After I'm done, Lyla breathes my body with her index finger.
I crawled my fingers along my abs and stopped fitting.
Just above the navel, about a pinky scar.
"Much older..."
In bed, Lila says as she whispers.
"Yes, but you can get hurt."
"Naturally. It wasn't like this from the beginning."
Lyla gently caresses the scar.
"There are a few, but this is the only wound on the front"
"Right."
……
I care, it says on Lyla's face.
"It's not an interesting story or anything. I was immature. That's all."
"... Hmm?
It wasn't so much about failure.
But speaking of the past, there was still tremendous resistance to telling others about the mistakes made.
When I turned my back, Lila slipped over and hugged me from behind.
"I have stab wounds, cuts on my shoulder and back..."
Lyla kisses the scar gently.
Carefully, every place, as the goddess breathes.
Trying not to remember, I closed my eyes.
It was during work the next day.
"Officials, Quests, May I?"
Before me, who had been busy providing good offices for the quest in the morning, the girl whose order came sat down.
"Receiving your quest? We'll keep your adventure card."
Take the Adventure Certificate you put on the counter and listen to the quest you want.
D-Rank Adventurer. Sasha Grid. Eighteen.
He was an intermediate adventurer who was otherwise unusual or irrelevant.
……
He's used to adventures, and lately he's often taken the D-rank.
"A good one for D-rank, would you like me to introduce you if I had one?
I smile back at Sasha, who jokes.
"I don't know if there is anything you would like… please wait a moment"
Everyone wants to have fun and make money.
Even though the real deal is so, the adventurer who makes it a straight word is surprisingly dull.
"What about this?"
It's a security quest in the mountains.
"Hmm."
"It seems that the bridge that has always been used has been flushed into the river, and now, as its detour, it passes through the narrow path of the old road. It's a quest for you to use it safely."
Get out a map and give a brief explanation.
They also need a crowd to build the bridge, but this quest is cheap and tight.
"Yeah, well, I'm supposed to protect the passers-by, right?
"Yes. If anything happens, please. There are similar quests in this area in other guilds, so I think we will share roles locally"
Lord Bardell sent an official, so I guided him to follow his instructions.
"Copy that. That's a pretty long time for this quest."
"Looks like it's until the bridge's fixed"
"Oh well. Well, try it all day and I'll come back for it if you like."
"Yes, I did. Best regards,"
Waving at me, Sasha left with a happy smile on her face.
And then for a while, I've been busy mediating quests and getting reports to adventurers who've been with my colleagues.
"- Oh, my God!
That's when a young man rushed into the guild with a shout.
Talk out of breath.
"On the old road - a large Gatehawk showed up -"
The guild went out of its way.
Individuals are not so high in rank per se, but they are ferocious birds.
Bigger than other birds, but when they become large, the B rank is considered appropriate.
... and it was in the manual.
"Local adventurers can't handle it. The knight still takes time! I want you to treat me as an urgent quest from Lord Bardell -!"
Busy employees began to get busy in circles.
"Make a quest vote -"
What about the reward?
"If you're checking with your lord! Rank setting? B-rank, B-rank!
"Urgent quest, someone who knows a B-rank who will take it right away -"
When I started panicking, Iris Branch Manager came out and asked what was going on.
And then my eyes met, and I raised my hand.
"Iris Branch Manager"
"... right. Could you please?"
I nod and go to the other side of the counter.
Attention was drawn when Iris Branch Manager slapped his hand.
"Yes, yes, everyone, calm down. The old road thing is, Lorraine's coming out. Don't panic, don't make a scene, do your business as usual."
If you look closely, all the adventurers who are coming are below D-rank.
Should be in a hurry.
Officials have thrown confusion and encouragement.
"Loran, can you even fight a large Gatehawk opponent...?
"Good luck, Mr. Loran."
"Miriam's eyes are hearty..."
"I know. I depended too much, and I was a little cum..."
I was asking the young man who jumped in for details, and the adventurers bothered.
"What, what do you mean?
"Argan officials, are you going to fight...?
"Seriously? I want to see..."
"Hey, horses, horses, lend me someone!
A horse the man rode was parked in front of the guild.
When I got on it, all kinds of people looked out the window.
"Oh, ready!?
"Are you okay with your bare hands?!?
"What do you need?"
I palmed my hand to stop it.
"One of these is enough."
"" "" Or... ""
We had a light rendition and kicked the horse belly.
Get out of town at once and let the plains walk.
"There are a few, but this is the only wound on the front"
Last night, Lyla's voice crosses the back of her brain.
I spread the map in my head so I could undo it.
Gatehawk is a dangerous bird, also known as a cannibal devil bird.
Depending on the size, if it's about one adult, I can twist it with a couch.
The old road is not strange because it is a mountain road, but there has never been any sighting.
Run the shortest route and go for the old road.
I heard a tall Gatehawk squeal. At the same time, people screamed.
There were adventurous men running over here.
"But help me... what, that bird"
"I just can't. We can't handle this..."
An escaped relief, or the two got on their knees on the spot.
"Hey, where did an adventurer named Sasha go"
"Hmm? Alliance officials......?
"Sasha...... that woman in D-rank. Back, back! Tell me you can do something about it..."
Are you fighting?
I guess you're going to outsmart me until that young man calls for reinforcements.
"Okay."
I hurried down the mountain path with my horse.
"Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
When I found the example Gatehawk, it rang loud enough to sound all over the area.
On the road, several adventurers with holes in the couch were rolling in wreckage.
In the shadows of the rocks, apparently seconded officials nod with their heads.
"Over there, I hope it goes fast!
Sasha is attacking Bassa and the winged Gatehawk with an arrow.
What I'm putting on my hips is a sword.
He wasn't very good at bows, and he repeatedly didn't arrive or take them off.
"Kiiiiiiiii!"
"Ugh, wow!?
Sasha bows down and squeezes Gatehawk, who glides at high speed.
It was a cliff on either side of the road, but it looks like it could climb.
Stay down.
"Oh yeah...... and the staff!?
Get off the horse and pull the sword that was rolling into the interview.
Put your hands on the rocky skin with the stars on it and keep going up.
They're after Sasha, and the excited Gatehawk repeatedly intimidated him greatly.
"I thought it was about Gatehawk... but I'm getting old. Ooh."
Crying, Sasha lays low and scratches Gatehawk, who has attacked again.
Targeted where Gatehawk tried to return to the sky again.
I try to kick the wall and fly, in the meantime I hold my sword with both hands.
Gatehawk looked for it and waved it down at his disposal.
"Gee."
Gatehawk, short screaming and bloody, fell from his head to the ground.
"You didn't feel good."
When I land, I stab my sword in the ground.
"Hmm? That. Eyeglasses"
He dropped it somewhere, to the clap of a fall.
It's not expensive, and it doesn't have to be a problem, so I stopped looking.
Sasha pulled the horse's reins as she told the still frightened rock shade officials how it was going.
"Staff. Thanks."
"No, it was an emergency."
Staring at me, Sasha grinned.
"I didn't notice it in the guild because I had glasses... but maybe the second time. You're gonna help me."
"No... I think you're wrong, don't you?
Well, then, I spanned the horse, and now I let him relax and run.
"... you remembered"
As I blurted out how many years ago it would have been, I even came back to the guild.
There, several officials were reproducing the scene.
"'Eh, ready!?
"'Are you okay with your bare hands!?
"What do you need?"
"'... one of these is enough' (Kiri"
- Something just happened.
Oh, and the adventurers who weren't there earlier were applauding.
"" "" Argan officials, are you serious? ""
Somehow everyone was spreading the scene.