CH 14.1

Translator: Erothur

While I do quest as usual hoping that it will help decreasing the town’s danger level, father also helps exterminating some of them while he is on the way to do his lumberjack work. And maybe because of that, a while later after we start focusing on reducing the danger level, the orcs that was supposed to be on their breeding season got completely exterminated from the surrounding forest.

Father also informed the knight brigade via Filianes-san about the increasing of monster around the town and request their help to starts a mass monster subjugation in the area. At the same time, Mizell’s branch Adventurer’s guild also announce that they will start a vigilante corps to help subjugating the over increasing monster.

Adventurers who once create a party together with me enthusiastically agree to join the vigilante corps. By using a limited period quest to increase the prize money, the vigilante corps caught many other adventurers’ interest and ended up creating a total of 10 subjugation parties. With this 10 parties working together in the vigilante corps, the monster subjugation quest went on smoothly without a hitch.

Amongst the parties inside the vigilante corps, the party that Father made can even easily subjugates 4 stars categorized monsters. With the support from Filianes-san and the knight brigade vigorous work, Mizell’s danger level finally decreases until the level [safest] without even taking a week.

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Finally, monsters won’t show up the forest around the town. After a few days such situation continues, the little kids living in Mizell town starts to go out to the forest to play. But they cannot go deeper to the forest because the hunter and vigilante corps are glaring at them.

But because I need to keep my strength a secret, I can’t join the Knight Brigade and the Vigilante Corps when they are doing the monster subjugation, so because of that, for the past few days, I haven’t go to the forest to check the situation there. Finally when I see the chance to sneak out to check the forest’s situation, I was thinking of going there alone but….. I don’t know when it happened but when I realize it, Riona had already followed me from behind.

“If Hiro-chan is going then I will also go!”

She says that as she grips the edge of my clothes tightly. Once she becomes like this she’ll definitely follows even if I refuse her. From my relationship with her until now, I just know it.

“Can’t be helped then…… Just don’t stray away from me okay?”

“Okay!”

I the forest, rabbit type mob appear but they are not an aggressive type mob so they won’t attack anyone unless provoked so it’s not a problem. Because of that, they usually hunted by a one hit kill sneak attack which is kinda pitiable.

(…… Eh? Why is there nothing here……?)

There are no animal or even the just mentioned rabbit mob. Even slimes would sometimes pop up around here but…… I can’t feel any living being presence around here.

I steel myself and continue on advancing the eerily silent forest. And after a while, I could hear the sound of streaming water from afar.

I heard a story before about a beautiful lake inside the forest which was usually used by the girls of Mizell town to take a bath…… or such kind of similar story. Judging from the sound of water, maybe it was that lake that I found.

“…… Hiro-chan”

“N? …… What is it?”

Riona suddenly grabs my shirt’s edge and stop moving. I thought something had happened but as far as I see the surrounding area, there is nothing around.

“Hiro-chan. Could you hear that? Some kind of rustling sound”

“Rustling sound? …… I don’t think I hear any……”

---- At that moment, my log event window that has been quiet for a while suddenly showing lines of text in a high speed.

LOG

- The power of demon king had called for disaster…… Your Fortune skill is rendered 0 for some time.

- 《Riona》 had evoked the skill [Happening]!

(Wha……!?)

Such thing had never happened before. Usually, if I am around then Riona’s misfortune would get blocked off totally.

Even just for a period of time, to actually lower skill level…… I never know such kind of powerful debuff attack exist! Even if there are cases of sealing the skill off, the principle of [decreasing a skill level numerical value] was impossible!

My throat feel parched all of the sudden. I can’t even let out any sound. And then to me who are still bewildered with the sudden happening, the event log window is like giving the last blow to my weakened calmness.

LOG

- 《Riona》 existence has called forth for another mighty existence!

“Wha...... Riona!”