A few days after I was invited to Mr. Ardell's house.
I left Quelles early in the morning and the request for an escort began.
Myra came to see me off before I left and was exchanging goodbye greetings with Estelle and the others.
Hey, she's a good girl.
This time again, Nor and Estelle, Sisha and I are on two horses, and they are escorting Mr. Ardelbel and his carriages as they pinch back and forth.
Of course I'm behind Sissha. I can't help anything I can't ride.
"In the end, Mr. Ogura is behind me on the way home, isn't he? You can practice centipede, but you can also practice horseback riding."
"Hey, 'cause you don't get a chance to practice, do you? I don't get on that much."
"At all, you can't reopen it that way. Ask Mr. Knoll for guidance next time."
"Ugh, give Nor a break. He's quite a Spartan..."
Please stop, I'm dead.
When I ask Knoll to teach, it's because it's really tough......
It's like a lion pushing my kid off a cliff.
"Still, you're going to be able to go home with nothing"
"Trent's anomaly is solved, so this time it'll be fine"
Trent was blocking the way when he came to Quelles, but nothing should go wrong on his way home because he's solving the anomaly.
Still, I can't be alarmed, so I'll keep my perimeter on the map app, though.
"When you get back to King's Capital like this, are you going to consider buying a house like we talked about before?
"We're considering it positively. However, I figured the property in Wangdu was expensive...... Given the future, you should choose carefully"
"Seems like it would be nice to cut it off for beacon and buy a cheap house...... It's still preferable to have a home where you can live to some extent."
It's good to buy a house in Wang Du, but I worry about how much house to buy.
A house you can live in even if you don't have a house extension, or make it a small house for beacons......
If it's a big house, it's usually going to be over 100 million...... I don't have that kind of money on a boulder.
Think about it after all you've done?
Besides, when I get to King's Capital, I want to meet with Dius and the others to get their opinions on demon stone hunting, etc.
I'd like to hear from Mr. Glynn and the others, and you're going to be busy when you get back.
"You want to spend time alone with Mr. Luna in the house of the King's Capital. Make it the only situation I can rely on... Guuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"... because there's a dangerous atmosphere. That's rejected."
"Why not!
Sisha wipes her mouth barely and has a guessy voice.
My instinct whispers that I shouldn't let a guy like this spend time alone in a house with a young girl.
What are we going to do with Luna making her dependent any more, even though she's already in such a state that she can't stay without Sisha...
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The day has begun to set, so today's trip is over.
Just like the last time I requested escort, I set up a tent a little further away from Mr. Ardell Bell and the others.
Then as she surrounds the bonfire and eats, Annelie comes to Estelle and chats happily.
Meanwhile I was talking crap with the Knolls...
"Mr. Knoll, next time I ask Mr. Okura to instruct me on horseback riding"
"Mmm, is it horseback riding? I'll take care of it!
"Stop it! I don't like knolls, I just don't like knolls!
Whoa!? You're just gonna say that!
The knoll you asked me to stick up weirdly too... I don't know what I'm gonna do.
"Why do you hate it so much! He's going to be on a big ship and he wants me to leave it to him!
"Is it a mudship mistake? I don't like Knoll because he's tough."
"That's not true. I only do it to the point where my ankle stops standing lightly."
"It's too much!
Don't say anything that's inconsistent like not standing lightly on your ankles! It's not light when you don't stand on your feet!
If it's a knoll style nurturing method, I'd probably be able to ride it even if I didn't like it...... I'm too scared.
When I was so frightened, I heard Annelie laughing.
"As Estelle said, Osakura and the others seem to enjoy themselves."
"Hehe, right? I'm not tired of watching."
Hmm? Could you have been watching us interact?
I can't believe they think that sounds fun... it's all Knoll's fault.
"Is Okura's party a girl other than Okura?
"Uh, right. All four of us here."
"What, Le - mugg!?
"You blocked your mouth shortly after you let him exhale..."
As Sisha tried to slip her mouth with Luna, she immediately blocked the turning mouth behind her by hand.
I figured you'd definitely do it, but you really fucked up your mouth.
Annelie was tilting her neck at my behavior, but there was no particular pursuit.
"Heh, really?... Good luck, Estelle."
"Yeah, thanks"
What the hell do you mean, good luck to Estelle from the current question?
Estelle is smiling and snorting too...... is that her heart?
I didn't know we were getting along enough to pass it on without words.
Or did you talk about something at the Mansion the other day?
"Lord Okura, it's time for Sisha to be in danger."
"Hmm? Ah..."
As I strolled my thoughts around Estelle and the others' interactions, Knoll tapped me on the shoulder with a little fingertip.
When they say it and look at Sisha, they grab my hand and desperately try to peel it off. It looks very painful.
I immediately let go of my hand and let her go.
"Buha! Ha... ha... Okura-san, don't think about it with my mouth blocked...... I hope you don't hold your nose at least......"
"Excuse me. Excuse me. It was inadvertent."
Apparently he was holding his nose down with his mouth, too.
As I scratch my head and apologize to Sisha, Knoll is putting his hand on her shoulder and thumbs up and doing a good job.
"May I help you?
"Sissha has been treated similar to me, hasn't she? He's one of us."
"Oh, that's not true. Isn't that right, Mr. Ogura?
"Hmm, that's a tough spot. Until it's worse than Knoll."
"I don't!?
Sissha is often more aware of it as heterosexual with all sorts of things, but I feel that she is beyond Knoll in her sobering condition.
They're both casual and the same type, but there are subtly different parts.
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6 days after the start of the request.
I ran into the demon several times, but I dealt with it without any problems and it went well.
Half the distance would have already passed, from Quelles to the King's Capital.
I thought I could finish the escort without anything happening this time... but there was a reaction that bothered me about the map app I was looking at to check my surroundings.
"... hmm?
"May I help you?
"I have multiple blue reactions to the map app. It's stopped a little further."
"Are there no demons around?
"Oh, he's not here. It doesn't look like they're attacking me. But let's be vigilant."
The blue dots are stopped on the street we're about to cross.
It doesn't seem like someone hostile to us because it's a blue dot, but it could be dangerous to keep going.
So I told Mr. Egon to stop the carriage and talked to the Knolls about what they were going to do.
"Are there people?
"I don't know if you're a person... but you shouldn't be an enemy"
"Is there something wrong with stopping at a place like this?
"Sounds like you should see how it goes for now"
Everyone agrees that it is dangerous to keep Mr. Ardell Bell and the others with us.
We were to leave Knoll and Estelle as escorts for the carriage and head to the blue dots that are stopping at Sisha with me.
Moving on for a while, I finally see that scene... the carriage growing diagonally from the ground to the sky.
"Ah... the carriage is going to be amazing."
"Wow... that's what's going on"
There was a big hole in the ground, where the back half of the carriage had fallen.
There are a few people around it, and one of them keeps an eye on his surroundings. Out of our outfits, we're the same adventurers.
If you keep calling me like this, I'll be suspicious, like Mr. Egon did, so let's take off the helm.
You noticed us coming at you, a man on guard pulled out his sword and took a fighting stance.
"Who is it!
"Oh, I'm not a suspicious one! I'm an adventurer!
I approached the position where my voice could be heard and showed the Adventurers Association plates with one hand up to let them know they were not enemies.
When a man looks a little forward and checks our plate, he opens his eyes to surprise.
"B, B-rank adventurer...... su, sorry!
"No, never mind. What could have happened more than that?
The man had a copper-coloured plate hanging from his neck. Bronze... C-rank?
There are four other men, one of whom looks spicy with a bandage wrapped around his hand or head.
I'm not wearing protective equipment or anything like an adventurer, so was this guy a client and in the middle of a request for escort?
Three horses have also fallen nearby. Maybe he was injured by the impact of the carriage falling.
The other three men look like adventurers, one accompanying an injured man and the other two trying to get into a hole and lift a carriage.
"I was down the road and the ground suddenly fell. Maybe Tarpa did it."
"Tarpa? Is it a demon?
"Oh, it's a rare demon. I'm not very strong, but I dig under the ground and move on, so this is how I suddenly fall in and do damage. Ha... there you go..."
It's a demon I've never heard of. When it comes to digging the ground and moving on... is he like a sandworm?
You're a pretty big looking demon to dig a hole deep enough for a carriage to fall.
The adventurer man is sighing loudly as he stares at the fallen carriage.
Hmm, I feel sorry to overlook you like this.
With that in mind, Sisha called out this time.
"Is it the client sitting there?
"Oh, oh... I'm hitting my head, my hands and my feet. I've been handling it for a while, but it hurts a lot..."
"Has anyone else been hurt?
"We're fine.... Instead, a few horses can't move anymore"
"Really? If so, may I see you? We will treat you."
"Ah, you! I knew you were a cleric!
"Yes, I'm a cleric. Mr. Okura asks you to deal with the carriage."
"Oh, leave it to me."
Ooh, Sisha is rarely trying to be useful as a cleric.
Then I guess I'll do something about the carriage that fell into the hole, as I was told.
Looking at the carriage, two men were still roaring and working hard.
"Whoa! Ahhh!... Ha, ha... Oh, no. Shit!
"I don't even know if I'm scared!
Fight, one shot! What a scream you may still hear, but the carriage is to the extent of lifting a little.
Even though they are both muscle mukimuki macho men, it still seems impossible to move them.
"Um, can I help you, too, if you don't mind?
"Ah? Who?
"He's a passing adventurer."
Ooh, they replied in a scared voice. Sounds like you're feeling a lot better. Big and scary looking.
Since the carriage is falling and out of control, can't it be done?
"I want to go through here with a request for an escort, too. So let me help you."
"And even if they say I'm going to help..."
"Sounds like your B-rank, but there's nothing I can do about it with the addition of one person."
"You won't know unless you try. Let me just do it."
"Oh, oh... then, please"
So I decided to go into the hole and lift the carriage.
Um, is the client a merchant or a type of carriage that puts things on the carrier?
Looks like I unloaded a big load before I lifted it, but I have a little baggage left.
The carriage itself is about a turn smaller than Mr. Ardell Bell's expensive carriage.
I think I can handle this. If you can't, I'll call Mr. Knoll.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa."
Grab the bottom of the carrier and force it to push it up.
Then the carriage lifted lightly.
He pushed it straight into the ground and pulled the carriage out of the hole.
Good, it weighed enough for me to lift it.
I got my level up and got my gear full, and I'm a lot more fortified, too.
"Are you kidding me!? Him, I lifted it by myself!
"Whoa, whoa... what the hell is going on?"
The men I was watching are surprised when I open my mouth.
Ah, you're surprised I lifted the hyoro hyoro compared to these people...
I lifted it on my own, but maybe I should have lifted it with these people.
"The treatment is over -. What about Mr. Okura?"
"This one's over."
Looks like Sisha just finished her treatment, too, and she came over here on a small run.
All right, now you're done helping people.
"Ogura... Oh, the guy who did this with Dius and the others before!
"Oh, that Ogura!
Which Ogura is it......
With Dius' name coming out, it's definitely obvious it's us...
Does knowing that story mean that these people are also adventurers who are often in the Wang capital?
"Hey, that was really helpful. Thanks."
"No, it's like we did it for ourselves."
A large man who was about to lift the carriage came to thank me.
Atmospherically, you sound like this guy's the leader of this adventurer party.
"But here I am. If Tarpa walks through here, there's a chance he'll fall in. If you want to move on, you better be careful."
"Really...... What shall I do?"
"Then why don't you leave it to Mr. Estelle?
"Oh, did you have that hand?"
I don't know where it's going to sink because there's no change on the ground when I look at it pah.
But Estelle could magically do something about it.
We just went back to Mr. Ardell Bell and told him what was going on and had him move to where the adventurers were earlier.
"Heh, this was happening"
"Oh, I don't know where the hole is, so magically look for it."
"Hehe, I'll take care of it. That's how cheap it is."
Asking Estelle just now, she held a wand and a yellow grimoire in her hand with a confident expression.
... Is it okay to leave it to me?
With that worry, Annelie came out of the carriage.
"Estelle, do you use magic?
"Yeah, I'd use a pretty big one. I'm near your brothers."
"Yes! Enjoy!
You saw how we were in the carriage, and you assumed you'd use magic.
If you had Annelie, you wouldn't use dangerous magic.
Cheered Estelle put up her wand with a more motivated look than usual.
"Eh!
I stuck my wand on the ground with a more temperamental voice than usual.
Shortly afterwards, I wondered if the perimeter swayed for a moment grassy, and the ground over there sank with one noise after another.
Large holes appeared where the streets were and even linear holes stretched out all over them to connect.
It's likely to be several hundred meters long when it's all combined.
"Whoa!? Hey, what the hell!
"No way... you've submerged all the passages of Tarpa..."
The male adventurers watching the sight were shouting surprises.
Wow... it's really full of holes.
If we kept going, we might have had the same carriage fall in the hole.
"Shh, that's an awesome hole. Looks like there was something else besides the streets, and you might have fallen even if you avoided it."
"You're such an annoying demon to drill so many holes. Shall I fill the hole for now? Mm-hmm. No!
And when Estelle stabbed her wand into the ground, the ground that had fallen would rise and one hole after another would be blocked.
Haha...... I knew Estelle was awesome.
Dozens of meters filled the path of a hole in an instant.
"Wow! Estelle's magic is always fancy!
"hehe, you can praise me more"
"Yeah! Praise!
Annelie stroked her head okay to Estelle, who told her to praise her more at her usual rate.
Estelle is smiling with her hands on her cheeks looking good.
Oh, will that please you when you say that dialogue?
"Oh, there's something jumping over there."
"That's... that's Talpa! That's why you popped up earlier!
I raised my voice to see if Knoll had discovered anything.
If you look at the person pointing your finger, there is a black object a little further away, even on the ground.
Were you launched to the ground by Estelle's magic?
That's Talpa...... black, short hair, sharply stretched forefoot nails, thinly stretched red nose.
It's a mole! But it looks like it's about 2m in size......
If it's that big, it looks strong, even if it's a mole.
I have trouble getting back in the dirt again and getting more holes, and I want to keep it here.
"You're going to knock me down!
"Hey, wait!
Knoll pulls out his sword and runs toward Tarpa.
Hey, I'm going in there by myself again... well, I'm talking about not being that strong of a demon, all right?
Knoll, approaching Tarpa, who is crouched, pulls out his sword and slashes it as it is.
One blow turned the mole into two straight, particles of light and extinguished it.
Oh, that's too grumpy......
"... as I was saying, you guys are a bunch of bullshit parties."
"haha......"
A big man who just thanked me called out to me with a frightened voice.
He said he was listening... what kind of story is spreading?
"It really helped this time. I'm sorry you were in the middle of a request for an escort."
"No, it's outrageous. Was the carriage better than that?
"Yeah, it's slightly damaged, but if we go slow, we'll have no problem. It's bad for the client, but we're gonna have to slow him down a little."
I was worried because their escort carriage is falling, but apparently it's okay.
"Thanks for treating me to the horse. Next time I see you in King's Landing, let me thank you."
"I don't want to thank you. Er..."
"Oh, you didn't introduce yourself. I'm Dolph the C-Rank Adventurer."
"Oh, thank you. As I'm sure you know, I'm Heihachi Ogura."
Mr. Dolph has offered me his hand, so I shook that hand back in return.
Oh, I know more Wang Du adventurers here.
THANK YOU...... then join these people in the Demon Stone Hunt!... No, just can't do that.
He seems to know about Dius, and I'd like to ask him if he gets involved from there.
After a gentle exchange of words with Mr. Dolph, I returned to the Knolls.
"Lord Okura, were those people okay?
"Looks fine. The horse seems to be able to move thanks to Sissha's treatment."
"Some horses had broken legs, so you couldn't help it if it stayed that way"
"Sissha also works as a cleric once in a while."
You could see the precious cleric scene of Sissha that is rarely seen this time.
"Ugh, I've always worked fine as a cleric, haven't I?"
"Ha, joke again"
After listening to the jokes of Sisukha, we began to move forward again towards the Wang capital.