CH 268

The next day after shopping and remodeling.

For the first time in a long time, Tauro was making a special edition of Reversi in the garden of his temporary residence, Drago’s house.

“What a beautiful sculpture! By the way, what is this thing supposed to do?”

Drago took an interest in Tauro’s work and asked him a question.

Tauro willingly explained about Reversi to Drago and decided to actually play with him.

“Oh, I see! If you take it here like this, you’ll end up overturning a lot!”

Drago was a fast learner, and was immediately hooked.

So, Tauro, as it was, gave a special edition boards to Drago, and when Drago was pleased with it, Ragune visited the house at noon, a rare occasion using the ”dimensional corridor”.

‘Thank goodness Tauro, you’re home! I had a few things to report today.”

Ragune was relieved to see Tauro, and came out of her room into the garden.

“What’s the matter, Ragune? I’ve heard what’s going on over there in you’re message to your brother, right?”

Tauro thought, “?”, and decided to listen to Ragune’s report.

“Actually, right now, the D-rank quests of『Black Golden Wings』are centered on free quests that support high-level adventurers……”

“Yeah, it seems. Since the mediation of advanced quests will increase from the D rank zone, it’s time to go around supporting and learning a lot of things, right?”

“Ah, that’s right. So, we’ve decided to go on an outing to support a B-rank expedition. It looks like we’ll be leaving the village of Dansas for the time being.”

“Heh, for how long?”

Tauro still did not understand what Ragune was trying to say.

“The quest itself will only last about a week, but after that, according to the leader Aeris’s wishes, we will set up a base of operations in the capital for the time being.”

Ragune’s explanation sounded like she had something stuck in her back teeth.

“In the Royal Capital? I’m also stuck as it is, so I’m afraid I’ll be here for a long time, but is it safe in the Royal Capital with the assassin guild?”

“Th-that’s fine! Tauro sent three of my people to the village of Dansus, didn’t he?”

“Ah, the Dragon People.”

“Yes, those three have been secretly hunting suspicious people thought to be spies of the Assassin’s Guild in the village of Dansas for some time now, but it seems that they were seen by villagers while processing them, and it is difficult for us to get any more information from them.  So we decided to have them register as adventurers and work together. So we decided to go to the Royal Capital with the three of them to gather information on the assassination guild.”

“……That’s a sudden development, isn’t it? Did Aeris say anything about gathering information on the assassination guild?”

Tauro had left it to Count Daredar and the dragon people to make the move, but if Aeris was going to make a move, it would be a different story.

The reason I left the team was to prevent any harm from coming to my team members.

The situation could get worse if Aeris and the others were to go snooping around the assassination guilds.

“No, ……. The gathering of information on the assassination guild is the role of our three compatriots, and we are only supporting them. The three of them are not used to operating in the Royal Capital. I think we need Aeris and Ankh’s help. Aeris is not the one who initiated this. We all talked it over and came to that conclusion.”

Ragune is not a good liar.

Or rather, maybe Aeris and Ankh aren’t very good at it either, so they probably just left the role of messenger to Ragune, but it’s clear that they’re hiding something.

‘…… there’s a lot of things that are caught up in this. I’m not against it if it’s something everyone decide to do. But please be very careful.”

“Okay! But, Tauro, are you okay? It must be hard to be alone without us, right?”

Ragune, speaking for all of them, looked worried.

“I’m fine. Oh, yeah. I actually made a new friend.I wanted to introduce it to everyone, but under the circumstances, I’ll only introduce it to Ragune. Pella, break out of the mimicry.”

Tauro said, patting the belt on his stomach.

Then, the disguised slime Pella shook itself and appeared in front of Ragune and Drago.

““This is a mimic slime!?””

As expected of two members of the dragon tribe, they seem to know a lot about slime.

“It’s using mimicry, but this is a variant of the slime emperor, ‘Pella’. I’ve become a slime user now, so I’ve tamed this Pella.”

“”You tamed a subspecies of slime emperor!?””

Siblings, indeed.

they spoke in perfect harmony with every word.

“Yes, I heard it’s rare. But I’ll be fine, because Pella here is now my partner. Pella has both magic and physical resistance, so it’s strong.”

Pella was so happy to be praised by Tauro that it jumped up and down and appealed to him.

“”I never …… expected you to tame the pinnacle of slime, or even its subspecies…There are so many surprises that I can’t get my head around ……. Kill!””

Again, the older brother Drago and the younger sister Ragune all said their usual habits.