Chapter 217 (1/2)

Volume 3

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 6 Chapter 31

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After a little while, there were new visitors in Nefas’s room.

They were Marin who carried a gigantic shield as big as her on her back, Orel who was scratching his head looking like he found this to be a pain in the neck, and then Nino who was making a completely displeased face.

Nefas displayed an unabashed delighted-looking expression from Nino’s unexpected visit.

Seeing that, Seira greatly drew back.

「……Tsk.」

Without hiding her irritation about being called here all of a sudden, Nino clicked her tongue.

「Sorry. But all of your abilities were needed.」

「That doesn’t matter. Nino only came here because it was Demon King-sama’s request. If it weren’t for that, Nino wouldn’t have come to a place like this.」

「I see. But, it still helps.」

After saying his thanks to Nino with a wry smile, Sancreed then turned his gaze to Marin.

Marin, who was different from Nino and had a composed look, noticed Sancreed’s gaze and made a bow.

「This time I have received the command to support you. I am lacking in ability in regards to battle, but I shall devote my all to the endeavor.」

「Yeah, I’ll be counting on you.」

「Yes, please leave it to me.」

Behind the nodding Sancreed, Seira made a curious face at the maids that had appeared.

She wondered who would since he said that they were most suitable, and who appeared were two maids, and an uninteresting ossan.

Since one of them was clearly a Maid Knight, she would certainly be useful in battle, but if he said that she was most suitable personnel, that raised a question mark.

Why was she called here? That is what Seira was unable to understand.

Maybe having sensed Seira’s worry from how she tilted her head, Nefas walked up next to her and explained.

「It’s her 【Magic Eyes of Greenery].」

「Heh?」

「She……Nino is a forest pro that possesses 【Magic Eyes of Greenery].」

「【Magic Eyes of Greenery]……? But isn’t that, that’s just an ability to manipulate plants a bit ,right?」

With Seira’s understanding, 【Magic Eyes of Greenery] were like that.

In addition to the 【Magic Eyes of Greenery] which couldn’t do anything but be at the level of pestering the opponent at most, there was the 【Magic Eyes of Coercion] which gave a small bit of pressure to the opponent, the 【Magic Eyes of Farsightedness] which let one see far into the distance, the 【Magic Eyes of Night Vision] which let one see no matter if it was day or night, and so on. Those that possessed Magic Eyes would occasionally appear.

However, they were generally powers that were at the level of being 「slightly convenient」.

Among those, even if she possessed the 【Magic Eyes of Greenery] which were said to only being able to hang the opponent with vines as the most they could do, what was he saying that she could do?

「Ahh, that’s the general knowledge of mankind on the Shutaia Continent. But, it seems that there’s a rank to Magic Eyes. Well, you’ll understand soon enough.」

「Hーn?」

Understanding that he didn’t seem to have an interest in explaining it right now, Seira gave a half-hearted response in return.

On the other hand, Nino had no interest in going along with their idle talk, and hurried Luuty and the others.

「So, where’s the place? Nino is going to finish up the job and go back.」

「Yes. In that case, I have a simple map prepared.」

However, seeing the map that was brought out, Nino made a sour face.

On that map, there was nothing but the locations of the highways, checking stations, and the royal capital drawn, while the most important part was rough with only the words 「Great Jiol Forest」 written, and the topographical details couldn’t be told at all.

Moreover, that Great Jiol Forest part roughly made a circle.

「……What is this?」

「It is a map.」

「Nino thinks that this is called a drawing.」

Hearing Nino’s words, Luuty expressed a troubled looking smile.

Certainly, just as Nino pointed out, like this, it was closer to a drawing rather than a map.

The positioning of the highways were done accurately, but to begin with, if one just went along the highway and saw the billboards at every important point, they wouldn’t get lost in the first place.

In cases where they would leave the highway and search deep in the forest like this time, this map would be completely useless.

However, from the point of view of national defense, depicting the topography of the Great Jiol Forest, which acted as a natural fortress that protected the Jiol Forest Kingdom domain, in detail was a taboo, and that couldn’t be helped in a certain way.

「……Ahー, let me look at that for a bit.」

After Orel, who had kept silent up until now, nimbly took the map from Nino’s hands, he looked through the map and nodded as if he understood something.

「I’ll ask this one thing, but you think that the settlement is somewhere within the range of this circle, right?」

After Orel said that, he continued sounding like it was a pain.

「I don’t think that there’s only one settlement but……well, whatever. It’s fine if we just crush that one settlement along the highway this time.」

「Eh, what do you mean by that, Oji-san?」