Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 95

New Request

Grave disappeared, even after receiving such severe wounds, he managed to survive and went into hiding. It made me realize that people in this world who could control magic properly could survive even in fatal conditions. I also survived similarly in my fight with the Coeurl.

There was a chance that the arm could be regenerated by using Cure, which regenerated the body, but it would take half a year for the whole arm to be regenerated, and it would take about another year to be able to use the arm properly.

To be honest, I wanted to kill Grave here, but I was not prepared for it.

If it had been the old Grave, Viro and Samantha would have been able to defeat him. However, Grave was not proud of himself, he had continued to train himself, acquired even more power, and had prepared to fight multiple enemies.

But it was the same for me. I was still growing, and by the time I would be fighting Grave again, I would be much stronger.

[Gururu…]

“…Coeurl.”

Coeurl, who was positioned a short-distance away from me, growled in frustration at having missed Grave.

“What about you? Are you going after him? Or…”

Would you settle the fight with me?

As he circulated magic throughout his body, Viro and Samantha, who had been watching Coeurl warily, could sense the tension in his voice.

I thought he intended to fight with me, but even if it’s just me, if Coeurl wanted to fight, I’d take it.

[…]

Coeurl stared at me quietly with his bright red eyes, and a small spark of electricity shot out from the two antennae extending from his ears.

–You–

–Name–

“Aria.”

[…]

–I–

–Name–

Coeurl’s name…? At that moment, Coeurl conveyed not the meaning of the word, but the images itself.

Deep in the dark forest…a black, strong being living alone in the darkness with no companions.

He had been alone ever since he came into existence. There was no one to stand by him, and all others were only enemies or weak people.

At that moment, in the memory he showed, there was a slight reflection of me staring at him with cold eyes.

The black destroyer. A jet-black beast howling alone, looking up at the moon rising in the black sky–

“…Black…Nero…?”

–Alright–

The word spilled out of my mouth, and after understanding its meaning and recognizing it as his [name], he turned away and disappeared into the forest, leaving the word behind.

–Chance–

-Moon Aria–

“…Nero…”

Moon and me?

He, Nero, had recognized me as his equal. “If Nero says so, then we would meet again”.

“…Aria?”

Viro called out to me as I stared in the direction Nero had disappeared.

“Hmm?”

“What happened to that phantom beast…? It looked like you were having a conversation, but… how did you end up fighting with the phantom beast in the first place?”

From the looks on Viro and Samantha’s faces, I could tell that I had worried them a lot.

“There is no problem. He just wanted to kill Grave, who was trying to use him, and now that Grave is gone, I don’t think he’ll be back here.”

I explained briefly, and Viro exhaled lightly, thinking about it for a bit.

“Well, okay. We were able to stop the Duke’s assassination, and the Duke’s subjugation for will be for nothing, but that’s not our problem.”

Grave was targeting the Duke of Noble Faction, an enemy of the royal family, but Viro’s client was also a Royalist Faction, so he would have no further obligation if he could only prevent the Duke’s assassination.

The duke was trying to defeat Coeurl to gain popularity, but although the duke’s death would be a political problem, it was not something that we wanted to be involved with.

So, Viro didn’t mind as long as the main mission was completed.

“But Grave escaped. Isn’t it our job to assassinate him?”

“We’ll have to report on that, including you and Grave. At any rate, if I show them his arms and weapons, the higher ups should be somewhat convinced.”

I couldn’t get more than the money up front because I missed him, but Grave had declared that he’d be going after me and the princess, so Viro said he would negotiate to include that.

“If only that guy hadn’t used that weird smoke screen, we could have taken him down. I’ve never seen a smoke screen that emits smoke and poison over such a wide range.”

“You haven’t learned enough, boy!”

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Suddenly, Samantha interrupted in a loud voice, as if speaking to someone across the street.

“That’s a Poison Ball from the dungeon! I’ve never seen one as small as that.”

“What? That’s a Poison Ball? That’s a guild-designated hazardous material! The one I saw before was much bigger, but I didn’t know they made one like that.”

“It has a unique way of producing smoke. It’s the same item I used last time. Hihihi.”

“You used it, old lady…”

Dungeons were ancient hermit crab-like creatures that become monsters by using caves and labyrinths as their shells.

The dungeon, a monster, fed on the life force and magic of people and monsters that went inside it, and even read the residual thoughts of the dead to attract more people and monsters into its interior.

Most of the things found inside it were trash, but there were also gold and silver nuggets that were very attractive to people, and there were cases where they would produce famous swords and special magical tools that could never be made by humans.

The Poison Ball that Samantha mentioned was one such item. If used improperly, it could cause hundreds of casualties, so it was the law in the Kingdom of Cleydale that if found, it must be submitted to the Adventurers’ Guild and purchased by the state.

I didn’t know what the country did with it after they bought it… did Samantha use it well?

“That was probably something that the Grave boy stole from the country’s vaults and somehow modified it to work on beasts as well. It didn’t seem to have much toxicity, though!”

“I see…”

So, that’s why even Nero couldn’t chase him down.

I thought it was insane to lure a phantom beast into a human village by himself, but Grave had been preparing for it.

Still, since he lost his arm and was seriously wounded, Grave should not be able to move for a while, and our work should now be finished.

“Anyway, Aria, about your reward…”

“I was unable to assassinate Grave, you know? I don’t need to it.”

The reward Viro offered me was protection against the assassins’ guild and thieves’ guilds that still attacked me – in other words, my personal safety.

I took it because it had become a bit of a hassle to deal with them, but my main goal was Grave himself, so I had forgotten about it until Viro mentioned it to me.

And if I really need to, I think it would be better to check the Central West branch of the Assassins’ Guild than to destroy it, and if they were getting in my way, then I had to destroy it.

“…”

I wonder if I could clash with Viro if my Dagger Arts reached Level 4…

“…You’re thinking some crazy stuff again, right? Well, I was going to tell you about your reward, aside from this case. I also confirmed that you have some competence.”

“Competence?”

What did competence have to do with giving out rewards?

“Hahahaha! If it’s about merit, the little girl will be no problem! After all, she’s almost catching up to her Master’s combat power!”

“What?”

Samantha’s words startled Viro, who looked at me.

Viro’s eyes widened as he appraised me, and he took out a crystal from his pocket to appraise me once more, then looked up at the heavens with his head held high, as if he was more dismayed than saddened.

“Rank 4… you, in such a short period of time, how can you be so…?”

“In my case, it’s only the magic system. I haven’t caught up with Viro yet in terms of close combat.”

“I see…”

I was serious about what I said, but it sounded like I was trying to comfort Viro, making him slumped in depression. But he seemed to have thought about something else which changed his temperament, as he looked up with a fresh smile.

“All right, I’ll let you learn all the skills I have as an adventurer in a few years so you could use them to some extent. First, you’ll need to acquire the skills you’re lacking when it came to exploring the lower levels of the dungeon.”

“…What do you mean?”

I looked in disbelief at Viro, who suddenly started talking about adventures and dungeons, as he just grinned at me and continued.

“Well, wait. This is about your reward and a new job offer. As per the latest information I’ve received before meeting you, I’ve received a request to escort a certain group of nobles in a dungeon. They will bring guards as wells, but only a handful of elites. So, there was a need to hire many scouts, and since you can also use light magic, you’d be perfect for the job, right?”

“Let them go and die on their own.”

I answered without a moment’s pause upon hearing the word nobles.

Adventurers were called adventurers because they could dive into dangerous places such as dungeons. I had no intention of protecting those who entered dungeons, which only adventurers could enter, just for the amusement of the nobility.

Viro was taken aback by my refusal.

“Is that the end of the story? See you later.”

“Wait, wait, hold on, please, Aria, hear me out!”

I was about to leave as soon as I could because I didn’t want the job or the reward, when Viro, coming to his senses, stopped me in a hurry.

“You are deciding everything way too quickly, you know. Listen, Aria, I’m telling you this because it’s you, and this case involves the First Princess. Do you understand? You are close with the princess, right?”

“…Tell me more.”

Viro told me that a young royal prince and his fiancées were secretly going into a dungeon, and they needed a high-ranking adventurer to help them get rid of the dangers.

Why should the frail Elena go into the dungeon? Viro did not tell me what they would do in the dungeon, but he said that the Dark Side had sent a request to Viro and his group to ensure their safety.

“…”

“You want to protect the princess, don’t you? If I send a report about what happened to Grave to the Dark Side, they will surely reach out to you.”

“…I will protect Elena. But what does that have to do with my reward?”

“You don’t expect the Dark Side to help you, right?”

I didn’t mean to put it that way, but the Dark Side was feared by the underworld, but as hounds following nobility, they were considered as enemies by the underworld.

If Grave was protected by an enemy organization, I might be able to cooperate with them to become a deterrent.

As I stared at him with half-open eyes, Viro finally realized my question and said something I never thought he would say.

“What are you talking about? You’re going to join us, Rainbow Sword instead of the old lady, who’s already retired.”

…What?