CH 87

“A chance encounter between those who came late and those who met recently.”

Translated by Dawn

“A chance encounter between those who came late and those who met recently.”

“Mmm, Mm, Mm, Mm”

“I missed you. Sensei……”

Three more days had passed since I had completed Fahren’s designated request. I was now being lured, or rather forced to be lured, by a great cleavage.

I had no idea where the information leaked out, but before I knew it, Gyrmzak and his party were following me to Orargrand.

As usual, I arrived at the Adventurers’ Guild first thing in the morning, and when the Grymzak and his party saw me, they rushed to me. The one who gave me a particularly enthusiastic welcome was Maylene, who was able to experience the legendary hug with her proud, large breasts.

The sweet, citrusy scent that was peculiar to women tantalized my nostrils. Her breasts were so soft that you could nuzzle your entire face into them as if you were burying your face in a pudding.

“Puha, Get away from me! You’re annoying!!”

“Aahn, you’re so mean, sensei.”

If I were an average guy, I would have wanted to do a little leap of joy at the experience, but alas, it was nothing but an annoyance to me at the moment. Well, if you ask me if I like it or not, I do……. What? You got a problem with me, huh?!

Ignoring the writhing, bashful Maylene as best I could, I talked to the others and found out that they were following me to Orargrand, as I expected.

“There shouldn’t be anything left for me to teach you guys now, no?”

“I don’t think so myself!”

“….”

I barely managed to suppress the “Who are you?” that was about to come out of my throat, and I told them that I had taught them everything I knew. But the four of them were still not convinced and tried to beg me to teach them, but to tell the truth, I really had nothing to teach them.

To begin with, they lacked basic physical strength, and they were using their own physical enhancement skills to get by, but I pointed this out to them and had them improve their basic physical strength, which brought them to their current level of strength. Now that their basic physical strength had been improved, the best way for them to become stronger was for each of them to become stronger through their own training methods.

Therefore, even if they came to me, there was really nothing I could teach them, and the best I could do for them would be to fight mock battles with them.

If that was so, they could have a mock battle amongst themselves, or they could choose to travel elsewhere in search of a stronger opponent. Nevertheless, why do these guys stick with me?

“Anyway, what you lack in strength, you have already made up for in your previous training. All that remains is for each of you to find your own way to become stronger. That’s all. Dismissed!”

“”””I don’t agree with that.””””

I didn’t know what to say. Because I really had nothing to teach them. …… If anything, Maylene would need to further improve her control and manipulation of magic, and the other three still need to strengthen their basic physical fitness under physically demanding conditions, but these were things that could be trained well enough on their own, so it wasn’t worth the trouble of me teaching them.

Trouble could cause a vicious cycle of one problem compounding another, and that was where the worst of the worst appeared for me.

“What’s all this fuss?”

“Oh, ah”

“What are you talking about?”

There stood two beautiful women. One was a girl so beautiful that her fragile atmosphere fascinated all who saw her, even though she still had the childhood of a young girl. The other was a knight-like woman who stood by the girl, her dignity and beauty so refined that she could have been painted by a famous artist, and together with their atmosphere, they gave the impression that they were beautiful women.

However, this was only my impression of the two of them from an external point of view, and when I looked at them from the inside, my personal opinion was that they were nothing more than a curious brat and an unfortunate beauty who only had good looks.

“Master, who are these two?”

“No, these guys are……”

“Rolando-sama, what does he mean by ‘master’?”

“T-that’s right, what does it mean!?”

(Uwaa, I don’t want to explain.)

The emotion that was dominating my mind at the moment was simply that they were troublesome. The fact that the phrase “Don’t mix them, it’s dangerous”, which was often used in fabric softener or a mild detergent for cleaning the bathtub, came to my mind, suggests that I was sure that these guys were the ones I should not let them meet together. The proof is here…….

“What kind of relationship do you have with Master!? You’re being so familiar with him.”

“I wonder then, aren’t you two too close to each other?”

“He is the one who made us strong. Isn’t it natural for disciples to respect their master?”

“You are right, Rolando-sama is also a great benefactor who saved us from the hands of the bandits. We have yet to repay him for that, so please don’t interfere with us.”

“….”

“….”

I watched the sparks fly between Gyrmzak and Fahren as if it was someone else’s problem. I watched as Azur was getting in between to stop it, but I suddenly became concerned about the other three and looked at them, and saw that they were in a big fight here and there.

“What kind of relationship do you have with sensei?”

“I don’t need to tell you that. More importantly, why do you call that boy a sensei?”

“That’s something I don’t need to tell you.”

“….”

“….”

As one might expect, bad predictions often come true, and a one-on-one battle between Maylene and Kukkoro-san had begun. Akini was surprisingly in charge of mediating, but neither of them was willing to listen to the other, and the two were in a volatile mood.

Can I ask just one question? Can I go home? Please, can I? The fight they were having was started by them, and it had nothing to do with me. I might be indirectly involved, but to me, the fact that these guys were fighting was not important, and I honestly didn’t want to get involved any further if I possibly could.

I didn’t dislike either of them, but that didn’t mean I liked them either. We were just acquaintances who happened to have the opportunity to get to know each other.

“Ah, then, I’m leaving.”

“Stop following Master!”

“And you, stop calling him master!”

“You big-head!”

“Milk woman!”

“Alright, let’s go back.”

I faded away from the scene unnoticed, as no one responded to my words because they were so engrossed in the fight. I was supposed to receive the money for the purchase of the materials I delivered yesterday, but that could be done tomorrow, so for now I focused on getting away from the scene.

This proved to me that it was not a good idea to mix dangerous people together. It had become harder to go to the Adventurers’ Guild from now on, but I might have to make a futile move to go there when they were not around.

As I was walking through the city in such a depressed mood, a familiar face appeared from the direction I was going. It was Greg, a merchant who sold my accessories on consignment. He seemed to be looking for me and rushed toward me as soon as he spotted me.

“Boy, can I have a word with you?”

“What’s the matter?”

“Actually, I’ve been wholesaling to a couple of trading companies since then, and they’ve asked me for more stock. If you could help me out, I’d appreciate it.”

“Okay. At least for today.”

As a result of our discussions since then, we have decided to wholesale a certain number of accessories to other trading companies, but apparently, the sales were so good that they were pestering us to distribute more.

The work was already familiar to me, so it would not be a burden even if I increased the number, but my purpose in coming to this town was to train myself in the dungeon, so I would like to do it in a way that was not too much work for me.

After parting with GREG, I went to the dungeon on the same day to collect materials and conquer the dungeon, and that was the end of my day.  Incidentally, the highest level reached present was the first half of the 13th level, and the pace was quite leisurely.

The reason for this was that I had to stop by the 10th level once in order to get the magic quartz, which was the material for the accessories, but since I stopped by there only once every two days, I didn’t have much trouble with it.

For now, as for the problem of the Gyrmzak and his party and Fahren and the other, I pretended not to have seen it and went to sleep to carry out my purpose.