We were supposed to stay in a village that day.

I was in the middle of a mountain crossing, but in the village - there was a hot spring.

night. I tried to go to the hot spring after my meal and I was going to be with Mr. Ex and Arthur.

"Ooh."

I exhaled unexpectedly as I walked through the stripper and headed for an open-air bath.

In a hot tub made of stone, raising the hot air is a hot spring that emits a unique smell.

The night sky has brilliant stars and pleasant clear air.

"Nice vibe."

[The pitch-black brave] Mr. Ex is coming in. The forged flesh is dazzling.

"They soak in the bath and drink alcohol in this area. The pavilion owner gave it to me, but you'd drink lemme too, wouldn't you?

[Knight King] Mr. Arthur is skinny compared to Mr. Ex, but his body is tight well.

"Right, well, thank you"

If tomorrow is the original dungeon, refrain, but the journey still continues. It would be nice if it didn't sound like tomorrow.

"Hmm... and lemme, you still seem to be working out well"

"Oh, it'll be hard to tighten that far with [Black Demon Instructor]. All you have to do is say you want to be brave."

Mr Ex and Mr Arthur said to impress me.

"Haha...... thank you. Wash your body before it gets cold."

"Huh, right. Speaking of which, does Leme know how to use my spiritual art in a special way?

"Is it a special use?

"Hey Ex......"

"Ha, okay? I don't have anyone to dress up for."

"... on your own"

Mr. Arthur smiles bitterly before heading to the washroom.

"Well, lemme. My covenant spirits gave me the power to manipulate the Shadows. Feel free to manipulate, materialize, or manipulate the shadows of your enemies. In order to manipulate someone's shadow, you may need to touch the subject's shadow with your own shadow, but, well, you know that."

"Yes."

"It's hard to manipulate shadows, and I think it's easy to understand if you're a wizard, it's difficult to manipulate magic."

"Oh, I see..."

Magic power is invisible, and it doesn't have any particular form. Manipulating this freely requires considerable training.

"So I thought. If you use shadows from day to day, you will improve quickly."

"Right, I think so"

There, it may be similar to my black magic training methods.

Constantly hanging black magic on yourself strengthens magic organs while also working out magic control, like.

"Years of training have brought my spirituality to this level...! Behold!"

As Mr. Ex exaggerated his arms, his shadow moved out.

It becomes countless arms, each moving quickly.

I had an arm that took the soap. Several arms bubble it up and bubble Mr. Ex all over it.

I also had arms to wash my hair. That's not all, he holds a bucket and hangs hot water on Mr. Ex.

"You don't have to use your own hands at the earliest opportunity."

It's technically awesome, but the picture surface is too surreal for me - I laugh.

I still endured this quite a bit, but I couldn't bear to erupt where the shadow was stuck to his head in a shampoo hat form.

"Haha, Mr. Ex...... no, sorry, it's amazing...... very"

"Ha ha...! You see, Arthur, I would have made a mistake."

"Well, I hope I'm not disillusioned."

"It's okay. Hey, lemme."

"Yeah, yes. Um... it's time for that, the..."

"What? You want me to wash you, too?

"I can do it myself...!

I rush to the bathroom.

Seeing it, Mr. Ex laughed with pleasure again.

There's that, bathing.

The feeling of fatigue dissolving in the water leaks my breath.

If you're traveling from city to city in search of a dungeon, you can't take a bath every day.

Wipe your body with a wet cloth, but consult with the amount of water remaining and the distance to your destination.

The adventurer industry sometimes has the word 'put one person in there who can use water magic' in half a joke.

With or without you, the comfort of the journey will certainly change in a gruesome way.

Phoenix was there, so the fire was done in an instant.

"Wow, that feels good"

"Oh, right. Look, both of you."

A wooden tray is floating. On top of it was a distinctive shaped bottle and a small vessel.

Mr. Arthur pours liquor from the bottle into the vessel, and we take it.

"Well, cheers."

Say it with no one and put up a vessel.

When alcohol is included in the mouth, the scent reminiscent of fresh flow falls out of the nose.

"Yeah, yummy"

Then we talked about no other love.

After a while, Mr. Arthur said he was going up first, leaving the bathroom behind.

Maybe from around there.

Mr. Ex's atmosphere has changed slightly.

I began to peek into a slight, but faint, look.

"Leme, I wanted to ask you something."

"What is it?"

"As I said before I left, there are more people braved by your hard work than you think. I'm one of them. While in a misadventure, your party ran up to fourth place. Fourth place. It's the fourth party in tens of thousands of groups."

"... Yes"

"Sure, but I never stopped calling you unnecessary. That's because [Black Demon Instructors] stood in the industry, because they were too [Flaming Brave] brilliant, your choice... the way you supported them, or it would be the result of their overlapping"

Rather than thinking that I am the [Black Demon Instructor] deserving of fourth place, it is more natural to think that the four Spirit Contractors are amazing enough to be fourth place even if [Black Demon Instructor] is there. Normal. Easy. Interesting. It's a story.

Until third place, it hasn't changed much anymore.

Conversely, it will be replaced there until the fourth place.

As the Skaha party fell to fifth place after being crossed by the Phoenix party.

There are circumstances like that, and if people show up among adventurer fans that eat into the top three parties of immobility, they're real, there's a perception like that.

That's one of the reasons I wanted to be third or better.

'Cause I guess so.

Air Real Party, Xparty, Hellvore Party.

If there's anything like being superior to them, I can't complain no matter how much [Black Demon Instructor] is mixed up.

There were a lot of people who were strong and respectable regardless of rank from me, but I needed something that was easy to understand.

"I've never regretted working with Phoenix."

"Even if I know. What I want to ask... is why I fell out. Because I thought you wanted to be first with Phoenix."

"I don't..."

I wanted to be, but it's decided.

No, Mr. Ex will know that, too.

"Mr. Ex will know, too. I couldn't convince him, and it's out of the question to kick the other three out the other way. Who would admire a brave man who drives out his people to keep his feet tamed?"

Sometimes Aruba talked a lot about it for a while after he left, and generally the average person knows it.

"So, for Phoenix?

――――

Ha ha. Right, what Mr. Ex wants to ask.

"... No, you don't. It's a decision for me."

"... yeah"

"I admired the brave man who made my people win. I'm a [black demon mentor], but I wanted to think that by contributing to the party's victory, I'm moving on to my dreams. But I noticed the day I left."

Aruba's grievances are the usual thing - and I was pretty serious then - to recieve them, maybe I could. I'm used to enduring it.

Still, that day, I decided to pull it out.

"Is that the kind of guy who's brave enough that having himself makes the party giddy or making the decision to stay breaks the worst party?

........

"I am too far from the brave man I admired. I think that's why I fell out. It must have been necessary to continue the challenge."

"Right..."

Mr. Ex hung himself in the face with water. Then bash and slap on the cheek and say.

"You're strong."

"Huh?"

"I'm ashamed of myself. For a moment, though, I thought. When I heard the news of your departure, I was sad to hear that he had given up again. I was delighted to see you in the tag tournament, and it's an honor to be able to organize this way. But I was wondering what you thought back then."

"Mr. Ex......"

"I can predict how to show you black magic. My Merlin had a lot of trouble, too. Me and Arthur."

Mr. Merlin is a rare human being who can produce the magical power of the four Spirits.

Mr. Ex and Mr. Arthur have the protection of spirits other than the four great spirits.

From the national point of view, the non-decent [brave] ones have strong powers.

It is famous that there was a period of unfounded slander, in addition to rumours that the country was under surveillance and where it was endangered.

Over them, the Expatee stands second in the world.

"But being strong doesn't mean that. Leme, you're... you're strong."

It's a word my master used to say.

He followed the great benefactor and even said to his venerable predecessors.

"I'm... weak"

His words were the result of the voices he heard over the partition with the women's water, and he could not hear them well.

"Wow! The stars are beautiful, sister!

"Um... so your sister said you could do it"

Mira is the one with the puzzling voice.

"Phew, Citrie's gonna flush your back for you, right?

"Mmm."

"What are you eating that?

"Hot Spring Eggs"

"Hmm? He's eating something. He's cute. Citrie wants to feed you."

"Later"

"Wow."

There are also Mr Citrie and Mr Fulcus.

"... Ladies and gentlemen, with great abundance..."

"Huh, don't look like that, Mal. The size of the milk doesn't determine the true price of a person."

"Thank you, Master Merlin. So where will it be decided?

"Soul."

"Ha ha... I see?

To Mr. Mal, to Mr. Merlin.

I can hear many others. Maybe he was talking beforehand about going somewhat together.

"Ha, the women are lively and nice. Oh, lemme, you can't peek, can you?

"I won't..."

I laugh bitterly, but I was concerned about Mr. Ex earlier.

As usual now he is Mr. Ex, who is also a calm and slightly brown spot.

He was just about to tell me something...

"By the way, Reme, how far have you progressed with Miss Mira? Tell your uncle."

"What, hey..."

I tried to escape easily, but my body wouldn't move.

"Your shadow has already stepped. You're not gonna get away with this, ha-ha."

Then for a while, I was asked root digging leaf digging.

With the other men coming in, he said, "Do you know how to use my spirituality in a special way? He said," Around the time I asked him to laugh again earlier, he was finally released.

It was a feeling, but I don't want to ask him without being willing to talk to him.

In doing so, we were able to get a temporary break during our journey.

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The trick and the sound of something knocking on the window woke me up.

There are several investigators sleeping in the large room, not in a single room.

Rise up slowly and approach the window.

When I saw it, it was a bat. Blood-sucking bat. It's Mr. Mira's sub beast.

When I opened the window, there was a beautiful woman under my eyes.

"Would you like to take a little walk?

Nestled beneath the moon, I nod at the invitation of a beautiful vampire.

"Yeah, I'm on my way."