Chapter 20 (1/2)
Chapter 20
Chapter 20: Hero
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With the matter settled for noe returned to the troupe, which we found in quite the scene
Everyone’s legs had given out or were collapsed, half of them wet themselves, and a very small portion even crapped their pants (it’s Kevin)Many are unconscious and foa at the mouth
When you think about it, that’s a nor coendary disaster beast appeared and went on a rae
“Ummm… I’m back?”
“Y-yeah…”
The troupe leader reacts with a dazed response
As I struggle to think of some way to smooth this over, a carefree voice joins in
“hello again everyone, , and I’ve become lady Eir’s attendant as of now! Nice to meet you”
“Don’t call me that”
“Then I’ll go with ‘Master’”
“That should be used with Master RimuruI’m his slave, after all”
“Hum, then lady Eir will be Chief, and lord Rimuru will be Boss”
“How and why did you come up with those?!”
The absent-minded interruption suddenly turned into a comedy routine
Quickest to return to his senses was, of course, the troupe leaderEven if his legs did give out, so is made of different stuff
“That… That girl, just a o?”
“Mm, yup”
“I’ot a name, and am kin to a God~”
“I-it can’t be the real thing…”
“Hr me like that!”
For soirl has lots of attitudes to get on peoples’ good side?
But that could be because she’s acting out the part of a person
“U to have another person tagging alongWill that be okay?”
“Uh, I know you’re asking ainst the will of Fafnir, can I?”
“Well, guess not”
“Don’t be sillyIf Eir got serious, she’d kill me”
“Can’tDon’t even think I could win again”
“Don’t be sillyThat sucking it in like swish and then returning it like bla I don’t think I could stop”
“Ahh—…”
I wonder if we should spoil the gift to her?
She says she’s going to be tagging along anyway, so we probably can’t keep it quiet
“So uh… Will this really be okay? I ot my responsibilities to the troupe members after all”
“I get how you feel, but… Even if we told her no, I don’t think she’d listen”
“Guess ya got a point”
“Besides, Eir will take good care of her”
“Eh? Me?!”
This is the first I’ about this, Master!
“What do you expect? nobody else can stand against her”
“Well… Yeah, but…”
“I’ll be in your hands, Chief!”
“You’re gonna keep calling me that, huh…”
I hang my headI drew the short straw
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We didn’t go any further that day, and set up camp on the spot
After all that happened, everyone’s willpower to keepwas torn up by the roots
I only noticed it later, but the battle on these plains caused enough dae the landscape
So a lot of wild aniave us a lot of ant, so it wasn’t all bad I guess?
The nextwe move with the sunrise, and arrive at the next post town
We’ll be here two days to perfor back to the trip
Since we’re perfor stop, it seems like we should be behind on our itinerary, but a normal merchant caravan would have rest days tossed in too, so eren’t really so behind
In fact, with our large nuet there ahead of schedule
And so we reach the town in the
When the theater troupe arrives at these post toith so few pleasures to be had, they tend to have a welcoerated at off the place
“See happen?”
The troupe leader engages the gatekeeper in small talk, and asks about it
“Ah, you guysGlad you’re safe”
“Safe?”
“Yesterday, just over in those plains, a dragon went on a rae”
“Bufuh?!”
I-I can’t say it… That ra happily…
“What’s thelady?”
“N-no, well, that thing yesterday, a dragon?”
This is as far as oNeed help, Master
At tiood front and ability to spin his words
“And even worse, it was apparently the disaster beast Fafnir”
“Aaah, that’s…”
Then Master looks at the source of the cala, then at myself, who defeated her, and nods firmly two, three times
“If you’re talking about the Fafnir, then it was beaten—”
“S-say what?!”
I feel utter shock at Master’s honest confession
He was trying so hard not to stand out, so what’s with this sudden turn?
The gatekeeper is astonished at hearing the Fafnir was chased off, and has his eyes wide open
“—by Kevin here”
“Uhhhhh?!”
Master, you’re planning to pin it all on Kevin againYou fiend
“Kevin! The guy who took down a disaster beast all by himself at Sokaris a little while back?!”
Just as they say, rumors travel faster than horsesHis fame seems to have spread here already
“It went just as you’d expect from someone with the nickname “Disaster Beast Slayer”He scattered the breath with his large axe, cracked open those harder-than-iron scales…”
“Wh-whoa… AwesomeWoulda liked to see that”
“But that beast was of the highest classIt was too tenacious, and he couldn’t deliver a finishi+ng blow, but he ed to drive it away”
Master weaves a whopper of a taleKevin, the subject of the tale, opens and closes his mouth, dumbfounded
Yig see like a black board out, and shows it to the gatekeeper
It looks to be about twenty centimeters in all directionsIt’s rather thin, and has a sparkle to it
“This is a scale froh it is, it’s sharper and harder than ironAn unbelievably good product”
“He-, wai-…?!”
“Hohoh, so that’s what this is!”
Yeah, I’m sure it is… That scale came from the person(?) herself, so it’s undoubtedly Fafnir’s
With Yig backing up Master, Kevin further loses his head
But he’s dealing with a deonSince he’s worried over weather he should counter or not, I guess he still has so?
It backfires in this case though
“Its solidity is as you see here… Hyah!”
Upon lightly swing the scale, Yig cuts straight through a portion of the fence surrounding the town
“Whooooa?! No way!”
“Does this prove it to you?”
“Does this prove it to you?”
“Of course! This is definitely a dragon scale! S-sorry to ask, but could we have sir Kevin stop by the guild branch later to discuss this?”
“Naturally, that would be no problem”
The beautiful little girl srin of a devil
“Sorry for the trouble, we just gotta hear about the situation is all! Oh, sorry to hold you up here; you can go on through”
“G-great… Then we’ll be on our way”
The troupe leader’s jaw dropped at the way things unfolded, but he ate
After going a ways to where there weren’t so many people around, Kevin raises his voice
“You little…!”
“Sorry, but that’s how it isCounting on you, okay?”
“Don’t go pushi+n’ everything on me just because you don’t wanna stand out!”
“Well just consider it returning the favorI saved your life, remember?”
“Kgh… Yeah, but…”
“This ht?”
Devil nurins
“Yeah, yeah, just like Boss saidIf any standard adventurers told tall tales about “defeating o burn them to a crisp”
Pointing that out while breathing oddly is devil number two
“Yep, I’ood personAt least compared to Master Rimuru”
“What are you talking about? You’re the root cause here”
“Yeah, yeah, if you hadn’t taken the treasure from the basement in the first place, Chief, then it wouldn’t have come to this, you know?”
“Now that ya ?”
Urk, what do I do? Taking out all that stuff would normally be impossible
Which e” to explain it
“It’s the sword on Eir’s backQuite the sharp sword, don’t you think?”
“Coe”
“Ooh, the ic sword GramThat takes me back”
“Magic sword Gram?”
“A looong tihtI kinda knew him too”
I’m pretty sure that’s from the War of Gods and Demons fairytaleIf she’s acquainted with so just how ridiculous a creature this thing is
The One-Arht, as the na a two-handed sword around with itHe’s a legendary knight who fought together with the Gods against the demon lord
This sword is a priceless artifact used by such an a personBurns had an ancestor like that, and yet he’s running a blacksmith… Who the heck is he?
“In any case, if Fafnir was spotted, then we need to keep our story in line with that, or this whole place will fall into confusionYou know that’s not good, right?”
“Well yeah, sure…”
“Then if you just take the hit, we’ll find a solution… Don’t you think so?”
“Well yeah, sure…”
“Then if you just take the hit, we’ll find a solution… Don’t you think so?”
“It doesn’t have to be h! There’s a yellow rank party here!”
“D-don’t even joke about that! There’s no e could take down a h means our abilities are pretty much known”
“Then the orange party…”
“That isn’t gonna workWe’ve teath is out in the open”
Building up experience and contributing to the guild means their talents are more or less known, so there’s a limit to e can attribute to them
On that point, with the lower rank Kevin only ever having done luth was an unknown factor
Plus, even though he was a novice, he’d had results taking down oblins
Of course, that’s obviously nothing corown, then it could, just
“—Right?”
“What?! No!”
“No, calm downLet’s say we honestly tell thes back and dig up the grand hedgehog incident”
“Ergh, gh…”
“If that happens, they’ll say you tricked the guild and stole the achieveht even expel you… don’t you think?”
“Y-you… You got me trapped, huh?”