Kuro no Maou

On the 29th of the month of Red Flame, at night, the place is in the old dorm - or you can call it the dorm because people already live there now, me, Simon, Lily and Fiona, the residents of this place, are gathered in that lounge, all four of them.

Sometimes, even when it comes to the lounge, we set up a table and chairs for the biggest room, and we just named them after ourselves, and we still have four people here to eat.

It's a little lonely not to be with you every time, but we all have things to do, so it's not weird to have a member in our room.

So, this time it's sunny and the four of us get together for dinner, and it's an exchange of information, or chat time, that we each brought over after.

"- I don't care how many lives I have left if I'm already dating my sister Leah's unscrupulous training."

"What a trauma, with your sister."

"Yeah, I don't see you face to face every day now, so I appreciate your dorm life, but I guess you're gonna complain about that intrusion test or something, no, oh, brother, because then you can push me back."

"No, to the boulder. It's..."

It would be awkward, Simon's sister, you're Sparda's general, and I don't know if I can win in the first place.

And, well, now we're more of a fool about Simon's sister than a chat, but that would be good again, and I think this is how we're going to deepen our understanding of each other.

In the meantime, I know Simon's pretty afraid of you.

"Don't be so pessimistic, see, eat pudding too"

"Yeah, thanks, brother"

By the way, pudding made full as dessert was decorating the table.

An upbeat reaction that reminds me of one day when I made ice candy in the village of Iles, all tongue-in-cheek at its soft sweetness.

Around one of them is quietly stacking up pudding cups and building towers.

Besides, I think it's time to talk about me.

"Actually, I haven't been to the guild in a week today -"

Student life is important too, but my main business is an adventurer, I can't leave this one alone.

"Speaking of guilds, Mr. Chrono always goes to a beautiful receptionist in an elf named Elina."

"Brother, Mr. Elina is very competitive."

"Oh, what's going on, I'm just trying to talk to you about quests."

Because of a thorny word on Fiona's burn, it's like I'm being confused by the colored incense of the receptionist.

Nothing. I'm not always going to use Mr. Erina's place, and it's not exactly the wacko I'm after about her.

Just because she and I got a little acquainted in one thing with Joe, the curse-looking killer, we're never dealing with her with a lower heart.

So I was a kid until I was eating pudding earlier, and Lily wouldn't turn that cold gaze on me, either, but now you're definitely bringing your consciousness back to adulthood, right?

"Well, it's time to take one of the Rank 3 quests."

Oh, it's a boulder lily, you've magnificently passed through this disturbing suspicion, doubtful and lame...

"Let me take a moment to talk to you later about a woman like Elina."

Oh, no, is that right?

This is going to have the right amount of time to prove your innocence... aside from that depressing feeling, I'm talking about work for now.

"You remember the story about the monster in the trials with six bodies, right?

"Yes, if you defeated a monster like Larspun, you'd get protection."

Fiona, who gives me an accurate answer, if I hadn't even stuck the pudding with a spoon, I would have had a more serial vibe as well.

"Oh, it's like the whole thing in there showed up nearby."

The whole name of it is Greedgore, a monster.

According to information previously obtained in the Guild's library, the Koitz habitat is a Rank 5 dungeon called 'The Land Dragon Valley (El Grand Canyon)', far southwest of Sparda, which is also rare to show up, and where we wanted reliable sightings if we were going on crusades, sometimes in distant places.

And that sighting of Gleedgore finally came in.

"Farren? That's the country next to Sparda."

As Lily said, this sighting was brought about by Farren, our neighbor to Sparda.

"The Land Dragon Valley (El Grande Canyon) is more western, isn't it too far out of habitat?

Simon could have pointed it out, but normally, I think it's just a mistake.

"Even the guild has confirmed it, there are many witnesses, and more importantly, the Phalen Knights during the exercise have encountered it"

If you follow the sightings, apparently the starting point for Gridgore is the original habitat, the Land Dragon Valley (El Grand Canyon), from which it is moving more and more east, or this way.

By the way, the Pharren Knights encountered disappeared before engaging, so there were no injuries.

Though the Knights gathered their strength to form a crusade in view of the danger of Rank 5, they said, in the end, they could not be discovered again.

"I don't know what Gridgore is thinking and going straight east, but I can guess it's coming from the speed of progress so far to whether it's in Sparda territory or not"

"I see, is that what you mean when you show up in the right place for us to fall"

Indicates a nod of affirmation in Fiona's words.

As if she appeared from the other side to give you a test, I guess for once, Mia didn't mean it because she said it was "a natural accomplishment".

"I don't have any sightings of the monsters in the trials other than Cotes so far, and I think this is the only chance I have if I'm going to defeat them. I'm just paying attention to the guild, because they haven't officially issued a crusade quest, which means they're totally free, but will you hang out?

"Of course, you can't buy a chance for money."

"I think I'd like that too."

"Thank you, that's settled."

A concurring opinion was summed up in the summary, and the Greedgor crusade was decided.

"Let's get ready to deal with a Rank 5 monster this time, didn't Greedgor, for sure, use earthly attributes?

What a dependable adventurer to say, Fiona, I could honestly respect it if it didn't have pieces of pudding on the edge of my mouth.

But I did struggle terribly when I dealt with Larspun because I couldn't prepare to fight that powerful heat resistance.

Gearing up to the monsters that are the subject of the crusade is arguably the basis of the adventurer.

"Oh, Greedgor exercises earthly attributes, it would be pretty stiff"

According to the information, Gleedgore looks like a dinosaur type, a different world version of Tyrannosaurus, just like the Dagger Raptor.

That scumbag, the unscrupulous guy who can manipulate the ground freely with the intrinsic magic of the earth (extras) and also dive and move around in the earth like a mole.

"Let's just work out the operation and then we'll leave when we're ready."

Then two days later, on the 31st, when the Red Flame Moon was also the last day, we, the Element Master, were to travel southwest of Sparda to crusade for the Greedgor.

There are three people in front of the dorm: Will and maid Celia, who came all the way to drop me off, and Simon, who apparently stayed up all night and has a neighborhood under his eyes.

"Ooh, the heavy armored look is finally what you deserve to call a real mad warrior (Berserker), Chrono!

I laughed bitterly at Will for slapping me on the shoulder with a bang somewhat excitedly, and if I thought I would absolutely say it when I saw this look, I knew I would.

Now I'm not a magician's trademark robe, I'm wearing steel armor with a defensive focus.

Using earthly attributes means, in the end, physical attacks such as bumping rocks, it makes more sense to just consolidate oneself than to prevent heat and electricity.

I bought all the armor I wanted against Gridgore.

However, today I have no hands on luxury items that have been added (enchanted) to the magical defensive effect that the Crusader's Heavy Knight was equipped with, and the mass-produced products that can only hold the defense of the material as it is, the design is also really simple.

Still engraved in front of me with Fiona's help with the "perpetual (etanity)" routine, carefully blackened over the course of a whole day to bottom up my defense.

Fiona explains the most,

"Mr. Krono, pour a dodo of magic here, it feels fuzzy around here, oh, there's a guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu -"

It was full of phonetic words, so it was a terrible hassle to decipher.

Well, as it turns out, it's a properly completed wax, and my armor has a creepy black monochrome that barely reflects light, a hue that unexpectedly reminds me of the Adventurer's Guild in Alsace Village.

By the way, even when it comes to mass-produced products, armor is more expensive than that, with Lily and Fiona putting out nearly half of it, while my debt increases, which is really lamentable.

Finally, Lily also tells Enchantville Road's one-piece dress that Fiona is the one who plays a special defensive avant-garde role in the battle against his own witch gear and usual, in short, the Greedgor.

Sometimes I want you to remember my official class name.

"Sometimes, Chrono, I just need to talk..."

Oddly enough, Will, I wonder if it's that hard to talk about a rare appearance, but I keep my face as close as I can.

"What?

"Sorry, it will be southwest of Sparda, near the border with Farren, for Chrono to go further than this"

Exactly, it's in the vicinity that Gleedgore could emerge, and for now, I'm trying to gather sightings locally and then make money off my feet.

If we can get close to it to some extent, maybe this left eye will show us some faint expectations.

"Actually, she's our sister who caused you trouble the other day..."

"Uh, Charlotte, was that it?

Honestly, I can speculate that Sparda's princess, who had a less well-impressed encounter, has not had any interaction since, and will probably remain very vigilant over there.

I don't mean to sound bad about her, but I don't really want to get involved with her personally.

"Whatever, take a breath and go on a quest to crush a bunch of bandits operating in Farren, and look into it, it's like they've got an arm's length stick, even though they're anxious to get to Rank 5."

I see, have you come with a bandit?

That can certainly make you more anxious than dealing with monsters, sometimes they set cunning traps rather than pure strength battles than opponents being people.

Charlotte's party, Wing Road, is rank five, but she hasn't had enough experience lately to be called a veteran given her age.

Well, I'm not that great of an adventurer to talk about because I'm the same seventeen.

"It's very painful to ask for that, but if my sister has something, please help her."

"Well, if they're attacking you right in front of you, there's no denying we're going to help, but we don't know if we're going to run into each other on the ground in the first place, so we have a different purpose."

"No, that's enough, thank you, that I'm a little relieved if you think I'm nearby, and what, you can laugh at me as a stupid brother"

"No, I know exactly what it's like to care about a brother."

In my case, it's not my sister, it's my sister, but it won't make a difference.

Will overlaid me with a sunny face somewhere to express his apologies.

"Oh, are we done talking over there? Hey, I need to give something to your brother."

"Oh, hey, Simon, are you sure you're okay, you're freaking out"

Words like that come out unexpectedly to Simon, who doesn't look as usual approaching him in ghostly footsteps.

You don't care about it yourself, or you can't even afford to care, and I gave you a black case to put in that hand, Zuyi silently before me.

"Is this what you want to give me? What the hell's in there?

"Brother, I heard about buying a new cane, so here it is, it's still in the prototype stage, but I was in a hurry to prepare it."

Simon opened the case with more and more eyes, and there was a dozen guns in it.

The shape is something similar in shape to the condenser that Simon first possessed, but it stuffs the barrel of the gun, giving it a shape closer to the real thing.

"It's the same single-shot structure as the first guy I used, but your brother can use it just like an Alsace machine gun, right? Because it engraves the pharmacy and the barrel of the gun, I think it will probably be more penetrating than shooting the demon bullet (Barrett Arts) as it is if you go through this"

Moreover, there are two barrels, two horizontal series.

Simply because the simultaneous firing doubles the power, and the recoil is fine if I use it, it seems that Simon designed it to improve the power anyway, what he actually built is a Stratos blacksmith workshop of trust and track record.

"Oh, that's amazing!

Still, is this the gun in the extension of the magic wand that should be here for him?

"I could only do this a little bit, but I also build bullets specifically"

I notice that the bullets in the small wipe-like bag offered that way are engraved with one magic formation at a time, if you look closely.

"Could it be that Simon..."

"It's all right, Mr. Fiona gave me a suspicious wake-up potion, and I'm sure you didn't misspell it."

When I look at Fiona with chillies and sideways, she decides to thumbs-up a potion bottle full of toxic red liquid with one hand.

Apparently, Fiona made her own confident piece.

"Well, you did your best."

I am worried that you will be able to finish it by imitating the doping controversy, but at the same time it seems to have forced me to do so for a long time.

Or was that potion really okay to drink? Simon has prefixed it as "suspicious," too, as a matter of course... and no, I can't think about it now.

"Thank you Simon, rest easy later"

"Yeah, good night - brother"

Grateful to Simon, who runs his mouth like a munya and a bedtime speech wandering the border between dreams and the present, he subjected the guns and bullets received to 'Shadowgate'.

"Well, then, I'm coming"

"Um, I'll be looking forward to seeing the new martial arts tradition (legend) of the Black Nightmare Mad Warrior (Nightmare Berserker)!

"I don't care about Master Will's paranoia, you're not going"

"Huh, brother, good luck."

In the wake of the three mistresses' drop-off words on my back, I took Lily and Fiona and left the dorm behind in an effort to crusade for the Greedgor.