You can smell the breeze of the sea.
In the market, you can see various stuff being sold, mostly fish and other seafood. I don’t recognize more than half of them, though.
I am walking alone in the street looking for adventuring supplies right now. This is what I talk about Cecille.
“Miss Cecille, I can’t tell the details why I am here or how I got here, I am sorry.”
“Princess! Why are you apologizing? I myself know not to delve deep into things like that. I didn’t do anything to warrant an apology from you!”
“Un, the thing is, Miss Cecille, I need to go back to the Royal Capital quickly. For that, I am guessing I need things for adventuring and supplies too.”
“Princess, do you plan to go alone?”
“No, it’s frustrating but I myself right now can’t fend off for myself.”
“I see, then Princess, why don’t you put up an escort commission to the guild?”
“That is a plausible idea… but….”
“I see, I am sorry, so you want someone you can trust.”
“Un.”
“Princess, I can gather reliable A-class adventurers for you but I have to tell about the Guild master about you.”
“I don’t mind…”
“But you know Princess, A-class adventurers need higher paying commission to be hired.”
“Un, money is not a problem, do you think you can exchange my mithril coin for several gold and silver coins?”
“Princess! SHHH! You are carrying something dangerous! Princess, if you have a smaller amount of coins, please use that!”
“Muh…”
I want some surplus for extra supplies (sweets) you know. I still don’t know how much all the commission will cost so I should be prudent with the coins I have.
“Princess! I still have duty in the guild so I can’t accompany you. For now, please go with Alstroe!”
“Um, about Alstroe-nee, what is her adventurer rank?”
“…”
“…”
“SSS rank”
“Seriously?”
“I am dead serious Princess…”
“A-as far as I know, there are only up unto SS rank!?”
“Alstroe is a special case. For a normal human, she is above all anyone in terms of everything except thinking.”
“Aren’t you being mean to her?”
“I exaggerated a little.”
“What’s up with Alstroe-nee anyway?!”
“She is strong beyond imagination! It is a problem for me you know! Every time she returns from a subjugation quest, the clothes she is wearing barely covers anything! I had this dragon fiber dress specially made for her with auto clean and non-stain magical function!”
“Wow! She has something incredible.”
“The dragon fiber dress is not to protect her from harm but to protect the things that should not be seen publicly!”
“Does Alstroe-nee uses Soul Weapon? It seems she isn’t using magic.”
“The thing about Alstroe is she doesn’t use any of the registered power classification. She told me one time that she uses Qi.”
“Then, how strong is her Qi then?”
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“Princess, have you heard about the legend of Continental Destroyer? An Arcana Magician that erased a small continent from the map more than 200 years ago.”
“I heard about it one time…”
“Please look at this map. You can see that the smallest continent is the Rainforest of Healing of the land of the fairy kin, right?”
“Un.”
“If you put Continental Destroyer in the middle of it, her magical power will overflow all around the Rainforest of Healing. That's what the records says.”
“Eh..Eh? She is that powerful?”
“She is! Now, if we measure Alstroe's Qi level as the same as magic. Look at the Valley of the Ancient.”
“Un, it is the biggest among all continents.”
“Imagine all of her Qi power overflowing all over the place. She unconsciously suppresses it.”
“…”
“We do not let any continents know about her existence. She is really dumb, so tricking her is simple as taking candy from a kid. Albeit, I said she unconsciously suppresses it, she always over does things so it is useless.”
Dangerous.
That is way too dangerous.
I can also feel that she is an event trigger girl. Trouble follows her everywhere.
Well, it was a good thing I was able to get comfortable with Cecille and Alstroe. The reason I trusted them is simple.
I don’t have anyone to trust right now. But I should build up this trust with them mutually.
Cecille gave me a map of the town harbor. Although smaller than Capital City, getting lost is still no laughing matter.
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Alstroe was with me a little while ago. Well, I really plan to venture the town by myself from the start. I also have this reliable map Cecille gave me.
Forget about Alstroe being an event trigger girl. I am the “followed by thugs” trigger girl instead. I was cornered easily too. But right now! Right now! I will learn to fight back!
“[Barrier]!”
“Hou! Little Missy is a magician!~ but I wonder how long that barrier can last?!”
Yes. I only have my barrier here! I began to think negatively again. I was about to tear up when.
Ah...
I remember Nil’s evil grin. The experience I had that time. The terror I felt that night is incomparable to this. I somehow held the tears back and was able to think calmly.
Violetta always says to me about magic. “Magic can be also free in form and can be manipulated if the user has a strong mind paired with a strong imagination.”
I don’t know how strong my mind is right now. But my imagination is so vivid that I can clearly remember every trauma-inducing event in my life.
This spherical barrier is strong, like what Violetta said!
What if I try pushing the barrier out?
I have an idea what to call that. I don’t know if it is going to work but I have to do it!
“[Force]!”
The barrier expands at an unimaginable speed. The thugs was blown away. One of them managed to stand up tries to hit the barrier.
“[Retract]!”
I pulled the barrier in its original size, the only remaining thug charges the barrier then.
“[Spin]!”
The barrier, with great velocity spins. The thug that had contact with it was magnificently sent flying to the sky.
I…I did it! I…I was able to fend off myself!
I remove the barrier and tried to run past the lying men when…
“LASS! I won’t let you go away easily now!”
One of them grabs my ankle and I fell down. I let my guard down! This might serve a lesson to me. then…
“OOH! Don’t bully Asagao!”
She came. The blockhead came.
“AHH! All of you bow down to the Goddess of Destruction for forgiveness! If you don’t, you will be bedridden for the next three months!!!”
Ehh..Is this a comedy act? I feel like my effort earlier is whittling away…
We report the matter to the guild. I let them off anyway since no harm done, except me falling down.
I was able to gain precious experience from it too. I scolded the three of them
“Hey... Misters, I will forgive you okay? Please don’t do bad things from now on!”
“”“YES!”””
Well, since I was able to buy the supplies that I needed, I ask Cecille about the commission.
"Sorry Asagao, no one from the A-class adventurer’s wanted to accept it.”
“But…”
“I am sorry…maybe tomorrow?”
“Un.”
The sun was already setting. I retired for tomorrow morning.