CH 64

“Big Commotion! Find the Little Hero!”

Translated by Dawn

Edited by Dawn

“Big Commotion! Find the Little Hero!”

The time was a few hours after Roland left the city of Rendark…….

~Side Gyrmzak~

“Where is he? Where did he go!?”

“Find him! Find our hero!”

“Where on earth did he go!?”

When I woke up in the morning, I found a group of adventurers moving hurriedly. Apparently, they were looking for someone.

My head throbbed with pain, probably from drinking too much the day before. I was completely hungover.

In my worst waking state, as my consciousness becomes clearer, I see things that I didn’t see before. I see that my friends who were supposed to be drunk with me are not there…….

“Where the heck did those guys go?”

Just as I let out one such mutter, a familiar face came rushing in from the inn’s entrance. It was Akini.

When she saw me, she immediately rushed over to me and began to heckle me as if she was in a hurry.

“This is bad, Gyrmzak! The master is gone!”

“Whaat? …I see, he’s gone.”

Apparently, all this commotion was caused by the disappearance of Rolando-boy, the master who had trained us. But I don’t panic when I hear that. I even think that the day has finally come.

The master, Rolando-boy, told me that he had originally stopped by this town on his way to see the rest of the world. If that is the case, it is inevitable that he will disappear from this town sooner or later.

Now that our training was over and we had defeated the Orc King, there was no reason for the Master to be in this city.

The reason why he came to this city in the first place was apparently to go to the biggest city he could in order to make efficient earning of traveling expenses.

“Why are you still half asleep!? We were going to have a triumphal parade, but it’s meaningless if the hero who saved this city is gone!”

“Don’t yell at me too much…….it echoes in my hungover head.”

“Anyway, you’re coming with me to find the Master!”

“O-oi! Don’t pull me now!”

Then I met up with Azul and Maylene, and I was taken around a lot. The cost of forcing a hungover person to go around was huge, and the worst result was that I vomited everything in my stomach on the way.

Our search was in vain, and the only information we could obtain was that the master had left the city of Rendark before dawn. The other three looked frustrated, but I, who had prepared for this to some extent, was more sad than frustrated.

“Why did he leave without saying anything to us!?”

“I still wanted you to teach me some things…….”

“We haven’t even kissed yet…….”

One of them was saying something strange, but I followed my hunch that if I interrupted her, I might get into trouble, so I just kept quiet and tried to regain my strength.

When the commotion had died down to some extent, I was resting at the dining room table in the room where the master was staying when Nesana-san, the innkeeper, appeared.

“Um~ Do you have a minute~?”

“W-what is it?”

Instead of Akini, who was in a bad mood, Maylene, who was despairing, and me, who was hungover, Azur, who was in the only sane state among the four of us, responded to her.

As I leaned back lazily against the table, wondering what on earth she was up to, the words that came out of her mouth were surprising.

“Actually~, I have a letter for you guys from the little boy~”

“”””What?””””

All four of us were in the worst mood with a hangover when we heard the word that we had a letter from the person we had been looking for, and all four of us shouted out in surprise.

Feeling better as if we had forgotten how bad we had been feeling, we accepted the letter as if snatching it from Nesana-san and began to look through the letter from the master.

[Hey, guys. You must be surprised at my sudden disappearance. Well, the Orc King problem is over for now, and I’ve come up with enough money so I’m going to the next town. There are still some things I need to work on, but I’ve decided that I don’t have anything left to teach you anymore, so I’m going to give you all a pass. Rejoice! You can handle the rest of the training on your own. Oh, and if you want to follow me, that’s your choice, but if you do, I’ll do my best to avoid you. I’ve enjoyed meeting you guys, despite everything that’s happened!　See you guys later. Rolando.]

When I finished reading my mentor’s letter, I sat down in my chair and looked into the empty air. As the other three people question the contents of the letter, I hand it to them without any effort.

The content of the letter is too much, and I can see that he is writing it with a surly face that I can’t imagine from that lovely face.

Damn. What are you trying to say, “Rejoice”? There’s still so much I want to learn from you, but you can’t just leave me here in this half-assed state.

The other members of the group seemed to feel the same way, swearing in exasperation as they finished reading the letter. For a while, the master’s war of words continued, but it didn’t last long, and then silence fell.

“…I’m going to chase him.”

“Ehh. But you don’t know where Master went, do you?”

“I’m not just going to look around aimlessly…….”

“…… Hey, wait a minute.”

The silence was broken by a single word from Akini, followed by Azul and me. As if to interrupt the conversation, Maylene opened her mouth.

“Where was the last place Master stopped before he left town?”

“What? What does that have to do with–“

“I see, you mean that maybe when he greeted some people before he left town, he told them where he was going!”

“Yes, so let’s find out.”

We agreed to Maylene’s proposal and decided to first talk to Nesana, who had received our letter. The answer we got back was.

“When he left our inn, he said he was going to stop by the Adventurer’s Guild~”

After hearing those words, we immediately headed for the Adventurers’ Guild. I came to the conclusion that if he was heading to the guild for the last time, he should have greeted the guild master.

We headed to the guild and called out to Mirian, who was just at the reception desk. The guild was full of adventurers looking for their missing heroes.

“Mirian, I’m sorry, but I need to see the guildmaster.”

“I understand. Wait a minute. “

In order to ask the guild master, Mirian immediately goes to the guild master’s room. Immediately after returning, Mirian’s mouth informed us that the guildmaster would be meeting with us, and we went straight to the guildmaster’s room.

“Enter.”

When I knocked on the door of the office, the door to the Guildmaster’s room, I immediately received an answer.

Without hesitation, I opened the door to find the guildmaster sitting in his chair at his office desk.

“So, what are you here for?”

“I heard that Master met you before he left town. Did he say where he was going?”

“…..”

The guildmaster responded to my question with silence. However, his silence means the affirmation of my question. Silence is the answer.

“Can you tell us where he went? We’ll go after him.”

“Haa, even if I say I won’t tell you, you’ll leave on your own. Fine, I’ll tell you.”

It seemed that the guildmaster was concerned that we, the only A-rank adventurers in town, might leave town, but adventurers are originally travelers with nothing but their clothes on. The guildmaster probably understands that we cannot be tied down to a single place.

“I didn’t directly ask him where he was going next, but I did ask him what he was going to do next. The answer I got back was something like, “I’m going to train in a place where there are strong monsters. The closest place with strong monsters from this Rendark is……”

“The Labyrinth City of [Orargand].”

Before hearing the Guildmaster’s full answer, I uttered the answer. The answer seems to have been correct, and the guildmaster nods quietly.

The labyrinth city [Orargrand] is the name of a labyrinth city in the territory called Gargand, which is located east of this Raganfeild territory, and as it is called a labyrinth, it is a city where dungeons exist.

A dungeon is a place where monsters naturally occur and are composed of many layers, and the monsters that appear are diverse.

In addition, the lower the level, the stronger the monsters become, and the higher the difficulty level.

Cities with dungeons thrive by trading in the monster materials that can be taken from the dungeons and the loot that can be obtained from the treasure chests that appear from time to time.

Orargrand is the largest Labyrinth City in the Kingdom of Shells, and it is also one of the most famous dungeons in the world.

The royal city of the Kingdom of Shells is also a well-developed city because it is the king’s home, but Orargrand is said to be developing at a remarkable pace, second only to the royal city due to its large dungeon.

“Are you going after the boy?”

“Yes, because I’m not satisfied with such a half-hearted parting of the ways.”

“Geez, the master and the disciples aren’t that different. Don’t you think for one second about the people who are going to suffer without you!”

The guild master, however, did not sound malicious, but rather happy.

“Don’t worry about this city, just go.”

“Thank you. You’ve been a great help to us.”

With these words, we left the guildmaster’s room. Two days later, we left Rendark. We would have liked to go to Orargrand right away, but we were not prepared for the trip and it took us a long time to get ready.

“Let’s go, quickly.”

“Don’t be so hasty, Akini. We know where the master is going. Why don’t we go slowly?”

“I-I know!”

Akini’s face turns red at Azul’s pointing out. Her childish gesture of wanting to get there as soon as possible makes my face break into a smile.

Maylene is Maylene, mumbling something and saying, “I won’t let you go, master. I’ll be the master’s first time…….” I heard some disturbing words but decided not to listen.

“Alright, now it’s time to leave for Orargrand. You haven’t forgotten anything, have you?”

“No.”

“No.”

“No.”

After checking our forgotten items, we left the city of Rendark for Orargrand.

Thus, we took our first step in the hope of meeting our master again.