episode_0077

77. Subscription Test (3)

After a brief commotion, including Sia explaining to Loren about the differences in lifespan between elves and humans, and Loren comforting her after she cried and apologized to him, we all headed to the union to register new party members.

Booo-

“Everyone came today…? Huh? Isn’t this person… Lauren?”

“Uh, Mr. Mi-on, how do you know Lauren?”

“That’s…..”

Everything was explained by the expression on Ms. Mi-on’s face as she looked at Lauren with a pitiful expression.

In less than a month, Lauren, you’ve become so famous that the receptionists all know you’re a poor explorer?

“I was busy yesterday because I met Lauren and asked her to join the party.”

“Ahh…. I’m sighing again…”

“Sister!!”

Slosh!

“Oh my, Sia, it’s been…long?”

While I was sitting at the window and talking to Ms. Mi-on, Sia, who was happy to see Ms. Mi-on after a long time, came up behind me, placed her breasts on my head, hugged my neck, and greeted Ms. Mi-on.

Ms. Mi-on looked flustered by Sia’s unabashed skinship, and I tried to keep a calm expression as I spoke to Sia.

“Sia, I’m talking to Mion, so can you wait a moment?”

“I want to talk to you too, unnie~ Unnie! I’m working out these days!”

“Ah…hahaha really?”

“I’m working out to help Cain!”

As Sia looked at Mion with an expression that expected praise and smiled brightly, Mion soon smiled back and congratulated her.

“Really? Oh my, I really hated Sia’s workout, but she’s amazing?”

“Yeah! Hehe, even Cain said it was special~”

“Okay.. So Mr. Cain, did you come with Ms. Lauren today…?”

“Yes, I came to register as a member of our party.”

“Oh, really? That’s great, Lauren.”

“Thank you…”

“First… Let’s start with the paperwork… First, this, this… here…”

When Lauren heard her name, she timidly came to the reception desk. I was surrounded by two women, and Ms. Mi-on puffed out her cheeks slightly, as if she was a little annoyed by the sight of me, and she quickly took out the party member registration form and handed it to me.

“Um… It’s too complicated, so the rest of you sit in the waiting area and I’ll call the people I need.”

“Me too?”

“You just have to sign the leader’s letter. Do you want to write the paperwork?”

“No.”

So I sent the other party members to the waiting area and sat down with Ms. Mi-on alone to fill out the paperwork.

“Huh… Elf… Mr. Cain, now an elf too?”

“Huh? Me?”

“No, it makes no sense to suddenly accept an elf into the party….”

“Mr. Lukewarm.”

“Yes?”

I looked up and saw Ms. Mi-on looking a little upset.

As I cut her off and stared at her, her face gradually turned red.

“Eh..! It’s so obvious… Hehe!!”

“Ms. Lauren is so cute.”

“You’re saying..?”

“I can’t handle a sword well, but we just had a duel in the dorms? Claude swung his sword with all his might, but I lightly swung my buckler and blew Claude away. An elf who hasn’t even entered the labyrinth yet.”

“…..”

“And Sia is uncomfortable with men, so Lauren tried to accept me to the party because I’m a woman, but Ms. Mi-on looked at me like that knowing Sia’s situation, right?”

“That…That’s…”

“No matter how much I missed dinner last night, you still treat me like Claude…”

Strictly speaking, I’m a worse brat than Claude. Don’t you know?

“Mi….sorry… hmph…”

As I continued to pretend to be upset while talking logically, Ms. Mi-on’s expression turned comical.

If you tease me any more, I’ll cry.

“Did I do something wrong?”

“Yes….”

“Then, Ms. Mi-on will decide on the next date.”

“Huh?”

“Mr. Mi-on, you decide where and what you want to do on our next date.”

“Really?”

“Yes, I won’t be going into the labyrinth this month and will be spending most of my time on missions and training, so I guess there will be a lot of dates, right?”

“Yes!!”

“Then… Next time, let’s have Mion decide the date course…. Claude!!!”

After finishing the paperwork, since there were no useful requests from the union, I took on a collecting request and handed it over to Lauren.

“Lauren. Here.”

“Ro…..Lauren!”

“Yes?”

“Everyone…call me comfortably! Th…those are real colleagues now, so wouldn’t it be better to call me comfortably?”

“Really? Okay, Lauren.”

“Ahem. Lauren.”

Even Sia and Lauren frowned slightly when Claude called her Lauren with a shitty voice.

I started talking to Lauren, calling Claude semi-respectfully, and Sia as “big sister.”

“Sister Lauren!”

“Okay, Sia.”

“Sister!!!”

“Hahaha.”

When Sia, who wanted to have a sister, approached Lauren, Lauren couldn’t hide her joy.

Well… I could see her expression becoming a little gloomy whenever Sia’s heavy breasts touched her body.

Lauren may have felt burdened by trying to act as a prickly heroine from a picture book, or she may have been happy to have a colleague and wanted to get closer to him, but Lauren gave her acting a little variation.

As for me, I didn’t really care what happened because I just had to hide the fact that Lauren and I had sex from the other guys.

“I have already done a lot of herbal gathering, so I will be in charge of gathering requests while staying in the city.”

It’s kind of cute how he talks with his arms crossed and a proud expression on his face, as if he’s found his calling.

“Oh… But Lauren. The herb gathering request has a set amount, so it’s meaningless to gather a lot, but are you saying you’ll do it every day?”

“No, I’ve already collected a ton, Leader.”

“Please call me Claude too…”

“Leader.”

“Hmph…! Anyway, Cain said last time that herbs lose their freshness as time passes after being collected, so wouldn’t there be a problem if they were collected in advance?”

“Hmm! Our elves have a special secret, so there’s no problem maintaining freshness!”

“Oh… Really?”

“What, this is nothing.”

Claude tried to win Laurene’s favor by flirting with her, but she drew a line and responded, then finally looked at me.

“Cain.”

“Yeah. Lauren.”

“I told you to call me casually, but aren’t you feeling too distant?”

“You call me that too.”

“Huh!”

“So what do you want to say?”

“That….”

As we watched her silently smiling with her eyes filled with longing, we left the union and headed to the gathering area together.

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After arriving at the gathering area, I collected the amount of herbs Lauren had hidden in advance that were needed for the request and put them in storage. Then I told Claude and Sia about Lauren’s romanticism about swordsmanship.

“Swordsmanship school?”

“Oh, Lauren came all the way to the city to learn swordsmanship…”

“Sister, you also do swordsmanship? Wow!”

“Ugh..!”

He handed the iron sword to Lauren, who blushed and lowered her head in embarrassment.

“Try it.”

“Okay…just wait a minute. Phew….”

Sia and Claude looked at Lauren with expectant faces, but it didn’t even take five minutes for their expressions to change.

“Uh…uh…whoa…”

“Sister!! If you play with a sword, you’ll be in big trouble!”

“Whew…!”

“As you can see, that’s why. I came to the city with only one desire, to excel at swordsmanship, and this is why. Now that we’re fellow comrades, how about we help you as much as we can?”

“Training school… Yeah, you haven’t been to the labyrinth yet, right? Then the cost will be cheaper.”

Even Claude, who had expected that they could just train together, suggested that they just pay money and send him to a training center.

“Should we go to the training center tomorrow? Or, since it’s been a while since all the party members came out together, do you want to hang out together?”

“Cain!! I want to go out with you all!!! I even have a sister hehe!”

“Is that so?”

“You guys….”

Lauren’s eyes turned red as she was touched by Nana Claude’s decision to go straight to the swordsmanship school without any hesitation. We pretended not to see them and headed to the swordsmanship school together.

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“Huh? 2 gold?”

“Hmm… No matter how I look at it, it seems like it would be a bit difficult to adjust that elf’s physical abilities.”

“No, but it’s only level 1, how can the price be like that!”

I barely managed to stop Claude, who was shaking the tutor’s staff member by the collar, and tried to talk again.

“So, regardless of level, you’re saying that our colleague’s physical ability is so outstanding that we’ll charge more for tutoring? ”

“Coolook! Right… So you’ve been training alone? Then you already have all these bad habits… If that’s the case, then level has nothing to do with it… Uh….Uh!! Don’t grab me by the collar!!”

“Claude, stop it. Let’s go. Take care.”

“What? Why… Oh my… Got it.”

Daughter-

We came out of the training center and were left speechless.

Lauren’s ears were droopy, as if she was heartbroken, and we slowly made our way back to our lodgings.

There were no double rooms available, and since Sia and Lauren were going to sleep separately, a single room would have been more appropriate, so I gave Lauren a single room as well.

“Claude.”

“Ugh.”

“Should I ask Uncle Hawk or Uncle Frank for help?”

“Hmm… Is that so?”

“Okay, since there aren’t many customers during morning training, let’s ask them to take a look in the morning.”

“Yeah. But he speaks in a very noble tone, and it’s cute how he sometimes reacts awkwardly.”

“The little shit is in heat again.”

“What are you talking about? What are you going to eat at the company dinner?”

“Hmm. Let’s order a lot of meat and alcohol.”

“Yay!!!”

“And don’t get caught going to the tail room again.”

“Okay…”

Lauren was really upset today, so I’m going to have to comfort her a lot this evening.