The Necromancers
Ch. 39.1: Leave It to Us! (1)

"What are we going to take today?"

"Can we take that one?"

"Don't that look hard?"

"You're right."

In front of them was a mission board available on the ground floor that was based for adventurers at the Black Adventure level.

Each of the missions available are escort, hunting, guarding, and assistance missions they can see on different papers in each place that submits them.

"We'll take this one."

"This?"

"Yes." Yeah."

In the hands of the short white haired man who showed a piece of paper to the long blue haired girl, the girl picked it up and read it carefully.

The mission he took was not a difficult mission but an escort mission. Starting from the city of Fiasfa to the forest they passed before, the prize of the mission was quite small but enough to increase their income.

"How's it?"

"It's good."

"All right?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"Can I see it?"

Near the long blue haired girl was a little girl in cute and adorable clothes who picked up a piece of paper UN read to her.

Beside the little girl, the short silver-haired girl who approached her saw the contents of the sheet simultaneously with the cute and adorable little girl dressed.

"It's interesting."

"Yes. Not only close, the cost is quite enough for an adventurer level like us."

"Yes, you're right."

Without waiting any longer, they hurried away leaving the Adventurers Guild Hall. Before they left, they confirmed the mission first in order to know if anyone had taken it or not, after which they had just left the Adventurers Guild.

•••••

The Regard POV

Escort mission against one of the noble families.

This is an easy mission that I am sure will be difficult to do by people like us, adventurers of the Black Adventure level.

As far as I know, nobles always have their own problems. Starting from support, kidnapping, theft, murder, murder, all of that is the case among the nobles I have seen in the series of novels read before during my youth in my old world.

"Is this the place?"

"Yes." Yeah."

In front of us, a building stretched wide.

The four-story building has a luxurious architecture and beautiful to be seen from the outside, the fences that stretch wide on the surface, and the, as well as the greenery around the building we can see from behind the fence is a pretty beautiful sight to see several times.

"Ara... are you the one who received the mission from me?"

"Yes." Yeah."

After a few taps, a long fire red-haired girl came out from the door, greeting us with a smile visible on her face.

"Are you Sakigawa Miyu?"

"Yes. I'm a nobleman who's going to do business out of town."

A glance that was diverted from Reita looked towards me.

I don't know if he really saw me or not, I ignored him and chose not to interact directly because it would make me feel weird in front of them.

"Are you guys adventurers of the Black Adventure level?"

"Yes, we are adventurers at the level of Black Adventure."

"I understand."

The more he looked at me, the closer his body was to me.

Slowly, I kept my distance from him to stay as far away as possible to not attract those who looked confused now.

"Hehehe..."

Unfortunately, that didn't pay off.

Madam Sakigawa who started to embrace my hand, wrapped around it and hugged it tightly made it hard for me to let go and keep my distance from it.

Do you know him?

No, I don't know him at all.

That's lies. I know him because we met him before.

He who used to be nothing that made his body turn completely into a doll managed me to save and revive it as it is now, all thanks to me.

If I hadn't done anything to them before, I wouldn't have known what awaited them. Yes, she was the demonic woman that Fuzikumibaru had once made Marionette a Living Being before.

"May I know your names?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"certain."

I'm sure they want to say something but they're holding it back.

Seen from their faces that looked annoyed and envious at the closeness that Madam Sakigawa and I were doing, I could make sure they were annoyed at her who had suddenly approached me for no apparent reason.

"My name is Sasaki."

"I am Fuuya."

"My name is Reita Hiena, just call me Reita."

After the three of them introduced their respective names, Madam Sakigawa's gaze led to me.

The sight of her curious face in my name made me take my eyes off her and pretend not to see her.

To be honest, this is troublesome because I didn't think that the person who laid the mission wasn't a stranger, but a person I knew.

Really troublesome huh.

"Can you tell me your name?"

Again he glanced at me.

I know everyone sees me acting weird, but don't you know if I tell you my name then he'll get closer to me.

Never mind. It's better if I introduce my name so that they don't get suspicious.

"My name is Regard Arthen, you can call me Regard."

"Regard is."

Madam Sakigawa who lowered her head and muttered my name so slowly, she nodded once with her confident face and then looked at me.

"Sip. I've decided."

Decide? Whatchu mean?

"Regard, marry me now!"

... married?

Overall I don't know what to react to. Whether I should be happy or not, I felt absolutely nothing from inside me.

My manhood has been taken by Shilph so it is impossible if I marry someone else because I was already dirtyed by the previous Shilph controlled by Stephani.

Right duh. I don't know what to say.

Seeing their reaction, I'm sure they were shocked at what Mrs Sakigawa said. Marriage is not easy. That's why they did not expect the words he issued to make them not believe in what they heard before.

Never mind.

"I'm sorry, I can't take it."

"Eh... why? Is there a reason?"

"Yes. I'm just an ordinary adventurer whereas you're a noble so it's impossible for us to get married."

No, that's not what I meant.

I can't get married because I don't want to.

That's my point.

"That's it."

Sighing deeply, his sad-looking expression turned to delight at the rejection I had made of him.

"Maybe someday, we can meet again so I'll ask you for help if I need help."

"Yes, I'll look forward to it."

It did not feel like we had reached the destination, we and Mrs Sakigawa separated because the task was completed.

I felt perplexed and astonished at the request he had deliberately placed in the Adventurers Guild. Judging by her strength and ability, Madame Sakigawa possesses abilities far above the average human that can defeat anyone who attacks her.

But he didn't show it to us at all.

Instead, she looked like a weak girl that no one could tell that she was a demon camouflaging as a human.

Even the three of them, people who are sensitive to feelings, hearing, and smell can not know anything.

Truly a great camouflage technique.

"Who is Lady Sakigawa?"

"That's right. Why do they look so close to you?"

"Do you know him, sir?"

I thought they were going to ask me this.

"No, I don't know him at all."

"really? I saw her expression that was happy to see you made me think that you had met her."

Why don't you trust me, Reita? Didn't I tell you that I didn't know him?

Never mind.

To be honest, I would rather lie than be honest, which would make them jealous and envious of the closeness we had before. So, I purposely pretended to think that we didn't know each other.

"Maybe he saw me like his fiancee."

"Wedding?"

"Yes." Yeah."

By taking the word fiancee, they won't suspect me more than anything.

They might think that if she had a fiance who looked similar to me, she would deliberately treat me gently and kindly as if I were her fiance.

•••••

In the middle of the night, the streets were quiet and silent. There was no sign of the existence of residents or adventurers who were on the move along the road but there was only the sound of wind blowing, night animals were heard, and the sound of birds was heard loudly in the city.

"Are you ready?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"We're ready to do it."

"Good."

Outside the gates of Fiasfa City, a group of people were getting ready to begin a search inside the cave that was in the depths of the forest.

Starting from Regard who leads in front, Shilphonia who is behind Regard, Reita who is behind Shilphonia, Shilphonia, as well as Fuuya and Sasaki who were on the side of Regard who were on the road together with him first took the lead in front.

Not only them, there was one person who came with them that was a man who came from a special Royal Knight, Veru who was in the back row.

"Are you sure you invited him to come?"

"Yes. Since he still has an obligation to save someone, I will rely on him in doing so."

Whispering that to Shilphonia, Regard was convinced by handing over the friendly affairs they had to Veru, it could make him better than he had to meddle into affairs that were not his own.

As far as Regard is concerned, Kanae is Veru's best friend so she deliberately hands him over so that Veru can save her friend who has been swallowed by darkness to get back on her way.