Chapter 5 : Magic City, Manarak

Finally, we arrived at the magic city, Manarak.

Upon arriving at the city, we bid farewell to the merchants and adventurers who were traveling together with us.

「Thank you very much. No, I’m really glad to be honored with your presence during our journey, Pomera-sama.」

The merchant who spoke to us kept bowing repeatedly towards Pomera.

「N-No, uhm, Pomera didn’t… do anything special at all… uhm, that’s…」

「OOH! SUCH HUMILITY! I NEVER EXPECTED THAT AARBUGH WOULD HAVE SUCH GREAT HERO!」

Pomera replied, almost crying, while sending a fleeting glance at me as if asking me to save her.

… Because of 《Evil God Apostle; Notes》’s incident in addition to Philia dropping the giant dragon incident, Pomera couldn’t escape anymore.

My apologies, Pomera. Your sacrifice won’t be in vain.

「Poor… Pomera.」

Philia muttered so upon looking at Pomera’s situation while nonchalantly tugging at my robe.

Though Philia spoke as if it was someone else’s business, the reason why Pomera was in such a sad state was mostly because of Philia dropping that progenitor dragon in front of everyone.

「Philia-chan… I’m happy that you moved to save me, but please stop making the progenitor dragon appear in front of so many people…」

When I said so to her, Philia hung her head down, seemingly dejected. She gripped onto my robe even more strongly than before.

「Sorry… Philia got too fired up. Philia will do as Kanata says. She won’t call Progenitor Dragon in front of many people again.」

「It’s good as long as you understand that.」

I patted Philia’s head.

Thank God.

It seems, Philia understood her fault this time and was reflecting on it properly. I guess she won’t carelessly summon the Progenitor Dragon again in the future.

The scale of it was way too huge to the point that I had no idea what to say anymore.

「Please accept our gratitude too!」

「Without you, we might’ve already ended up inside those monsters stomach right now!」

The other adventurers and merchants were also starting to gather around Pomera.

「N-No, t-that’s…」

Pomera, who wasn’t used to being surrounded by so many people, was completely flustered right now.

As expected, this might be bad for her.

「Oi, half-elf girl.」

A man wearing a robe and a pointed hat approached Pomera.

Judging from his appearance and equipment, he might be a successful C-rank adventurer or above.

「Honestly… I think it’s just BS. You were a bottom rank adventurer till just a while ago but suddenly became famous after the spread of the story about destroying Notes’ barrier and burying 《Evil God Apostle; Notes》 in the collapsed mansion, thinking that the citizens of Aarburgh must be fools. But, I’ve no choice but to believe that story after you summoned THAT thing. Dear me, my eyes must be cloudy after being in this line of business for too long.」

The man was speaking about his off the mark story with a face as if he understood the situation.

What in the hell was this person with a unique character talking about?

「Eh…? Eh…?」

Pomera was really troubled right now.

… I guess it’s time for me to send a lifeboat to Pomera.

I pushed my way through the crowd and caught Pomera’s hand.

「Let’s go, Pomera-san, we’ve urgent business, remember! Thank you very much everyone.」

「Wait, I… have a business with that half-elf girl.」

I dodged the man who tried to seize my shoulder.

Pomera was also speeding up, taking the advantage of the opening I’d created for her.

Following after that was Philia, who ran beside me with a delighted look on her face.

We stopped after running for a while.

「… I guess it’s safe now.」

「Kanata-san… Pomera… can Pomera really accept this situation? Stealing away your credit like this?」

Pomera asked with a dejected look on her face.

「… I’m really sorry about this, Pomera-san. I… I was also just playing along with the flow instead of trying to change it.」

At that moment, cheers of joy rose from nearby.

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Pomera’s shoulders twitched, reacting to those cheers.

But, when I looked at the direction of the incoming cheers, I saw a blonde haired man in armor being surrounded by people.

The adventurer’s guild was nearby, huh.

The blonde haired man seems to be heading toward the guild to meet his comrade.

「You finally returned after finishing your commission, Alfred-san!」

「How was the subjugation of red troll?」

「Good grief, don’t get so excited… fighting two red trolls by myself is no big deal at all.」

The blonde haired man clad in armor named Alfred spoke so while heaving a sigh.

「EEE!? YOU FOUGHT TWO RED TROLLS, BY YOURSELF!?」

His remark caused the cheers around him to increase to a whole new level.

「Everyone, please don’t block Alfred-sama’s path! We’re really busy right now!」

The female swordsman who stood besides Alfred was trying to open the path.

「Making so much noise for a mere red troll… Even though I heard that the magic city Manarak has an S-rank adventurer… well the rumors said that adventurer is half-retiring right now… well, that person’s level might be not that high.」

Alfred was grumbling through his teeth.

Though he looked like someone whom I couldn’t get along with… seeing the crowd around him, I guess he was a popular figure.

「H-How embarrassing… it turned out to be not about Pomera…」

Pomera was holding her beret with a flushed red face.

… It seems she’s developed a trauma due to the excessive praise she’s received lately.

I really felt sorry for her, yet also felt a deep gratitude for her sacrifice.

I tried to confirm Alfred’s level with 《Status Check》.

Though I’m holding back from using 《Status Check》 on someone carelessly in fear of having my secret as a transferee getting exposed if I appraised the wrong person… I ended up losing against my curiosity.

Well, with so many people, he shouldn’t be able to find me even if he felt that I appraised him.

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Alfred Argobert

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Race : Ningen[Human]

Ｌｖ　：76

ＨＰ　：274/289

ＭＰ　：243/266

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「… Not that powerful huh.」

I thought he was being humble or something, but he turned out to be even weaker than Pomera, far weaker.

Not even half of Lovis’ level.

Somehow, I felt that I was starting to lose the standard of the strong for this world the more I used 《Status Check》.

「Is something the matter, Kanata-san?」

Pomera was looking at me with a curious look on her face.

「No, it’s not an important matter.」

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TL : A-Rank… is so weak… RIP POMERA, YOUR SACRIFICE WON’T BE IN VAIN!!!