Chapter 56, The First Step
After about a five minutes’ walk from the Guild, Leon’s party of five arrived back at the Clan House; Leon, while rubbing his belly, headed straight to the Dining Hall. Tsutomu was invited as well, but he politely declined and imdiately took out a pen and a piece of paper from his Magic Bag, put the latter on a desk, then started writing down the issues the team had faced today.
“Oh, Barbara. There are a few things I’d like to ask you, if you don’t mind.”
“...What is it?”
Barbara, having realized that her position as a Knight of the Golden Tune was at stake due to her shaful display in front of Leon, looked up from her downcast face and turned her gloomy eyes to Tsutomu. She had been selected, and endorsed by the others, to take part in this project with the main party due to her level being the highest among those with Knight-type Jobs here. The results so far had branded her as the bottleneck of progress in all respects, and she was quite discouraged because of that, so much so that her massive fra looked like it was shrinking.
Looking at Barbara be like that, Tsutomu discarded all initial expectations that had stemd from her high level and asked,
“How have you been raising your level up to now?”
“...I asked Leon to let
go along with him into the Dungeon, and it just increased as my layer progress was updated.”
“...And during the tis you went, what role did you have?”
“...Luggage carrier.”
[Figures.]
Heavy Knights tended to have low DEX, so their
control was unavoidably clumsy, but Barbara was even worse than that standard, having crashed to the ground without any attempt at a recovery upon being caught and subsequently dropped by a Wyvern. Normally, the Carrier Birds on the fifty-first layer would force one to get better at using
regardless of whether or not they liked it, so it was unlikely for anyone to plunge straight down like that.
[When Barbara went to update her progress, it was probably with four other attackers, so the Carrier Birds didn’t have any chance of carrying her away... It’s still quite a surprise that she managed to reach level sixty-five doing just that, though.]
Since they’d had the Archer Diniel with them, the Carrier Birds could be neutralized easily enough while they were traveling through the air. And even if Barbara were to be caught, it was easy for one to imagine Leon rescuing her and holding her like a princess... the thought of which prompted Tsutomu to lant the facts in his mind while proceeding to write the points that needed fixing down on the paper. Although Leon was technically the ‘prince’ of Golden Tune, he also possessed the abilities of a ‘knight’ to protect his ‘princesses;’ as such, Tsutomu was convinced that so sort of change must occur in the dynamics of their relationships before things could properly proceed.
“For the ti being, I have plans for you to keep training in the Dungeon, so please go get so rest and take a look at this in the anti.”
“Ah, all right...”
Handed the sheet of paper listing points that she needed to improve, the text of which was spaced just right to make it easy to read, Barbara held the piece of paper as she walked off to the Clan House’s Dining Hall.
Next, Tsutomu called out to Eunice, who was drinking so cheap Blue Potion to regain her ntal strength after repeatedly casting out her vapor-like
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