episode_0490

The voices in my head are telling me to kill that idiot, but I have no intention of actually doing so. As I said before, I’d rather spend my time in the Iron Horde quietly, if possible.

Even if it looked unpleasant on the outside, I thought I would just let it go as long as it didn’t cross a certain line.

Suddenly, the top turns and tries to kill me, or rape me, or tries to do the same to another party member, Mirif.

While I was thinking about that, we arrived at the goblin nest, which was the location of the request, and Mirif and I followed the vanguard Baum (hereinafter referred to as the idiot) and went in one after another.

“Khehehe! Ladies, rest! I’ll take on as many goblins as you want, even one or two!”

“How trustworthy, Brother Baum.”

“Haha, of course!”

Even Mirif, who had a gentle first impression, no longer hesitated to make sarcastic remarks, but the idiot still couldn’t understand and just laughed.

I just find it unpleasant to even talk to that kid, so I’m keeping my mouth shut.

‘If I really came alone, I would have arrived 30 minutes ago and finished everything, but what the hell are those guild rules… .’

Now that I’ve come to a different town, there’s no guarantee that I won’t do this again, so I just have to put up with it for now.

And if you get promoted well, you can work together with Mirif in the future. I wouldn’t mind killing a male colleague, but it didn’t matter if it was a woman. And especially if she was a priest, who was an essential member of the party.

-Kerheuk!

-Kehehe!

“I’m out! Okay, leave it to me and watch… .”

-Keruk!

-Khehe

-Keep on, keep on going!

“Okay, wait a minute… . Three, four, five… Yeah, six… ?”

As soon as a couple of goblins jumped out of the cave, he started bluffing, holding his sword in an unfunny pose, and as soon as there were six of them, he panicked openly.

Well, for an F-rank adventurer, six goblins would be difficult to handle on your own. No matter how low-ranking the monsters are, they become stronger when they gather together.

But since I have a history of bluffing, I think I will take on four of them myself. Then, I will kill them two at a time when I have a chance, and pretend to be an ordinary adventurer…

“Okay, okay! There are six of them, so let’s each catch two!”

“… … Yes?”

“Ha, can you do it?! Mirif, you’re a priest too, so put aside your thoughts of always recovering! Isn’t this the time when everyone needs to work together?!”

What the hell. What else do you want a priest to do besides heal and remove curses? And that too from a trainee priest, not even a senior priest.

Besides, if each of you has two, that means you won’t even be able to properly see the vanguard, which is your role. If you have a brain, shouldn’t you say that you will deal with four, or at least half of them?

“I, I have to deal with two goblins? Ha, I could handle just one, but more than that… .”

“Don’t be weak! You can do it! We’re a party!”

“… … .”

Even Mirif, who had been listening to that idiot’s painful story the whole time, seemed to find the remark just now ridiculous and his expression grew cold in real time.

Still, she was holding the staff in her hand and taking a stance as if she was going to do something, so I whispered quietly in her ear so that the idiot wouldn’t hear.

“… Don’t listen to that kid. I’ll take care of it.”

“Huh? Ha, but Sister Lily’s weapon is too much to fight against multiple monsters… .”

“This number is okay. As I said before, just hold on to one or so and hold on.”

“Yes… .”

Is it the effect of a retard who keeps bragging all the time but becomes ugly when he actually goes into battle? Mirif answers in a suspicious voice, as if he has difficulty believing what I say.

After sending her slightly behind me, I swung my dagger to deal with the rushing goblins.

-Phew!

-Crunch!

-Whoaaah!

First, I cut down three of the four goblins that were rushing towards me and Mirif. I aimed for the neck or heart as quickly and surely as possible.

-Phew!

… and the one that the idiot who was trying to deal with two missed.

‘Keruk, keruk!’

“Haa, you, you little shit!”

… No, is this really true? That little adventurer can’t even properly catch two goblins?

How is this kid taking the E-rank promotion test? Don’t these guild kids do something called internal verification?

Anyway, I left that idiot to fight the remaining goblin and helped Mirif for now.

I sincerely hope that the disabled side will lose in a one-on-one fight like that.

“Ugh, Gyaaak!!”

‘Keruhuk!!’

-Phew.

‘Whoa, whaaaa…?!’

He stabbed the goblin in the heart from behind as it tried to rush towards the fallen Mirif, finishing him off.

… I vaguely expected it would turn out like this, and it really did.

-Phew!

‘Kehehe!’

“Haa, you, you fucking idiot! You look so good, haha!!”

… Why didn’t you try a little harder, goblin? You’re such a pitiful species that you lose one-on-one to such a crippled brat.

As I was looking at a monster with empathy for the first time since I was born, a crippled man came up to me and Mirif, showing off.

“Mirif, are you okay?!”

“… … .”

“Oh my, I almost got in big trouble. I didn’t think so many of them would attack me at once. Are you hurt? Well, you’re a priest, so you can heal yourself.”

“… Yes. Thank you so much for your concern, brother.”

“Still, somehow it seems to have been resolved! I couldn’t help it this time, but from now on, I’ll kill all the goblins that appear, so don’t worry and follow me!”

“… … Yes.”

… I can’t be a real priest or anything.

If I were Mirif, I’d probably have killed that idiot ten times by now.

While I was gathering the ears of the goblins I had defeated, admiring her superhuman patience despite being a trainee priest, this time the idiot suddenly approached the corpse of the goblin I had defeated and began swinging his sword at it.

“… … .”

-Crunch.

“… Hey, what are you doing?”

“Huh?”

“Why are you touching the goblin corpse I killed? There’s one over there that you killed.”

“Hey, where’s that? We all caught the goblin together, so of course we should split the reward equally.”

“… What?”

“Why are you making such a weird face? Isn’t that normal? We’re a party… .”

-Pfft!!!

“Khehehe?!”

… Ah, fuck.

There’s dirt on your shoes.

-Thud!!

“Keuheup, keheeek… !!”

A retard who was talking nonsense out loud and got kicked in the face by my shoe and fell down.

The guy’s body rolled around on the floor, in the goblin blood and mud that had pooled on the floor.

“This, this fucking shit…! What the…!”

“What.”

“What, what?! Don’t you know that violence between party members is subject to guild sanctions?! As soon as you return to the guild, you should report me unconditionally… .”

Oh, shit. I don’t know.

I’m just going to kill this kid and run away to another village, whether it’s a promotion or something. I can start a new adventurer career there.

“Report it.”

“… … Huh?”

“Try it. If you can get out of here on your own two feet.”

Honestly, I think I’ve really endured a lot to this point.

It’s not my fault. It’s the guild that puts this idiot and this kid in the same party as me who brings out my homicidal urges every moment I have left to breathe.

Or maybe it was just weird that I had a job like an adventurer from the beginning. I just thought that an adventurer was the most thoughtless job that I could make a living with just a dagger and magic. If you look for it, there are probably plenty of things you can do without having to meet these guys.

“I’m going to throw away the promotion and everything. I’ve endured it long enough.”

“What, what?! You, you crazy bitch…! Don’t come near me…!!”

“If you don’t want to lose, try killing him with that stupid third sword technique or something. I don’t know if that kid who was whining and making a fuss can do it.”

“You, you fucking idiot! Why are you doing this over just one goblin! Why are you suddenly acting like this over something that’s only two fairy tales!”

“You’re just saying that because you don’t like having even a penny of my money in your pocket?”

“Ah, I got it…!! I won’t touch the stuff you killed, so put that away…!!”

This is bullshit. I’d rather party up with a goblin than believe what this idiot says.

No, from the moment he tried to take my stuff, this kid was nothing more than a thief.

… And if they’re thieves, they’re just like monsters, so there’s no reason not to kill them, right?

The moment I was about to release the patience I had been holding back along with the logic I had built up in my head, I felt something very weak grabbing my arm from behind.

“Okay, hold on a second, Sister Lily!”

“… … Let go.”

“Ah, no matter what, adventurers can’t kill each other…!”

“… Okay. I’m going to close the adventurer’s office now.”

“T-Don’t do that, Sister Lily! It’s a promotion test! Lee, Sister Lily, you don’t have to give up all the hard work you’ve put in just because of a person like that… no, a brother like that!”

… I really want to kill you, but what should I do?

Now, I don’t really care about promotion tests or anything.

“… … .”

But since Mirif is saying this, I feel like my heart is weakening a little.

I don’t particularly feel sorry for this kid, but it was hard to ignore the fact that Mirif, who had suffered all this because of this idiot, was trying so hard to mediate the fight.

… and unlike me, Miriff won’t be able to take a new promotion test in a different village or anything like that.

“Okay, sister! I’ll explain it well to Brother Baum… .”

“… Just do it one more time.”

“… … What?”

“I’ll let you off easy now because I can see your face, but if you act up again next time, I’ll kill you for real.”

“… … .”

“… No answer?”

“Ah, I got it! I won’t touch yours, so put that away!”

I’ll really just endure it this one time.