Chapter 338: Friendly Fire

Chapter 338: Friendly Fire

“Eh? You know what could do this?”

“Yes, there’s just one thing I can think of.”

While looking around at the disaster to the surroundings, Kiara opened her mouth and spoke seriously.

“The Rank S adventurer known for friendly fire, Asura.”

“Friendly fire? Are you sure about that!?”

“I am not. However, I cannot think of any others who could do this.”

Mia is shocked. They seem to be rather famous. No, that’s to be expected if they are S-Rank adventurers. Anyways, why are they fighting each other? They have a rather dangerous name attached to themselves as well.

“Who? Friendly fire?”

“S-Rank adventurers. You don’t know of them? The Asura of friendly fire.”

“Nn. Why the strange title?”

Fran tilted her head in confusion, leading Mia and Quina to explain to her.

“It’s an old story, but I heard that when they participated in wars on other continents, they would attack their allies along with their enemies.”

“The enemy was exterminated, and it seems the allies also suffered enormous damage.”

“That’s not all. I have a number of similar stories as well.”

“The reason he still hasn’t been punished is because he’s overwhelmingly strong, and is constantly making more money than he can waste.”

“There are many rumors mixed in with the facts, so I don’t know how much is true.”

Even if those stories are only half true, it still paints a bad picture. After all, regardless of whether you’re an ally or an enemy, one has to be careful just being closeby.

“Well, it’s not that he’s a bad person.”

It seems that between the two rocks, there was a magical beast that had become trapped there and died. Probably, like being stuck between a pair of shears, it was sandwiched between the two rock walls. There were also eight rock objects standing by quietly, sandwiching the dead monster.

“... This is definitely him. I have seen the Asura fire off this same attack before.”

It seems there’s no mistake that these monsters were exterminated by the Asura. Does that mean the Asura and the Dungeon are fighting each other? If this many monsters had appeared in this place, then they’d definitely be related to that Dungeon.

“Could the reason Murellia was called back be this?”

“I see, there is that possibility. Ojou-sama, how unusually clear sighted.”

“You didn’t need to add ‘unusually’! More importantly, we need to hurry to the Dungeon. If we are fast enough, we might be able to expect Asura-dono’s assistance.”

Are we going to get the Friendly Fire’s help? If possible, I don’t really want to get involved with that person... But if he doesn’t have blood rushing to his head, he isn’t likely to attack without warning.

“However, from the rumors I heard about Asura, I don’t believe he will just quietly agree to help.”

“We just need to hire him! In the case of emergencies, we have no choice but to do whatever is necessary, even seduction.”

“... Seduction?”

“Wha-, what’s with those looks!? The Asura might be a pervert that likes flat chested girls!”

“I suppose so.”

“Don’t look at me like that!”

It seems Asura is known to be free spirited, and won’t obey others if he doesn’t like them, regardless of whoever that person might be. In fact, he’s even picked fights with entire countries. On the other hand, if he likes you, he will accept even dangerous requests easily. The only thing is, he seems to charge a very expensive commision. And in advance.

“I cannot pay the request fee, you know.”

“Take out that money you’re hiding away. I know that you’re storing it with your maid.”

“This is saved in case of an emergency you know? I can’t use it in a place like this.”

“This is an emergency, fool!”

The longer I listen, the more uneasy I feel.

“At any rate, let us hurry to the dungeon.”

“Right.”