CH 37

[Apparently, I Got a Nickname]

After exterminating the Demon Beast Cerberus, I finished my training under Gawain and returned to Youg Hannotes with Noelia.

And now, in the morning, I finished feeding Dimol in the meadow in the backyard of Lloyd’s mansion, and went to the Adventurer’s Guild to earn money for today’s food.

“O-oi. It’s Frick-san…he seems to have defeated that Demon Beast Cerberus almost by himself.”

“It seems so. It seems that he sucked the blood of the Demon Beast Cerberus with that sword. Look, that ominousness. You can see that the blade has turned deep red with just a glance.”

“A magic sword that sucked up the blood of the Demon Beast Cerberus, it makes me trembling just by listening to it. I’m glad I didn’t pick a fight with him… If I did, I would already be a goner.”

When I entered the Adventurer’s Guild, all the adventurers were quietly moving to the waiting room.

There were various things I wanted to refute from the story that I heard from the waiting room, but due to the involvement of the magic sword and the Spell Sword, Lloyd warned me to not talk about the Demon Beast Cerberus subjugation in detail.

Couldn’t argue back, I helplessly headed to Rebecca at the counter which has become vacant.

“Good morning. Various rumors are flowing around, right. According to the information that I heard, it seems that the adventurers and the people of the city started to call Frick-sama with the nickname of the ‘Crimson Magic Swordsman’ due to Frick-sama’s subjugation of the Demon Beast Cerberus, you know.”

Rebecca told the rumors of the city to me sitting at the counter.

As I thought, that way of returning was bad, right…

The people of the city must have saw Dimol with the crest of the Henestrosa family along with the three heads of the Demon Beast Cerberus hanging from his neck.

He wasn’t shot by arrows, but he may have surprised the residents in different meaning.

{The Crimson Magic Swordsman is cool! It’s the best! As expected of master! To live up to master’s nickname, I’ll do my best to show them my blade dripping with blood!}

Don’t! Their misunderstanding would be even more annoying!

The magic sword, which had promised not to speak in public, read my mind and spoke without letting its voice out.

If you do your best and make your blade drips with blood, I’m the one who will be troubled.

If I started to be called the magic swordsman who holds a cursed magic sword, it would be difficult for me to work.

{Yes! I understand! I’ll stop with the dripping blood! Instead, I will grow big by eating factors with gusto!}

Ahh, it would be helpful if you do so.

“Frick-sama, is there something wrong?”

Rebecca was watching me talking to the magic sword with a strange look on her face.

As long as neither of us spoke out, it seemed that I looked to be absent-minded when I was talking to the magic sword.

“No, it’s nothing. By the way, have you completed…the liquidation?”

“The materials of the Black Horn Goat, Sleep Sheep, Fire-Eating Chicken, Gale Eagle, and Madness Boar that you brought in have been assessed, but… the Cerberus…”

“It’s 350,000 oz without the Cerberus, right?”

“Yes, here is it.”

Rebecca hands a leather bag in front of me.

I left a reward of 300,000 oz at Gawain’s place as a thanks for all his help.

However, Gawain refused the magic sword production fee stubbornly, so I asked him to receive the money in the name of the meals and instructions fee.

“I’m saved. I had various expenses, and I have to earn money for Dimol’s food cost.”

“Ahh, that big Wyvern, huh. In Youg Hannotes, only Frick-sama has one.”

Right…there’s no way normal adventurers would ride a Wyvern around.

However, even though Dimol has such a scary face, he is a loyal and cute guy.

“Well then, for that Wyvern’s sake, you have to make a lot of money today. We’re in the middle of consulting with Lloyd-sama about the assessment of the Cerberus, so we should be able to liquidate it in the near future. Please wait for a while.”

“I understand. Then, please show me today’s request.”

“This is it. And the remittance to the orphanage we received last time has been completed. It has been donated in the name of the Adventurer’s Guild.”

The remittance to the orphanage has been completed, huh.

I couldn’t send too much, but I’m glad it has arrived.

I have to earn money and send it again.

Satisfied with hearing that the remittance to the orphanage was completed, I received the list of today’s requests from Rebecca.

Although I’ve became a bronze-rank, the number of people I’ve to support has increased, so I had to earn a solid income.

When I think about it, the monster subjugation type of request is more efficient in earning money, and I can also collect monster’s factors for the magic sword, huh.

After deciding on the requests to accept, I give the request slips to Rebecca.

“I’ll do these today. They’re close by and they looked profitable.”

“Understood.”

I took three requests to subjugate nearby monsters, rode Dimol to the destination place and immediately completed the subjugations thanks to the magic sword.

And then, after I fulfilled the requests, I returned to Youg Hannotes in the afternoon.

Returning to the meadow, I gave the monster meats that I had secured during the subjugation and had drained them of their blood to Dimol as his lunch.

“Dimol, you did a good job today too. You can eat a lot~.”

“Kueee!!”

Dimol pecks the monster meats that has been cut into pieces deliciously.

I’ve asked Gawain, but it seems that since his body is big, his amount of food is large, even when compared to other Wyverns.

Even so, he is a reliable partner who faithfully executed my instructions, so I didn’t want to make him feel uncomfortable.

“Thanks to you, I have spare time today, so I’ll wipe your body clean after eating.”

“Kueeeee!!!”

Unlike his appearance, Dimol is surprisingly neat, so he usually bathes by himself, but he particularly pleased if I wipe his body with wet cloth.

So, when I said that I would wipe his body, his eating speed became rather fast.

“Fufu, you don’t have to hurry so much, you know-”

While I was stroking Dimol who was eating, a voice came from behind.

“Frick-sama, may I have some of your time?”

Looking back at that voice, there stood a maid who looked a little older than me.

I didn’t recognize the maid who called out to me.

“Huh? Who are you?”

“I’m Noelia-sama’s personal maid, Suzana. Pleased to make your acquaintance.”

The maid who called herself Suzana greeted me with an elegant conduct.

“Noelia’s personal maid…Suzana-san, is it. Nice to meet you, do you need something from me?”

“Actually, Lloyd-sama wishes to set up a banquet to thank Frick-sama for your subjugation of the Cerberus, and I came to invite you as the person in charge.”

“Suzana-san is the person in charge, huh?”

If it was a banquet hosted by the Frontier Count Lloyd, I thought that the person in charge would be someone like Meiss instead of a maid.

I got a sense of discomfort when I heard that Noelia’s personal maid, Suzana, was the one in charge of the banquet.

Perhaps because she saw me like that, Suzana shook her hand in a hurry.

“Frick-sama seems to have a misunderstanding, but this time the banquet is only held with close relatives.”

“Haa, so it was like that. When I heard about banquet, I thought there would be a lot of people invited to it… This time’s invitation is more like for a dinner party, right?”

“Yes, Lloyd-sama, Meiss-sama, and Gawain-sama. In addition, the director of the Magic Research Institute as well as Noelia-sama’s master, Linus-sama, will participate as well.”

If I remember correctly, Linus was the first person to teach magic to Noelia.

It was said that he is now the director of the Magic Research Institute in the Royal Capital though, he came to Youg Hannotes, huh.

According to the story I heard from Noelia, he seems to be the leading person in magic research, so I want to ask him various things about magic.

“So, when will the dinner be held?”

“It’s this evening. So, I asked you to stay at the mansion until then.”

“Then, after I finish wiping Dimol’s body, I will visit the mansion.”

“Understood. I’ll convey it to the people of the mansion, so feel free to relax in the mansion. Well then, excuse me.”

Suzana addressed me gracefully just like in the beginning and she went back to the mansion.