On a lazy noon, a man stopped in front of the witch’s workshop, a new magic shop. No matter how you look at it, he was an adventurer.
It was Roy of Party Cherry Boys.
“excuse me.”
“Oh my goodness! welcome!”
A maid wearing glasses poked her head out of the sales window of the store with a bright smile. Roy was a little taken aback, but he said something.
“Hey, this is a magic shop, right? Do you have a scroll?”
“Yes, what scroll are you looking for?”
Although Roy had just entered his third year as an adventurer, he was cautious because it was his first time buying a scroll by himself.
“We’re about to subdue Orcs, but it’s okay if it’s a little expensive, so is there such a magic that can stop the swarming enemies at once? I almost died because of the guys chasing me the other day.”
The proprietress smirked as she put her hands on the window sill and rested her chin on it. Rising, she walked to the cupboard and brought out a bamboo cylinder carved with a pretty pattern.
“For wide-area magic, Fireball is the best.”
“Is this strong?”
“Sure. It’s very strong.”
Anyway, what determines the first impression of a person is appearance. Roy suddenly believed her in a neat outfit and even wearing expensive glasses.
“Uh, how much?”
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The corners of Gorgon’s mouth, which made his first sales after opening, were torn to the bottom of his ears.
“Eight million?! Are you crazy! Eight million!”
In front of the guild building, an angry Hush pushed Roy, who had bought a scroll. Roy was so confused that he couldn’t speak.
“I didn’t go where I was told to go, but why did I find it strange?”
Papin from the same party sighed. Roy, now rather angry, shouted as Roy did.
“what! You can subtract it from me anyway! Then it doesn’t matter! And the scroll I bought from that back alley hag the other day didn’t help much! I couldn’t risk my life on such a cheap price!”
“So climb up! Is it only one fireball scroll that you bought at a price that more than doubled the market price!? Huh true! For 8 million, you can buy 4 genuine copies!”
Hierarch Imis, who was standing nearby with a pathetic face, snorted slightly.
“Are you still here? When are we leaving?”
Hirsch, who had grabbed Roy by the collar and asked for the address of the store, looked away. Then he let out a huge sigh.
Party Cherry Boys originally consisted of 5 members. However, the two of them went back to their hometowns when they got quite a lot of money in their hands on this southern business trip. I couldn’t criticize their choice. Because life is precious to everyone.
So subjugation of the Orc village with the option to rescue the advance party was a high-risk case for the Cherry Boys, who now only had three left.
Since we are adventurers, let’s go on an adventure!
Party leader Hush, determined to make money as an adventurer, made a decision. Instead of lacking party members, he recruited priests as well as automatons.
“excuse me. Are you Party Cherry Boys?”
Hush, Roy and Papin, who had been grabbed by him, and even Imis, the priest, turned their heads.
Everyone’s facial expression has undergone a strange change. It was a feeling of pride, relief, and mostly positivity.
An automaton with long yellow hair, wearing a combat uniform full of stitching marks and carrying four long swords around his waist, stood at the entrance of the guild holding a notepad.
“Nice to meet you. This is Venus. You’re going to subdue orcs.”
“Oh, yes. nice to meet.”
After a casual greeting, Hirsch turned his head and looked at Roy, who poked out his mouth and asked him to give it a shot.
“You dude! Don’t use it, leave it alone! I will come back and refund you!”
“it’s okay! It’s mine! mine!”
“I’m having fun! Then how much money will you pay for living expenses at home! Let’s talk about that later! ruler! Did everyone get together?! Let’s go! I borrowed a carriage!”
A member of the party had an 8-million-leas accident, so he was a bit nervous, but work was work, so Hirsch led everyone to the building next to the guild to pick up the wagon and hurriedly departed.
“and···! We’re going in a carriage now too. hehehe, good.”
Sitting in the driver’s seat, Roy smiled heartily as he watched the horse’s twitching butt. Hush, who sat cross-legged in the luggage compartment, was full of spirits, but decided not to care.
“Now, please. priest. Is the weather nice? It is spring.”
In the midst of this, Papin was sitting next to the priest and trying to work without hesitation, and at least the one who didn’t bother him was the automaton Venus sitting at the back of the luggage compartment and looking back at the road going away.
Hirsch rummaged through his jacket pocket and pulled out a map.
“It’s a bit late, but it doesn’t matter. Let’s go camping by 5:00 p.m.”
“Is there a better strategy than that? Shouldn’t you be concerned about rescuing the advance party?”
Hershey, who was silent for a moment, answered.
“My party is more important to me. Once we arrive, let’s look at the situation.”
Since I had seen it before, I glanced at the priestess of justice, Imi, to see if she would give up again, but she sat with her knees raised and read the book of poetry.
The Cherry Boys, who moved for half a day without any problems, stopped the wagon and started preparing for camping as soon as 5:00 arrived. Venus sent out a reconnaissance of the surroundings.
Everyone was moving in such a coordinated manner that Imi, who was standing in the middle of the road holding a cane and unable to jump in, said.
“Hey, is there anything I can help with?”
Papin, who was running around, laughed.
“No, Emis just needs to sit there.”
“I’m busy, so don’t talk to me and stay calm!”
Seeing no opportunity to intervene, Imis decided to just watch them prepare.
The three men, who had picked up a lot of stones and piled them on the floor, now ran into the woods, dragged dead trees out, and smashed them on the spot to make firewood.
“Anyway, you have to light a lot!”
Imes tilted his head as he watched Hush set up four more campfires around the camp.
“There is also an automaton, do I need to go this far?”
Hirsch, who was helping Roy saw the tree before he knew it, shouted without turning his head.
“I can’t just believe that! All plans, including life, should always have a plan B! How are you?!”
Hearing his cry, Imis widened her eyes.
Plan B of my life
By the time the sun had completely set, the camp preparations were over and everyone collapsed from exhaustion. Just in time, Venus, who had gone out on patrol, returned.
“I have found traces of wandering goblins, gramlins and other small wildlife. I didn’t see anything terribly threatening or hostile.”
Papin, who was feeding and watering the horse, laughed.
“If you don’t fight, there’s no need to fight.”
Bubble bubble…!
Roy, who was cooking the stew with the pot on, tasted it with a ladle and laughed.
“Um, good! Today is perfect.”
“Didn’t you just add something strange?”
“If you don’t want to eat, don’t eat.”
Roy opened his mouth and Papin giggled. Meanwhile, Hirsch sat up and took a map and a compass out of his jacket pocket and looked at the distance.
“Then I will continue to guard the perimeter of the camp.”
“Okay, keep the fire burning so the bonfire around there doesn’t go out.”
“All right.”
“Please take care of me. Let’s eat now.”
Venus began to walk around the bonfire, throwing wood from time to time, and the party gathered around the fire to eat. Roy, scooping a large amount of mysterious stew from the pot and putting it in a bowl, handed it to Imes.
It was a terrible shape, but Imi was grateful for it because she couldn’t move unless she ate it. Hirsch, who was chewing on the beef jerky, spoke alternately between the map and the notebook.
“If nothing happens, I’ll be there tomorrow around noon.”
“What if nothing happened?”
“There are automatons, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a job?”
Hershey frowned.
“Hey, if you use it recklessly and it breaks, can you handle the claim for compensation? And they say that is the crank daddy, but I don’t want to be indebted to him anymore, I’m sorry.”
Papin and Roy laughed bitterly. Imi, who was quietly eating the stew, which was not worse than expected, doubted her ears.
“Amazing. Weren’t you guys on bad terms with Crank? Weren’t you tired of not being able to eat each other? I’ve seen it a few times.”
Papin and Roy laughed.
“Now, what more are you going to hide? If you won’t tell anyone, I will.”
Emis, who heard the story, made a puzzled expression.
“On purpose?”
Hirsch frowned and poked at the fire with a wooden stick.
“Yeah, I deliberately condescended to senior adventurers in order to raise my reputation. Thanks to that, I was able to take on big quests like subjugating orcs and even rent an automaton on the subject of the 3rd year adventurer party. They usually don’t give permission.”
This is an obvious scam! I will report this to the guild! Mistakes must be righted!
Saying that, he would have jumped out of his seat and stood up. If it was her until last year,
Roy lifted the ladle after seeing Emis staring down at the bowl of stew.
“Would you like more? priest.”
“no. are you okay.”
said Hirsch, glancing at her.
“Didn’t you bump into that old man the other day too?”
“It was really a disagreement. Until then, I lived believing only in the world I saw.”
“Oh, so now?”
Eames looked at Hush and held out the bowl to Roy.
“Also, give me some more. This is more delicious than you think. Roy.”
“What? really? hehehe.”
Excited, Roy put the ladle into the pot and stirred it. Hirsch laughed silently at her sneaky behavior.
Hirsch, who wasn’t a bad guy but couldn’t be nicer, decided to try provoking her a little more.
“no? everyone hates you A stubborn model student priest who doesn’t communicate.”
Imis took the stew bowl and raised her eyebrows and glared at Hush. But he didn’t say anything. Because it’s a fact you know.
She firmly believed that justice and norms created by people to live well with each other must be followed. I had no doubt that the people around me would do the same. However, when I was working as an adventurer, it was very different from what I thought.
It turned into friction and made her a loner.
If it had been last year, we would have been furious and arguing with each other, but in the meantime, we went through a lot of things, and now that we’ve grown a year older, I’ve decided that I need to mature a bit. So, I gracefully responded to Hush’s provocation.
“What’s wrong with saying that you can’t put things right?”
“For the subject who boasted of things that were completely blocked, but didn’t sell very well, so I just sat in the guild the whole time,”
I thought it wouldn’t matter if maturity was delayed.
“light!”
Flash!
“Wow!! my eyes!”
“Oops! Dazzling!”
“Sir! Snow! Blindfold! Aww!”
Everyone covered their eyes and faces and rolled on the floor in the intense halo that poured from Emis. Eames crossed her arms and said.
“Do it while covering your words. Brother, isn’t it the same as being shunned because you’re picky?”
“Okay, turn off the lights!”
“Take it wrong!”
“Wrong! Wrong!”
Eames finally got the light. Papin, who was lying on his stomach with his eyes closed, muttered in that position.
“Wow, this is pretty good! Oh my God, you can use the light for attack…! I knew it first.”
“Strictly speaking, it is for defense. It reversed the saying that if anything is strong, it becomes poison. Have you heard of the saying that imagination is a weapon?”
After speaking, Imi stood up and clapped. mate! Venus, who had been quietly watching what they were doing, pointed at her chest just in case.
“Did you call me?”
“Follow me for a moment.”
“hey! Where?”
Imis, who had been walking while holding Venus’ hand, turned her blushing face and shouted.
“light!”
Jjing…! Once again, fierce light bursts out in all directions. It was so bright that the shadows disappeared.
“Ughhhhh! my eyes!”
“okay! restroom! is it the bathroom? Yep! Be careful!”
“Sir! priest! Aww!”
Venus stopped Emis from a reasonable distance, covering her face with both hands and leaving behind the party who were rolling on the floor.
“If it’s a bathroom, try looking at it from here. The smell of feces can scare away wild animals.”
Imis was startled and hesitant, but the truth was the truth, so she didn’t make excuses because of her personality. So after looking around for a while, I hid myself in a suitable place and crouched down.
Venus slightly turned her head and was wary of her surroundings.
“Is Venus there?”
“there is. Do not worry.”
“huh.”
It was very embarrassing, but as long as it’s a creature, if you eat something, something comes out. So, for the priests who frequently moved parties, it was quite important to have someone in the party they could trust and rely on in such cases.
I liked female adventurers like Automaton the most, and unexpectedly, the dwarf was also okay because he was like my father.
“Are you cool?”
Seeing the two return from work, Hush, who was sitting by the bonfire, did not stop provoking.
Emis, the blood on her forehead, smiled brightly.
“light! search-! light!”
Flash!
“Ouch! my eyes! hey! Do it in moderation!”
“Aww! Ames! Ames! stop! I’ll apologize for that guy! That bastard’s original personality is a bit crooked!”
Venus, who was watching the men with their arms folded, unable to withstand the holy halo emanating from the enraged priest, nodded.
“Very good. I think it will be of great help in controlling nocturnal monsters if you illuminate it hourly.”
“hey! Do not shine directly! hot! It’s hot!”
Although there was some commotion during the camp, the Cherry Boys, who finished sleeping without a night watch with the help of Automaton Venus, were able to hasten their journey toward their destination at dawn the next day.