"And also, you may call me 『Kurohiko』. well, it is up to Aira-san though."
"Eh ?"
Emm...
"... Aira?"
"Is that so ?"
"I think of Aira-san as someone friendly, though. since I feel easy to talk with you, you see?"
Though our first conversation is a bit weird.
"......................"
"See, you"ve forgotten already."
With Zix I can relate it as a bond between men, with a girl, somehow I feel out of place.
"I"m sorry, please let me do it step by step? somehow I feel weird with it."
"Yes, please."
*Pon* There she clasps her hands and changes the topic.
"Well then, to the main topic."
She put her hands on the table.
"The truth is we"re currently gathering some member for sacred ruin exploration"
"I partner up with uppercla.s.sman because of my family relation, you know ?"
Ah, the people who sit in this dining room together with her before huh.
"Eh? already ?"
The deepest layer the previous graduate reached is 19, and that is being regarded as fast enough.
By the way, for now, I"ve reached the fifth layer currently.
"Unn. I wonder if just being a non-arrival student can be considered relatively fast? Well, though it is just me I guess?"
"Ah, you don"t know? in sacred ruin explorationー."
According to Aira-san explanation, sacred ruin layers which had been explored tend to be relatively easy to explore again.
That phenomenon is the so-called the students『have been invited』.
Thus, the reason why students in the same year are easy to group up.
Therefore the upper-cla.s.s students never think of bringing new students to their group no matter what.
Even though many upper-cla.s.s students have a wealth of experience to think about, strangely in Lion cla.s.s many of them partner up with their cla.s.smate
The story continues from here.
"Unknown guardian monster is it?
"In other words, because of that guardian monster?"
With bitter expression, Aira-san a.s.sented.
"When we"re discussing about fighting that monster or not... at that time, another exploration group appeared and said 『what are you guys doing? Idly doing strategy meeting? We won"t forgive any b.u.t.t in alright? We"re going first』 thus they entered the guardian monster room. However, we feel a bad feeling, so we returned to the transfer device. And after thatー"
It seems the students that entered the room had fallen and currently fall to deep sleep.
In other words, the students that entered the room have been defeated faster than the time Aira-san and the others used to return.
"In that group, there is 10th junior saint rank and 12th rank you know?"
Junior saint rank is like a school ranking.
For a junior saint rank 10th and 12th to be unable to compete against itー that"s mean,
"A considerable powerful enemy huh?"
"I can understand from the story. In other words Aria-san and the others, for the sake of defeating that guardian monster, you intend to collect members isn"t it ?"
"Nn? by any chance, is inside the room not just only a guardian monster exist there?"
"I won"t say it in a roundabout way. indeed, just as you thought."
Fumu...
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"If you don"t mind me, I won"t mind lending my power."
"However, I have to discuss it with my partner first alright.?"
"Though as partner, I have to discuss it just in case. but, please do think positively."
"Ahahaha... truthfully the matter of whether or not dragging you into this is the first problem that I"m unable to resolve, you see~. We come together because of family ties, and we can"t go and call people from the higher rank either."
She put her chin on the table, then Aira-san breath another sigh.
"Furthermore for me to declare impressively 『leave the forbidden spell user to me!』, however, when push comes to shove, I feel anxiety. Also when I think about it, we really don"t have a close relationship, and there"s that incident at the time of battle practice..."
Saying that, Aira-san floats her smile.
"But still, as I expected, you"re really a good person eh?"
Unn...
Her smile just now grabbed my heart.
Red silky hair.
Beautiful nose.
The way she wears earrings somehow negate her innocent aura, instead give off youthful energy and seductiveness feel.
Above all those charms, she"s a friendly person who gives sense of security when you talk to her.
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"Nn? well, I guess..."
"........................."
"Although I only heard it from the instructors during the battle practice. A rival between family? Or so I feel it as such..."
She frowns her eyebrows.
"I guess, that"s not wrong."
Then Aira-san began explaining about it,
"It"s a bit long story I guess? Many said that I"m a talented child of Horn family; however, I"m actually an ordinary one."
"Yes, it is... That"s why since I was a child, I"d always put greater effort than those who have the talent for it and only require small time to achieve something. And yet, the talented people will keep advance steadily... so, I always end up being impatient alone."
The expression Aira-san had when she said about that, is as if she had been accepting her current situation.
"However... the people in my family did not allow me to give up. Therefore I keep making an effort desperately. Even though I somewhere know that I will never be able to catch up with the geniuses who put an effort. However, that kind of thing is quite painful."
The genius people who make an effort.
However, the way she said this seems like she doesn"t know about yesterday incident, Aira-san didn"t know the current Cecil-san situation.
"Aira-san."
"I will cooperate to fight against the unknown monster even by myself. that"s whyー."
I sip the honey milk drink and then put the cup on the table.
"let"s absolutely defeat that monster."
At that time, I was really happy.
If it helps her open her path, then I will cooperate with pleasure.
Now then.
If I had to say one of them, as expected, using a 『demon eater』 which can obstruct magic will be hard.
"Well, because we"re the one who took the initiative. and our pocket is quite warm after selling the crystal we get from our last exploration."
"A..."
Aira-san shows an expression as if saying "now that you mention it."
"Muu, that might be true..."
"Tahaha... I guess because everyone just come back from the exploration, their brain is not working well."
Or because all of you are rich people that"s why you first have the thought of 『first let settle it with money』.
"B-But still, I would like to give Kurohiko reward!"
"........................"
She seems to have been completely noticing me back then.
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After we finished our drink, we leave the dining room.
In the end, I accomplished half of my objective.
After all the magma giant is also can be regarded as sacred ruin information too.
After being told the story where she"s worried about talent and so on
However, this is something that I have to askー
"Emm, Aira-san."
"Do you know the location Arclight family residence in the imperial city ?"
"Yes..."
"It"s fine, it"s fine~, I have some more after all."
I received an imperial city map from Aira-san.
"You don"t have to mind it, since we will become a comrade. more importantly... are you really alright the reward to be with just a repairing cost for ShiAkira sword?"
"No no! it is something that you need for exploration, after all, I should be the one who feels grateful !"
Since she insisted on giving me a reward, I suggest about my Akira sword repair.
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"I understand."
We went out from the building.
"Yes..."
"Let"s do our best defeating the magma giant."
Like that I separated from Aira-san, then I looked at the map with the mark of Arclight family residence located.