The Healer Banished From The Party, In Fact, Is The Strongest

Episode 23: The Adventurer of the Street

"Respond to the human demands of the city of the labyrinth city and bring in the middle-class material free of charge"

Memories of Mr. Laust telling us so when he was grounded.

That's still clear in my memory.

Because that condition was too light, given what we've been doing to Mr. Laust.

... and it was then that I felt guilty about what I did to Mr. Laust for the first time.

Until now, even when that's when I apologized to Mr. Laust, I didn't feel as guilty as I remember fear.

Something weak is abusive and natural.

Nobody lives just for themselves.

Because that was my common sense that I've lived in this labyrinth city since I was born as this labyrinth orphan.

If I applied that common sense, I wouldn't have been able to complain if Mr. Laust had killed me.

Because it's this labyrinth city that likes the strong stuff, and with it we've been abusing Mr. Laust.

Then I'm in the opposite position, and now Mr. Laust can't do that back, or complain or anything.

Yet Mr. Laust was behaving as if he didn't care about that.

It was then that I realized that Mr. Laust was different from us.

As the same labyrinth orphan we are in this labyrinth city, no, an adventurer who is not like us while spending more time in a worse environment than that.

I remember some strange feeling in that presence, but that's when I made up my mind.

You have to make amends for what you've done to this man.

Honestly, I don't like people in the city.

A weak man who can't fight.

Doing something for the person below me like that wasn't something I felt comfortable with.

Still, if it is for Mr. Laust, we must forget and obey that thought.

Based on that determination, I decided to take the material to the city.

But I didn't know that then.

That you will be indebted to Mr. Laust for trying to make amends, but that you will not be able to return them the other way around.

Plus, the days I spend in the city, that makes me irreplaceable...

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"... old man, that, please"

It was Lewis, the leaders of the boys who had told me they wanted to learn the sword, who had spoken to me that way in the early morning waving his sword in an empty space near the city.

From Lewis, who has been speaking out in the way he said he was afraid, all the businessmanship has disappeared and I'm about to laugh unexpectedly.

Probably wondering if this is how you learn the sword from me and make it annoying.

At the time we agreed, it's the same as saying we don't care about annoyance.

"Who's the old man! Call me Mr. Marnell, and I know you're saying that, but damn it!

But hide that inside, and I'll dare say it so messily.

As usual.

"Become! Ugh! Although the old man must be the old man!

Reacting to my words like that, Lewis mumbles and screams after revealing his surprise for a moment.

At that time, it's back to normal, and I'm about to accidentally leak a laugh.

Yeah, he said he was doing well.

You kids don't have to be weird.

You don't have to do that, because we've already been saved by Lewis and the others.

"You busy kid. Well, for now, today's the first day."

Hiding that thought in the back of my chest, pretending to be outraged by Lewis' words, I start training.

Individually, and with that in mind, what conversations would the fellows be having with the kids by now teaching the sword to the other kids?

The city of the labyrinth city, where peaceful days were flowing.

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After Lewis and the others trained and got breakfast at Lewis' house, I was gathered in a coffee shop with other adventurers selling materials to this city.

The woman at the coffee shop puts a cup of fruit juice on us that became the earliest regular.

"Yes, this. Thanks for everything."

I thanked her and received that cup and I carried the cup straight to my mouth and sipped the fruit juice.

"... good"

In my mouth, the refreshing flavor spread, and I accidentally leaked the words.

As a matter of course, fruit juice is never cheap.

Especially in labyrinth cities, the value will inevitably increase because the only way to import them is to import them.

Yet I felt my heart warm to the people in this coffee shop who gave me fruit juice without worrying about it.

"This is a nice city."

It was then that the party member sitting next to me, Gods, muttered to me so.

To the words of Gods, I nod in silence.

It's only been a few days since I came to this city.

But in that short time, our values changed dramatically.

At first, we never had good feelings for the people in the city.

To be clear, I should say I was looking down.

I was only handing over the material for my brother-in-law against Mr. Laust.

You perceived that, and the people of the city never showed any good feelings for us at first.

That changed two days after I started giving material to this city, when I came back injured by a minor mistake.

That was never uncommon.

At our party without a healer, there are things you can't fix right away if you get hurt.

That's why I always had healing pills, and often ignored them if they were a few scratches.

"You, use this!

But the people in the city who didn't know it reacted differently.

The woman named Mary, who runs the inn, turned me down, ignored me, gave me the recovery pills, and then bewildered me before, bowed her head.

I did something wrong to the person Mr. Laust introduced me to.

Thank you for bringing the material, until you got hurt.

It was only after that that the city's response to us changed.

Originally, Mr. Laust gave us the material for free because we could be rewarded, so he paid us a decent fee and said thank you.

... we couldn't hide our confusion about the change at first.

Rapid changes in the attitude of the people of the city, which was one of the reasons for confusion, but more than that, such a favorable response was our first time.

Because ever since we were born, life has been everything that we take away from each other.

But the response of the people of the city was never unpleasant.

We couldn't change our messy attitude towards the favorable attitude of the people in that city.

That's all I know, but for that reason.

Yet the city people never hated it.

─ And while we were spending that time, the people of this city were turning into irreplaceable beings.

When we realized that we were getting acquainted with the people of this city and wanted to work hard for the people of that inner city.

That I worked out my body so that I could bring as much labyrinth material here as I could.

It is also true that each adventurer began to teach the sword individually to children other than adventurers.

An action on which all the thoughts were based.

All of that was our first experience, and there was no change.

"Mr. Laust owes me a debt of gratitude."

The benefactor who brought me to this place, remembering its existence, I leak words so small.

The mockery of the people in the city has never been in me before.

No, he doesn't have any more adventurers brought to this city by Mr. Laust who remember mocking the people of the city.

I picked up my leaked words in my ears and laughed unexpectedly at the other adventurers who nodded.

"Hey, you guys!

The grin, however, broke apart into the figure of an adventurer who had rushed into the room late in assembly time.

The adventurer is my party member, the Wizard Salams.

Gathering time had already passed, and I opened my mouth to complain about the late Salams, but I noticed Salams' truly impending look, and I accidentally got stuck in the words.

Salams opens his mouth in such a way that he doesn't even notice how I am.

"─ Mr. Laust has been banned from entering and leaving the labyrinth!

And the expression was to disappear from the person in the coffee shop to that word that Salams uttered at the next moment.