Chapter 156: At a regrettable spot you let them escape, twenty million dale (2)

A wild and flashy face, yet a woman of a friendly impression, a tall stature a little higher than Monica.

"I’m Uraka Gabalda, I’m the chairwoman of a stingy company called Gabalda Trading Company, but that is our company’s ship."

While introducing herself, the silver-haired swordsman... Uraka Gabalda pointed at the Catamaran-type with her right thumb.

"I thought she was an escort adventurer, but she was the chairwoman."

A surprised voice, Kazui raised.

"I also do chairwoman, but I’m also an escort adventurer. For form’s sake middle-class, and I have some skill in my arms."

While showing Kazui the Orb on the back of her left hand, Uraka continued awkwardly.

"Embarrassingly I took a delay against Viper a little while ago."

Uraka was not defeated, but she was being pushed, had her sword blown away, and ended up withdrawing.

In terms of win or loss, that she was clearly losing, Uraka was aware.

"Do you know about Viper?"

Because Uraka said Viper’s name, Kazui asked.

"The boss of the thief group ravaging the south recently, Desert Viper. A wanted person with a bounty of twenty million dale put up by the merchant ship guild."

"Twenty million dale?"

A surprised voice, Kazui raised.

"At a regrettable spot you let them escape, twenty million dale."

That Kazui while defeating Viper let him escape, Uraka had seen.

"Well, not twenty million, but through the guild I’ll have you guys receive a rescue thanks. Not just the set amount, but with some color added on top."

Just as Uraka said, adventurers who responded to a rescue request, if the rescue succeeded, an obligation to pay a set reward occurred on the requesting side.

There was no need to go through the guild, but going through had fewer troubles, so they mostly went through.

Not twenty million, but that unplanned earnings increased, Kazui and Tint rejoiced together.

"Even so, a cute girl like you defeating Viper. Honestly I was surprised."

Uraka said words of praise, but Kazui put on a bitter expression, and Tint laughed inclusively enjoyably.

"Did I say something strange?"

While playing with his unruly hair with a bitter expression, Kazui corrected Uraka’s misunderstanding.

"...I’m a man."

"Eh? A man?"

After raising a surprised voice, Uraka checked Kazui’s body with her eyes.

There was no swell of the chest, and even if slender the skeleton was male, Uraka understood.

"True... looking closely, a boy."

Realizing her own misunderstanding, Uraka awkwardly scratched her head.

"Sorry, you have a cute face, so I thought for sure a girl."

"No need to mind, this guy... is used to being mistaken."

To Tint’s casual tone, Kazui answered back with half-lidded eyes.

"Occasionally mistaken, but not to the degree of getting used to it."

From the awkwardness of mistaking the sex, Uraka switched the topic.

"By the way, you guys’ affiliated guild and names?"

The reason for asking, Uraka added.

"To pay the thanks money through the guild, I want to know."

"Aquila Guild adventurer, Kazu."

"Same, Tint."

What one named in this kind of case was not the full name but the adventurer name registered with the guild.

In Kazui’s case he had registered with his real name before, but the nickname Kazu spread, so he changed the adventurer name to Kazu.

"As I thought, Aquila adventurers."

The nearest autonomous city was Aquila, so Kazui and the others were Aquila adventurers, Uraka had speculated.

"Our ship was scheduled to stop at Aquila, so it was just right. By tomorrow I’ll pay the thanks money to the Aquila guild."

Kazui looked toward the Catamaran-type and asked Uraka.

"That cargo, was it being transported to Aquila?"

"About twenty percent. More than half is for Virgo."

"This ship is going to Virgo!"

Knowing it was a ship heading to Virgo he himself would eventually go to, Kazui felt excitement.

"Soon the Reverse Festa starts in Virgo, so from the Northern Continent... no, adventurers gather from the whole world. Supplies also become needed in large amounts."

"Reverse Festa, I wanted to participate."

In a regrettable tone Kazui muttered.

Kazui and Yuri had decided not to head to Virgo until exceeding level 20, but still Kazui was level 18, Yuri level 15, and had not reached 20.

Since the demerit of Leonization vanished, the two were raising levels at a high pace.

Even so for this year’s Reverse Festa that would start soon, it seemed they would not make it.

Defeating a headliner at Reverse Festa was close to impossible unless middle-class or above.

There were cases of lower-class adventurers who allied luck and defeated, so not that lower-class adventurers had no possibility, but a state close to impossible.

Even so if by July 15th the two’s levels reached 20, betting on the slight possibility they would participate in Reverse Festa, Kazui and Yuri had decided.

And today was July 14th, that the two would not reach level 20 by the deadline was a state the same as confirmed.

"With ability like yours you can participate with leeway. Lower-class even participating has no chance of winning as expected, but middle-class or above has possibility."

Not social courtesy, Uraka’s words were true feelings.

"Ah, no... I’m still lower-class."

"Lower-class? No way?"

Hearing Kazui’s words, more than when she knew he was a man, Uraka widened her eyes.

"Level... can I ask? I’m 43."

"18."

"At level 18, Viper I couldn’t defeat..."

While surprised and at the same time impressed, Uraka continued.

"Even though level isn’t everything, you’re probably considerably skilled at fighting."

"Just luck was good."

Awkwardly Kazui returned words.

"Boss! Emergency treatment of the magic power pipe finished! To Aquila it will probably hold!"

From the Catamaran-type deck a young woman raised a loud voice and called out to Uraka.

Actually from during combat the crew had started emergency treatment of the damaged magic power pipe, and that finished.

Kazui who looked up at the deck visually confirmed the forms of several other crew.

(All women crew. The escort adventurers also seemed all women, same as Black Maiden, a ship of only women?)

That kind of question rose in Kazui’s head.

That terrestrial ships restricting crew sex were not rare, from an adventurer he worked with, Kazui had heard.

When he went to Black Maiden he did not know.

"We’ll enter launch preparations, so return quickly!"

The woman crew who raised a loud voice noticed Kazui and Tint’s existence.

"The adventurers who came to the rescue, right? Thanks! Thanks to you we were saved!"

Hearing that crew’s voice, the crew nearby also one after another said thanks in loud voices to Kazui and Tint.

"Then hurry! Soon they’ll put fire in the jet flowers!"

The crew who first raised a loud voice called out to Uraka again.

Putting fire in the jet flowers was an idiomatic expression of starting the jet flowers.

That the Catamaran-type’s launch was approaching, Kazui sensed.

"We’ll return too, we’re making companions wait."

"Sorry, making companions wait."

Saying that, to Kazui and Tint Uraka bowed once.

"This time really thanks. Representing Gabalda Trading Company, I’ll say thanks again."

"No, exaggerated."

Following Kazui, Tint also returned words to Uraka.

"A beauty please don’t lower your head, I can’t see the face and it’s wasteful."

"...What can I say, you’re really amazing. To a woman of first meeting."

At Tint praising a woman’s appearance without shame, Kazui was exasperated yet impressed.

"To a beauty saying beauty is obvious."

"Well, that’s true."

At Tint’s words Kazui agreed.

Uraka’s appearance seemed to enter the category of beauty.

Said beauty by the two boys, Uraka put on a shy smile and raised her face.

She did rough business, and after exceeding age thirty she had grown distant from that kind of praise words, so uncharacteristically she got shy.

"Then goodbye!"

"Goodbye! Beautiful chairwoman!"

Kazui and Tint said farewell greetings to Uraka and turned their backs and started running.

"Goodbye! Both of you... thanks!"

At the backs of Kazui and Tint running off, Uraka called out in a loud voice.

Aura Speeder activating, so the forms of the two running off like a gale immediately became bean-sized and disappeared from sight.

Finishing seeing off Kazui and Tint, Uraka turned on her heel and returned to the Catamaran-type.

To advance launch preparations of the Catamaran-type heading to Aquila.