Chapter 14: First Comrades?


    “So, what’s your name?”


    “Why do I have to give you my name?”


    “Huh? Come again?”


    Arnold was troubled how to react to every single of Hiiro’s unforeseen replies.


    “Just kidding.”


    “It was a joke!? That’s so annoying!”


    “I’m Hiiro Okamura. An adventurer and… bookworm.”


    “What the! The last one’s just a hobby!”


    “Fufufu”


    There Muir suddenly let out a small voice.


    “Oh, Muir’s cute when laughing after all.”


    Being told so, Muir blushed bashful. Arnold made a disgustingly delighted expression as well.


    “……..Are you pervert into little girls?”


    “Hey, hold it! I can’t let that pass!”


    “Uhh…. I’m not… a little girl.”


    The two of them got angry.


    “Right! She might not look like it, but she’s twelve already! She can even give birth!”


    Arnold said proudly with a thumps-up, but the little girl next to him glared at him intensely.


    “D- Don’t say such embarrassing things!”


    Seeing her talk angrily with her cheeks puffed up, Hiiro realized something.


    “So different from before.”


    He had imagined her to be a quiet child that never got angry, far away from being cheeky.


    “Mh? You mean Muir? Well, duh, anyone would shrink back when a crude villainous guy with an evil look appears, not just my cute Muir.”


    “Okay, sounds like you would like to taste my sword!”


    Hiiro emitted a bloodlust with his glasses glittering.


    “Pft! Just try! If it’s to protect Muir, I’ll even eat poop!”


    “……You fail as a human being.”


    Muir was stumped with mixed feelings too.


    “Pah! She’s just that important! By the way, I got a question for you, Hiiro.”


    “I’m not gonna tell you a thing about my ability.”


    “Grr…”


    It was about that after all.


    “But I never saw a magic that stretches a sword before.”


    “It’s not just a sword, but a katana.”