Chapter 170: Dias’ Secret

Chapter 170: Dias’ Secret

Dias greeted us with a surprised look on his face upon our return to the guild and ascent into his room.

「You’ve already beat the boss? That was pretty quick.」

「Nn.」

It seemed he didn’t expect us to already be done with the place, which I guess did make sense seeing as how we were training and all that. It probably would’ve taken like twice as long if not for my ability to level up skills through the absorption of magic stones.

「Message from Rumina. Fulfill contract.」

「Oh my. Who’s Rumina?」

「Sorry Erza, that’s a bit of a secret.」

Apparently everything about Rumina was supposed to be a secret kept even from Erza.

Whoops...

「Mmkay. Don’t worry, I get it.」

「Sorry. Thanks.」

「Teehee. A good woman is one that doesn’t ask too many questions.」

Erza seemed to catch onto to what was going on and dropped the topic immediately after winking. His quick response seemed to stem from the fact that he was completely aware of the difference in status between him and the Guildmaster, and that he wasn’t qualified to listen in on what we almost started discussing.

It’d be better for us to just move on to the next topic for the time being.

「Finished several requests.」

「I see. What exactly have you finished? We might as well verify it all now.」

「This, this...」

Fran pulled out all the sheets representing requests she’d completed. She first started with the 9 kill quests before working her way into the fetch quests. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem like we managed to hit the 23 quest threshold Dias had told us we needed.

「Mind showing me your dungeon card?」

「Nn. Here.」

「Hmmm, these are some nice results. You really have finished all the kill quests.」

「Wow Fran, you’re so awesome. Mhmm, yes you are~」

Dias and Erza were both surprised by the results shown on Fran’s dungeon card, as it informed them of all the magic beasts she’d slain.

Apparently, it was normal for adventurers to avoid battle if possible. We, on the other hand, did the exact opposite and basically mowed down everything in our way, so we ended up killing a tonne more monsters than they’d been expecting.

「Wow Fran! Even a whole party of D rankers would normally struggle to kill this many. Mhmm.」

「You should have enough materials to finish quite a few of your fetch quests too, right? Have you dismantled everything already?」Follow the latest novels at novelhall.com

「Nn. Done already.」

「Could you put everything over there then?」

「Got it.」

Erza had already laid out a vinyl-like sheet for us to put stuff on so that we wouldn’t dirty the floor with blood or whatever.

We laid our materials up on top of it, starting with the High Ogre’s horns and the Mimic Venom Crawler’s poison sacks. Erza was watching, so we made sure we made it look like we were taking things out of the cloth bag Fran had as opposed to my storage space.

「You’re just imagining things.」

「Are you trying to play some sort of prank on Fran again?」

「Again?」

「Nah, no way.」

Yeahhhhh, he’s definitely up to something, but I don’t think he’s about to let us in on what that something is no matter how much we poke at him, least not right now. I was stuck trying to think of some sort of solution, or at least I was until I saw Erza bring his face right up to Dias’ before speaking in a quiet tone of voice.

「I knew it. You really are up to something.」

「Hahaha, you sure seem confident.」

「Call it the result of a woman’s intuition!」

So uh... I decided to set aside the idea of how reliable Erza’s “womanly intuition” would be and focused on something a bit more important: the fact that Erza, who’d known Dias for quite a long time, asserted that he was probably up to something, then he was probably up to something.

I guess it’d probably be best for us to play our trump card then.

『Fran, use that.』

「Nn!」

Fran pulled out Klimut’s letter and held it up as if she was showing it off. That, of course, wasn’t enough on its own, so she threw in a few extra lines for added effect.

「Dias. Speak truth.」

「Haha... I don’t know what you’re talking about.」

Dias’ fear of Klimut was immediately demonstrated as his eyes began wavering the moment he saw the letter.

「Can tell you’re hiding something.」

「Oh come on... I swear you’re just imagining things.」

His voice wavered as well. Yeah, okay, I’m convinced now. He was definitely hiding something, and all we needed to figure out what that something was one last push.

「Will tell Klimut and Amanda that was pranked by Dias.」

「I’m sorry! I’m really sorry!」

The old Guildmaster leapt straight into the air before landing in a stance indicative of nothing but prostration. Yeah, gotta give it to him. He’s really got the physical capabilities of an A ranked adventurer. The fact that he flew over his huge ass desk made it a 10/10 performance.

「I’m really, really sorry!」

「What just happened? Just what is that thing?」

Erza’s eyes moved between Fran and Dias; the look on his face was one of clear confusion. The sight of an old man grinding his face into the ground whilst prostrating to a child was one that could bring a grown man to tears, so his confusion was only justified, especially seeing as it all happened just cause said old man happened to see a certain letter.

「Erza. This branch, any Carrier Hawks?」

「Yuppers.」

「Nn. First, will send letter to Klimut...」

「I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m really, really, really sorry. Please, anything but that.」

You know, he’d probably suffer a social death if word got out that he tried to play a prank on a little girl. Telling Amanda, however, would probably result in him experiencing an actual death.

「Then tell everything.」

「Alright. Maaaan, you’re so mean. Have you no mercy? I did so much for you too.」

We decided to wait till after we heard his case before we finally gave him a verdict.