So Tenji clogged up his words.
No matter what the facts, I realized that my refusal to join Chariot was not meant to be a disingenuous statement.
After apologizing to the guild in his heart, Tenji turned his face to everyone.
"--No, I don't want to talk anymore. I'm sorry."
Looking at Tenji's expression, which seemed a little sorry, everyone didn't pursue it any further.
I'm sure you have something you'd like to hear. But they knew it well.
(Thank you everyone... this is the easiest place to live for me as a Japanese person after all)
Then they continued their conversation without compassion.
Student-like conversations about where the guilds are planning to explore on a large scale, where the Explorers are transferring guilds, and what the training videos were like there.
I went through this kind of training in the guild there, and the weaknesses of the monsters in the dungeons were there - and I exchanged practical information.
All four of us here knew that we really liked the Explorer.
After all, it was important for friends to be able to talk about what they liked, and it was a very important time for them to be able to talk about it.
That's what Tenji thought again.
"It's a shame, but it's time to go to bed." We need to get ready for tomorrow's production. "
That's right, everyone, you've got a simple protective book, right?
Of course!
"Of course."
I've brought it myself, too.
A simple protective pad is a tent-like sleeping item that fits in a waist pouch in a polar environment.
This was not an item from a dungeon, but the latest cold shield goods developed by a typical company for explorers. It is now common practice to keep them on hand.
"Now, let's go to bed so you don't catch a cold!" And don't freeze to death! "
After a pleasant conversation, they went to bed on each simple bed.
† † †
It's getting late at night, and the cold of mid-winter is soaking you up.
A sudden hunger attacked Tenji, who was deeply asleep.
”Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
I am really surprised at my appetite these days.
Until I woke up to my vocation, my appetite for sleep was stronger than my appetite, but lately, my appetite has begun to triumph over any appetite.
I realize that this is an imbalance due to vocation. Even so, some of them were becoming ineffective.
When Tenji got up to sleep, he cleared the book and stretched out his back.
It was just then.
Huh? Can't you sleep?
Tachibana, who was setting up a book a short distance away, called out.
It seemed that she had woken up at the same time as Tenji, and she was stretching her back to hear it. He rubbed his sleepy eyes like a cat and smiled.
"Yeah, I'm hungry."
"Tenji has been a foodie for a long time." Hey, why don't you take a walk? "
† † †
For a while, they walked slowly through the dark forest, preferring silence.
A short walk brought me to a spot where I could see the abandoned city below. Behind them, a group of lights that restored civilization gleamed and dyed their sight.
Then Tachibana stopped.
"That monkey is Tenji-kun, right?"
Yeah. You saw it after all.
Tenji had already been informed by the ancient cage fire that she - Kaoru Tachibana was an example of a girl.
That's why I didn't show you any particular concealment. In the first place, she knew that she had already encountered the scene where Tenji summoned the demon during the entrance exam, and she wasn't surprised.
Tachibana was convinced that the ancient cage fire was probably floating next to Tenji when he stumbled upon it.
When Tenji took the Book of Demons that was floating next to him, he completed the process of summoning it.
"Come- [Ancient Cauldron Fire]"
Reacting to the gentle words of Tenji, a deep green hell gate covered in moss appears.
When Tachibana suddenly looked at her, she looked very surprised. It may indeed have been the first time that she was shown this gate of hell.
"Amazingly beautiful."
Maybe you can see this as well?
"Yeah, I see it." Is that a creature that no one else can see? I've always seen things that weren't like that. I don't always see it, but I see it quite often. "
Tenge quietly nods in affirmation to the words.
Then he gently reached out to the ancient cage fire that appeared from the gate of Hell.
"I think I've noticed it somehow since the entrance exam, but this is my vocation."
"I think it's a very nice vocation, similar to the Hero Explorer I loved. At least I don't think Tenji is as scared as he is anxious. You told me because you wanted to know that, didn't you?"
Tachibana replied with a smile, without even showing fear. Her moonlit smile gently enveloped Tenji's heart, who revealed her vocation with courage.
Tenji wanted to know.
How does the ability to "summon creatures" that are alien to you appear to others? However, Tachibana replied that she had no idea what Tenji was thinking.
"Thank you, Tachibana-san. I'm really glad you were an honest Tachibana-san."
What happened?
"I've decided not to hide it anymore." But I also know that when I know this power, there will always come out people who are scared. That's why I feel like I've been saved by Tachibana-san, who told me it was lovely- "
Tenge looks up at the clean crescent moon as if it were a space between them.
But with this, I'm going to be able to compete in this tournament reluctantly.
Hey, can I have my points back to Tenji?