"Look, Note, there are many snowmen in front of the house there."
"It's true. It's like a family though it's big but small."
While watching the snowmen lining the eaves of a private house, answer the words of Rozria walking next to him.
I have become accustomed to the snow scene of this city.
The snow, falling at a pace of about two days a week, did not melt in the fine winter sunshine, and the road was covered with brown, soiled, dirty snow.
Melted snow solidifies again on the stone road, and it is likely to slide down as you walk up.
That said, if you walk along the side of the road, the remaining snow will get into your shoes and wet your socks.
The snow I was looking forward to before falling so much now I hope that the winter is over soon and it is hopefully clean.
The extraordinary became an everyday, and turned boring.
That's because new stimuli have been added to everyday life.
The whiteness of the snow may have faded.
"Well, here."
When he approached his usual fork, he raised his hand.
"Yes……"
Lozria looked at me with a sad expression.
"Isn't it okay lately, isn't it? You're busy working and have you broken your body?"
"I think my body is okay, but I'm busy but that doesn't change ..."
"That would be fine ..."
"I'm sorry. I couldn't make much time to meet. I could only talk a little today."
The current time is still 8:30 at night.
Only two hours have passed since I met Roslia.
"It can't be helped. You were too early tomorrow?"
"Yeah, many of my colleagues have recently quit. I have to go early to sort in the morning. I'm sorry."
"I've heard that many times. I know. Note isn't bad at all, so don't apologize."
"And also on the day after tomorrow.
"So, don't apologize. I'm grateful for just making time once a week while I'm busy."
"really sorry……"
"Already ... If you want to apologize to that point, please make up this time. If a new person enters the office, it will be easier, right?"
"Yeah, maybe ..."
"That's why I'll take a break and go on a trip somewhere. I'll forgive you."
"I see. I promise."
"Thank you. Please keep your promise."
With that said, Roslia smiled and waved her right hand, wearing fluffy gloves.
"Then goodbye, next week!"
"See ya……"
He waved his hand until Roslia disappeared, and after a while lowered his arm.
"I promised I couldn't keep it again ..."
I feel sick with myself vomiting white.
What is a promise. What's sorry What's busy
Isn't it all that?
Nobody quit at work. I'm not busy working.
However, this is a way to refuse Rosria's invitation and secure time.
It is a shallow person who thinks only about himself.
I'm a bit lonely now, and I didn't want to go traveling with Rosria.
"Even if you're sorry here, you waste it ..."
I muttered alone and decided to go to my destination.
"Go or go to Hugel"
So, today, I decided to head to Hugel's house for training.
"Oh, did you come? Noto. It was late today."
"Thank you, Hugel, I'll bother you."
Following Hugel, who opened the door, he entered the house and took off his shoes.
Go up the corridor and head to the back.
"Did you eat dinner today?"
"Yes"
"Then you can continue to train without any gaps."
With that said, Hugel goes down the steps leading to the basement.
I followed her back.
The house where Hugel and Eisha live is a large two-story house.
At first glance, it looked like a normal private house, but there was a large room underground, which was a training place.
Originally, Hugel was looking for a place to study while hiding the betrayal.
What they arrived at was a massive way to convert the basement of their home into a training yard.
When he arrived in the basement, Aisha was dressed in combat clothing and was waiting in the center of the room.
"Good evening, I was waiting."
"I'm sorry, Aisha. Please come and change clothes now, please wait a little longer."
"Okay, so we're talking with Hugel in the meantime."
"No, I want to change clothes, so please wait alone"
"That's like that ..."
Aisha collapses from her knee.
However, Hugel does not notice her appearance and enters the changing room.
These scenes are familiar, so even if you comfort yourself, you won't find it.
I also go into the changing room and wear the easy-to-move clothes taken out of my bag and the shoes and other equipment that I keep in this house.
After changing their clothes, they faced each other in the center of the basement.
Hugel opens his mouth.
"Let's start training."
We need to go back to the day when the royal capital first snowed in order to see why we all started training together.
It happened after I met Hugel on the road at night and went to his house.
After that I was taken to the living room.
The three of them sat down and reported on the current situation and talked about their past.
Of course, I'll mention why I left Arrivers.
Jin is dead, and leaders Force and Erin are no longer lamenting their lack of ability.
So I also went under Reese, the teacher, to try to imitate them, and she told me I would leave the adventurer.
I can no longer work as a party or train myself.
The decision to quit the adventurer following the lease.
He concealed only the part of Rozria and spoke the facts.
They will be blamed if they become aware of breaking their promises and meeting the Hugels in this way.
I couldn't speak because I was aware that I was doing bad things.
After telling everything except Rozria, they made a surprising offer.
"If we become teachers, why not train Note?
That was the word I wanted most now.
Surely, I want you to make this proposal, and I think you've talked about yourself.
Gin is gone. "Arrives" is no longer available.
I left the adventurer.
It was a disappointing ending. I thought I had to give up my dream.
So he and Roslia came to the royal city to flee.
He has lived a life far from before, so as to fill the brilliant memories of the adventurer era from his memories.
But that wasn't what we wanted.
He really wanted to be an adventurer.
I always wanted to be "Arrives".
I've always wanted to capture dungeons.
I liked being an adventurer so much that I didn't even notice.
I have noticed such an important thing now.
I liked the thrilling everyday life as an adventurer.
He loved his daily life, full of freshness, new things and boring pieces.
After half a year of peaceful and boring life, I finally realized my desire.
So it was natural to nod to Hugel's proposal.
"Well then, as usual, do you fight with Hugel and Noto for a warm-up. Then, let's do a two-to-one relationship between me and you."
Curiously, it was Aisha who had the highest win rate among the members.
This is because Hugel has a handicap during his training.
The reason why the betrayal is considered the country's strongest assassin is due to its high-accuracy "Secret".
Once activated, his Stealth cannot be captured by ordinary people, even if he is in front of him.
If you use Stealth during your training, Eisha will not be able to capture Hugel and will not fight.
So, in my training, I have a handicap match that prohibits Stealth.
In this case, Hugel, who has little direct combat experience, will no longer compete with Aisha, who has the ability to fight as a pure bandit.
By the way, I couldn't compete with Hugel almost at first, probably because of a half year blank.
Now, he has regained his sense of being an adventurer and is now able to engage in a fight with Hugel.
It seems that he managed to return to the same level as he was in the heyday of the "Arrivers" era.
The problem starts here. That's how I grow as an adventurer.
After a warm-up fight with Hugel, after a break, they faced Aisha.
I also have a knife with a blade, Hugel, with a large sword with a blade and a cushion.
In contrast, Aisha has no weapons. Bare hands.
This is not to despise us.
Her way of fighting is just a fistless fist.
Because Aisha has artistic skills, fighting with bare hands is stronger than fighting with weapons.
And she often sneaks into enemy lands to gather information.
Therefore, it seems that the technique of fighting anywhere and anytime is more convenient than the way of fighting with weapons.
For now, it wasn't just a waist, but a small ring on the middle finger of both hands.
This is one of the secrets of her strength.
"I'm going, Aisha"
"It's always okay. Hugel is here too."
"Wow!"
Hugel rushed out.
I also run behind him.
Aisha's combat role (battle style) is a bandit, but the way he fights is different from a pure bandit.
He is a spellcasting thief who fights while spelling his spells using his forged body arts and equipped rings as catalysts.
Originally, magic is something that a mage-type combat profession (battle style) can finally use with a huge amount of knowledge of techniques from an early age.
However, there is another magical route in this world.
Get the magic skills.
By gaining magic skills, you can skip some of the steps the mage takes during childhood.
Skills are absolute, and those who have the skills cannot win in that area compared to those who do not.
Of course, you can't master magic just by acquiring skills.
Becoming a first-class mage requires both the effort and skills you have built up since childhood.
It is a reality that those who are not born in a mage environment and have only acquired skills are several orders of magnitude less in number of operations, power, and activation speed compared to professional mages.
Meanwhile, Hugel, at the forefront, narrowed the distance to Eisha.
Release a flash of Yoko Naginagi.
A boastful blow that cut the heads of a number of bad guys and became the nickname of the betrayal.
However, losing to a professional mage does not mean that the spells of the magical exercise (spell cast) melee combat profession (battle style) are useless at all.
They just can't fight like a mage.
The spells used are squeezed as much as possible, and the catalyst used for magic, such as wands, is adjusted to optimize the release of the spell, and only trains its own magical path to activate the spell If you go--.
Magic casters (spellcasters) outnumber mages in that field (...).
"!"
The shock wave emitted from Aisha's palm repels a flash of Hugel and blows him away.
<< Sonic shot bottom (Sonic shot) >>.
It is an Aisha original technique that combines the magic spell "Sonic Boom" and the artistic arts "Ship bottom (shot)".
Using the ring as a catalyst, she magically emits a shock wave of sound and puts it on her own shoot.
Although simple, the power multiplication is tremendous.
A large hugel was blown off by nearly 3m.
What's more, it's surprising that it's the reduced power for training, and it's just not hitting Hugel himself but just hitting his weapon.
If a live human hits Supersonic Sonic Shot directly, it could easily kill the target.
However, there is no such great skill that you can fire repeatedly.
The weak point of the magical exercise (spell cast) type close combat job (battle style) is that you cannot perform magical battles like a professional mage.
The magic that had been stored in the ring of the right hand should have been used up by the current Sonic Shot.
It takes time to equip magic power.
You can count if you can no longer exercise in this battle.
All that is left is one shot.
Let me shoot Supersonic Sonic Shot again, and hit with Hugel when there are no more magic remnants.
Dare to camp on the left side of Aisha and try to make a shot with his left hand.
She may have noticed that I'm invited.
Even after knowing, it was Aisha who came on the invitation.
"
―― Fake / Zeikage.
His own wriggling shadow avoids the air wall approaching at the speed of sound.
The aftermath of the impact spreads, hitting the body.
He stops a little bit, but not enough to stop the fight.
I was worried about Eisha's right hand movement as she tried to move her body.
Did you drop anything? Something like a glowing jewel.
"Notes! Cover your ears!"
I can hear Hugel shout.
Aisha is good at sound magic.
It is possible to obtain the magic appropriateness of the sound system by correcting the exercise of the magic itself by the skill [magic release] and correcting the skill that can control the hearing freely called [hearing adjustment], which is a higher compatible skill of [hearing enhancement] Because it is.
So, I was able to anticipate what would happen.
The gem that Aisha throws on the ground is a catalyst.
Plenty of magic power was used to exercise magic.
"Sound Bombing (Sound Bomb)!"
I am hit by a shock like a cracked head.
The explosion sound hits the brain directly from the eardrum, disrupting the sense of balance.
The brain shut off the outside world with the amount of information of the sound coming. The view immediately white-outs.
A few seconds later, when the consciousness returned, a quiet world awaited.
I can't hear anything. I couldn't hear the sound of my breath or my heart.
Probably, Aisha fired at that time with an explosive spell.
The effects seemed to have damaged my hearing.
I think it is a spell selection that makes good use of my skill structure.
With [Hearing Adjustment], only the opponent can make a loud noise attack without being affected by his own attack.
If the opponent has a chance, you can instantly put on a piece by physical surgery.
That level of sound is not something that can be avoided when the ear is closed.
When I closed my ears, I was hit with Sonic Shot.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is one of the tactics that is close to winning.
The problem, however, is that the technique is not of the scale used for training.
Aisha makes her mouth nervous, but she doesn't understand what she says.
Hearing does not return at all.
He turned his eyes to Hugel, but he was also listening. Nothing seems to be heard.
Training must be stopped at least until my ears return ...
Looking at Aisha, with her hands over her head, I was thinking about that.
"I'm sorry!"
A loud apology of Aisha is heard.
One hour early after interrupting training.
The three were currently facing each other in the living room of Hugel's house.
Although tinnitus remains keen, hearing has generally recovered.
While listening to Aisha's apology, Hugel, in front, sighed.
"I can't help helping you because it's been over, but that spell wouldn't have been used in this house ... I wonder if my neighbor would get angry again ..."
"Yes……"
It's no wonder Hugel is amazed.
Aisha's Sound Bomb is an incredibly powerful spell.
At the time of activation, those who are nearby will be unable to act just by the explosion.
No matter how prepared you are, it's a big trick you can't cope with.
However, the effect is so great that if it is used in training, for the time being, you will not be able to hear you and you will not be able to continue the game.
And as Hugel said, it's annoying in the neighborhood.
No matter how much you explode in the basement, the loud noise will leak out of your house.
And it was night, so many people would have been sleeping.
Those who have been aroused by the roar are sorry.
We will be careful in the future.
"However, why did you activate Sound Bomb?-Didn't you forget you banned it?"
Hugel confirms with Eisha.
"I didn't forget it. Just Mr. Note, you accelerated a lot after avoiding Sonic Shot, right? If you look at it and think you'll be killed, So I started Sound Bomb. ''
"I was accelerating. What was that?"
Even Hugel asks.
Speaking of which, I realize that it was my first time to use Fake and Shadow in front of him.
In a duel to quit Jin's assassination, he did not use Fake and Zage, which had a recoil in anticipation of a long battle.
Even in training after reuniting in the royal capital, the conventional arrangements were divided into battles to fill in blanks, and the advanced technique “Fake / Zekage” was sealed.
After seeing his ability in his heyday returning, he finally lifted his ban in today's battle.
That it turned around and was upset by this “Sound Bombing” riot….
"It's like an art of Jin-san's" Kagekage. "It's an art that enters a mode that accelerates your action speed to the limit. Although the speed and duration are quite inferior to Jin-san's "
"From my point of view, it was a tremendous speed."
"Is that so? I guess Aisha was a lot better than saying that." Sound bombing. "I didn't know there was such a deep hand."
"Because it's reserved for when you think life is really dangerous. It's not something you can easily see. It's notable that you showed Sound Bomb I decided that art was so dangerous. ''
"I don't mind if you don't have to be vigilant. Fake / Shadow is an art that only speeds up, so it doesn't strengthen your attack. I don't mind you. "
I train every day with the Hugels, but my progress in attacking technology has been terrific.
In the first place, I was not good at attacking even in the "Arrivers" era.
Critical, the only art I can use, didn't have a very good chance of success.
Nothing has changed in his training with Hugels.
The training so far has only filled the blank for six months.
From the point of challenging the 21st level, it was not growing.
"But it's hard to beat Aisha even with two people. Isn't Aisha one of the best fighting abilities among thieves?"
Hugel answers that question.
"I think so too"
"Yeah, after all, I thought I was too strong. At least it seems like a dungeon capture party in the city of Purif."
I've seen the power of the Reachers (Arrivers) and the Reese of Valkyrie, a revenge warrior, but it seems that Aisha has a power he can't beat.
However, she denied it was swift.
"I don't have it. It's an overestimation. If I was searching for dungeons, I would probably not be able to go up to five levels."
"Isn't that true? If you only look at the maximum attack power at the moment, it seems that Jin is even better. I think dungeon monsters with extreme durability seem to be good."
"Because they have the attack power, they don't have the necessary combat skills to search for dungeons."
Aisha shakes her head and answers.
"Two supersonic shoots (sonic shots) and one" sound bomb (sound bomb). "That is the limit of spells that can be used in a single battle. You can do it about once a day, and it's a way of fighting that is not suitable for searching for dungeons where there are many monsters. ''
"Because Aisha is training for intelligence, he specializes in instantaneous battles to get out of hardships in case he fails to infiltrate."
The way Hugel and Eisha fight seems unbalanced and very distorted.
Extend your strengths and do not fight in weak areas.
It is a type that is not easily seen by adventurers.
Although it may be because they are not adventurers, but assassins.
"Come on, your ears are healing now, and will you resume handing?"
"Yes, Hugel."
With that said, Hugel and Eisha stood up together.
I pulled the chair to continue.
"Thank you very much. Please train me for me."
When I thanked him, Hugel put his hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry. This arrangement has helped me as well."
"Is that so? I'm glad to have time every day, but I'm sorry for that."
"Why do we train every day, so don't worry, Aisha?"
"Yes!"
In response to Hugel's call, Eisha responded with the gaze of a girl in love.
I cast out what I wondered.
"Do they train every day, even though they are so strong?"
"Of course."
Hugel nodded greatly.
"We're not adventurers. We don't have the opportunity to fight monsters, so we'll quickly become dull."
And Hugel continues.
"I want to hide my identity as a betrayer, so I don't have an opponent who wants to experience pvp. So I and Aisha are doing special training in their own basement, but if they always get the same opponent, the fight will be one It becomes a pattern. ''
"That's why there's a lot of merit to working with Notebook here."
So that's it. Was there such a back?
Indeed, for a beheaded assassin, revealing its identity can be fatal.
You may be resentful of many humans, and if you know that you are not good at head-to-head combat with your hands caught in the way, that may be the point of assassination.
I may be the one who holds the true identity of my beheading and is suitable for a few trainees.
"If you understand that, do you not need to withhold?-Let's resume training?"
"Yes."
"Yes, let's do it."
Thus, we three went down the steps leading to the basement.