Seventh: Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 2] by Yomu Mishima

Author:Yomu Mishima
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 98: Plain Old Adventurers

Baym’s Adventurers’ Guild had an optional ability test, but I’d decided not to take it. Marianne seemed a bit surprised by my decision.

“You’re quite capable, aren’t you? You really won’t take it? If you don’t, you’ll be treated like rookies for at least another three months.”

Yes, we’d heard that during orientation.

“That isn’t an issue,” I replied. “We’ll just go at it slow and steady then.”

My comrades didn’t complain about my decision—well, most of them didn’t. Shannon looked quite displeased.

“Huh? Why not take it?” she demanded. “If Lyle takes the test, he’ll be recognized immediately.”

“You keep it down, Shannon,” Miranda ordered, quickly clapping a hand over her sister’s mouth.

Marianne seemed to want to say something in reply, but a certain someone of the Erhart variety butted in before she could.

“What? Too scared to take a little trial?” he taunted. He stuck his hands into his pockets and walked up to me with a bowlegged strut, bringing his face right up to mine.

“I just don’t see any issues in not taking it,” I told him.

These words seemed to be the deciding factor in whether or not Erhart and his comrades concluded that I was a coward.

“Hmph! You back down from duels, you back down from trials. It’s crazy that a weakling like you’s leading around so many beauties,” Erhart scoffed before turning to the rest of my party. “Yeah, I’m talking about you girls. I’m asking you this for your own good—are you sure you want to follow this guy? We’re a lot more reliable.”

Novem shook her head. “Lord Lyle is not a weakling, nor is he unreliable.”

Monica stole a glance at me as she said, “The useless chicken is certainly unreliable, but he is still my master. It is simply inconceivable for me to serve anyone else. Oh, what a noble and devoted maid I am!”

Clara had opened up a book out of boredom some time ago, but now that a ruckus had begun to brew, she shut it and stowed it in her bag. “I don’t know what you’re expecting, exactly, but we know what we’re in for,” she said.

“Looks like you don’t understand the niceties of the heart,” Eva teased her. “Erhart here’s trying to advertise himself to all the cute girls. Oh, but make too big of a show, and it all turns to farce,” she added, turning to him. “Be careful of that.”

Erhart’s smile turned stiff. He reached a hand to grab the hilt of his greatsword, only for Aria to stick out the butt end of her spear at his throat.

“If you’re going to bring out a weapon, you’d best be ready,” she warned. “Our chat won’t be so friendly after that.”

“In the first place, Lyle is our leader,” Sophia calmly explained. “Calling our leader unreliable is the same as looking down on our entire party. Do you understand that when you mock Lyle, you mock all of us as well?”

Struggling to come up with a response to this, Erhart instead glared at me.

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