Chapter 110 – Extraversion. Fledgling Cassano

In the vast plaza, many people were walking along the street, talking about their own stories. From men who spit and chatter with red-stained faces to prostitutes who show off their well-made makeup, as if they are going to work on the coming night. Looking at such scenery, I realized that I had really come to a different world.

-Kikkik

Arriving at the pub with strawberry nose Remia told me about, I closed my eyes and opened the door, feeling the premonition of chaos beyond the thin door. As soon as I opened the door, I could feel the sound of screams hitting my eardrums and the noisy atmosphere.

– Clink!

“Bill! You fucking bastard!”

“Hey, who knows that you cheated first?”

“You motherfuckers, suck the goblin’s dick!”

There was not a single quiet table in the noisy pub. Everyone was talking and everyone was getting angry. I shrugged my shoulders and looked around at the violent atmosphere that I hadn’t gotten used to no matter how many times I saw it.

“Fuck! I lost again!”

“Because it’s not okay for that bastard. Let’s just have a drink.”

“Fuck it, it’s 20 silver, 20 silver! Do you know how to give up?”

Stacks of playing cards spread out on a table in the far corner of the pub, and men giggling, baring their yellow teeth, were passing cards and exchanging violent conversations. And the person in the robe who is alone in the center of the table exudes a unique atmosphere. Arylda was there.

-Jerbuck Jerbuck

I let go of my sticky gaze and shrugged my shoulders as I approached the table, and as soon as I approached the table, I avoided the men glaring at me and stood behind Erilda.

Erilda, her robe pulled over, turned her head at my approach and stared at me with the dark blue eyes in her hood. Covering her mouth under her silent pressure, I asked her after telling Remia’s message.

“What are you doing here?”

“I am playing a card game.”

Erilda answered in a calm voice and tossed the card from her slender fingers onto the table. The card flew in a neat curve and landed next to the card Arylda had laid out.

“Fuck again?”

“Bring a male prostitute and take the money? Nursing care bastard!”

Not knowing any rules, I just watched with my eyes wide open, but it must have been a disaster for the gamblers. Erilda wordlessly scratched the pile of silver coins in her center, looked around her, put one on her chin, and stood up.

-Dreuk

“Then.”

As Erilda turned away with her clear voice and left her table, the remaining gamblers exploded in exasperation and gulped down the cups in front of her. In particular, the old woman who said she had been ripped off 20 silver was staring at Erilda’s back with impassioned momentum as she indifferently left with her red face.

-Tadadak

After standing still, Erilda hurriedly followed in an atmosphere where her bones and flesh were about to separate. Erilda, who was in the lead of her, glanced at me snuggling up to her back and started to leave her tavern at a faster pace.

– Kiki Iik

After opening her old door and escaping from Strawberry Nose’s tomb, I followed Erilda, staring at the back of her head as she was walking without a word. I was annoyed, but I was her second-in-command, so if I attacked her, it was clear that she would be kicked out of the mercenary group.

-Jerbuck

“How long are you going to follow me?”

Arrilda, who had been walking down her winding back alley for a while, stopped her steps and asked. I was intimidated by the tiredness in her determined voice, but I decided to go out proudly because it had happened like this.

“Is it wrong for her sub-shooter to follow her shooter?”

“I have free time. You will have to do chores for the mercenary corps from tomorrow, so get a good night’s sleep.”

It was not wrong. The fate of the youngest member of any group was harsh, so when I thought of the errands and chores that would be pouring out from tomorrow, and the pranks and scoldings of the seniors, I remembered what had happened on Earth and made my head dizzy. That’s why it was a waste of time to spend the day lying still in the dorm.

“…It’s like being in the dorm quietly. I want to see what you are doing.”

At my request, Erilda stared at me with her hood pulled down tightly. She was Erilda, who was shorter than me but quite tall, so she was at an almost opposite angle, so she could stare into Erilda’s dark blue eyes for a long time.

“…Please quietly follow me.”

I clenched my fists in excitement at her permission to fall from her Erilda’s mouth. I wanted to get close to Erilda, who was beautiful even though she was a shooter, so I thought that if I missed this opportunity, I would never have a chance to get close to her, so I thought that being allowed was enough.

“Ah, by the way, the vice-captain said Erilda-sama would have the money for the inn, do you have it?”

If you add lodging to your little money, it will increase in an instant. Funds were precious because he had to save money quickly to buy useful equipment. As she quietly walked away at my question, Lilda’s shoulders twitched momentarily, and then she turned her head slightly to look at me and answered.

“Oh, no. I’ll give it to you tomorrow.”

If you don’t have it, you don’t have it. What will you give me tomorrow? Recalling Remia’s words as a joke, I stared at her dark blue eyes with narrow eyes. Her eyes, like those of the night sky, which hadn’t shaken at all, flinched and shook, but she soon turned her head and was unable to look at her any further as Lilda turned her head.

**

– My daughter and daughter

“Welcome!”

With the voice of a lively girl, I entered the tavern. Erilda, who skipped between the tables where the sweaty boys were chatting and spitting, approached the men in the corner, just like the card players at Strawberry Nose’s tavern.

-Dreuk

I kept my mouth shut at Lilda’s urging to be quiet, and I naturally pulled up her chair and stood right behind her. Those who flirted and laughed at Erilda filling her void, glared at me behind her and pointed at me with her thumbs.

“What is this bastard?”

“Bantling. Because the vice-captain told me to be in charge.”

When the clear voice was thrown at the table where cards were exchanged, the young man who was passing the cards stared at Erilda with interest. Her flicking tongue and her disquieting eyes made her angry, but she remembered Erilda’s urging to stay still, so she clenched her fists and endured it.

“What is it, your voice is pretty? Shall we take a look at the pretty face?”

“Holman, do your best and pass the cards.”

“Fuck, don’t order me.”

Holman twisted the corners of her mouth and stretched out her hand like a shotgun. The destination of her hand was, of course, Erilda’s hood. I hurriedly reached out her hand to block her outstretched hand, but mine couldn’t reach it. I didn’t want to show Lilda’s face to that bastard, so I clicked her tongue and disassembled her, but soon an unexpected sound resounded.

– Wow!

“Keah…!”

“You idiot, I told you to do it in moderation. Do you know that there are only one or two bastards like you?”

“Fuck…! My arm, my arm…!”

-Kudangtang!

Holman fell from his chair and wiped off the dust by carefully rolling over like a floor mop. The old man nodded at the man standing behind him, who seemed familiar, and the man dragged the man lying on the floor to the back of the store.

“I’m sorry. He’s just been on the plate.”

“Pass the cards.”

I don’t know how she stopped it, but Rilda’s voice was calm as she had expected it to happen. At Erilda’s request, Ajae picked up the deck of cards and shuffled the cards with his quick hands.

“Now that Holman is like that, there’s an empty seat… Do you want to play with our friends?”

Seeing Ajae’s friendly look at me with a smile on my face made me worry. Erilda told her to stay still, but since it was the first proper game she had seen since coming to this world, she wanted to enjoy it at least once. She had played poker or seotda as a pastime on Earth, so the joy she felt at that time welled up.

“Yeah…”

As I was hesitantly trying to grab an empty chair, Erilda knocked my hand away with a lightning-like motion. I looked at Erilda while stroking the back of my tingling hand, and Erilda, who didn’t even look at me, was talking to my father in a determined voice.

“I’m the one who came to watch, so let’s leave it out. Return the card.”

“Tsk, okay- that’s really tight-“

A man who murmurs and exchanges cards. As I was looking at the table in a subdued atmosphere, sweating from the embarrassing situation, Arylda turned her head slightly, looked at me, and quietly opened her mouth.

“Don’t be like money you don’t have for nothing, just watch. I’m just going to do it here.”

“Ah yes.”

“…”

Although they are shooters and sub-shooters, it was a formal relationship given by Remia. I felt sorry for Lilda’s reaction, which seemed far away, and I looked at her gambling board, scratching the floor with her toes. As I continued to observe, it looked similar to poker as the cards were drawn and dealt while collecting the same patterns and numbers.

“Oh…”

The hand Erilda is holding is the largest number. It was a card connected to the numbers laid out on the table, so Erilda immediately covered it to the side and thumped the table, enjoying her leisure time. You’re really good at it – I saw something next to the heads of the ajaes who were scratching their heads as they watched while spitting out a simple sentiment.

“Huh…?”

Should I say purple? An unknown lump was floating around and hovering over the heads of the fathers and sons. I spend time constantly observing the lump that only Erilda doesn’t have. With the sound of grinding on the table, I could see Erilda reaching for the pile of money.

With a nonchalant look, check the card and play the card, check the card and play the card. As she watched Rilda spend her money over and over again, her admiration for her arose a little.

There is no reaction to the pressure around you while gritting your teeth and swearing. It seemed very cool to be noticeably different from me, who had been living in a different world and kept an eye on others.

– Kwaaang!

“Then it breaks!”

“Ah, you can pay it back!”

Could it be broken? – As I hit the table hard enough to think, an employee passing by warned me in a high-pitched voice. Ajae shouted in an annoyed voice, looked around at the empty table and tired fathers, and then spoke to Erilda in a resigned voice.

“Today we will end here.”

“Good job.”

– Dripping

[Sir-Pal-]

[Ah, that’s fucking-]

Erilda, who stood up nonchalantly, quickly got out of the table. As she got further away, she glanced at the old men at her swear words and backbiting, which sounded feeble.

“Huh?”

She looked at Arylda, her eyes widening at the sight of her, which looked very similar to her filter cigarettes on Earth. She falls into this world and sees one of the things she thinks about the most: cigarettes here! As she stared back and forth between the cigarette in Erilda’s finger and the pink lips poking through her hood, she asked me quietly.

“Do you want to avoid it?”

“Oh, I’ve seen that before. I’m excited to see it It’s not that I don’t want to avoid it, but it’s interesting-“

“Put-“

It wasn’t my sincerity to say that I wanted to avoid it, but to say no. She couldn’t help but stumble and blurt out her words, so Erilda covered her mouth with a very small smile. Then, she lowered her hand, pulled out a cigarette from her bosom, and held it out to me.

“I will lend you one as a commemoration of becoming an assistant shooter.”

“Bill, can I borrow it?”

“Because it is quite expensive. It’s something I can’t even smoke.”

= Hueup

Her thick lips pursed her lips as she bit into the white filter. Erilda’s lower house, illuminated by the moonlight through her alley, looked more beautiful than all the statues I had seen, and she let out her admiration as she took the cigarette she had received and slowly brought it to her mouth with her trembling hand.

-Tup

The suffocating feeling and longing felt through the filter came in an instant. As I was quietly closing my eyes, savoring this moment, where even just a bite was good, Erilda asked me with a smiley voice.

“Isn’t there a fire?”

When she asked me with her teasing smile, the corners of her mouth, she seemed cold, but when she smiled and made a trivial joke, something about her felt strange. She didn’t know what to do, moving her cigarette around in her hand, panicking, when Erilda spoke to me in a small voice.

“Suck it all the way.”

-Profit

The smell of cigarette smoke wafted from her lips as the tip of the cigarette burned. I took a deep breath, calming her thumping heart at Erilda’s act of realizing the so-called cigarette kiss, holding her filter to the end of my cigarette with her filter in her mouth.

Along with the tip of the cigarette entering the pasta, acrid smoke pierced her lungs deeply. She was very surprised to feel the comfort she felt after a while and the heavy cigarette smoke similar to the taste she had tasted on Earth.

“Wow…”

As she spat out a short exclamation and sucked on the cigarette in her mouth, Eril Da laughed mischievously.

“If anyone sees you, you’ll think you’re a country bumpkin who’s new to cigarettes.”

“Ah, that’s amazing. So easy to smoke… Cigarettes.”

She followed the mercenaries around and thought of the cigarettes they used to smoke, but all they smoked was pipe tobacco. Erilda wondered, how did she get something similar to the filter cigarettes on Earth? When I asked with her puzzled eyes, she said that Erilda made a squat cheek and rolled her smoke that filled her mouth.

“I paid a lot of money to get it from Krafton. Well, it’s something that’s rumored to have been developed by someone from another world.”

-Hoo-wook

With Erilda’s sweet sigh, the sky-sky gray smoke rose up her alley into the sky. I stared blankly at the fleetingly dissipating cigarette smoke, and was filled with joy as I chewed over Erilda’s words as if it were not a big deal.

I didn’t fall alone. If you made something like this, wouldn’t the people of Earth have fallen quite a lot? I thought I had fallen naked into the wild, but feeling as if I had found a person from her hometown, I swallowed the last sip and tossed the burning butt.

“It’s a posture you’ve always smoked.”

Arril Da, who was trampling her own butt with her boot, looked at me and said, However, if she said that she had smoked here or that she was used to it, I felt like she would grab her pod, so I immediately smiled stupidly and scratched her head.

“Isn’t that how you throw it away? When I worked as a porter, I threw everything away like this.”

“Um, no. Just… Whoa- let’s go back.”

After catching her breath, Erilda closed her disheveled hood and moved her steps again. I quietly followed Rilda, watching the butts strewn across her floor. Deep in nostalgia as I chewed the smoky cigarette smoke that was still in my mouth, I dragged my exhausted body into the dorm after Erilda urged me to go in first.

– Flutter

Throwing myself into an old bed that was no different from an inn, I breathed out slowly, smelling the faint scent of apples that lingered around the room. It was a dream-like day, so if I didn’t meditate, my head would be dizzy and I wouldn’t be able to sleep.

Aren’t I suddenly recruited by a mercenary corps, a pretty elf is my shooter, and I thought I fell into this world alone, but there are more people like me. I even collapsed for no reason because I gained more today than I gained from rolling for a year.

-Kikkik

“Don’t you catch it?”

Erilda opened the door and came in. Seeing the faint smell of smoky cigarettes, it seemed that she had brought in another one by herself.

“I was going to sleep now.”

“I’ll be busy from tomorrow, doing chores and maybe checking my skills briefly.”

“Don’t you usually do that before you come in?”

“No one knows what the vice-captain is up to. Well, hold on well.”

– Flutter

Arylda threw herself onto her bed, sat down, and threw off her robe that covered her body. I swallowed my saliva at her swaying breasts and neat-looking clothes, and I looked at her ceiling and asked Erilda what I was curious about.

“By the way, how big is this mercenary group? I haven’t heard anything…”

“Didn’t you explain anything?”

Hearing Erilda’s tired voice, I nodded her head and looked at Erilda. Erilda, who was tapping her fingers on the bed with her cold eyes, let out a small sigh of her own and spoke to me in a weary voice.

“We are a well-known mercenary in the capital. Vice-captain Remia is a famous elementalist who has contracted with three mid-level spirits.”

“A spirit…”

I couldn’t easily come to terms with the existence of a spirit that I had only encountered in novels, so I stared at Erilda’s dark blue eyes while chewing on the words that lingered in my mouth. I just saw it, but Erilda’s look in my eyes What about you? She told me about her own skills without even asking if she thought it was the look in her asking eyes.

“I am a space wizard. It deals with very rare and very special magic.”

“Ah, is that so?”

“It won’t end with that. Cassano is still a rookie, so you don’t know how great I am.”

“I’ve never seen magic before…”

The mercenaries I followed were bastards who wielded axes and swords. Those insignificant mercenaries who slaughtered goblins like those in charge of goblins, but ran away when an orc appeared. And I was a lesser porter than those insignificant bastards.

“Huh…”

Erilda, who made a whining sound, looked at me with her grumpy face. I thought I would only hurt her mood if I talked about it any more, so I turned her head and said a word to Lilda before going to sleep.

“I want to see how great magic is.”

“Hey, we’ll see you soon. Good night.”

-Sreuk

I heard the sound of the blanket dragging and the sound of lying down. Looking out of the corner of my eye at Erilda lying on the bed, I closed her stiff eyes and let out a slow breath. I couldn’t sleep easily because I kept hearing that I had to do all sorts of things as the youngest member of the mercenary corps starting tomorrow.

“Whoa…”

Still better than a porter. Thinking over the life of a donkey carrying all of their luggage without being treated like a human being, I surrendered myself to the rushing horses and slowly fell asleep.

**
Waking up early in the morning with the sound of shouting, I was swept away by the urge to squeeze me, who had been thinking positively before going to bed. I’d rather have a donkey.

“Quickly wipe!”

Hearing the voice of the woman screaming and sweating next to me, I eagerly wiped the shields and armor spread across my feet, dripping sweat on the ground. The rough-looking woman with her auburn hair also played with her hands nonstop, tidying up her wet front hair with her fingertips.

“Is it over when I wipe it all off?”

“Are you kidding me? When you’re done, you’ll have to clean the gym!”

“What if I finish that too?”

“I have to help move the food ingredients to the restaurant and take care of it. Didn’t you hear anything?”

If I said I didn’t hear anything here, I would almost certainly be criticized for what I did, and if I said I heard that, I’d know why I asked. I just asked for nothing to do as I was told, so I fell into hell.

“I heard about the shooter, but I didn’t hear anything else. Sorry.”

“Cleaning the equipment, cleaning the gym, and moving food materials are always fixed. Everything else is shared, so we just have to do what we’re told to do.”

“Yes!”

She apologized obediently and quickly wiped her shield as she replied. Recalling her mother’s words that wherever she goes, if she’s kind enough, she’ll come back.

“But I don’t think I even heard your name. My name is Cassano.”

“Hey. Don’t you brush your teeth when you’re talking?”

“Yes!”

Not coming back

After cleaning dozens of shields and armor, I headed to the gymnasium and really missed my donkey days. At that time, I just had to move my luggage without thinking, but now I had to pick up the ground, pick up the land, and do all kinds of shit. Confused by the sweat that soaked my entire chest, I stuck out my tongue and put straw on the frayed scarecrow.

“Heh, heh…”

“It’s a lot of trouble.”

I tied the straw with twine and wrapped the scarecrow tightly and turned around, wiping the sweat from my eyes. Erilda, who was smoking a cigarette that was said to be expensive, spoke to me with her mouth drawn in an arc while her hood was pressed down tightly.

“Did you say you were busy?”

“Yeah. I am busy.”

A woman who was picking up the ground in the distance approached me to say something while her hand was playing, but she turned around with an exasperated face and started to finish what she was doing. She seemed resigned to being told to stop talking and talking to Erilda.

“Then…”

“Ah! Me but.”

I called out to her who was about to go back while exhaling her fuu-her smoke. In fact, I just called because I didn’t want to work right away, but because there was no business, the words didn’t come out easily.

“Why did you call me?”

-Ssik

It is Aryl who pats the ground with a smirk as she seems to have realized my intentions. I thought he was a cold person, but it was amazing to see him like that, but that wasn’t the important thing now.

“Hey, can I come with you tonight?”

“Do you think I know what to do and follow you?”

“Aren’t you going to play that card game again?”

“Puh-“

Erilda let out a clear, audible laugh at the answer, which I thought was foolish, and brushed the ashes off the floor. She looked at Arylda, calming her soaring irritation, and she smiled and said in a small voice.

“Do by that way. Ah! When you’re done, stay at your accommodation. Since the vice-captain is coming…”

Well then, Erilda flicked her hand lightly and left as it was, sucking deliciously on the cigarette in her hand. I sniffed the smoky cigarette smoke, and when I saw the woman stride forward, I grabbed the twine scattered on the floor and wrapped it around her scarecrow again.

“Hey!”

“Yes?”

What do you mean by deliberately fooling around? I looked at her, trying to ignore the cold sweat she felt running down her back, her eyes sparkling with excitement for anyone who would say anything about her.

“You, the shooter is Erilda-sama?”

“Ah yes.”

“Wow- crazy. I and the others are low-level mercenaries-“

“Are you such a great person?”

“Awesome! It’s the only magic for the mercenaries- wow- I’ve been smoking those expensive Krafton cigarettes since the morning-“

I straightened my back as I listened attentively to her words of praise for Erilda, making a lot of noise as if the cleaning was finished. The only magician in the mercenary group – cool and secretive, no one knows her identity – if she didn’t talk, she wouldn’t even know she was a woman – and so on. But it seems like it’s not a compliment anymore?

She eventually went to the restaurant and the whole time she was carrying all kinds of ingredients, she heard Erilda talk. If there was one thing I gained though, it was the fact that no one had seen her face properly except for the captain and vice-captain. Recalling Erilda, who coolly introduced herself while taking off her hood when we first met, I answered the chattering woman while hiding my doubts and parted ways.

-Kikkik

“Whoa-“

“No, didn’t I say it was expensive?”

As soon as she entered the dorm, she saw Erilda sitting at her desk reading a book and smoking a cigarette. She couldn’t hold back her anger and spit it out that she was only thinking about it.

“Oh… It’s expensive, I can afford it.”

I headed to my bed, smelling the smell of cigarettes mixed with the scent of apples that hovered around the room. Taking off her hood, Erilda looked at me with her long grin on her face, sucking a cigarette deliciously.

“Do you want to avoid it?”

“…It’s okay.”

“Puh.”

Erilda, smiling and smoking a cigarette, scratched her insides. All I heard earlier was that she was cool or blunt or something like that, but the Erilda I saw was just like her first impression.

“Do you always laugh that much?”

In response to the question thrown at me while sitting on the bed, Erilda put her cigarette in the ashtray and said to me with a smile still on her face.

“No. I don’t usually laugh.”

A smile still hung on Erilda’s lips as she answered that.

“When I keep watching Cassano, I feel like he’s really a novice.”

A fledgling, a fledgling, but what a fledgling is itself—let’s look at it with disgruntled eyes.

“Looking at it, she seems like a person who has fallen into the capital. I’m used to that stupid expression of seeing everything for the first time.”

Just like me, Erilda added, then took her cigarette from her ashtray, took a gulp, took a gulp, and then spat it out. A puff of smoke flew in my direction.

Come to think of it, she said she was an elf-I glanced at Erilda, her long ears twitching and smoking her cigarette deliciously. She thought she wanted to get close, but her crush, whose grounds were unknown, was somehow uncomfortable.

– Jump!

“Did you sleep well?”

The closed door burst open, and a lively voice echoed through the room. Remia, who entered the room with her smile on her face, distorted her face and waved her hand.

“I told you not to smoke in your room!”

“I’m too lazy to go out.”

-Hoo-wook

Erilda spat out the last sip that had been lingering in her mouth and responded lightly. She was Remia with a quivering mouth, but she sighed, calmed down, and looked back at me with her smile on her face.

“Did you sleep well? It’s nothing different, simply to see your skills.”

“Ah yes.”

“Isn’t there anything to do with Erilda? Come with me.”

“Yes-“

Remia immediately left the room as soon as she was finished with her swift action, and Erilda shrugged her shoulders, put on the robe she had taken off, pressed her hood down, and left. I didn’t have anything to pack, so I grabbed a sword scattered on the floor and trudged after them.

– Trudge trudge

Remia, who constantly chatters in a lively voice, takes the lead, and Erilda, who does not open her lips by pressing down on the hood, and even me following behind. Near the inn, the mercenaries who killed time by relaxing or chatting were busy glancing at us.

“Look, it’s the vice-captain.”

“There’s Erilda-san, who I’ve always been with.”

“Who is that guy behind me?”

“Since I heard Ronda say earlier, she said she was the youngest.”

Even if I tried to ignore it, I somehow managed to spill my story that stuck in my ears and silently followed the two of them. Until I left the inn and passed the plaza, I stared at the back of Remia’s head as she hummed without saying anything, but Remia didn’t explain where she was going until she left the gate.

“Now- Arrive!”

After a while, the place we arrived at was none other than the next mountain. A troublesome mountain where monsters and goblins often appear and subjugation requests are constantly pouring in. It was connected to the jungle of dreams and crossed the border of the empire, so it was a place where countless mercenaries came and went.

“Casano will catch 5 goblins!”

“Is that a test?”

Goblin, to be honest, it wasn’t unreasonable. As long as they didn’t rush into a group, they could clean it up one by one. That’s why I only asked Remia if it was a test, but after hearing my question, Remia smiled and snapped his fingers.

“Then it’s too easy, capture alive.”

“Captured alive…”

“We’ll give you the rope—just capture it and you’ll succeed. Rest assured, me and Erilda will continue to follow you.”

“…All right.”

As she nodded and approached the two of them, her grinning Remia tapped her erilda with her elbow. Erilda, who had been standing there blankly, took out a long rope from inside her robe at Remia’s signal and placed it on my hand, telling me to be careful.

“There will be more resistance than I thought.”

“Thank you.”

Aryl Da, who was worried about her, thanked her and greeted her with a light nod of her head. I grabbed the handle of the sword and made up my mind. After tying the rope they gave me around my waist, I jumped through the trees without hesitation. It was a simple test, but it was clear that if he failed, he would be expelled from the mercenary corps, so he decided to do his best.

**

“I’ll go right in-“

Remia, who looked at Cassano running into the woods without even looking around, said in a pitiful voice. She was at the entrance to the mountain, but if she focused a little, she could have noticed the goblins roaming around-

“Iknow, right.”

It was a stupid choice in a way, but Erilda rather liked it. Reconnaissance is the basis of a request, but Cassano just didn’t understand it properly, and it was clear that there would be no hesitation about her request.

“Still, it’s good that it seems to be sprouting.”

“Vice-captain, did you bring Cassano because you liked her?”

“Huh?”

Remia met her gaze with her questionable eyes, and Erilda, thinking that the look in her eyes saying she didn’t know what she was talking about when she personally visited and brought Cassano, who was lightly known in her mercenary guild, sighed loudly and said again. .

“You went to meet him in person. Didn’t you come to pick me up because I saw something?”

“Ah, was that a question?”

Ugh- Remia, who had been crying while putting her index finger on her lips and making a ringing noise, responded with her bright smile.

“I just wanted to see him because he said he had a smooth face. Certainly much better than sweaty old men.”

It wasn’t a skill, it wasn’t a kang. Erilda, who was about to say something with her wry smile, closed her mouth again at Remia’s reply.

“But I can see some buds. You seem to have persistence- I quite like it.”

“…What were you doing if you didn’t like it?”

– Lick

“I just have to taste it and drive it out.”

“It’s bad taste.”

“Isn’t that what a person who gambles with the money of an assistant shooter would say?”

“…I’ll increase it properly today and return it.”

When she got out of the boring forest and tasted the splendid human world, Erilda suddenly felt a sense of kinship with the fledgling Cassano, just like herself in the human world for the first time. She really knows nothing, innocent eyes and clumsy attitude. Recalling the figure she wanted to take care of, Erilda, who had popped up her hood, said to Remia, who was busy laughing.

“Now let’s go after him.”

“Honestly, I don’t think it will fail.”

“…He’s a man of perseverance.”

“How do you know?”

“Because I saw you working hard from morning.”

“Kek- you didn’t even run away from it and did it until the end?”

It was an act of bullying new recruits in the mercenary corps tradition, and dismissing the work that all mercenaries do while taking turns on duty as the job of new recruits. Remia knew that only the clumsy Ronda was tricked and was doing it for the second day, and was thinking of telling her that she didn’t have to do it when she went back.

“If it were me, I would have asked the seniors to fight.”

“It’s because the vice-captain’s personality is dirty.”

“You didn’t even say Erilda and ran away.”

“I’m a high-class manpower.”

The two of them, who had been chatting with nonsensical jokes, glanced at the rustling forest and faced each other. Nodding their heads as if they had promised, the two went into the woods and watched Cassano with concentration as soon as they entered.

The image of Cassano rolling hard on the floor and tying the rope tightly to the goblin was clumsy and filled with the feeling of a really fresh newbie. The two of them approached the fledgling Cassano, who was laughing out loud, unable to contain his laughter.