Ah, I forgot to add a couple of notes. First a couple chapters back there was that talk about Viscount nobility, I've mentioned it in the past but there's two Kanji readings for Viscount. One is the Knight noble ranking equivalent which is the lowest nobility (Al's brother/father are at this one), then there's the Viscount ranking which is below Count. The Anderson family is the Viscount ranking one rank below Count and the Viscount that she was offering to Al/to their head sorcerer was the Knight ranking Viscount.
Also, the numbers from last chapter and this chapter 30, 55, 60 are referring to 55 man(10,000) AKA 550,000, etc.. Since they didn't add the man, I just wrote it as 30, 55, 60 but it probably would make more sense as 300, 550, 600 a month.
Year 7445, Month 7, Day 2
Zemyunel told me the inn they're staying at and then left together with them.
It seems they said something to Faruergaz and Hirosukol on their way out but the three of them left soon after leaving those two.
I watched that from the side while thinking, up until here it's almost exactly as Toris predicted.
At the same time I tried thinking about what would happen from here on out if it was Bel or Toris just as the first plan had. If it was either of them would things have been fine up to here? No, it can't be helped thinking about that. It's no good. There's no meaning in them becoming pieces. There's no problem in terms of stress and thought process but from here on out as many special maneuvering (smile) soldier roles will fall into our hands as we need. There's not much meaning in letting them experience things as an underling. I want to let them gain experience in places where a single failure won't end up lethal. People learn from failure after all. And also, if things even shift a slight bit from the plan, in a weird direction it could put their lives in danger. Well I'm sure they're fine on that end though.
In the case of Ralpha, who for some reason was stubbornly volunteering, things might have been fine up until now but I can't see anything but ruin a bit further beyond. No, in her case she probably wouldn't have been able to endure the stress and I can't deny the possibility of her running off somewhere while screaming "Uo~~" to relieve it. Ah, I feel like she'd drown herself in alcohol first. What point would there be turning her into an alcoholic? She was rejected for personality reasons. If Zenom was there then I feel like they would somehow be able to manage it but it's possible things wouldn't go as planned for both parent and child..Primarily in terms of the number of people in {Sun.Ray} and the compensation. In the first place, Ralpha is the one picks the most fights in the {Slaughterers} and if they avoid her because of that then they might not even call out to her so there's no meaning. Though they might look like that she's also unsuitable because they're not that easy to deceive. It doesn't matter who but I can't relax if there's no one on her side to hold the reins.
If it was Miduchi then it would be a bit better. In terms of being able to leave naturally she's the next most convenient after Toris, Bel, and Gwine. But, at the same time she's also the one they'd be the most suspicious of. After all she's my woman. In the worst case, she could be placed in a considerably dangerous situation. Even then with Miduchi's abilities it's very possible she could cut through safely but...After all if Faruergaz and the others who are there were to say something like, "That Miduchi is Greed's woman.", then I'm sure they wouldn't call out to her in the first place.
Gwine can't be taken out no matter what because of her Unique Ability and there's not a very high possibility that {Sun.Ray} would call out to Basutoral. Since Basutoral has some connection to Faruergaz and the others, if he were to make use of the fact that he's a newlywed he might be able to negotiate with them through pity but in terms of actual abilities he probably wouldn't be accepted. Or rather, it would be most natural for Basutoral to leave making use of his marriage but Faruergaz and the others would probably just say something like stop being an adventurer and start up a business. Adding to that we already know very well that he's lethally bad at acting.
Most likely I haven't given off an impression that I was "easy to deceive" or at least I'd like to think so but I do seem quite greedy, and there's also the matter of the shower on the 5th floor and how we saved their members in the past, so I think I'm the most appropriate for them to predict that I'd properly work if they give me a decent amount of compensation. Even if they were to think that I have some kind of objective I can't imagine they'd think the leader himself would leave the party he raised up that far. It's normally something you have a subordinate do. Things around there, Toris and Bel seemed to have been overlooking as well~ Though I'm happy they were trying to take my position into consideration though...
It took us quite a bit of time for it look like they naturally lost faith in me and I left but if I think about it for the sake of Toris and Bel's experience then it's still within a permissible range. If we make it to a good point from here before things fail then they should have learned quite a bit. I'm sure that will become a greater asset than anything else.
Of course, I previously told them there was a possibility it would fail. However, even then they said they wanted to challenge it for their own growth. Though I might have been brought on it a bit as well but that spirit, is good. When I told them that if they can carry everything out smoothly then I'd supply them with Saya for free they got even more motivated. Give it your best trying to make good use of me to get some results.
Ah, I only know the essentials of the rough outline of the plan itself. Since the point I decided to become a pawn myself I've tried not to listen to it. If I listen to it then with my personality, I can't help but point out the parts that are lacking or missing and I might end up saying something to other members of the {Slaughterers}.
The only things I heard some amount of the details of was up until here, where I was called out on and join {Sun.Ray}. Even if I were Rindobel, I would try calling out on myself after leaving the {Slaughterers} as well. After this it's just a matter of when, how, and what kind of instructions they'll give to me? Well, if we go through Greed Company then while there's a bit of time lagg we can still communicate.
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"Greed-san, is it fine to take a seat here?"
After standing from their seats, Faruergaz and Hirosukol came over and called out to me.
"Feel free."
The two of them sat down in front of me and were going to say something at the same time but tried to show restraint for each other, after exchanging some glances, Hirosukol opened his mouth.
"Greed-san, how does it feel to have a reckless dream torn apart? Ah, it's definitely not that I'm looking down on you."
"Hey, Fio"
This is quite something..However, I still can't make a decision on this.
"Nothing particularly. I still don't think it's completely collapsed after all. I just need to quietly keep working towards the things I can do from here on out as well."
Without a single movement in my expression I replied immediately.
"Ho...So it isn't just making excuses...But, quietly indeed.."
"Fio, stop it already. That's not what you really want to say right? Why do you always try to charge at him so much like that.."
"Ah, sorry, Rodrick. Greed-san, I'm sorry for saying something so rude. Please pardon me."
Well, I don't really mind it that much, so it's fine.
"No, there's no problem. Please take it to mind."
Hearing my words Hirosukol made a slightly relieved expression. I guess, he just unintentionally put it into words?
"No, we're really sorry about that. Really this guy.."
Faruergaz started lowering his head together with Hirosukol who was next to him before he started talking.
"Since we started as adventurers here, you've given us a lot of advice when we didn't know anything and were struggling. I'm really grateful for it. This time that is..things ended up quite unfortunately but.."
"It should be best to talk about things from here on in "Japanese". Do you have any objections?"
While Faruergaz had started talking, Hirosukol cut off his words and proposed switching to speaking in Japanese. Since there's no particular problem I nodded. After he confirming that they exchanged glances and Hirosukol started talking.
"Greed-san, just like this human relationships are quite difficult. I think the matter this time has become quite the good medicine for you. From here on out you should have a change of heart and put in effort to gain the trust of others from the start."
"I'm very grateful, for the advice, Hirosukol-san."
"Putting that aside, there's no way you could enter the dungeon alone either way. It's not limited to just us yet but sooner or later you'll probably end up becoming a member of one of the {squadrons}. Since we have the debt from being in your care and we're the same Japanese people, I'd like if you join us."
Hirosukol said just {Squadron} with an English pronunciation. Well it's not like all of the nouns in the {Common Language} are in English so he might have just brought out an English word with a close meaning.
"Certainly, the Rindobel couple offered me quite the attractive conditions. Is it alright if I ask about {Sun.Ray}? Ah, obviously only as much as you can talk about."
"Yeah, of course. It's not strange to say that we're here for that sake. I intend to talk about the details of every we can talk about.."
Relying on Faruergaz's words I tried asking several questions but the content didn't shift too far from common sense. It's only obvious though. However, it seems that they were only told about the God Notes just the other day. I was told not to tell anyone else but they specially told just me out of the friendship between the same "former" Japanese people.
That's quite the light mouths they have and..Well, it doesn't seem like they've reazlied the trick so from just the information they heard you wouldn't think someone loses out. Although, they themselves mentioned that they "had quite the light mouths" for saying it and I think they were just telling me out of good will. Incidentally, it seems they had a reasonable amount of knowledge about the God Notes and as expected even they saw the appeal in gaining the blessing of a super-high end healing spell.
We've used the {Cure} type spells in front of them a number of times but I've never shown them {Cure All}. Let alone that, it doesn't seem like they can properly tell the difference between {Cure Light, {Cure Serious}, and {Cure Critical}. I wonder what kind of face they would make if I said I could use {Cure All} hundreds of times?
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Year 7445, Month 7, Day 3
Well, I wonder if with this I'm a member of {Sun.Ray} as well?