Chapter 72 – You couldn’t even destroy that, where did you sell all your training?
“Is that a safe?”
What Celine found was a small safe.
“Where did you find it?”
“This room.”
Celine pointed to the room behind her own.
“This is… Brother Ludwig’s room.”
…You call me brother Ludwig.
I’m not envious or anything like that. It’s just that it’s the first time I’ve seen Estelle call me oppa… It’s strange.
…Really not?
“Then, it is very likely that Ludwig-sama is in this safe.”
“I guess so. Where did you find the key by any chance?”
“Yes. There was only a safe. Didn’t the hero see the key too?”
A key? I’ve been thinking about it, but I don’t think I saw the key while I was looking for it.
“Yes, I didn’t see it.”
“Then the only way to open it is to break the lock. It was rusty and old, so it probably won’t break easily.”
I took out the holy sword from my back. The handle is hard, so I think it will break if you hit it with it.
“I’ll try.”
“Yes, please.”
I turned the holy sword upside down, grabbed it, and struck it straight down.
Kang!
“Huh?”
“Poop♡”
…Why isn’t this broken?
I thought something was wrong, so I tried again.
KANG!!!
I tried to hit it as hard as I could, but the lock didn’t break. It looks like a very old lock, but why is it so strong?
“Puppup♡ You couldn’t break that, and where did you sell everything you’ve trained so far~♡ You idiot♡ A man can’t even use his strength♡”
…f*ck.
You really should leave it at night.
I picked up a stone nearby and tried one last time, but the lock still didn’t break. That way Celine doesn’t look like an ordinary lock, she said.
“This… Looks like it’s rusted, so it’s metal. Seeing that even though it’s this old, the warrior can’t break it, it looks like it’s at least made of rare metal.”
“Rare metal?”
It’s a name that comes up often in RPGs. It is usually described as much harder iron than general iron, but is that the case here too?
Estelle heard that it was rare metal and talked about it.
“If it is a rare metal, it must be difficult to break it with brute force. I don’t know if it’s as strong as an ogre.”
“Then what do you do?”
“Stupid Abel♡ Ask the obvious and do it~♡”
Estel said with a pretty eye smile.
“Metal should go to a metal expert~♡ you fool♡”
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When she returned to the city of Bourbon, she asked a street vendor who introduced her to the largest and most famous smithy in the city. She said that if you were there, you would know how to handle rare metal.
So we headed to the smithy we were introduced to.
Kong, kang, the sound of a hammer hitting metal came from quite a distance.
“Oh…”
It felt like the hot heat from the blacksmith’s furnace was reaching all the way. It’ll be pretty hot if you get close.
“Estel, isn’t it hot?”
“It’s a little hot. I’m patient though. It’s not to the extent that sloppy Abel is worried♡”
…Then I’m glad.
Standing in front of the blacksmith’s door, as expected, I felt the heat. How big is the brazier? I thought that knocking on the door would be overshadowed by the sound of the hammer, so I just opened the door.
Then the blacksmith who was hammering closest to the door spotted us and stood up. Wiping the sweat from his forehead with his hand, he asked us.
“Are you a guest?”
“Oh, yes.”
“What brought you here?”
I took Celine’s safe and showed it to her.
“!”
“Be careful, it is heavier than you think.”
What is it, is it a little heavy?
If you think about it, the lock is made of rare metal, but the safe must be heavier than that. It was what I was supposed to do from the beginning.
“Can you open this lock? I need to get out what’s inside, but I don’t have the key.”
“Hmm. Put it down here for a second.”
As I put the safe on the desk, the blacksmith looked around at the lock and said,
“It’s hard to tell because it’s rusted so much…But it looks like a rare metal.”
“Maybe. That’s why I came to the experts.”
“Then you are welcome. I can open it.”
Oh?
“Really?”
“Of course not. It’s just going to take some time. Looks like I’ll have to remove the rust first and pick the lock. It’s rusted so much that it’s going to take a day or so, but come back around this time tomorrow.”
“Oh, is that so? All right.”
It takes about a day. Then what should I do in the meantime?
Once we left the safe in the smithy, we went out of the smithy. As soon as Estelle stepped outside the forge, she sighed.
“Is it very hot?”
“It is much hotter inside the building. I don’t think blacksmithing is right for me.”
It’s even more so because the season is summer. Since Estelle said she gets cold more, wouldn’t she have liked that it was warm if it was winter?
“By the way, what do we do during the day? Time has come.”
“Hmm… It seems like we haven’t trained too much in a while. Shall we go get a request?”
Oh, that’s nice.
“I was a bit itchy, too.”
“Then let’s go to the adventurer’s guild. There is a guild in Bourbon too.”
“Yes.”
Estelle spoke on the way to the adventurer’s guild.
“Before accepting the quest, it would be better to go through the promotion review first. Because Abel’s adventurer level is D, he can only accept poor requests♡”
“Ah, something came up while I was going to the screening, so I couldn’t go.”
“It would be better to raise your grade and receive a quest that matches your level and do training as well~♡”
That was a good idea. If you do the evaluation, you will feel how strong you have become, and if your rank goes up, you will be able to receive high-paying quests. It’s one stone.
The size of the adventurer’s guild matched the size of the city of Bourbon. It’s bigger than the adventurer’s guild I saw in Habsburg City.
“There must be a lot of people.”
“Sure~♡ Shall I hold your hand so that I’m not afraid of Abel?”
When did I say I was afraid of people…Wait, an interesting thought came to my mind.
“Yes, hold me.”
“…Yes?”
I held out my hand abruptly. Then Estelle didn’t know that I would come out like this, and her face showed a look of bewilderment.
“Please hold me.”
Yeah, hold my hand quickly.
“Boo, aren’t you ashamed…”
Estelle cautiously reached out and took her hand, even as her face blushed.
Her hands are super soft.
“All right, all right?”
…Cute.
I smiled contentedly, then turned my head away because I felt a strange stare from the side.
Celine was looking at me with her eyes squinting.
“You look happy. But why don’t you hide the time and place a little?”
“…Hmm.”
“Hmm…”
Estel and I both had our consciences pricked, so we let go of each other’s hands without anyone saying anything first.
…Let’s go in.
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The adventurer’s guild in Bourbon City was always full of people.
It was because the adventurer’s guild in Bourbon City was one of the branches of Vesta Kingdom, and because Bourbon City had a large population, so many requests. In particular, since it wasn’t too far from the border, monsters often appeared, so the adventurer’s guild in Bourbon never ran out of requests.
And today was the same. Various adventurers visited the adventurer’s guild in order to receive a request suitable for their level, and the guild lobby was crowded with many adventurers.
And there were quite a few A-class adventurers among them.
“Ah~ I’m bored.”
Among the A-rank adventurers, a man with shaved head sat bored on the sofa. The adventurers passing by did not pay attention to him at all, or were busy avoiding their seats when they saw him.
His name is Rustan. He was an A-rank adventurer, but he was famous for his bad personality.
Ever since rumors spread that he, who had a bad reputation, was ruined by a D-class adventurer in the Habsburgs, more and more people criticized him for being pitiful.
But Rustan didn’t care about that. Because he thought that weaker guys were talking crap anyway.
Today, too, he was thinking of harassing rookie adventurers. The figure of someone came into Rustan’s eyes.
The three people who opened the guild door a while ago. The white-haired red-eyed swordsman in the middle and the black-haired priestess next to him were faces he had never seen before.
“…Wow, I see you all here.”
Rustan jumped up from his seat. He and he crunched, and loosened his hands and neck.
“It’s nice to meet you bastard.”
Rustan patted and leaped forward, swinging his fist. The physical ability of an A-class adventurer is at a level that is different from that of ordinary people. Even knights with good skills were at the level of giving an A-class adventurer a handful.
Only a few A-class adventurers within the guild noticed that Rustan ran away.
But…
Hooung!
“… Huh?”
“Ah…It’s a surprise. I almost got cut.”
Before Rustan could even extend his fist, the white greatsword stopped right in front of his neck. It was a position where Rustan’s neck would have been blown off if he had given a little more strength.
‘What the hell… Wasn’t that a D-class kid…?’
It’s the same as when I blew myself up with my fist before, and it’s still like that now. It was never a skill that a D-class kid could see. The first time can be dismissed as a coincidence, but from the second time onwards, that was skill.
Looking at the sharp edge of the sword, Rustan broke into a cold sweat. If this man hadn’t stopped his sword, the Bourbon City Adventurers’ Guild would have become a bloodbath today.
The man who wielded the sword, Abel tilted his head and said.
“What is it all of a sudden?”
“Oh, no…”
Rustan saw that Abel didn’t recognize him, so she thought about it for a long time and eventually lied.
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“…Sorry. I mistook the face.”
“I don’t know what it is, but it doesn’t look good to be punching so openly.”
“…Sorry.”
Abel walked by with her holy sword back on her back, followed by her brown-haired priestess and dark-haired priestess. Behind Rustan, who let out a sigh of relief, the footsteps suddenly stopped.
“Ah.”
And a voice that seems to have realized something. Rustan turned his head slightly in a tense state.
“…!!!”
“Is that you? The one I saw in the Habsburgs.”
Abel was looking this way.
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Rustan. I’m pretty sure it was that name.
“Rustan, right?”
“Uh…Uh…”
“Hey, nice to see you here? I saw it in the Habsburgs, now I see it in the city of Bourbon? Are you following me?”
“…Ugh, ugh!!!”
…What is it?
Without doing anything yet, Rustan screamed and ran out of the guild.
“Strange bastard.”
“It was that man then.”
“What, did you know? Please tell me.”
“There is no need to make a fuss within the guild again. Because Abel now has her 1st warning piled up~♡”
“Ah…”
I still have to go through the promotion review, but it’s troublesome if I get banned.
As expected, there were a lot of people in the guild. There was a reason the building was so large.
“…But why do people keep looking this way?”
“Maybe it’s because the saintess and I are together. I don’t know if there is usually one priest, but I don’t go around with two.”
“I think I see it a little more often than that…”
“It’s because Abel is cool&”
“Yes!?”
What are you talking about all of a sudden!?
I was surprised and Estelle giggled. Is it fun to make fun of?
“Maybe.”
…Celine, why are you convinced?
“… Hurry up and register.”
“Yes~♡”
When we went to the counter, the guild receptionist greeted us.
“Hello.”
“Welcome… Oh my?”
As soon as I said hello, the receptionist gave me an expression of amazement and surprise.
What is it? Estelle didn’t even have a pretty voice this time.
“Why is that?”
“Oh no! What business did you come looking for?”
I tilted my head when I saw the bewildered receptionist, but I just let it go.
“I’m here to apply for a promotion review.”
I rummaged through my pocket and pulled out an adventurer’s card. When I showed the adventurer’s card with a D in it, the receptionist looked at me with slightly surprised eyes.
“Have you been a D-class adventurer? Oh, but…”
Perhaps because of the way he overpowered Rustan a moment ago, the receptionist put on a puzzled expression.
“I should have started the review sooner, but I haven’t had time for a while because of work. That’s why I want to receive the examination that I have been putting off.”
“Ah, that’s right. Okay, I’ll get ready right away, so come with me!”
I spoke to Estelle and Celine.
“Please wait in the lobby. I’ll do it right away.”
“Abel.”
“Yes?”
Estelle whispered quietly.
“All women are foxes. Did you know?”
“…Yes?”
…Why did that suddenly come out at this timing?
“…Yes, I will be back.”
After nodding, I followed the receptionist to the second floor. The receptionist gestured in front of a room on the second floor.
“This is the screening room. Come in, we’ll proceed with the review right away!”
“Yes.”
When I entered the room, there was the ore I saw when I first became an adventurer. It was ‘magic ore’, something resembling a sX pylon floating in the middle of the room.
“Did you see it when you were first grading? Just break it with all your might!”
“Have you met the number of completed quests required for promotion?”
“Yes! Adventurer Abel has already met the conditions!”
“Okay.”
I took out the holy sword. Then he went in front of the Mawangseok and held the sword with both hands.
…At that time, a fragment smaller than a little finger fell. Looking back on it now, it was a bit of an outrageous moment.
How about this time? I hope at least one palm falls off.
“Please start!”
According to the receptionist’s signal, I swung the holy sword wide. The holy sword hit the magic ore with a caang sound, and I couldn’t help but be surprised.
In a different way than before.