Volume 1 Chapter 9 (1/2)

Chapter 9: Caria Burdnick once again

「Okay…Miss Caria Burdnick, this will be a battle abided by the tavern's rules Let's prepare your duel against Lugis! 」

Old man Richard arrived in the tavern and joined us As usual, he makes a fuss out of nowhere as he proposed a randoht a ceramic bowl full of alcohol and put in the center of the table This is a co, if they lose they'll need to pay for the alcohol I was never really into this kind of duels before, but people in the taverns always found this extre

By the hat is old ht now? He seeaainst her, 'kay; if you do I'll have the chance to win the bets 」

Old man Richard was always a very fraudulenthis usual deceits Not that I expected anything else froh

As I lowered my head, I adjusted es seeed Well, they were two old knives in the first place and besides that, the fight against the demon beast didn't help them either It looks like they'll break apart pretty soon

The person who fought against the de on the sali at me with a smile on her face Ah, I see That smile of hers was not of joy, but it was a cynical smile When I ith the Rescue Party, I saw that kind of smile countless of ti and pitiful at the same time What did I do to God to deserve this?

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After I entered the tavern, I was invited to sit beside Caria Burdnick It was a fine looking table at the back of the tavern The table was also higher than normal tables In the past, I wouldn't be allowed to sit on these kind of tables, but for Caria Burdnick, as in the Knight Class, it wouldn't be a probleot out of there safely I didn't say it properly before, but congratulations on defeating that ht's Order headquarters to submit evidence that the monster was defeated They were quite astonished and they spread ahter” was successful in defeating that thing 」

A de that controls beasts like the one in the forest There is a theory that professes that a demon who rests within the body of a wild beast is called a hexenbiest However, during this era, nobody killed a hexenbiest before; or at least no one gave proofs of really killing that thing The type of ic that is able to kill thesethe witchcraft operations that will happen in the near future

We ed to keep a standard conversation Caria Burdnick kept explaining the Knight's Order events and I kept replying to her Who kneould be able to have a norh of it, at least not for theof our encounter in the tavern was surprisingly peaceful This exchange of small talk seemed natural Yet, I wonder if we could've been like this in the future if things had happened differently? The et at this suspicious peacefulness

However, the ht into the table

「By the way Why did you left uess I would be in your way if I stayed with you You always kept saying I was in your way, as if I was a huge burden to you all the time 」

Oh no, I need to closeto her that she ”used” to treat me like that Who treated me awfully was Caria Burdnick from the future The one in front of h, they are the same Caria Burdnick

A surprised Caria Burdnick raised her eyebrows and opened her mouth

「You were like this back in the forest You talked as if you knewit You also didn't seeht Class You kept ignoring me even when I asked repeatedly 」

The atht that ”maybe”, I could understand this woman and have a proper conversation with her

But why did it turn out like this I have absolutely no clue

「…In this country, if you go against the words of the upper class, you can be punished Do you want nored her question and I loweredis sure, according to this country's customs, we do have a law like that That's why Caria Burdnick made that ultimatum since I could be really punished Even so, the worse that could happen to me would be to do hard labor for several days at best However, I was angry with ht thoughts I shouldn't have questioned Caria Burdnick's behavior, why doubt it, when she is the same Caria she alas