CH 33

Cheat Magician (Hazure Hantei) Chapter 33

Actually, I'm quite a cheat

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The next morning after I safely brought the five rescued people to Volzard, I made up my mind and took a seat at breakfast.

"Yes, you were waiting Kent, eat a lot."

"Yes, u, umm ... Amanda-san, I have a story to talk about later."

Yes, since I brought the five people, I will tell you what I have hidden so far.

"Story ...? Oh, if you're talking about Kent being summoned from another world, I've heard from Donovan-san."

"Fue ...?"

I had been deceiving Amanda-san and the others so far, so I thought that as a result I might have to leave the boarding house, so I made considerable determination and started talking, but she told me that she has already heard it. Then, I made a stupid voice.

"Y, you heard ... that ..."

"Everyone has heard that your friends were caught by the Resenburg guys and that the skeletons summoned by Kent protected the city."

"Well ... I'm sorry for lying up until now."

"That's stupid ... Don't apologize, Kent, You've done your best alone so far, and thank you for protecting the city."

"Yes ... yes ..."

Unfair, it's no good, if you say that, tears will overflow.

"Hey, don't be stupid ... it's not something to cry about ... look, just eat your food."

"I ... can I stay here?"

"Of course you can! What are you saying, this is your house in Volzard."

"Thank you, Thank you very much ..."

"Ah ... You shouldn't cry so much, you're a boy, you see, you're busy today? You have to eat well."

"Yes ... yes ..."

As if getting revenge for the bedwetting case the other day, Meisa-chan gave me a grinning gaze, but my tears didn't stop.

"Mom, wasn't it exactly what I said?"

"Hmm? What's that about?"

"Kent said he absolutely wasn't keeping anything."

"Oh, that's right, but any skeleton that protects the city is welcome."

"Reinhardt, could you say hello?"

[ Of course. ]

I was told that he would be welcomed, so I decided to have Reinhardt come out of the shadows.

Amanda-san and Meisa-chan were surprised and amazed to see Reinhardt coming out of my shadow.

"I would like to introduce you to Reinhardt, who is guarding me. He used to be the leader of the knights."

When Reinhardt proudly does the knight salute, they relax.

"Mom, our security is perfect. He'll never let a thief enter."

"Well, it's the safest house in the farthest city of Volzard."

"Meisa-chan, you don't have to worry about thieves or monsters, but handle worrying about bedwetting yourself."

"Kii ... I'll never do it anymore! Kent's a meanie, stupid, stupid, stupiiid!"

"Ahaha, Meisa, make sure you don't have to worry about bedwetting, too."

"Kii ... I won't do it, I won't do it! I'll never do it anymore!"

I was able to confess what I was worried about, and I didn't lose my place.

Thanks to that, it seems that I can pick up the five people in a refreshing mood.

When I went to the garrison station, I was saluted by the member who was on duty.

"Good morning, please, everyone is waiting at the cafeteria."

"Good morning ... Oh, thank you ..."

After entering the station, I meet a person, meet another person, everyone saluted me.

Every time, I bowed to them, and they snickered, I wonder if they're messing with me.

When I went to the cafeteria, five people were drinking tea at the same table.

I think Kobayashi-san is quite relaxed, probably because she was released from the difficult situation.

I mean, Yagi is so relaxed it feels like he's headed straight to becoming a NEET.

"Good morning, did everyone sleep well?"

"I slept so well that I feel guilty ..."

"Ah ... maybe as Kobayashi-san says, we slept well, but considering the people who are still there ..."

I see, it's more like having a surplus than being full.

"Then, we'll go to the guild and have them make ID cards. Everyone's actions will determine Volzard's impression of us. Please act so that the remaining people will have a good impression."

When they heard my words, their facial expressions tensed up except for one person.

"I don't want to work ..."

"Yagi ... Oh, if you go to the guild, you might meet the cat-eared onee-san ..."

"Okay, let's go! What's wrong with Kokubu, don't dally!"

It's good because he's easy to understand, he's a simple idiot, so he's easy to handle in a sense.

The road from the garrison station to the guild is also the first Volzard road I walked on.

Everyone looks at the cityscape, the people passing by, and the storefronts that are preparing to open.

I'm sure I was the same.

"It's pretty ... I mean, it's pretty clean looking."

"Oh yeah, it looks like the sewage system is in place."

"Wow, over there, an animal eared oba-chan ..."

"Somehow, their hair is so colorful ..."

"I don't know ... I wonder if they sell coloring agents ..."

Inside the guild, it was time for the hustle and bustle of the morning to end, and the front of the bulletin board was empty, but the bustle remained in front of the counter.

I was told to talk to Otto-san, but it's better to wait a little longer.

With that in mind, when I headed to the usual wall, Manon, who looked fidgety, stood there.

She looks like she's laughing, and crying, and she has a complicated expression.

"Hey, Kokubu, do you know that person? Please introduce me."

On the way to Manon, Kobayashi-san hit me on the shoulder.

"That's fine, but Manon is a girl."

"Wow ... wow, somehow, in a sense, that's foul ..."

"It's a girl really? Introduce me, Kokubu."

"Ah ... Yagi, annoying ..."

As we got closer, Manon nodded sharply as if she made up her mind.

"Good morning, Manon."

"I'm sorry!"

"Eh? Um ... that's ..."

"The other day ... I, did something bad to you ... S, so ... have you come to hate me?"

Maybe when I was talking to Meline-san, she went home with a huff.

I don't care about that at all, and I have to apologize for my secrets.

I mean, the looking upwards at me with teary eyes is too destructive, but is hugging no good, hug it, hug it ...

"The thing before ... I don't care about it, and I don't hate Manon."

"Really? Good ..."

Manon becomes lively, however ... I can say with confidence, this trancendently cute creature, it may be an infringement on the Antimonopoly Law, but I want to monopolize her.

"What ... Kokubu, you're a smooth operator aren't you ..."

"No, no, Manon is that ..."

"Nitta, Furuta, I think we need to interrogate ..."

"No objection!"

"Of course, no objection!"

"No, a little ..."

Manon tilts her head while seeing the old and new duo, the fake glasses, and the grinning dekoboko sisters.

"Kent, maybe the caravan people were alive?"

"Uh ... that, Manon, I'm sorry! I'll tell you about the situation later, so don't ask for now."

The story seems to be even more complicated, so I persuaded Manon to wait for an explanation.

"Kokubu-kun ... in the first place, while we were having a hard time, you've been having a pretty good time haven't you ..."

"Well, what are you saying, I think it was hard ... I think ..."

"How far have you gone?"

"What? What?"

"Confess quickly, I do not recognize the right to remain silent."

"No, I don't want to ..."

While I'm trapped in the grasp of the old and new duo and fake glasses, Manon is being approached by the devil's hands of the dekoboko sisters.

"Nice to meet you ... I'm tomoko, and this one ..."

"Akemi, nice to meet you."

"I'm Manon ... Nice to meet you."

"Hey, At-chan, it's a boku girl, a boku girl."(TN: Boku is usually the male form of I, it's rare for a girl to use it like Manon does, this is also partly why Kokubu mistook her for a guy.)

"Light blue, smooth, hair, that's foul play ..."

Ah ... Manon has been touched by the devil's hands ... Manon will go bad ...

"Kent, are these the ones you brought?"

"Yes, good morning."

Oh, the savior Donovan-san is here.

Mufufufu, I introduced Donovan-san to the five people, but all five of them straightened their posture with a glance.

Yeah, your actions are right, you can't go against him.

"Appraisal and registration will be done in the conference room, follow me."

"Donovan-san, can I take Manon with me?"

"Hmm? Why?"

"That ... it's safer to have someone who is about the same age to cooperate ..."

"Hmm ... is that so, that's fine."

After thinking a little, Donovan-san agreed.

"Manon, I have a request, can you come with us?"

"M, me? Y, yeah ... okay."

When we went to the conference room on the second floor, Otto-san was ready.

"Good morning, Otto-san, thank you."

"Oh, good morning Kent, that's right ... see, just touch it."

Otto points to the hated 'Evil Eye Crystal'

So, I try to touch it as I am told, but after all there is no change ...

"It doesn't shine after all ..."

"Kent, can you really use magic?"

"Yes, I can use the magic of darkness and light."

"Hmm ... it's strange to be able to use two attributes in the first place ... but that's probably why it doesn't respond."

Manon, who was listening to the story next to me, was surprised with her eyes wide open.

After all, I have to explain properly and apologize.

"Otto-san, please register everyone, Manon, come here for a bit."

When I pulled Manon to the corner of the conference room, I was sent a grinning gaze from the dekoboko sisters again.

"Sorry, Manon, I didn't mean to lie, but actually ..."

I told Manon what happened after we were summoned, and then asked her to help everyone get used to Volzard.

"Kobayashi ... that's not it, umm ... Tomoko and Akemi are girls, and Manon is the only girl who became friends with me that is the same age as me, so I think you might be confused, but please take care of them, is that okay?"

"Yeah, that's okay ... I can't help it if I'm the only girl you're close to, yeah, yeah ..."

Well, I made a troublesome request, but Manon is in a good mood, but I wonder if she's happy to make new friends.

After all Manon also had a loner constitution.

While talking to Manon, it seems that registration has been completed, and the five are happily looking at their guild cards.

Yeah, everyone's got F rank cards, good, that's good ...

"Kent, what about the immediate living expenses of these five people?"

"Oh, yes, I've got the orc magic stones and the Gigawolfs that I killed on the way, and I'll take it out of that."

"What, Gigawolf!"

Otto-san seems to have not heard the story of the Gigawolfs, and steps back in surprise.

Donovan-san asked, interrupting the surprised Otto-san's words.

"Kent, where are they?"

"Yes, they're in the shadow storage, so I can pull them out at any time ..."

"Of course they're big, aren't they?"

"Yes, they're big enough to surprise me."

"Okay, pull them out in the back training ground and I'll appraise them."

"Yes, thank you."

And so we all moved to the training ground behind the guild.

Although the training for mages is being held today, there is no figure of Muell-san who has successfully advanced to the next stage.

"Kent, put it out here."

"OK, Reinhardt, please."

[ I understand. ]

When I opened the entrance to the shadow storage, Reinhardt takes out the Gigawolfs one after another.

Surprised voices are raised from the surroundings as the metallic skeleton carries out the giant Gigawolfs one after another.

Everyone who was taking the training for mages were also gathered at the training grounds.

That's right, I would be surprised if Mount Fluffy suddenly appeared, too.

I asked Reinhardt to return to the shadows when the work was done.

Donovan-san, who was inspecting the wounds of the Gigawolfs, asked with a suspicious expression.

"Hey Kent, how were these guys defeated?"

"Yes, I moved under their head with shadow move, and from there I killed them with light-type attack magic."

"What! You're the one beat them?"

Donovan-san seemed to think that Reinhardt and the others had defeated them, and he made a very surprised voice, which caused the eyes of the people around to concentrate on me.

"Well, uh ... yes, that's right."

When I nodded, Donovan-san caught my neck and pulled me over to where the mage's training was being held.

Isn't it too easy to grab my neck?

"Show me ..."

No ... There are a lot of people watching, is that okay?

I'm sure I shouldn't stand out too much.

However, Donovan-san shook his chin and urged me to do it as soon as possible, so I can't help but do it.

"Hmm ... then ..."

I stretched out my pistol-shaped right hand towards the target straw doll and shot the attack magic.

The magic hit it properly, and a hole was opened in the head of the straw doll, so I lowered my hand.

Donovan-san opened his eyes wide towards the straw doll target, but I can hear the noise from the gallery that was watching in the distance, perhaps because they couldn't not see the target well.

"What's wrong, why is he not doing anything?"

"Why doesn't he start?"

After a short time lag, smoke rose from the straw doll's head and it was eventually engulfed in flames.

"Wow, what's that, it's burning."

"What did he do?"

Donovan-san who was frozen while staring at the target, thawed, and his eyes turned towards me.

"You ... what about chanting?"

"Um ... I've never done it."

"Come to think of it, you went into the shadows without chanting ... Is it really the light attribute just now?"

"Maybe ... I think so, because I imaged the light attribute ..."

"Hmm ..."

I was glared at by Donovan-san with his arms folded and surrounded by the noise of the gallery, which made me extremely uncomfortable.

After turning his gaze towards the Gigawolfs, Donovan-san asked me.

"Didn't you take out the magic stones?"

"Yes, I didn't have time to dismantle it, so their state is like this."

"Okay, for that, is it okay to pay the amount after appraisal and dismantling?"

"Yes, that's fine ... Oh, everyone's immediate living expenses are needed, so can you cash in just the orcs' magic stones?"

"That's right ... Okay, we'll move to the counter inside. You guys should resume the class quickly."

The mages have returned to their class, and the adventurers who have been practicing independently are gathering around the Gigawolfs.

"That ... Donovan-san, is Gigawolf such a rare thing?"

"Obviously, they're far more annoying than rock ogres."

"Have they attacked Volzard?"

"It's rare, and even if one comes, it's not a whole flock, it's just a solo individual, but it's a ridiculous thing that jumps over the wall without hesitation and often escapes without being killed because it moves fast."

Previously, the Gigawolf, that appeared in Volzard, jumped over the walls and invaded the city, attacked people and returned to the Devil's Forest like a bad joke.

Moreover, it seems that more than 10 people were killed while attacking over and over trying to kill it.

"Please let me know if you see another one. Even if I have to chase it into the Devil's Forest, I will kill it."

"Mmm ... I see, I got it, at such a time I'll rely you."

"Yes, leave it to me."

Each orc magic stone was bought for 12,000 Helts.

The five people will be given 15,000 Helts each for their immediate living expenses.

Now that we've finished making their IDs, it's time to buy what they need for their lives.

"Manon, I want to shop for clothes for everyone, but could you guide us to the store ... Manon?"

"Eh ...?"

Perhaps since so many things happened at once and she was confused, Manon seemed to be looking at my face and wasn't listening.

"Um ... I want to shop for clothes for everyone, can you show me to the store?"

"Yeah, yeah, okay, leave it to me! I'll guide you all, yeah, yeah."

"P, Please then ..."

"Leave it to me!"

Manon is very motivated for some reason, but is she happy to make more friends at once, or is she happy to show us around her city?

The dekoboko sisters are grinning, and the old and new duo and fake glasses throw me a murderous gaze, but what is it, I'm doing my best.

Let's go shopping for the time being.