My morning is early.
Because no matter how tired you are the day before, or the day you have a request, you always get up early at 5: 00 in the morning and start training. I have an appointment with Lloyd to discuss it from noon. Even today, nothing will change what I do.
Run through the perimeter of the Imperial City along the city walls two times, carrying the weight of three large men for about fifty kilometers, within two hours, and after returning to the inn for breakfast, do two hours of weight-training with finger down, spine on abs, and barbells.
One of my grandfather's teachings is to always train your body in support positions (buffers). Because when you fall into a pinch, the last thing you say is strength.
Speaker's skills do not consume magic because they reside in the very words they utter, but they are still greatly fatigued if they continue to be used. Not to mention, exploring the abyss Abyss and being relative to the devil (Beast) is a far more fatiguing situation than usual.
Besides, my skills work for party members, but they don't work for me. I mean, you can't recover with your skills. If you can't use your skills at the heart of the matter and you can't seem to turn your head because of fatigue again, you will be luggage for the party.
When exploring, he carries a healing medicine (potion) to heal his wounds and health, but that's not enough. If you hold a lot, you'll get in the way of the fight, and if the healing pill (potion) breaks, you won't be able to recover. So I needed to keep building my body to improve my strength on the ground.
I finished my workout for the morning. Then it's night. Sweat in a hot shower, remove the recovery medicine (potion) from the refrigerator and drink it dry.
"... not good"
Still tastes terrible. It tastes like eating raw fish and apples together.
But you have to be patient. You need to take a healing pill (potion) after your workout to encourage super regeneration of your muscles. Doing so will allow you to continue to build your body without pinching your rest day.
To keep the lit body cold, I heard noisy footsteps from the hallway as I was playing flexible gymnastics naked up there.
"Noel, oh my god!!
It was my buddy Valter who walked into the room without even knocking.
The disturbance is tremendous, the eyes run blood, the hair scratches, the face is sweaty, and the body shakes greatly every time I breathe. It's like the end of the world.
I coughed one up and covered my chest with both hands.
"Your brother's a jerk! I told you to knock when you enter the room!
"What a joke!? Don't make me feel bad. Eh!
They pissed me off. I was just trying to soothe you... But my speech skills and psychic solution, Peer Support, seem to have worked well. Spiritually spared, Valter takes a deep breath and looks calm compared to earlier.
"... Anyway, it's important. Read this for me."
One letter was handed to me by Valter. Wet in sweat because of being squeezed, spreading the wrinkled paper unbreakable.
The letters written in black ink are known handwriting. It is the letter of our leader, Lloyd. I have a signature, and I can do a handwriting test. Wrong doesn't mean someone is faking it. This is an authentic letter written by Lloyd.
Once done and long, there are many unnecessary parts of what is written on as many as four sheets of paper. But the content itself was very simple.
I carefully folded the finished letter.
"Hmm, I see. In short, Lloyd was in a lot of debt for failing to invest. So, he was embezzling and spending twenty two and eight million fils of party assets to repay. But I rushed the establishment of the clan, so I ran away from the Empire with Tania before things came to light. Haha, he's an idiot ~"
The letter was euphemistically written from beginning to end, and besides, it only stood out as an apology for self-defense and a convenient mouth, but to sum it up, that's the content.
Was this the cause of the discomfort between the two people I was feeling at the time of the consolation meeting? It's a story that's too stupid to laugh at. As I was laughing down, Valter yelled.
"What's so funny!? Those two betrayed us!
"That's why I'm laughing. I can't believe that misbehaved Lloyd misappropriated his investment at night. Ha ha, you laugh too, Valter."
"Funny, you idiot!!
Spitting and screaming, Valter held his arms together and brought them to the wall.
"... damn, what do I do, what do I do"
"By the way, when and where did you get this letter?
"Ah?... That was just now. Listen to me talk about a good job at the tavern last night. I thought I'd take the order while the others didn't take it. So I asked for Lloyd's boarding house first thing in the morning, and I got this letter from my father at the inn..."
"The innkeeper's dad said when Lloyd left the room?
"Before 8: 00 last night."
The city gate of Teito closes at 8: 00 p.m. and opens at 5: 00 a.m. I mean, just before the gate closed, I guess I left the capital in the darkness of the night. Exactly a night escape.
"It's 9: 30 in the morning, so it's been another half day? But I wouldn't have been able to travel in the station carriage in time, and I shouldn't have been able to rent a horse for fear of getting legs on it. Even if we traveled all night, we wouldn't be earning a lot of distance on foot. If you borrow an early horse and chase it, you'll catch up by evening at your leisure."
"Well, maybe that's true, but you don't know where you got away with it, do you?
"You can talk to the City Examiner. If you can figure out which gate you came out of, you can also see where you're going. It's dangerous to get off the streets at night. If you walk half a day, you'll get to some village, and given the limits of those two's health, you should be resting there by now"
Things would be different if they were using a getaway, but that would be difficult to predict the time between the Lloyds' decision to flee at night and their transfer to execution.
First of all, unlike me and Valter, I don't associate with outlaws (Yakuzamon) who have a clean interpersonal crush on me.
Walter, listening to me, snapped his finger.
"That's it! We're going to the examiner's right now!
"Wait, wait, go. What are you going to do?
"Oh? Are you an idiot? Didn't you just say how to find it? Find Lloyd and beat him up! If I don't, I'm out of my mind!
This guy doesn't understand the situation at all.
True, I taught him one of the ways to find the Lloyds, but I just taught him in the sense that there's as much means to find them as there is to find them without having to panic. I'm not trying to solve it that way, and that's definitely not enough.
"Hit me, fight me, settle? Or would you forgive Lloyd if he apologized crying? So you can go back to your old friendly party? Ha, how to live in a flower garden, that sounds like a muscle fairy scenario. It's not your brain's job to sing a song with your hands, you Merchant fool."
"Hey, what the heck!?
"Ready? Fools are the same over there, but they're desperate over there. If we catch up, that's not the point. Instead of fighting, if we're bad, we're gonna kill each other, right?
Otherwise, you won't run away from us.
The twenty two and eight million Phils that Lloyd embezzled and spent are already lost gold. For this minute, the whereabouts of the rewards of the junior vampire Lesser Vampire are also suspicious. Personal distributions have been made, but the money deposited for the party is managed by Lloyd.
But even if you sum it up, Phil 16 million and eight million. In the meantime, the contribution of me and Valter is eight million and four hundred thousand fils, so this becomes the money that was taken.
It's a lot of money, but Lloyd and Tania, the brilliant Seekers, have enough to pay it back. Despite that, those two chose to flee.
This is a decisive betrayal, a severance of relations.
I guess I'm more than ready to throw away my way to apologize, too, over there. If we go after him, he will definitely be recognized as an adversary, not a companion.
"Valter, are you sure you can defeat Lloyd?
Valter and Lloyd are avant-garde positions in the same C-rank, but if you fight in Tyman, Lloyd is the strong one. Nor is it slightly different, but there is a clear difference.
"... with your support (buffs), you can win for sure"
That's a hopeful observation. My battle prediction is that the two of us will try and have a 60% chance of winning. Engage even if you can win. It will be deeply damaged.
More importantly, Lloyd is not alone. Tania, the healer, is with us.
"Then you can fight Tania, too, right? The first thing that makes the healer immobile is the fundamentals of the interpersonal battle."
Valter turned away and did not answer. They finally understood the situation.
Tania is Valter's thinker. I can't point a blade at you. With that weakness, even with my support (buffs), it's impossible to beat Lloyd.
Even if I could sit on my stomach, Lloyd and Tania are stronger than me and Valter. We predict a two-to-two win rate of about 20%.
The combination of a highly attacking swordsman and a healer who can also be treated during combat is simple but therefore strong. In a combination of warrior and speaker, you won't win unless it's not so much of a difference in strength.
"In case you win well at the end, you won't get your money back first. If you keep chasing him, there's nothing to gain. I just end up in jail. They know that, too, so you'd think we're unlikely to come after them. That's why he ran away, too."
"Fuck you! Then I'll have to cry and fall asleep!
"Crying to sleep? Don't be stupid"
You can never fall asleep crying.
Those two decided it was better to get away at night. Because we're bracketing the height that we won't be chasing until we can't. We also expect that Valter will not be able to hurt Tania.
I don't care about Valter's purity, but the only thing I can do to get licked by those guys is put up with whatever happens.
"My motto is a thousand times back. I'll let those two know."
When I declared that, I heard knocking on the door of the room.
"Noelle! Laundry, laundry out!
The lord of tongueless voices is Marie, the billboard daughter of Shizukukan here on the stars.
When I opened the door to him, a tall girl in a cute service suit with a frill stood with a cage.
"Whoa, whoa! Nice thin macho, Mr. Noel, as always!
When I saw Marie blushing her cheeks, I remembered that her top remained naked.
You're intrigued by the nudity of a man, even though this kid is only ten years old. According to the store's father, Marie's room has a pile of paintings modeled after a handsome guy she likes. Besides, you think it's not a stand-alone thing, it's just something that entangled guys with crumbs and loose ends?
At all, you have a noble taste in children's habits.
"Laundry, huh? I'll be right out. Wait."
"Wow, did you just take it in?!?
"Huh?"
Marie alternates between me and Valter and makes those eyes shimmer.
"Upper-body naked princely good-looking and tough aniki-type good-looking...... Those two are in the Chamber, and nothing can happen..."
"Marie, what are you talking about? I came to get the laundry, didn't I?
"Huh! Distinguished noble, no!
Marie, ignoring my inquiry and hustling in a paranoid world, ran away with crazy oddities.
"Inspiration ahhh!!!!
I don't want to imagine or know what inspiration it is, but anyway, Marie seems to have been able to trip into the world of happy dreams.
I sincerely hope you don't stay here forever and come back.
"Hey, what's that kid?
No one will be able to answer Valter's question. So I decide to tell him to stay.
"As you can see, he's a weird kid."