We arrived in front of the adventurer’s guild.
Though it was earlier than the arranged ti, Gannet was already waiting inside the guild building.
After relaying his detailed plans, he intended to assign the escorting adventurers to guard the caravan as soon as they completed preparations to imdiately depart to another city.
「I also care for my life. I also intended to escape and abandon the citizens when the situation turned for the worse.」
Rosemonde muttered such soliloquy.
Pora showed a slightly indignant look upon hearing Rosemonde’s remark.
「For your hotown… don’t you want to at least try to assist the escaping citizens first?」
「Hah, what kind of nonsense are you talking about? I’m not foolish enough to give up my life to protect the fools who don’t even know that a calamity is right upon them!」
Rosemonde was right.
I thought that the number of such noble adventurers who protected the life of citizens until the bitter end was infinitely close to zero.
Even I wouldn’t go as far as doing that.
Rosemonde, who said that, was actually acting as the bad guy… or should I say, girl.
「B-But, there’s no need to say it out loud…!」
「Hah! I see. Your magic skills are strong but it seems you’re still wet behind the ears. Look at , stupid girl. This senior will give an advice for softhearted adventurers like you.」
Rosemonde spoke to Pora with the condescending attitude of a senior.
「I-Is sothing the matter?」
Pora was pursing her lips as she replied to Rosemonde.
「… You have to know your limits– when to fight and when to retreat properly. This isn’t sothing that can change at the last minute, you hear . If I just nodded in silence following you guys recklessly, god knows what kind of danger you’re going to charge into next. Now a question, do you really think that I’m gonna just follow you recklessly without knowing my own limits? Sorry, but I’m not a suicidal fool. I might not even have the ti to regret my decision if I recklessly follow after you guys.」
Pora’s mouth opened wide, it seems Rosemonde’s advice nailed right in her heart. But, she shut her mouth imdiately and nodded as if agreeing with Rosemonde.
「… Yes, I understand. Thank you very much, Rosemonde-san.」
She replied with a slightly embarrassed look on her face.
She might have been expecting so sort of worthless advice from Rosemonde only to be hit by the proper advice of a senior adventurer.
It seems both Pora and I had completely misunderstood Rosemonde.
She was protecting the magic city of Manarak in her own way.
「… So, is that brat going to participate in the battle too?」
Rosemonde asked that question with a slightly frightened voice.
She was looking at Philia who was clenching her fists and pumping herself up before the battle.
「Uhm! Philia will do her best too!」
「I-I see… that’s reassuring.」
Rosemonde replied while averting her gaze from Philia.
「… Philia-chan, make sure that you don’t go overboard, okay?」
「Understood! Philia will do her best to fulfill Kanata’s wishes!」
Phila embraced my waist and then raised her face to look up to as she spoke.
I lost to her adorableness and ended up patting her head.
anwhile, Pora was sending an anxious look in my direction.
「… It really can’t be helped. The scale of our enemies this ti is really big after all. We’re definitely going to need Philia-chan’s strength.」
「… Kanata-san, could it be that you’re going to spit so sort of lie again when Philia-chan uses her power?」
The first thing that ca into my mind when I heard that was the matter when Philia conjured a progenitor dragon back then on the way toward Manarak. To hide the fact that Philia was the one who conjured that progenitor dragon, I lied to eyewitnesses that it was sothing that was summoned by Pora.
Pora seed to be recalling that incident too.
My smile twitched slightly as I recalled that incident.
I shifted my glance from Pora, looking at Rosemonde.
「W-What’s matter? I have no idea what you two are talking about, but you better not push troubleso things onto .」
I looked back to Pora again.
「Haha… I-It’ll be alright, Pora-san. This ti, I’ll take the bla…」
… It’s not like I could push all the credit to Pora.
If I kept doing that, Pora might end up being targeted by dangerous people beyond her real abilities to cope with.
I considered Rosemonde’s remarks while patting Philia’s head.
Just how much I was willing to take the danger, huh.
I had a huge debt of gratitude towards Gannet.
The adventurers who ca, everyone of them ca willingly ca with the realization that this might be a suicide mission.
At the very least, I was overwhelmingly more powerful than an A-rank adventurer.
Was it really okay for to take the escort job like the rest of the adventurers?
Moreover, I… didn’t want to use my power in front of so many people.
If possible, I wanted to avoid the fight.
Just like this case, the matter of taking the escort job along with the other adventurers might not be as good as what it looks like.
I shifted my attention towards the direction of the city gate.
I pretty much found out the whereabouts of the ragnos’ boss during yesterday’s adventurer’s eting.
No matter how much ragnos there were, I had no intentions of losing.
If it’s … I should be able to decrease a great number of them all at once by visiting their nest.
Naturally, it didn’t an that there were no dangerous factors in there. I was sure that inside the nest wasn’t full of just your run-of-the-mill ragno.
But, hearing Rosemonde’s resolution… I couldn’t help but feel guilty about waiting in a safe place without doing anything.
I an, if I make my move, I won’t just be able to decrease the number of the ragnos, I should be able to virtually grasp the real scale of the other party and the level of the demon king.
「… Pora-san, Rosemonde-san, Philia-chan. My apologies, I think I’ll refrain from doing the escort mission.
「W-What do you an, Kanata-san!?」
「… You, you’re going to forfeit from escort mission despite having that much power?」
Pora was really surprised while Rosemonde was openly expressing her hostility towards .
Philia puffed out her cheeks while saying 「… If Kanata won’t go, Philia won’t go too.」.
「My bad. I’ll try to do sothing… about this situation. The destination of the migration is Polorock city, right? Let’s et up over there.」
「Please, let Pora help you, Kanata-san!」
I shook my head.
「Sorry but, it’s better for to go by myself since it’s kinda like a scouting mission. Moreover, the current situation is clearly abnormal. That’s why I want to leave Pora-san and Philia-chan to go with with escort mission as a warranty.」
「… Understood. If that’s Kanata-san’s wish, Pora will take Philia-chan along for the escort mission, but… please don’t force yourself to do the impossible, okay? The scale of the demon king’s army this ti is unknown after all.」
Both Pora and Philia were much stronger than your average A-rank adventurer. With them there, there shouldn’t be any problems with the escort mission.
Moreover, I want to do my duty properly for Gannet.
It was the ti to pay back my debt of gratitude towards Gannet. I didn’t want him to think of as an unreasonable person after all.
But then, I had no idea about how to transmit the information that I get during my scouting mission after I return from the nest.
I might not even be able to pass off that information.
The one who gained Gannet’s attention was the saint; Pora, not even Gannet could dismiss if I ca with her.
「Sorry for my selfishness. Pora-san, Philia-chan, and Rosemonde-san too, please be careful after I leave.」
「Yes… don’t worry about us, Kanata-san.」
「Muu… understood. Philia will go with Pora.」
Philia reluctantly agreed.
「… Humph, exposing your own comrades to danger, what a great man you are.」
Rosemonde was glaring disdainfully at while muttering so.
「… The monsters aside, don’t let your guard down toward Alfred either. Since he know that he’s no match against your power, he might use so sort of underhanded tactic, Pora-san.」
I approached Pora and whispered to her.
The next ti Alfred tried to butt in, I planned to slap him awake personally after all.
Alfred surely wouldn’t expect what would co for him in that situation.
I an, I had enough of his interference.
Unfortunately, it seems I had to temporarily part ways with Pora on the way toward Polorock. And I’m afraid that Alfred would slip in and cause trouble during the confusion amidst the escort mission.
And worst of all, he might get another person’s assistance to help him in his revenge.
「… Yes, understood. I won’t let my guard down against that man.」
Pora nodded.
I nodded my head to her and left the adventurer guild’s building.
I headed toward the city gate located right across the adventurer guild’s building.
When I turned around for the last ti, I saw Pora and co’s figures enter the guild’s building.
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