Mob, if I were a high school student, could I be an adventurer, too, Leah?

- That was supposed to be a little adventure of nothing.

Shoko Sato became an adventurer last spring.

Freshman winning matches by each circle that would be taking place at any university. As she was unconsciously floating in her first life alone in Shanghai, she joined the Adventurer's Circle, inviting her out of feeling somewhat cool.

That wasn't a serious enough circle to go pro for real, but it wasn't as loose as a circle aimed solely at impure heterosexual intercourse, and it was an Enjoy-based adventurer circle everywhere that wasn't too harsh or too loose.

I didn't mean to be that serious about being an adventurer, and for Shoko, who has a crowded sense of chastity, that circle seemed like just the right salt plum.

Seniors rented D-rank cards for 10,000 yen per month for new entrants, and the fact that the initial cost of becoming an adventurer was just the registration fee also lowered the psychological hurdle of becoming an adventurer.

Initially, like many, Shoko had the image of an adventurer as "cool, but dangerous, and it seemed difficult," but she was able to get off to a comfortable start in addition to having to actually start.

When freshmen dive into the labyrinth, one must be accompanied by a senior, and all the monsters that emerge are weaker things than the cards they rented. Stepping through the vast hierarchy was something of considerable strength, but it wasn't as bitter for her, who was originally an athlete in high school. Sometimes I could feel nature that was hard to see in Japan, and I even felt like traveling abroad for a bit.

The best environment where you can dive into the labyrinth to the extent that your unit is unimpeded, while at the same time getting a little thrill and about the money you pay for a part-time job.

I also had my first boyfriend in my life.

Not so handsome, but clean young man by the name of Makuya Aoki. Tranquil, caring and sometimes the original owner of the cards he rented, he was gradually attracted in good consultation. Licensing a rare star 2 is also a high point in the circle.

Exactly smooth sailing, ideal college life.

After a year of enrollment like that, I finally got enough savings to buy a D-rank card.

I could also buy a new card, but Shoko officially decided to buy the Ketsey card she had rented until then from Aoki.

If you've been using the same card for a year, you're usually attached to it.

Later, Aoki told me that, according to the circumstances behind it, that was the aim of the rental system.

Not only do seniors earn unearned money every month by lending cards they don't use, but if juniors who are attached to cards have said they want to buy it, they can sell it so much higher than they would sell it to the guild. On the junior side, you can be an adventurer with a broken initial investment, and even get cards that are somewhat cheaper than buying at a fixed price, as well as growing to some extent. Exactly the WIN-WIN relationship.

It wasn't just mentoring that seniors were always escorted during the new entrants, it was also surveillance to keep cards from being lost or sidelined during rental. Cards to lend, he said, also choose something adorable like Ketsey to make it easy to attach.

Listening to such a story, Shoko smiled bitterly at herself for being brilliantly danced to it after impressing herself that it was a well done system.

Members who have completed the rental period are officially recognized as members and are allowed to dive into the labyrinth by themselves thereafter.

Shoko learned that, "Isn't it too early?" He preached his worried boyfriend and just decided to dive into the labyrinth by himself.

While the seniors' companionship was reassuring, it also had the disadvantage of splitting remuneration.

Shoko, who was dissatisfied with the size of the room and the thinness of the walls today, had a lot to want and was eager to earn more.

The opponent is an F-rank labyrinth who has trampled everything this past year, even though it's his first solo offense. There's no danger whatsoever - it should have been.

"Ha, ha, ha...!

hours after entering a forest shaped labyrinth.

Shoko had lost all her cards and gear and had escaped through the labyrinth alone.

How long has it been since I started running? An aggrieved lung is appealing its limits, and the iron taste is starting to hint from the back of my throat. My legs are stretched out on the bread and I'm going to cramp now. Let's just take a minute off, Shoko continued to run desperately munching on her laughing knee as such temptations swept through her brain.

If you stop even for a moment, you die. Only that thought was pushing and moving her body beyond its limits.

The passages of the trees run very hard as convex at the roots of the trees that have popped out onto the ground, with poor prospects due to the winding paths and the growing leaves.

Shoko had to be frightened by fear that the worst thing for her now was the poor prospects, with less running spiciness, and that she wouldn't run into a monster every time she turned a corner.

If it's just one goblin, if you come across it, it's over. Russian roulette to be forced to pull after every meter of progress...... Shoko's spirit is shredded.

Losing a card she could count on, Shoko was savoring the fear of something called a labyrinth for the first time on its own.

"Ah...!

A feeling that floats in the universe for a moment. I fell at the roots of a tree, and realized it was only after the pain ran all over my body.

Due to the massive fall, abrasions have been made to the elbows and knees as well as to the cheeks.

... Oh, because it's a familiar F-rank labyrinth, it didn't come with short sleeves or anything. Wearing a body armor and having a stun gun or tear spray or something wouldn't have required me to be so frightened right now.

Since when did you stop carrying those gear that you brought with you every time in the beginning?

I was unknowingly distracted and alarmed.

So regrettably, it's all a later festival. Now I just had to scratch my feet cursing my stupidity and bad luck.

- Gasari.

"... ugh!

Shoko, trying to wipe up the spilled tears, let herself bicker at the sound she heard from the bushes right next to her.

Desperately suppresses rough exhalation and stares in the direction of the sound.

How annoying was the sound of my heart beating so hard with Bakubaku.

From the tip of Shoko's stare, a little bird flies.

"Ahhhhhhhh..."

A deep relief exhalation leaked.

Shoko got her breathing just a little bit, got up with her trembling legs and ran out again.

I don't have time to rest now.

Because I don't know when “he" will change his mind and come after me.

- Now in retrospect, the offense went well, and Shoko had no fallout.

gear, it is true that I was definitely out of my mind in terms of saying that, but that is also because those gear were not needed in the first place.

Founded to the limit of growth, Ketsey's fighting power is unrivaled in the F-rank Labyrinth.

He instantly drives away four or five opponents.

For a year, I didn't have to bring it with me, such as body armor or tear spray, which I never had a chance to use.

Still, my first solo offense meant I was rather more careful than usual.

The hierarchy is also about four tiers, a level that returns well enough for day trips.

That's how things went well, her gear went crazy after she arrived at the bottom floor.

The monster that was waiting for her on the bottom floor. It was a gremlin.

Gremlin is an E-rank monster abhorred by all adventurers, from star one to star six.

The reason for this lay in Gremlin's special abilities.

Machine Destruction. Gremlin has the ability to derange and destroy every machine.

The ability to destroy this machine was fatally incompatible with modern adventurers.

For all adventurers, smartphones and cameras are a lifeline necessity.

For adventurers in modern society who rely on smartphone apps for mapping, destroying a smartphone during an adventure means a potential shipwreck.

Cameras are also important items needed to prove your innocence during labyrinth problems.

Even if you skip saying that, destroying a smartphone is more mentally damaging to modern people than economically.

Yet another important item that Gremlin destroys.

That's the Adventurer License.

Developed by the Alliance, this artificial demonic prop incorporates machines such as microchips. The Adventurer's license allows you to shop, but on the other hand, the disadvantage of being included in the scope of Gremlin's mechanical destruction also existed.

If the Adventurer license is broken, then naturally the distress signal cannot be sent either.

Whatever the shallow hierarchy, it's pretty deadly that deep hierarchical labyrinths make it impossible to send maps or distress signals.

There are quite a few shipwrecks in the labyrinth due to this machine destruction that are considered problematic each year, but no effective solution has yet been found, except in extremely analogue ways.

And the troublesome thing about Gremlin was that it appeared everywhere, regardless of the type of field, and even had to have the skills to block the signs.

That means - most adventurers notice the presence of Gremlin after it is attacked.

It was such a pre-emptive attack from the Gremlin that greeted Shoko down to the bottom.

Shoko immediately annihilated Gremlin after realizing the presence of Gremlin, but naturally no data on the smartphone is returned.

Given the cost of a broken smartphone and the cost of purchasing a new smartphone, etc., this labyrinth exploration is totally in deficit.

"Oh, already! Worst!"

That's when I slammed my smartphone to the ground in a bad way.

"- Gigg!"

"... Huh?

Suddenly, Ketsey blew up.

As if it were a soccer ball or something, he rolled over playing pom pom and ground, and eventually he made an awesome noise and snapped Oki, where he finally stopped.

Ketsey, dyed red with gray fur and bent her hands and feet to gnarly, is passed out or doesn't even move pickly.

"Oh, huh? What is it?

Shoko, who looked at it with dismay, returned to me in a raw wind that was inadvertently hung on her face - her eyes matched those of Sole.

It was a white wolf bigger than an elephant. Red eyes, like blood, look down ruthlessly at Shoko.

The identity of the column that crushed Ketsey's head was the forefoot of this overly gigantic wolf.

A giant wolf talks to Shoko.

- Put that cat back on the card.

"Huh?"

"Hurry up. Or would you rather be bitten to death!

"Hih! Yes, yes!

Shoko returned Ketsey to the card as ordered. I couldn't afford to think about losing my barrier or anything like that.

"If you have any other cards, put them all on the ground and dispose of ownership."

"Yes..."

Shoko put all the cards on the ground, including the F-rank cards she got during the offense here and a few E-rank cards she had in case.

For a moment, I was Shoko, who had spent some time in my brain trying to keep a piece or so sneaky in my nose, but when I could see it in my red eyes, the idea also blew up as a piece of dust and mustard.

The giant wolf who saw it nodded contentedly.

"Then leave."

That's what I said.

"Huh?"

Shoko, who just thought he was going to be eaten and killed like this, suddenly opened her mouth to abrupt and unexpected words.

"Didn't you hear that? Or do you want to be eaten and killed here?

"Yes, no!

Shoko rushed to try to run in the direction where the gate would be, saying no more unnecessary things and really killing her.

'Not that way. You're going home from there. "

Shoko's long-held giant wolf pointed out at the tip of her nose was the staircase she came down.

That means going home to this point in your life.

"Oh, no... I can't! Let me, at least return one card!

The giant wolf laughs with her nose at her pleading.

"Did you find out? Sometimes you can try to get to the labyrinth on your own without our help. '

"Duh, why are you doing this? Oh, who the hell are you?

It's a simple question that came out of her cornered.

This monster is obviously not a level monster coming out of the F-rank labyrinth. or even irregular encount. This white fur and huge body looked familiar. C-rank monster, it's Garm.

But why would Garm appear in such a labyrinth? And why would you ask for a card? Robbery? No way any other adventurers are manipulating it? So why bother trying to give yourself back the way you came? To kill monsters on the road? Why don't you let me finish this on the spot?

Countless questions springing up. But I don't get an answer. The question of losing his place came out of his mouth unconsciously.

'From what I said, this noble will is incomprehensible. You humans wield the power of cards as if you were your own! If you know what I mean, go on! Or I'll bite you to pieces!

"Hih!"

Shoko instinctively ran out to such an anger that her skin trembled and shivered.

There is no longer a single card that was a weapon and a shield. Only unreliable t-shirts and jeans are worn around. The smartphone and adventurer license that was the lifeline broke and I don't know the way.

Shoko disappeared into the labyrinth in a situation where only her body could rely on her.

- It was not until two days later that a search application for Shoko Sato was filed by her boyfriend, Makoto Aoki.