Dream Life

February 1st.

I set out with my sister Sharon for Imperial Primes. [M]

In order to take as much time as possible to gather information in Teito, we plan to rush through a distance of one hundred and thirty km (Kimmel) in two days.

The horse is borrowed by the Adventurer Guild, so I'm going to change it in town on the way and go seventy kimmels in just one day today.

Today's destination is a town called Sherringham. This is the realm capital of Viscount Sherringham, belonging to the Duke of Ezarrington's house, and it feels busy with the deal.

I went into town when the 6: 00 pm bell rang and it was completely dark around. We're the only ones trying to get into town at this hour, and a middle-aged man at the gatekeeper said, "Is something wrong?" So much so that I was worried.

It's not strange to be worried if you travel to such times at our age. [M]

After making proper excuses, head to the Adventurer Guild branch. The location of the branch was asked by the gatekeeper, so it was quickly found.

Is this a peaceful land around here, there are just a few adventurers in the guild lobby and no one at the reception counter. There is only one counter where people sit, asking for horse arrangements and recommended accommodation.

"I want to rent a horse because I want to leave at dawn tomorrow, and I'd like you to introduce me to the recommended accommodation."

The receptionist was a man in his mid-thirties, who said, "Are you leaving at dawn? Are you in a hurry," he asked.

"Because I want to go to Imperial City by tomorrow. It's a waste of money staying in an inn."

He smiled at my excuse, "You sure are," but cared, "It looks like it's going to rain tomorrow, so don't push it," he said.

When I thanked him, he told me about the cheap but relatively safe place to stay.

I'm heading to the inn, but I'll see if anyone's following me.

My sister is also worried, "Does anyone seem to be following me? I've heard."

"Three of them are following me from the guild. Maybe we'll find out where we're staying, and then we'll be in contact."

My sister gives me an anxious look for a moment, but without turning back, she has asked me more questions in a natural way.

"What's it like? Bandits?"

"No, walking is too amateur for a bandit. There's a swordsman in two and a magician in two. Maybe they're the ones thinking of winding up the money from the young adventurers. Well, your arm's no big deal. You must be weaker than Theo."

My prediction is that he's a senior adventurer to newcomers. I look like I'm about twenty-five, but I'm concerned that I'm low on skill and have too many gaps.

"Can't you think of a", my sister immediately denied.

"I don't think so, because our identity isn't off the hook. It's unlikely you'll be ambushed in a town halfway through the Empire."

I nod at it and say, "Well, I hope it's on schedule." My sister nodded small at it.

I arrived at the inn that I plan to stay in today. The suspicious threesome ended up following me to the inn.

One of the threesomes spoke to me as I proceeded to accommodate at the inn reception and tried to make my way to the room.

"Hey, if you have a problem, I'll talk to you. You're new here, aren't you?

In a safe town, the armor is not worn and there is a slight smell of alcohol.

"I'm not in any trouble. Besides, I don't have as much experience as a rookie."

When I said that, I approached him familiarly saying, "Hey, don't tell me a lie that I can get rid of right away."

Send a hand sign to my sister to go to her room first. My sister tried to go up the stairs without saying anything.

"Where are you going? I say," Block my sister. And peek into the hood of the cloak,

"What!? You're a woman!," but soon starts laughing at Niyaniya.

"Running off with each other lovers? Then you have a little extra money, don't you? If you want to buy me a drink, I can give you some information around here."

Apparently, he mistook it for some rich kid who ran off about us.

This handful (from Ya) comes up badly, so I push it off with strength at once.

"I take it personally, but I'm still a quaternary adventurer. Well, you won't believe it."

With that said, I jump up my cape and show Mr. Wood the Fei Long leather armor he made me. More of Mr. Johann's long sword of misrills chirps.

"Level four? Why don't you blow a little better than that to blow a law nut? There's no way it could be at your age."

And another swordsman looks at the gear and opens his eyes.

"And that sounds expensive equipment. I knew it was some rich bong..."

Though they found it expensive, they could not normally get it, they did not seem to know it was a sword or armor made with soul by a famous Dwarf worker.

"Well, you don't seem to believe it, so I'll show you the orb. Can you still believe this?

Say that and show the orb to the man close by.

"That's not true...... hmm? What's this all about?

At first he had a nasty laugh, but gradually the look solidified.

The guy behind me said, "What's going on?..." and look at my orb and say the same.

"You know what I mean? I'm not rushing out, and I don't need any information on this town, so can you go somewhere?"

Meanwhile, my sister was up the stairs, and I tried to follow it.

"Ma, wait! I don't know what kind of hand you used, but there's no way a young man like you is a fourth degree! You can go home so far!

He's not smarter than I thought. It is impossible to forge an orb, including the Orb of the Adventurer Alliance. Unless, of course, the guild official is fraudulently involved, there can be no counterfeiting unless everyone below the branch manager is also in a consortium.

And if injustice is found, severe punishment is inflicted by the bureau of the land and the Adventurer's Guild. Basically, it would be a death sentence as a piece of banditry, or even lightly, it would definitely be dropped into criminal slavery.

A normal adventurer would naturally understand, but there's blood on his head and he doesn't know why.

"I think it's common sense that I can't forge an orb. And nothing got tangled up from you. It's a terrible argument, don't you think?"

It heats up even more when I say so. [M]

"Don't be ridiculous! Don't slap me in the mouth like a kid!

The man in front of me seems to have completely bled up on his head and has his hands on his sword. People watched far away wondering if fights would start around. I know you haven't heard the story, but it's not good for me to get any more attention.

When I thought about it, I remembered what Master Zach had said before.

'... the retard is often unacceptable to the facts in front of him. It doesn't make any sense to reason with a guy like that. On the other hand, there's just blood on your head. Guys like that either have to ignore it or force them to admit the facts. Well, I do it sometimes too, so I can't say I'm made...'

I forgot what we were talking about, but the situation was exactly right now. Since the stage of ignoring it had already passed, I decided to force him to understand the facts.

"If you pull your sword out here, you'll be annoyed. If you're gonna do it, why don't you go outside?"

A relatively calm man in the three looks around and whispers, "It's not good here," he says.

The man who had his hand on the sword also looks around with those words, his eyes start swimming, but still can't get his hands off the sword, even though he thinks that if he pulls here, he will lose.

"You don't seem to have anything to say, and you don't have any business anymore," he said, heading to the stairs.

Behind me, he said, "Lick your mouth!," he shouted, and heard the sound of pulling out his sword. Plus the receptionist's old song woman said, "Stop! scream."

Did that signal, or I heard a foot stepping in called a van.

I look back and avoid the side, hooking the foot of the man who has slashed my sword even more.

The man was rolling with a fierce noise and letting go of his sword. I'm losing my mind if I even hit him in the head.

The other two stood stunned about not understanding what had happened.

I picked up the falling sword,

"Shouldn't you run away? Soon the guards will rush, so the accomplices will think you did it."

You returned to me in my words, and the two men tried to escape in charge of the man who was falling.

"I forgot something," he said, throwing his sword, and he picked it up in a hurry and ran away.

"I disturbed you," he said, bowing his head, going straight up the stairs.

When I walked into the room, my sister was waiting for me in arms.

"What was the response just now? It doesn't make sense if you piss them off! You decided to go somewhere discreet and show the difference in strength before all the fuss!

Sure enough, in a prior meeting, if he was tangled up in a powerless chimp or drunk, he decided to direct him to a place without a crowd to match his painful eyes. The only opponent this time is about swordsman level fifteen, so I would have been able to defeat the three at the same time without any problems.

"I went up there to magically support you out the window! Because your brother really doesn't understand!

I knew what my sister was thinking, but I just didn't think she was that short. I thought I'd make an excuse, but when I excuse my sister, she preaches even more, so I honestly decided to apologize here.

"Sorry. I'll be careful next time," he says, bowing his head. I find this a little unreasonable, but this is the least damaging method I've ever learned.

"Really, please! If you can rub it in the capital, you won't be able to do what Zach asked you to do."

Although my sister did, as I expected, she didn't pursue it any further.

I want to go to the dining room because I'm hungry, but I still feel signs of being bothered.

"Shall we wait until we calm down a little bit? Take care of your gear while you wait."

"Right. It looks better in about an hour..."

He was in the room for about an hour, but in the end, he never got a defense team or a policeman, and everything seems to have healed.

There were plenty of people drinking alcohol, but no one was interested in us dressed like regular merchants without gear. Not so much a disguise, but this seems to have worked too.

Just in case, I left the alarm device on the door and window of the room. But then nothing happened, and we had a morning.

Leaving with dawn means no breakfast, and we leave the inn straight to the Adventurer's Guild.

The night is dawning, but the clouds are thick or not brighter inside. Still going early inside the dim town, but no particular trouble arose and left the town of Sheringham safely.

After leaving Sherringham, it began to rain. Though warm in the southern part of the empire, the winter rain is cold and my body is getting cold.

I put in my first break where I went about ten kimmels.

"Isn't it cold? When I heard, my sister gave me a water bottle.

"It's okay, because I have a magically warmed water bottle. It's sweet herbal tea, so you can drink it."

With that said, he was smiling for some reason.

"What's up?," he answers, "Nothing,"

"I remember a long time ago. When I first went to Doctus with Master Zach."

I haven't heard the details, but when I headed to the academic city of Doctus to enter the School of Magic, my sister had been struck by the rain in the same way and fell ill. That's when they got Master Zach a warmed herbal tea.

Maybe something good happened then. Because when my sister smiles like that, it's when something good happened.

"Well, shall we hurry ahead? It doesn't mean the rain won't get worse."

If you say that and give me the water bottle back, I'll get on the horse right away.

My sister was riding a horse, too.

"Right. There's so much to do in Imperial City, you can't waste your time."

The rain continued after that, but nothing happened and we arrived safely in the Empire City.

"I wonder what the inn will do," he asked.

"Let's make it an inn near a commercial guild. Because it may be expensive, but it looks safe and doesn't get entangled in weird"

I had received a map of Teito from Viscount Radford beforehand and relied on the map to make my way to the commercial district.

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The threesomes involved with Dan and the others were drinking cheaply in the crude room where they lived.

They came out of the neighboring countryside admiring the city. However, he did not even have basic training, and our swordsmanship, to the extent that it exceeded level 10, was abusing the paste mouth with jobs close to daily employment, such as exterminating large rats in the sewer and carrying luggage.

Ten years were about to pass after coming out of the countryside, but it remained a seventh-level alleged rush out.

For them, a quaternary adventurer called a veteran was an object of admiration, and Dan, far younger than ourselves, could not tolerate things like quaternary.

A man slashed by Dan groans bossly.

"What the hell is that guy?

"I don't know. But the orb he had is real. It did say Dan the Quaternary Adventurer..."

"But wow. Whatever that kid thinks, he's ten below us. There can't be a fourth grade of such a young man... and that was different..."

After the third man drunk, he said, "Let's forget it. I can't help thinking about it," he says and takes another sip.

Afterwards, no one said anything about cheap liquor.