Volume 2 Chapter 8 (1/2)

After being betrayed and fleeing the battlefield, I hid myself in a city that I had never visited before in order to recover from my wounds

After ather information on what had happened, I concealed uys

The leader, the man with the best physique, was named Barkas; the se-like man was Terry, if I remember correctly

That day, they’d becoood prey As if they were displeased byby myself in a depressed manner, they orderedto drinkanxious and hopeless, I was grateful for the coht,with theet the terrible reality that I was faced with, and becaether whenever we ht They sensed that I was hiding a secret, so they even went as far as to say that I could let the that they could do

But after I visited that bar several days in a row, the fact that I was the Hero was exposed

I was bla a traitor of humanity, and no matter what I said, I was only met with hostility I fled the bar, and then that hen Barkas and his friends appeared

They’d apparently heard what happened at the bar and they told iveplace, they trickedpowder and anesthetics e bounty on my head

Due to the resistance provided byiht hiding fro me to try and killseen, I saw them for the last time With the same mouths that they had used to tellthat they would killrumors about how much I fit the description of an evil person

After that, I never ain

Ah, I didn’t think that I’d meet them in a place like this</eht for a while as I look at these ht, they’re not people I e on, they’re people I want to kill So there’s no problem, is there?

My hatred for forh; they’re people that I wouldn’t have thought of going out of my way to hunt down

But now that I’ve ive a damn about Of course, there’s no way that I would let such a lucky opportunity passto kill them,” I say “Of course, in a way that doesn’t obstruct our revenge on our ets”

“… Very well, Goshujin-sa nod, as if she has already gained all kinds of inforained a desire for this kind of strange, half-baked vengeance as well It seems that my memories that she experienced didn’t transfer all the s of e seems to have worked just fine

I think about e should do as I eavesdrop on the men’s conversation

The trio, who have started eating breakfast at the bar inside the guild, see a toast with the drinks on the htly on the expensive side It appears that they were drinking all night right until just before they came here; they’re deep in talk with red faces that show that they weren’t able to completely sober up

It seems that they found an Aural Rabbit on the way back froreat deal of effort, theyit down

Aural Rabbits are rabbits, about fifty centi, with s split in the ability is nonexistent and they have no defensive strength either, but they are ridiculously agile and they have the characteristic ability of blending their fur into the background, so defeating them is incredibly difficult

And most importantly, they are rare characters Their sense of caution is strong and they are exceptionally good at finding enemies, so it’s really unusual to find thenated as exterht

However, Aural Rabbit ans are used in medicine, their horns and claws are used as catalysts for the creation of expensive ical tools and their fur is used as a rade furniture; their body parts are so valuable that capturing a single one would yield enough money to live on for a month

That’s apparently the reason these three cauild at this time of day, too

They’d hunted the Aural Rabbit late into the night and by the ti left before the sky would start turning brighter Of course, the guild wasn’t open at such a time, so they apparently chose to pass the tiularly and then co houild, so they wanted to exchange the Aural Rabbit fortheh-quality prey re h this world; it’s a little unpleasant

As I flip through a , another person enters the guild, a young ure

He appears to be about the saer

This bright-blonde-haired young man is clad in leather arle staff in his hand

He looks around at his surroundings restlessly before heading to the reception counter

Of course, he heads not towards one of the muscular, male receptionists, but towards a quiet-beauty-type female receptionist

It see, and is the only one a his trio to have done so With his face red frohtly drunk and his cheerful mood clearly visible, he heads towards the counter and –

“Hohoh”

As expected, a conflict between the youngister as an adventurer, is quarreling with the red-faced, drunken adventurer

It seeht in this cliché is nothappens quite often, doesn’t it?” Leaving the various circurin Her face shows that she’s so disgruntled that I can alruntlement

“I-it is a coincidence,” she says “And since ere not the ones ere caught up in it, I do not admit defeat”

I mean, it’s not like it was a competition

And I wouldn’t be particularly happy even if I won

I regain uister as an adventurer who started the fight, not the one fro man looks at the adventurer profession as sos like, “How can adventurers be drinking fro?” and, “This is why your ranks won’t increase,”each other

Of course, this adventurer isn’t the type ould control hiry fro cold water dus happen for hi reversed, the adventurer has taken on what can be described as an overbearing attitude and is retorting with the typical cliché lines like, “What does a brat like you know?” and, “Being an adventurer isn’t the dream-filled line of work you think it is”

It seeuuild’s eyes are on theht have already escalated into a fistfight

This kind of arguuild doesn’t bother interfering as long as the conflict rereat hurry, the receptionist calls out to us despite the fact that there is an arguht in front of her eyes

“Kaito-san, Minnalis-san My apologies for keeping you waiting”

“Read the damn mood…!” I curse

“That woman… shall I pulverize her into mincemeat?” Minnalis asks

Because the receptionist called out to , I ended upperfect eye contact with her Of course, I can’t just pretend that I didn’t notice her

“… No, I suppose this is actually convenient”

I wanted to watch froer, but it can’t be helped That young s have couht up in it, then that’s fine If I can use that as an excuse to get a word in and e to entice them successfully, it would remove the need for various preli our Guild Cards comes first

“These are your Guild Cards,” the receptionist says “Re-issuing Guild Cards will cost five silver coins, so please take care not to lose them”

She hands us thin, pale yellow card-shaped objects about the size of a small wallet It feels like it’ssome monster material

“Please place a drop of your blood here on your card,” the receptionist says “This makes it impossible for the card’s recorded inforuild or if the owner desires it”

I take the needle she hands toa drop of ives off a inal state

But as I silently co to the surface from inside

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Nae: 17

Race: Human

Battle role: Swordsman

Adventurer rank: F

Party rank: F

Party: Scorn Road