Right after sunset, when it was neither day nor night, the guards at the gates of Nivera, the Ark City, were nervous.
“The mist has appeared!”
“Prepare to fire the magic crystal bomb!”
The captain of the guard holding a telescope shouted while the guards were busily coming and going.
“Stop shooting! stop! What the hell is that!”
What appeared on the hill was a small girl with gigantic angelic wings.
Then, automatons spouting huge steam appeared around the little girl,
Soon after, a female knight wearing a nice steam cloak stepped forward and shouted.
“The castle gate! open it!”
There was an uproar in the city. The story of the adventurers and the automatons who returned with the refugees from the pioneer village that was attacked by Myst’s monsters never ceased.
“Did you hear?! Those automatons! My name is Steam Lady!”
“A female knight in a steam cloak! that was cool! The real thing is also beautiful!”
“no no! Isn’t the little doll in the fog sent by the earth goddess more noble? Even in the temple right now, there’s a lot of talk about that doll!”
People gathered at the bar in the evening talk loudly. Southern adventurers were also listening to the story.
“What do you think? Captain Panther.”
Where the hell are you going to drink? Panther, a man wearing a full-body plate armor and a long coat and a helmet, stopped to raise his beer mug.
“Rumors are just rumors. However, it is true that many refugees were brought safely.”
“We lose face because of the northerners.”
The man who raised the visor of his helmet and tilted his beer mug closed it again. I was sitting in the darkest seat of the bar, so I couldn’t see his face.
“I am not an idle person to the extent that I live while paying attention to the gazes of the people around me. Do what you have to do. Evaluation is up to the public. Like the doll of that goddess from the north.”
He lowered his glass and turned his head.
“How’s the number of magical crystal bombs?”
“I arrived by merchant ship. It is being stored at the dock.”
“Did I tell the relayers what I said?”
Bille, a member of the cursed Living Armor party, a famous southern adventurer party led by Panther, revealed this.
“Sure. He also threatened to blow up the merchant ship if we mixed fakes.”
“Bile, I’m really going to destroy their merchant ships. There needs to be a sharp distinction between a good trader and a bad cheater.”
The men at the table smirked. Because their leader is truly a great person.
“Where are the northern adventurers who have achieved prestige now? The automaton called the doll of the goddess is probably spherical with us. I want to compliment you.”
The man laughed and said.
“That is···.”
Most of the protagonists with great names that Panther was curious about came down with a bad cold shortly after arriving, and most of them were hospitalized or collapsed with a charger in the city’s magic power charging station due to extreme magic power depletion.
“Ughhh…! Cool…!”
Krank is nursing next to Ariete, who is lying on the bed.
“I didn’t want to see it, but I didn’t know if I would do the Ice Bucket Challenge alone.”
“Sorry···. sniff sniff.”
Ariete, who took off her shion with a stuffy nose, was lying on the bed. When the adventurers who accidentally came to visit saw them, their faces were messed up.
“What, what is it? Ariete? Where did the arms and legs go…?”
Crank quickly covered Ariete with a sheet and stood up to greet them.
“Hush, Party Cherry Boy Adventurers are here. Did you come to scratch your nerves today?”
“That’s Okay. It’s just a treat. No, why is Ariete like that? So, was that a prosthetic arm?”
Crank narrowed his eyes. You can’t show it with a helmet, but
“I hate quick-witted kids like you.”
“Muscle pervert mask man, just answer my questions.”
“It is not a pervert. Call me a friendly giant.”
Moving her short arm, she lowered the sheet and revealed Ariete’s face.
“I am a survivor of the Black Mage Guild. These arms and legs were cut off during a rampage there.”
Hirsch and his friends couldn’t forget the words. Ariete turned her gaze and looked up at the crank.
“Crank put it on. He is my benefactor.”
Krank looked down at Ariete, sighed, and sat back down. Then he grabbed her cheeks with his big hands and turned them into duck mouths.
“Ugh~!”
“Please don’t say anything that would make you weak. The current situation is my negligence, but you are light-mouthed.”
Hush, whose shoulders lost strength, stepped back.
“Even if it’s not us, if we promote in that state, we’ll know everything anyway. Anyway, good treatment. And the cave man at the top of Argon found it.”
“All right.”
Ariete, who had a worried expression, spoke quickly.
“Don’t leave me like this. I need you. Oops~!”
said Crank, who grabbed her cheek again and made a duck mouth out of it.
“Anyway, rumors will spread, but you have to think about it…”
“Huh?! What is this?! An automaton?!”
Cheeky-!
With a little commotion, the exoskeleton automaton Shion walks alone between the beds. Everyone was staring at the bizarre figure, and Ariete was delighted.
“Zion! You’re back! Is charging finished?”
“Because the magic stone is green, I was able to charge it the fastest. What’s wrong with Master Crank?”
Crank was crouching, covering his face with both hands.
However, their gaze at the hospital quickly turned elsewhere. A fight happened.
“You village chief! You came back on your own!”
“Oh no! Please listen to me.”
“shut up! Save my family!”
Even the people who were lying down jumped up and attacked the middle-aged man who appeared with the guards. The guards stopped it, but it seemed like a fight.
“ha ha ha! The South is an exciting place.”
“It is interesting. Let’s go take a look.”
Hush and his friends laugh when they find a mirror on the other side of the river while leaving the makeshift ward. A worse crank was about to step out, but a scream finally broke out.
“Aww!”
Puck puck puck!
“die! die! Save my husband!”
After drinking the hidden awakening potion, the woman who attacks the guard pushes the guard in and blood splatters in all directions from the punch she throws. Finally, the woman took out a large Chinese knife and began to hack it.
Puck puck puck!
Pak-!
Someone grabbed the woman’s hand. The touch of heavy steel gloves,
“What is that helmet? Is it a crank?”
“uh? Is Crank Daddy over there?”
When Hirsch looks back, Crank is up by Ariete’s bed.
“Then who is that?”
“Heh, heh, heh, heh…! Let go, let go!”
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“I can’t do that. put down the knife The man is already dead.”
The woman’s face, looking down at the bloody body on the floor, soon became a mess, and eventually burst into tears and sat down. The man who took the knife and handed it to the guard looked at the people around him and nodded.
“Are they refugees from a pioneer village? Then this must be the village chief.”
After touching the corpse with his foot, the panther leaned down and whispered in the woman’s ear.
“Murder is a felony. you will be punished However, I think it will be a little cooler on the inside.”
The crying woman nodded. Soon, people gathered around him and started complaining. Panther nodded his helmet and listened to the pitiful people’s stories.
Ariete opened her eyes wide.
“Who is that? Is it a crank imitation?”
Crank sat down again and said, pulling up Ariete’s blanket.
“If you look at it closely, I belong to that person. An experienced adventurer. He is a man named Panther, one of the top adventurers in the South.”
“Why is he here?”
Hershey and friends are back again.
“I do not know. But isn’t it on the way back?”
They just laughed sinisterly. Just then, Panther and his colleagues came to visit. There was a unique atmosphere with the appearance of wearing a helmet on armor.
“I came here to say thank you because there are northern adventurers here.”
A heavy bass sound, Crank rose from his seat, and Ariete tried to stand up, but Crank held out his hand to stop him.
“Nice to meet you. Mr. Panther, I am an adventurer crank from the North. And this one…”
Crank started Hush’s party and introduced the adventurers who joined the refugee procession by name in turn.
“Uh, sorry for lying down. Mr Panter. Southern colds are scarier than monsters. Keuumm…!”
When the man lying on the nearby bed spoke in a choked voice, the panther replied in a slightly pleasant voice.
“It’s okay. Thank you so much for saving the villagers, I’ll remember your names. If you need help in the South, find me.”
At those words, adventurers with less experience, including Hush, cheered inwardly.
That Panther remembers our names!
Panther, who was looking around, asked.
“Where is the doll of the goddess?”
“Goddess doll? Is it Carrot?”
“that’s right. that was the name We met briefly last year.”
One of his colleagues laughed and interrupted.
“I set off a bomb to catch Mist, but it fell from the sky. He was a good talker. Are you that Master Crank?”
Crank was embarrassed. Hearing that Carrot was still charging, Panther nodded and turned around.
“Winter hunting has begun, so get ready as soon as possible and come out, I’ll be waiting for you.”
The northern adventurers felt their hearts warm at the support of the top adventurers in the south.
“Ummm-! You say that, but you can’t help but wake up! Zion!”
Ariete stood up. And then coalesce with Shion without even stopping the crank? did The adventurers who saw it in front of them opened their mouths and were frightened.
“what! What is that!”
“Ahh! Panther! Hey, look at that!”
All eyes were on Ariete, who stood up on two legs wearing an exoskeleton automaton. Even the panther returned to look at her, then grabbed Crank’s arm with both hands and thrust his helmet into it.
“Did you make it? Request to share your skills! I’ll give you any amount of money!”
“Uh, yes. No, that is…”
“Every year countless adventurers lose limbs and become crippled. If I could give them arms and legs like that, it would be a great help to get them through this hell. Please.”
Crank barely came to his senses and opened his mouth.
“Sir, give me some time. Since it is being tested, we need to consult with the guild first.”
The panther accepted and let go of his arm.
“good. I will send an official letter of cooperation to Argon. Can we do that?”
“···yes.”
Panther nodded and looked at Ariete once more. Ariete was trying to move her limbs at the request of the people.
“Can you feel the texture?!”
“Um, yes. It’s small, but it’s felt. They say it was linked to the senses of an automaton.”
“Oh my God! Panther! This is new technology!”
Within Panther’s party, there was a mechanic who was in charge of automaton maintenance. She was groping over Ariete’s body, blowing steam out of her nose.
Panther, who had been watching that, looked at Crank and said.
“Don’t forget. If there is no reply by the end of spring, I will go on a business trip to Argon myself.”
“All right.”
Panther’s comrades returned. Next it was the turn of the northern adventurers to attack, but there was no great commotion because everyone was weak.
“Oooo!”
Rather, Crank had to stop Ariete’s cheek from turning into a duck mouth with both hands.