78 44 Stories: The Hidden

By dawn we had arrived in a new village again.

I don't even have time to find out the name of the village. Having just succeeded in escaping the assassins' pursuit, we couldn't afford to hide the worn out look and went to the inn, where we slept.

The owner wasn't surprised that he asked us to come to the inn early in the morning and "let him rest anyway". He worried me more than that.

When I wake up and try to leave the inn with Mize's hand still in bed, the owner tells me, "Don't push me too hard."

"It's lunch."

Mize squeaks when she looks up at the sky.

Yang was just, like, rising to the center of the sky.

After I borrowed the dormitory bedroom and slept about four hours. I haven't slept long enough, but I'm still much lighter than I was when I was escaping my assassins.

"Can you walk?

"Yes."

"Can you run?

"... for a short time"

I've noticed it on the journey.

To Mize, who has a habit of cheering up the air, he said, "Are you okay?" It is forbidden to ask. Because I will always say, "It's okay." But if you check your physical condition in detail this way, you'll confess to me honestly.

"... it hurts to lose a carriage"

Depending on the terrain, perhaps the majority of the assassins the Bureau points at are using carriages and other vehicles to follow us. At times of need, we must squeeze our already low health to the limit and flee, but the enemy will come after us with extra strength. Overwhelmingly disadvantaged.

This village is bigger than the last one I stopped by.

As a result, the number of merchants visiting does not appear to be small. If we went to the edge of the village, we found a stables to keep the merchants' horses.

While there is a strong beast odor, look left and right and look for signs of people.

The stables are alone. He's a loose attitude man with no shards of vigilance. To that extent, I can be stopped in an instant.

"... steal it"

"Huh?"

"It's an emergency. unavoidable."

Defeat the stables, steal one horse, and then steal the carriage too.

The carriage deck is by the stables, so you should appropriately steal what's in front of you. Even if you are found on the way, the burden on the road changes a lot if you have one horse.

"Let's not do that."

I'm thinking of an operation in my head, Mize said.

"... Last night, Mr. Tweet told me, didn't he? He said he'd run away with me everywhere.... If our journey has no end, this is not an emergency or anything, but our new routine (...). So... I think you should stop bothering people as much as possible"

It makes sense.

Indeed, Mize is right, this emergency is likely to continue in the future. Seems to sin over and over again and annoy unrelated people because it's an emergency in the future - that's the same with the burglars.

The escape has begun and more than ten days have elapsed.

I needed to change my way of life. If this situation is not the only one, there can be no such thing as a permissible act right now.

"But when it comes to getting a carriage on a positive offense, we need money"

"... excuse me. I can't even come up with an alternative, and it looks great."

"No... it's better than forgetting to choose the means and becoming a burglar. I'm glad you stopped me."

We're in trouble right now because we don't have the key money.

Worried about what to do, a pair of guys crossed in front of us. Just now, you've just finished your lunch break, and the men head for the village exit with a slightly swollen belly in their hands.

There was a plank-shaped thing in his hand that he was used to seeing.

"Mr. Too Eight, now..."

"Oh... it's an adventurer card"

There are no other settlements or cities nearby. If so, they must be not adventurers who occasionally stopped by this village, but adventurers who are leaving this village now.

Walk around the village with quick feet.

And we found the building we were looking for.

"... there's something here, too."

Adventurer Guild. I didn't think there was a branch in a village like this either.

Wooden architecture full of tall gaps, but the building itself is large. It is also busy, so you can see that it is decently open.

"Mize, we're gonna make some money here."

"Okay.... Oh, but you can't use our adventurer card"

Mize trying to retrieve the card stops the movement.

Of course. The card says our name. During the escape, information is not dropped without meaning.

"As someone else, register again.... but I'm alone."

"Just Mr. Tweet, is it?

"We'll share the reward anyway. One of them would be enough to sign up. Plus... the Alliance could have our faces cracked. I'm used to disguising myself as the only way to interact with the receptionist."

"... ok"

Once away from the guild, I decide to be ready.

Along the way, I found a cabin with livestock. Put your hand on the old fence and cut some of the strings used to reinforce it with a short knife.

There was a river running right next to it. After taking off the coat that was on his head, he stuck his hand in the river and flushed his hair back with his wet hands. Further, he cut some of the coat with a short knife and threw the string he had earlier obtained through the cloth. After covering your left eye with a cloth, tie the string behind your head to secure it.

"Eye bands, are...?

"Oh. This should change my impression a lot. It's a cheap disguise, but it'll be bearable for a few days or so."

I also changed my hair. Cheap isn't easy to spot.

I've tried to change my appearance appropriately, but the most important thing to note is that me and Mize are acting together. Perhaps the assassins are looking for us by narrowing it down to a "pair". It wasn't just hassle-free for me to sign up for the guild, it was also to get out of the condition of a pair.

"If you make money quickly, confine yourself to crusading demons. Mize will be waiting around for you to take the Type II license exam."

"Yes."

Mize, who shook her neck vertically, immediately afterwards sounded like she noticed something "ah".

"Um, Mr. Tweet. I noticed one problem..."

"What?

"When it comes to new carriages, you need to get a request for the highest possible reward. But...... the adventurer immediately after registering is an F-rank, and I wonder if you can't take a high-difficulty request?

Mize's question is best.

When we got our license in Wang Du, they were all F-ranked at first. There are types of requests that F-rank adventurers can receive. But...

"No problem."

Basically, adventurers start with the F-rank, but there are exceptions.

For example, Oz showed overwhelming strength in the test and had obtained D-rank from the beginning.

So - you just have to do the same thing as that.

"This time I'm serious"

◆

Ten minutes later.

Having finished each of the magic tests and the basic combat tests, I reported the results to Mize.

***********

● Tuate

Magic output: D

Magic Instant Stress: A

Magic persistence: C

Magic control: A

***********

"........................ yeah"

Mize, having trouble reacting, eventually leaked a groan.

The last result must have been "DBCB" in order from the top.

Unfortunately, magic output (power) and magic persistence (stamina) are not good areas. But still, I am a soldier of an ex-institution. I had plenty of time to brush my fangs.

"Surely, Evaluation A means comparable to the Knights' Commander/Deputy Commander..."

"Right."

"By analogy in the kingdom of Terraria, you mean comparable to the Knights of Kingsguard who came to the school before this, or the Knights of Zhenghong."

"Right."

"... yeah"

At the earliest, there is no point in being deluded.

Affirming, Mize zeroed her weird voice again.

"I was able to act as a C-rank adventurer from the start with special provisions. Now it's possible to take high-difficulty requests."

"... I'm so sore that I don't like it since this journey began, but until now, Mr. Tweet has been a bit of a detractor in many places."

"As far as I'm concerned, I was just going to tweak it if I had to... I wouldn't deny it"

"... mmm"

Don't you care what was hidden, Mize swelled both cheeks to expose her dissatisfaction.

"Let me make an excuse for once, but I don't like it and hide things, either. Hands down, acts up, everything for a reason, until we do it."

"Then fine.... Ah, so, for example, was it actually an act that was making weird gas in a magic pharmacy class? At that time, there was a reason I had to..."

Mize has thrown the question with pure innocent eyes.

After a while of worrying, I answer.

"………………… yes"

"I knew it! I thought it was suspicious because I don't normally do that."

... right.

Was I still suspicious?