At the inn's tavern.
【Status】
Job: Bandit
Element: 【Earth】
Weapon: Ice Sword of Exorcism 【Robbery and Murder Item】: Added ice damage on monsters
【Status】
Job: Bandit
Element: 【Wind】
Weapon: Swift Arbalest 【Stolen Item】: Can shoot continuously Aiming improvement
【Status】
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Class: Warrior Lv 34
【Equipment】
Armor: Chimera Scale Armor 【Robbery and Murder Item】: Agility improvement Weightless Floating
The important thing is their job, 【Bandit】.
If it was 【Thieves】 then they could've possibly been [Labyrinth invader=adventurer].
And their equipment.
【Robbery and Murder Item】 is something you got by killing and plundering someone.
I came to the table where the bandits were sitting.
"Whaddya want beggar."
"He's got a woman paying for him after all."
--Bear it, me. My bright future will be for naught if I resort to violence here.
I took a deep breath and held my anger down.
"You guys are noisy. I'm gonna call the guards."
"Are you sure?"
Gaff laughed while showing her yellow crooked teeth.
I draw close to his face and whisper.
"W-what!"
"Get out in silent. And don't ever come back. I'll let you off without calling the guards if you do. It'll be bad if you get in trouble right before the hero exam right?"
I glare at Gaff. A dirty bearded face. The bottom of his heart from his eyes is muddy.
They're unexpectedly smart.
"Look forward to the hero exam! Don't ya dare fail at the written exam! I'm definitely gonna tear your limbs to pieces!"
I grinned, showing a ghastly smile.
Uu, the bandits hold their breath from my intensity.
"Keh, let's change place!"
"Oy, you guys. Pay the bill."
Gaff took one big gold coin from his pocket and threw it at the old man innkeeper.
The tavern became quiet.
The old man stared in amazement.
"No, I just greeted them."
"Onii-chan.... Thank you."
I pat her head. Fine lustrous black hair.
Minya is squinting like a cat, it seems she feels comfortable.
The old man was still surprised.
He must have thought that I would cause trouble and intended to have us all arrested.
I'll have them experience the atonement for insulting a god.
"As expected of Keika-sama. Keika-sama is truly fit to be the hero."
Gaff said that he would kill me in the hero exam.
Looks like it'll be disadvantageous if I don't find out about that.
Celica smoothly talks while thinking.
"『Wisdom』 is the written exam huh."
The old man says while stroking his chin.
"Are you going to participate too old man?"
"They're going to broadcast it with magic or something huh."
"I see."
"The inside of the Tower of Trial is a dungeon, it's like a complex maze. There are monsters and traps too. You have to challenge the tower with a party of three."
"We have no choice but to employ the other one huh. It will cost us again."
"Then should I search for someone with good skills?"
"What. There are some guys with piled up tabs. I'll have them participate instead of paying. They'll gather in a week."
"We're saved. Thanks."
Celica and I honestly thanked him.
"Do all participants enter from the same place at the same time?"
"I see. Then it'll be the next one if we're going to meet them."
"Next one? Umm, the exam for 『Strength』 will be in the arena. The candidates of heroes who have cleared the tower will enter a tournament and fight one-on-one."
"That's right. Please be careful."
I patted her head while smiling confidently.
Celica looks down with a red face.
Arena huh, isn't it just perfect.
Let's think of the method. This will be fun.
"Then you'll let us stay here for a month won't you?"
"How much?"
After saying that the old man picked up the big gold coin thrown by Gaff and grinned.
I also reflexively smiled back.
"What's your name?"
"I'm Kynmerick, nice to meet you. --Oy, Minya! How long you're going to play around! Guide these two."
Minya received a key from her father and headed to a stair in the back. Her short skirt flutters, her shoulder-length black hair shakes.
"Follow me...."
We're led to a room in the southeast corner of the third floor.
Moreover, it's quite spacious and furnished with furnitures, by all appearances this seems expensive.
"Is this room really alright? We're staying for one month you know?"
"I see.... But, what about you Celica?"
"We can change if you don't want to."
The reason why I asked that.
With her whole face red up to her ears, Celica stares at the bed while biting her finger.
"I see. It's wide enough for two people after all. Minya, we're staying in this room."
Minya gave the key to me with her slender hand and left with her tail swinging. She was a girl who didn't talk too much and acted hesitantly but I felt that her steps had lightened a bit.
I sit on the bed and tap the place beside me.
"Eh!? From daytime!?"
Then Celica blushes, fidgeting with her fingers in front of her big breasts.
"What are you saying? We won't make it in time for the exam if we don't start now right?"
Celica briskly walked and sat beside me with disheveled blond hair.
The two of us are sitting on the bed side by side. I smelled flower fragrance from her blond hair since we sat close together.
"There will be histories of each nations, and battles against the demon king. Knowledge about weapons, armor and item. Every kind of magic system. Type of monsters and the way to deal with them. Those kinds."
I do think that those are necessary knowledge for a hero in his journey.
--Can that stupid-looking Gaff guy pass this?
But that guy was full of confidence.
There must be a back door.
That said, since they're knowledge that are important to have living as a hero from now on, I've decided to ask Celica to teach me.
Well, the history is the same in any world; humans repeating the same foolishness, and game knowledge is useful for the weapon, armor and monsters.
As for magic, it seems there is divine magic--although the name is different, the system is similar.
I can probably manage.
For the time being, I'm glad that I played games and read manga in my free time during the proselytizing back then.
In the end, it was already night when we were done.