Saikyou Juzoku Tensei ~Cheat Majutsushi no Slow Life~

Chapter 110 - Episode Twenty-Nine - The Demon\'s Wand (2)

After meeting up with Maizen, the three of us, including Mea, decided to go into a nearby tavern since neither of us had any major business to attend to.

They seem to have accumulated a lot of stuff about the party, so I’ll at least listen to them complain.

I propped my elbows on the wooden desk and looked around the interior of the restaurant.

A large number of liquor bottles are neatly arranged at the counter.

The desk is shiny, and there are no leftovers on the floor.

It’s one of the cleanest bars around.

However, I’ve never been to a bar before.

Because it was still in the early afternoon, the seats were almost empty.

“I’ll just have a whorup (beer). What about you two?”

Maizen calls out to me.

“I’m alright with milk.”

I’ve drunk alcohol at village ceremonies, but I’m not very good at it.

I once threw up and collapsed and had Gizel to care for me.

“Mea will have the same as Abel’s!”

“Oh, yeah, I see…… Well, you know, this store has milk that’s made from crushed eve berries……”

I miss it.

If you’re talking about eve berries, there were also some in the Marren village.

They’re a little sloppy and sweet and tasty.

They taste a bit like strawberries, even though they’re nuts.

“Well then, I’ll have that.”

“Mea too, Mea too!”

“…… Somehow, I’m kind of feeling very alienated.”

Maizen had been here a few times before and told the owner to order for all of us.

The waitress immediately brings us two glasses of milk and a whorup.

When I was wondering if I should suddenly start talking about the party, Maizen opened his mouth first.

“…… Come to think of it, you’re the one with the Gaston thing, right?”

Easily, Maizen guessed so.

When I looked next to him, thinking of fooling him, I saw Mea’s face turned pale and frowning.

I decided to speak without hiding it, thinking that Maizen would shut up.

“No, I knew it, or rather I thought it was you anyway. No matter how you think of it, it’s strange, you know.”

Maizen took a gulp of his whorup and then shook his head from side to side.

“That much, huh? Maybe I should quit before it’s exposed.”

I take a drink of eve-milk while keeping pace with Maizen.

“………Well, I think it’s okay. The promotion is essentially like a reward for being a good adventurer. Losing an excellent fighting force by poking them poorly is the end of the world. They’ll do everything in their power to pretend they don’t know. Especially since the lord of this place owes you a debt of gratitude, so he won’t be the first to take advantage of it.”

Besides, Maizen continued saying, keeping his voice low.

“I heard from the survey team that the lord is planning to have Gaston as a hero. If it gets to the point where you can’t back out, I think the city would rather protect you.”

“Buh! Geho!”

Eve-milk got into my trachea.

Holding my throat, I set the cup down on the table.

“Eh…… you’re kidding, right?”

“Apparently he’s serious about it. If there’s a famous adventurer, the city’s fame will go up a notch, after all. Look, don’t you see the lord’s scholar, Wegener? That man read the report on the defeat and he liked Gaston. I’m sure Gaston will be hearing from him soon.”

A combination of a phony scientist and a phony adventurer is about to be born.

So phonies get drawn to other phonies.

“…… But won’t the nobles who heard the rumors and try to get Gaston to serve them get angry?”

“A nobleman wouldn’t bother to visit a place that isn’t even his own territory. They’ll probably send a random underling to check on him and pull him out as soon as they find out what’s going on. Even the examination for joining the lord’s legion here involves an interview and a practical test, so they wouldn’t take an adventurer’s rank alone without even checking your ability. I don’t know if it’s a very stupid nobleman, though.”

So it’s like that.

No matter how it turns out, it doesn’t seem to be as important as I thought it would be.

“Then, there are quite a few other people besides me who are fooling around?”

“…… I don’t know any other adventurers who would go to such lengths to hide something like you. If you had the time to do all that, you’d want to focus on your own hunting. For me, I want my work to be recognized for what it is, and I don’t understand why you get to celebrate other people’s work. You have your own set of circumstances, though.”

“Ha, hahaha……”

He stared at me with a still stare, so I looked away and laughed and faked it.

I guess Maizen doesn’t really like this kind of approach.

“C-, come to think of it, how’s the party going?”

Maizen chuckles at me for blatantly changing the subject.

“…… I’m starting to see a way out of this, at least.”

“Hoh.”

It seems that it wasn’t just a throwaway that they should be able to handle it.

Honestly, I don’t think there’s anything else to do but keep that Lisha and Tida apart, what kind of a plan does he have in mind?

“Our party, you know, it’s just not going so well. We try to talk to each other, but there are some holes in the party, and we don’t work well together. It wasn’t so bad in the past.”

Definitely, Lisha and Tida aren’t working well together……

“If you ask me why, I think it’s because of the composition of the members. That’s why they can’t play their roles.”

I knew that Maizen also realized that he shouldn’t bring those two together.

Either let one of them quit, or let both of them quit. I feel It would be faster if Maizen himself left already, though.

“That’s why I’ve decided to add one more member. I’ve been in a tavern with a guy who knows both magic and swordsmanship. I’m planning to get them both to meet each other in the near future.”

“What?”

So you’ve gone that way.

I feel like there’s a bigger problem lying around than that.

“The ranks of our members have risen, so we tend to go to areas where the magic beasts are strong. I guess it was too much for the three of us. The search wasn’t going well, so discord spread, and because of that, the search didn’t go well again.”

…… Maybe I should just say it outright now.

If this is the case, the number of victims of heartache will only increase.

“Hey, maybe it’s because of that Lisha and Tida disagreement. I have a feeling that as long as we’re left with those two, it’s never going to work.”

“N, no, if that were the case, one of them would have quit a long time ago. Those two are still here, so we should still be able to do something about it…… We-, well, yeah, if one of those two says it, I’ll think about it in that direction too.”

Maizen uttered that while choking as if it was hard to say.

…… As expected, it’s not like they couldn’t notice it. That’s right, they couldn’t have been this dull.

But I think those two just don’t want to get out of it because Maizen is higher in rank…… I think it would be better to break up sooner rather than later.

It seems that Maizen himself has a lot of feelings for it, so it’s not going to be that easy.

“That’s right, since we’re here let’s ask for something to eat. It’s quite delicious here…”

“Uwaaaa! Run, run!”

As if to interrupt Maizen’s words, screams could be heard from the city.

This was followed by a series of screams.

The shopkeeper in the tavern opens the door to see what’s going on outside.

Through the gap, a crowd of people could be seen rushing down the street in front of the store in front of them.

The clerk turns pale and drops the tray in his hand to the floor. Cups and plates fell to the ground, splattering liquor and food on the floor.

The other customers also seemed to notice the abnormality when they looked out the door and got up hurriedly and left the tavern.

Maizen took out coins from his pocket while standing up and scattered them on the desk.

“…… I don’t know what’s going on, but it looks kind of bad. This should be enough, so let’s get out of here right away and head for the voices.”

Running away is not an option, apparently.

I guess that’s the spirit of an adventurer for times like these. I honestly admire him for that.