Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

Episode 21: The Adventurer of the Labyrinth of the Water Moon

Skeleton, a rattlesnake and laughing boner, stood pinching me in the narrow aisle of The Labyrinth of the Water Moon.

They gradually pack their distance and reach me in one more step, and they come at me with their arms up.

But before those boners, Skeleton, waved their arms down, I waved my sword...

They separated the two torsos.

Fish the wreckage of the two collapsed bone men, Skeleton, and pick up the Demon Stone.

Little as a pinky finger, I put it in a leather bag that I lowered to my hips, and I walked out again.

Speaking of where the hell you're headed, that's self-evident.

That dragon was there, an undiscovered compartment.

No matter how many more signs of the Dragon, a thorough investigation is necessary, but it is delicate whether or not you can believe it even if you say it to the Adventurers' Union (Guild), and I will have to go directly.

That's what I decided.

As for the weapon, I asked Crope to lend me a substitute.

I can pass the magic and the ventilation, but I can't do the holy temper, so watch out, he says.

The performance of the sword itself is there, just about as good as what I've been using?

However, it seems to be easier because it has a structure that can withstand magic and care, so I don't have to worry a lot more about wear and tear than I've ever had before.

So I got ready and told Lorraine I was going out, and I even came to The Labyrinth of the Water Moon.

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Yet.

"Hey, thanks for the help. I didn't know Slime was gonna make that move! I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't come... I'd be trembling just thinking!

He's nearly forty years old and a swordsman, banging my dead shoulder to robe you, saying that while walking beside me.

Such is nothing more than because I knew that there was quite a problem with that arm I saw earlier and that you hadn't even trained in a busy manner.

I walked past him in the labyrinth, where he was struggling with slime, and I helped him.

Originally, it is said that the actions of adventurers in the labyrinth are mostly self-inflicted, and there is no obligation to find other adventurers fighting demons and help even if the adventurer side is quite disadvantaged.

It is a decision that comes from the basic idea that wherever you die in the labyrinth, its adventurers are weak, and it would be bad for a guy to have a reckless adventure.

Of course, even so, the adventurer is human.

If there are bad people, like some good people, there are plenty of good sense adventurers, and if you say so, few people bend principles and come in to help.

But as a result of doing that, I could eventually rub it into a rub, to a result that would take my life in a more tragic event than being killed by a demon...... it's not uncommon.

That's why it's a smart choice not to go into the help of other adventurers, either as self-defense or even if they look troubled, they say.

In fact, if you avoid rubbing, that's the most correct thing.

So much so that there are some outrageous adventurers who deliberately pretend to be defeated by demons and let them go in to help, cut from behind for where the adventurers who came in to help are fighting so hard against the demons, burying every demon and taking away all their belongings.

Moreover, in such cases, the evidence is difficult to remain.

I don't know what reason the labyrinth is, but a certain degree of cleanliness is always kept.

Because splashed blood, flesh pieces, etc. absorb and extinguish the labyrinth itself roughly in the amount of time needed to re-emerge Lipop.

And even if it does, after all, all adventurers will be held self-responsible.

It's a rather dangerous business that can't be left without sufficient caution.

But even if I have a general idea of it, I can either help or not.

I honestly abandon you if you can't seem to be strong enough, but if you can do something about it, unless you can tell you're clearly an illegal adventurer, go in and help.

That's because if I lived, I would say it was from the good sense of Good Adventurer, but for me now, I feel like it's the only proof that I'm human.

Because if I abandon a person in need now, isn't that the demon itself anymore?

Abandon those who can help you, live only for yourself, what are not people......

That's what people call demons, I guess.

So I couldn't abandon a troubled adventurer so easily.

But naturally, we also don't have to help all adventurers.

If you are likely to reach it and the danger is not so great, just act according to your good sense.

That's what I was going to do.

From that point of view, I feel like maybe the man next to me could have just abandoned me.

Anyway, you should just go back and follow me all the way next to me.

Considering I'm quite the arm, are you expecting a spill or something else......

I don't know, but I'm getting gloomy anyway.

I'm headed to the area where the dragon appeared.

If you have too many legs, it is dangerous...

But honestly, there's no reason to do that, and I'm not sure what to do.

That was the situation now.

Well, it's not like I want other adventurers to like me in my current state.

You're in the way, so go away, you can say, but this man, there's a sign he won't take that kind of talk properly...

Even if you just said that so gently and gradually reinforced your tone, it doesn't work.

You'd be right to think that it's just waste of time.

"... why, follow me, follow me?

I got in trouble and honestly, yes, I decided to ask.

Then, unexpectedly, the man who had been rapping suddenly shut up, and then,

"... because you're strong"

That's what I said to squeeze it out.

Still looking for a spill?

Um, it's not a very complimented act, but it's also an irresistible option for an adventurer who's not so strong.

However, this "Labyrinth of the Water Moon" is not the kind of labyrinth that must be done that much, no matter how fragile the adventurer is classified as being.

With that in mind, the man began to explain.

"... I really need the money. By next week, three gold coins. Otherwise, they'll take my shop..."

When I asked him in detail what he meant, he said that the man was inherently the owner of a small restaurant.

So, in the past few years, management has been unexpected and he says he is in considerable predicament as a result of his debt.

He concluded that he really needed gold and was an adventurer to make quick money because he borrowed it on the condition that he would transfer the restaurant if he could not repay his debt of about fifteen gold coins in all by next week.

It's too short-circuited and near impossible to do, but it's also hard to say that it's absolutely impossible.

Because fifteen pieces of gold is an amount that an adventurer with quite an arm would be able to handle in five days.

But this man, at least, wouldn't have such an arm.

And I'm aware of that.

That's why you're trying to follow me.

But...

"... it will, then, here, not, Shin, Tsutsu, Noe, Kyu, right?

There is another labyrinth around the city of Multo.

A giant labyrinth called The Labyrinth of the Crescent Moon, where demons that are not comparable to this Labyrinth of the Water Moon also appear.

There are some silver adventurers there, and if you follow an adventurer like that, fifteen gold coins is no dream.

Well, there's going to be a question of whether you're going to let me get there, and if I can get there.

Relative to a powerful demon without a great deal of arms, you could die just out of alarm for a moment.

Given that, it would be too bad a share of the bet.

"I tried to do it... this is what we all paid for before it was brilliant"

I said that without power.

Well, that would be.

And that's the same in my case.

"... wow, rue, but me, too, woe. You, there is, there is, there isn't..."

I'd love to do something about it if I could, but I'd be loaded right now.

Stronger, I suppose, but at best, I think it's a lower class strength, even in the silver class.

Fifteen gold coins in five days in that state.

Yeah, you can't...

Adventurers are more rewarded than the general public, but if they are not ranked higher, they are still just that.

If there was so much going on, and no extraordinary income, etc., you'd get that kind of money for junior adventurers......

- How dare you?

Thinking about it, I had a few thoughts.

There is, for the rest.

Of course, that's not what made me immortal.

It's not, it's where I became immortal.

In the labyrinth, an unexplored compartment was found.

That's a lot of information, and anyone who brings this up should be paid quite a bit by the Adventurers' Union (Alliance).

Whether that's worth fifteen gold coins or not...... well, if you just expect it.

If it's true, I'd like to report it, but this is who I am right now.

There's no way I can do that in a state where it's even difficult to join an Adventurers Union (Alliance).

I just had to get someone else to report it, as much as I was going to ask Lorraine sooner or later.

Nothing. You can let this man do it instead.

Well, in that case, I might have to ask you to decide that this guy found it, not the wind that I've known for a long time.

I've been talking about something I didn't know about for a long time, and when it gets to the Adventurers' Union (Guild), it's going to be a lot of tough talk.

Besides, if a solid person told him than I told him like this, the investigation would go right in.

As it turns out, it will be good for the adventurers who come in here...

It's a shame about the reward, but if it's fifteen pieces of gold or so, I'll be able to make some money soon.

I couldn't do it when I was alive, but now I can...

That's what I think.

So you can give up.

All right, shall we?

When I make that decision in my heart, I turn to the man who is once rejected by me and dropping his shoulder, and say,

"... I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. It will be..."

"What...?

The man was surprised, but he followed me hastily behind me when he walked out.

"Hey, wait! Hey, is that okay!?

"... ah, ah"

Even though I said it, it's the look on his face that he didn't think would be forgiven.

I was trying to cut feathers, parasitize and make money, but I guess the roots are good.

Well, it's possible that everything is a lie in the first place, but that's when it is.

And not necessarily just for this man.

I also thought this would be a task to make sure I was human.

Because, for some reason, I can't wait to get anxious once in a while since I became a corpse-eating ghost, Ghoul.

Should I say that sometimes I feel strange impulses......

So as much as some people help, I thought I could.

If I don't, I'm going to forget what I am one day.

When that happens, I feel like it's over.

That's no good.

I can't.

With that in mind, I'm headed to the place where the Dragon was.

After much from behind, a man follows him in an unfamiliar manner.

Was I like that before?

For some reason, it felt like it was too far away to remember.

This is what happened, and it hasn't been that long.

Not a good trend, maybe.