Let This Grieving Soul Retire: Volume 5 [Parts 1 to 9] by Tsukikage

Author:Tsukikage
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“Hey! Thousand Tricks! Is this really a training method?”

“Yeah. Hundred percent. Luke did the same thing and he became really strong. It’s my recommended training method.”

“F-For real? It seems a little weird, but if you recommend it then it must be good! Who would’ve thought you could train in a hot spring? Is this what it means to reach Level 8? Aah, here I go—gurgle gurgle.”

Li’l Gilbert boldly stood beneath the waterfall pouring into the hot spring. His party members watched from the side with odd looks of amazement. I suppressed a grin and looked the other way. It seemed he had the same sort of one-track mind as Luke.

After getting out of the bath, Chloe, also just out of the water and wearing a yukata, approached me and handed me an envelope bearing the insignia of the Explorers’ Association. Apparently, this was the reason they came all this way.

That’s right. Gark said he’d send along an employee of the Association. So that was Chloe. It couldn’t have been easy, coming all this way and whatnot.

I accepted the envelope and handed it right off to Sitri.

“Wh-Why won’t you look at it?!” Chloe said as she looked at me wide-eyed.

“Because I don’t need to. I don’t plan to accept the quest.”

“Huh?!”

She was absolutely bewildered, but this was all Gark’s fault. I clearly said I didn’t know whether or not I would accept it. Even if it was a named quest issued by a noble, a hunter still had the right to decline. It was truly mind-boggling that Gark thought a half-retired coward like myself might accept a named quest.

With a grin, Sitri removed a paper-knife from her pocket and broke the seal on the envelope. I guess she figured she might as well take a look. Just as I had Eva to help me carry out my duties as clan master, I had Sitri help me be a hunter.

“D-Do I need to remind you that’s a named quest from the Lord Gladis?!” Chloe said frantically after overcoming her astonishment. She looked like she was trying to figure out my true intentions. “It’ll improve your reputation and your success might make Lord Gladis more amiable toward other hunters!”

“Yeah, uh-huh.”

It was wrong of me to only give her tepid responses and then chase her off, but that wasn’t what this was about. I couldn’t do a named quest by myself and even if I did that would just increase my chances of getting dragged into noble nuisances. There was nothing to gain for a man aspiring to retire. But Chloe had a job to do, she couldn’t simply accept that sort of excuse.

Oh man. Can’t you tell? I’m not the hunter you all seem to think I am.

“Wh-What are you looking at us like that for?” Rhuda said with a strained look.

Sitri placed the quest brief on the table and nodded at me knowingly.

“I understand now. There’s no need for us to pursue this,” she said.

“Wha?”

I had the same reaction as Chloe, but I didn’t say it aloud.

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