Okano The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: Volume 7

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-7183-2112-0
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 317 Seiten

Reihe: The Unwanted Undead Adventurer

Now that they can travel by teleportation circle, Rentt and Lorraine visit Vistelya, the capital of the Kingdom of Yaaran. Using Lorraine's magic to hide his identity, Rentt decides to check out the guild headquarters. While viewing the job board there, a Silver-class adventurer from Maalt named Augurey requests that he accept a job. They agree, but Rentt and Lorraine's fighting styles end up giving away their identities. They form a magic contract to keep their visit a secret, but then the God of Contracts appears! Once they're able to return to Hathara, Rentt senses that something is wrong with his vampiric servant, Edel, back in Maalt...

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okano, Yu

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jaian

Yeung, Shirley

Leseproben

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Augurey Ars used to be an adventurer in Maalt. I knew him since way back, and we got along nicely as fellow solo adventurers. He didn’t seem to recognize me in this getup, however. He couldn’t see through Lorraine’s disguise either. We both looked more or less like different people, so thankfully for us, it was to be expected. I didn’t know he had become a Silver-class adventurer, though. Back in Maalt, he was still Bronze-class. He was always pretty talented, and a good man aside from his eccentricities, so it wasn’t that surprising, but I sort of begrudged how he had surpassed me. I wanted to become a Silver-class soon, but I still hadn’t completed enough jobs to take the exam.

“So what do you want with me, Mr. Ars?” I asked Augurey, trying to sound as unfamiliar with him as possible.

He waved his hand, the shining gold of his glove hurting my eyes. “Please, we’re friends. Call me Augurey. If only everyone could be so friendly with each other, the world would be at peace! What was your name, by the way?”

I was a bit surprised to hear him call me his friend, but he ended by asking my name, so I realized he was just saying that. He acted like this when I first met him too, so he could be hard to understand in some ways.

Unsure what name to use, I looked to Lorraine. Her expression told me that I should make something up. That would be for the best, since he might guess who I was if I said Rentt. Despite how he was, Augurey had oddly strong intuition and could be shockingly perceptive. Taking those kinds of risks with him wasn’t a good idea.

“The name’s Purple,” I said simply based on the color of my robe. It sounded like an obviously fake name, but I could always claim that I wore these clothes because of it. Maybe. The name did exist, so I thought I should be safe. I looked at Lorraine and she seemed appalled, though.

“Purple, you say? I see, because purple clothes are stylish! And who’s the woman?” Augurey asked, looking at Lorraine.

“I’m Olga, his companion. Pleased to meet you,” she answered. Unlike me, she picked an exceedingly safe alias. She also carried herself entirely differently from normal. While she was introducing herself, she wrapped her arm around mine.

“I see, are you dating? Or are you married, perhaps? You certainly seem close. Purple, quite the beautiful woman you got to marry. You’re one lucky guy!” Augurey said with exaggerated surprise. He was wrong on all counts, but it was hard to say so, and Lorraine didn’t deny it either. She was grinning about the whole misunderstanding.

Everything we said was a lie anyway, so I decided it might be easier to go along with it. “Making her my wife certainly wasn’t easy,” I said. “You don’t often see women so beautiful, refined, and pleasant to spend time with. I’m a happy man. Anyway, we traveled here from the Empire for our honeymoon. Just the two of us, of course. I heard that unlike the capital of the Empire, the beauty of nature is still present in the streets of Vistelya, so I wanted to come see it for myself. Oh, I’m afraid all this talking has taken up too much time. We have to be going now.”

I was trying to think of a way to get out of there, and that was what I came up with. While I was talking, it felt like Lorraine’s arm began to squeeze mine tighter, but maybe it was my imagination.

When I tried to walk away, Augurey grabbed my other arm. “Hold it! I still haven’t gotten to my main point!” he cried. “My goodness, you walked off so suddenly I almost let you go. Would you mind listening to what I have to say?”

It didn’t seem like we’d get the chance to escape. I could tear myself free from his grip, but then he’d chase after us as a matter of pride. There was no peaceful way to say goodbye, so we had to stay and hear him out. It was bad enough how his outfit drew attention, but it’d be even worse if some weird adventurers suddenly started playing tag in the streets.

“Fine, so what is it?” I asked, relieving him.

“Well, you said that job would be easy,” he said, as I expected. “I was wondering if you’d like to accompany me in tackling it. You’re free to take the entire reward. I’m a Silver-class adventurer, after all. I’ll even take care of any monsters we encounter. All you have to do is find the correct herbs. Not a bad deal, if I do say so myself.”

Considering I didn’t want to take any jobs from this guild myself, I couldn’t have asked for more favorable conditions. “Why go so far for this job, though?” I asked.

“Isn’t it obvious! For the clothes!” he answered.

I cocked my head. “What are you talking about?”

“The herb-picking job, of course.”

“What does that have to do with clothes?”

“Look at who posted the job.”

“‘Michel’s Boutique’?”

“Yes. I ordered new clothes from them, but the dye is a bit unique. They absolutely need those herbs! To be honest, I thought they would be relatively easy to obtain before I placed the order, but then I found out it was rather hard to get them in this city. I need to stop assuming that everything is the same as in Maalt. I could import them, but I was told it would take a whole month. I want to be in those new clothes within the week! And yet they’re out of my reach! I can’t stand it!”

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I was left wondering why I should care to help. There was no way to see this as anyone but Augurey’s problem. If he could get the dye in a month, then he should have just waited.

“Is that everything? Goodbye, then,” I said and tried to leave.

However, Augurey refused to loosen his grip. “No, no, we’re not finished here! Why not help me out?! I’m giving you the whole reward! I’m acting as your guard! This job should be a breeze!” Augurey pleaded desperately. His yelling was drawing attention, so I gave up on trying to break free.

His offer was certainly in my favor, but still. “There are reasons why we don’t want to take jobs from the guild,” I said. “Besides, I just told you that we’re on our honeymoon. We don’t have much time to spare.”

I decided that convincing him to give up would be the best option. Augurey was pushy, but he wasn’t completely unreasonable. If I explained myself, I thought he would understand. Not that we were actually on a honeymoon, but it was true we didn’t have much time. We had to meet up with Gharb and Capitan later.

But against my expectations, Augurey still refused to give up. “There are reasons, you say? That makes it sound like taking a job from the guild would in itself be a problem. In that case, what if it was simply a personal request from myself? And as far as your honeymoon, you’ll get to go places no honeymooners have gone before!”

“You’re awfully persistent,” I said. “You need these herbs that badly? Why not just wait a month?”

Augurey shook his head and begged in a grave tone, “I want them as soon as possible. Please. I’ll pay you even more than the reward listed here. It shouldn’t take long. I know they grow in a forest not far from here, so as long as you can tell the herbs apart, it should be done in a matter of hours.”

I hardly ever saw him act like this in Maalt. I didn’t know he was so obsessed over clothes, but looking at what he was wearing, I shouldn’t have been surprised.

“You think we’ll make it in time?” I asked Lorraine.

“If it’s only a few hours, then probably. Don’t tell me you’re actually going to accept,” she said. She didn’t sound very enthusiastic about the idea, but Augurey did a fair bit for me back in Maalt. He told me about some nice hunting spots and provided the locations of monsters I could handle. I couldn’t turn down such an impassioned request from him. The frivolous nature of his request was somewhat astonishing, but maybe he was in some crisis that we ordinary people couldn’t understand.

“If I don’t have to take the request through the guild, then I suppose I’m willing to help,” I said. “But if it looks like we’ll be late for our plans, we’ll have to go back. Also, don’t tell too many people about us. We don’t want to stand out.”

“Of course. Thanks! Then I’ll accept the job myself, and you’ll simply be helping me with a personal request. You say you don’t want to stand out, though? When you’re wearing that? Honestly, the reason I approached you was I thought you’d understand my passion,” Augurey said, confused.

Our clothes did stand out a lot, admittedly. But unlike Augurey’s, we were wearing the latest popular fashion from the Empire. I wanted to make sure he knew we weren’t like him, but before I could explain that, he went to the counter.

“Are you sure about this, Rentt?” Lorraine asked. “They won’t keep records as long as we don’t take the job through the guild, yes, and I suppose it will kill time until we need to meet up again, but still.”

“I’m not that interested myself, but I do owe him to some extent. I don’t mind helping him out a bit as long as we don’t expose our identities. It’ll be an easy job anyway.”

“You’re too nice for your own good.”

“I guess. Sorry, Lorraine. We had the chance to see the capital, but now I’ve given us some work to do.”

“It’s fine, I’ve been to the capital...