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He took an overnight stay in a small town at the foot of the mountain on the road to the southern port town, the marine city of Amar. It became a room with a strange red-haired girl, Mr. Shall, but that's just a story for one night, too.

When I walked into the rented room, I just started the TSS (Tactical Support System) and switched from avatar customization to lightweight attire. It's inconvenient to say that a power suit can't be taken off without going through the TSS, but my physical abilities would be normal or less if I didn't wear this.

Turn the head goggle into the smallest Bluetooth earphone type. When you put this on, you lose your goggles, so less information is visible, and you can't see the number of ammunition in your main uniform or map information in real time -

"Is that...?

Even though I don't have goggles, there's a map floating in my sight... Even in VMB games, goggle-free costumes were called a kind of tie-in play and could only be worn by some players with a focus on voluntary feature limitations or in non-combat areas.

In terms of VMB specifications, if I didn't go through the goggles and their equivalent glasses and lenses, the UI information would have had to be seen in the TSS......

This… I have noticed for a long time that I was able to switch between goggles mode, normal, night vision and infrared thermography without manually switching them just to be aware. Part of the VMB system is starting to assimilate into my body, that's what I was thinking, but apparently seeing map information without this goggle is also the result of that assimilation phenomenon progressing?

"Will it be even more monstrous..."

Compared to when I just fell into this world, I have no more aversion to my body. But if you can make the inhuman body feel like this again, once the healed emotions are something that will turn around again.

I thought maybe, I took off the power suit and moved lightly, but the body of the vegetable doesn't seem to be able to embody the power of the assist by the power suit. I don't know if this can't be done all this time, or not now...

"What are you doing in your underwear?

My whole body trembled at the words that hung unexpectedly. When I looked at the map floating in my sight, there was a light point floating at the entrance to the room. Horrible looking back, it's Charles in the same room standing...

"Hey, light before bed, exercise?

"Yes... but do that when you're alone"

"Right... are you taking a nap too?

"I won't! I just came to check the location and interior of the room! I'll be shopping in town, so keep your keys locked."

That's what Mr. Shall said and disappeared into the hallway.

- Go to sleep.

I locked the door as she advised, lay down in a twin bed lined up with a small night table between them, and slept in my first bed in a long time until dinner time.

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I felt hungry and woke up. When I check the time, before twenty o'clock, or the accommodation room is upstairs, but under the floor -, I can hear the crowd coming from the tavern on the ground floor.

It would be a good time, I set up a power suit, changed into clothes that I could go out and went down to the liquor store.

There were several round tables in the tavern and most of the seats were filled with working-style men who had finished their day's work. Looking for an empty seat, there was only one seat sitting at the round table.

It's the red-haired girl, Mr. Shall, sitting there. I don't have any other seats available, and I'll let you come with me.

"Mr. Shall, may I join you?

Mr. Charles didn't seem to have started eating yet, drinking fruit liquor or barley liquor a drink poured into a glass. With the glass on your mouth, take your gaze right and left -

"There doesn't seem to be any other available seats, that's fine."

Sitting across the street from Mr. Charles, I ask the waiter's sister, who is moving around the tavern, for dinner. The drink was a choice of water or alcohol. I don't want to drink alcohol and shoot firearms, so I don't usually drink any alcohol, but it's boring to drink it thoroughly until I come to the tavern.

I ordered some barley wine and also decided to wait for the meal to come as I asked Mr. Shall if there was any extra.

It would be nice to sit down and wait for the meal to come...... I don't have a conversation with Mr. Shall. No, I wasn't trying to have a nice chat, but Mr. Charles didn't talk about anything with his cup in his mouth, just staring at this one.

"What...?

"Nothing..."

And the time of silence continues, like being isolated from the hustle and bustle around us.

"Thank you for your patience."

My sister-in-law holds a basin with food on both hands and moves it to the table with a tequila. They put barley in front of me, too, and I'm ready.

"Thanks ~"

"Oh, brother. I can't believe you're thanking me for this."

"Really? Then I'll ask for a barrel of barley wine, which I haven't felt like drinking in a long time. You can put your fishing in your pocket."

I offered my sister two silver coins.

"Thank you very much, brother."

My sister-in-law turned her hand around my neck as she sat in her seat, hugged her gently and then disappeared to the back "I'll bring it to you soon ~".

Come on, let's get dinner. Black bread in a bucket with vegetable soup and a large boned thigh with a stuffed roasted bird system! The spices are shaking, the aroma that irritates my stomach drifts all over the table.

Gu ~ ~ ~

My stomach's pounding.

"Hmm?"

Turning his gaze from the dish to the sounder, Mr. Charles is still putting a glass on his mouth and solidifying. The eye area visible from the top of the cup was bright red.

"Mr. Shall?

"What?"

I hear a slight creeping response.

"That cup, it's empty, right?

"Then what is it?"

I totally thought that would happen...

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

My sister-in-law came back with a barrel and a stand. Put a stand on the corner of the table, put a barrel on top of it and it's ready. The top of the barrel has a plug replacement pour and cock.

"Thanks ~"

"Enjoy your meals and drinks."

Guess it's the next order too, your sister disappeared back again, waving small.

"I could have a bigger barrel than I thought. - I can't even drink this by myself. - Yes, Mr. Charles, would you like to drink with me? Whatever, I'll have this dinner bill, too. If you haven't finished dinner yet."

From the obvious bar reading, Charles narrowed his eyes with the glass on his mouth and seemed to be watching this one for his sincerity.

"Are you trying to get me drunk and do something?

"No way."

"I'm a C-rank adventurer."

"I'm a D-rank adventurer."

"Even if I'm drunk, I'll kill you if you attack me."

"If it's enough to assault you, I'll go and dictate to your sister earlier"

"You think I'm unattractive?

"I'm not interested in girls"

"... you like mature women?

"Why do you fly your age?

"You sure you don't want to attack me?

"I won't attack you. Dinner, don't you need it?

Gu ~ ~ ~

The response was not Mr. Shall's mouth, but the bellyworm that rang again.

"Hey hey hey, I'll have dinner for one more here! Lots!!

"Ha ~ i"

I stood up momentum well and watched Mr. Charles scream for an order as he wielded an empty cup, exhaling into his long-time barley and clinging to the grilled thigh.

Since the size of the barrel is about two to three liters, and the size of the cup is not that big, it doesn't look like it will go away even if I pour two or three cups.

The food served is delicious too, and the liquor goes on. That's the same with Mr. Charles, who drinks his barley vigorously as he clings to the thigh of the bird at dinner, where the menu was the same.

"Pfft! You, I thought you were a bit of a behaving young nobleman, but you're so sweet inside! Oh, with the barley."

"Yes, yes - yes, please"

"What did you say your name was?

It's Schwartz.

"Oh, that would have been your name. D-rank just means you can go to the labyrinth. Where have you been so far?

"It was based in the castle city of Barga."

"Barga? I just heard outside that Barga's Tooth Wolf Labyrinth has been crusaded. You say there's going to be a harvest festival, and you came out there without making money?

"Yeah, there was a place you wanted to go."

"Where did Mr. Shall go from here? Are you heading to Barga?

"Me? I am the other way around. The other way around. I'm on my way to Amar from the north of the capital."

Amahl is my destination, too.

"Heh-heh."

Receive the empty cup offered and pour the barley wine back.

"Go ahead."

"Thanks."

What, can you say thank you or something? This girl.

"Is the destination with you? - Yes, yes, yes! Then I will escort you to Schwartz! Of course it pays! The mountain crossing will be tough for Schwartz, the D-rank adventurer. There's a demon ore mine across the mountain, so every once in a while, a subrace leans in. But don't worry! I'll escort you to C-rank Adventurer and you'll have nothing to worry about!"

"What? You don't have to."

"No, no, no, no, I know you're overconfident in your power, but that's common for new adventurers! Just because they cut through the fight a little better makes me weirdly confident. Without knowing how many dead places I've dived and survived!

"Huh."

"But I'm relieved, I'll teach you my thoughts and knowledge as an adventurer. Of course it pays!

After that, it was useless to say anything else. At some point an escort contract will be signed to teach you escorts from the town at the foot to the marine city of Amar, as well as outdoor courses as an adventurer, survival training on how to swing prey, etc., and as far as I'm concerned I'd like to get to Amar as soon as possible......, "That's the same for me! We're on our way! There were no words to say if returned."