Episode 207
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“Hassan! Look at this! It looks like my story is written in it!”
Luna pointed to a page of the leather newspaper with her slender index finger.
“Look here.”
When I looked at the place where the pale pink fingernail was pointing, I saw some kind of writing hanging down in a thin, cornered place like a corner of a scrap paper.
We will be looking into the suspicious elixir that has been on the market since last month, its efficacy and identity. ? Potion Master.
The first thing I saw was a piece of writing that seemed to be the title of an article, and upon closer inspection I thought it might be a story about Luna’s leap.
Is Potion Master a reporter’s name or something?
“Hassan, what does it say?”
However, Luna didn’t seem to have the courage to see the article herself.
Well, living in the 21st century, I’ve become quite accustomed to other people’s gaze and evaluations, but for Luna, this might be her first time seeing something written about her in this way.
Even if you say you can’t bear to look at it because your heart is trembling, I understand. If there are any bad words written on it, your heart will start pounding because you wonder what to do.
So I decided to read the newspaper article instead of Luna, who was nervous.
“Just wait, I’ll read it.”
You’ve probably all heard about the nasty elixir that’s been circulating in the marketplace and alchemy circles. It’s a very nasty potion, but it’s said to restore your stamina without the need to sleep for a day or two.
“Oh, it’s written quite realistically?”
“What? What does it say?”
“Your stamina boost is effective.”
“Really? That would be more promotional! Is there a story about the workshop? Where it’s made, who makes it, and things like that!”
“I guess I’ll have to look into it some more.”
At Luna’s expectant urging, I turned my gaze again to the small letters written there. What I saw written there was something that made me frown.
Curious about this amazing effect, I asked the Alchemist’s Guild to analyze the ingredients to see if it was made legally with the right ingredients. As a result, I was able to discover 12 unholy ingredients.
Unholy material ingredients?
I don’t know exactly what you’re talking about, but the general idea is that if you analyze the contents closely, you can clearly feel that there’s something very bad about it.
A feeling like a slight goosebumps running down my back.
Even after that, the content was full of keywords such as illegal, harmful to the human body, and unhealthy, so it could only be considered malicious.
“Hassan, what does it say?”
But I wondered how I should tell Luna this. If I told her the truth, she might be very shocked.
It would be natural for anyone to feel discouraged if their hard work was evaluated poorly.
“That’s the story that the leap effect is good. There are also some rather cool evaluations.”
“Really? Then I’ll read it myself!”
“That, that’s what… .”
Luna would be shocked if she read it herself. So I was very confused and wondered what to do.
“No, it’s okay.”
Luna gave up reading the article obediently.
“If you receive too much praise, you might become conceited. They say that a humble attitude is important in making leaps.”
“Really? A humble attitude?”
“Yeah, yeah, I put my heart and soul into making it!”
I also knew that Luna put her heart and passion into making potions.
Luna is a sloppy person who can’t even organize things properly in her daily life, but she is definitely efficient in her professional field.
“If you make it roughly, the quality won’t be good!”
“Really? Hey, do you use the ingredients well? Like the freshness of the ingredients?”
“Of course! Even though it’s expensive, we always use only the best!”
I honestly couldn’t imagine that Luna, who answered so confidently, would put illegal ingredients into her elixir.
Even if you just look at the jars of ingredients placed on the first floor, most of them are ordinary things like bones and plant roots.
Could it be that the secret ingredients that are supposed to be made with paranoia are the problem?
I became clueless.
I guess I’ll have to go to the newspaper office sometime soon.
* * *
Two days passed quickly after returning from the Goblin King’s subjugation.
Two days had passed, and all I had done during that time was wander around the cabin, tend to potatoes in the yard, and get a back massage from Luna.
When I listen to it, it feels like I’ve been just idling around.
Actually, it was true that I was really just loafing around.
However, to make an excuse, it wasn’t because I was lazy, but because I was filled with what could be called a lethargy from head to toe.
Is it because I’ve been doing forced training that doesn’t suit me for a few days that I’m starting to feel the effects?
Or maybe there’s something quite a bit of backlash to practicing necromancy.
According to Gogrid, the Goblin King, necromancy is the act of giving away one’s life force.
If that’s true, then it makes sense that my body is suffering from such strong lethargy.
Meem, meem, meem-.
Twenty, twenty-fifty.
Jijijijiji-.
I looked out the window on the second floor at the sound of cicadas chirping outside. Looking at the scorching sun without a single cloud, I could really feel the summer.
Even though I’m resting at home right now, it’s already the middle of summer and the weather is getting hotter and hotter.
At times like these, it seems that even guild and government office workers often take long vacations to escape the hustle and bustle.
It feels so strange, like the whole city is sitting in the cool shade to escape the heat. Could it be that I am enjoying my first vacation since coming to this world?
“Hassan, it’s Hassan’s turn now.”
“Oh, really? One card-!”
“Ah, Hassan, you’re vulgar!”
“The world of competition is originally vulgar and has nothing to do with it.”
“Luna, please take out the joker you have! If Hassan wins, you will get a bad beating!”
“No, where is the deadly plan you guys have?”
“There’s no such thing as fatality! Hehe, one card-! The end! Shh! I win! If we do this, Paranoy will be in last place! Hit him in the forehead!”
“Ugh, I feel like I should stop getting hit….”
Exactly-.
“Huh-!”
We played something like games that could be played indoors in the cool shade of the second floor of the cabin.
It’s like carving a block of wood to make chess pieces, or hardening leather to make cards to play poker with.
In this world, there are no cell phones, TVs, or even radios, so if you want to have fun indoors, you have to play board games like this.
In that sense, the sophisticated and evolved games of the 21st century seem to have been very fun for Luna and Paranoy to enjoy.
Luna and Paranoy’s eyes sparkled as if they were seeing board games roughly made from memory, games that people accustomed to 21st century electronic devices would probably criticize for being so old-fashioned and asking what fun they could find in such things.
“It was fun! It’s nice to finally have some free time!”
“What Luna said is absolutely right.”
Luna and Paranoy also seem to be able to take it easy these days since the number of leap spells has decreased.
Could it be that the reason for the decrease in the number of elixir orders is related to the newspaper article? Perhaps it would be better to tell Luna the truth.
While I was feeling slightly worried, Luna took out something like a thin wooden board from the corner.
“Hassan, let’s do Horomable now!”
“You did that last night. Do you mind doing it again? It’ll take a long time.”
“This is the most fun for me! I have a lot of time anyway!”
Of course, even though it was a game I was already tired of, I was still having fun playing it. A board game with girls.
When I think that I am experiencing an event that only popular students in college would experience, I feel very proud.
I quickly crossed off the part of my bucket list where I could go on a date to a board game cafe with my girlfriend.
“Quickly, clear the board! Since Paranoy was last in one-card, Cooper, Silver, and Gold should also be cleared out!”
“Uh, this is hard to organize… .”
Paranoy grumbled as he sorted out the money. Of course, the money he was talking about here was the virtual currency of the fake world travel board game Horomable.
A virtual currency made by carving wooden coins.
The stage was made of a thin wooden board with squares drawn with a black brush, and the cities of this world, such as Sodomorani, Delphi, and Calcata, were written on it.
It was unfamiliar to me, but Luna and Paranoy, who were familiar with the place names of this world, seemed to find it amusing.
While I was preparing like that, I heard someone ringing an alarm bell. It was the sound of the alarm bell on the door I had installed in the yard yesterday.
I said.
“Do you see who came?”
So I looked out the window at the garden and saw a long-haired woman with shiny red skin wearing thin clothes.
“Samaritan, you haven’t come to training for the past few days. What’s going on?”
“That’s because I can’t even move a finger these days.”
“You shouldn’t be making a fuss just because you caught a few goblins. Because of your work, people from Minerva’s Guild are coming to visit, and Mars’ Guild is so busy.”
Visitor Hippolyte seemed to have come to see me in person since I had missed training for the past few days.
Luna peeks her head out from the top of the stairs to the second floor, perhaps sensing her presence as she stands at the entrance to the cabin, frowning.
“Hassan, who are you? Who is here?”
“It’s me, Hippolyte.”
“Ah! You came to repay my three silvers!”
“No, that’s not it-.”
“Then come up! Let’s play Horomable together!”
“Horo…?”
Hippolyte raised one eyebrow as if she couldn’t understand. However, it seemed that she was curious about the presence of Luna and Paranoy that could be felt from above.
She eventually climbed up to the second floor of the cabin and looked at the game board lying on the floor.
“What is this? Explain to me what you were doing with these guys.”
“That’s it, it’s a game that you play on a board like this. I made it, but it’s fun to play.”
“Playing? You’re not a kid. This is why you missed training, Samaritan. You’ve lost your temper.”
“Hippolyte, you come with us! The more people there are, the more fun it is!”
“Luna, I’ve finished organizing the money… I think it’s time to start now…”
“Money? Are those wooden circles really meant to be money?”
Hippolyte seemed a little interested in the word money. However, Luna covered the wooden coins with her hand so that Hippolyte could not see them.
“Hippolyte, don’t steal it! I worked hard to carve it!”
“… Even if I didn’t have any real money, I wouldn’t steal something like that. More importantly, a game using fake money? It seems to be more advanced than I thought. I think I’ve seen games like this at the social gatherings of nobles before.”
So we started playing board games with four people.
Dalgrak.
A bone dice is thrown, and Hippolyte’s dice comes up a whopping 12.
“Okay, six doubles. The warriors of Mars always advance without hesitation!”
“Damn, Hippolyte is going to Tartarus again! Confiscate the dice for three turns! I love it! At least I won’t come in last!”
“What the hell-.”
“I have a Tartarus Indulgence that I got with the Golden Key. Do you want to buy it for 50 gold?”
“What? 50 gold? I don’t need it.”
“50 gold is cheap to get out of hell! Then just stay there! Hehe, hehehe! Now it’s Paranoy’s turn.”
The dice are thrown again from Paranoy’s hand.
Dalgrak.
“It’s the golden key…! Oh, let’s see. ‘Congratulations-. You have been invited to the Argo Expedition-. After circling the map, go to the Ideope Archipelago-.’ Oh, I, I have become a warrior of the Argo…!”
It was Paranoi who placed his own horse on the Khan of the Ideope Islands. Hippolyta, who was imprisoned in Tartarus, became furious at the sight.
“No, a nymph as soft as you is invited to an expedition on the Argo that even I was not invited to? This is impossible. All the crew members of the Argo are great heroes!”
Luna frowns next to him.
“Hippolyte, this is just a game. Why are you so absorbed in it?”
Either way, Paranoy took the land deeds of the Ideopa Archipelago as his own.
“Hehehe, I will pay 50 gold to buy the Ideope Islands as well. With this, with this, I, Paranoy, have as much territory as a count in the kingdom-!! Everyone who passes through my territory must pay a toll!”
“This is my hometown, why are you buying Paranoia! Return it quickly!”
“This entire line is already Paranoy’s land. It’s no use crying and complaining. I’m going to build my statues all over my land…!”
It was noisy because everyone was just talking about what they wanted to say. But it was still nice because I felt like I was enjoying my vacation. It would be nice if every day was like today.
But I sometimes wonder if it’s okay to play like this.
There are still many issues to be addressed.
For example, a story about the Lord of Hell.
I asked Hippolyte, who was furtively reading the contents of the golden card while Paranoy, who had finally come in last, was setting up the next game.
“Lady Hippolyte, have you ever heard of any stories about named monsters?”
“A monster with a name? Like the goblin king you defeated?”
“Do you believe that story, Lady Hippolyte?”
“I believe you, it’s not uncommon to encounter such a named enemy. I think you said Gogrid. He must have been quite a strong opponent, but you managed to defeat him. Did my training work?”
I couldn’t bring myself to tell him that I had caught Gogrid by scheming with his necromancer minions.
“Well, I guess that’s how it is. So, do you know where other monsters similar to that guy are?”
“I don’t think you need to worry about subjugating named monsters yet. Once you become a Silver Tier adventurer, you will be able to receive information about named monsters.”
“okay.”
“I guess you’re resting like this, but you’re still itching to fight? It’s funny how you hate training so much, but you like actual combat. Samaritans-.”
Actually, I didn’t really like real combat, but there was a reason I was curious about named monsters.
I knew from Gogrid’s story that the Lord of Hell, Gigas, would appear in this world by borrowing the body of a strong monster.
Then wouldn’t it be enough to just get rid of all the famous monsters that would become their vessels?
However, as Hippolyte said, hunting named monsters was usually the job of Silver Tier adventurers, who were skilled adventurers.
You still have to tell me.
“Moreover, Samaritan. Antiope said that a man named Weiss Bain is looking for you.”
“Vice Vine?”
I wondered where I had heard the name Vice Vine, and then I remembered what Antiope had told me about a member of the Knights Templar who was staying in this city.
Vice vine.
A strong man who holds 9 seats in the Knights Templar.
Follower of Bacchus, the god of wine.
“Why is that guy… me?”
“I heard you were investigating the Goblin King. That’s probably why you’re looking for me. More importantly, it’s my turn, Noxdotty. Pass the dice.”
Dalgrak.
“One, two, three. Wow, Hippolyta, you’re stuck in Tartarus again! Three rounds of dice confiscated!”
“It’s… rigged. My, my dice have been rigged!”
“No, no. Hippolyta, you can’t do that! Puhhhhhh-! Now it’s Hassan’s turn.”
I took the dice from Luna and roughly rolled them on the floor.
Dalgrak.
The number that came out was curiously a double of 6.
“Hassan, it’s the golden key! What does it say? What’s the catch?”
Arriving at the golden key compartment, I quickly picked up a small sign and began reading what was written on it.
You’ve been invited to Bacchus’s rave party and enjoyed a hedonistic party, but you’re so hungover that you can’t roll the dice again.
“That’s interesting.”
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