Voluue (1/2)

Prologue

The city Dalien where the beginner adventurers gathered

It was close to July The season was going to enter suht, the adventurers earing appearance that exposed little skin──they earing thick clothes This was soht monster If they exposed a lot of their skin, that alsotheir bare skin tometal equipment covered themselves with cloth so that heat wouldn't dwell inside the metal

Perhaps other people would think that it would be fine if they dressed lightly inside the city But for adventurer, the equipment and tool they ere their tools of the trade and also their assets It would be unbearable if they took theroup was passing through under the blazing sun

It was a fao out to huntthick clothes fro sweaty My blue hair is a bit wet fro on my forehead

「H, hot」

A five ician with her characteristic side ponytail, Novelea on the hood of her navy blue robe

「Lyle-saet to replenish the salt too」

My for about ot driven out from my house

When I accept the flask and drink the water inside, the instructor Zelphy warnleather ar style used sword and shi+eld

In Dalien she is one of the veteran adventurers

「Be careful to not drink too much After that, when you put water into yourit in」

She is giving an advice that is fitting for a veteran, but Zelphy-san's job is to turn us into full-fledged adventurer

We paid a high fee to hire her as instructor for that The fund ca her dowry

I'm unable to raise my head in front of Novem who is this heroically devoted towardthat I cannot agree with nothat perhaps I should call as hareather woman around me I cannot understand this behavior of her no aze, I saw the two female adventurers who had joined our party for a while

Aria Lockwarde with her red hair that has curls to the outside, she is hiding her healthy li a spear on her shoulder

Ahead of Arisan's gaze, there is a fruit seller who is opening a stall at the street

「Hey, fruit will be good don't you think? We can hydrate ourselves with it」

Arisan is lively even though she is wearing a robe under this heat She is pointing at a fruit

Looking there, the adventurers are purchasing several of the in water filled with ice They are looking really tasty

Sophia Roho is wearing a black robe is carrying a large battle axe that is wrapped in cloth on her back

She looked at the direction Arisan pointed at and looked a bit conflicted Surely she wants to eat the fruit

「Bu, but, even if we purchase them, it won't be delicious anymore e eat it at our break ti that is really like the serious Sophisan

Arisan objected to that

「We can just eat it here It will save our water, besides it's this hot you know? You can just think of it as a part ofour physical condition」

It's this hot There is also a possibility that e have lunch outside the city, the food won't pass our throat Eating properly e can eat and maintain our stamina is important matter

Then Zelphy-san tapcannot see When I turn around, Zelphy-san signaled with her eyes to buy the fruit

……So I' huh

I took out my wallet and purchased the fruits for several people's share The auntie at the fruit stall wiped the water on the fruit before handing it to us with a smile

When I put the fruit on ed in ice water My cheek's heat is cooling down

Sophisan looked a bit troubled

「It's a bad 」

She said that in hesitation However, seeing Arisan nor the fruit, she took a s alhtly sour taste seeps into my body

Arisan throws the seed of the fruit into the waste basket beside the fruit stall and look at Nove into the fruit look strangely luscious

「If it's Novem then you can create ice to put it inside our flask aren't you? If you do that we'll be able to drink cold water anytime」

Novem who heard that made a troubled face Zelphy-san also looked at Arisan in a bit of exasperation

Sophisan wipes her mouth and put the seed inside the waste basket while explaining

「You don't know? Water that is created with ic reck your sto that

「Eh?」

The surrounding is throwingat pitiful thing A of common sense?

Then voices that only I can hear co on my neck That is the heirloom of Walt House, the memory of the resurrected ancestors──

The seven ancestors──no, right now it has beco their reaction to me with exasperated voice

The Second, Crassel Walt seems to be worried atlike that? It's really dreadful if your sto you know?』

The carefree tone of the Third, Sleigh Walt is laughing, but as expected he is also similarly troubled like the others

『Certainly this is terrible But, it's great that you realize doing that is no good before you actually do it Your sto wrecked is a life and death problelasses, Max Walt also criticizes ic, you'll definitely turn into burden Lyle, you will end upcare of your toilet business』

Even the Fifth, Fredericks Walt who usually would only open his mouth when it's necessary is also unable to stay quiet at my hopelessness

『……I once sneaked into eneic It turned into so horrible after that Lyle, absolutely don't drink that kind of water』

This person, as he doing sneaking into ene hard

『You will understand it even if you don't like it once you lad that it doesn't end up a mistake that you won't be able to take back, Lyle』

Certainly, if I don't know it then perhaps I will prepare water with ic when I run out of water

The Seventh, Brod Walt coughed

『Magic is also not alhty Lyle, renorance once more in front of my comrades and ancestors My shoulders dropped Then, Zelphy-san started walking

「Co after all」

We exited the city of Dalien and hunt in a spot where we can return to the city within the same day That beca the li the ot li, and also because the monster around Dalien yield little profit

Zelphy-san talked toht Apparently if we do that, ill be able to earninside the Jewel, and then he started talking orry

『Right now you have some leeway in fund, but at this rate it will be a bit hard At Dalien you cannot earn much even if you huntthe current situation』

The public order in Dalien is good, and the feudal lord Ventrsan is dispatching his knight and soldier to subjugate h the public order is good, it cause the adventurer's earning to be se there are a lot of various workplaces inside the city where they canfor a city that is said to be intended for beginner, it's kind toward beginner adventurer But, it's also a city that is lacking for those who has graduated froinner

The Sixth expresses his opinion to me

『Lyle, the instruction period will end soon You should think about your next destination soon Will you stay for a while in Dalien, or else will you move to another place somewhere?』

The instruction period is threeextended by teeks, but the end will come in less than one ed adventurer, but at least I've learned the way to be able to eat as adventurer

「……After this huh」

I slightly raise my head and look up the blue sky I wiped the sweat on my forehead and considered the uild

Three receptionists were sitting side by side at the second floor's reception, processing the for those three is the blond haired blue eyed beautiful girl Santoa Maie……not, but the ea vest on top of a shi+rt He was interacting with the adventurers gently and politely despite his appearance He was a really serious staff and was respected even by the adventurers living in Dalien

He was a person like that but, because of his stern appearance, the rookie adventurers tended to avoid him

The person hi about that

Hawkins who had free time that he didn't knohat to do with co to sort the area around his desk Then a staff came out from behind the counter in panic

When the staff found Hawkins, he approached hi male staff handed several pieces of docuer fro instruction for Hawkins-san to be present in the lance at the documents he received and frowned

(This is……recently there is a lot of this)

The docueon was born in the area around Dalien Hawkins left the reception duty to theroo and his eyes read over the dungeon's scale and trait

(The detail isn't really known is it?)

The dungeon had just gotten discovered and the investigation also hadn't progressed satisfactorily, but it see

It ritten that the period of its subjugation was predicted to be teeks until a month

But, there was one problem here

(The feudal lord's soldiers had just returned It'll be difficult to dispatch theeons around Dalien One was subjugated by the feudal lord's arated by the cooperation of the feudal lord's arations was co

But, it was hard to consider to dispatch the soldiers that had only just returned to carry out another subjugation

(The skilled adventurers and large scale parties are all out for the dungeon subjugation so, ht be difficult)

Hawkins was recalling the people that could possibly subjugate the dungeon froht now there were few people in Dalien ere reliable and experienced in dungeon subjugation They would have no choice but to send lower quality adventurers

While Hawkins orrying in his head about what to do, he suddenly recalled Lyle's group that was being led by Zelphy

(Lyle-kun's party……that's no good They are still in the middle of instruction period, their experience also cannot be called abundant The ability to deal with unpredictability will be necessary too, they should be kept fro for now)

Even if there was no probleeon was a place where it was unknoould happen there Furthererous with ho the information about it was

When Hawkins arrived at the door of the htened his posture and knocked

(Either way, it will be busy from now)

Hawkins resolved hi in the discussion with the er from the feudal lord Ventra──

We who returned to Dalien were dirtied with sweat, sand, and uild's first floor, sold the ot called out by a staff

「Zelphy-san, can you come to the second floor later? There is a bit of probles with you」

Zelphy-san htly troubled look Fro that another troublesoain

「Now look here, I' if I'm asked to leave that job this often you know? What is it this tiation, the second tiot calledjob

「That's, it looks like another dungeon appeared Even though we're gatheringanother dungeon even now so there isn't enough nueon, the inside of the Jewel becoeon! Nice Perhaps we'll also get a chance──』

『There is that possibility』

『Hs』

『I want to participate this ti forward to it』

『It's really exciting』

I heard that the feudal lord would be at their wits' end when a dungeon appeared in their territory But, it felt a bit like festival ht be good news for the feudal lord if it was possible to subjugate the dungeon That's what I' recently

It seems inside thethen ill also end up participating through the flow of event

The Third is hurrying me

『Come on Lyle, let's join the discussion too』