Riot Grasper

The city of Erindal, in the eastern part of the Suaven Empire, was inhabited by many, even though it was the same human, such as those who had long lived in the Toggle region and those who had migrated from within the imperial territory.

The blonde boy staring jiggly at the dewstore lining the boulevard from the alley has a white skin color and does not belong to a person who has lived in the Toggle region for a long time.

Though his face was neat, he was not always clean in his original beautiful outfit or flattery.

"Hey, what are you doing in here?

"So, who is it!?"

Speaking to the blonde boy was a boy with brown skin peculiar to the Toggle region. I feel good about myself, but I don't think the tone and attitude belong to the upper class of people.

"Anyone can do it. By the way, the guy at the store you're after is really scared when he gets angry. If you don't want to die, you better stop stealing."

To my sudden advice, the blonde boy shook his body terribly.

"Hey, how did you figure that out?!?"

"You're an honest one. You've been staring out of this alley for a long time now, haven't you? If you keep an eye on him, you can expect him to do something."

"... I'm telling you, I haven't done anything yet"

"I know. You, you must be hungry, right? Actually, me too. There's a better chance we'll succeed together than by ourselves."

To such a boy's invitation, the blonde boy often thought about it before nodding.

"... ok. My name is Rahal."

"It's Rick, nice to meet you"

The impromptu maneuver the two of them thought of was that Rahal would steal food while Rik caught the attention of the jerk at the store.

Rick talks to the store owner, and Rahal runs out at full speed with a few foods on schedule.

A yell was heard from behind, and Rahal fled the scene desperately moving his trembling body.

"Ha... ha... Phew, he... I guess he's okay"

Having come to a predetermined meeting place, Rahal takes a deep breath to calm his interrupted breath.

Worried, Rahal, whose belly worm had become active in front of the food he had stolen, had repeatedly endured trying to reach out.

"- Come on, don't eat first. We worked together, didn't we?

Hearing Rik's voice coming to the rendezvous place, Rahal gave a look of surprise and joy.

"You're safe!? Good"

Celebrating Rick's safety, the two of them are just going to mountain up their food and fill their stomachs. When I hit the watery apples, the sweet and sour taste spread all over my mouth.

"... Puha, I'm back"

"Yeah. That's a pretty good apple. It's sweeter than last year's, and it looks good."

He threw the core of the missing apple, and Rick said that.

"Last year... well, Rick's been living here a long time."

"Hmm? Well, yeah. Rahal's been moving over here lately, hasn't he? I don't see a face."

"Yeah. There's so much going on... by the way, how did Rick get through that place? I heard the owner yelling."

"I don't care what they say. It's normal."

Rick let him play the coin he had removed from his pocket with his pinky fingers.

"I've been paying the owner."

"Ha ha!? What do you mean?

"Instead of getting what you're selling, pay for it. Is that normal?"

That is certainly normal.

"That's not what I'm talking about! What the hell..."

Before Rahal, who is slightly excited, Rik returns in a calm tone.

"I forgot to tell you, I'm the son of a lord who rules Erindal. Fortunately, they're giving me a life where I don't have to work stealing because I'm in trouble with money."

Rahal, who understood Rik's words to chew slowly, leaked a dry laugh.

"Ha... you mean that. Did you feel good about the rich giving it to the poor? I even talked about helping you steal, doing things around!

"Then should I have blessed him with money from the beginning?

"Don't be ridiculous!

"Don't be so angry, I've been thinking a lot, too, huh? From the standpoint of being the son of a lord, you can't leave him alone if he tries to steal in the city. Even so, former nobles are often weirdly prized."

"Hey, how do you know I'm a former nobleman?!? You didn't tell me."

"Oh, was that a hit?

Rahal's clothes are dirty, but the making is splendid.

Nobility, luxury, etc. can wear expensive clothes to children.

Also, due to the characteristics of the outfit, Lahar is likely to be the former.

It was not so uncommon for a fallen nobleman to flee to a region like Erindal.

As a matter of fact, Rahal's father was also stripped of his status as a nobleman from certain failures, and he moved to the distant Erindal.

"Whoa, don't tell me you're not going to take any more charity. Whatever you put in your stomach will be punished if you don't nourish it well."

"Ku......"

After trying to swallow the words that were about to leak out of his open mouth, Rahal asked only one question.

"Why did you bother being honest with me?

If you'd kept your mouth shut, there wouldn't have been anything in vain to piss Rahal off.

Or are you going to do a story at the end and laugh in your stomach?

"Wait, wait, he said he didn't have that hobby. On the contrary... can I ask you one question? Even you, why did you come to the rendezvous point, stupid and honest?

"... well, I promised to meet you here."

"That store dude, when you stole the food and ran out, you turned your face bright red and you were mad. You heard me yelling all the way over there, didn't you? You didn't think I'd get caught by a jerk as an accomplice and throw up in the wash of the rendezvous place? I don't care what you think, it would have been safer to run away alone."

"For once, you said you were a hand-in-hand man, didn't you? But you lied all the time."

Rising from the state he was sitting on the ground, Rahal tried to leave the spot paying off the sand and dust on his ass.

"Wait. Now it's my turn to answer that question."

Why did you imitate it like telling the facts on this occasion?

Rick stood up a little vigorously and reached for Rahal.

"Because I don't want to hide anything from the one who wanted to be my friend."

"... Huh?

- This was the first meeting between Rik Shao and Rahal Fallen.

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Fortunately, soon afterwards, Rahal's father got the job and Rahal himself was hired as a servant of the tavern, so that he could live without having to steal.

Whether or not Rik was involved there, Rahal did not dare to ask.

"Nah, I hear there's a massive outbreak of green eels in the woods nearby. Why don't you go check it out?

"You know what I'm doing now? Yes, it's the peeling of the imo. If you're going to see a leech, go alone."

Behind the tavern, Rahal cleverly peeled a massive pile of imo skin with a knife just cut off Rik's invitation in front of him.

"I mean, what happened to the soldiers in the escort? Rick is the son of a lord, though, isn't he?

"That's what I've been sprinkling as usual"

"Damn... I can get a break when this is all over, so just wait a minute"

"Is that true? Then I'll help."

Rik sits on the ground somewhat and rinses the skin off of Imo.

"... dammit, if the lord sees that look, he'll cry"

- In the woods near Erindal.

"Wow! You're greener than I thought."

He kicked the body of a leaping imobe and Rick pulled out his sword for protection.

"I only have a knife! This!"

The two, who encountered several green eels and managed to repel them, looked around.

"Ha... I'm tired. I'm leaving now, you're just happy, aren't you?

Even to satisfy your curiosity, you'll have had enough.

"Right. Do you... I'm sorry. Rahal... it's not going to be easy."

The sound of stepping apart from the retreat and the grass sounded, and Rik and Rahal grabbed the weapon with a tense face.

"Ggah, gah, gah!

"When did these guys!?"

"One... ni, three... sucks"

It was - four small goblins who showed up from all sides.

A blurry cloth is wrapped around the body of the green skin, and the saliva drips from the distinctive large nose, irregularly lined pointed tooth gaps. He has a small dagger in his hand, and if he is slashed with a worn out rusty blade, the wound is going to be purulent.

"You're surrounded."

"You weren't supposed to come. The tavern gets busy at night. If we don't make it, it's Rick's fault."

"I'll keep them on the lookout, so Rahal runs in the meantime."

"... does it not make you smile that these guys gave you money?

Two people laughing bitterly at each other.

- At that time.

"Get down!!"

From afar, a powerful and clear voice sounded.

When Rik and Rahal lay down reflexively, they heard the dull sound of 'Don't' coming from between the brows of a small goblin.

At the tip of an object like a stick pierced through the head is an arrow feather, and the two understand that it is an object released from the bow.

A second shot immediately flew in, now a brilliant hit to the neck of a small goblin.

"Wow. I've got two in a flash."

"G., G. Gah!

The remaining small goblins were upset and tried to wave their daggers down to Rik, who was lying on the ground.

"Let...?!

When Rahal sticks the knife he had against the legs of a small goblin, his body fluids splash along with a gudgy, disgusting feeling.

"Wow... this knife can't be used to peel anymore"

"Sorry, Rahal"

A flash of sword swung out by Rick as he did not get up nicely severed Smallgoblin's neck.

"Gaaaaaa"

Watching the neck of his desperate companion roll to the ground, the last one disappeared into the woods with screams.

Rik and Rahal exhale loudly in one safe moment, slowly reducing their breathing to undo the beat that was fast with the dokundokun.

Slowly inhaling the air, the sweet scent drifted slightly from behind onto his nose. In a scene where small goblin fluids are splashed, the scent is too disproportionate.

"... you people from the city? What's a kid doing in the woods?"

The person who would have helped me with the bow and arrow approached them and asked them that.

I knew from my voice that it was a woman, but Rick and Rahal would turn around and then stop moving.

That the woman was the same age girl as the two of us.

And because he was a very beautiful man with clear eyes like young grass.

"Thank you for earlier. But... you're no different from us."

Rahal turns his face red and responds in an unscrupulous manner.

Rick also tried to thank him, but caught something moving at his feet at the edge of his sight.

"G...... giggie!

- A small goblin with an arrow stabbed in his neck rose and tried to strike the girl as if clearing his grudges.

"Ah..."

The unintentional girl tried to pull out the dagger on her hips reflexively, but she couldn't make it.

...... but small goblins could not harm the girl.

Because Rik cut off the demon's arm and pounded his heart in a flowing motion.

"Gagggggggggggggggggggggg"

Falling down and spitting blood, Smallgoblin took his breath away.

"You were in danger. Now can I pay you back some of my earlier debts?

"Well...... my clothes got a lot dirty though"

"Huh?... ah"

The stinking blood was splashing like a fountain out of a pounding heart, polluting the girl's clothes.

"Wow, I'm sorry. The... I want my clothes to be compensated this way. Small goblin blood is hard to shed."

……

A girl staring silently at her own clothes.

"Hey, Rahal, do something."

"Oh, you. Only when this happens! Um... I don't have a lot of money and I'll wash it and make sure it's clean and returned, so can you give me the clothes I took off later? Oh, no, not in a weird way."

"... you're the weird one, Rahal"

Seeing such an exchange between the two, the girl laughed at the dullness.

"P...... hahaha! I was shocked because I liked the clothes a little bit, but that's all right. I just got help."

When they saw the girl back smiling, they caressed their chests down with relief.

"You're late to introduce yourself. I'm Alisha. What about you guys?

Alisha nodded as Rik and Rahal told her name, removing the top and bottom of the garment from the bag that was on her hips.

"Well, that's bad for Rick and Rahal, but will you just turn around a little bit? I'm sick of dirty clothes until I get back to the city, so I want to change into spare clothes here."

So Alisha puts up her index finger and alerts her to just one word.

"If I peek... I'll be angry"

"Of, you can't peek"

"Oh, of course. Trust me."

- It goes without saying that Rick's cheeks were red and swollen when he returned to the city after this.