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Quest: Heading towards Earth Labyrinth’s Deepest Part
With this, the kidnapping of Abbot town’s children has come to an end.
Haa. Thank goodness~.
Just as I felt relieved, a semi-transparent window opened before my eyes.
Now that I think about it, I received a quest, didn’t I?
▼The following quest has been cleared.
▼Rescue the kidnapped children.
Let’s defeat the golem and rescue the children!
▼Quest Cleared！
Reward: Acquired the qualifications to enter into the deepest part of the Earth Labyrinth Rescue the kidnapped children.
Hooray!
With this, as long as we could go to the deepest part of the Earth Labyrinth, we’d be able to get the key to go to the Sage Tower, right?
As I thought so, another semi-transparent window appeared before my eyes.
This, could it be—
▽A serial quest has occurred.
▽Go to the deepest part of the Earth Labyrinth.
Defeat the boss in the deepest part of the Earth Labyrinth.
▽Reward for quest clearance: Obtain the Earth Key
If the quest is failed: Losing the qualifications to enter the Sage Tower.
▽Would you like to accept this quest?
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Yes　　　No
Looking at the quest window and seeing the word [Sage Tower], I tried to ascertain it with my trembling hand.
I couldn’t touch the window, but on the tip of my finger, there was certainly the word [Sage Tower] written.
It really existed…!
Certainly, when we defeated Livyatan, it said, “Let’s meet again at the Sage Tower”, but in reality, everyone but me hadn’t heard those words.
So, I had been anxious thinking that it was me mishearing things because I had my hopes up.
After all, nobody had mentioned anything about Sage Tower until that time. I thought it was a bit unnatural for Livyatan to suddenly mention Sage Tower then.
Moreover, Virna-san—a beastman—would have good ears, but it was odd for her to not hear that too, and for only me to hear those words.
But the fact that it was written in the quest like this, as expected it wasn’t just me mishearing things, but Livyatan really said that…
Yosh. I’m fired up now!
Let’s do our best, yeah!
As I was about to accept the quest happily, Karin-san and Maa-kun finally showed up from the foot of the mountain.
Maa-kun was also safe. I was so relieved.
I hurriedly accepted the quest when Maa-kun ran towards me.
“I’m glad you’re alright!”
“Maa-kun too!”
After rushing over to me, Maa-kun hugged me.
Wawawaa.
This is so sudden, I’m surprised~!
“If something were to happen to you, I’d feel uneasy for leaving you behind.”
“Even if I look like this, I’m quite strong, you know?”
“You certainly have said that before. …Hey, can I also call you Yuuri?”
Huh? Now that I think about it, I haven’t introduced myself properly, have I?
Hmm. I might haven’t introduced myself properly yet.
After separating from Maa-kun, I held the hem of my skirt and bowed.
“I am Yuuri Kujou Owen. Pleased to make your acquaintance.”
Ehehe.
I still haven’t gotten used to introducing myself as the Owen, so I was a little bit shy mentioning the surname.
“You have a family name…?!”
Ah, now that I think about it, only nobles or knights have family names here, didn’t they say that? I completely forgot.
“Uhmm, it was added recently… How should I explain? Well, please don’t mind the trivial stuff. Please just call me Yuuri, okay?”
Here, I should cover it up with an absolute smile!
As I smiled brightly, Maa-kun’s face turned redder.
“Y…yeah.”
“By the way, is the town mayor arrested?”
“He was caught by that brawny priest in no time, and he was wrapped up in a rope. It was amazing.”
“He is a fighting priest, after all.”
How odd. Ar-niisama and the others were supposed to be part of the combat classes, though.
Despite that, the first one to rush into something would always be Frank-san.
“At first, I thought I didn’t want to be a priest and prefer to be a knight, but now I think that aiming to become a priest isn’t that bad. That way, I can always stay in the church, and I can always be with the small ones.”
Frank-san said earlier that the occupation of the orphaned children who grew up in the church was pretty much decided to be either a priest or adventurer.
But if Maa-kun really wanted to become a knight and worked hard towards it, I think that if it was Priest Rou, he would support Maa-kun’s dream.
He was Frank-san’s master, after all.
“Do your best, I’m rooting for you!”
May Maa-kun’s dream come true one day!