Labyrinth City Mesugaki Pawn Shop

52. Hydra (2)

Rusalka heard Einheri’s voice in despair and fell into doubt.

No, is this something to be so sad about…?

An oracle that says that if you accomplish a task, your sins will be forgiven.

However, if the task has already been accomplished, it was generally regarded as completed and continued with the next task.

She who became her saint was like that, and so were all the others who had received her oracle.

In fact, there was no particular problem, and she didn’t even say anything about the situation.

In some ways, it could have been said that eating it raw was good, but her two eyes, lost in what to do, were trembling.

“No, what the hell, why, f*ck…”

“Uh… Just because a task has been completed in advance isn’t necessarily a bad thing, right? Tasks given by the Goddess are simply counted as solved…”

“Goddess is not the problem… Uhh…”

What kind of trouble was he holding, the moaning sound seemed very painful.

“Isn’t there such a thing as a hydra stealing her offspring…? That’s why this oracle appeared…”

“That hydra was recorded in the adventurer’s guild as male. Hydra’s testicles are one of her delicacies, so the bidding competition was fierce for several days.”

“Ah, damn it again…”

“And it has been more than 7 years since the village of Hanford in Richland was established after the hydra was eliminated. If there were babies, they would have been born even if they were four months old. There was even a statue erected saying it was the place where the hydra was defeated, but what?”

It’s not like Rusalka didn’t even think about it, but she didn’t have any abnormalities on the record, so…

“And the fact that the Alchemist Guild entered the village…”

“…Wait a minute, guild?”

“Yeah, after the hydra died, the remaining poisons sank to the bottom of the lake, so an alchemist’s guild entered there to study it? It’s strange that we entered the middle of a mountain instead of a lake, but what…”

“…..”

After those words, Einheri fell silent for a moment.

“…Einheri?”

When I called, there was no answer, so I knocked and called again, but only a quiet sound like ‘gh…Hmm…’ Came out of the confessional on the other side.

Rusalka, too, quietly pondered as she stared at the unanswered wall.

It was clear that Einheri’s strange obsession with Hydra was something.

She simply said that she couldn’t do the oracle of the goddess, so it wasn’t a reaction that would come out. Rather, if you were happy that the near-impossible task was cancelled, that anxiety…

“…Then why don’t you go to Ranford, Richland?”

“Yes?”

“Even if she had already been subjugated and disappeared, her oracle would not have come down without meaning, so she should go and check it out for herself.”

…I wonder if there’s even a real baby hydra.

If you find it and subdue it, that would be a splendid debut achievement as an adult in its own way, so it wasn’t bad.

“But I… I’m tied to my job… I came out like this because today is the weekend, I don’t think I’d be able to do it normally…”

“Ah, you mean the pawnshop?”

Rusalka raised the corners of her mouth with her meaningful expression.

”As of today, Einheri has completely escaped from the pawnshop and transferred to the Dvořák family, and she has received a confirmation from Jan Esttoria, so she can leave at any time!”

I went, I fought, I won.

Rusalka smiled triumphantly.

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No, by what means? Did you convince Yan?

I don’t know how the saintess defeated Yan, but I had a strong feeling that it wouldn’t be a normal way for her.

Of course, it’s good that the restrictions of the pawnshop are lifted… But why do I have an ominous feeling that I’ll be tied up again?

Moreover, her head hurt as she recollected what had jumped out before her.

The current name of Lerne, a place indicated by both the goddess Nemesis and foreign gods, is Richland Hanford

And the place where the large amount of silver that Lucky confirmed as the ledger of the alliance in the previous car flowed was also Hanford in Richland.

And the alchemist’s guild branch established in Hanford, Richland, which Rusalka said was apparently built to study the residual poison of the subjugated Hydra, but…

In the first place, does poison last that long?

Since the target is not alive and has already been subjugated and dead, it will be infinitely diluted in flowing water and disappear.

Three things that could not be connected were intertwined, giving off a very disgusting smell.

Gods, precious metals, and alchemists.

“Richland Hanford, one day away, right?”

There was no time to hesitate.

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Rusalka immediately began preparing to head for Hanford, Richland, after escaping from the support of the prospective nuns.

‘Requires permission from the superior…’

– It’s an oracle.

‘This is not an export item…’

– It’s an oracle.

‘No, why the heck did you borrow three warhorses to build a triumvirate…?’

– It’s an oracle.

It was the administrative management department of the church that was sunk by the single word of trust along with the saintess’ abuse of authority.

It was me and Yerika who were standing still beside me who became uneasy about the preparations that were so radical and fast that I wondered if this was okay.

The feeling of being burdened by something, no, the burden might be right… But, isn’t there such a thing as a feeling?

Feeling left alone while everyone else is working hard.

As I quietly stood aside toward the entrance of the church branch, a familiar person came to visit me.

“Einheri, Yerica, kidnapping?”

Floren, the green-haired elf with a short answer and tilting her head, poked Yerica on the cheek.

“Ah! Floren, it tickles me…!”

“Sudden disappearance, perplexity, surprise, but relief.”

It was more like voluntary participation than kidnapping.

They say they can’t remember it now, but it was Yerrika who came here while time stopped.

From the point of view of Yerika, whose memory has been blown, perhaps because of her contact with foreign media, it is as if her place has been moved in an instant, and from the point of view of Floren, who was by her side, it is as if she has evaporated. It must have been like disappearing.

“Do you want to go back, Yerica? She honestly doesn’t seem to need to go, but…”

Yerika was only caught up in the end, and I was the party to her case.

In addition, Terry, who was the agent and window of the foreign press, Nyala Topep, somehow got caught in her heart.

[The creeping chaos shouts that it seeks fair play.]

Oh, damn no.

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“Eh… Can I follow you too?”

However, Yerica’s heart was different.

“… That’s actually what she originally told me not to say…”

“Huh?”

Feeling restless for some reason, Yerica took one quick look around her, then cupped her hands as she stood with her head outstretched and whispered in her ear.

“Actually, Jan-nim… Has asked for something…”

He said it happened before, when Yerica and Floren first visited the pawnshop.

As she kidnapped Rika, Yan dragged her outside and said that she had asked her for a favor that was not hers.

“That’s huh .. No, Mr. Einheri said that if something happened to go out of the city, she would follow and watch over it…! I can’t leave the city…”

A secret that is not a secret.

“Well, he said he will teach you magic instead… Ah! You should never tell Yan-sama about this!”

And as if it wasn’t just given to Yerica, Floren also nodded her head.

“I, too, received the same offer.”

Then, in the quiver she quietly leaned over, she saw a familiar arrowhead.

“Unicorn Horn, Preciousness, Price, Reward.”

Even before turning back her time, she showed interest in the arrow, and in the end, it seems she got one of hers.

“By the way, I don’t think I have the right to decide if Yerica and Floren can accompany me…”

The feeling of just asking her saintess and getting this side, if Rusalka refuses, she has no reason to say anything…

“Oh, two people? Hmm… Maybe it’ll be fine. How is the history of the labyrinth for both of you?”

“I’m on the 7th floor, and Floren went down to the 11th floor.”

Rusalka rested her chin on her chin and pondered for a moment, then nodded her head.

“Well, I think it will be fine. I need to find a wizard and a scout anyway.”

Although it was a town a day’s drive from the city, it was still a suddenly decided schedule. Originally, it would not be enough even if all the Knights Templar joined, but it was impossible because of the existing schedule.

At best, the leader, Raffy, would be attached.

So adding additional people was, of course, a planned procedure.

If it was a schedule that required only Raffy and Rusalka to depart, the Porter’s Association or the Adventurer’s Guild would have hired additional people as an emergency.

“Huh, and as Ein Harry’s ‘sister’, it’s natural to greet her friends, right?”

No, why is that obvious?

At the moment when I was getting dizzy, I wondered if it was really okay to go on like this.

Although you can’t see it, Lucky the Dark Elf, the leader of the Porter Union, stands by your side.

Rusalka, the only saint of the Goddess Church.

The elders of the Mage Tower, Hayden’s disciples Yerica + Terry.

Floren, an elf who handles dozens of spirits freely.

Laffy, the current leader of the Knights Templar

It looked like a combination of warriors in terms of power, but why do you have a feeling that if you look at each one separately, it will lead to catastrophe?

This… It’s okay, right?