283 Lesson 282

Aotea glanced at everyone, and understanding their intentions, Dina stood up and set herself up against the footsteps coming from above.

"Hmm? Are you... Sorta, was that you? Did you get a request for a cave here, too?

It was Arben's line that came the other day when he spoke to Ethereum and Deena in the Adventurer's Guild.

"Is that what you were, Arben? You guys saw the rank higher than we did, but you're gonna get here."

Ethereum, who had guessed that from their gear and so on when he saw it in the guild before, would be a somewhat thorny way of saying it.

"Yeah, we do have a rank there, but sometimes we do requests like this. If you do all the right ranks, you'll get tired."

Arben smiled back at Nico like that. That smile is somewhere frigid, and the Ethereals are trying not to break their guard. Arben's people didn't look particularly handy about whether he was left to deal with it.

"Well, if it's the same request as ours, there's a demon behind this."

"Thank you, it saved me a lot of time looking"

Arben thanked Aotearoa for his advice by deepening the smile he had on his face.

Then, Arben, a line goes to the back through the side of the Ethereals. But Aotearoa remembered a scratch somewhere.

"Well, you knew what we were asking for."

A smile was still sticking on Arben's face as he turned to Aotearoa's voice hanging.

"Did you put a camel on it?

But the smile was of a different kind than it had been earlier. He stares at Ethereal Tails with his narrower eyes.

"Nothing in particular, you just blew yourself up on your own, didn't you?

"Goddamn it, I knew you were an interesting one. Speaking up, my eyes weren't wrong."

Have you stopped waving your love around already? Arben looks at Aotearoa with a grumpy nasty grin.

"I'm just more disgusting... so what the hell are you doing to us?

He looks surprised when Aotearoa tells me it's surprising that he was thrown that question.

"You didn't know who I was, but you thought I was suspicious?

"Oh, you guys felt somewhere approximate to being buddies, and we don't know what it means to speak up to us when we have enough party people. So I don't know what kind of deal it is, but I decided it was a suspicious one."

Arben wants to petite his head.

"Have you been staring at me that much from the beginning? I knew you were amazing."

Aotearoa's point seems to have ignited his curiosity. He's got an innocent smile on his face just saying it's interesting.

"So, where the hell are you guys?

I was surprised by the look that changed from time to time. He sharpens his gaze and asks Arben.

"Goddamn it, you really don't seem to understand. Right..."

Arben tried to mouth the answer, but there he gets ear punches from his buddies and interrupts once.

"Hmm, I can't help it... I'm that one, see, rookie hunt? Like."

The Ethereals send a white gaze at that word, which is obviously an obvious lie that I just thought about.

"You have no choice. You can't tell me the truth."

Apparently, Arben's entourage was more like a patron than a companion. Though he turned his attention to his companion, his expression remains thin and he just watches what happens.

"Whoever you are, if you're hostile to us, it's not until you defeat us."

When Aotea pulls out her sword, Deena and Leila also touch the weapon. Atra, Gu Long, and Ed also remained on guard.

"It's scary, I'm an A-rank adventurer even when I look like this. My people are pretty good at B-ranks too, you guys think you can win?

Following Arben, who pulled out his sword while saying so, the fellows behind him also prepare to fight. Apparently, I am confident in my rank, and I have turned my sword to look down at the Ethereal Tails as if I were frightened.

"A-rank... I'm D-rank and these two are E-rank. Three or four of your ranks."

It was a clear fact that there was a difference in rank between them, but their meaning was different.

"If that's all the difference in rank, you know the difference in strength, right?

"It's shallow that you think you can achieve strength due to the difference in rank!

Against confident Arben, Leila releases a word of spare time.

"I wonder how far that leeway will last? Go!"

And Arben commanded his companions, and sent them toward Ethereum.

"Doesn't he move? Well, this way too, Leila...... can we go? Don't kill me, okay?

"Yes!"

I was already starting to run when Layla responded well.

Arben was surprised when he opened his eyes the moment the two pairs hit each other.

"Then, silly"

Layla was using her spear belly in one blow, blowing all the men away with a twitch. The blown men were well hit by the wall and had passed out as they were.

"Is that it? Over? Brother...... are these people really b-rank? It's all over now."

Leila tilted her neck and asked Arben a question for a feeling that was totally unaffordable compared to her usual workouts and such.

"Leila, you don't mean B-rank on that one. Perhaps Arben was strong enough to be with him, so he did the request with him, and that's why he raised his rating."

Listening to Aotearoa's follow up, Arben toothpicks to the point of making a critical noise.

"Well, I'll do it with Arben."

Arben was staring at Aotearoa leaving one step earlier.

"Don't get on with it, they're about the B-rank. A and B will tell you that there is as much difference between heaven and earth!

Arben's shape, which was bracketed high that he would be able to afford, was no longer like a ghost, and his tone was different and rough than earlier.

"Is that the nature? That's about as good as it looks."

Aotearoa's expression remained unchanged, but the words stirred him up. The effect was remarkable and inspired, Arben floated blue muscles on his forehead towards Ethereum.

"Die! Die! Die!!

The move was obviously full of gaps when seen from the Ethereal Tails, but once there was only an A-rank, it quickly approached Ethereal Tails.

"Don't do it"

Arben's one-handed sword swung down to Ethereum, but Ethereum shrugged it with a piece of paper.

"It doesn't make sense if you don't hit it... see"

Aotea had a sword in her right hand, but she didn't move it, and let her gripping left hand slip into Arben's belly.

"Whew!

Apparently A-rank wasn't Dade, not until he passed out in one blow, but he was still suffering on his knees.

"Are we done?

"Fuck, fuck!

He managed to gaze at Aotearoa, but he couldn't stand up to see if the earlier blow had worked.

"Well, then let me talk to you."

Aeta, who said so, was magically floating a ball of flame over Arben's head as he approached him using his intimidating skills.