60 – Scar-14

When I woke up after drinking a lot, the surroundings were noisy.

“Is everyone here? Get up, go to work!”

“eww…”

The body, still tired, was tired. He didn’t fall asleep drunk, he was lying properly on the bed in the inn room.

A sound came from outside the window. In this day and age, there was no way the soundproofing was good, and I had no choice but to wake up when people were talking outside.

“what…”

In one corner of the room, a maid was sleeping soundly. I could have booked another room, but she would come in and sleep in my room all the time.

“Should I stop doing this soon…”

Yesterday, too, she said she was busy and went around here and there. Since she even used a sword, she must have been tired as well.

I wasn’t sure if I was feeling tired or if it was all acting, but I couldn’t leave it lying in a corner like this either way.

“Oh, are you awake…?”

“Take it easy. What now…”

Thanks to the drunken waitress, I was able to get some interesting information, though not very necessary.

Specifically, information that might have folklore value, such as ‘what kind of folk songs are popular in this region’.

When the atmosphere becomes a bit boring, she makes a sad or sad expression, but thinking about her sadness, it was difficult to leave the seat on her own.

Then again, he talked about his adventures nonstop, and listening to them was also interesting, so he had the magic to listen to them late into the night.

She had managed to treat her like a baron, but at some point she stopped talking. Me too, I didn’t like that.

“So… what’s that? What else is left?”

“Because we have to bury the dead first.”

There were far fewer casualties than expected, but it was clearly rotting organic matter scattered on the ground.

I couldn’t make a tomb one by one, but I couldn’t leave it unattended. You’ll have to dig a hole and bury it, at least away from the orcs.

“Should I help…”

“I’m not going to make you do that. You’re a guest, right?”

“Still, I don’t need to be the only one resting. If it’s necessary, I’ll help too…”

“You’ve grown really well. Well, I thought so! Don’t worry too much. I’m doing everything because I want to do it.”

“…why?”

After thinking about it for a while, I was able to come up with a very obvious and simple reason.

“It’s a keepsake…”

The warrior party didn’t need money.

In the first place, things that could be solved with money could be requisitioned under the cause of the princess’s authority and the warrior’s party’s adventure.

Gold coins were not a very light thing, and if I carried the gold coins that we could use on my back, there wouldn’t be any left over from my shoulder.

Since gold coins were treated like that, there was no reason to be interested in other human remains.

I didn’t touch the corpses of monsters unless I needed to bring a really valuable item for a wizard or saint, so it was inevitable.

There was no reason not to gather, whether it be hyenas who wanted to take off the armor and weapons of the dead, or ordinary people who wanted to keep the last belongings of their victims and their families.

And, he couldn’t even curse at the hyena. At least for the hyenas who took part in the battle, it was not the looting of a coward, but the reward for fighting and winning with their lives.

“Well, that’s good.”

It seems that the strangely lively voice was not an illusion. Well, even for me, it would have been difficult for me to produce a good sound if I was mobilized to clean up the corpses right away after fighting the same battle as yesterday.

“Rest well. Don’t worry, you won’t get any more money.”

“You don’t have to.”

“It’s okay. There are many people who came to look at your face.”

She squeezed the wooden leg into place, then smiled shyly.

“How long are you planning to stay?”

“Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow at the latest. I’ll leave right away.”

“I see… Well, I guess so. It’s kind of disappointing.”

She licked her lips and moved around restlessly.

“Something you want to do… Do you have a goal?”

“I’ll be back.”

It just takes a little bit longer. will definitely go back someday

“hometown?”

“Well, that’s how it is.”

“I see… Uh, yes. Hometown is important. It’s a pity. As long as my legs are fine, I really wanted to visit your hometown once.”

To those who fight, death is all too familiar. Injuries and wounds are more common than that.

Even in that situation, being able to fight like other adventurers proves her skill, but there were still too many variables in the fight.

It is difficult for a person with a disability to do everyday life, but it is even more difficult to fight.

A person without one eye, one arm, or one leg must struggle against enemies several times his level.

“Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

The adventurer with the prosthetic leg might have wanted to leave with me.

“Sorry, sorry…”

And, realizing that the gap between her capabilities and mine is too great, she may have given up her mind.

“I never thought I’d say this, but I think I’ll regret it if I don’t. You know, would you like to stay here?”

It was something I could never have imagined.

It was a short moment, but I didn’t hate this place. It was just comfortable.

There were so many people who liked me. Like in the imperial palace, I didn’t have to listen to whispers about who that person was, and the people here were saved by my hands.

However, I couldn’t stay here forever.

“I have to go back.”

She paused and smiled bitterly.

“Ha, that’s right, right? Since it’s the baron, there must be something more tremendous…”

Although the difference in status did not make sense, she was just an adventurer and I was nominally an aristocrat.

“It’s not like that, but it can’t be helped.”

“Still, can you send me off? I’m a little sorry for Dad, but I’ll guide you to the neighborhood.”

“Um… well, I need to find something to go home.”

“What is it? Just tell me. Even though I’m a little uncomfortable, I was a pretty good adventurer when I was younger? I’ll find you.”

I was grateful for the words, but I had no intention of asking her for help. In the first place, it was a material with a slightly different scale.

“The remains of a phoenix… the blood of a unicorn, and the heart of a dragon?”

She was silent for a moment, and seemed to be contemplating whether or not to believe me.

“You’re not at the level of a baron! Did you do a lot of bad things before you went back home?”

Perhaps deciding to believe me, she made a fuss and shouted at me.

“Well, unless you’re from an angelic or demonic race, there’s no way you’d need something like that to return home!”

“Well, that’s how it happened.”

When I saw her face giving up and sticking out her tongue, I thought she was good at what she said.

“This is really… I can’t get it to you myself. Still, I have some information that might help.”

“What?”

I thought her skills would be extraordinary, but I didn’t think that it would be related to these materials.

After going into the warehouse for a while and looking around, she brought a crumpled piece of paper.

“This is a real secret, but if it’s you, I’ll show you. I can’t help it, but…”

There was nothing special about the map. However, the things they said they found here were quite meaningful.

“Unicorn’s tail hair… right?”

“I sold the items I picked up here to the Mage Tower, but considering I didn’t say anything about them, they are unmistakably genuine.”

It wasn’t even once or twice. An unmanaged habitat for wild unicorns, this was information that no one would ask.

“No, why is such an adventurer here…”

“Huh, well, this is a remote area far beyond our capabilities. Still, I poured all my money into buying potions and equipment, but I didn’t know that the next adventure would be the last one.”

“Even so, you have to pay…”

I was thinking of going to find the remains of the phoenix right now, but this information was also valuable. The first clue was important to the point that if it was information that had to be paid for, I would have worked like a dog right away.

“It’s okay, it’s okay! I’m more grateful.”

But she didn’t want anything.

It seemed like it had been a while since I had received such pure gratitude.

No, maybe I wasn’t ready to accept it even though I’d already received it dozens of times.

“thank you.”

“Me and my village, you must remember! Stop by before going home!”

“…Okay. I’ll remember.”

A little bit of courage.

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It was a pity that it seemed to bring down all the good feelings, but it was still something I had to do.

“…are you here?”

Compared to Farseer’s neat attire, Eleanor seemed to still have the scars of the battlefield.

“Thank you for this job. But… this, you were following me, right?”

Rather, it would have been a heroic action if he had rushed to save this territory.

But she pointed me out exactly and came in to rescue ‘only’ me. Clearly I was being watched.

“Farse. How did you know I was here?”

Besides, the wizard’s magic is not something that can be used without preparation.

Even considering the level of the Farseer, if it was a Meteor that was huge enough to affect the battlefield, it would have been prepared at least a week ago.

I don’t know where it is, but it’s definitely for the purpose of dropping that huge boulder.

“Make it clear. What do you guys want?”