On the road, when you're surrounded by a cactus-shaped demon named Cactus, can you fight while protecting Schmey if he gets a needle flown? And although I got anxious, they were usually the only demons to hit me, without ever flying a thousand needles or 10,000, so I knocked them down with a slash attack from a distance.
[Ichinojo's level increased]
Cactus demons also taste less good in experience, and the level of top positions is difficult to ascend.
"Master Ichinojo, you really were a swordsman"
"Hmm? Well. Were you suspicious?
"Yes - I saw the sword pattern and it didn't look like I was using it much...... oh sorry"
Schmei apologized again, but I smiled back, "Fine." I'm worried that smile won't catch on.
Shit, it does stay prettier thanks to its sword degradation prevention skills, while not using much sword. Ever since Hal and I broke up, I've skipped bareback, so I'm suspended.
If I'm going to name a swordsman, should I hurt him to some extent?
Hmm, maybe I should go to some big city and buy a used sword.
With that in mind, the journey proceeded and we finally reached the northern town of Gagaria.
The entrance to the town of Gagaria had more demanding examinations than Hammno.
You're weak, Operation Oil Selling can't be used with Shumei.
They might say where you got the carriage out of. The escort decides that this is it, and Shumei and I are breaking up here?
"Dear Ichinojo, turn to the gate on the left"
"Left? Sure, nobody's here."
The gate is a large gate in the center, with two small gates to the left and right. The only thing lined up is the big gate in the center. I could see guards coming and going through the gate on the right, so it would be like an official passage.
And there's a guard at the little gate on the left, but no one's in or out.
"Please"
"... ok"
I was wondering if there was some kind of operation in Shmey, and we headed to the gate on the left.
"What, you guys? This is..."
and when the guard tried to pay some attention, shmei showed the guard something like a medal.
"And excuse me! Please come through!
I saluted him, wondering if he would open the gate, and the guard stopped the merchant trying to pass through the central gate and urged us to come to the gate.
Thus we entered the town of Gagaria on a dessert runner.
"Let's come, Master Ichinojo"
"Ah...... ah"
My gaze from someone in line hurts.
I feel like I'm in an interrupt queue of jet coasters in a theme park.
I was just wondering if I would walk around town on a dessert runner, so I decided to leave it at the stables. Take the food out of the item bag beforehand and leave it with the stables people.
I've asked how many days to keep in that too much, but that's only three days.
In the meantime, I'll pay for three days and tell you I'll come back if I want to extend it.
And I headed with Shumei to the town of Gagaria.
"Master Ichinojo is headed to the labyrinth, right?
"Oh, I'm gonna do that first"
I'm curious to call it a useful skill to cross the desert.
The southern continent has so many deserts that it would be useful when travelling.
"After that I'm thinking about becoming a mercenary too... Speaking of which, who is the goddess between the statues of the goddess, the labyrinth of Gagaria?
"It's Master Setrans. Many believe in Setrans, the goddess of battle, because strength is needed to survive the harsh environment of the desert."
"Master Setrans."
Master Setrans and I met in Dacat.
It felt like a bikini armor fitting fighting goddess. She is also the goddess that Hal believes in.
"Dear Ichinojo, Gagarian labyrinths are forbidden to the public. Please have this one."
"What's this?
"It's a medal with a family crest from my house. If I had this, it would mean my house would be the back shield when something went wrong"
Oh, that's what the medal I showed the guards meant.
You must have been reasonably surprised.
"You're not too surprised. I didn't tell you I was noble."
"No, because I knew you weren't a civilian in the atmosphere. I just didn't know much about the nobility of this country, so I wasn't sure."
I laughed, and there was a tsunami.
The truth is, I knew it by looking at my vocational appraisal skills.
"... Dear Ichinojo, Thank you. I will never forget this grace."
"No, I had fun, too. I wasn't bored because of you."
I shook hands with Shumei and broke up with her.
Shumei...?
Well, I guess I'll never see you again. Because the world we live in is different.
"I'd like to go into the labyrinth."
As Shumei put it, the entrance to the labyrinth was monitored by guards and the gates were tightly closed.
"No, it's forbidden for ordinary people to enter here"
"Can't you still do this?
I'll show you the medal I got from Shumei.
"This is - and I'm sorry! Please come through."
The guards saluted him most and opened the door. Beyond the door is a staircase to the basement, where the unique humid air of the labyrinth flows out.
"Um, can I ask you one thing?
"What is it?
"How do you relate to Princess Shumei?
"I just helped where the sand thief was attacking me. - Huh? Princess?"
The princess, Schmey's profession was certainly aristocratic.
But surely a royal person, wasn't his profession going to be "royal"?
I feel like Hal said "royalty is royalty by birth".
Troubled me, the guards began to talk as if the tension had subsided.
"What, you're not noble? Princess Shumei Yu Harriel, one of Her Majesty's daughters."
"But he said he was born in a town near the Great Forest..."
"Born."
"We're just talking here," he prefaced, and the guard started talking to me.
"Her biological mother, Lady Loulia, was originally in the side room. I was sent to His Majesty's villa near the Great Forest for working the coarse phase. Well, the truth is, it must have fitted into the schemes of the main room and other side rooms. And in the villa, Lulia noticed her pregnancy and gave birth in hiding from Shumei. If it were known that his daughter had been born, Lady Schmei would be brought back to the country as a princess. If that happens, the main room or some other side room might assassinate Master Shumei, I guess that's what you feared. It was ten years later that His Majesty realized about it, he said, when Lady Loulia died. Then I heard that Master Shumei lived in the royal castle."
"You know a lot about it."
Wikipedia and SNS, as well as gathering information in this world where there is not even the Internet, is quite worthwhile. Besides, when it comes to conspiracies within the royal palace and all that, I hardly think I can get it.
"That's right. Lucia was originally the son of the former Marquis Heidl of the land. Now that the name of the Marquis of Heidl is inherited by his son, it becomes the sister of the current Marquis of Heidl, and Princess Schmei becomes the niece of the Marquis of Heidl. My dad's a big fan of Rulia. He used to talk to me. Well... thank you so much for saving Princess Shumei"
"But why did that princess come to this town all by herself without an escort?
"Do I know that? Maybe he went to war to inspire soldiers."
That wasn't the atmosphere.