Chapter 50 – Let Me Introduce You to My Girlfriend.(2)
On the day of the appointment.
I came to the requesting office.
It was to say hello to the people who would care about me and the people who saved me.
Upon entering, a familiar landscape greeted me.
A number of gatherer leaders were looking through the papers,
Several guides were talking to them.
It wasn’t long after I looked at it, but it seemed different because I had experienced death once.
I gave up my appreciation and walked to the same window I always went to.
I spoke to the receptionist, Marshall, who seemed busy with paperwork.
“Busy?”
Marshall started at my voice and looked up at me.
Then he let out a deep sigh of relief.
“Ha…Really…”
The response made me laugh.
I could imagine how worried he must have been.
“… You were supposed to come because you weren’t hurt.”
“As expected, it didn’t go my way.”
“Are you completely healed now?”
Since he is also an employee of the agency, he must have heard about my injury.
My older brother took the sword instead and completed the delivery, but he probably did not hear a detailed explanation of my condition.
I raised my left hand to Marshall.
Hands drooping awkwardly.
The wound on his left arm also caught his attention.
Marshall looked back and forth between my hands and my face.
I told him who expressed his doubts.
“It’s hardened from the aftereffects, your hand.”
Then Marshall puts on a shocked expression.
His expression is stained with guilt.
With that expression on my face, I hurriedly continued.
“Oh, I am in rehab. Rehabilitating. It’s okay. I can get better.”
Honestly, I don’t know if I can get better or not, but I wanted to lighten his burden.
Besides, if I had to bet money, I would bet on the fact that my hand would heal.
It was because I felt mana several times during the rehabilitation with Lily noona.
But even at my words, he couldn’t easily let go of his expression.
I asked.
“It was recorded as a success of our quest, right?”
We already know that it has been recorded as successful.
It was a question I brought up just to change the topic of conversation.
But it didn’t work for Marshall.
“…How did that happen?”
I scratched my head awkwardly with my right hand when I realized I couldn’t escape the subject.
“I was stabbed by a demonic sword, what.”
“No, I get that… I told you everything. Points to keep in mind, strategies for strategy.”
He seemed upset that my hands were in this condition. Rather, he looked more angry than me.
“What was the problem? Didn’t the party wizard do it right?”
“Marshall.”
Lily noona didn’t do well…
Absolutely not.
It was a special entity.
Rather, it was great that such a special object was not allowed to approach Russ and me even once until right before it died.
To be honest, I was expecting them to cross swords once or twice.
But my sister drove it until the black monkey was about to pretend to be dead once.
Even to me who didn’t know much about magic, she was the ace of this gathering activity.
It is all of us fault for not properly checking whether the monster is dead or alive.
So, if I had to count minor faults, my fault was the biggest.
“… Don’t curse at my party members.”
It didn’t feel too good when he expressed his sister Lily’s demeaning questions.
There is silence for a while.
My cold words calmed him too.
“After all, I was wrong, Marshall.”
“…I’m sorry. I am so excited.”
But I know that it was not from a bad heart that he became so furious.
It’s because everyone sees my physical condition and gets upset.
His mistakes were easily forgiven.
“It’s okay. And I have something to say.”
“..What is it?”
“It was a special entity. It.”
“Yes?”
At the word “Special entity,” The other guides glance at me.
“They stole items from other gatherers…Have you heard of an object like this?”
He frowned and tapped the desk slowly with his fingers.
“…No. As far as I know, I have never heard of such an entity.”
“Can I explain?”
He got up and pointed to one of the rooms.
“Yes. Let’s go over there. Please explain in as much detail as possible.”
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When he finished his explanation, Marshall rubbed his chin.
“…Even scrolling… This is a bit…”
“Why?”
“Hmm… This must have been hard to predict for sure.”
Marshall continues to ponder.
“And… If this monster used the scroll, it might need a grade adjustment.”
He took his eyes off the document and looked at me.
“Of course, it is true that special objects are more dangerous than normal objects… But even so, they are evaluated on the same level. But maybe this should be evaluated as an A-class monster.”
Class A?
“Okay?”
“I’m not sure. I think we should discuss it among ourselves.”
He took a sip of the tea next to him and spoke again.
“The intelligence of the monkeys is so high that it becomes too dangerous. Depending on the items plundered, the grade will vary greatly. Listening to the story, you knew exactly how to use the scroll, right? It.”
I remembered the time when the black monkey tore the scroll.
The monkey tore the gust scroll and rode right on top of it.
Regardless of whether you saw how to use it or what you did, it was a scroll that you wrote knowing its purpose.
“Yes.”
“All right. I should finish it at this point. Starchis?”
“Yes?”
“I am glad you are alive. This… Doesn’t seem like a B-class monster. Sorry.”
“What are you sorry about?”
“It’s my fault that I came across these objects after all.”
He was amazing because he kept taking responsibility even for things he didn’t need to be responsible for.
Laughter comes out for nothing
“Why is it your fault? It’s our fault for not avoiding that special entity. Don’t be sorry.”
When I smiled, he smiled and held out his hand.
I also reached out and took his hand and shook it slightly.
I told him when the atmosphere was coming to an end.
“Marshall. In fact, there is one more reason for coming here.”
“Ah yes. I think I know roughly.”
He also seemed to be expecting it.
“I want to talk to the people who saved my life. The leader of the party said his name her was Ledra, do you know?”
“Mr. Reck. I know. I’ll give you their addresses as I leave.”
“Address? I’m sorry if I’m visiting you while I’m resting…”
Having learned the importance of rest, I had no desire to interrupt his rest.
Of course, it’s not like I’m trying to take away his day or anything like that, but when unexpected things happen, that alone can be stressful.
“Oh, I’m not talking about the home address.”
“Sure?”
Marshall looks up at me curiously.
“You know when you see Mr. Stion. There is a base for B-class parties and above. I will give you the address of the base.”
Oh position.
It reminds me of my older brother’s huge ade party building.
There is also a manager.
It seems that when you become a B-class, you rest at home when you are not in a dungeon like C and D-class.
I guess I’m busy
Well, you’ll know when it happens.
“Ah… I see. Position. Yes. Then please tell me the address.”
Maybe our party should also make a base.
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“Anybody home?”
A place that looks like a small shop.
According to Marshall, this was the party base for a person named Lekd.
“Who are you?”
A voice is heard from inside the store.
Soon after, a man in a priest’s uniform appeared.
He looks at my face and says
“Ah, it is you. Is your body okay?”
I don’t know him, but he seemed to know me.
Perhaps he was the one who saved me when I passed out.
I handed him the fruit basket I bought.
“Are you Reck? It’s called Starches. Thank you for saving my life.”
And he bowed his head and said goodbye.
“Ah, I am not Lecked. My name is Shane.”
Shane grabbed me by the shoulders and lifted me up.
“Come in and tell me.”
Maintaining a firm expression, he entered the base first.
This is the expression that reminds me of Bien.
I wonder why all the saints and priests are so blunt.
I followed him into the base.
A voice you hear as soon as you enter.
“Shane, who was it?”
“Come down and have a look.”
The base was wide, but empty.
I thought documents, equipment, or loot would be listed like my brother’s base, but there was none. Even the party members were nowhere to be seen.
Instead, there were tables and chairs arranged like a bar.
Judging from the fact that one wall was entirely made up of bottles, I wondered if it was a real bar.
In the corner was a stairway leading to the second floor.
I heard someone coming down from there.
What appeared was a strong man.
He looked older than his older brother his or older.
There were many minor scars on exposed skin such as the face and arms.
He looked at my face and said.
“Ah. It’s you. Is your body okay?”
Same thing as Shane.
I also repeated the same thing.
“Are you Reck? It’s called Starches. Thank you for saving my life.”
“Yes, I am Reckd. Thank you.”
Before bowing his head, he came up to me and held out his hand.
I took his hand and received a handshake.
“I didn’t know when he was down or when I was carrying him.. Looking at it like this, he looks pretty strong.”
“Thank you for the compliment.”
He said, pointing with his thumb.
“Shall we sit down and talk?”
I nodded.
“Yes.”
“Sit anywhere.”
I looked around.
No matter how you look at it, it was like a store.
“It’s quite a bar-like place, isn’t it?”
I ask lightly
“Haha… That’s how it’s decorated. I like alcohol.”
Reckd replied.
“It’s fun to decorate like this and invite friends over for a drink.”
I took a seat and sat down.
Reckd turned the chair across from me and sat down on the back, arms folded.
“Mr Starchis.. Um.. Can I talk to you?”
He had no objection to what he said.
He looked older than me, and he was the leader of the B-class party.
I feel like I’m seeing my future. It might be.
“Yes, it doesn’t matter.”
“Okay. I’ll let you go then. If you don’t like it later, tell me anytime.”
“No. He looks like my older brother, so I’m comfortable with that too.”
“Okay? Thank you again for saying that. Anyway. Are you okay?”
“Thanks.”
“What about your arms?”
Shane asked this time.
He put the drink on the table and sat down next to him.
The eyes of the two men focused on my arm.
“…The aftereffects were left behind, but I am in rehabilitation.”
“That… “
Reck let out a sigh.
“Greckd, uh-“
“Call me Reckd hyung.”
“…Reckd-hyung, anyway, I came to say thank you for coming today. I heard you gave up on the quest to save me?”
Reckd-hyung ate the drink Shane brought and exclaimed loudly.
It seemed like alcohol.
“…I have to save people first. Would you like a drink too?”
“No. I have an appointment later.”
“Okay? It’s a pity.”
He pours the remaining alcohol from his glass into his mouth at once and says.
“Lekd hyung. Anyway, I came here to pay for my life. Do you need anything?”
Reckd-hyung reached for my glass this time and took the alcohol I didn’t drink.
He said with a smile.
“Haha.. It’s my first time doing something like this, so I don’t know what to say..”
“I’ll do anything I can.”
“Well…”
Reckd hyung pondered for a long time.
He hadn’t said anything for a long time, just enough to roll his eyes and look around.
When he is silent, Shane speaks.
“Delivery the magic sword and ask for the reward you received.”
“Shane, that’s what they risked their lives for.”
“We saved that life. Since the request hasn’t failed, there won’t be any damage to your reputation, and it’s neat to just pay off with money.”
Reckd-hyung looked at me again after pondering for a long time.
“It’s okay?”
“Yes. Even so, there was talk of it at our party. It’s okay.”
He smiled shyly as he drank again.
“Ahaha… It would be cool if it saved lives and didn’t get paid, but actually, we also took a hit when we gave up on that request. Will you understand?”
“On the contrary, we are sorry.”
“Okay? Okay. Then let’s finish it off with that.”
“Ah, Reckd Hyung. But I think it will take a while for the reward to come over. It was that demonic sword, the sword of a special individual. I heard that you are examining the magic sword.”
“What, was that a special object?”
Reck asked in surprise.
Shane, who was sitting bluntly, also looked at me with one eyebrow raised.
“It was.”
“Heh heh… Look at this guy? Do you look a little off?”
“I almost died, what? Haha.”
“Okay. Then give us the amount of money equal to the market price of a normal magic sword, and you keep what you get extra.”
“Legged..!”
Even though Shane was small, she firmly called Reckd-hyung by name.
“No, Reckd Hyung. You don’t have to.”
“It’s because I want to pretend to be cool. Shane, this is over.”
When Reckd made his decision, Shane stopped complaining.
I kind of liked that look.
He could see how respected he was by the way the party members followed his orders with just one word.
“Thank you bro.”
“What. Get well soon Did you say you had an appointment? Just go.”
Reckd hyung stood up from his seat and poured all the remaining alcohol into his mouth.
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“Okay! Come for a drink later!”
Reckd hyung greeted me and Shane saw me off.
Shane took me out of the base.
“Come in, Mr. Shane. See you next time.”
“Ah, Starchis.”
He called me without saying anything.
I was quite surprised when he spoke first.
“Yes?”
Are you trying to change your words?
Doesn’t matter much though.
Above all else, I didn’t give much importance to the sword’s reward.
“Is there a saintess in your party?”
But it wasn’t the question I expected.
If it’s a saint in our party… It’s B.N.
“Yes. There is.”
If you bring up the topic of party members for no reason, you will take a more defensive stance.
“He… Does anyone like it?”
He asked in a low voice.
Oh, was it like that?
A bloody laugh emerges.
I thought there was no such thing because it was blunt.
“Well…”
Think carefully.
-‘I have. And better than you.’
This is the answer when she asks if she has someone she likes.
“Yes. They say there is.”
“Ah… Is that so?”
“I thought you were blunt, but you’re pretty straightforward, right?”
“…You have to seize the opportunity while you have it.”
What will be the reaction when Bien hears it?
Imagining her reaction she made me laugh.
Haha Bien is as pretty as a doll, and now she’s a B-class prostitute.
She is a person who has nothing to do with anything, both externally and socially.
Men will line up.
Shane put on a visibly sullen expression.
“It’s unfortunate… But I have something more to tell you, Mr. Starchis.”
“Please speak.”
“It would be nice if you could think of this as just advice, but don’t miss out on that saintess.”
“Yes?”
“As a party member, it’s hard to find a good healer. You fell on the second day after entering the dungeon, right?”
“It was the second day.”
“Did the battle take place at that time?”
“Yes that’s right.”
Shane shrugged her shoulders.
After brushing off her inner feelings once, she became a bit talkative, though she might be.
“Cleansing is not an easy task. I also use purification once and recover once, and the holy power runs out and spreads. Since you’ve never used your holy power, don’t you feel it?”
“… I see.”
“If it was the second day after entering the dungeon, there would have been a lot of things to do with buffs and other things.
He nodded.
She finds out that the words were intended to compliment Bien, even if she does n’t talk behind her back her.
“Maybe… He might have the talent to become an A-rank.”
I keep hearing that rating every day.
Hearing the compliment from Bienne made her feel proud of me too.
But.
Reckd hyung, Shane, and my hyung also saved my life, but they lived primarily because Vien was there.
More than anyone else, she is my biggest lifesaver.
Now that I think about it, it seems like I didn’t even say thank you.
…Maybe, but not formally.
I must tell you that I will meet you today.
“Thanks. I will listen to your advice.”
But, it’s grade A.
I was reassured that she would be by her side when I made her dream her come true.
