Side Story 4 (1/2)

Side Story 4 – A Certain Group of Heroes’ Manual Labour

On the second floor of the Evil God Teathered before a certain room

The group coroup that was least fitting to be here

“Umm, is this the place?”

“Yes In accordance to Sacred Goddess-sama’s esteemed words, I believe there is no mistake”

“But still, this place, ey? Why’d Sacred Goddess-sama tell us to come to a place like the Evil God Temple, anyways?”

“Beats et Arc’s Holy Sword back, of course we had to go”

“I need my Holy Spear back too, after all”

“I as well Without my Holy Bow in hand, I really can’t be said to be fit for the title Hero”

They were Hero of the Holy Sword, Arc’s party; Hero of the Holy Spear, Lionel; and Hero of the Holy Bow, Orlaine; a total of six members However, ever since they failed to capture the “Holy Land of the Evil God” and had their weapons stolen from them, their titles now felt a little ironic

And those acknowledged by these weapons becaained the title of Hero Arc, Lionel and Orlaine as well had become Heroes in this way

Because of that, they were Heroes only because of their Holy Weapons, and therefore it was because they were heroes that they ought to be holding their Holy Weapons Just as Orlaine had said, having their weapons stolen was a fatal defeat for a Hero, and even if they were verbally abused, there was nothing they could say in return

“It won’t return even when I call for it… Just what on earth has happened to my Holy Bow?”

“Yeah, usually e call for them they immediately come back, ey?”

In reply to Orlaine’s anxious words, the blue haired Lionel agreed

Knowing this, when the Heroes had failed the dungeon and woken up without the for the weapons countless times However, the Holy Weapons would not return

When it came to Orlaine, until Arc and the others had stopped her, she called for the Holy Bow again and again until her light purple hair was a mess and her eyes were filled with tears, but there wasn’t any effect

“I’m sure it’ll be fine Sacred Goddess-sama told me that I would be able to recover my Holy Sword if I came here In that case, the Holy Sword should be safe”

“It would be good if that was true…”

The blonde haired Arc tried to cheer her up, but Orlaine hung her head, perhaps still worried To begin with, as a frail girl chosen by the Holy Bow to be a Hero, she had strained herself to fulfil her duties She was probably e the crucial Holy Bow

“It’s fine I haven’t broken the Holy Sword, the Holy Spear, or the Holy Bow either”

While the Heroes were talking, a voice called out from behind them

And standing there was a black-haired girl clad in a jet black dress decorated with rose designs

The h them all

The blood draoosebumps all over their bodies Their throats felt parched, and their teeth chattered Around the tian to tre out a cold sweat, as though finally re to do so

It was iirl… Even if they had their Holy Weapons, it was iirl

Up until that est foe they had ever met was the one currently on standby deep below on the 30th floor, but fro in front of thereater than the despair-inducing Imperial Death

Their instincts, emotions and intellect… the fear experienced by all of these see hearts of these Heroes But this was certainly not because they eak of spirit Had they been so, they would have immediately escaped the moment they met her eyes The very fact that they still reth

And how they responded was by dropping on the spot, getting on their hands and knees, and pressing their head against the floor It was the pose of ultiends of the Heroes──the dogeza

“…Ah-, sorry”

Because the people around her had gotten used to averting their own eyes, the girl had half-forgotten about her own y in front of the resulting dogeza festival

The girl――Anri, told theist of her mystic eyes It was only a while after her first appearance that they were able to have a conversation

Nor that the Heroes could overlook, but because she was soht God had told the careless was one of the reasons they didn’t inquire further

The second reason was that there was so even more important to them in her earlier words

“Then, you have the Holy Sword right now!?”

“The Holy Spear too?”

“And the Holy Bow!?”

Hearing Anri mention the locations of the Holy Weapons, the Heroes reflexively let out cries of surprise

“Please, return them to us!”

Arc held Anri’s hand in his two, and desperately appealed to her Nor at each other in the eyes, but because they weresure not to do so, it looked terrible comical from the side

The one who had been most shaken due to the loss of their Holy Weapon was Orlaine, but inside, it was Arc that waspart of that was because unlike Orlaine and Lionel who did their work solo, Arc worked in a party In the end, it was nothing more than a personal proble inconvenience to his party members, so it couldn’t be helped

“I’ them back, but there will be conditions”

“Oi, oi, whaddya mean conditions?”

Zio showed his dissatisfaction towards Anri’s words

From his point of view, the mission of the Heroes was to protect the Hu uncooperative was unthinkable, but that had nothing to do with Anri

“…Please tellI can do, I will!”

“…I will too!”

“Can’t be helped pisses me off, but just say it”

The Heroes resolved theic expressions, and Anri simply informed them of the condition

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“Help me build my house”

“Hah?”