—Morzeral—
「Gahhh!」
Kicked at the abdomen by Raust, I, who couldn’t react at all, felt pain on my abdomen .
From that pain, I remembered the hellish pain I tasted once before .
「I will never let you escape . 」
Raust was laughing at me .
With no intention to hide the anger in his eyes .
… I felt an intense dread when I saw Raust’s smile .
The memory of old crossed my mind, it was the memory of when I was over-confidence with my ability, challenge the lower-layer, and came close to dying .
The dread I felt from Raust was incomparable from that time .
However, it was too late to just notice now .
I was convinced that Raust could go to the lower-layer because he was lucky .
But, that was a mistake .
It was true that Raust was a defect as a healer, but he wasn’t incompetent .
No, on the contrary, I now realized that he had enough strength to stand side by side with first-class adventurers .
「Why… How!」
… However, I was boiled with anger when I realized that .
「Don’t screw with me! Why the fuck a small fry like you so strong! I’m more talented than you!」
It was a scream of my soul, a soul of someone who stuck at the middle-layer of the labyrinth and couldn’t proceed to become a first-class adventurer even after several years .
At first, my reason to bully Raust was to vent my anger .
… That changed when Raust could go to the lower-layer .
Knowing that someone who was said to be untalented like Raust was capable of going to the lower-layer, what I felt was unbearable jealousy .
The best party in the middle-layer, precisely because we spread the word like it was a compliment that those words had a good impression now .
… But, even now, I still had a complex with those words that gave an illusion that I stopped at the middle-layer even after trying for several years .
「Why you can go to the lower-layer while I cant!」
That was why I directed my anger toward Raust .
… While exposing the jealousy I felt .
Those words only serve to bring me more anger .
「Why, you said? That’s my line!」
「Gahck!」
And then, I was beaten by the woman who was Raust’s party member .
「Why can’t all of you see the result Onii-san achieved! Why all of you can’t see Onii-san’s effort! Onii-san’s hardship… even after that much hardship, why can’t all of you admit his desperate effort to do his best!」
I lost my words hearing the woman’s shout while teary-eyed .
I didn’t quite understand what the woman was trying to say, only that I knew she was getting emotional .
「I will definitely never forgive all of you!」
And then, the woman, leaving herself to her emotion, prepared to swing her skill ladened fist .
「Hyii!」
…… Remembering the effect of her skill when it hit me before, I involuntarily screamed as I covered my head and curled my body .
At that time, I took those action spontaneously because my heart was overtaken by fear .
I should have come with my companion here to humiliate Raust, never did I imagine I would be in this situation .
In this state, I had no mental capacity to receive the woman’s attack .
「… Aarrghh, please spare me」
…… However, for the people around, they wouldn’t understand that .
Suddenly, the voice of other adventurers entered my ears, roused by those voices, I realized I was being ridiculed at .
I was dumbfounded by those voices for a while until I realized our fight had gathered people around .
「Eek!」
And the woman, maybe noticed that too, stopped her attack .
…… However, I wasn’t in a position to be glad for that .
「Aaaa, Ahhhhhhhh!」
After all, the people that gathered all looking at me with scorning eyes while laughing at me .
Among those people were some adventurers under the umbrella of Wolf of Calamity, when I noticed them, I let out my voice while in a daze .
At that time, I felt like everything I build up till now fell apart .
「Whoaa… I’m disillusioned . 」
「What a shameful adventurer, right…」
「I don’t know what to say…」
It was crumbling like sand .
「Waaaaaaaa!」
When I understood that, I began to run to the woman with my fist ready impulsively .
There was nothing for me anymore .
Even if I ran away from here, I was finished .
At that time, I remembered my anger toward this woman…
「Shut it . 」
「Gahh」
… But my attack never reached its target .
An impact was sent to my body along with Raust’s cold voice, and so, my consciousness faded away .
On that day, Wolf of Calamity, the party that was regarded as the leading party in the labyrinth city, was crushed in one day…
◆ ◆ ◇
—Ralma—
「This Wolf of Calamity will never come back up anymore . 」
It was when Raust took down the leader of the Wolf of Calamity as he was trying to attack Narsena .
Alone in the room, I said so as I enjoyed my tea and sweets .
I was currently quite far from where Raust and Narsena were, with many obstructions in between too .
But with the amount of magic power I had as a world-class magician, distance and obstructions were irrelevant .
I had watched every single moment from when Narsena being called out by the Wolf of Calamity .
「Narsena, I’m fine . I’m fine so you can stop crying . 」
「Hics, but, but~!」
… Incidentally, when I was served with a serving of Raust and Narsena flirted at each other, I was frowning .
「… This is irritating . 」
Nothing could affect the heart of a single other than younglings’ flirting .
「… I guess it can’t be helped . 」
However, I noticed I was smiling at those two .
I showed this reaction was because I knew precisely the circumstances between the two, when I noticed, I replaced my smile with a bitter laugh .
Raust and Narsena, both thought and lived for each other, that was why they cherished each other so much .
Especially Raust, he was convinced that nobody else accepted him, I believed he cherished Narsena much more because of that .
That was probably why he exposed his emotion so much, it was a surprise how agitated Raust was when he thought Narsena might be abducted .
After all, I never saw that kind of emotion from Raust at all .
Until now, I had always assumed Raust didn’t show his emotion too much in response to his painful reality .
But now, you could clearly see the difference .
Whatever happened to him, he could endure it so far to the point of suppressing his emotion to cope because of the memories of Narsena .
Precisely because that memory was something he kept dear in his heart that he could endure any hardship .
——— That was why, Raust was furious when someone tried to harm Narsena .
「Just like dragon’s reverse scale, huh…」
Recalling his fury that I couldn’t imagine at all from his usual calm attitude, I let out a murmur .
Honestly, while I was impressed by Raust, I couldn’t feel any threat from him .
He might be difficult to defeat, but I was confident that I would never be defeated .
… But that assessment changed when I saw his anger after knowing that Narsena was about to be harmed .
「… Not that I’m sympathetic toward Wolf of Calamity for touching Raust’s reverse scale . 」
Recalling that time again, I whispered so .
Honestly, I didn’t remember much about Wolf of Calamity other than my disgust towards them .
But still, while I felt sympathetic toward Raust, I needed to bear in mind to be vigilant to things related to Raust .
Probably, the adventurer guild would also distrust Raust after this event .
What Raust did wasn’t in the benefit of the guild, nor would he do so in the future .
「Well, I need to finish my work . 」
However, I decided to stop thinking about Raust .
It didn’t mean I didn’t care about Raust, but now I had something else I needed to do .
Actually, I came to this labyrinth city was not simply because Analestria family asked me to check Narsena’s condition .
「The guild here is definitely planning something . 」
My other job was to find out the reason for weird happening in the labyrinth city lately .
The labyrinth city’s guild now invited people as long as they have the ability, in fact, they invited adventurers that had problem with their deed while driving out the well-respected adventurers out from the city .
That by itself was already suspicious, but it didn’t end there .
When selling the material from the labyrinth to the city folk, instead of selling as cheaply as possible, they raised the price high .
It was as if they were trying to kick out the civilian living in this city .
It was clearly suspicious, and it was clear that the guild of labyrinth city was planning something .
However, nobody had any idea what .
That was why I sent here to investigate that reason .
「Don’t overlook adventurers’ criminal acts, this way I could do a large scale investigation to the guild of this city . 」
And I now had a clue to how I could make them uncover their plan .
Now that Raust takes the attention of the guild, I can investigate freely without any disturbance, thinking so, I let out a smile .
「Right, Ronaldo disciple is going to come too… I guess I will leave the lookout to him and go report my find . 」
I decided to leave the labyrinth city without people from the guild noticing what I have taken hold of .
Then, I left the labyrinth city by the next day without anyone noticing…
Chapter end
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