Chapter 22 (1/2)
Chapter 22
Chapter 22: Arrival
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The season enters the twelfth month, and the skin deep cold turns to real cold
With snow scattering around us, we finally arrived at Raum’s first capital city, Ashtaroth
In the center of the cityscape beyond the outer wall stands a massive castleIt’s a masterful piece of scenery
“Master Rimuru, why is it the “first”?”
“Hht? The forest is elf territory, so—”
“There’s a capital auished fro them the first and second ones”
Taking over the explanation half-way through was the only elf a us, Haumea
With Master opening up along this journey, he began researching her
“Oh yeah, that’s your hometown, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, sure is nostalgicAnd to think I came back so soon”
“Soon? How long has it been?”
“I guess about sixty years”
Holy cow! I heard elves had long life spans, but their sense of time is that different?!
“How e for sixty years and I’m still only yellow rank”
“Ahh, well you haven’t been adventuring very proactively, so I’m sure that’s all it is”
Amid the conversation, our turn in line for inspections comes around
We’re just escorts for the traveling theater troupe, so we got into Ashtaroth without any particular proble
Upon reaching the city square where the stage would stand, Mister Morgan calls over
“Thanks to all of your assistance, we arrived safely in Rauful experience”
“LikewiseYou gave a very enjoyable trip”
“It pains e now”
“Yes, understoodA pleasure working with you”
“Here’s the payment for the requestI went ahead and added a ave me a nice chance to see Fafnir and all”
While passing the ave a very smooth wink
“We plan on staying until winter passesWe would be overjoyed should you come to see our play at some point”
“Of course, we’d be glad toHope to see this innovative three-die”
“You will be quite welco us eitherCoo”
“I will… Have to try very hard to make that unnecessary”
“Hahaha, guess that ain”
“You take care too, Mister Morgan”
The farewell is delivered while shaking the troupe leader’s large hand
Then Moto and Carla also came over
“Rimuru, I know I’ve said this a bunch already, but you saved my lifeIf you ever have any problems, I’ll help you in any way I can”
“Whenever that happens, thank you in advance”
“Eir, you absolutely have to co too”
“Mm, promise”
“We’ll come watch once you start up, even if I have tie a rope around Chief’s neck~”
Coed away by Mister Morgan
They were all a very unique bunch
And then the ht came over
“Nice workWe’re gonna head over to the guild nowHow about you?”
“We… are going to find an inn firstWe didn’t exactly co, so we have to find some place to settle down in”
“GotchaWell, we can’t really go anywhere until winter passes, so we’ll probably see each other again”
“I’uild firstThey can help with findin’ an inn, after all”
“I guess I will too?”
Looks like Kevin and Auild
They only need to rent rooms for a short tier stay so we can enter the school
The places the guild handles are probably of a different type, so I we can’t go along, huh?
“I’ic academy, so that probably won’t do”
“You’re sure to becoreat spellcaster, Rimuru”
Hau smile
They say a lot of elves are the pretty types, but this is unfair
“Well then Riain!”
“I will not, and I didn’t!”
“Eir, let ain sometime, yeah?”
“Only a little, okay?”
“Next time I see ya, maybe there’ll be more brats around”
“Why would there be more?!”
“Teacher, please train us again sometime!”
“Hum, bear yourselves well~”
The adventurers spouted off whatever nonsense they wanted as they headed for the guild
We’re gonna be in the saain, but they readily did it anyway
I’m sure they just don’t want to party ways
“Well then, I’et settled in Rimuru”
“Yeah, of courseYou’re a pro adventurer connection after all”
“Friggin’ hell, you sure gave et any requests I can’t handle, and I’ive me yer address”
“Kevin, ross”
“Who are you callin’ “gross”?!”
When you spend six weeks together, you start seeing the real nature of people
This guy probably doesn’t want to part with us either
He’s overconfident, crude, and violent… but he’s not a bad guy at his rootsHe was just being a huge braggart e first met him
He’s overconfident, crude, and violent… but he’s not a bad guy at his rootsHe was just being a huge braggart e first met him
“See ya, and don’t go givin’ me any more crap!”
“See you later, Eir!”
We see the two of them off with a wave
As they disappeared into the traffic, the space around us suddenly felt very empty
Even though, here at thewith people as far as the eye can see
“Kinda… lonely, huh”
“… Yeah”
“Though all they did is go on ahead”
“Because they had strong personalities”
“Yes indeed… alright, how about we get going? Time to find an inn”
“Right!”
Master and I hold hands and head off to find an inn
Holding hands alk is a remnant from when I couldn’t walk very well
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Master is going to have to take the academy’s exam later, so we avoid inns with bars on their first floor, and look for as quiet a lodging as possible
One with a restaurant in it would have been nice, but we couldn’t find one, so we ended up staying at a place without a restaurant
A three-story inn, at a quiet place, with only two streets nearby isn’t a bad place for studying
We took a room deep in the second floor
Master was going to take two rooms, but the innkeeper was reluctant to rent a room out for two slaves
“Now then, Eir?”
“Yes?”
“Take it out”
“… Eh?”
Upon entering the room, Master firmly locked the door and demanded that
“The stuff you took from the God of destruction’s base said, there should be quite a bit of it”
“Auu~”
crap, I forgot he found out
“But Master Rimuru, to be honest… this room is too small”
Aon’s corpseThere’s no way I can take it all our in this tight a space
“Let’s see… I would need about five of these rooon’s corpse out though”
“Dragon’s corpse?!”
“That would be my mom~”
Yig laughs off the shocking truth she just hit us with
“What the heck, first I’ this”
“It happened a long tio~One of the heroic tales of the God of destruction”
“And then you became the God’s kin?”
“I was actually an egg at the timeThe God of destruction is more like a mom to me”
“Wow”
Sounds like a God all rightSlaughtering Fafnir, stealing its egg and raising it is really large in scale
“Guess it’s not too surprising… Anyway, if this place is too sot?”
“Uid bow… and some wooden swords were there too for soold coins”
“What’s with that weird lineup of items…?”
“It’s all stuff taken from the World Tree’s labyrinthDo you know about the war of demons and Gods?”
“The one about the fight with the demon lord?”
“Yeah, this is stuff from back then”
Which endary equipment?!
“Why was stuff like that left in a basement?!”
“‘Cause it was in the way I guess?”
“That’s way too sketchy!”
“There was at least a seal on itWho woulda thought the mountain would erupt?”
Maybe it would be better to think that it held its shape through an eruption shoerful it was?
“In any case, it would probably be best toof it all”
“Allow me to tell you about all of it~”
After that, between Master’s studies, the job of investigating e” was taken on
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There are about teeks until Master’s entrance examWe really arrived just in ti applied
Master in particular is very busy in this last spurt of studying
Which means us slaves have a lot of time on our hands, so…
“Yig, what’s this?”
“It’s a great bow called Third EyeIt got [Strengthened] to be really stiff; even ten adults pulling on it wouldn’t budge it an inch!”
“That’s aly useless… And this?”
“A metal arrow to use with itIf you fire it off, the shockwaves will even blow the shooter away~”
“And it gets even more useless…”
And we kill ti like that
Master says we can go walk around the city, but I have a slave collar on, and Yig is also wearing a collar she pulled froine ould find trouble
So we ended up deciding it would be best not to walk around unless our owner and master is with us
So we ended up deciding it would be best not to walk around unless our owner and master is with us
“What’s this wooden sword?”
I pulled out a really bigwooden sword
On the handle, “Fuurinkazan”1 is carved in
“H one of the floor keepers of the World Tree, VidofnirBy the way, the characters on the handle are handwritten by the God of destruction”
“Scribbling on a ic sword…”
“It was done by a God, what’s wrong with that?”
“Then what’s this medicine?”
“Hm, an aphrodisiac”
“Bufuh?!”
Ah, Master is reacting pretty strongly to that one
“It’s an extraction fro!”
“Don’t give !” crap! Why was so like that left in a basement?!”
“Because it was being used, I would think?”
“I can’t believe we’re talking about a God at this point!”
“Master Rimuru… you need it?”
“I-I don’t need it! I’m not even interested!”