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.”