Chapter 24 – 24. Camouflage

An island without people. On this island full of monsters, after hunting by breaking monster pots, I started to get a sense of my magic little by little.

‘Magical Nullification…… That’s optional.’

The magic I touch disappears. However, it did not disappear unconditionally. Only the magic I truly thought I could get rid of was gone.

‘Maybe that’s why Master’s magic worked…….’

When Evangeline showed her magic for the first time, the reason she was struck by the magic and flew around the sky was simple. Yeah, because she never imagined that gravity would have an effect.

Even now that she was aware of the magic to some extent, if someone told her to stop it, she could only shake her head. Are you touching gravity? How the hell is that possible?

After hearing about my magic, which I guessed, the Master answered with a low voice.

“This……. No matter how you look at it, it looks like him.”
“Is that it?”
“There is such a thing. Hmm… Okay, shall we go back first?”

Perhaps thinking of something he didn’t want to put in Grieg’s mouth, Master turned around and ordered Margaret to open the gate back to the hut.

After listening to Master’s words, Margaret took notice and used her magic to send us home. Returning home with the corpses of the monsters I caught in my arms, I roughly threw the corpses into the storage room and brushed off the sand and dust from my clothes.

“Oh right. John?”
“Yes, Master.”
“Since you caught the monster this time, you can do as you like.”
“…… That word.”
“Yes. Just like you did before, go to the city with Ritz.”

When I heard that, I paused for a moment. They smiled naturally and cheered loudly.

“Really!? Oh yea! Then tomorrow…….”
“Yes, I will give you special permission. You can go right away tomorrow.”
“Then I should do things in advance for tomorrow! Master, excuse me!”

I smiledheheand turned my back, suppressing my laughter and sighing inwardly.

‘Master, if you do that, even a kindergartener won’t be fooled.’

When there is something that makes you uncomfortable to talk about, a technique to change your attention to something else like water flowing. It was a bit of a difficult skill for her to use due to her lack of social skills.

Thanks to her, I realized that she had something to hide from me. The fact that it had to do with my magic.

‘What is it?’

However, I couldn’t find it here. It wasn’t easy to find out the secret from two witches trying to keep it from me.

Fortunately, there was an opportunity to attack one person at a time. I decided to head to the city where many people gather tomorrow.

I swallowed my curiosity and started taking care of the things I had to do ahead of time.

* * *

Cattle to the countryside, people to the royal road.
To the extent that there is such a proverb, people have always talked about the greatness of the royal road. Indeed, having just arrived at the capital, I could see that what was said was true.

‘Isn’t this almost the modern era?’

As befits a fantasy era in which magic and monsters exist, the royal capital was a city that was more advanced than many of the lesser countries of the earth. It was strange considering that only witches could use magic.

Do not discriminate against witches, or treat witches like slaves. It meant that at least one of two things was happening in the capital.

“What do you think?”
“…… Incredible. I didn’t expect it to be like this.”
“Right? Even as a witch, I look amazing. It wasn’t so great when I was just born.”

Margaret said, recalling the time when she had just been born. Like a witch who has lived for hundreds of years, that feeling will not be ordinary.

As I was standing on the street, a wagon passed by. Upon closer inspection, the carriage was not being pulled by a horse. It was a two-legged monster.

I was shocked to learn that the monsters had even been domesticated, but I nodded in agreement shortly thereafter. Just as wolves became dogs, among monsters, there must have been creatures that evolved to obey humans and survive.

‘…… There are too many uses for monsters.’

Spices in another world weren’t that expensive. Village chiefs in rural villages saved their food like scattering gold dust, but that was because the village was so poor.

In reality it wasn’t at all. It is said that there is a monster whose secretion turns into a spice that removes the fishy smell of meat. Humans were breeding those monsters and producing spices.

How common is that spice, isn’t it a yard that grows even in the woods near the hut?

“…… Margaret, this. Do you know where the exchange is?”
“Yeah, I know. Follow.”
“Thank you.”

I decided to sell the corpses of the monsters I brought, and followed Margaret into a building. There, rugged people were fighting with the employees wearing equipment made of various materials.

“So, just a little more comforting!”
“Because it’s a fixed amount…….”
“This! It’s more than 1.5 times the size just by looking at it……!”

The person who negotiates the price of the by-products of the monsters I hunt.

“This request is to hunt Carl-Bijac.”
“Is that it again? I think I can catch the stronger ones now.”
“Don’t overdo it. Challenges are reckless.”

An adventurer who decides on his next game and plans how to hunt it.

“Welcome! To the adventurer’s guild!”

And even the employees who greet me with a bright smile.
I walked up to the waitress and asked for the money.
The waiter smiled and pointed to the seat next to him.

“You can stand in line over there.”

As I rolled my eyes following the hand of the waitress, I saw at least dozens of people lined up in front of a window.

I sighed and walked to the back. At times like these, it would be great to have a smartphone. Or rather take a number and wait.

As I grumbled and waited in line, the gazes of the adventurers around me focused on me. The guy who thought he was a client because of his handsome appearance would have to roll his eyes to see him standing in the line for adventurers.

‘Is there only Hellchang here?’

Looking at the size of the adventurers in front of me and surrounding me, I wrinkled my nose at the illusion of sweating that didn’t even come out.

Hey, strength is the answer to ordinary people without magical powers. In order to survive in the adventurer industry full of risks, you have no choice but to build up your strength.

“Disciple, I’m so dizzy here…… I’ll be over there, so don’t make an accident.”

“…… I don’t want to be here either.”

“Ah, you can see the disciple-kun. It’s like they’re secretly touching their butts because they haven’t seen them since a while ago.”

I can’t even see it, so how can I touch it? Before that could be said, Margaret hid herself in a far off-the-beaten-path corner.

A place slightly away from me, but not far from my eyes. I sighed lightly and waited for my turn.

And, not long after…

“Oops, excuse me.”

An adventurer naturally cut in front of me. Hey, if an anchovy was stuck between the spears with forearms the size of thighs, even if it was me, I would have acted like this.

Etiquette and morality are not uncivilized fantasies that are hard to come up with, and power was justice and truth.

“I really hate this.”
“What? What’s that—aaaaa!”
“It seems like you’re breathing hard for nothing.”

I squeezed the face of the adventurer who stood in my way. The Iron Claw, one of the wrestling techniques. It’s a technology that doesn’t have much power physically, but…….

“Kiyaaaaa—! Face, my face—!”

The physical ability enhanced by magical powers gave this ridiculous technique excessive killing power. The adventurer tried to remove my hands with both arms, but I’m not a gorilla, and my arms, which can fight monsters momentarily, are unlikely to fall off.

In the end, after throwing the fainting guy away with tears running down his nose – I stood in line again.

Fortunately, after one demonstration of force, no one tried to cut in the line.

‘Anyway, savage bastards.’

Wouldn’t this happen if you lined up quietly from the beginning? With such a grumble, I arrived at the cash desk in gear.

The waitress greeted me with slightly trembling pupils, perhaps seeing my eccentricity.

“Oh, welcome. If you post the items you want to exchange here…….”
“Here you go.”
“Yes, yes. Please wait a moment…….”

The waitress received the goods, went inside, and after a while came out with a large pocket.

He looked at the adventurers around him and cautiously pulled out his pocket and whispered.

“Here it is…… You can check it out, but I wouldn’t recommend doing it here…….”

“…… No, of course you have to check right in front of you, right? What if I say something else later?”

“Yeah, but…….”

Ignoring the advice of the waitress, I immediately rummaged through my pockets and confirmed that they were all filled with gold coins. After taking my pockets, I immediately left the building.

After I left the building, Margaret followed.

“Why is that?”
“What?”
“You did it on purpose. I put my pockets there.”
“…… Not on purpose.”
“What? So you’re saying you really don’t know anything?”

Margaret looked at me with a slight frown. No, then what- you don’t have to check if the amount is correct after exchanging money…….

But after a while, I realized why she was looking at me like that.

Cook.

“Don’t open your mouth.”

I feel the touch of something sharp behind my back. It was a hard, cold sensation, a knife. When I glanced at my back with a slight firmness, several adventurers I had seen earlier in the adventurer’s guild were standing behind my back.

‘Yes, it’s like a mercenary, right?’

Usually, they work hard after receiving requests, but when they go to a place where they don’t care about the eyes of others, they transform into thieves—from a modern person’s point of view, they’re a group of human scum.

However, in a different world, he was an ordinary adventurer that could be taken for granted at first glance. They took me into a deserted alleyway.

“Give me the money.”
“Nope.”
“What? Is this crazy…….”

The adventurer thrusts out a dagger. But don’t be afraid. It wasn’t because I had awakened my magic and could easily defeat blades, but because Margaret was here.

She can run away at any time, and with her spatial magic her, she can even save a giant tentacle monster at once. What on earth are you afraid of?

“Um- can I use it to fill my petty pride by boasting to my master that I defeated you guys here and exaggeratedly defeated a gang of bandits?”

“What? What is he saying now. This bastard is real—!”

Just as one of the adventurers could not hold back his anger and was about to run, the girl jumped off the roof. Leaping in front of her adventurer, she immediately kicked her dagger with her foot, kicked her in the stomach, and sent her flying away.

Unbelievable strength that came out of a petite body. The other adventurers, who were about to attack their comrades her, stiffened stiffly at the sudden appearance of her.

“Hey hey hey… Bounce!”

While the adventurers were running away, the girl didn’t chase after them and looked back at me. It was said that her golden-colored pigtails spun around in a whirlwind.

Along with the fluttering hair her, the rosary hanging from her neck her also fluttered in the air to show off her figure her.

It was a paladin uniform that he had seen in other cities.

‘Why is the paladin here?’

The witch’s nemesis, the witch hunter. In the midst of the fact that I met a paladin, Margaret, who had been hiding next to me, carefully opened her mouth her.

“…… Disciple, don’t open your mouth, just listen. This guy is not a paladin.”

Then? Before even asking the question, Margaret whispered with her lips quivering.

“It’s a witch, that guy.”

A third witch appeared.