Chapter 249: The Saint Came Along!
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Mr. Priest, who came out after washing himself (he had changed into the secondhand clothes we had bought since his cassock was in the midst of laundering and drying), expressed his gratitude, “Sir Great Sorcerer, thank you kindly for all you have done.”
“…I was scared of opening the door, so I didn’t, but I suppose it’s become clean inside. If it’s still dirty, tell me and I will wash it once more. Anyway! Since it’s nice and clean now, keep it like that, okay? I truuuly dread filthiness. And I won’t shirk any effort when it’s for the sake of cleanliness,” I told him while clinging to Sword.
Mr. Priest looked like he was astonished, and then suddenly burst out into laughter.
Eh? What’s so funny about it?
When he saw me confused, he explained, “I just thought you are an interesting person, seeing how you care about commoner orphans despite being nobility.”
Hmm?
“No, I’m a commoner, you see?” I corrected him.
“Eh?” Mr. Priest became dumbstruck.
Sword smiled wryly at that, “This girl’s former nobility, so she still has some noble habits to her. But, right now she’s a commoner. We’re workin’ as adventurers.”
Mr. Priest looked rather unsure how to take this.
“You probably haven’t heard overly much ’bout us ’round here, but despite appearances, we’re S-Rank adventurers.”
This time Mr. Priest’s eyes flew wide open. He sure got an abundance of different expressions.
“…No way, you mean Hero 【Thu…”
“【Allrounders】! That’s our party name! I’m Sword!” Sword frantically corrected him.
…Still.
“It’s kind of incredible for that lame nickname of yours to have made its way here from the capital. I’m sure Mr. Amato would feel pity for you, if he heard this.”
“Shut it!”
I had my temples ground. How unreasonable!
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Having settled down a bit, Mr. Priest revealed a smile next while saying, “…Is that so? So you were in a party, Sir Hero. Nothing less of such a magnificent, great magician. I can use some holy magic myself as well, but invoking several spells at the same time without chanting like you did just now, and moreover using that magic outside of combat; you have my deepest admiration for being such outstanding people.”
Hearing that, Sword didn’t know how to react.
But don’t worry, if you put your mind to you, you can do it as well, Sword. You’re just not doing it despite being able to. Even though you should have grasped the theory behind by now.
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The children had also changed their clothes after having washed themselves, and now ran over to us.
“Thanks, bro!”
“Hmm, you’re thanking the bro over here, right? I’m a sis, you see? So give me proper thanks, too.”
“??? Sis? Thanks!”
Somehow the boy looked awfully doubtful. Sword roughly stroked my head.
“Don’t mind it. …Anyway, we’re gonna stay here today and tomorrow, so come to the open plot of land if there’s anything. The kids know where to find us. I won’t be ’round much since I’ll finish up the pressin’ requests for a while, but this girl’s gonna be ’round. …Nevertheless, why are you lackin’ adventurers so much?”
Mr. Priest’s face stiffened up in response to Sword’s murmur.
Hmmmm?
“Is something the matter?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
Mr. Priest smiled in a hurry.
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I decided to build a Char Non-Violence Kitchen version as a shop and camping car for my new employees. We’ve become too many for all of us to ride Sword’s Char, and it’ll be easier to run a stall if we got a kitchen car.
Luckily I’m always carrying the materials necessary for building sudden ideas like this!
While having the members of 【Taking It Easy with a Smile】help out, I made a kitchen car with the sound of my hammer filling the air.
But, suddenly a group showed up on our plot. They weren’t helpers. For some reason all of them were scary-faced, completely unclean old dudes who held their weapons lowered.
It’s a bit too early for customers to appear. And so far as it goes, this is a plot rented by Sword, so I’ll be troubled if groups of people swarm this place without permission.
Just when I stood up in order to go meet them, Hassa stopped me, “S-Sir Indra.”
I don’t really care either way, but even this guy has started to use honorific titles on me. Even though I’m not forcing him to do so.
“What’s up?”
“…That’s Lady Saint, you see,” he answered timidly.
The instant I heard that, the corners of my mouth instinctively arched upwards.
“Whoa! Sir Indra is totally pulling an evil face!” Leemon yelled.
“How rude, Leemon. For me who’s always being avoided by trouble, it’s a rare occurrence for trouble to seek me out! Isn’t that something to be happy about?”
“””””And he even fessed up to it!”””””
How rude. And no, I haven’t fessed up!
“H-Hey, Leemon…” Hassa was probably asking Leemon about her skill’s response to this while worriedly looking at me.
“…It’s okay. Sir Indra won’t lose. This meeting is definitely a winner. That’s what my skill is telling me!”
Hearing Leemon declare so, I nodded, “It’s just as she says. You guys keep setting up the deep-fry and preparing everything. Them having trespassed on their own accord means they can’t complain, no matter what happens to them, right?”
Depending on their behavior, I’ll torture them. Hehehehehe, I wonder what kind of torture methods I should use~?
“Oh shit, it’s just as Leemon said. Sir Indra has a really evil face on!”
“It’s a face telling everyone that he’s going to repay everything double, if they mess with him, right?”
“It’s scary, but…I want to know the outcome…!”
I could hear the peanut gallery kicking up a fuss behind me.
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