Shinka no Mi

"Ha..."

I, Seiichi Shu, was worried while eating breakfast at "Tranquility Tree".

The seeds of the troubles...

"Ah... ugh!

- It's Mr. Altria.

Even now, when Altria came out of the room and found me and Salia, she stepped away from her face and left the inn early enough.

"... you're completely avoided, me..."

Well, all of a sudden I did something like propose. If you say you have no choice, you will have no choice. On top of the confusion, objectively, I did something very bold.

As of yesterday, he didn't even meet me in an attempt to solve the misunderstanding.

But still, it's a lot of hard to avoid. Or sad.

"What am I supposed to do..."

When I accidentally put it in my mouth, Salia, who had been quietly eating in front of me, opened her mouth.

"It's okay. I didn't hate Makoto."

That's what Salia says with a smile, so my heart's a little at ease.

"Thanks. But how can you say that?

"Hmmm...... wild survey?

"Wild!?"

Not a woman!? No, maybe she's right because she's a gorilla...!

Surprised by the novelty, Mary, the billboard daughter of this inn, came, looking somewhat intrigued.

"Hey, what happened with Mr. Altria?

"To?"

"Because Mr. Altria is avoiding Makoto... and it's more natural to think something's happened, right?

"It's..."

To Mary's sharp point, I accidentally mumble.

Then, Mary asked looking funny.

"So? What happened? Oh, I knew it was a problem in the relationship between a man and a woman? Makichi is surprisingly hot. Some girlfriends are so beautiful...... Strange, though you don't even know your face in the hood. So, why?

"No, even if I tell you..."

This is... that's it. That's similar to showing a girl's interest in a love bana.

I never thought I would be subject to it......

"No, it's not that big a deal..."

"What? You don't look that way at all, do you? So, what? What happened to you? Hmm? Look, I shouldn't tell you?

"What the hell are you!?"

Mary, who has asked me so many times, has spooked me.

Eventually, as I continued to dazzle the questions from Mary, the owner of this inn, Mary's mother, made me angry to work, and reluctantly went home.

"Phew...... Oh, speaking of which, Salia. What are we gonna do today?

"Huh?"

"Look, you stopped examining the crusading system and became an Alliance member, right?

Me and Salia, while we were at it yesterday, got a formal guild card from Gassle and was being briefed on the guild.

A brief summary of the descriptions suggests that adventurers and requests have ranks and are F, E, D, C, B, A, and S in lower order.

Me and Salia both start with the lowest ranked F-rank.

You can take a request at the same rank as yourself, or one above that. And I can take requests at the same time for up to three at a time.

The way to increase your rank is 10 times if you have the same rank as yourself. They can rank it up by successfully requesting it five times if it's a top rank.

Just because you signed up for the guild doesn't seem to mean you absolutely have to take the request. When I heard that, I was a little relieved.

Because my purpose is only to gather information. I can't just concentrate on requests.

So, I didn't take the request this time, and I was trying to gather some information.

I have that idea. Salia gives me a little thought.

"Hmmm...... I was wondering if I should go to the orphanage today"

"Oh, you mean get the request fast?

"Yeah. Mr. Claire, he said he'd be here any minute. I'll go, even if I haven't answered your request."

"Right. Well, then, you behave differently today. We're gonna be careful, okay?

"Yeah!"

Satisfied with Salia's reply, I immediately ate breakfast and began moving to gather information quickly.

◆ ◇ ◆

"I knew this city was alive..."

I broke up with Salia and left the inn, and I get that feeling.

Because I saw a lot of people doing business well in outdoor stores and aunts talking to the public.

Everyone smiled and it could be an unthinkable sight on Earth that was being chased to work and study.

But does a slum city exist in such a good country?

I don't really want to think about it, but with the light, with the shadows, I couldn't tell you that there's no slum city at the moment, and I don't know the details of this country.

"Well, if you can find out there today too..."

With that in mind, I realize that the city is noisy.

"Hmm? What?

It was a slightly different noise from the usual vibrancy by the inhabitants of this city.

If you listen carefully, you can even hear a woman screaming.

"Oh, come on, I thought it was a good city. It's a mess."

With that in mind, it was when I turned my gaze in the noisy direction.

"Stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

"Don't let them get away with it! Go after him! Go after him. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

"Ha-ha-ha! I won't get caught! Freedom Psycho!"

"Freedom is fine, get dressed. Whoa, whoa, whoa!

A slightly fat, naked Osama popped into his eyes as he was being chased by men dressed in the same type of armor as Claude.

Naked Osama is the person who, no matter how he sees it, is talking dangerous with Osama the Loricon in his guild.

With a light run, Osama, naked running down this crowded path, smiled by the time he was clear.

Huh, if you turn your gaze around, the women turn away their bright red faces and the men are laughing bitterly.

"I won't forgive you today!

"I'm going to smash you in!

"You say noisy things. But let me run away and show you! With this unleashed mind and body, you can go anywhere......!

"I don't care where you go, just wear your clothes!

"Say no!

"Why!?"

"My pride and soul are crying out to be naked......!

"Spectacular in vain!

With such an exchange, the naked Osama and armored soldiers ran past me.

…………

"Phew... it's still peaceful today..."

That's right, I went to the guild. Tsukomi? It's no use just doing it.

It's not like there's any particular event on the road, and when I normally get to the guild, I stepped straight into the guild.

Surprisingly, there was no noticeable perversion today, and Mr. Ellis stood normally at the reception.

Only Gustle, however, is twisting his neck in various poses beside the receptionist. I wonder if you're working, him.

While questioning why Gassle was the Alliance Master, I spoke to Gassle, the person of the day.

"Morning, Gustle"

"Mm-hmm? Oh, Makoto, it's you! A lot happened yesterday, aren't you tired?

"Well, it's all right there"

It's a monster status.

"Right. Speaking of which, Salia, I can't see you..."

"Salia headed to the orphanage where she did well during the exam"

"I see. So what happened to Makichi?

Gustle just asked me a question, so I decided to ask if I could get any information.

"Actually, I need some information. So I thought Guildmaster Gustle would know a lot."

"Hmm, information..."

To my words, Gustle did the trick of thinking.

After all, I guess there is information that you can easily tell me and information that is difficult to listen to.

With that in mind, Gustle looks up and tells me.

"There are ways to get muscles efficiently, from introductory to advanced editions, which are better?

"That's not what you said!?"

I thought it was a serious story because I'm taking it rarely and seriously! You know, introductory part or something!?

Look at me surprised, for some reason Gustle looks strange.

"Mm-hmm? On the contrary, what other information do you have on this?

"I do!? You're freaking me out!? Why am I freaking out!

When I was stuck with everything I could, Mr. Ellis came to see if the reception job was good.

"That's right. Nobody wants that crap, do they? Don't you even know that? This is why the muscle Dharma..."

"Ku, you say it's crap!?"

To Mr. Ellis's words, Gustle was visibly depressed. Muscle Dharma is through...

But I'm glad there's a common sense guy like Mr. Ellis. Nothing but perverts when you're waving a whip, but if you talk normally, it makes sense, you're one of the few common sense people in the guild.

I gently thanked Mr. Ellis for his appearance and asked Mr. Ellis again.

"Uh, Mr. Ellis. I also told Gustle that I needed some information..."

I see. I see.

"Oh!"

"There are SM courses, introductory to advanced editions...... which one do you want?

"You too!

I expected a little. I was the fool!

Mr. Ellis, who got a scratch, somehow fights.

"Oh no... my SM course, which is overwhelmingly popular..."

"Is something wrong with me? Hey, is something wrong with me?

Me accidentally saying the same thing twice. As much as that, Mr. Ellis' astonishment was unusual.

Are there no more decent people......

Gustle smiles at me holding his head.

"Well, I guess that's it for the joke"

"Do that from the beginning!

I wanted to hit him with all my strength, but I weighed myself down.

"You want information, don't you? However, I haven't had any unusual information lately..."

"Then tell me something big that's been going on in the last six months."

"Six months? Well, I hope so..."

The reason I set it at six months is because the time I was in the [endless forest of sad love] was about six months.

If, during this period, there has been a brave move or something, I want to know.

Besides, if you ask directly about the brave people, they might wonder. I don't know why you care about that, or if braves aren't commonly known, how do you know that?

Gassle, who has no reason to know in my mind or anything else, seriously told me when I look back at the big events that have taken place over the past six months.

"... um. After all, when it comes to the biggest event, the Kaisel Empire must have summoned the brave."

"That's right."

Suddenly it's bingo.

I am surprised that this information came out that I wanted to know easily, but it is now very welcome.

"Summoning the Brave..."

You don't know that, do you? In the guise of an attitude like that, I squeal like that.

"Hmm? Don't you know the brave summons?

"Well......"

"Right. I think it was a pretty big thing...... Well, if you don't know, let me tell you. A valiant summons is -"

"The Kaisel Empire has summoned and resurrected people from different worlds to crusade the demon king..."

"... my line..."

Ignore how Gustle is depressed by Mr. Ellis taking the line and ask him about the Demon King.

"What the hell is a demon king?

"Oh? Don't you know that either?

"Uh... from the country..."

Even when issuing guild cards, it doesn't say where you're from, so you can throw up as many lies as you want. My conscience hurts but......

"Really? Well, that's fine. A demon king is simply a king who leads the demons..."

"Lead the Demon Clan..."

"You know what it's like to look in the library rather than hear it from us, right?

"I see."

A library... I lived unrelated to reading on Earth, but I'm more or less interested in something called a library in another world.

But are you a demon tribe? It's near this city, was that the bell you met in the woods? I think he said something about the Demon Army.

I thought of that. It was me, but I realized there was.

"Well, that Kaisel empire has summoned brave men to prepare them for the Demon King, isn't it?

"That's right."

"So does this country or any other country have any measures in place?

If the Demon King was a vicious being, could he live in such a state of peace?

Well, from me knowing the Black Dragon God's past, I don't really get the impression that it's vicious.

Somehow the resurrected Gustle answered my question like that.

"No other country has ever talked about a brave summons, but you haven't done anything like that in this country."

"Oh, are you okay?

"You won't have to worry about it. There are two most powerful class knights in this country. One won't leave by the king, but the other is a guardian genius. In the unlikely event that the Demon King's Army strikes this country... you won't lose first"

Nanisole, sugay.

Were there such strong knights in this country......

Gastle continues when he thinks he wants to see what kind of knight he is, at first sight, etc.

"Besides, some S-rank adventurers are Demons."

"Really?!?"

S rank in the Demon Clan...... something cool.

I knew it, I thought the Demons recognized it as totally evil, but surprisingly, isn't it?

Gustle smiled softly when he perceived my insides like that.

"I don't know what a demon king is, but it would be odd to deny that individual just because he's a demon?

I have an image of a black dragon god who would be worse off than a demon.

But Gustle doesn't seem to care about the Demons from the beginning.

When I was Mr. Altria, I thought, in this guild where people with too much personality gather, I guess the Demons have nothing to do with it either.

Gustles that bind such guilds don't look like they're doing their job, but maybe they have vessels as guild masters.

"Besides, the kings of this country are active in interacting with the multiracial. That seems to include the Demon Clan. Well, I haven't been able to interact with the Demon Nation because I haven't been able to be aggressive now that the Demon King's Resurrection is happening... The people were not directly harmed by the Demons, so they favored the King's idea."

……

Normally, I thought human beings were instinctively disgusting to be different from themselves, but when I look at the people here, I guess they rather have too many different personalities to care about at all.

Even though they're full of perverts, I, Salia, and most importantly, Mr. Altria, know best who they are.

Remembering that you were looking for us, and being only a little touched again, Gustle gave us other information.

"Later... in the last six months, various technologies have improved dramatically."

"Uh, why?

"The 'Earth' where the brave men lived and some of their skills spread in the Kaisel Empire. Technological advances have been made, mainly in clothing, meals, entertainment, weapons and various fields."

……

Hey, brave man! Weigh yourself up a little!... Not what I could have said though!

"But the Kaisel Empire didn't always have a monopoly on technology."

I'll be honest about what I think.

'Cause I felt a lot like a selfish country around summoning braves and stuff...

Thinking of it that way, Gustle said with a bitter laugh.

"Ha ha. Of course, the Kaisel Empire tried to monopolize it. That's a lot more technology than any other country. Everyone will see the magnitude of what it means to have it in one country"

"Then why?

"Only the merchant soul could contain the empire."

And the merchant soul? Oh, that means...

"You mean the merchant spread the word on his own?

"Well, that's what it turns out to be."

"Merchants have a job to sell and profit from. Don't you think it would definitely be more profitable to travel to other countries and sell goods using that technology than to compete in vain in the Kaisel Empire, where there are many new technologies?

"Ya, sure..."

Well, it's definitely more profitable to win alone on land where new technology isn't pervasive than to compete between new technologies.

"So the technology brought in by the brave is widespread in many countries. Well, the merchants of the Kaisel Empire seemed to have lost their lives in spreading the technology..."

Hmmm... it's starting to seem like a country where the Kaisel Empire and others can make out.

Well, from the point of view of protecting our people, it's normal that we want to avoid technology being diverted to other countries. I don't know the details of domestic circumstances.

When I was secretly convinced inside, Gustle unexpectedly remembered something.

"Oh, I did. Makoto."

"Hmm?"

"You don't have a horse yet, do you?

"Horse?"

A horse... is an animal's, right?

Other than that, I couldn't think of anything named Horse, but sometimes it's a different world, and I thought about it unexpectedly.

Then, seeing how I was like that, Gustle, who guessed he didn't have a horse, began to explain why he suddenly said such a thing.

"Though you're an F-rank adventurer, you better keep your horse. We'll be traveling a lot on horses from now on."

"Ha? Me, I don't need a horse or anything..."

'Cause I don't work that seriously in guilds.

Besides, I didn't mean to go away because I didn't even want to move on from myself and get a request from the battle system.

First of all, I run faster than I run on a horse.... Is that it? That's crazy.

"Um, I'll say so. You seem a lot more capable. [M] If you have the strength, you might get a request for an escort on the nomination, right?

!?

I was unwittingly nervous about Gustle's words.

Why are you telling me I'm capable? The status should be perfectly disguised...

I don't know if my thoughts were clear on that, but Gustle explained why.

"Well, Altria, that's what you were saying."

"Huh? Hey, what did you say?

"Hmm? No... 'I don't know why, but Seiichi's probably hiding her strength. Makichi would have defeated a monster I couldn't even beat. Well, there's no way I or Makoto can make it home safely."

……

"Well, I'd like to talk about you now. Anyway, nobility will not leave such a powerful man alone. He came in contact to hold you or asked for an escort. It may not be known now, but if you're really powerful, you'll find out sooner or later."

"... that's not true."

I don't feel like it now, but I left it to myself.

But really, Gustle is nasty, whether I'm strong or not, and I keep talking.

"Anyway, if we were to get a request for an escort, we would inevitably travel a long way. If you get attacked by bandits and such, you will inevitably also run. So horses are a valuable tool among adventurers."

"Heh. But I bought a horse now, and I have a place to leave it..."

"Hmm, you're like you, Altria, staying at The Tree of Peace, aren't you?

"Right."

"There, indeed, behind, there must have been a horse cabin. It'll cost you a little money, but if you pay, you can take care of the horses."

Oh, my God, is it?

I haven't felt the need at the moment, but Gustle is right, I don't know when the occasion will come up to use the horse.

If I'm the only one running around using a horse and I'm still not tired, that's how I treat monsters.

"Then I guess I'll buy a horse"

"Well, isn't that good when you have money? I'm gonna give you my advice, and you can't do it right now, can you?

"No, I have a lump sum, I'm fine"

"Right. Then wait a minute."

That's what Gustle said, he pulled into the back of the reception, a little bit, and came back with a piece of paper.

"This is the map to the store that sells horses. I've written down other maps of important places, not only for beginners, but also for tool shops and blacksmiths that adventurers often go to. And the library, of course."

"Oh, thank you"

I'm sorry I thought you had to work or something.

"Anything else you'd like to ask me?

"Oh, I'm fine for now. If you need to know anything, I can count on you again."

When I said yes, both Gustle and Mr. Ellis nodded satisfactorily.

"Right! Now ask me how to get my muscles efficiently, the introductory part!

"My SM courses are always welcome too."

"That's fine."

The last time I had that kind of interaction, I left my guild behind.