Chapter 040 (2/2)

Looking up at the blue moon that was suspended in the sky, Shion then returned his gaze forward.

Stores in the slums were basically open even at night.

The shopkeepers themselves would sleep, and leave it to the shop assistants. That part, even for the stores on the mainstreet, were the same anywhere if it was aimed towards Adventurers.

In order to answer to the demands of Adventurers which would go out on a journey or come back from a journey at any time and at any place, or maybe in order to become their favorite store, being open at any time was an essential condition.

That is why, even now, the inside of the town shined with the light of stores and magic lights that were lit at regular intervals, so unless one was deep in a side road, there weren’t any dark places.

That being said, since there were problems such as labor costs even in loading magical power into the magic lights, it was pretty much only the royal capital that was bright even at night.

As Shion was thinking about that sort of thing, Kain breathed a sigh.

「There really is, a lot of people, isn’t there.」

「Did you……arrive at the royal capital just recently?」

「Yes. It’s because my and Sharon’s hometown was more of a rural area.」

After Shion made a suitable nod at that answer, Kain once again faced forward and started walking.

Certainly, if it was the son of a Baron House, he would live in his own hometown, and it was probably a fact that it was a more rural area than the royal capital.

Having no interest anymore than that, Shion didn’t feel any particular need to ask anything else.

「Why……were you, chosen?」

「Heh?」

However, when Nino asked that to Sharon, Shion thought “I see”.

It was about making student go on a dangerous request.

Shion thought of that as being nothing but having troublesome things being pushed onto him.

However, a reason why Kain and Sharon were chosen should naturally exist.

Even if he were to cross-examine Luuty who was probably waiting for them, he didn’t think that he would hear a good answer from her, so it could be said that asking that of Sharon, who looked like she was loose-tongued, now was correct.

「U, uーm. This is only a guess, but I think it might be because of Kain?」

「Because of Kain?」

When Shion turned his eyes towards Kain who was walking at the lead, Kain scratched his head looking like he was troubled.

He couldn’t see his facial expression, but he could see that he was a bit shaken.

「Kain, he did something amazing during the practical skill examination, and it seems that the examiner senseis went into an uproar……」

「Something amazing, huh.」

「No, that’s, I made a mistake in the magic’s adjustments. And I accidentally went full power……」

For the time being, Shion nodded looking like he could understand at Kain who said that looking embarrassed.

That was a story that he feels like he heard somewhere, that is what he thought.

He couldn’t remember what it was at all but……thinking that it was no use if he couldn’t remember it, Shion decided to be satisfied with that answer.

In any case, it probably ended up with Luuty having an eye on him because of that.

「Ah, I can see the main gate.」

Ahead of Kain as he said that was the royal capital’s enormous main gate.

It was a wall created by laying up white stones, and a steel gate.

Soldiers that were placed there for the sake of not letting suspicious people in were busily moving about.

Among the merchant carriages and guards that were coming and going, they could tell that there was some gigantic thing that dully shined purple.

「It can be known with a glance huh……」

「So true.」

That thing that was at the end of Shion and Nino’s gazes, there was most likely no mistake that it was Luuty’s Earthworm.

That silver hair that was bundled into buns on both sides of her head was clearly Luuty.

She wasn’t wearing her suit from this afternoon, but cloth clothes and silver armor, though it felt like she wanted to say some kind of joke.

How she carried a bow on her back was surely also some sort of mistake.

「You sure did take your sweet time. Once you get on, we will depart.」

Having properly prepared travelling clothes, Luuty declared that once she confirmed Shion and the others’ figures.