Dinner at the inn with a rifa.
It seemed like Rifa was usually staying at an inn introduced at the castle, but she smiled at Merck's food with her eyes wide open.
Lila and I both finished dinner with our tongues on the dishes, and Rifa roared as she looked around the inn, wondering what it was.
After all, she decided to meet me at the guild the next day and went back to her hotel.
"Well, today is your first adventurer's day."
Don't be nervous, Kate.
"Yeah, I know."
The other day, I put on a shirt and jacket in the trousers I bought and put a water bottle on a belt that I wrapped around my waist and fixed.
From the bottle with the cap removed, the lime faces out and the belt is equipped with a knife.
When I was ready, wearing a shift that had transformed into a hat, I went to the guild with my luggage in my bag, as Lyla had advised me.
When I arrived at the Guild, I already saw Rifa there.
Have you stopped hiding your face? I haven't worn the black jacket I wore until yesterday. I have equipped my black based clothes and belts wrapped around my hips and legs with knives.
When she noticed me, she came rushing towards us.
"My dear. Kite, and Shif and Lime."
"Yeah, good morning. Let's go inside."
That's right.
Go with her to the Guild reception.
The first time you become an adventurer and receive a request, you'll need to talk to the receptionist first.
When I tried to talk to the receptionist woman, she talked to me from over there. [M]
"Oh, Kate, it's you."
"Ah, Mai-san. Are you open today?"
"Yeah, that's right. Oh, speaking of which, I heard. Did you take the exam? So, is this your first assignment today?"
"That's what it looks like."
Nodding at Mai's words, she looks at me and Rifa, and then scrolls the paper at hand.
"Well, the first request you receive is based on the evaluation of the exam... but you guys seem to be really good at dealing with monsters... hmm, this is it."
A piece of paper is presented to us.
It said, "Request," and next to it, it said, "Eliminate the cobalt that threatens the fields."
"When it comes to Kobold... Shif, it's definitely a dog-headed monster, right?"
"Mmm, that's right."
"Cobalt is not very strong, so it may not be bad at first."
Perfect opponent for your first mission.
Cobalt was actually looking at an individual who had been bitten to death by Orochi, so he also wanted to see what he was like.
In response to my reaction and that of Rifa, Mai looks at the request form that was brought to her.
So, is this request okay? I can ask experienced adventurers to help me if I need them. "
"Ah, leaf, sif, what do we do? Ask him for help?"
"Yeah, I think it's okay. You can do it with me and Kite."
"As far as Cobalt is concerned, you won't be able to make it unless you wear it now. Alarm is forbidden."
Then it's settled.
Our first mission as adventurers was to exterminate Kobold.
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The requested location is close to the forest, a short distance from the castle town.
It appears that Kobold has vandalized his client's fields and asked the Guild to eliminate them.
Reefer, who understands the geography of the kingdom better than I do, leads the way to his destination.
"Sif, how are monsters born?"
"Hmm. There's an individual difference between being born in an area filled with magic elements and being purely reproduced."
"It's full of magic elements...."
"The ruins of Orochi. Where there are such powerful monsters, magic elements can easily gather and nature and monsters can occur. By the way, me and Lime are the same mouth."
By the time we get to our destination, we've been taught simple monsters, but monsters are quite strange creatures.
I need to know as much about the monster as I can, too, called Tamer.
Next time, I was thinking about getting the guild to teach me a lot of things, and somehow the surrounding landscape changed from being lined up with buildings to being like a field with tall grass and crops.
According to my request, it's a bit of a mess.
"Here."
For example, if you leave the countryside, you'll soon move on to a countryside full of fields.
It's a country view that's as peaceful as the world I was in. [M]
Wheat-like crops are swaying loosely in the wind, and rivers are flowing.
Remembering my father's home in the countryside, which I went to when I was a little girl, I was drawn to the sights surrounding me.
"Kate, there must be Kobold here."
"Nh, ahh, ahh"
Return to me with Sif's voice.
Cobalt seems to be devastating the crops in the fields, and the damage is unusual.
When it lasts almost every day... it looks like we'll find it soon.
I thought so, and as I looked around, Rifa hit me on the shoulder. [M]
Kate, there's something over there.
Yeah?
Looking in the direction pointed out by Rifa, there was something human in the field a little farther away.
Close your eyes, a monster with a hairy body on his head like a dog is devouring crops in the field.
"Is that Cobalt?"
"Yeah, that's right. Let's get rid of him."
Rifa pulls out the knife.
I will also put my right hand out to the lime in the water bottle on my hips and have it deform into a stick.
"You don't have to kill me, do you?"
"Yeah, I'm just gonna get rid of my client, so I just need to show him a little pain in the eye."
"Okay, if that's the case... Sif, please"
Shif will cast physical magic on my body.
"Kate, don't get too far away from me in battle."
"Hmm? Why?"
"I want to see if I can fight calmly with your magic."
"... okay."
I nodded at Rifa's words and tried to storm Cobalt, who was devouring the crops, confirming that Shif had sucked up his magic and that his body was growing stronger.
Five cobalts.
We've lost in numbers, but we can do it.
"First things first...!"
Rifa pulled three knives out of the belt and threw them at Cobalt.
The knife strikes Cobalt's feet and hands precisely and frightens him.
Hmm!
There, the lime deformed into a stick swings sideways and hits Cobalt's torso. One first.
"Kate, don't put too much effort into this! That's awesome!"
Ah!
If you really do it, you'll kill easily.
The only requirement is to get rid of it.
Once again, you can thrust it into Cobalt's torso, which will bite into it. Defeat the second.
Wow!
"Gyan!?"
"Gruuuu!"
Two cobalts flying in to swap for one knocked on the ground.
As he pulled back the stick to deal with it quickly, the referee with the knife jumped out from the side.
"... you can cum!"
As she swayed the knife, two painful cobalts rolled to the ground without landing.
It appears that the knife cuts were engraved on the arms and torso and were cut many times in that instant.
Landing on the ground, Rifa puts her hand on her chest and exhales relief. That's four. The other one is....
"Kate, they're coming from behind!"
"Ah! Lime!!"
"Cu!"
Turn the lime into a cage shape, turning your mind behind Shif's voice.
Hold the bite from behind with a cage.
Lime's transformed cage doesn't let Cobalt's fangs through, but his saliva sticks tightly.
"Gah, gauu!!"
"Cu, cu!?"
"Sorry, Lime. Hold on, hold on!!"
Leaving it to physical fortification, he swings his preyed right arm and knocks Cobalt on the ground.
Yan, you scream sadly, and you scream to Kobold, who is in pain, as if the others were telling you something.
Without being alert, hold the lime back to the club.
"Sif, what are you saying?"
Looks like you're going to get away with it.
"... I can't tell you how to do that."
As Schiff said, Cobalt and the others looked at us in a frightening light and dragged their feet out of the scene.
All that was left was the desolated fields and me and Rifa after the battle.
"Phew... you can go back, Lime."
"Cu!"
"Good work, thank you again."
Approaching the referee who put the knife on the belt, struggling with the lime and head shift back to the water bottle.
Although it was short, when I saw the battle earlier, I didn't feel like I was losing myself...
Reefa, are you okay?
"Yeah, I'm fine. Before, my chest was immediately restless, but I was able to fight on my own volition."
The magic of Kite has calmed down the power of the monster of the slumber.
She looked at her palm as if she had been moved, and then she gripped it as if she had made up her mind.
"Well, that's the end of the mission."
"Yeah, for the first time, it's not bad. Kobold would have punished himself with this, and for the time being, he would have stayed away from the field."
"At this rate, I want to get used to the work of adventurers by accepting more and more requests."
I need my hands on everything.
It is also important to be strong, but we need to do a lot to earn the Alliance's trust.
"Well then, Reefer. Shall I report the success of my request to the Alliance?"
"Yeah."
Once again, we leave the ruined fields behind, making sure Kobold is gone.
As he walked slowly along the path between the fields, Sif transformed from a hat to a black cat and started walking up a little further between Totete and us.
"Hey, kite. I made up my mind."
What's wrong?
As she watches such a siff with a smile, Rifa says in a firm voice.
She looks straight ahead and talks to me in a somewhat nervous manner. [M]
"I'm moving to the place you're looking after."
"... eh, why?"
"The rice is also delicious, and above all, you are here. That's why I'm going."
I guess I've already made up my mind. You can see a lot of determination in words and expressions.
Then you have nothing to say to me.
Knowing her purpose, I wanted to help her.
"Before we do that, let's start with the reward! No, I wonder how much you'll get!"
"You don't get that much, do you? We'll split the mountains, and we'll get fewer."
"You're lying....."
For now, let's do what we can.
All right, now I'm going to accept your request!