Allrounders!! Chapter 18

“Are you going to collect today too?” The governntal official at the gate asked .

Recently, I’ve beco acquainted with him.

“No, I decided to leave this town.”

“…I see. Well, that’s how adventurers operate, I suppose. Though I think it’s sowhat too early for you… Anyway, be careful out there. You’ve got an appearance like a lovely girl after all.”

…Like a girl? What’s with the like there!?

“…Oh well, whatever. So, do you have a direction you’d recomnd.”

“What’s up with that? …Let’s see, if you head in that direction you’ll find a flourishing town called Laer. Its prosperity also ans that the guild offers lots of requests.”

“I see. Thanks.”

When I started to walk off, the official called out to in a hurry, “Hey!! That’s the opposite direction!”

“That’s why. …Doing the opposite of what the people of this world recomnd is the correct choice.”

After grinning at him over my shoulder, I walked away without looking back anymore.

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Suddenly my legs froze. It looks like they had magic cast on them. But, I can break sothing of this level in an instant.

――Just as I thought that, sothing rolled over at my feet.

“…It was my fault! Please! Forgive ! Please! For heaven’s sake, please! …I’m terribly sorry…!”

I was dumbfounded.

…It seems prostrating yourself on the ground exists in this world as well. Prostrating himself, or rather, clinging to my legs? Moreover…he’s crying, despite being a grown man.

I drew back.

The man timidly lifted his face, and furthermore, clawed his way upwards, kinda like a zombie would crawl up your legs.

Scary.

“I’m very sorry…!”

As I felt a chill run down my spine, I reflexively slapped his mug.

“Disgusting!”

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“…Disgusting! ain’t the first thing you’d say to soone apologizin’ to you, is it?”

“Get away from since you’re disgusting.”

I tried to draw away from him as far as possible by averting my face, but he was strangely powerfully glued to , and even when I pushed him away, he remained coiled around .

“Disgusting.”

“Stop repeating that word all the ti! I’ll let go of you if you forgive !”

“……What am I supposed to forgive you?”

“That’s what I an…! You misunderstood , so please let explain. I didn’t an to betray your trust! I had absolutely no intention to discard you or anythin’ after coming to town! It’s just, even if a newbie adventurer like you were to party up with an S-Rank like , you wouldn’t be able to learn the basics of adventurin’!”

“Aahh, you were a self-alleged 『Bigshot』, weren’t you?”

“It ain’t self-alleged! Don’t say it like I’m scum! You might not know what an S-Rank is, but…”

“As far as I can imagine, it’s a rank you obtain after having your abilities and achievents approved as an A-Rank. Sothing like that?”

“That! It’s just as you say!”

Humph, so S-Ranks exist after all, huh?

“…That’s why I took asures allowin’ you to learn what bein’ an adventurer is ’bout by partyin’ with folk close in rank to you. I’ve got a friendly relationship with the guild master in this town, so I’d be able to inconvenience him to an extent. I’ve been just layin’ the groundwork!”

――According to him:

Bring to this place -> have temporarily separate from Sword and form a party with girls close to in age, who were recomnded by the guild -> do requests while repeatedly piling up mistakes as normal for beginners and having a good ti with the girls -> party up with Sword again after accumulating so experience.

That was apparently the plan he’d set up.

“…Besides, you’re sohow precocious and you weirdly act like a grown-up because you were always surrounded by adults, right? You don’t have any friends your age, so I thought you’d make so friends on this occasion!”

……I wonder how I should answer this?

“…First of all, I’d like to straighten out so things. You don’t make friends by having them assigned to you. People 『beco』 your friends naturally. You don’t get it because you’re a loner without any friends yourself, but even if you have so random people assigned to you, it’s not said that you’ll get along with them. And as a matter of fact, it didn’t look like I’d ever beco friends with my little sister as we didn’t get along at all.”

“I don’t want to be called 『Loner』 by you as well!!”

Oh, it sounds like soone already told him.

“Now on to the main issue. Considering all that, why didn’t you tell ? What you did was not only to bring a young noble lady, who had never visited a town, to a completely unknown place instead of soplace in her family’s territory, but you also discarded her right there. In such a case, it’d have been better for to turn down your invitation, investigate a nearby city over the next two years, and leave ho by myself after getting everything in perfect order. Since I thought you’d act as my guide, I left two years earlier than planned while being ill-prepared, and yet I was abandoned by you without having been taught anything. So what did you think would happen after doing all that?”

“That’s why I’m regrettin’ for havin’ made a mistake. I’m entirely to bla here! I’m sorry!”

I see, so that’s why he started to talk about “Forgive ” and “I’m regretting.” Or rather, what did he expect to do while not knowing all that?

“…I’ve now understood why the guild master said 『Please forgive him』 and why the receptionist, who welcod at first, said 『There’s a party I’d like to introduce to you』. ――But that’s the point. Why didn’t you personally tell , 『We’ll go to a guild where my friend works as guild master. First learn the basics of adventuring over there by forming a party with girls who I’m going to introduce to you. It’ll be okay since I’ve properly talked it over with the other parties. They’re all girls close to you in age, so it might be possible for you to befriend them as well』?”

He was at a loss for words.

“…I panicked!”

Haaah?

…Imdiately following, he stood up and hugged .

“…You see, I’ve gotten to like you quite a bit! Damn it, don’t make say it! …Why would you have to enter so low level party just to learn the basics of the basics!? Even without knowin’ all that, you’ve already got strength rivalin’ an S-Rank, so wouldn’t it be just fine for you to always party with !? But, since the guild master complained that you’d need to be able to handle things on your own for the ti when I’d be gone, I put on that act earlier. It couldn’t be helped! And then I didn’t know how to bring it up with you, freaked out, and said so weird shit!”

What the heck? I didn’t understand a thing. Maybe the translation of the otherworld language is malfunctioning?

“…Anyway, I’ve made up my mind. I’ll keep lookin’ after you myself.”

“From the start, no one has looked after .”

“Up until now I did, didn’t I!? I’m your teacher, no!?”

“Haah? What are you blabbing? I’ve told you to show various things as part of a deal we struck, but I don’t rember having ever asked you to take as your pupil. To begin with, what kind of teacher are you supposed to be? My martial and magic arts are all self-taught, you know? I had you show your stances and spells, but not once did I ask you to teach anything, nor did I imitate you. I an, honestly, what you showed didn’t even serve as a reference because our thods are way too different.”

“You’re terrible!!” He kept hugging even tighter while saying so.

This middle-aged dude is…a child, huh?

“Okay, okay, I get it, I get it. You had a proper reason and you didn’t abandon . Since your plan didn’t go well, you’ll act as my guide. That’s what you’re saying, right?”

“…Yes.”

“I’ve understood the reason now, so it’d be alright for to enter that girl party or whatever, and have them teach the ropes while enjoying my ti. Even if they might have selfish characters, I’d be more willing to overlook it for them than so middle-aged guy since they’re still children.”

“You’re terrible!!”

He told once more.