great sword as his weapon of choice.

Because the leader had told him that since he didn’t have the talent for skill he should train his strength, Loren had devoted to training his body, and was able to use large weapons that normal people couldn’t use.

“He wasn’t that famous of a mercenary. He didn’t have a title either. He was caring person, but as a mercenary he was normal.”

It was Loren’s evaluation of him as an individual.

As a leader, he had brought the whole group together quite well, and his commands in battle were very clever and experienced, as there were a few times they had turned the tables on a losing battle because of them.

But in the end, with the fact that the group had been destroyed, it couldn’t be said that his command wasn’t something divine.

“Was he a human?”

The question that Dia had asked Loren after his evaluation was strange, so Loren looked at her with a blank expression.

If she was being silly, Loren would’ve noticed it from her expression, but Dia’s face was serious, so he knew in an instant that she wasn’t joking, so after recalling his memories of the leader, he concluded.

“I believe he was human. There wasn’t anything strange about him.”

“I see. That’s strange.”

At Loren’s response, Dia said with an unsatisfied expression.

As Loren waited for her to continue, not sure what she was so concerned about, Dia told him what it was.

“You remember when you were fighting that cocky child at the training ground in Kauffa?”

“I’m not that old to forget something that recent.”

It was in the middle of Loren’s rank up exam from copper to iron, and it wasn’t that long ago.

“That time, you were using a normal two-handed sword instead of a great sword.”

Among the training weapons, there wasn’t a great sword like the one Loren usually used, so Loren had fought the one who Dia had called a cocky child, Klaus, with a weapon he didn’t normally use.

With an unfamiliar weapon, he couldn’t close in on him, and on top of that, Dia had interrupted them so the fight hadn’t gone to the end.