Episode 12
“…A hero?”
When I introduced myself as a hero, the little boy opened his eyes and asked back.
“Okay, just keep that in mind.”
“…yes!”
She was so cute that I was stroking her head with a fatherly smile, and the information search system I had activated brought up her information in front of my eyes.
And when I saw that window, I immediately frowned.
[Name: Glare]
[Ability: Strength 1 / Magic Power ??? / Intelligence 5 / Spirit 6]
[Special Feature: Mysterious Potential]
[Alignment: Pure]
‘…is it trendy these days to have question marks in the information window?’
I was momentarily confused by the question mark that appeared again, but it was only after looking at her unusual details that I was able to figure out why the question mark appeared.
‘…This little boy was a gem.’
According to the ancestor’s words left in the book of prophecy, the trait ‘mysterious potential’ is a trait that appears in young children with a very low probability.
If there is some opportunity, that trait will blossom and blossom into a powerful ability.
Of course, it is impossible to know whether a trait exists or not unless there is a system in place, so most children with that trait do not blossom, but I think the little boy in front of me right now is lucky.
‘This kid’s magical power is a question mark… He probably has strong magical talent, right?’
I opened the item shop window to give the little boy one last gift before parting ways, but then he hit his head and sighed.
– Elixir of Potential LV1 700pt
Explanation) This mystical potion can bring out the potential of the person who drinks it. (Purchase limit 0/1)
‘…That’s right, I can only buy this once?’
In order to save Kania, whose curse is rapidly worsening, it is necessary to quickly awaken her healing ability by feeding her sister the ‘Elixir of Potential’.
So… unfortunately, I don’t think I can give this cute little boy the elixir of potential.
“…Kid.”
“yes?”
“From now on, listen carefully to what your brother says.”
“…yes!”
Unfortunately, I tried to increase the possibility of her developing abilities by hinting to her about her ‘mysterious potential’, but…
[congratulations! You have successfully cleared
[As a reward, you can choose one of the following three items!]
Once again, when the system window appeared in front of me and the reward list appeared, I closed my mouth for a moment and started staring at the list.
1. Wiak Points 500pt
2. 150 gold coins
3. Lucky ring
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‘…Lucky ring?’
There was an item with a name that caught quite a lot of attention in reward number 3, so I placed my hand on it without realizing it and the description of the item began to appear before my eyes.
– Lucky Ring
Explanation) It might bring good luck to the wearer…?
I looked at the item with questionable effects on the subject of compensation for a while, and then I got lost in thought.
‘…Still, this ring is worth 500 points and 150 gold, right?’
Although I am currently in a very urgent need of the Weak points, I have been working quite hard on the Weak points recently, so I have a bit of leeway.
And, there is still plenty of gold. I brought everything I had to secure the ‘item’ today… 150 gold isn’t that much money to me in the first place.
So what’s left is this suspicious ring… How about giving it to the little boy as a gift?
Although she can’t give you the ‘Potion of Potential’ as a gift… even though it’s a little suspicious, if you give her the lucky ring, which is a ‘clear reward’, it might bring her good luck as explained.
And if that luck becomes an opportunity to awaken ‘unquestionable potential,’ there will be no gift more perfect than that.
“…Hey, hero?”
“huh?”
“What are you taking so long to say?”
“Oh, sorry. I kept you waiting.”
“Oh, no! It wasn’t boring at all!”
“I never asked you if you were bored?”
“…omg.”
The little boy, struck by my words, opened his mouth and slowly turned his gaze to the side.
I smiled at his cute appearance, chose reward number 3, the lucky ring, as the clear reward, and handed it out to the little boy.
“…Now, a gift.”
“Again, again!? Please stop…! If you do this, even if I die, I won’t be able to repay you…!”
“So, you don’t have to pay it back?”
“Uh, mom said that if you owe money, you have to pay it back…”
When I was about to ask her where my mother was now after hearing her sullen words, I remembered why the children wandering around the market were abandoned here.
Apparently, this little boy was either abandoned by his mother, who could no longer bear it, or left his dead mother and ended up begging on the streets of the market.
So, let’s not bother touching that trauma again.
“Then, later, when I become famous, you will come and pay me back.”
“…What if I become famous?”
“Yes, soon the time will come when the entire empire will praise the hero’s name. If you want to repay, repay then.”
“Yes, yes!! Absolutely!! No matter what happens, I will come and pay your debt!!”
“No, don’t force yourself to repay when you don’t have the means to repay…”
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“…Yes, yes.”
“So, can I get a gift now? Now, hold out your hand.”
The little boy, who hesitated when I told him to hold out his hand, soon cautiously held out his hand.
After looking at her thin hands for a while because she couldn’t eat, I started talking while carefully putting a ring on her thin fingers to avoid hurting them.
“…This is a lucky ring.”
“…Lucky ring?”
“Okay, if you keep wearing this… good luck will come to you sooner or later.”
“Really?”
When she asked me with wide eyes, I answered in a confident voice.
“Well, I’m sure it’s my word as a warrior. So, keep wearing it from now on.”
The girl, who listened to my confident words and stared at the ring on her finger, then tilted her head and asked a question.
“Hey… Don’t you need more of this, hero?”
“huh?”
“If you’re a hero… you’ll have to fight bad people… but don’t you need luck?”
I answered those words with a liberated expression.
“It’s okay because I’m a bad person.”
“…yes?”
“Oh, no… I have a lot of these things. You know I have a lot of money, right? So you don’t have to worry.”
The little girl who heard those words nodded quietly, and I gently stroked her head one last time before heading toward the exit of the bar and giving her one last piece of advice.
“And, you have a talent for magic.”
“…Me?”
“Yes, that is a very outstanding talent. So after healing your younger brother and finding a home, study hard to learn magic.”
“…Can I do well?”
The little girl hurriedly asked the last question behind me, who had gone completely outside, and I also gave her the final answer.
“Yes, as a warrior, I guarantee you. You will do well.”
“…!”
“Well then, take care.”
With those words, I left my brief relationship in the back alley behind and began to hurry my steps back to the plan I had originally made.
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Glare, a wandering girl who had been staring blankly at Frey’s back as he walked farther and farther away, eventually began to mutter quietly when he completely disappeared from sight.
“…I guess I had a talent for magic.”
Saying that, she began to caress the ring on her finger that her savior, the warrior, had given her as a gift.
“I will work hard, hero.”
Then, the girl stopped touching the ring for a moment and carefully took it off her finger, fearing it might get damaged.
“I worked hard…”
Eventually, she began to put the ring back on her left ring finger,
“…If you become famous, I will definitely go to repay your debt.”
He concluded his speech with a slight smile.
“…Is it okay if you replace me?”
A faint light was leaking from her body.
It was a moment when a new turning point that was unexpected by the former warriors, Frey, and even the system was engraved on the world line.
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“Fray!! Where on earth have you been!!”
“…I came to get some air for a moment.”
“gibberish!!”
I’m being scolded by Isolette right now.
Because I had been neglecting her for a long time.
Actually, it’s because I received a quest from the system to save the world, attacked an illegal human trafficker, eliminated the Succubus Queen, the devil’s henchman, and freed all the kidnapped women and children, but if I told that to Isolette, my vitality would be reduced. will be.
“Really, you…!”
“Why were you worried?”
“…Shut up. I’m not in the mood to mess with you right now.”
“Hehe…you’re a young man?”
I stared at Isolette, who was speaking disingenuously, and then turned my attention to the dying voice coming from behind.
“It’s a good time… It’s a good time…”
The store owner, who was lying on the floor and speaking in a dying voice, looked at me and started talking with a sly expression on his face.
“So who is that woman?”
“…Academy Professor.”
“Oh, it’s a forbidden love. But the more it happens, the more… ugh!”
The owner, who was barely able to say anything even as he was dying, was hit on the head by Isolette’s sheath and fell limp.
“…You didn’t kill him, right?”
“…I knocked him out for a moment.”
“Isn’t this excessive suppression?”
“…It was a fair action.”
The moment Isolette responded coldly, the magic tool shop that had at least some remaining structure collapsed.
After looking pitifully for a moment at the owner, who had suddenly become homeless, I realized that Isolette’s cold eyes were still focused on me.
“…Tell me where you’ve been, Frey.”
“Well, I heard you came back to get some fresh air?”
“If you don’t tell me, I will tell your father about the brooch.”
“…It’s shameful.”
When I muttered with a frown on my face, Isolette said with a stern look on her face.
“You’d better tell the truth. I can tell with my eyes closed whether you’re telling the truth or a lie.”
“…I understand, I understand.”
With a helpless expression on my face, I started telling her the scenario I had prepared in advance.
“Actually, I went to the information guild…”
“Information Guild?”
“Yes, a place that buys and sells information. There are some that are legal, but the information guilds in the back alleys have the largest amount of information.”
“…So, what information did you get?”
“Uh… the largest auction house held once a year is being held in a back alley today… and I received information that a terrorist attack may occur there.”
“…what?”
When she widened her eyes at the word terrorism, I smiled to myself and began to add flesh to the words.
“No, I have a lot of money, right? That’s why I asked you to give me the most high-quality information you have. Every single piece of information can be used as a weapon.”
“so?”
“But, why is this the highest-quality information? There are only a few minutes left until the auction begins… and I completely lost my money.”
After hearing what I said, Isolette said with a puzzled expression on her face.
“A terrorist attack could occur and people could die… Are you now regretting that you lost your money?”
“A whopping 11 gold coin bags were lost! How serious is this…”
“Okay, tell me the location of the auction house right now. You can leave here like this.”
“What, are you worried about me…”
“Fray!!!”
I paused for a moment at her yelling, then scratched my head and opened my mouth again.
“…No, but even if I go, there won’t be anything I can do, right?”
“What do you mean?”
“There, there is a powerful spell that only those with a pass can enter. It will take several hours to dismantle it, even if the imperial wizards come.”
“Ugh…”
At those words, Isolette began biting her lip quietly. Realizing that she was about to fall, I started my final act to drive her to the curb.
“…Ah! Now that I think about it, there is one way to get in…”
“W-what is that?”
When she asked urgently, I answered calmly.
“Me and Nu… the professor are going to be lovers.”
And after those words were finished, there was a moment of silence between the two of us.
-Sreung…
“Wait, wait! It’s not a joke, it’s real! It’s real!!”
Soon, in the silence, she slowly pulled out her sword, and I stepped back and spoke urgently.
“…explain.”
Eventually, she put the knife back into its sheath and opened her mouth, and I sighed in relief and started talking.
“So, actually, I have a pass.”
“Good. Give it to me right now.”
“It’s no use taking it. The pass can only be used by you.”
I continued speaking with a sly smile at Isolette.
“However, if we register the two of us as lovers or a married couple in the auction house system, we can enter and leave together.”
“…Isn’t the system too lax despite its tight security?”
“It’s because they don’t just give you a pass. They only carefully select people from proven families, especially those with wealth and honor, so they are given such preferential treatment.”
“…………”
“In other words, if you want to be together, you have to pretend to be your lover inside the auction house. Otherwise, you’ll be suspicious.”
I smiled at Isolette, who was starting to blush due to a chronic illness, and said a quick word.
“Then please take care of me, Isolette.”
And the next moment, Isolette hit me hard on the head with a sheath.
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“Please register Fray Raon Starlight and Isolette Arham Bywalk as a romantic relationship.”
“…That’s surprising. Have you finally reconciled?”
“Just sell it to the intelligence guild, and I’ll throw you in the basement of our duchy the next day.”
“I’m getting scared because I don’t think it’s a joke. Please come in.”
Arham Bywalk and I, who passed the person in charge safely, entered the auction house wearing the black robe we had brought with us in advance and the mask the person in charge gave us.
“…Do you really have to cross your arms like this?”
“Look at what the people who came in in pairs are doing… They’re hugging each other.”
“Ugh…”
Isolette, who saw the couple’s lovemaking, groaned and tried to look away.
“…It’s too stiff, try crossing your arms more naturally.”
“…Hold it on, wouldn’t you know it if you tried it on?”
“…ha.”
So, I sat down in the auction room seat, feeling like I was holding something hard and wooden by my side, and started looking at the people inside.
Of course, people were hiding themselves with black robes and masks, but my information search skills didn’t find that a problem.
‘… From the Count, to the Elder of the Magic Tower, to the Imperial Finance Manager… the key figures of the Empire have gathered in one place.’
As I quietly scanned the auction house, I laughed and muttered to myself when I found out that the people who were said to be the best in the empire were gathered in this narrow auction house.
‘Well, the value of the item I’m aiming for is almost unknown at this point, but… what’s important is not the internal competition, but the external competition.’
The reason I brought Isolette here today is to help me stop the demon lord’s troops that will soon attack for the item I am aiming for.
I’m already dying from a hard time these days, but if I use my ‘Star’s Protection’ here, I could suddenly die unexpectedly.
This is because the Demon King’s troops that will soon attack this place are not a small elite group like before, but rather a large force, so the consumption of power is high.
Of course, since it is limited in quantity, Isolette can easily deal with it, so I can easily secure the ‘item’ while she deals with the terror.
If you secure that item, you can definitely secure the ‘commoner dormitory attack incident’…
“…uh!?”
“Huh!”
While searching for people, I found someone and screamed in surprise, and Isolette, who was stiff next to me, also let out a strange scream.
“”…………””
As a result, people inside the auction house began to quietly look at us, and Isolette and I had no choice but to keep our heads down for a while.
“…Why on earth is that like that?”
“…………”
Soon, Isolette whispered to me in a resentful voice, but I ignored her and held my head with a bewildered expression.
‘…Why is Kania here?’
I don’t know why, but Kania’s information came to mind when I saw the person sitting next to Isolette.
I hoped it was someone with the same name, but even the numbers and special features were the same. How on earth did this happen?
“……!”
I was so tired that I raised my head to check the information again, wondering if I had seen something wrong, but this time, the information about Saint Perloche came to mind from the person sitting in front of me.
“…Please sit down for a moment.”
“…Ah, yes. I understand…!”
As I was looking at the information blankly, someone tried to sit next to me, so I pulled my body to the side and looked at that person, and this time, information about the princess Klarna appeared before my eyes.
“…Do you have any problem?”
“…No, no.”
I hurriedly answered in a loud voice to the princess who was tilting her head and asking a question. I looked at Isolette, who was looking at me with puzzled eyes, and then looked at the main heroines who appeared at the auction house one by one, and muttered to myself.
‘…….It’s a real fucking mess.’
Even if something goes wrong, it goes wrong for a long time.
fantasy,
