Interlude 2
Tavern Rumors, Part 2
Translator : PolterGlast
"Hey, have you
heard the story about the rookie adventurer geezer completing quests without a
single failure so far! At this rate, he might even reach F-rank!"
"Dude... your
news is way too old. No one's following the rookie geezer anymore. Not when the
[Unbearable God Cult] has shown up near this town!"
In the usual tavern,
as always, the hottest topics of the day were being discussed in every corner.
Today's number one
topic was the [Unbearable God Cult], for which there had been a recent
sighting, and the majority of the adventurers gathered in this tavern had been
out on the subjugation mission for them.
"I just got back
from the expedition, so I only know bits and pieces about the [Unbearable God
Cult]! Is the topic of the old rookie already over!"
"Of course it is.
Subjugating them is worth an exceptional thirty platinum coins. Today, all
adventurers E-rank and above were out searching frantically for the [Unbearable
God Cult]."
"It's not really
my place to say since I didn't go on the search... what's the deal with no one
seeing anything despite there being a sighting? Well, I guess it was a special
quest this time, so it's good that everyone got a certain amount of pay even
without any results!"
This was the content
of the conversations at every table.
While there were quite
a few voices of complaint, everyone received a fixed reward, so even though
they all secretly thought it was a fake lead, there wasn't any major criticism.
"Well, I'm sure
the majority of people think it was a fake lead. I went to the location of the
sighting myself, and there wasn't even a trace that people had been
there."
"What! So the
story about the [Unbearable God Cult] showing up was a fake!? Well, they're
based in the royal capital, so I don't see why they'd bother coming all the way
to Biodasdal anyway!"
"...No, the
sighting reported to the Adventurer's Guild was fake, but apparently, the
[Unbearable God Cult] really was hiding near this town."
The place was rowdy
and noisy, but everyone was sensitive to new information, and the moment
something unknown was mentioned, the inside of the tavern grew quiet, as usual.
This was a regular
occurrence in this tavern, and no one made a fuss anymore even if they were
being blatantly eavesdropped on.
"Hey! You've got
new info again! You had info about the rookie adventurer geezer the other day,
too!"
"Just between us,
I can't forget that feeling of everyone hanging on my every word the other day.
The moment the special quest for the [Unbearable God Cult] was issued, I used
an informant to investigate beforehand."
"What the hell!
Just for that, did you actually pay out of your own pocket for information? I'm
honestly a little creeped out."
"Of course I did.
But thanks to that, I have some solid information that no one else knows. Don't
you want to hear it?"
"Well... of
course I want to know! Just get on with it and tell me what's going on!"
Hearing this exchange,
everyone in the tavern turned their ears towards this table.
The information was highly
credible, and it was brand new, not yet known to the public.
There wasn't a single
person in this tavern who didn't want to know.
"Actually, the
story is that the [Unbearable God Cult] was hiding in the north, not the
south."
"The north? You
mean that mountainous region?"
"That's right,
the northern mountainous region. And there was an adventurer who had been
aiming for that mountainous region from the very beginning. An adventurer you
know well."
"An adventurer I
know well who went to the mountainous region? Don't tell me... it's the rookie
adventurer geezer?"
"No way, you
idiot. --It's the B-rank adventurer, Aoi."
"When you say the
B-rank adventurer Aoi, you mean that Aoi, the one who works solo?"
"That's right.
She's an oddball who's always been a solo adventurer, but her skills are the
real deal. She's a solo B-rank, so they say she's a prodigy who could easily
reach A-rank if she were in a party."
There wasn't a single
person who worked as an adventurer in Biodasdal who didn't know the name Aoi. At
the mention of this unexpected name, the place instantly began to buzz.
"You're saying
Aoi predicted that the [Unbearable God Cult] would be in the north!?"
"That's right.
And apparently, it's been reported that she actually engaged them in
combat."
"Is that for
real, not just some baseless rumor? I don't get it!"
"She couldn't
capture them, but she apparently drove them away. I heard she actually brought
back a tent that the [Unbearable God Cult] was using."
"So she drove off
the [Unbearable God Cult] all by herself? That's insane! Isn't this... the
birth of a new hero?"
"It seems it
wasn't officially accepted for some reason, so she's still stuck at B-rank,
though."
"That doesn't
matter! I knew she was an eccentric, but when a story like this comes out, even
her eccentricity starts to look cool!"
Adventurers tend not
to like other adventurers.
However, they love an
extraordinary tale, and they get very excited and build it up.
The achievement Aoi
left behind this time certainly fit the bill of an "extraordinary
tale," and this rumor, spread by the adventurers who eavesdropped in the
tavern, would quickly propagate and become the talk of the entire town of
Biodasdal...
But no one in the
tavern at the time could have imagined that Aoi, the center of all the
commotion, would get even more tangled up in trouble by associating with the
"rookie adventurer geezer" who was a bizarre eccentric—the most
eccentric of all.
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