Episode 217
Death Knight
217 ? Death Knight #1
Since it was still daylight, I returned to the Alchemist’s Guild.
As Luna and Paranoy stood in front of a room that seemed to be a laboratory or a research lab where they were revealing the recipe details, they could sense the presence of quite a few people inside.
Is that what goes in there?
This, this is an apostle! I can’t accept it! This isn’t my authentic potion!
I think I’m going crazy!
Why on earth do you go in the water that the nymphs used to wash their feet?
I don’t know what they were doing inside, but it was clear that something quite horrific was happening.
What is the water that the nymphs used to wash their feet? I waited for a long time, hoping that I had misheard. Soon, Luna and Paranoy appeared outside the door again.
“How did it go? Are you okay?”
“I think so. They gave me an alchemist’s guild pass! And I’m now a member of the alchemist’s guild! From today on, my business is more or less legal!”
Luna showed me a bracelet with a strange pentagram on it.
Although it appears to be a gnostic symbol that seems to be blasphemous, it was nevertheless the sign of Mercury and the symbol of the alchemists.
“Luna, you became a member of the alchemists?”
“It’s still temporary. Just yesterday, one of the labs here in the guild vacated its room. I heard that Sister Vinas left the city in a hurry. I think that’s where it is.”
Alchemist Bainas.
I remembered the conversation that had taken place in the middle of the night.
The guy left the city as I said, and Luna took his place temporarily? That was a very good thing.
“Anyway, it’s been a long time since I’ve waited-! What has Hassan been doing?”
“I just, you know, had some tea and asked some adventurers to do something.”
“Tea? Come to think of it, it smells a bit like roses.”
“Anyway, it turned out well.”
“Luna, I’m so tired… I shouldn’t be here like this. I wish I could go to the cabin and rest…”
At that moment, Paranoy, who looked very haggard next to me, said something.
The guy’s condition was so sluggish that he felt like a mollusk. I don’t know what he was doing inside, but it looked like he had suffered a lot.
So we all went back to the cabin together. We bought some suitable bacon on the way and decided to have some grilled meat to celebrate our safe passage today.
“Anyway, I feel refreshed. Ugh-.”
Luna was standing in the yard, stretching out. Indeed, she looked quite relieved.
However, I was a little worried that if I revealed the recipe, there might be competing products and my profits would decrease.
If business is good, everyone follows suit, which is a natural thing in any world.
However, Luna spoke as if there was no problem.
“It’s okay. They don’t have nymphs!”
“okay?”
“What I’ve revealed is a stamina elixir that can only be made with a nymph. I’ve decided to name the product Nymph’s Tears.”
“It is exactly as written… . It is the culmination of my efforts, including my tears and sweat… . In return, I have agreed to receive 10% of the sales proceeds… .”
“I see.”
“I hope your business goes well…! Starting tomorrow, I’ll get a ton of orders, and I’ll become rich too…!”
Paranoy rolled his eyes in the air as if picturing himself sitting on a pile of money.
Hehehe, that guy’s smiling face made him look like a cultist plotting something suspicious, so I wanted to hit him on the head, but I held back.
I guess everyone has the right to have happy thoughts and forget about reality.
While we were chatting like that, I noticed something in Luna’s mailbox. I thought it was a newspaper. It was a thin, small piece of parchment rolled up and sealed with candle wax, like a letter. I thought it was Luna’s tax documents or something.
Surprisingly, my name is written on the outer surface.
To Hassan-.
I was really nervous, thinking that it might not be a letter of enlistment again. Fortunately, it didn’t seem to be that kind of letter.
Hassan, I, Vinas, am leaving the city as you said and going to a place where no one will come. In fact, I have been feeling disillusioned with my long life in the city. What I really wanted to be was not an alchemist… .
What the heck, Sval.
The letter said that meeting me opened his eyes to a new life and that he was so touched that I forgave him for his sins.
Mr. Hassan, I will train myself so that I can be of help someday. P.S. Mr. Hassan, do you like women with big breasts?
What the heck is Sval?
For some reason, I got goosebumps.
“Hassan, what are you doing? What brought you here?”
“No, just.”
Since Luna was curious about the letter, I thought it would be quite a headache if she found out, so I quickly hid it in my bosom. I would tear it up and throw it away or burn it later.
* * *
The next day.
I got ready to go out on a long journey early in the morning.
“Hassan, you said you were going towards the north gate?”
“Oh. You want to go together?”
“I’ll go too…! The Death Knight of Manticore Valley. Who knew there was such a guy? I’m really looking forward to it…!”
I was planning to leave the house today to hunt named monsters, but Luna and Paranoy seemed to have nothing to do right now and decided to follow me.
It was fortunate for me to have a companion on my adventure, as it was a great help in preparing for the unexpected.
“Okay, okay.”
Party hunting?
But Luna and Paranoy didn’t seem like jobs that were suited to party hunting. Luna was able to cast spells to debuff monsters and create variables, so that was fine.
Paranoy, what the hell is this kid’s job?
I’m not a necromancer, nor am I a warrior or a thief.
“Hehehe, North Gate, I’m going to the North Gate… ”
I frowned as I looked at Paranoy, who seemed to be in high spirits. If I have to use him as bait, I guess. Is Paranoy’s job to be bait?
However, there was something about it that was not very pleasant.
“Paranoy, what on earth is your job?”
“Huh? What are you talking about all of a sudden…?”
“When you hunt in a party, each person has a role to play. The vanguard who physically supports the enemy from the front, the supporters who provide support from behind, and the magicians who attack from a distance. What can you do?”
“I, I…”
Paranoy’s pupils began to shake violently. I wondered if I had asked something too harsh.
In a party hunt, one’s share is filled by clearly defining one’s role and doing it well. That’s why, when we have the opportunity like today, we need to divide up the roles that each person is assigned.
“I enjoy eating candy….”
You eat a lot of candy.
It seemed that no matter how hard Paranoy racked his brain, he couldn’t come up with anything special.
So Paranoy became a trap-snatcher and scout, as well as a porter and odd-job man.
“Wow, it’s heavy… .”
Paranoy’s bag bulged like a camel’s hump from carrying Luna and me so much luggage. It was quite pitiful to see him panting while carrying it.
I actually knew that was a joke. Paranoy’s level is 23 or 22, which is similar to mine.
If you had invested only in brute force like me, it would have been evenly distributed overall, so it wouldn’t have been difficult to just lift a little bit of the load.
“Luna, it’s too heavy…! The burden, the burden is so heavy that I feel like I’m sinking to the floor…! My, my body is being dragged to the floor right now! Eek-!”
“Stop being so ridiculous. Why are you joking around when you’ve only been here for 10 minutes?”
We haven’t even left the north gate of Sodomora yet. But if we’re delayed by this commotion, we may never arrive at the Valley of the Manticore.
However, Luna seemed worried about Paranoy, who was panting so much that she looked like she was going to faint.
“Paranoy, if you’re having a hard time, should I give you some stamina boost?”
“Suddenly, all of a sudden, I feel a surge of strength…!”
“Look, I told you this kid was just joking.”
It was while I was pestering Paranoy like that.
“Hey, I saw a familiar face from afar, so I wondered who it was. Isn’t this the Samaritan Brothers? Hehe.”
Someone spoke to us from the center of the city towards the North Gate. There are only a handful of funny kids in the world who call me brother.
This voice, which is so wonderfully pronounced, is unique to only one person among them.
“Hey, you fucking punk. It’s been a while. What have you been up to?”
“I’m always the same. I just lived my life, brother.”
Swish.
Malco looked me over from top to bottom. It was a blatant look, but he didn’t seem to think it was particularly rude, and I didn’t mind either.
“Your appearance has improved a lot. I saw it in the newspaper. The more you raise the bard, the more delighted I am as your exclusive bard!”
Malko, this little bastard thought he was my personal bard or something.
We never made a contract like that, and we never talked about doing it like that, but it feels like that’s how it ended up being like that.
According to Hippolyte, it was only natural for a famous adventurer to have a bard, and it seemed like a story worth telling to increase his fame.
Honestly, I don’t know if Malko is effective as a minstrel or not.
“Ah, Hassan! A goblin, a goblin! A giant goblin! It looks like Gogrid is still alive…!”
“Nymph sister, this body is not a goblin, but Malcoran. I don’t know why I thought of a goblin when I saw this old-fashioned appearance.”
What an old-fashioned dragon.
It was a word that didn’t really fit with Malko.
Honestly, this time I had no choice but to admit it.
“Malko, what on earth have you been doing…?”
I ran my eyes over the guy’s body just as Malco had run his eyes over mine.
The guy is wearing a red velvet cloak, like that of a nobleman from some country, a strange crown, and a golden guitar slung on his back.
The rings on each finger are large. The necklace is also made of silver chains that hang in a heap, and it looks like a dog collar, which is funny, but I think it’s probably real silver.
What the hell.
Why is this kid’s outfit more outrageous than mine, who’s been suffering like crazy all this time? Is this kid the son of a nobleman or something?
I had a kind of prejudice that being a celebrity was a job that only the children of rich families had.
Likewise, the minstrel of this world was one of the professions chosen by many noble children.
For example, it feels like a job chosen by the scoundrels thrown out of their families to enjoy singing, drinking, and romance.
“Hey, shit, are you a noble by any chance? Why have you changed like this?”
“What are you talking about? Oh, are you talking about these things? Ha, matter exists and then disappears, and then disappears and then exists. You don’t have to worry about it. It’s just a small change, isn’t it?”
“This shit, that’s a big changeup. What the hell did you do? What the hell did you do to make money? This kid isn’t doing any crime, is he?”
Is this guy really the clown Malko I knew?
How on earth can someone change like this in just a few days?
I was so curious I thought I was going crazy.
Just then, Luna blinked next to me and screamed, “Ah-!”
“Oh! I thought it was someone, but it’s you! You’ve changed so much I couldn’t recognize you!”
Luna didn’t even seem to know that this guy was Malko. It’s said that people’s image changes drastically depending on their clothes.
That’s because the Malko guy has changed so much.
“Sister of the Foreign Country, it’s a bit shocking that even you don’t recognize this body. In fact, I have changed a little. I have abandoned my weak past self.”
At that moment, from far away, someone shouted loudly, “Malko-! Where are you!” I looked over there and saw someone waving a hand out from a luxurious carriage pulled by two horses. I couldn’t see inside, but for some reason, I thought it was fortunate that I couldn’t see.
“Oh, I guess I should go. Anyway, it was nice meeting you. And Samaritan, let’s have a drink together next time. Brother Kalidur wanted to see you.”
“Kalidur?”
Kalidur was a tough elf. He was also a human hunter who came from Alfheim to this continent of Gaia in pursuit of Elfriede.
A cold-blooded, stubborn person without a single hair on his head.
A tight-fisted brat who’s a couple years younger than me.
As I recalled that face, I couldn’t understand why he wanted to see me. Could it be something to do with Elfriede? That could be it. As I was about to open my mouth with that thought,
“I really have to go now. It was nice meeting you all!”
Malco waved at us and disappeared into the carriage.
Luna said while looking at Malko’s back.
“You little brat. You can’t live up to your name. You’re wasting your life’s luck on a young day. You’re clearly doing something ungodly.”
I couldn’t understand what Luna was saying, but I did agree that Malko wouldn’t be able to live up to his name.
If that guy is making that much money, then there’s a high chance that it’s not a good thing.
Is life short and fat?
Anyway, there were many things going on, but we went out through the north gate of Sodomora.
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